The show blends political commentary, satire, and personal stories to critique current events, highlighting controversies surrounding Trump’s campaign trail, the administration’s environmental and legal actions, and the lack of transparency in key decisions. A central focus is on the appointment of Katie Zachariah as press secretary, where her qualifications and demeanor are questioned amid broader concerns about political accountability. The segment on Ambassador Gilfoil’s resignation is tied to allegations of bribery, fueling public skepticism and political tension. Meanwhile, the discussion of space, from the film *Digger* to astronaut experiences, uses humor to expose flaws in political narratives and public perception. The show also emphasizes civic engagement through initiatives like “Astronauts for America,” aiming to mobilize young voters by addressing democratic disengagement. Absurdity and satire permeate the content, from jokes about G-wagons and space toilets to satirical critiques of conspiracy theories and medical procedures. These elements combine to deliver a sharp, often irreverent, commentary on politics, media, and public trust, grounded in both humor and critical observation.
What's up, Los Angeles! Welcome to Love or Leave It Live from Hollywood. I'm John Love It. We've got a great show for you tonight, but first let's get into it. What a week. We are less than a month out from the midterms and President Trump is really out there pounding the campaign trail hard. Here he is, pressing the flesh for Ohio Senator John Houston. And I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body because I didn't know he was a great athlete. And I looked and I watched up and down and I looked at his ass and I looked at the whole. And then I looked at his hands. You are a great athlete. I didn't know that because he doesn't talk about that. In fairness to Trump, he arrived at Youngstown pretty horny given the city's name. Let's take a look at this fine specimen, John Houston. Is your ass the faltering U.S. economy because my interest is skyrocketing? Are you guys that's going to build a lot of data centers because I'd let you drain me? I just wish Lindsey Graham were alive to see this. It would have killed him. But Trump wasn't just there to praise Houston's body. He also has a face. Look at that jawline. I'm telling you. I never saw that. I never studied him. I know I study him. I say, why was he such a good football? Look at the jawline. He's tough as hell. Fun fact, John Houston played football for the University of Dayton. As in, Trump wishes he was Dayton, John Houston. JD Vance was also in a loving mood on the campaign trail. Here he is in Tyler, Texas. Now, before we get started, I love you two, sir. And it's totally platonic way to be clear. I'm the vice president, not James Talleriko, but I gotta see, this is the difference between Trump and Vance. Trump can riff for 20 minutes on another man's ass and he does it with confidence. Vance, meanwhile, is a closeted gay man. Vance's entire existence has been shaped by the secret, the invisible black hole at the core of his galaxy of bright ambition around which his entire life rotates, warping the fabric of his personality, wrenching apart who he is, who he desires to be. Or he's just weird, I don't know. Not that Democrats are necessarily batting a thousand. Here is Democratic candidate Jamie West, who is currently running for Fiat County Council in Indiana. And our last question of the night is if elected, what is one decision that you expect to make that may be unpopular with some voters, but you believe ultimately would be in the best interest of Fiat County? Firing all Republicans. I wouldn't let them, I mean, I don't even talk to them. I don't like them. I mean, that brings us to your opportunity to say just a few last words to the voters. We have guns too. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, the first female president of the United States, Jamie West. Meanwhile, back in DC, a federal judge put a stop to the Trump administration's tree killing spree after over 430 trees were chomped down at DC's East Potomac Golf Course over the weekend without proper notice. Bad luck for Trump. He was randomly assigned a Biden appointee named Judge Lorax. U.S. District Judge Anna Reyes blasted the DOJ attorney in court on Monday as they had promised the court would get notice before they made any irreversible changes. But the attorneys only alerted the court at 4.55 p.m. on Friday before the three-day weekend. Was it an end run around the Constitution or another tragic case of adult ADHD? Hard to say. But DOJ attorney Marissa Pirapato defended the decision telling the judge we did our best to which the judge replied you did not do your best, you did your absolute worst. Which is pretty unfair because unless they're shooting these trees in the head in front of their wives, this isn't anywhere near this administration's worst. Said the judge. Yep, that's right. That's a harsh. That was a tough, true, fair, but difficult observation. Nothing to laugh about, for sure, at our comedy show. So I respect that. Said the judge what has happened has caused the government all of its credibility. Now if you'll excuse me at a judge Reyes, I just woke up from my 10-year coma and need to check in on my dear friend in college roommate, Harambe. Trump announced Friday at Newsmax commented that true social advisor Katie Zachariah will be the new press secretary succeeding Caroline Levit. She was, of course, chosen by the orb of darkness. Zachariah also had a brief stint working for Christi Nome at DHS last year, so you know she's got that dog in her. And folks, Katie is a natural. I am so honored to work for President Trump and the American people as a new White House press secretary. I want to thank President Trump for his trust that he has placed in me. I have wanted to work for him for a very long time. I'm looking forward to working with each of you as well, especially as we are in the middle of the midterm blitz with energy and excitement never seen before in the history of midterms thanks to President Trump. Honestly, she did pretty well for someone who I get the sense learned to read over the weekend. The content is press secretaries for his day, but the delivery is worst made of honor speech you've ever heard. In his announcement, Trump called Zachariah Zachariah fuck an attorney who cares. Zach called Zach an attorney, but both Zach and the White House have dodged questions about her legal qualifications. When did you pass the bar exam when I move to China, which doesn't make sense would be like saying when did you become a submarine captain and the answer being when I moved to Wyoming. And not to make snap judgments about someone after watching one press conference, but I did not get the vibe that this is a person who graduates from law school and then passes the notoriously difficult Chinese language national unified legal professional qualification exam from this woman at all. Zachariah Zachariah fuck also had this to say why I want to say like Zachariah for some reason. That's what isn't that I don't fuck it. Zachariah Zachariah also had this to say when asked about the rigors of balancing her new job with her family life. The idea of not spending evenings with my kid is kids are is completely unacceptable. So my president excuse me my husband. That's a that's a good one. My husband is out here is out here for the week. That is a good one chuckled Natalie Harp while emptying a bottle of Drano into Zachariah's Stanley Tumblr. CNN had this report following Zachariah's first press conference. I spoke with one White House official who said that a lot of them missing Caroline today. Yeah, she really made it look easy said another official it being lying. Zachariah did at least provide an update on U.S. Ambassador Degrees Kimberly Gilfoil after reports of a brazen quid pro quo with a Trump donor. We have asked Ambassador Gilfoil to resign. She has been a wonderful asset to the team and we wish her well. Gilfoil responded defiantly with this statement. The best is yet to come. And yet Gilfoil resign soon after though she insisted the allegations are false and that she will vigorously defend herself right when I get back from Greece which will be very soon at a Gilfoil as she blinded Poseidon son Polly Femus. Oh no, ominous. There was that joke had no hope. There was no hope that a specific reference without any context to the fucking Odyssey was going to work. I don't care how many people showed up to the show. No one was going to laugh at that one. Coming back over here. Meanwhile, here's Trump being asked about Gilfoil on Tuesday. Boy, I really dodged a bullet there, huh? Just totally driven by money, said Donald Trump Jr. to his current wife, Bettina, who loves him for his personality. Shortly after Gilfoil got shit canned, the Daily Mail reported that in addition to the $100,000 credit card debt, she tried to get a Trump donor to pay. Gilfoil approached several wealthy Greek businessmen to pay off her G-wagon to the tune of $250,000 and Kimberly Gilfoil's defense. What car could she drive but a G-wagon? She looks like a G-wagon who turned into a person who drives a G-wagon. Does that make sense? I don't know what it is about this car, but it is, and this is an aside, it is like a magnet for assholes. Like, why do people want to drive a $200,000 SUV that is just a boxy, more expensive version of every other, very fancy SUV? And look, I think all people should be treated with respect and equality and each and every soul is precious. And so I don't really mean this, but on some level, if every person who drives a G-wagon disappeared at once, I don't even think there would be a memorial. It would be like the leftovers, but happy. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Riley Barnes tweeted a welcome to ambassador at large Barbara Thornhill, the new director of the department's office to combat trafficking. Barbara Thornhill seen here, catch
a glimpse of the arc of the Covenant. She's also a pioneer, the very first ambassador to ever come from the back rooms. She's breaking into the glass ceiling into your bedroom while you're asleep. All jokes aside, I am sick of these Nepo baby hires. She obviously only got the job because her dad is jigsaw. You know, we debated whether it was acceptable to make these kinds of jokes. We don't like to just make fun of people just because they happen to be Republicans. But then we think, well, why don't we don't like to make fun of people's looks because you can't make fun of the things that are outside of people's control, but she chose that face. She picked it out of a book. In other political news, Texas said in hopeful James Talleriko took a week off the campaign trail due to the flu, which he announced when he said, "During a virtual appearance, sorry I can't be there, I have the flu." And then a bunch of conservative dipshit society was lying and had really been in the middle of a mental breakdown. Someone getting the flu in the fall after meeting many strangers and shaking all their hands while not getting enough sleep. It just didn't add up. So Ken Paxon's campaign called it a, quote, "full-blown mental tala freak out," again, based on nothing. Then two MAG influencers released a secretly recorded tape that proved Talleriko had been in a Ohio mental health facility. Why Ohio? Shut up. Then it came out that those influencers lied to the facility to elicit private medical information in what may be a violation of the law. The full tape makes clear that the person on the phone did not find any record of Talleriko being there. And one of those influencers had quite assorted record of his own, facing charges in Kentucky related to kidnapping a woman's dog in order to get her to sleep with him, which didn't work. The dog hated it. The facility in question subsequently released a statement denying that Talleriko had ever been there. And then Talleriko himself denied ever even being in the state of Ohio ever once in his life. This guy never stops bragging. And by the time Talleriko was supposedly being discharged from this random place in Ohio, he was already back on the campaign trail in Texas. Talleriko even posted photos with countries in your Casey Musgraves at a concert in Dallas. This led our disgraced former secretary of Homeland Security and another person who is very easy to imagine driving a G-wagon she paid for with bribes, Christy Nome, to weigh in. She tweeted, "I'll take Ella Langley over Casey Musgraves any day, and if I'm chosen Texas, I'll take Ken Paxton over James Talleriko." And forget the sentiment for a moment, you can't just introduce a different random uninvolved singer than use that person's song to do your pun. You dumb corrupt Gorgon, Ella Langley, I'll take the Baja man any day, because you know who didn't let the dogs out, Christy Nome. You see, that was funny, but it's cheap. We just search for any, we find any artist in the world, you can make it work. But then Casey Musgraves came back hard, saying to Nome, "And this is real, I don't think you have a dog in this fight, but if you did, you would have shot it." I haven't seen Christy Nome go down that hard since that time her husband Brian turned around too quickly and accidentally knocked her clear across the room. Hackers launched a cyber attack on at least 350 French grocery stores this week, seizing control of the cooling systems, cranking up the temperature, and ruining hundreds of pounds of meat and frozen goods. It smells horrible in here, set officials before the hack. Take that, France. Pringles is offering a special can-shaped earn to a fan willing to one day have their ashes interred in it, but in a sense, every Pringles can as an earn if your wife hates you enough. In addition to the Pringles earn, the contest winner will receive $28,000 enough to buy a 200-year quote, "After life, supply of Pringles once they have passed. Once he popped, we couldn't stop," said the winner's grieving family. "Injustice, alert. Injustice, alert." And you know what that sound means? There's been an injustice. Is it ice menacing our cities? Is it Hillary Clinton's new podcast, which she did not ask me to be on? Is it the fact that we cannot appreciate her youth until it's well and truly gone? No. This injustice is the response to Alejandro in a retuse digger starring the last movie star, Tom Cruise. This movie is going to lose over $245 million, even though it is a masterpiece. The critics panned it, and of course they did. You absolutely fucking rubs like Trump supporters, the most dangerous kind of naive people, naive people who think they're cynical. You're not. A bunch of thorough, proud dummies who claim to be sophisticated, but still need their hands held the whole time. Same people who complained that Barbie had a speech that explained the point of Barbie revealing in their response to this movie that they clearly needed that fucking speech in Barbie. You need Tom Cruise to come out at the end and tell you what the movie was about or you'll assume that a group of people spent $300 million being the dumbest, simplest argument possible. What broke inside of you that you believe you the only smart people on earth and I am sorry that I fell for the criticism. I let you down, Tom. We all did. Everyone here, any of you seen digger yet? Shame on all of you. 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And on STS, so.
128. We took up basically some equipment that outfitted the space station for the preparation for the retirement of the space shuttle. Hey, Doge got your job. Yes, he got my job. That sucks. Hey, so what happened? They came in and Doge hit NASA and then you were out. I had been hired or been asked by NASA because at the time I was serving on the NASA Advisory Council. I had been long since retired. We tried in 2010, but in the 2022-23 timeframe I was asked by NASA to help them with the Artemis program because we brought home Artemis 1 and the heat shield didn't behave the way it should have behaved. And so they needed some expertise and understanding. So I became part of the independent investigation team. And in order to be able to get access to the data, I needed to become a NASA employee again. So I took the oath of office, became an NASA employee and remained in NASA employee and was going to help the Artemis program through 2029. And then in early 2025, March timeframe, there was a big round of Doge cuts that came and I was sitting in San Francisco Airport and I opened up my laptop and I looked at an email and it was a termination letter from NASA. So I got fired by NASA. But that's not even the kicker, right? Because I had got fired from NASA in March and I thought to myself, I got to be the only astronauts who's ever been fired from NASA, especially because I was just trying to help. But I stayed with some drunk guys in the 60s. But I think they all stayed with the program. But so I stayed with NASA kind of monitoring the program as best that I could because I was still part of the NASA Advisory Council as what they call an SGE special government employee. And in fact, I got a call when Jared Isaac Men became the NASA administrator and says, hey, why don't you come on up? I'd like you take a look at the last of the data that we have with the Artemis heat shield and could you evaluate it for us? And I said, yeah, I'm happy to do evaluate it. They've already looked it and they were comfortable with it. But there was a lot of criticism in the public and I was in service of the astronauts who were flying on Artemis. And so I went up there and listened to the data and I said, yeah, you know what this all looks good. They said, great, would you mind doing some interviews for us because a lot of people don't know what happened and would like you to basically be a public face. Yeah, absolutely no problem. So I did that. And then four days before Artemis to launch on the pad, I got the letter from Jared basically saying that they had abolished all the positions of the NASA Advisory Council. So what I can say is I got fired twice by NASA. So I know that's the first. So it's not, is that do you view that as being connected to the fact that obviously Doge was led by Elon Musk. He controls SpaceX. There's been a lot of sort of antipathy towards NASA and its role in space exploration. Do you connect those? I don't think there's a question. I mean, I think, you know, you take a look at the decimation that's happened to our space and our science program within NASA and actually cross all the federal government. I mean, there was an unprecedented thing that happened in the beginning of this administration that has never been seen before. And we lost a lot of technical competency and expertise. You know, someone like myself who, you know, my background is material science. And I consider myself to be an expert. And you know, I'm hired to basically give expert opinions and expert expertise in this area. You know, if you take someone who's an astronaut with a PhD and you just kind of like blindly fire them, I mean, not really ensure why you're finding them. It just makes me think and really sad for the people who actually lost their lives. They'll mind you. I was, this was a volunteer position for me. I wasn't making any money off of it, but I felt really, really bad because there were a lot of people who were let go that there was an entire livelihood, their entire existence, basically, you know, focused and centered around NASA. And not only did they personally affected, but our country's space program was affected. Those, those, that brain trust basically left. And it happened so randomly that I think it's going to be years before we figure out how badly the damage was done to our core knowledge within space. And, and all the other government institutions, which were hit. Do you think anyone's ever had sex in space? I know I haven't. And that's not just because my, my wife is going to be watching this by the way. But no, I mean, so you go into space and here's the thing is that there's like absolutely no personal space in space. I mean, there are cameras everywhere. I remember I used to be, I used to sit on mission control as a capsule communicator. And when you would get the third shift, so you had three different shifts, right? So the overnight shift, the sleep, the crew was asleep. And you could actually watch like air flow. And you could see when people were moving inside the space station, just by looking at the data of the space station with no cameras at all, right? You could see all, you could see these various parameters are there, CO2 production, you could see, you know, temperatures that were happening locally. And so, you know what, there's lots of ways to interrogate and to look and see who's doing what on space station? No, no, no spikes in CO2, no, no rhythmic air flow moving through the cabin. And, and, and no rocket, right? Yeah, I think there's no gravity. So, yeah, when this flown around there, when this space shuttles in Iraq and check the thermal heat shield immediately. Hey, do you think that we should get a nuclear reactor on the moon before those commy bastards from China do? So, I think it is a requirement if we're going to be in the South Pole to have some other alternative source of energy. Now, here's the thing. A lot of folks, we think of nuclear, we tend to think of like Chernobyl, we think of three mile island, but the fact that the matter is is at NASA and other space-faring nations have used the radioisotope, thermal nuclear generators, basically like nuclear batteries in space from the get-go. In fact, the reason why we can hear it from a voyage or one and voyage or two, remember, we continue to hear them. And they're out way outside. They were launching the 70s and they're out beyond the helial pauses because they've got these batteries on them that allow them to stay alive for a long time. In the South Pole, we don't get a continuous form of light, especially at dark. And so, even if you had solar panels, it wouldn't help you. So, unless you're going to be like in the equatorial area, you still have to contend with night time. But yeah, I think it's a possibility because we're talking, scales are going to be much smaller. We have, we've got lessons learned, like why, what happened in Chernobyl, what happened in three mile island, our understanding of safety and risk assessment has increased dramatically. And so, I think we could do it safely and effectively. Speaking of uniting for a noble cause, you're part of astronauts for America, which is an organization that's trying to get people to vote and try to protect democracy. What are you guys doing through this election? Well, so, astronauts for America globally, for those who don't know when you become an astronaut, whether you're civilian or military, they tell you how Kennedy died. You take an oath. And that oath is actually a sacred promise that you make to the United States and, and, and basically our taxpayers. And that is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. And it's under this umbrella and this under this oath that united over 100 former NASA astronauts to take part in astronauts for America, which is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization that we started, I mean, just in April. And, you know, we are looking at the Constitution and trying to basically amplify the voices of America, the American public and want to return back to Constitution norms. So we're looking at things like separation of powers. We're looking at things like, you know, money in politics. We're looking at the things that right now we feel are crippling our democracy. Now, within this umbrella of stuff that we're looking at, we are embarked, we've embarked on this one very narrow campaign, which is called the vote for freedom. You know, a lot of people don't know this, but in the, in the demographics between 18 and 26 during midterm elections, historically, the, the, the participation is about only about 30%. And, in one recent place that I went to, one recent state that I went to, the participation locally during the, the presidential election was 24% within that demographics. What that means is the majority of the people whose, whose future depends on this country don't have a voice and they're not using their voice through their vote. And so part of our campaign vote for freedom is to reach out to these demographics and we're doing so by going to college campuses across our country. I mean, we're not being local to any particular, you know, race, a red state or a blue state. It's like we are talking to any university that's willing to reach out to us and communicate and encourage our students first to register. And then for those who do register, research the, the candidates, research the, the, the issues and make a plan and then come November 3rd or if a, early election or early voting as possible, make a plan and vote. And that's what we're out there to try to do. It's great. Now, speaking of important missions with terrible risks tonight, we will let you choose which fictional space fate used, you'd prefer to face in a game we're calling in space. No one can hear you choose. Here's how it works. I will present you with two spine tingling cinematic space disasters and you tell us which one you'd rather take on. Are you ready astronaut? Ready. Would you rather accidentally be abandoned alone on Mars force you to collect your own poop for fertilizer like Matt Damon in the Martian or wake up from a coma on a spaceship, only to find out that it's only you that can keep the sun from burning out, like in Project Hail Mary. Which mission would you choose? I think I would choose the Mars one. Yeah.
That one had a lot of oxycontin in it. (laughing) - It did, but I like potatoes. - Oh yeah, potatoes, that's good, dip it in there. Next up, would you like to get stuck in a bookcase in the future/past via the Tesseract in Interstellar? Or have control of your ship seized from the inside by a deranged homicidal computer, like in 2001, a space Odyssey? - Oh, 2001, that was my inspiration to become an astronaut and I'd like to get to know how a little bit better. - Yeah, I think they just needed to work on the communication with how, do you think we'll ever have that style of spacecraft that they have in 2001 and space Odyssey? It's also in the book '70s they have it where you spin to create gravity. Do you think that's possible? - Well, I mean, it obeys physics, but I mean, the kind of spin rate that you would need in order to be able to kind of artificially create gravity is a pretty good spin rate. - I'll take 0.5G, give me 0.5G, I'm standing. I'm walking around, I'm light. - Yeah, I mean, so here's the thing is that I think that these are our possibilities, but the consequence associated with that is kind of the hardware development that's required, the operations associated with it, and it's hard enough as it is just blasting off the planet and getting human beings to stay alive in space, let alone putting them on this basically giant ferris wheel in space. - Yeah, I still think we should try though. Would you rather team up with Bruce Willis to stop a meteor in 1998's Armageddon, or team up with Morgan Freeman to stop a meteor in 1998's Deep Impact? - Morgan Freeman, Armageddon really, that hurt. - Armageddon was tough, right? - The movie hurt. - Because Armageddon was, so did you, are you, deep impact, you are a deep impact, you like deep impact more? - I like deep impact, that was, I think that was a cool movie. - Because deep impact, it was like the scientists, the real nerds, they were deep impact people in an Armageddon world, you know? - Yeah, and I ask you, I know a lot of people who work in the oil patch like out in the Midland area in Texas, and I will tell you that the characters within that film don't necessarily think we're kind of representative. And, you know, if you landed on an asteroid, by the way, asteroids are kind of loosely compacted. I mean, we know that from Osiris Rex, when Osiris Rex went to impact the crater, or the asteroid, and bring back a sample. Essentially, it's so like, there's not enough gravity to kind of keep it all compact and make it hard. So that whole concept of what that asteroid was, is a bit far fetched, and I don't know, have a problem with space movies. - You know, wait, what's another space movie that you really, what's the best space movie? - Oh, best space movie, without a dot, Apollo 13. - Apollo 13? - Yeah, so a lot of the movies, or a lot of the portions where you see Tom Hanks and his co-workers kind of like floating in this capsule, those were actually shot in a vehicle call, the, it was a KC-135 at the time, which is we call it, you know, affectionately called it the Vomacama, which is a plane, that goes up and down over the Gulf of Mexico. And so, when you come up at the top of the arc, this parabolic flight that you do, is you get about 20 seconds worth of 0G, that's simulated on the inside, because you're basically falling at the same rate as the plane, and the idea is to get a simulated, you know, 0G, you know, effect. But then when you get at the bottom, now you get a 2G pull out, so, you know, no such thing as a free lunch, right? You get down at the bottom, and now you have two times gravity kind of pressing on you as you come up to the top, and then you go back to 0G, 2G, 0G, and you do that for about 50 parabolas, and that's why they call it the Vomacama. (audience laughing) - Kind of the question about the Vomacama, please. So, I've only, my closest experience to being on a plane or a spaceship is doing the Tower of Terror, the drop rides, and I-- - That's awesome. - But the drop rides, it's a real, like your stomach drops, and it feels really sickening. Is that the first moment, and then it settles out? Is that transitioning from 1G to 0G, or does that is the feeling while you're in space? 'Cause I'd be puking the whole time. - When you blast off the planet, you know, you're sitting at Kennedy Space Center, and you're going zero miles an hour point straight up, and as soon as they light the main engines, and the solid rocket boosters go, you know, you're off to the races. They ate in a half minutes after you leave the pad, you were in space, and the main engines cut off, we call it Miko, main engine cut off Miko. So when Miko occurs, all of a sudden, everything, you feel, actually, you're accelerating out to orbital velocities, you'll feel up to three times gravity kind of pushing against you, so I weigh about 200 pounds, so that's like me weighing 600 pounds, being kind of pressed into the seat. But as soon as you hit Miko, all of a sudden, you're weightless, and you start seeing things like dust floating up, and, you know, a stray pencil or whatever, and your stomach feels like you're at the top of a roller coaster starting to go down, but it stays there. But see, wait, what, so, but like, so, but this is what I'm at, like, so, but at some point, it doesn't, you know, you just kind of get used to it. You settle into it, or do you always feel a little bit strange? Well, every one of your perceptions of what normality is, goes away, so your eyes know where the ground is and knows where the ceiling is, and so your eyes give you a visual perception of what gravity looks like. We also have this fluid in our inner, inner ear, these three tubes, these station tubes, which have gravity acting on that fluid. They're actually in kind of three different directions, so that helps us with our gravity. That's why when we get a cold, and we have like, you know, pressure in our ears, you kind of feel, you have a little bit of vertigo. So those are working for you, and then you have what's called the seat of the pants. In other words, you can close your eyes, and you can always kind of know where gravity is, just kind of like feeling where it is, at least for short periods of time, and you get in space, all that goes away. So, gravity's no longer acting on the inner ear, the way to normally do it. Your perception of, you know, up down, left or right are gone. You not only have closer to and further away from things, and as far as seat of the pants is concerned, that's completely gone, because there's no, the vector of gravity is not acting on you in the same way. - I always thought it was strange, and we simply must move on. I always thought it was strange. Like, why not just decide in a spacecraft, like in the International Space Station. This is the ground, this is the ceiling. We paint the, you know what I mean? You could even do it with color, like paint the top sky color, paint the bottom grass color, and we all just call, that's down, that's up. - And that's, you must have been, they're writing the procedures, 'cause that's exactly the way it is on the space station. Yep, you've got the deck, you've got the floors, you know, and we have to actually be able to do that in order for us to have any kind of orientation, especially when it comes to like emergency situations. If all of a sudden you had to evacuate space station and all the lights went out, you better know where the deck is, right? Because you're gonna know based on the deck and where you're at, how you're gonna get back to the space station, or back to like to the lifeboats, whether it's a Soyuz or one of the Dragon vehicles. And the thing about space station now is it's like a habit trail. I mean, there's components going off in all different directions, there's a Russian segment, so I mean, there's a safety of flight issues associated with that, and that's one of the reasons why also, it's the way we train, 'cause we can train that here on the ground, and we can change it in what's referred to as a 1G orientation. But incidentally, so let's call this the International Space Station, when the space shuttle used to dock, which we know based on what the space shuttle looks like, what up, down, left, or right looks like, but when we dock, we would actually dock like this. So the up, down, left, or right when you're on space station, as soon as you come through the docking tunnel, changes completely once you get in the space station, 'cause the deck is right here, overheads right here, and then your walls are right here, so you have to like basically do this mental gymnastics, trigonometrically, and your brain, as you're going from the space shuttle into the space station. - And then it must smell kind of weird, 'cause it's a place that's only been cleaned by scientists. (audience laughs) You know? - So here's the thing, so space station, space station is kind of like a hospital. You know, it has continuous, what we refer to as ecosystems, environmental, environmental life control, environmental control, life support system, ECLSS, and it's constantly scrubbing the air, it's pulling humidity out, it's keeping the temperature at a constant temperature of 72 degrees relative humidity. We have to control the relative humidity so that we don't have like static electricity buildup, so that relative humidity stays the same all the time, and the air is constantly flowing and constantly being cleaned, because otherwise, if you don't have air flow, and you're just up there in space, and you have all the oxygen that you want, as you breathe in and out, because you don't have convection, your hot air from your breath doesn't go up. It just kind of goes out and goes back in again, and eventually you build this giant CO2 bubble around your head, and so if you have no air flow, there's no way for that air to flush across your face, and if you're not careful at bite, like on the space shuttle, you go to sleep, and if you put your head in an area that doesn't have any air flow, you end up with a CO2 headache. You're getting CO2 poisoning, now you'll wake up before anything bad happens, and all you gotta do is basically just do this, and you kind of get air flowing into it, and then you move yourself to some place where you do have a little flow of air. - So obviously I have to ask one final question, which is what have people are ripping ass up there? They're just lingering, these farts are just fucking lingering. What happens, right? Come on. - We have a bed, which is a carbon filtration bed, just like you have in any other filtration system, so all that air gets pulled in. I mean, look, there's a lot of stinkier stuff up there for the experiments that we conduct. We have to be able to scrub a lot of nasty stuff out of the air, if we have a problem with some of these experimental equipments, and this stuff actually releases, we have to be able to scrub it out. So a little poop here and there, and it's gonna get out just like that. - Well, that's lovely to hear. Thank you so much for sharing that. Daniel Yves, thank you so much. Go to asteroidsforamerica.org to learn more about getting out the vote and supporting our democracy.
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Please welcome Moshe Kosher. I'm not. You're a great host and a great comedian. And I'm not trying to tell you how to run your show. But I don't want to listen to me talk after that conversation. That was so fascinating. How are we going to go from how do you fart in space to what quips do you have about the latest? No, excuse me. You're very interesting. Thank you. Have you seen the film digger? I haven't. Come on. I haven't. But I'm not a hater. I'm excited to do it. Great. I'm excited to watch. Yeah. I'm going to bring this thing back. All right. I'm going to save right now. All right. This is going to get some, we're going to get some Oscar. But this is going to be a cult classic like the Bowsky or Shawshank. Just mark my words. All right. There's going to be, there's going to be a second run. We're going to make this money back. Why do I want to make David Ellison's money back? All right. Now, I want to ask serious question, because in June, you posted that you were diagnosed with tonsil cancer. Oh, yeah. The only thing funny and farting in space is definitely tonsil cancer. Oh, yes. I got that. But it's better, it's better if you say it for what it truly is, which is I got the Michael Douglas cancer. Oh. That's a little more fun. That's cool. That I gave too much to women. I perhaps was too generous of a lover over the course of my life. Thank you. And that's what the medical professionals have told you. That's right. Well, actually, what the doctor said, I think you'll enjoy this. This shit's about to get so much dirtier on this show. But he said, my doctor in the first surgeon I went to said, this is HPV, what it is, it's HPV positive tonsil cancer. And he said that you get it from kind of lingus or if you're gay from analingus. Okay. And I looked it and I said, do you think only gay men eat ass? Is that something that you think is sexually true? And it was very cute. I got to educate an HPV positive tonsil surgeon about straight man eating ass, which I've been doing since the early 90s. And we've always said, we've known that about you. That's something that's part of your personality. That's why you invited me on the show in the first place. That's right. Now, you posted that a Jewish surgery robot at Cedar Sinai, yanked your job in for five hours, cut it out, and then slid your throat and dissected your neck, leaving you with a hardcore neck scar, which will make people reluctant to street fight you. Okay. Yeah. I did post that. And to be honest, my doctor at Cedar's, Dr. Alan Ho, a doctor Ho is the preeminent HPV surgeon here in Los Angeles, he went to Harvard. That's what you want. You know what I mean? When you get surgery, you're like, do you go to Harvard? I don't think you can really see it. Wow. He's so good. An artist and a surgeon. Do you guys see it? Can you see it? Yeah. Well, it's there. Yeah, they did what's called a radical tonsilectomy, which is what's only called that in Southern California. In Boston, it's called a wicked tonsilectomy. And a neck dissection, which is, I told the surgical team, like, can we not call it? Like, why would you call it that? Why not call it a lymph node removal surgery? Why dissection? Why something I did to a cow's eyeball in middle school? But they took out, like, about, I don't know, 30 or 40 lymph nodes, and they cut my tonsil out and a whole lot more than my tonsil. And it was, I mean, listen, this has all been the worst thing I've ever been through in my life. And has it? Now, some people say, it opens your mind. It makes you appreciate things. But you said that it was the most terrifying and consciousness-consuming experience of your life. Terror, tears, and medical planning. Was there the kind of reflective part? I mean, funny if there wasn't. No, I'm pretty much the same, dude. But I don't like surgery. I realize that. No, I don't think that they're mutually exclusive at all. I think that they are in dialogue with one another. I think that the terror, I mean, listen, the way that I describe it is like, you know that you know that you're mortal, right? I thought that I knew that I was mortal. And then I found this out about my body. And I realized I hadn't known in a true way. That there's a deeper knowing of mortality. Where it wasn't like, oh yeah, abstractly. Like you think that Digger is a great movie, right? But once it wins best picture, there'll be a knowing. Underneath the knowing. I found a knowing of my own mortality that was deeper, more terrifying. But also, I mean, what I can really say, and this is dark, but what is clear to me is that this is the first, not the last, horrifying medical situation that I will be in in my life. And I don't mean, I mean, all of us. All of us will go through this. And I remember I was getting my surgery consultation at Dr. Ho's office and there was another guy in there, an older man. And he had the same, we did the like, you know the black eye nod? You guys know the black eye nod? So we had the cancer surgery nod. We're like, oh, you're doing the, you're doing the, what's up? And he was old and he goes, what's up? He goes, first cancer, like all jovial. And I go, no, like, it's the last, no, I don't mean my last. No, I don't mean my last. It's not my last. It's a, I mean, it's my only. And I realize like, we're all going somewhere. We are all, you know, they say like disability is the only marginalized community that every single one of us will join at some point. We are going to get sick. And this is, I'm going to get better from this. But I will get sick again, and so will you, and so will we all, and so making peace with that. And my mortality and my frailty and my humanness has been, yes, one of the most spiritually mind-opening things I've ever experienced in my life. But also it's been horrible. My rabbi said, rabbi Susan Goldberg over at Neffesh. You've maybe been there. Maybe you haven't. Anyway, she, she said, she said, okay, yeah, I didn't mean to start a rivalry. But she sees side, your west side, it's a classic rivalry. She said, because she's had her own cancer diagnosis. And we were talking about it. She says, you would never, there are, there is knowledge that you get when you go through this that you cannot get in any other way. And I would give it back in an instant. There's a kind of, of enlightenment that I received from going through this. And I, it's not worth it. I don't want it. I would give it back tomorrow. I would be more naive tomorrow. But I'm grateful for the knowledge that I have. You were in the pit. Yeah. Yeah. And you were a sign language interpreter. What was that? Like, do you think that there's a difference?
should be more sort of acting roles for people who can sign, but don't have to be funny while they're signing. I feel like there's like a way in which like there are deaf roles and there are comedy roles, but they're not overlapping, right? Like they're not put together. Or is that not true? Well, I think that we are seeing with deafness and with a lot of different disability in real time, they're becoming an expansion of the kinds of stories that get to get told in disabled spaces. I think that for most of my childhood, my parents are deaf, my whole family's deaf. And in fact, I'm doing a one person show, I'm starting to tour again now that my health is back. I'm doing this one person show called Koda Switch about my life growing up in a deaf family. And it's very funny and it's very irreverent and dirty at times. But I think that growing up, deaf roles were kind of touched by an angel roles. And I think that slowly, the roles are more complex, they're dirty. We all know that people from groups that have been deified are not actually deities. They are in fact human beings just like everybody else and they fart in space and they fuck and they get high. So yeah, I think that that is changing. Yeah, somebody noted, I can't remember this community that notices that a lot of people confuse Anne, Frank and Helen Keller. And it's like, there's no real reason that those two things are connected other than we learn about them in school. But like, I think people often confuse them, I do, when I hear this, I go, yeah, I do that too. What are you familiar with, Helen Keller, true stories? Yes, that they don't believe that they think it was all fake. Yeah, and I think that is what can bring our, your previous guest and me together, which is that we are both in communities that are under fire by conspiracy theories. And I actually do want to pitch that the Potsay of America, love it or leave an empire, fund a Mr. B style prank show where you're, where we send flat earthers to space in a SpaceX shuttle, okay? We have come up into Elon Musk, we get SpaceX on board, we send flat earthers to space that we document the entire thing of them turning from globe, globe tards into true believers. I think it's just a great idea. I don't even think we got a, why don't we need to trick them? I think we'd say like, hey, we will get, we will pay you to become an astronaut, we will show you space, we will show you that the earth is round if you're willing to go on this rocket. I think that's an incredible idea. Yeah, I think we should do that. And what's cool about it is unlike Helen Keller, the earth is actually a globe. Helen Keller was, of course, hearing and could see, but the earth is in fact spherical. That's funny. I almost got an applause break on that, look, it would be weird. I just thought you were brave enough to say it. If for those that don't know, that theory is that Helen Keller was neither deaf nor blind, but that somehow she was engaged in some kind of like decades-long subterfuge with her, her, her, her aid, whose name, and, and I should know this certainly. And what Frank, that's why people think, what was the name? I just realized in real-time why people mistook it, because it's not, and there isn't any involved. There isn't any involved. Now, obviously, you've been through a lot this year. So we've come up with a number of unfortunate situations, and we want to ask you what the uplifting, silver lining might be in a segment we're calling an attitude of gratitude. First up, all right, let's find the gratitude in realizing that the horrible smell at the dinner party is dog shit you must have stepped in right before you entered the house. What am I supposed to do here? Be grateful for it. Oh, I'm grateful for that. Next up, you find out your plane's takeoff has been delayed and you'll be stuck in the tarmac for a while, just as the person in the seat next to you cracks open a container of fish tacos. Oh, how do I find gratitude within this framework? In this experience. Oh, I think it's by getting to know the person sitting next to me and say, "I too am hungry. I too eat a taco." And once you start eating the taco, you no longer smell. It's much, I mean, it is I would say eerily like farting in space. Once you fart into the carbon bed, you become unable to smell your fillet. Right. You just need one bite and then you're not really dealing with the problem anymore. And if there's one community that wants to share, it's the fish taco eating community. My friend Spencer and I once brought two big honk and Chipotle burritos to a movie, and we thought the movie was going to be empty, but the movie was basically sold out. And then we sat down and we took our big burritos out and we started eating them and the guy next to Spencer said, "Hey, would you guys move over once you see those burritos really stink?" And Spencer said, "Now we're good." I got to say, like I'm not on Spencer's side. No, no, no. 100%. We were the villains in that story. I did concede. We were villains. We should have slid over one. I think saying now we're good was crazy. I got to say, bringing Chipotle to the movies is already crazy. So I got it. We go back to the thing. If I'm on the plane, I'm stuck on the tarmac. There's somebody eating fish tacos. I just grab a fish taco and I stuff it into my cargo pant. Beautiful. Next up, you accidentally like an ex, an ex's Instagram photo from six months ago. An ex is, well, if I have an ex whose photo from six months ago, I'm, I mean, I'm the yesterday was my 12th wedding anniversary. So that means that I've been in substantial cheat mode for quite a while. Well, I think this could just mean that you scrolled back through. You're broken up. But you're just, what they are seeing is that, "Oh, wow, my ex has been scrolling through my photos and accidentally liked one from a long time ago, which means that they've been really digging in deep." I think you just DM them and say, "That's right. I liked it. I want you back." And no, it doesn't matter if it's true. You just commit all the way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, just send a wedding registry. Yeah. Um, let's do, uh, you're giving a speech at a family wedding and in front of everyone completely blank on your cousin's new wife's name and your attempt to joke past it, you also forget your cousin's name. The second stretch on, like, hours, you're still there, it's happening right now. Huh. I think I scream. I have HPV positive tonsil cancer. All things can be forgiven. Wow. Yeah, it's really kind of, have you, has it been a kind of like get out of, get out of thing free card? Definitely it definitely has, um, is useful. Um, I have not used it as much as I would like because the truth is, um, I was so incapacitated for such a long time that I didn't desire to be away from, I mean, this is rare because I, I know the sweet, the sweet pleasure of canceling on something with full impunity. But, uh, I did not use it much because I missed, I missed everybody. I missed being out in the world and, uh, and it feels so good to be back, actually. Well, that's so nice. I found some gratitude. Look at that. It's a great place to leave it. Uh, go to moshakasher.com, you have, you're coming up, you're going to be in the Tacoma comedy club on Halloween weekend and at the bellhouse in Brooklyn for their New York comedy festival on November 8th. That's right. I'll be, I'm going to be doing that. Coda switch show. Awesome. And it's all about my life growing up in a deaf family and Hasidic Jews and drug addiction in Oakland, California and all this stuff. It's a one person show I've been working on for a long time and I'm very proud of it. And finally, I would not be a responsible HPV positive tonsil cancer person without saying. There is a vaccine for this. Gardasil and you can take it and you can give it to your children and they do not have to suffer what I have suffered or what millions of men and women have had to suffer with cervical cancer and tonsil cancer. Fucking vaccinate your kids. You can work out all of your sort of RFK fever dreams with the mumps vaccine or whatever. But just get fucking vaccinated. You do not have to go through this and nobody should have to go through this. Yeah. We're right back. Love it or leave it as brought to you by Sundays. We are what we eat and so are our dogs. Our dogs are what we eat. No, our dogs are what they eat. Sundays for dogs. Where will we eat? Dogs are what dogs eat. Dogs aren't what we eat. Along healthy active life starts with clean, real food nutrition every day. 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That's 50% up your first order at sundaysfordogs.com/loveit. Or use code, love it at checkout. And we're back. Hop in, fellas. We're going for a spin of the rant wheel. Here's how it works. We'll spin the wheel. Wherever it lands, we'll rant about the topic of our choosing, let's spin the wheel. Astronaut Danny Olivas, what would you like to rant about for 60 seconds? Oh my God, Hollywood, please, please, please, we'll shoot films about space. Let's just obey the laws of physics, please, please, please, shooting guns in space.
And you know, all this, I saw Sandra Bullock in gravity step out of a space suit, basically kind of wearing her underwear, and I know why they did it. But you would actually be wearing a liquid cooling ventilation garment, because otherwise you would overheat while you're in the space suit, which of course, I mean, is about human physics. So you know, and I think physics is a pretty incredible thing. And I think the universe is a pretty incredible thing. You have black holes, you have dark matter. 95% that we don't know about. The universe is infinite, and it has billions and billions and billions of galaxies, like all over the place. Our closest neighbor is 150,000 light years away. That's pretty impressive. We don't need to embellish that. [BELL RINGS] Yeah, that's why I walked out of the film gravity. I was like, there's no heat retarding dead garment. Where's our garment? This movie doesn't make any fucking sense. Where's the garment, Sandra? Shame on them. Shame on Hollywood. We deserve to lose the industry. [LAUGHTER] All right, let's spin it again. [BELL RINGS] Mosho, what would you like to round about? Oh, I mean, this-- I just want to talk to Hollywood. Please, if you're going to make a movie about space, this is a little bit weird, that it's a very same thing. No, I finally am afraid of AI. I've been an AI-positive apologist for such a long time, because I was so convinced that while there's almost no hope with AI, there is no hope with humanity. But then today, I heard that AI has finally solved these millennia-long mathematical challenges and that the entire mathematical world is considering suicide, because they have nothing to do anymore. And I'm like, what the fuck? Even when AI does what it's supposed to do, it's not droning us all to death. It's actually succeeding in its mission. It's still fucking sucks. We're still like, what is-- no one's ever been able to tell me, what is the good case? What happened-- I get we cure cancer, but it would be actually really beneficial for me, specifically. But what is the positive case when we finally we succeed in our investment? Everybody gets laid off, what happens next? We're all going to be bored as fuck. There's going to be nothing left to do. Yeah. I should also say, HPV positive temporal cancer has a very high curate, I'm going to be OK. Almost definitely. Hell yeah. So you'll get to see what the robots decide for you. Well, I'll be able to finally look up at the night sky and see zero stars. That's how long. Wow, that's amazing. Let's spin it again. [KNOCKING] I'll tell you what I'd like to round about. The lack of respect in our society for a man named Tom Cruise. That man is, he gives us everything. And much in the same way that we wonder, if the AI will have our interest at heart, or will one day just leave us behind. Tom Cruise at any moment can say, I'm done. And then you know what happens? We literally never see him again for the rest of our lives. He could decide, today, they don't like my film. I'm going to the fortress. What fortress, a fortress we don't know about? We never see him again. I don't want to live in that world. I want to live in the world with a light of time to cruise shines upon us. And if we all want that, then we all know what we have to do. We need to see a film called Tigger. That is out right now. And then we need to realize that the critics that hated it, really, what do they hate? I think maybe it's themselves. Maybe it's themselves. And maybe it's the ambivalence and strange feeling that this film created in them. Because it's not the kind of movie like Marvel that they claim to despise, but really in their heart of hearts are all they really want. Because they want to hate something bad, instead of figuring out how to love something good. OK, that's all I wanted to say about that. [APPLAUSE] And we're back. [MUSIC PLAYING] And we're back. [APPLAUSE] I am a meticulous and thorough person. And yet somehow, occasionally, a mistake might slip through. Did it tonight? We'll find out in a segment we call second thought. Here's how it works. I have a list of things I may have screwed up from the producers of this program. And I will share a few of them with you. Let's see. I couldn't pronounce the word Zachariah. We practiced it during rehearsal, and I actually couldn't get it. I couldn't get it during the show. I tried to make it into something that was part of the show kind of worked. And I'm really sorry. I was looking her up today, because I didn't know who she was. And I was tickled with the Google results, which one of the main ones was, are she and Farid Zakaria related, which they could not possibly look less related. Yes. It's very much like that old Simpson's joke about whether Homer Simpson is related to Richard Nixon. And while they spell and pronounce their names differently. The Odyssey joke could have worked, but I flubbed the delivery I agree. I agree. I agree. I blamed the joke as pride, which was also kind of the lesson of the film The Odyssey. You're wrong. The reason that joke didn't work, I can tell you why that joke didn't work, because you said ominous. And for a second, we all thought, is ominous also a Greek god? I know, obviously you didn't, you're very intelligent, but I was definitely like ominous, huh? So my problem is, I just don't watch movies. You didn't see the Odyssey? I haven't seen the Odyssey. Did I tell you that I had this thing about space movies? Yeah. All you do is hate watch space movies. No, no, no, no, no. I just-- well, there's a lot of other kind of movies that don't seem to sort of make you upset about your profession. The Odyssey had very little space flight in it. As did the film digger, I had very little space in it. But you probably didn't enjoy it. I like to torture myself. And my kids will tell you that I enjoy watching a space movie just so I can get angry at the television, and I throw things at it, because it's like, that violates the laws of physics right there. That will never, ever happen. I'm going to be honest with you. The Odyssey did violate some of the laws of physics as well. Yeah, that's true. I think that's a good point. Let's see, I equated flying in a rocket to a ride at Disney, and I'm sorry. No, you are 100% accurate. You're 100% accurate. So coming down from that roller coaster, we've all experienced it, right? And the very first time that you feel it, that is what it feels like when you go into space. But because the brain remembers that sensation, when you take your second time into space, your body knows what to expect just like when you get on a ride now. You know that sensation is coming, and your body can adapt to it. That's why your second time into space are probably going to be less sick than the first time. When you ride Space Mountain, are you kind of like rolling your eyes the whole time? No, so here's my wife loves Space Mountain. That's her favorite roller coaster. And I just absolutely love it. I mean, at some point, it's going to like probably, you can be a whiplash because it's a pretty vicious ride, but I've always loved it. In fact, I loved it back when it had it. It was the, what was the name of the movie that was a precursor to Space Mountain? It was, they were going into a, I think it was called The Black Hole. Yeah, The Black Hole, The Movie. So it was a really, really old, accurate physics. Well, I was a kid at the time, and I really enjoyed. I mean, these people were like heading into Black Hole. So that was the theme around the original Space Mountain, but I love all the improvements. I wasn't real wild when they had like the Star Wars theme to it. So I'm glad they changed that out of there. Yeah, you know what, we have, we simply must move on, but it offends me in a deep way that Epcot has introduced like Guardians of the Galaxy style rides, like fictional rides, when it's like, hey, hey, hey, this is Epcot. All right, do we like it? Not that much, but we come and we see science. And it's not as exciting as what happens over there at Disney, you know, the Magic Kingdom. But we learned about something, we see the plants, and we sit in the little ride, and it's the quiet day where you see figment, and you learn about whether you're going to go underwater, or into the space, or into the desert. And now it's like, why am I seeing Rocky, the fucking raccoon? At Epcot, that's just another place. They got that, you know what I'm saying? It's an animal giant, you make a great astronaut, because I feel the exact same way. It's a UN-based theme park. That's what it's supposed to be. And that main hero should be Butro's Butro's Golly. Yeah, Butro's Butro's Golly, that's exactly right. Hey, I'm sorry, I said ripping ass to you. To a man who has been to space, it's all good. It's all good. Kind of dodged the question, but that's OK. And then about the ripping ass, you kind of answered. But I think some of them linger. I think that in reading between the lines, I think they linger up there a little bit. No, no, actually they don't. I mean, so here's the thing. Wow, space. Science is amazing. That's amazing. So on a space shuttle, I never remembered, because I flew with seven guys on one mission. So seven all of us together. And it's a pretty small compartment, the space shuttle. And not one time, did I hear or smell anything foul? And you know, you can't put seven guys in a room for 30 seconds. And they're like, who is that now? Don't you understand? This is why people think that the earth is flat. Yeah. NASA lies like this. Yeah, never smelled one far. You have seven. In a shuttle with seven men. Seven adult men in space, not one goddamn fart. No, no, no. So when you got the whiff, was when the WCS, the waste containment system was full. When that thing, near the end of the mission, you go buy that thing, and it smelled like an outhouse of Coachella. And you know an outhouse of Coachella. And Moshe, I do want to apologize, because I went from saying-- I went from the enlightenment of life-threatening illness to, so you were on the pit. Well, they deal with-- They deal with the enlightenment of life-threatening illness. Thank you.
They do that all the time. They don't my only regret is that this show must end. And that is our show. Thank you so much to Moja Kasha and Danny Olivas. There are 20 days until the midterms. We'll be back Friday with Ben Feldman and Dusty Slay, and we'll see you next time. Love it or leave it as a crooked media production. Our show is produced by Kendra James, Bill McGrath, Kelsey Gantay, and me John Love it. Our production team includes Hallie Heeper, Sarah Lazarus, Rahman Borsalino, Peter Miller, David Toll's Claudio Shang, Jay Banks for Ul Calderon, Gavin Purcell, and Matt DeGrove. And our production staff is proudly unionized with the Ryder's Guild of America East.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
President Trump is heavily active on the campaign trail, focusing on physical appearances of political rivals like John Houston and JD Vance, using humor and personal attacks to generate attention.
A federal judge criticized the Trump administration for cutting down over 430 trees in DC without proper notice, calling the action a constitutional violation and a loss of government credibility.
Trump announced Katie Zachariah as his new press secretary, sparking controversy over her lack of legal credentials and questioned professionalism, with critics highlighting inconsistencies in her background and statements.
Allegations of a quid pro quo involving U.S. Ambassador Kimberly Gilfoil, who reportedly sought $250,000 from a Trump donor to cover her G-wagon expenses, led to her resignation and a sharp backlash from both political and public figures.
A cyberattack on French grocery stores disrupted food supplies, while political satire and absurdity dominate segments on the show, including jokes about space travel, G-wagons, and media figures’ perceived incompetence.
Astronaut Dr. Danny Olivas shares concerns about the decimation of NASA’s expertise and space program under current administration policies, emphasizing the loss of scientific and technical knowledge.
The show promotes a voter engagement initiative, “Astronauts for America,” targeting young voters (18–26) through campus outreach to combat low turnout and strengthen democratic participation.
A recurring theme of humor and absurdity is used to critique political figures, media, and public policies, often with satirical takes on space travel, medical experiences, and conspiracy theories.
Summary:
The show blends political commentary, satire, and personal stories to critique current events, highlighting controversies surrounding Trump’s campaign trail, the administration’s environmental and legal actions, and the lack of transparency in key decisions. A central focus is on the appointment of Katie Zachariah as press secretary, where her qualifications and demeanor are questioned amid broader concerns about political accountability. The segment on Ambassador Gilfoil’s resignation is tied to allegations of bribery, fueling public skepticism and political tension.
Meanwhile, the discussion of space, from the film *Digger* to astronaut experiences, uses humor to expose flaws in political narratives and public perception. The show also emphasizes civic engagement through initiatives like “Astronauts for America,” aiming to mobilize young voters by addressing democratic disengagement. Absurdity and satire permeate the content, from jokes about G-wagons and space toilets to satirical critiques of conspiracy theories and medical procedures.
These elements combine to deliver a sharp, often irreverent, commentary on politics, media, and public trust, grounded in both humor and critical observation.
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Katie Zachariah's appointment has drawn scrutiny due to her lack of legal qualifications, as she has not publicly disclosed passing the bar exam. Critics question her credentials, especially given her brief past work at DHS and the absence of verifiable legal training.
Ambassador Gilfoil was asked to resign after reports emerged that she sought $250,000 from a Trump donor to pay off her personal debt, including a $100,000 credit card. She denied the allegations, claiming they were false and vowed to defend herself.
The judge found that the Department of Justice failed to provide proper notice before cutting down over 430 trees at East Potomac Golf Course, violating procedural norms and undermining government accountability.
Dr. Olivas was fired twice by NASA, first in 2025 during a round of staff cuts and later when the NASA Advisory Council was abolished. He argues this reflects a broader decline in scientific expertise and institutional trust within NASA.
The campaign aims to boost youth voter participation, especially among 18- to 26-year-olds, by visiting college campuses to encourage registration, research of candidates, and voting during midterms.
The film 'Digger' is mocked for financial losses despite being considered a 'masterpiece' by some, with critics pointing out that critics who panned it are seen as 'naive' and 'cynical'—a point used to highlight perceived hypocrisy among conservative audiences.
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