0:02

Eddie Murphy is back as Axel

0:04

Foley in Beverly Hills Cop, Axel

0:06

F. He's rejoined by familiar

0:09

faces like Judge Reinhold to John Ashton

0:11

as Rosewood and Taggart, along with new

0:13

characters and new hijinks. I didn't realize

0:16

that you couldn't really find Ellen on

0:18

me. Watch Beverly Hills Cop, Axel F,

0:20

only on Netflix, July 3rd. Rated

0:23

R. Hello,

0:31

Boston. It

0:40

is great to be back. We

0:51

are live from the Wilbur. I'm

0:56

recording this immediately after our live Pots of

0:59

America show, which we did

1:01

the night after our debate breakdown episode, which

1:03

we did immediately after watching the debate. So

1:07

if I sound tired and wired and on my last

1:09

gangly leg, I just

1:11

want you all to remember, I don't

1:13

value the opinion of people from Boston. I

1:21

welcome your hatred. I

1:23

welcome your hatred. Tonight

1:27

on the show, I give author Gretchen

1:29

Felker Martin two terrifying choices, horror scene

1:31

or Marjorie Taylor Greene. Icon,

1:34

Kathleen Turner romances

1:39

her IMDB page and gets a little

1:41

frisky. Then Jade Jordan gives it

1:43

to me gay, and by it, I mean the news,

1:45

you degenerates. And

1:48

I have evidence that wasn't presented in the Karen

1:50

Reed trial. So

1:55

we're doing live high notes tonight. So just everybody go

1:57

back to two hours BD. That's before

1:59

debate. Uh, and

2:01

try to think of some positivity. There's just one

2:03

rule. Your high note, this is just for us,

2:06

your high note cannot be about this show, okay?

2:09

Because when the high notes are, I'm having so much

2:11

fun, it makes the people at home mad. Fuck

2:14

them. Fuck

2:16

them. No, no. And,

2:20

look, here's the thing. Uh... You

2:24

don't get very far in this business by saying, fuck

2:26

the audience. But

2:29

first, we have no

2:31

choice. Let's get into it.

2:36

Because... Because if

2:39

we can't get out of it, we gotta get into it. What

2:42

a week. The

2:48

first presidential debate was last night, and if you saw

2:50

it, you know that it was a catastrophe.

2:54

And if you didn't think it was a catastrophe, please

2:57

make your way to the stage. I will pay you $7,000 to trade brains with

2:59

me. It

3:03

was like that riddle where there are two guards

3:05

in front of two doors, and one of the

3:07

guards tells only lies, and the other guard is

3:09

some sort of disoriented dust golem. If

3:17

you hadn't watched it, we're gonna have a

3:20

little intermission here to allow you to leave the room. You

3:22

have a pure soul and mind, and I will not be the one to corrupt

3:24

it. You're

3:26

free. The minutes ahead of the

3:29

Thursday debate, President Biden poked fun at the

3:31

rumors that he takes stimulants, tweeting a link

3:33

to Dark Brandon's secret sauce, a can reading,

3:35

Get real, Jack. It's just water.

3:39

I, too, liked jokes before the debate. I,

3:43

too, remember what it was like to laugh. Once

3:50

the debate began, it was clear that President

3:52

Biden's stimulant and ice cream levels were in

3:54

the red zone. He

3:56

sounded hoarse, his delivery was slow and halting,

3:58

uneven, he mumbles, and... things went downhill

4:00

from there, which is how my wife describes

4:03

sex with me. Before

4:07

the debate, you would've laughed at that. Pretend

4:11

I just showed you a clip you don't need to see. Look,

4:16

sometimes a horse breaks slow out of the gate

4:18

but manages to pull out a wind with a huge burst

4:20

of speed in the home stretch. Just

4:23

a fun fact about horses, doesn't, doesn't

4:27

actually apply in this case. But

4:30

what beautiful animals, so hard to draw.

4:35

While answering a question about Medicare,

4:37

Biden froze a bit before landing

4:39

on this. We'd

4:41

be able to wipe out his debt. We'd

4:43

be able to help make sure that all those

4:46

things we need to do, childcare, elder care,

4:48

making sure that we continue to strengthen our

4:51

healthcare system, making sure that we're

4:53

able to make every single solitary

4:55

person eligible

4:57

for what I've been able to do with the

4:59

COVID, excuse

5:01

me, with dealing with

5:04

everything we have to do with, look,

5:09

if we finally

5:11

beat Medicare. It's

5:15

harder the second time because the first time you don't

5:17

know it's coming. I

5:23

know that was tough. I know that was tough, but I have an

5:25

idea. It's gonna be okay. Can

5:27

we try it again with some music?

5:30

Making sure that we're able to make

5:33

every single solitary person eligible

5:36

for what I've been able to do with

5:38

the COVID, excuse

5:40

me, with dealing with

5:43

everything we have to do with, look,

5:48

if we finally

5:50

beat Medicare. It

5:52

was worth a shot. Of

6:01

course, this isn't just about how Biden sounded.

6:03

This is about his inability to push back

6:05

on Trump in an incoherent way, or an

6:07

incoherent way. After Trump lied about healthcare or

6:10

child tax credits or the border of veterans,

6:12

if Biden would have drifted down in aerial

6:14

silks and performed pink so what suspended over

6:16

the crowd, I wouldn't have understood

6:19

why, but I would have at least felt like I

6:21

was in good hands. And

6:23

there were so many opportunities. Trump gave him

6:26

so many opportunities. Joe Biden was like a

6:28

man standing in front of a whack-a-mole game,

6:30

his hands empty, occasionally

6:32

whispering, there's one. There's one. Trump

6:38

spent the entire debate lying through his teeth.

6:40

And by the way, not in a way

6:42

that endeared him to undecided voters, he's eminently

6:44

beatable. And Biden was unable to deliver basic

6:46

rebuttals. In Biden's defense though, he wasn't listening.

6:48

He was just waiting for his turn to

6:50

talk, like an actor who just moved to

6:53

LA at a party. That

6:56

would have killed in LA. Trump

7:01

also falsely claimed that democratic states allow

7:03

for post-birth abortions and then when asked

7:05

about, yeah, fuck him is right. And

7:09

then when asked about whether he would block access

7:11

to the abortion pill, Mifapristone incorrectly said that the

7:14

Supreme Court had approved the pill, said Trump, I

7:16

agree with their decision to have done that and

7:18

I will not block it. As a reminder, Joe

7:20

Biden said Roe was on the ballot four years

7:22

ago and Trump denied it then too, because he's

7:25

a fucking liar. But Joe Biden didn't say

7:27

that because he was pretty focused on having

7:29

accidentally swallowed a Swarovski crystal hedgehog before the

7:31

debate. What's

7:36

the story there? In

7:39

his own abortion answer, Biden slammed Trump for

7:41

overturning Roe v. Wade, but then inexplicably pivoted

7:43

to talking about a woman who was murdered

7:45

by an immigrant. The

7:47

fact is that the vast majority comes from

7:49

this source, it was a spider.

7:51

All right, you know what? I'll take

7:53

the note, let's skip it. We

8:00

don't have to watch it again. But

8:04

we saw it. Politically,

8:06

pivoting from abortion to immigration as Joe Biden

8:08

did here is like sitting down to a

8:10

beautiful meal at your favorite restaurant and eating

8:12

the fucking wine glass. In

8:20

response to Biden's defense of his actions, Trump

8:23

said this. I really don't

8:25

know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't

8:27

think he knows what he said either. When

8:30

Trump is calling someone else incoherent and

8:32

it's landing, that is a state of

8:34

emergency. We are all in the Titanic

8:36

submersible and the whole pressure alarm is

8:38

going off. Thursday

8:41

did at least bring us this all-time debate

8:43

line. I didn't have sex

8:45

with a porn star. He

8:49

continued, she was a porn actress. We

8:53

haven't had stars since the 80s. Also,

8:57

there was this line where Trump was asked whether he'd take

8:59

any action to combat climate change. I

9:03

want absolutely immaculate clean water

9:06

and I want absolutely clean air and

9:08

we had it. We had H2O. That's

9:13

the person who won the debate. Which

9:18

is somehow scarier than climate change itself. Overall,

9:23

Biden came to this debate needing to dispel concerns about

9:25

his age while exposing Trump's extremism and narcissism. He

9:28

failed on both counts unless undecided voters

9:31

are into this. Honestly,

9:34

I wouldn't put it past those freaks. Biden

9:39

was asked a question about his age and even in a question

9:41

about his age, he somehow wound up rambling about computer chips in

9:43

South Korea. He sounds like me in therapy

9:45

getting asked about my own worst flaws. All

9:49

of a sudden, I'm yappin' about how Michigan needs

9:51

newer bridges. After

9:57

Trump once again bragged about acing his

9:59

cognitive test, he and Biden got into

10:01

this extended back and forth about golf.

10:05

Look, I'd be happy to have a driving contest with him.

10:08

I got my handicap, which when I

10:10

was vice president, down to a six.

10:14

And by the way, I told you before, I'm happy

10:16

to play golf if you carry your own bag. Think

10:19

you can do it? That's the

10:22

biggest lie that is a six handicap of all. I

10:25

was eight handicap. Eight? You

10:28

know how many you have? I've seen you swing.

10:30

I know you swing. Let's not act

10:32

like children. President Trump, we're going to turn. Let's

10:34

not act like children. Finally,

10:41

we're almost done. Finally,

10:47

an answer to the age-old question, what

10:49

if Stadler and Waldorf weren't funny? And

10:57

I say at this point, boys have

10:59

at it. They should be golfing. They're

11:01

78 and 81 years old. These are

11:03

the last good golfing years. While

11:05

Democrats walked away shaken, it's somewhat reassuring that

11:08

most of us have the exact same reaction

11:10

to Biden's performance. Oh my fucking God. It's

11:13

like when you're at a wedding and you know

11:15

the couple is just definitely going to get divorced.

11:18

But you don't know if the other people at the wedding know. And

11:21

then a couple drinks in, somebody finally cuts attention and turns

11:23

to you and makes these people hate each other. This is

11:25

fucking crazy. Like

11:28

former Senator Claire McCaskill, who told Rachel Maddow

11:31

this. Joe Biden had one

11:33

thing he had to do tonight, and

11:35

he didn't do it. He had

11:37

one thing he had to accomplish, and

11:40

that was reassure America that

11:42

he was up to the job at his age.

11:45

And he failed at that tonight. I

11:47

think the one thing Biden had to do was to remember

11:49

to take his amphetamines. Pretty

11:53

well dispelled that fucking rumor, huh? That

11:56

was, we don't, he was raw dogging it there.

12:02

Over on CNN, John

12:04

King said this. This was

12:06

a game-changing debate in the sense that right now as

12:08

we speak, there is

12:10

a deep, a wide, and a very

12:12

aggressive panic in the Democratic Party. Deep,

12:18

wide, and

12:20

aggressive. Happy

12:22

last weekend of pride, everyone. We're

12:31

Democrats. Our kink is

12:33

panic. And our safe word, maybe

12:35

Whitmer? Former

12:39

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the party doesn't

12:41

need a new nominee, but admitted that was,

12:43

from a performance standpoint, not great. Thanks,

12:47

babe. All

12:49

we need is a boost in morale, continued

12:51

Pelosi, ushering in the cast of Sufs. It's

12:57

too soon for Sufs. It would have worked with Hamilton. On

13:00

Friday, the Dems slowly pried their fingers off of their eyes and

13:03

started to put the pieces back together. When asked if

13:05

he thought Biden was Democrats' best messenger at this high-stakes moment,

13:08

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters that

13:10

he would reserve comment about anything

13:13

relative to where we are at this moment, other

13:15

than to say, I stand behind the ticket. I

13:19

don't even know what that means. Some

13:21

pundits tried to blame CNN for Biden's performance, which

13:24

I personally view as absurd. This is the exact

13:26

debate format Biden asked for. This is like me

13:28

trying to blame the Cheesecake Factory waitress for my

13:30

stomachache because she brought me everything I ordered. Kayla

13:33

is just doing her job. Or

13:35

she was until I got her fired. My

13:38

tum-tum hurts. South

13:42

Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn called the debate Strike

13:44

One against Biden, but urged the party to

13:46

stay the course. The mixed metaphor

13:49

is perfect. This feels exactly like trying to

13:51

play baseball on a sailboat. John

13:56

Federman tweeted, I refuse to join the Democratic vultures

13:58

on Biden. shoulder after the debate, no one knows

14:00

more than me that a rough debate is not

14:02

the sum total of a person and their record.

14:05

Annoying, my friend, and not a great analogy.

14:09

What do vultures hover over again? We're

14:13

not vultures. There's nothing in it for us. There's no

14:15

beat on those bones. At

14:19

a rally in Wisconsin, Bernie Sanders admonished Trump for

14:21

lying during the debate, but admitted of Biden, I

14:24

think the president was not terribly articulate. To say

14:26

the least, and he was not focused, he did

14:28

not defend a very strong record. And that is

14:30

a really excellent point. It's not a bad record.

14:32

It's actually a really impressive record. It's the record

14:35

player. That's the issue. It's antique.

14:37

We got it at a garage sale. A little

14:39

rain got inside of it, and they don't make

14:41

parts for it anymore. And sure,

14:43

it brings us back to a simpler, safer time.

14:47

And then you don't know if a new one will be as good. On

14:52

Friday, Biden appeared at a campaign stop in North

14:54

Carolina, and he said this. I

14:57

know I'm not a young man. Stake

14:59

the obvious. I don't walk

15:01

as easy as I used to. I don't

15:04

speak as smoothly as I used to. I

15:06

don't debate as well as I used to.

15:09

But I know what I do know. I

15:12

know how to tell the truth. I know

15:16

right from wrong. And

15:21

I know how to do this job. I

15:24

know how to get things done. I

15:27

know like the millions of Americans know, when

15:30

you get knocked down, you get back up. And

15:35

that's a great moment for him. I

15:41

too believe in the wise words of Shabbat

15:43

Wamba. We

15:47

must all listen to you, Elzen. Brandy

15:49

quotes says, Ghandi once said, we

15:52

must be the Shabbat Wamba we want to see in the world.

15:56

Biden is great in that moment. He's just a completely

15:59

different guy when the I think that was our problem. He

16:01

needs the energy of a crowd. He's an iPhone 6 running on

16:03

1%. He needs that

16:05

external battery. So

16:08

what happens now? First

16:10

of all, you go to bed at 1.30 a.m. Caffeine's still racing

16:12

through your veins as you scroll until your eyes close over

16:15

endless headlines using synonyms for fiasco. Then you have a nightmare

16:17

about having to play the guitar during the podcast, even though

16:19

you don't know how, because

16:23

even your dreams have lost all subtlety. And then you

16:25

wake up at 6 a.m., still wired, and get a

16:27

new coffee, and then you go to the gym in

16:29

the hopes that you can work off some of this

16:31

energy, but then you're at the gym and you get

16:33

Joe Biden-level acid reflux. And

16:35

so you go to CVS to get Tums, which kind of help, and

16:37

then you think, hey, the dynamic heading into this debate

16:40

was one that felt enervating, boring,

16:42

and losing. Is that the

16:44

dynamic now? No, it is not! And

16:48

is that terrifying? Yes. But

16:51

here's the bright side. Why are we

16:53

afraid? We're afraid because of the

16:55

threat that Trump poses. We're afraid because

16:58

we understand the stakes. But we're not afraid of

17:00

each other. When Republicans worry about

17:02

Donald Trump, they're afraid to express it because

17:04

they're afraid of him. They're afraid for their

17:06

safety. And as we saw on January

17:09

6th, as we see with Republican politicians being

17:11

afraid to go against Trump because they fear for

17:13

their family's safety, it is not an idle threat.

17:16

We believe in democracy, and right now,

17:18

we're practicing it. I... CHEERING

17:27

I think one of the reasons this conversation, though

17:29

we've had it many times, came to such a

17:32

stark relief now, is I think on some level

17:34

we all believe Joe Biden when he says, I've

17:36

been underestimated. He was underestimated when

17:38

he was a primary candidate. He was underestimated

17:40

as a general election candidate. He was underestimated

17:42

as a president. Joe Biden

17:44

outperformed my expectations. I

17:47

believe he played his hand on domestic

17:49

policy better than any human being could. I

17:51

truly believe that. I believe Joe Biden did

17:53

as well as any human being could have

17:55

done. CHEERING And

17:59

whether it's... the investment

18:01

in climate, the infrastructure bill, the executive

18:03

actions, the way he managed Congress, the

18:05

way he negotiated with Republicans, the way

18:08

he understood his role, both as someone

18:10

to push for progressive policies while being

18:12

a representation of institutions. I don't think

18:14

that there's a place where you can

18:16

point to age as a factor in

18:18

hurting his ability to govern. I really

18:21

don't. I really don't. Certainly

18:23

on domestic policy. But

18:26

the- Chip sack! And then

18:28

there's of course the chip sack, sir. A

18:32

perfect time to yell about a specific

18:34

piece of legislation clearly fully

18:36

fucking accountants by what

18:38

I was already saying. But

18:42

the most important job that Joe Biden

18:44

has now as president is to stay

18:46

president. And I don't make

18:49

the rules. Being the messenger, being

18:51

the candidate is a different job than being the

18:53

president. Having this debate is not an argument about

18:55

whether or not Joe Biden can be president. It's

18:58

a debate about whether or not he is the

19:00

person that has the right skills for this moment

19:02

to remain president, to defeat Donald Trump when the

19:04

stakes are so high. I

19:06

don't know what Joe Biden is gonna do, but

19:09

we're gonna have this debate. If Joe Biden

19:11

is the nominee at our convention, I know

19:13

every person here is gonna fight like fucking

19:15

hell for him, right? Right? Right?

19:19

Right? Right? Right? But

19:21

until that convention, let's

19:24

have a debate about who the best nominee

19:26

is. And Joe Biden will

19:29

either step aside or try to convince us that

19:31

he's it, and we will not be told the

19:33

most important part of this is. We will not

19:35

be told that this is an idle worry or

19:37

that we didn't see what we saw of the

19:40

debate or that we should shut up because Donald

19:42

Trump is so dangerous. We will be honest because

19:44

Donald Trump is such a threat. Yeah!

19:47

Yeah! Because

19:51

we know that if the American people understand

19:53

the stakes in this election, we will win.

19:55

But if we are debating Joe Biden's age,

19:57

if that stands in our way, I really

19:59

worry we won't. So we will have

20:01

this debate and we will do it with the knowledge

20:03

that while we may not agree on the best path

20:05

and we did during the PODS of

20:07

America live show if you were here we had a debate

20:09

about Whether

20:11

to stick with Joe Biden or have an

20:13

open convention and it was genuinely like we

20:15

could have flipped the side It was Dan

20:17

and Tommy said stick with Joe and Mettie

20:19

and John were arguing for an open convention

20:21

They they both did an incredible job. You're

20:23

listening and it makes a ton of sense

20:25

They could have switched sides and had it

20:27

the other way. There are very decent people

20:30

who will have Different opinions

20:32

on this but it doesn't mean either

20:34

side doesn't understand the stakes or the

20:36

threat posed by Donald Trump So

20:38

I just think that's important. The reality is

20:41

either path is pretty scary But

20:43

there was never a way to get to

20:45

November without being scared out of our fucking

20:47

minds Though

20:50

at the same time before

20:52

we do go this route we should

20:54

ask ourselves Do we

20:56

trust Democrats not to

20:58

accidentally pick someone? even

21:01

older Somebody

21:04

get Jimmy Carter on the phone Carter

21:09

Carter Carter Carter.

21:12

All right We

21:15

have an amazing show for you Kathleen

21:18

Turner is here Jade Jordan is here

21:20

and we'll be right back with Gretchen

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26:04

Love a late show in Boston. Even

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nice as they can possibly be, they're

26:11

still in just an air of alcohol

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and menace. No

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You're absolute, you're at your absolute

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best. Please

26:26

welcome to the stage, she writes, the chills,

26:28

the pays, the bills. The otherworldly author, Gretchen

26:30

Felger Martin. Hi,

26:33

welcome. Thanks

26:38

for being here. Thanks for having me. Right

26:40

here. All right. Your

26:44

book is called Cuckoo. Yes.

26:47

Now, you write body horror.

26:50

Yes. Why does having a body

26:52

have to be so horrible? Man,

26:56

I don't know, but I'd like a word with whoever made

26:58

that call. Yeah.

27:01

I remember the first time I watched a David Cronenberg movie

27:03

and I thought, why does this feel good? I

27:08

guess I have to do this now. Yeah,

27:10

you're a real freak. Why

27:14

do we have a fascination, you think, with body

27:16

horror? So

27:19

my personal theory here is

27:22

that everyone to a greater or lesser extent

27:24

is in a protracted state of

27:26

involuntary intimacy with their own body.

27:30

You can't get away from that fucking thing. Right.

27:35

And so the idea of it being

27:37

distorted or injured or mutilated

27:39

or transformed artistically becomes

27:41

cathartic, because we would like to see

27:44

it suffer, especially if we

27:46

don't have to feel it. Interesting.

27:49

Wow. You've really given these that clearly

27:51

just rock these people's brains. On

27:55

some level, that sense of you

27:58

are trapped with your own body and you better learn to live

28:00

with it. Is

28:02

that part of why

28:04

some conservatives find trans

28:08

people to be such a

28:10

threat? I mean, I think that in

28:13

modern America, political conservatism

28:15

is essentially repressed

28:18

psychosexual sadism. Whoo!

28:20

Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!

28:23

Whoo! You don't feel

28:25

good, so nobody else can. And

28:29

the only real pleasure

28:32

you can get out of life is by making sure that

28:34

nobody else is happy. Or

28:36

at least to prove

28:39

that your experience of the world

28:41

is the right and best experience

28:43

of the world. Right. It must supersede all others. This

28:45

must be the way life is. And

28:48

if you can't accept that, we've got to

28:50

stop you. Right. And I do think that

28:52

trans people represent an existential threat to

28:54

that way of thinking. Because we're

28:57

dealt a hand that I think no

28:59

one would debate is difficult. And

29:01

so many of us manage to create a life that

29:04

we want to live out of that. Whoo!

29:07

Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!

29:09

Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!

29:11

Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!

29:14

Whoo! Here's a video of our head writer,

29:16

Halle, wanted to get your reaction to. For

29:18

those at home, we are now watching a

29:21

clip of what is apparently a tiny

29:24

flat human face made of real living

29:26

lab grown cells draped over a resin

29:28

base. And it is smiling. Let's roll

29:30

the clip. That's

29:36

a face made of living human cells.

29:39

May be useful in the cosmetics industry

29:41

and to help train plastic surgeons. Question,

29:44

do we need science? This

29:50

is great to me. I want to touch that thing. I

29:52

want to lick it. That's

29:55

a horror writer for you. About horror.

29:59

Life. It inspires

30:01

art, art inspires life. Life begins in

30:03

a hospital parking lot while a nurse

30:05

calls a lawyer to see if you're

30:07

allowed to receive an emergency abortion. Which

30:11

is why it's time for a game we're calling Little

30:14

GOP of Horrors, a title that

30:16

only works visually. Oh. Also

30:25

because it's really, you want to say,

30:27

little gop of horrors. Also

30:30

known as Drag Me to Congress, aka

30:32

Dawn of the Red, alternatively 28 Bills

30:35

Later, Gretchen. I'm gonna

30:37

read you a long line. You're gonna tell

30:39

us if it describes a cinematic horror from

30:41

the twisted minds of filmmakers or a real

30:43

life horror from the twisted minds of politicians

30:45

who order their stakes well done and

30:48

think the Reverend is the hero in Footloose. If

30:52

it's real, say life, it's fictional, say art.

30:55

Are you ready? I'm ready. A

30:58

terrifying cult attempts to keep a group of

31:00

unsuspecting people from leaving a hospital. That

31:03

sounds like something Mitch McConnell would do. It

31:05

does, but it is art. That's the plot of the 2016 film

31:07

The Void. Next

31:10

up, a terrifying cult attempts to keep a group

31:12

of unsuspecting people from entering a hospital. That one's

31:14

Mitch McConnell. That one's life, yeah. This week, the

31:17

Supreme Court refused to overturn an Idaho law

31:19

that would force Idaho women to wait in hospital

31:21

parking lots at home at Starbucks until they become

31:23

septic or otherwise start dying so that their abortions

31:25

can be classified as life saving. That's

31:28

allowing doctors to perform them. A lower court ruling stands

31:30

for now so the law is not in effect, but

31:32

as Melissa Murray said on Ponce of

31:34

America this week, it sure seems like

31:36

the Supreme Court's conservatives dodged the question

31:38

because they know that abortion motivates voters.

31:44

After viewing a disturbing and strange video, a

31:46

woman feels compelled to investigate the film's origins

31:48

until she realizes the only way to escape

31:50

her doom is to force someone else to

31:52

watch it too. The ring. That

31:54

is the art. That is the plot of the ring. After

31:58

viewing a disturbing and strange video, a woman

32:00

feels compelled to investigate the film's oranges until she realizes

32:02

the only way to escape her doom is to force

32:04

someone else to watch it too. Oh,

32:07

that's me listening to those clips you were playing from

32:09

the debate. That's

32:12

right. That's also

32:15

what happens on TikTok when someone eavesdrops on

32:17

a stranger on a plane and decides that

32:19

they're having an affair and decides to put

32:21

them on blast to the whole world with

32:23

zero information about any of the people involved,

32:26

including the wife they are supposedly looking out

32:28

for because we are a twisted judgmental society

32:30

seeing other people as characters in a drama

32:32

rather than flesh and blood human beings. Put

32:34

your goddamn phone down, people. Do

32:37

you know, have you been following this? People just

32:39

saying like, ah, I saw people cheating at the

32:41

fucking airport. I'm gonna film it and put it

32:43

on the internet. You absolute fucking panopticon freaks. Put

32:45

your goddamn phones down. You

32:49

Puritan monsters. Yeah,

32:52

I haven't heard of this. I'm gay. That's

32:59

a very funny, I'm sorry. I haven't heard of

33:01

this. I'm gay. Hired

33:06

to take care of a storied manner,

33:08

isolation and professional failure destroys a man's

33:10

connection to reality until he embraces violence

33:12

even against the people closest to him.

33:14

The Shining. That's correct. Hired

33:17

to take care of a storied manner, isolation

33:19

and professional failure destroy a man's connection

33:21

to reality until he embraces violence even

33:23

against the people closest to him. The

33:25

presidency of Donald Trump. That's correct. Tried

33:30

to incite an insurrection.

33:32

They went after his vice

33:35

president. Cast out from

33:37

society into the wilderness, a religious family

33:39

is tormented by misfortune and fear. It

33:41

may have been unleashed by supernatural forces.

33:43

Perhaps the devil- Robert Eggers, the witch. That

33:45

is the witch. Cast

33:50

out from society and forced to live as

33:52

a pariah, a once beloved figure descends into

33:54

madness and confusion, coming to believe he's been

33:56

trapped by a malign in

33:58

a quote nightmare. world. Is

34:02

that Trump again? No that's

34:04

Rudy Giuliani. He's

34:07

kind of like a Xerox of Trump. Yes

34:10

he literally was overheard saying I'm

34:12

trapped in a nightmare world. Also

34:16

this is there was a story that

34:18

in his bankruptcy filing he's apparently buying

34:20

like eight dollar polyester ties on Amazon

34:23

and and and my only issue with

34:25

that is I'm 41 years

34:28

old. I barely wear

34:30

suits anymore. I have accumulated

34:32

so many fucking ties. This

34:35

is a man who is in his

34:37

70s. What on God's earth is

34:39

happening in his clothing that he is

34:42

going that he is out of fucking

34:44

ties. My God the

34:46

the body are. You don't want

34:48

the answer. We don't want the

34:50

answer. A woman

34:53

loves her peaceful neighborhood until she realizes all

34:55

of her neighbors are in a cult hell-bent

34:58

on brainwashing young women. Stepford

35:00

Wives. We'll accept

35:03

it. I think we can accept it

35:06

but it's 2019's movie

35:08

One BR. One brr.

35:11

Oh yeah that's a great movie. One

35:14

brr. One bedroom. One bedroom. A

35:17

woman loves her peaceful neighborhood until she realizes

35:19

all of her neighbors are not in a

35:21

cult hell-bent on brainwashing young women. Martha?

35:25

I don't know what this is. It's

35:27

that's right.

35:29

It's Martha Ann

35:32

and Samuel Halido.

35:35

Hating their hating their

35:38

neighbors for having

35:40

the audacity to care

35:42

about pride. Virgonia.

35:47

Virgonia is the Italian word for shame. Oh I

35:49

know. And just

35:51

like the English word for shame it has no effect on me.

36:03

Any final thoughts on the connection between

36:05

Republican and fictional horror?

36:08

There are two sets of things that you don't

36:11

want to be close to. It's

36:13

that elemental. Jaws, the shark, you don't want

36:15

to be next to Jaws. That's the

36:17

whole point of the movie. That's every election

36:20

now. That's very election.

36:22

And like Jaws, the

36:24

tension builds even if you can't see the

36:26

shark, you know? I don't know how that

36:28

applies in this case. I

36:32

got nothing. And

36:35

the book is Cuckoo? Cuckoo. And there

36:37

are queer people trying to escape some kind of a cult?

36:39

Yes. And it's pretty gross? It's

36:42

pretty gross. All right. Nice.

36:47

Thank you, Gretchen, everybody. Go check out Cuckoo now wherever

36:49

you get your books. Up

36:52

next, a question only Kathleen Turner can

36:54

answer. Was I in this? Thank

36:57

you so much. That was so great. One

37:00

more time. That was fun. There's

37:09

a legend coming. Please welcome

37:11

to the stage. And we cannot believe

37:14

it. A living legend. The one, the

37:16

only, Kathleen fucking Turner. Hi,

37:24

thanks for being here. Come on. Oh,

37:31

come on. It

37:33

feels so good to

37:35

be on stage. That

37:37

man, that voice. It's

37:40

incredible. It's incredible. I played

37:42

this house 20 years

37:44

ago in Who

37:47

is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? First

37:52

of all, why are you here? Why did you

37:54

do this show? My

37:58

daughter turned around here. We

38:01

were, we

38:03

took a vacation together in England

38:06

and we were driving a lot

38:08

to different parts and she came

38:10

completely prepared

38:13

with hours and hours and

38:15

hours of you. Wow, for

38:18

my co-host that would be torture. No

38:22

actually, after my

38:24

initial resistance, I

38:28

learned to love it. Okay, that's great,

38:30

thank you. So,

38:33

it is

38:35

the 30th anniversary of Serial

38:38

Mom. Oh, it is.

38:42

And it's funny because I

38:44

saw that movie when it came out and

38:47

like so much upon

38:50

reflection, Serial Mom, yet another work that knew I

38:52

was gay before I did. What

38:55

is it like being part of

38:57

that John Waters legacy of film?

39:00

Well, I love John. I mean, honestly,

39:02

I love the man. He

39:05

is one of the best-hearted

39:09

people you'll ever meet. And

39:12

originally he sent me this script and

39:14

I read it through to the point where

39:16

she pulls the liver out

39:20

and I went, oh no, I don't, no, no,

39:22

no, no, no, through the script

39:24

and down. And then I

39:26

went back to it and I

39:29

read up into the leg of

39:31

lamb and then I

39:33

went, oh, come on. And

39:36

I went back to it. So,

39:39

I finally called John and I said,

39:41

look, you're going to have to explain

39:43

to me how you're going to shoot this because

39:45

this can either be a ridiculous

39:48

gore fest or it can

39:50

be one of the funniest damn things I'll ever

39:52

do. And

39:54

he rushed to New York, knocked

39:57

on my door and convinced

39:59

me. And it

40:01

is so funny. It is so funny.

40:04

It makes me laugh. We

40:09

have a classic Love It or Leave It game that was tailor-made

40:11

for you. That's right, ladies

40:13

and gentlemen, it is time for Was I In This?

40:16

Hell hell. Here's

40:20

how it works. Chris is out there

40:22

in the house. Audience,

40:25

you will not embarrass yourselves in front of Kathleen

40:27

Turner. All right. Raise

40:30

your hand if you want to play, and

40:32

Chris will find you in the audience.

40:37

Was I in this? Hello, I'm Ella. Can we bring the

40:39

lights up? Great. Hi.

40:41

Hi. Kathleen

40:44

once played a writer who must travel to Cartagena to

40:46

save her kidnapped sister. During her

40:48

journey, she falls head over heels for an

40:50

exotic bird smuggler. True or false? True. Remancing

40:53

the stone. It is also

40:56

the near...we're approaching the 40th

40:59

anniversary. It is the 40th

41:01

anniversary of romancing. First

41:06

of all, I love that. I mean,

41:08

I just love that movie. And it

41:10

is a movie that...first of all, we're desperate

41:13

for rom-coms, but also that

41:15

movie spawned so many copycats to this

41:17

day. It's like every year somebody's trying

41:19

to recreate a romancing the stone, and

41:21

they can't do it. No. No,

41:25

the whole point...I mean, Hollywood

41:28

is run by bankers. You

41:31

know, it's no longer, and hasn't been for a very

41:33

long time, a creative engine,

41:35

as it were. And

41:38

so they think the formula for

41:40

a successful film is

41:42

to repeat something that has already

41:44

been done. Now, see

41:47

me to understand that

41:49

success comes because it

41:51

is new, because

41:53

it did break ground. Yeah.

42:02

Next question. Kathleen appeared across from Nicolas Cage

42:05

as an Italian-American bookkeeper who falls for a

42:07

baker with a wooden hand. False. That was

42:09

Cher. That was Cher. That was right. That

42:12

is the plot of Moonstruck because Kathleen was opposite Nicolas

42:14

Cage in Peggy Sue Got

42:17

Married. Yeah. Is

42:21

time travel really the antidote to infidelity, as

42:23

the film suggests? I don't know. I

42:27

have to confess. I was a little disappointed with the ending.

42:30

Hmm. With Francis. I

42:32

don't think... Coppola. Um...

42:35

I'm not sure that he really... Francis...

42:38

Francis Ford Coppola to you. Yeah. Yeah.

42:41

I'm not sure that he really thought that through all the way. Hmm.

42:47

It... I also... Because I

42:49

saw that movie when I was a kid, and it's a movie

42:51

about someone going back in time. I think it

42:53

really hit on the head of their 25th high

42:56

school reunion. To your faints, yeah. To

42:58

your faints. And I... I

43:00

did... I realized that I'm the age of Peggy Sue.

43:03

And I remember... And I was like, oh, wow. It's

43:06

time for me to go back in time and make some changes. Yeah.

43:10

Yeah, I really can't believe that she... She

43:12

would have done the same thing again. Yeah. No.

43:16

Hmm. It's interesting. Let's all go

43:18

back and watch Peggy Sue Got Married. Hmm. And

43:21

think about how it would be for now. Kathleen

43:24

played Dottie Hinkle in John Waters' black comedy

43:26

slash her serial mom. True. False.

43:30

No. No. That

43:32

was Mink. That was Mink Stoll. That was

43:34

Mink Stoll. She was the

43:36

murderous mom, Betty Suntfin. Have

43:41

you seen the John Waters retrospective at the Academy Museum? Will you

43:43

go with me? Oh, oh. Do you mean

43:45

at the museum? Yeah. He sent

43:47

me... He walked through and sent

43:49

me a video of the whole thing. It's

43:52

got, like, serial mom dresses and

43:54

some of the costumes and everything

43:56

that... And... What

44:00

was it? I guess the leg

44:02

of lamb? Is there like a lamb in

44:04

there? I'll

44:07

buy tickets if you Venmo me. All right.

44:10

Kathleen portrayed a woman taken out of

44:12

this world in a chandelier-related

44:15

incident in the War of the

44:17

Roses. True. Oh, God, yes. Yes.

44:23

I, for so long, I feel like,

44:25

again, because I guess HBO

44:27

knew I was gay and I didn't, I

44:30

clearly was like drawn to you as a

44:32

child and these

44:34

like, these incredible performance you gave as this

44:36

like, as this like strong,

44:41

larger-than-life woman.

44:46

You're a gay icon. How'd

44:49

you do that? Why do you think

44:51

that is? I

44:55

think perhaps in

44:57

some ways and I... Oh,

44:59

Heavens to Betsy, I do a

45:01

lot of activism. I serve

45:03

on the board of People for the

45:06

American Way for many years, City

45:08

Meals on Wheels in New York City, Planned

45:11

Parenthood, all of these. I

45:14

work for and with. And

45:18

I am... Women

45:21

have always really

45:24

been strong supporters of

45:26

gay and gays right. And

45:29

frankly, I think you

45:31

guys owe us. You

45:33

mean... Hey,

45:37

we could use some help now.

45:42

Yes. And I think...

45:46

I think this is the right moment

45:48

for Kathleen Turner to be the

45:50

chief arbitrator between the great

45:53

truce between the gays

45:55

and the lesbians. I

45:57

think it's time they came back to the negotiating

45:59

table. understood

46:01

that we're in this together. Truly.

46:05

You know, that'd be a beautiful thing. Now,

46:08

you told the Guardian that you started to fall in love with

46:10

Michael Douglas while shooting Romancing the Stone. Then

46:12

you go on to Jewel of the Nile and

46:14

the War of the Roses. Nice.

46:18

Yeah. Now,

46:20

we... And then Cominsky method, we

46:22

just... Oh, Cominsky method. Yeah. We

46:27

have such a great time together. And

46:31

yes, indeed, at first I was. I

46:35

was, again... But

46:39

then his separated wife

46:42

showed up in Mexico. What's

46:45

she gonna do? That's

46:49

a night... That's life for

46:51

you. No. I like that there

46:54

was this period of time in the late 80s and the

46:56

90s where Michael Douglas, movie

46:58

after movie, women would fucking kill

47:00

for him. There was

47:02

fatal attraction. There

47:05

was disclosure. There

47:08

was a bunch of different movies where women

47:10

would blow up their entire lives. Yeah, that's

47:12

not me. But

47:16

not you. Not you. In

47:18

your movies with Michael Douglas, he's chasing you. He's

47:21

chasing you. I like that. I like that.

47:23

Well, you know, if you

47:25

kind of look at the whole

47:27

body of work, my

47:31

women usually take

47:34

the lead. They

47:37

do. They do. Kathleen

47:43

played a cartoon shoe in Who Framed Roger

47:45

Rabbit? True. Oh,

47:47

shit. Roger! Jessica

47:50

Rabbit. Jessica... Joe,

47:53

there is a shoe. There is a shoe. It goes

47:55

in the dip. Yeah, there is. And

47:57

I'll try him, convict him. An

48:01

ex-acute. Hey,

48:11

I don't think I can get my voice that high.

48:17

They let kids watch that. I know.

48:21

I know, it's rather shocking. I

48:26

think my favorite line from that was,

48:28

I love you more than any

48:31

woman has ever loved a rabbit before. I

48:37

love that. I love that. What an amazing... Were

48:41

you Jessica Rabbit or was Jessica Rabbit you?

48:43

You're now so entwined. The character

48:45

couldn't exist without you, right? Well,

48:50

Bob Zemeckis is directed. And

48:52

he directed Romancing the Stone. So

48:55

we've known each other for many years. And

48:58

I think that when he

49:00

wanted just a voice, he thought

49:02

of me. What

49:05

he didn't realize, and which was absolutely gorgeous

49:07

for me, was I was

49:09

extremely pregnant then. And

49:13

so I would waddle into the studio. And

49:15

I have these friends like opera singers who

49:19

claim that they gain a note on either

49:21

end with the resonance. Anyway,

49:27

the last day I was supposed to work, my water

49:30

broke. And I'm in the

49:32

hospital saying, call this studio. Tell

49:37

them I'm not coming today. I

49:40

like that. I like that. The

49:42

sexiest voice ever recorded had to call

49:45

in for maternity leave. That's

49:50

cool. That's great. And

49:54

finally, Kathleen

49:57

played what was described as

49:59

Chandler's... dad on Friends.

50:03

That is such a accurate. All of

50:05

these movies, it's so interesting situating some

50:07

of these movies because these strong, whether

50:10

it's the strong women are existing

50:13

in this misogynist space, and then

50:15

you play Chandler's dad at

50:17

a time in which there wasn't even really

50:19

the word trans, and yet it's

50:22

a kind of loving portrait of this person

50:24

in the end. Have you thought about that?

50:27

I was doing a one-woman

50:29

show based on Tallulah Bankhead, of

50:32

course, up in

50:34

San Francisco. And two of

50:36

the writers from Friends came

50:38

up and came backstage

50:40

and talked to me about

50:43

playing this man

50:45

in drag. And you're

50:48

right. I mean, people have asked me

50:50

since then, would you do it

50:52

now? I mean, shouldn't it be done by a man

50:54

in drag? Well, of course it should. But

50:56

we didn't have that then. I

50:59

mean, honestly, it wasn't really

51:01

an option. And

51:04

so I wanted to, OK, no, wait, I have

51:07

to do. OK,

51:10

I had a

51:12

dresser on the show, right? Gay

51:15

guy who also did drag.

51:18

And so I said, you're going to take me to

51:20

some clubs. I need to

51:22

understand what this is and what I have to

51:24

do. So he took me to

51:26

these drag clubs. And they were

51:29

brilliant. And they were, oh,

51:31

so such

51:35

angry laughter.

51:37

You know, I mean, they

51:40

were hilarious. But there always seemed to

51:42

be this edge of

51:44

real anger underneath.

51:48

And so first day of rehearsal at

51:50

the studio, I go in and

51:52

I read through the script. And

51:54

suddenly, the producers and

51:56

everybody else run off to

51:58

a corner. huddle and

52:00

then someone comes over bravely

52:03

and says, it's

52:05

great, you know, it's just great.

52:07

I mean, you're, ah, great, great.

52:10

But, but, but

52:12

we, you know, we wonder, could you

52:14

just, could you just be a

52:17

little nicer? Yep,

52:24

okay. Well, it's, it's

52:27

interesting because it's, it's clearly this, it's, you

52:29

know, maybe it wouldn't be, obviously exist in

52:31

the same way today, but it's

52:33

this character is described as a drag

52:35

queen, but clearly living as

52:37

a woman all the time. He's fully,

52:40

yeah, he's not just a drag queen.

52:42

His life is as a woman. Right,

52:45

that's exactly right, yeah. Yeah,

52:47

it's in, what are you? Well, I'll tell you what's funny

52:49

though, because Matthew

52:53

Perry used to call me dad, you

52:56

know, when he would see me, dad. That's

53:01

sweet. Yeah, poor baby. Thank

53:03

you for being here. I enjoyed

53:05

it. Was this fun? Do

53:07

you have fun? Do you have fun? Yeah,

53:11

I have fun. Everybody

53:14

give it up for the one, the only,

53:16

Kathleen Turner. That

53:20

was so much fun. Thank you

53:22

so much. When

53:26

we come back, one more time for Kathleen Turner.

53:29

When we come

53:31

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53:33

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55:02

do still think there's this effort

55:12

to hope that like will the DNC sort

55:15

this out? Will somebody sort this

55:17

out? Will there be some? I know you

55:19

know. Is

55:22

somewhere some some group of of

55:25

grand pubas figuring this out? Somewhere

55:28

the machinations are machinating. Somewhere

55:31

the rooms are filling with smoke.

55:34

I guarantee you, I guarantee you,

55:36

Hakeem Jeffery's

55:39

texts, if you

55:41

saw those texts it would

55:43

shake you to the fucking core how

55:46

much they look like your texts. God

55:52

help us all if we saw the

55:54

texts of the powerful. Schumer

55:59

doesn't text. Next. Shumer

56:03

calls. Shumer's got

56:05

a flip phone. That's why Nancy Pelosi was so

56:07

fucking pissed when Shumer got her number. Shumer

56:11

called Nancy Pelosi saying, "'Hey baby

56:13

reindeer.'" Please

56:22

welcome the funniest comedian

56:24

in Boston until he goes back

56:26

to New York. That's right. It's

56:28

Jay Jordan. Thanks

56:34

for being here. Wow,

56:38

what an entrance. They're going to crucify

56:40

me. No. I'm happy to

56:42

be here. Thank you so much for having me. Thanks for

56:44

being here. No, no, the thing about it. And based on

56:47

what I just saw, we're worried about

56:49

who's going to be the nominee. I

56:52

have decided to run. And yeah,

56:56

I don't look it, but I am of age.

56:59

So yeah, they're going to find out a bunch

57:01

of gay shit, but I hope that y'all are

57:03

OK with it. But yeah. So

57:07

yeah, I've decided to run. I mean, I just think,

57:09

I mean, there are people who are going to want to

57:12

check the birth certificate because I'm sitting across from a 23-year-old. Please

57:15

tell more industry people that. All

57:19

right. We're going to close out Pride

57:21

Month with a love of the leave of tradition. That's right. It's

57:24

time for Gay News, Boston's

57:26

version. It's

57:29

wonderful. Oh my goodness. That

57:32

sucks. Hey,

57:35

do you think Boston is a queer space? I've

57:39

been in a queer space in

57:41

Boston, and

57:44

I'm going to text him after the show. Someone

57:52

said, so yes. So

57:55

now it's time for Gay News. Here's how it works. We

57:58

talk about some gay news, and in between, we talk about we say, butt

58:01

up, butt up, butt up, butt up, gay news. It's

58:03

meant to evoke the kind of news

58:06

on the march, march of time, kind

58:08

of news reels. Yeah, yeah, yeah. From another era

58:10

when people got their news from

58:12

like a real place. You mean a TV

58:15

with a fat bat. That's what we're talking about.

58:17

Yeah, okay. That's right. All

58:19

right, let's kick it off. Butt up, butt up, butt up,

58:21

butt up, gay news. You

58:23

kick us off. All right, okay. President Biden

58:26

pardoned over 2,000 US veterans convicted

58:28

between 1951 and 2013 under

58:32

military law against gay sex.

58:34

Some of them were still

58:36

in jail. Of

58:43

course, the gay division of the armed

58:45

forces, as we call it, the Navy.

58:53

Joe Biden pardons the Navy. Harvard's

58:57

Arnold Arboretum announced their corpse flowers, which

58:59

smell like rotten meat, are currently in

59:01

bloom and can be seen streaming on

59:04

their YouTube channel. Smells fantastic, said Steve

59:06

Bannon. Big

59:09

deal, anyone can look beautiful and

59:11

smell terrible. It's called summer, all

59:13

right? The

59:15

corpse flower, which blooms every seven to

59:18

12 years, they're

59:20

named Pepe Le Pew and Dame

59:22

Judy Stinch. That's

59:26

shameful, it's disrespectful. Smelly Clarkson

59:28

was right there, okay? We

59:31

also would have accepted Stink 182. Bridgerton

59:36

star Nicola Conflin announced her

59:38

new charity single, her new

59:40

charity single, Shoes More Shoes,

59:42

to benefit Not a Phase

59:45

and the Trevor Project. She said

59:47

the song is exclusively for gay

59:49

men. No, it isn't,

59:51

said Tommy. Ha

59:56

ha ha, we're

59:58

just kidding, exclusively. for

1:00:00

gay men and by that she means straight

1:00:02

women visiting for bachelorette parties too. Okay

1:00:08

Bailey Ann Kennedy has been named Miss

1:00:10

Marilyn USA becoming the first trans woman

1:00:12

and the first Asian American woman to

1:00:15

win the crown. And

1:00:22

that is also a series of words you

1:00:24

can repeat to your uncle at Thanksgiving if

1:00:26

you'd like for him to just blow up.

1:00:31

Miss Marilyn celebrated in the customary way

1:00:34

by doing a couple of bumps of

1:00:36

Old Bay off of a

1:00:38

key and and getting

1:00:40

loud with her boyfriend in a bar.

1:00:44

Classic Marilyn that's it. That's

1:00:46

also a little bit of Boston. Yeah

1:00:48

that is that is that is a little bit

1:00:51

of Boston. That's a little bit. I'm wearing an

1:00:53

Irish linen shirt for y'all. Yeah Irish linen. So

1:00:55

if you listen very close to shirts say we

1:00:57

had a bad when we came here too. Be

1:01:04

nice. All

1:01:06

right the number of LGBTQ elected officials in

1:01:08

the US has jumped nearly 200% since 2017.

1:01:10

Pretty good. That's a lot. According

1:01:17

to a report by the LGBTQ Plus

1:01:19

Victory Institute the report also found that

1:01:22

for the first time there is at

1:01:24

least one out LGBTQ elected officials serving

1:01:26

in every state and DC.

1:01:33

And DC. I'm like you

1:01:35

mean exclusively game staffers in

1:01:38

DC? Because Jesus Christ. Okay.

1:01:40

Massachusetts-based beverage company Snapchill recalled its canned

1:01:43

coffee drinks this week over fears the

1:01:45

drink had been infected with botulism. Oh

1:01:48

no the coffee drink might fuck up my stomach.

1:01:51

That's the point of coffee. Grow up. Yeah

1:01:55

also just inject it into my frown

1:01:58

lines. Up

1:02:00

and up and up gain news. But

1:02:02

up and up and up. I forgot. Oh,

1:02:05

we? Yeah. Wow. That's

1:02:09

how they know. That's how they know.

1:02:11

And the sitting. And

1:02:17

the sitting. He's been in every part of that

1:02:19

chair except for the correct one. It's

1:02:23

really true. It's really true.

1:02:25

Okay. The Tokyo Marathon will

1:02:27

add a non-binary category for runners

1:02:29

in 2025, making it the sixth

1:02:31

and the final world major marathon

1:02:33

to offer the option. Finally.

1:02:37

Finally. Yes.

1:02:39

Finally, Tokyo residents will be able

1:02:41

to complain about the coworker who

1:02:43

won't shut the fuck up about

1:02:45

the marathon they ran. But

1:02:51

up. But up. But

1:02:53

up. It's

1:02:56

a step forward, but I'm still calling for a category where

1:02:58

you're allowed to ride a Segway. All

1:03:02

right. The MBTA added

1:03:04

googly eyes to five of its

1:03:06

trains. To

1:03:11

the delight of passengers. So be extra

1:03:13

careful out there. It is a very

1:03:15

undignified time to get run over by

1:03:18

a train. Who's

1:03:21

the looker, said President Biden. Can

1:03:25

I say that is the most wholesome

1:03:28

train joke I have made this month.

1:03:35

But up. But up. But

1:03:37

up. Gay news. Gay news. 23

1:03:40

sets of twins have just graduated from a single Massachusetts middle

1:03:42

school with twins making up about 10% of

1:03:45

the eighth grade class. Gross.

1:03:48

And they're so stinking cute. But

1:03:50

up there we have a picture of them I think. Right? Look

1:03:53

at them on the playground. Experts think the

1:03:56

phenomenon is responsible for the reasons 600% up

1:03:58

to the point where the in

1:04:00

parent traps. But

1:04:03

up, but up, kind of gay news, I guess. No,

1:04:06

Lindsay Lohann, gay news, gay news. She's

1:04:08

coming back. Boston News, she's coming back.

1:04:10

The Boston Celtics announced star player... Chris

1:04:13

Stops Porzingis? Chris Stops Porzingis.

1:04:16

Chris Stops

1:04:18

Porzingis... will

1:04:20

be out for five to six months following life surgery.

1:04:23

And while they're in there,

1:04:25

dude, just have them make you a couple inches

1:04:27

taller. He's already

1:04:29

seven foot two, so with just a little

1:04:31

more height, he can just drop the ball

1:04:33

in the net and nobody can stop him.

1:04:35

These are $50 million ideas, people. Chris

1:04:39

Stops Porzingis, of course, named after

1:04:41

the sound his father Sheldon from the

1:04:43

Big Bang Theory made at the moment

1:04:45

of his conception. He's

1:04:48

actually a very talented Eastern European player,

1:04:50

and I do want y'all to know

1:04:52

some congrats on the championship. But... But

1:05:00

Porzingis coming back and injuring

1:05:02

himself in two games. Most

1:05:05

Boston shit ever. I

1:05:08

was like, y'all ain't gonna win, but something terrible has

1:05:10

to happen. Hey, listen,

1:05:12

this is gay news and... Oh,

1:05:14

yes. Also, he's a

1:05:17

tall, hot Eastern European. Does that make

1:05:19

it...? I just think... I

1:05:23

just think if we're in Boston talking about

1:05:25

the Celtics, I

1:05:28

don't feel safe. How's

1:05:33

your pride been? It has been fun. I

1:05:36

did a gig for a company that I

1:05:38

think is trying to destroy my job, so

1:05:40

that was fun. You do a corporate gig.

1:05:42

I walked in, I was like, y'all aren't

1:05:44

evil, right? And they were like... They

1:05:47

can tell some jokes. So

1:05:50

afterwards, they were like, do you want to do

1:05:52

a roast battle against an AI version of

1:05:54

yourself? And I was like, oh...

1:05:57

Y'all sent the check, right? I

1:06:00

had to deal with that, but it's been fun. I went to Fire

1:06:02

Island. That's cool. Yeah. Did you do

1:06:04

the rose battle against an AI version of yourself? No, I would

1:06:06

never. I don't want to do that. I don't, I

1:06:09

don't want to put, there's so

1:06:11

much of my shit out there already on

1:06:13

the internet. I do not need them to

1:06:15

like come up with AIJ. Like

1:06:17

regular J is horrible enough. Thank you. Hey,

1:06:19

hey. That's the guy who I'm going to

1:06:21

text. I don't want to talk. I don't

1:06:23

want to hear that kind of negative talk

1:06:25

about yourself. Thank you, John. That's very sweet.

1:06:27

How's your pride been? Well,

1:06:30

I missed some of it. Wait,

1:06:33

wait. Are you telling me you were

1:06:36

gone somewhere? I was out of

1:06:38

town for part of it, but then it's

1:06:40

been fun coming back. It's

1:06:42

been great being on the road. I

1:06:45

do love getting to be in Boston

1:06:47

during pride. Because

1:06:51

it reminds me how lucky I am to live in LA. I

1:06:55

am going to fucking roast you all

1:06:58

goddamn night. Maybe I would have liked

1:07:00

this city if one of your many

1:07:02

colleges had welcomed me. But that's not

1:07:06

how it turned out. And you know what?

1:07:09

And you know what? You know what? You can

1:07:11

eat shit. All right.

1:07:14

I went to undergrad at what we like

1:07:16

to call, I went to undergrad at Ole

1:07:18

Miss, which is the Harvard of Mississippi. It's

1:07:21

also the MIT of Mississippi. It's

1:07:24

also, I mean, it's just kind of. What?

1:07:30

Let me do jokes, baby. No,

1:07:35

you're sweet, thank you. So

1:07:38

this is my second time in Boston ever. The first

1:07:40

time I came, I did laugh. We heard about the

1:07:42

first time you came. Yeah, oh, thank you, yes. No,

1:07:45

I went to, I did laugh

1:07:48

Boston, which is a

1:07:50

fun comedy club. I walked around Boston like a

1:07:52

dumb smug New Yorker. I was like, oh, this

1:07:54

is nice. People should know about this. It's

1:07:57

beautiful. Y'all have an. Aesop?

1:08:00

Okay, yeah. Got expensive hand

1:08:02

cream. Wow,

1:08:05

congrats on getting the Aesop,

1:08:07

Boston. You did it.

1:08:11

It's fun to razz Boston. Just a

1:08:13

little, they can take it. You guys

1:08:15

are a gritty town. Yeah,

1:08:18

yeah. I, I... Oh,

1:08:22

it's gonna start. No. The thing

1:08:24

about it is they're also an uncivilized people.

1:08:27

It's actually amazing. The thing about

1:08:29

Boston that's amazing is all these

1:08:31

buildings and all these schools and

1:08:34

all of these events and concerts,

1:08:36

this art, this creativity, this symphony,

1:08:38

it's created by Bostonians,

1:08:41

which is like incredible. It's like, it's

1:08:43

amazing. What is the theory about if

1:08:45

you give enough typewriters to chimps and

1:08:47

enough time? No,

1:08:50

that's sort of what it's like. It's like

1:08:52

seeing, when you come to Boston and you

1:08:54

see art, it's like seeing a monkey with

1:08:56

a suit on. It's like

1:08:58

they're at a little computer. It's like, why are they gonna fucking type?

1:09:00

And they all work in healthcare. They're

1:09:04

just animals. I love it. I love it.

1:09:07

I also, I'm very happy. Y'all have welcomed

1:09:09

me with open arms and

1:09:11

other orifices. Also,

1:09:14

I do like to consider myself

1:09:16

the crispest addicts of stand-up comedy. So

1:09:18

hopefully I don't die here tonight.

1:09:21

And that's a great place to leave it. Everybody,

1:09:25

that's butt up, up and up,

1:09:27

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1:09:29

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1:09:31

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1:09:34

Fund, which is going to LGBT

1:09:36

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1:09:38

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1:09:40

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1:09:42

you can, before the end of Pride, please

1:09:45

give us a donation. These are groups that are

1:09:47

doing actual work every single day. Jay Jordan, thank

1:09:49

you so much for being here. Thank you, John

1:09:51

Lovett, everyone. That

1:09:53

was great. That was fun. Where

1:09:55

can people find you? Oh, it's

1:09:58

already gone, everywhere. We

1:10:01

come back. We're gonna end on a high note. ["I'm Gonna

1:10:03

Be My High Note"] ["I'm Gonna

1:10:05

Be My High Note"] And

1:10:09

we're back! ["I'm Gonna Be My High Note"]

1:10:14

And I'm just kidding about Boston. I love, you know, it's a fine

1:10:16

place. It's a fine place. Yeah,

1:10:19

I hear you guys got a tie place. And

1:10:25

what gives you hope? What's

1:10:28

your name? What's your high note? My name

1:10:30

is Megan. I'm from Albany, New York. And

1:10:32

I ran

1:10:35

for a very small office in my

1:10:37

town. And I won on

1:10:39

Tuesday at the Democratic primary. And

1:10:45

is the door normal size and the office is small?

1:10:48

Or is it the kind of thing we have to get down to

1:10:50

get into it? And tonight is my 40th birthday. Happy

1:10:53

birthday! Welcome

1:10:56

to the club. Yes. Welcome

1:10:58

to the club. So in 2008, Obama

1:11:01

inspired me to join politics. And here

1:11:03

I am. Great. That's great. Thanks

1:11:05

for sharing that. Hi, what's your name? What's your

1:11:07

high note? Hi, my name is Julia.

1:11:09

My high note is that I work

1:11:11

for state governments. And this week we

1:11:13

met a legislative deadline and are making

1:11:15

healthcare more affordable for Californians. And there

1:11:17

was an update in North Carolina. So

1:11:19

we're making healthcare more affordable from North

1:11:21

Carolina to California, which gives me a

1:11:23

lot of hope when there isn't a

1:11:25

lot inspiring happening at

1:11:28

the federal level. That's great.

1:11:32

Hi, what's your name? What's your high note? Hi, my name

1:11:34

is Sarah. My high note

1:11:36

is after being

1:11:38

a board administrative assistant for a long

1:11:41

time and being unemployed for a while,

1:11:43

I finally found, I guess, my dream

1:11:45

job, which is just working front desk

1:11:48

at a rock climbing gym with

1:11:50

just ridiculous, fun people who are

1:11:52

all in their 20s. And

1:11:55

it's the best job I've ever had in my life. I'm

1:11:57

very happy for you. I

1:12:00

gotta tell you, you know what's really interesting? I'll just

1:12:02

say that there's something that's interesting that I noticed from

1:12:04

high notes, from like a trend in high notes. And

1:12:06

one of them is people feeling a little

1:12:08

bit strange of saying that like they were in the

1:12:10

kind of, I don't know, like professional

1:12:13

class grind. And they're

1:12:16

just like, I work at

1:12:18

a bar now and I love it. And so there's a

1:12:20

little part of it, it's like, and that's okay, right? It's

1:12:22

like, yeah, it's great. It's like, it's

1:12:24

a funny thing that I know like, it's

1:12:29

okay that your job doesn't have emails.

1:12:31

That's actually pretty fucking sick. All

1:12:34

of our jobs, it's like, oh, you don't have a

1:12:36

job that's about emails? Okay,

1:12:38

I guess. Jobs are

1:12:40

supposed to be about emails. And

1:12:43

so you got your Slack emails and your text

1:12:45

emails and your computer emails. And in the morning

1:12:48

you start trying to get ahead of your emails,

1:12:50

but you can't. You can't

1:12:52

and that's what it means to live. And

1:12:56

if it's a good day, there's no emails, the end.

1:12:59

Hi, I'm Jen. I work for

1:13:01

one of the residential recovery homes in Boston,

1:13:03

an area of Boston that's particularly

1:13:05

affected by the opioid crisis. And

1:13:08

what gives me hope is seeing the support that

1:13:10

our clients give each other every day. I

1:13:12

don't think I've ever seen another person give somebody

1:13:14

else as much support as when our folks

1:13:16

who are still in active recovery give

1:13:19

support to the folks who have lapsed or relapse.

1:13:21

Unfortunately, it's part of the journey towards recovery and

1:13:24

seeing them persevere every day, despite the broken

1:13:26

system that they're trying to access support in.

1:13:28

So that's what gives me hope. So

1:13:30

thanks, happy bread. That's right. Hi,

1:13:34

what's your name? What's your high note? Hi,

1:13:37

my name is Kristin and I'm from the

1:13:39

Portland, Maine area. And, whoa,

1:13:42

Maine in the house. I

1:13:45

was always told I sounded like Kathleen Turner,

1:13:47

just fine. So

1:13:50

not the high note part, but so

1:13:52

on Monday, I had a house fire and

1:13:55

it was awful and everybody's OK, but

1:13:57

it's been kind of crazy. But the.

1:14:00

The high note is just, I

1:14:02

knew that I had surrounded myself with really

1:14:04

amazing people, but the absolute just love that

1:14:06

I have felt from my

1:14:09

family, my friends, my feminist chorus,

1:14:11

my worker, my coworkers, it's just

1:14:13

like I've never felt so surrounded

1:14:15

by just love and care, and

1:14:17

it's been really amazing. So

1:14:20

shout out to all those people. Hi,

1:14:22

what's your name, what's your high note? Hi, I am

1:14:25

Jessica, I'm surprisingly a

1:14:27

2016 Republican, not

1:14:30

Republican anymore. Love

1:14:33

to have you. I

1:14:35

guess my high note is really just being

1:14:37

surrounded by so many great people who really

1:14:40

believe in democratic causes, and despite what happened

1:14:42

on Thursday night, we're still gonna move forward,

1:14:44

we're still gonna keep going, whether it's Kamala

1:14:46

Joe, someone else, we really have this in

1:14:49

the bag, everyone, and we gotta keep fighting

1:14:51

for what we believe in because we can't

1:14:53

let what happened before happen again, so I

1:14:55

really believe in that, thank you. Thanks

1:14:57

for sharing that. What's

1:15:02

your name, what's your high note? Hi, my name

1:15:04

is Jessica, I'm from a predominantly conservative

1:15:06

town in central New York, and

1:15:09

we just elected our first, the

1:15:12

first drag queen to a US school board.

1:15:16

Pretty good, pretty good. What's

1:15:21

your name, what's your high note? Hi, my name is Josh,

1:15:23

I live in Jamaica Plain here in Boston, I'm half

1:15:27

of a two-dad family. I

1:15:29

was laid off in the end of the year,

1:15:31

Merry Christmas last year, but I

1:15:34

just signed for a new job, and I

1:15:36

have two special-need kids, and we just

1:15:38

went on a family vacation that felt like we didn't

1:15:40

wanna kill each other when we got back, so

1:15:43

things are headed in a better direction. That's

1:15:45

pretty cool. And so, feeling really good, and

1:15:47

going into the summer, we got a little

1:15:49

work to do, but feeling really hopeful. All

1:15:51

right. I'm excited to be here. Hi.

1:15:55

Hi, what's your name? Hi, my name is Jana,

1:15:57

I hail from a town about 20 minutes south of

1:15:59

New York. the Worcester, Massachusetts. It's

1:16:01

a red dot in an

1:16:04

otherwise blue state and

1:16:06

a couple months ago I threw my

1:16:08

name in the hat to run for

1:16:10

selectmen of our town board and

1:16:13

I won a couple weeks ago. And I

1:16:17

campaigned in this here t-shirt for

1:16:20

the for the people at home. The

1:16:22

OG merch. It's the straight shooter. I love it.

1:16:24

Respected on both sides because I was

1:16:26

also the highest vote getter in my

1:16:28

very red town even though I am

1:16:30

a flaming liberal. That's

1:16:32

amazing. That's awesome. Thank you so

1:16:35

much. Congratulations. My

1:16:37

name is Grace and my high note

1:16:39

is I just moved to Boston in

1:16:41

April. Yeah, thank you.

1:16:43

But I have been living here alone

1:16:46

while my husband was finishing his residency

1:16:48

at NYU and he just moved here

1:16:50

yesterday with me. So this is our

1:16:52

first night out together. What

1:16:55

kind of doctor? Oncology. Hematology.

1:16:58

Oh my god. Well,

1:17:01

I'm glad he's here. He's at the end of his

1:17:04

residency. Yeah, he just finished yesterday. They

1:17:06

kept him until 8 p.m. So, wow.

1:17:08

Yeah. Well, that's great. Congrats. What's your

1:17:11

name? What's your high note? Yeah, I'm

1:17:13

Joe. I'm from the Kansas side of

1:17:15

Kansas City. I just moved to Boston

1:17:18

after two layoffs and

1:17:22

working to try to get people to buy

1:17:24

a Medicare advantage for a year. I decided,

1:17:27

bucket, I'm going to apply to grad

1:17:29

school. Finally did. Got

1:17:32

accepted into Brandeis University. And

1:17:36

living in Waltham and my partner

1:17:39

got a job at Boston Children's Hospital. So,

1:17:41

yay for him. And more

1:17:43

or less, we decided to move up early and

1:17:47

enjoyed it. And you guys are all

1:17:49

surprisingly nice compared to what John has

1:17:51

to say. Hey,

1:17:54

way to make a good impression. I think that's

1:17:56

a great thing about Boston. You can keep it

1:17:58

together for a while. That's

1:18:01

also something you're well known for. Just keep it

1:18:03

together for a little bit. Put

1:18:05

on a show for the visitors, then we can go back

1:18:07

to doing what we do best. Making

1:18:11

a bar too loud. What's

1:18:14

your name, what's your high note? My name is Jessie Ray.

1:18:16

I turned 35 yesterday, so 35 and a half years ago,

1:18:21

a four year old named me after Jessica

1:18:23

Rabbit because she was a pretty lady. It

1:18:26

was cool to see Kathleen here tonight. I'm

1:18:28

sorry. I

1:18:31

got a little stuck on the fucking... Yeah, no,

1:18:33

my dad was four. No, my little brother, my

1:18:36

little brother like threw an absolute

1:18:38

temper tantrum that he was gonna

1:18:40

have a baby pumpkin sister. So

1:18:42

I'm sorry, just to back up. Yeah, no,

1:18:44

yeah, no, absolutely. There was a lot of math in

1:18:46

there that I think actually was a red herring. So

1:18:50

you're named after Jessica Rabbit. Your

1:18:52

name is Jessica. Not

1:18:54

Rabbit. Jessica Ray. Jessica Ray, your name is Jessica

1:18:56

Rabbit. And that is because your four year old

1:18:58

brother, who I assume is gay now. So

1:19:03

that's your name. That's

1:19:05

your name. And then what's your high note? I

1:19:07

actually, I commented this morning on

1:19:10

the Discord. Yesterday was

1:19:12

my birthday. The Discord is so lovely. Everybody wished

1:19:14

me a happy birthday. I've actually

1:19:16

been having a hard time because I

1:19:18

work for a large breed dog rescue

1:19:21

that was previously in Hummel,

1:19:23

California, just south of LA. And

1:19:26

I was stationed with

1:19:28

my military husband. We just moved

1:19:30

the rescue up to Montana, but

1:19:32

the move, we had a lot of

1:19:35

help. It was a whole caravan, all

1:19:37

12 dogs. Only

1:19:39

the rescue, the shelter was ready. So

1:19:42

we don't have power, water. In

1:19:44

this time of stress, I was feeling like I

1:19:46

kept getting put on the back burner. Everyone else

1:19:48

I work with and my loving husband all got

1:19:51

to go home and do the events that they

1:19:53

got to do. And I was feeling really homesick.

1:19:55

Have you considered setting your house on fire? I

1:19:59

don't have a- house yet

1:20:03

so yes I'm so sorry by the way

1:20:06

I don't know these fire jokes are too

1:20:08

soon the woman who lost her

1:20:11

house. There's nothing too soon in this space.

1:20:15

We now have electricity and water so

1:20:17

I will be going home to a real

1:20:20

place. Thank you for sharing that

1:20:22

Jessica Ray named after Jessica

1:20:24

Rabbit who took there's 12 there's

1:20:27

so it's 35 years minus four

1:20:29

12 dogs if you have 12

1:20:31

dogs without electricity leaving Los Angeles

1:20:33

no 12 dogs leaving

1:20:35

Los Angeles at a certain

1:20:38

speed and there's no electricity in Montana

1:20:40

but you're going to Boston and that's

1:20:42

during the debate when

1:20:44

you get to Boston will the

1:20:47

dogs have electricity but how far

1:20:49

did the dogs get thank you

1:20:51

for sharing your high note what's

1:20:56

your name what's your high note my

1:20:58

name is Nick I was raised

1:21:00

on a farm in rural North Carolina

1:21:04

as much as you could expect to

1:21:06

a very conservative family and I would like

1:21:08

to say my high note is that I have convinced

1:21:10

all of them not to vote for

1:21:12

Trump and to vote for Biden. Way

1:21:19

to go man way

1:21:22

to go how'd you do

1:21:24

it most

1:21:26

of them are very religious that's how I

1:21:28

grew up in the church but

1:21:31

as soon as I brought up women's rights

1:21:33

the right to abortion the right for a

1:21:35

woman to control her own body my mom

1:21:38

helped me with this I praised

1:21:41

my mother she helped me with

1:21:43

this to convert my entire family that a

1:21:45

woman's right is more important than a convicted

1:21:47

felon. Thank

1:21:49

you for sharing that I

1:21:52

think that's a great place to leave it because

1:21:55

we're not in charge of what Joe Biden does

1:21:57

we're not in charge of what happens Over

1:22:01

the course of the next few weeks, we can make

1:22:03

our voices heard, we can have this debate, we can

1:22:05

be a part of it. But at a time when

1:22:07

people are incredibly cynical, at a time when people don't

1:22:09

trust the news, at a time when some of the

1:22:11

most important people to reach are people who don't pay

1:22:13

attention and don't trust politicians, actually person-to-person conversation is going

1:22:15

to be more important, which means each of us have

1:22:17

more power than ever before to help

1:22:19

change people's minds. And I think that that's

1:22:22

a really cool lesson. Thanks

1:22:24

to everybody who shared a high note tonight. If

1:22:26

you want to send us a message about something

1:22:28

that gave you hope, send a voice memo to

1:22:30

lowlyhighnotesatgmail.com, or you can leave one on the

1:22:32

Discord. That is our show. Thank

1:22:35

you so much to Gretchen Felker Martin,

1:22:38

Kathleen Turner, and Jay Jurden. There

1:22:40

are 51 days until the Democratic National

1:22:42

Convention and 128 days until the 2024

1:22:44

elections. Thank

1:22:47

you to the Wilbur. Thank you, Boston. Have

1:22:51

a great night and have a great weekend. Love

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1:23:14

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1:23:16

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1:23:18

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1:23:20

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