Who Framed Richard Nixon?

Welcome to Love It or Leave It, live from Hollywood. Hello to our viewers on MSNOW and to our podcast listeners at the gym or hospital. I'm John Lovett, former Obama speechwriter and Hillary Clinton speechwriter and current host of this program. Don't change the channel. I have the secret formula to defeat Trump, which I'll reveal at the end of this episode. But first, let's get into it. What a week. On Wednesday, President Trump somehow stood perpendicular to himself. He looks like the front half of a centaur. He looks like a marionette that God got tired of holding up. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered this state-of-the-force address at Quantico on Wednesday. Let's take a look. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that. No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors. Or as he would write it on Grindr, mask for mask. Again, they don't want trans people in sports because they're too good. If you don't want Leah Thomas in the NCAA, you're not going to be able to win. You're not going to be able to win. It seems like you should want her in the fucking Marines. And I'd also point out, we've only fought one war since you banned the trannies and the fatties, and we're 0-1. Continued Hegseth. A free press is, of course, important. But partisan activism that intentionally smears the troops and the historic mission that they're undertaking is fundamentally anti-American. It's sick. It's a national betrayal. It's true. It's treason. Actually. It actually isn't. Leaving aside that the coverage Hegseth is complaining about isn't smearing the troops, but reporting on the failures of leaders who recklessly put those troops into harm's way, even if reporters were, for some reason, writing, fuck the troops, boo the troops, that's not treason either. Also, you just know this is how he argued with his soon-to-be ex-wives during his divorces. Oh, I drink too much treason. Also this week, President Trump hosted nearly 20 tech leaders for an A.I. summit at the White House, where they signed an A.I. safety agreement. It's effectively a peace accord, in that A.I. will soon tear every one of us to pieces. Here's Trump selling the deal. Is this accord that everybody signed, is it binding in any way? I think it's morally binding, yeah. Which is troubling. A morally binding agreement to Trump is like a no-dogs-allowed sign at a Los Angeles farmer's market. On Tuesday, Trump did, in fact, sign an executive order renaming artificial intelligence to superintelligence. And when a reporter asked Trump about the safety concerns raised by A.I., Trump once again pivoted to the rebrand. The leaders standing behind you have had some very serious concerns about A.I. Even after meeting with them today, you are still calling this a hoax. So why should the American people take your word over this? No, no, I'm calling it not a hoax. It's a very serious, that's why I changed the name. Okay. A hoax sounds like, you know, when you're using the former name, but this name is now superintelligence. That's not a hoax. That's some deft political sleight of hand, which is impressive considering his hand looks like Shepard's hand. Shepard's pie filling. Too much? I'll say this for Trump. The guy's staying on message. Who should be held accountable when the A.I. agent committed a crime? It's not A.I., it's SSI. That's the other thing. We've changed the name officially today. For example, one would say, oh shit, a superintelligence drained all the water from Lake America. Meanwhile, at a MAHA summit on Tuesday, Health Secretary RFK Jr. said that A.I. can free us from medical tyranny. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, oh, you need to take it to protect your grandmother. A.I. may say it actually doesn't do that. Hey man, just because all your relatives died doesn't mean ours have to. The health secretary also said this. Sam Altman was over in our office a couple of days ago. He said, but today it would be malpractice for a doctor to make a diagnosis or to make a prescription. And he's right. If my doctor hadn't double-checked with A.I., I would have never found out I was pregnant. Meanwhile, polling has consistently shown that Americans across the political divide are opposed to data centers and do not want them built in their communities. That, of course, didn't stop Trump from offering this. The data centers are, and by the way, I'm very good at real estate. Some of those buildings are absolutely beautiful. They're big and they're, you know, big, strong, powerful buildings, but they're beautiful and they add greatly to a community. Some say data centers are like nature's ballrooms. Let's take a moment to look at a few of these data centers. Gorgeous. Move over, Florence Cathedral. Fuck, I should have had my wedding at this one. In a new Variety interview, Pete Davidson said that he is lasering off most of his 200 tattoos, but not his portrait of Hillary Clinton. Responded an exasperated Hillary Clinton, fine, but it's still over between us. The only one you're keeping, asked a crestfallen Kamala Harris. The Department of Interior officially announced Bear 89, affectionately known as Backpack, is the winner of the annual Fat Bear Week. Finally, a federal department that embraces fatties. When reached for comment, Backpack the bear killed and ate the reporter. Fatter than ever. The Girl Scouts announced this week that its first cookies for dogs will go on sale in January. The dog cookies, called Patch Pals, will be blueberry muffin flavored. With a second flavor, your new girlfriend's tampon fresh from the. With a second flavor, your new girlfriend's tampon fresh from the trash available next fall. And now, a story from the week that got me a bit too mad. On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump DOJ is now reviewing whether the special counsel in charge of Nixon's Watergate prosecution committed misconduct. Finally, said the innocent Richard Nixon in heaven to his best friends up there, Harriet Tubman and Anne Frank, and the former president of the House of Representatives in the House of Representatives. Congressman Riley Moore is on board, telling a summit at the Richard Nixon Foundation this week that the deep state was behind it all. Richard Nixon was absolutely cooed out of office and was framed. All of this was fake. All right, let's do this. In 1973, when Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox learned that there was a secret recording system in the White House in which Richard Nixon had discussed the Watergate scandal, he subpoenaed those tapes. Nixon then ordered the Attorney General to fire Cox. The Attorney General refused and resigned. Then Nixon ordered the Deputy Attorney General to fire Cox. Then Nixon ordered the Attorney General to fire Cox. This became known as the Saturday Night Massacre. Then Nixon ordered the Solicitor General, Robert Bork, Bork, to fire Cox, who finally did it. We learned after Bork's death from Bork's own memoir that in exchange for firing Cox, Nixon promised that he would nominate Bork to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy. But Nixon never had the chance because the second Special Prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, took over for Cox and subpoenaed the tapes anyway. Are you with me? Of course you are. This is interesting. On those tapes, you hear Nixon actively participating in the cover-up, committing, encouraging, and having knowledge of many crimes, including obstruction of justice, perjury, and directing the IRS to target political opponents, mixed in with diatribes, where he calls Jews abrasive, aggressive, obnoxious, and insecure, which is unacceptable unless we're saying it about ourselves. And while there is no evidence on the tapes that Nixon was aware in advance of the Watergate break-ins, there are 18.5 minutes that were erased from the recordings. 18.5 minutes of a meeting with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, which took place three days after Nixon's so-called plumber snuck into the Democratic National Committee as part of an ongoing investigation of the watergate break-ins. And while there is no evidence on the tapes, there are 18.5 minutes of a meeting with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, which took place three days after Nixon's so-called plumber snuck into the Democratic National Committee as part of an ongoing wiretapping operation, one of many schemes that Nixon's shambolic goons were conducting or planning, which also included breaking into the Brookings Institution, which Nixon expressly ordered on tape, and which metastasized into an actual real plan proposed by Nixon advisor Chuck Colson to firebomb the Brookings Institution, which thankfully was called off for being crazy even for us. And you don't have to take my word for it. You can learn about all of this at the Nixon Library. Haldeman was convicted of obstruction, perjury, and conspiracy among roughly 69 people charged for their part-time participation in the criminal enterprise around Richard Nixon, what former White House counsel John Dean called a cancer on the presidency. And Haldeman himself said in his memoir that Nixon initiated the watergate break-in and was part of the cover-up from the start. And look, maybe Nixon and Haldeman were fucking in those missing 18.5 minutes. I don't know, but I don't think so, because that's at least 13 minutes too long. But why are people trying to rehabilitate Richard Nixon? Why is J.D. Vance saying things like this? I think that his historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, but I think deservedly so. As I joked with Robert backstage, if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. Like, the idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy. And that's true. But the fact that Watergate wouldn't be a big deal now is a testament to how bad now is, not how not bad then was. Nixon appointees at the Justice Department resigned rather than follow Nixon's orders. The so-called smoking gun tape was released as ordered unanimously by the Supreme Court on August 5th, two days later. Barry Goldwater, a Republican senator and former presidential nominee, told Nixon in the Oval Office, there's not more than 15 senators for you. Two days later, Nixon resigned. Republicans want to rehabilitate Nixon for the same reason they want to attack Jack Smith and the prosecution of Trump after January 6th. All of reality and history must bend to excuse their corruption and cowardice and embrace of a low-life crime boss who makes Richard Nixon look like Jimmy Carter. Can you believe this? Trump guy asked Jimmy Carter to Richard Nixon, Harriet Tubman, and Anne Frank, hoping they'll ask him to join, but they never did. Do. And finally, a Texas man intentionally crashed his car into a Kroger's early on Sunday and told police that he did so because the store was closed and he had to go to the bathroom. Police say they'd never seen such a mess. Also, there was some damage from the car crash. All right, we have got a great show for you tonight. 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First of all, I loved the memoir. I was really glad to have a chance to read it. I have a question for you. Why are you on this show? I don't know. How did you get here? I'm standing back there and I'm thinking, how did I get here? Yeah, like of all. You could be anywhere on earth. You could be in San Tropez. Well, I was. And you were. Of course you were. So, by the way. In the book, you have the press release you wrote when you left Fox and parted ways with Rupert Murdoch, and he tried to get you to edit the thing down. That is the craziest fucking press release I have ever seen in my life. It's a press release about you leaving a company and you're like, as a man turning 50, life can be long, a lion in winter. Endlessly florid. Yes. But I. First of all, it was a big thing. It was a big thing for me. I was 49 years old and I was changing my life, stopping being a corporatist after 30 years or so. And I thought, I'm not going to just do the thing of X, Y, Z, did Y, O, Q. I thought, I'm going to tell a story. So, I wrote the really long thing and published it. Cool. I agree. Now, you talk about, in the book, relying on data over. About the problem when people rely on data over insight. Instinct and making creative decisions, that that can be a route to failure. Netflix, Amazon, these are data-driven institutions. Not only do they collect more information than was ever collected before, it also guides the way they decide what to make, what not to make, actors to hire. Are they wrong? It seems to be working for them. Well, you know, working. I would argue, actually, that the quality of content has steadily gone downhill. Now, I'm not saying it's gone downhill because it's a bunch of data scientists playing around, but it's remarkable how little really good work. Most work today, most of the series work, Netflix work, et cetera, and I'm not damning them, but most of the work today is derivative. And it's like you saw it last year. It's like a little, maybe, polished up, but it's. Look. All of us, I don't know if you saw Breaking Bad or Friday Night Lights, or I could riff on on all of these great shows. I haven't seen one in a really long time. So, I would say that I agree that there is a quantity, not quality problem, right? Like, the odds that if you pick a show at random, it will be great are quite low. But then I think there's a show like Pluribus, there's a show like Widow's Bay. There's some good stuff. But the general. General quality, while the production quality is high, the actual writing is shoddy, mostly. Yeah. You know, a lot of. You talk about visiting the set of Popeye. And obviously, I don't think. Thank God you did read this book. I did read the book. And look, I don't think that production was well served by cocaine. However, it's now. It's almost this sort of artifact of a time when, like, I'm sorry. Like, there are shots in that movie that could only exist because a bunch of people were on cocaine. They play with, like. I'm remembering that there's a moment in that movie, I believe, where Bluto sees red. Isn't it amazing that you actually pay attention to the film Popeye? Yes, of course. I wouldn't say it's Altman's. One of his better works, but I think it's worth watching. But there's a moment in that movie where a character sees red. And the way that character sees red. Is they cut, and then everyone is just in red clothes. That is cocaine. Oh, yes. That's a beautiful thing. There is not a shot in that film, really. That is a film utterly fueled by coke. Isn't it amazing, though, that now, after cocaine kind of went down in popularity, it now seems to be raging back? I'm really surprised by that. Yes, also, you know, look, technology has advanced, and really, Adderall is the thinking man's cocaine at this point. As someone who takes it. All the time, but medically. Like this morning. Yeah, of course. We can't take it in the afternoon. But the reason I ask that is because, you know, there's a way in which Hollywood has become much more corporate and much more systematized, less experimental. But is there a happy medium between the coke-fueled Popeye days, the head of Gulfwester hiding in his office because he thinks he's going to get killed by gangsters, and what we have now. Like, is there a medium ground. You mean the loss of personality, the loss of exhibitionism. Well, that these were. Loss of characters. And that these were companies driven by singular egos, which I think sometimes leads to surprising choices that a corporation wouldn't make. Well, totally true. The difference is, it used to be that Hollywood, so to speak, there were five or six companies that controlled it, and all they did is make. They didn't make movies and television. They didn't sell books. They didn't sell iPhones. They didn't do all sorts of other things. They just did that. And because they did that in their own somewhat isolation, they were able to be kind of crazy. But now, when the movie television-making part is 87 steps down on the corporate ladder, what happens is that, like anything, it gets. that's ossified by its degradation from someone who's a principal there's another part of this that i i don't know how to square with that because at the same time there are like say netflix right amazon is a complicated example apple's complicated but but netflix they exist to make shows and get people to subscribe to watch what they make that's what they do and there's a lot of people the thing is the difference with them is they did come to it from and it doesn't mean it's dishonorable but they came to it totally from technology so because it's tech-led and tech is infused in every part of it while they've hired people who come from the creative world their beating heart is still a tech heart but there's there's a there's a way in which i i feel like there's a kind of collective convention common sense with whatever conventional wisdom that these streamers have somehow kind of underwrought what hollywood does and yet you know you talk about like oh it's a good year for the box office it's back to where it was in 2022 or something and it's just an accident right well and of course but it goes from let's say nine billion to ten billion and then you look at what these companies are spending on production and it dwarfs that right like the the total domestic box office is less than what say a netflix and an amazon will spend or an apple will spend on yes on content which seems to me whatever the the odds of them making something great it is good that they are investing so much in it and i think that's a good thing and i think that's a good thing and i think that's a good thing in making the the thing you know one of the things that uh today particularly and i think tomorrow is things will become less expensive to make is it isn't that you're spending six i'm just talking about television forget movies because movies can be 100 200 300 but that you're spending six eight ten million dollars an hour for production and the production as i say they look great they're going all over the world it's shocking how many cities a series of cities are we'll go to to tell its kind of dumb ass story uh and so the money is there the money is on the screen but the craft has deteriorated what do you see anybody that's finding a way back to that craft that sees an opening to make better things or is it just too hard well no i don't think it's too hard i just think it's it it's it's in the atmospherics what's happened again is that the whole development cycle process of starting with an idea writing a script rewriting it endlessly i said that that kind of linear process is just now very submerged it's submerged to we got to get x y and z on the screen in the next 48 hours well and uh that the because it's such a noisy environment right like you could when there were three networks or four networks you uh you could guarantee that you have some amount of attention in what you were doing you had something you had you had something more important which is at any one time i mean this is my ancient history you had really a hundred million people all watching a relatively little screen uh and so you had a you had the ability like most famously let's call it roots which was this classic uh mini series in the in the uh in the late 70s that for a hundred million people watched it and so for months it was in the culture we've this is hard to do now hey remember when you threw up lobster bisque on yves saint laurent i can actually remember every step so so how happy i was what happened in the like what happened right after is your your state because the story just you just mentioned it in passing and it's like well i feel like that's a big event for at least for you maybe also for him oh i don't think it was i think i mean he was horrified he had on a white suit and it really was lobster bisque so you know were you sick what happened it is you say you've how you have mangled on to this little eve story well you say it in there well you're sort of like and then i threw up on yves saint laurent it's like why were you poisoning then i i was in france in northern france like what was the city um you'll you'll know it probably but i forgot uh and my wife and i went to this restaurant and i really didn't like france because my french is terrible and my wife speaks a hundred languages and it is and and so it's very fluid with glam life and so i ordered this lobster soup and i was really unhappy to be there that was really the truth but i wasn't ill i was just unhappy to be there and then this very sophisticated group walks in and i stood up and it was my anger that threw up on yves saint laurent wow i didn't know about that i didn't know that that's something that could happen speaking of fluid you're married to a woman but you've also been attracted to men that's interesting was that really i thought that was interesting i mean the the first time i was interested more than interesting very interesting extremely interesting well you we've done interesting we've done interest so you've you you talked about this actually this was one of the first excerpts uh in the book and i remember reading it and thinking wow like there have been so many assumptions about you for such a long time in fact there there were so many assumptions about you and uh your relationship that there was a a an example of it that was seen as sort of a reminiscent of your relationship on sex in the city in which a gay man has a lavender marriage to a woman that is based in friendship it was it was implied that it was based on you but meanwhile in the book you're like excuse me we were not just friends how dare you we had a lot of sex i i would not say how dare you that that's aggressive about it but uh no we were in love with each other in every possible way and no there was no performative aspect But so, was that- Are you saying that's not doable? No, I'm not. Absolutely not. Okay. Zero, zero questioning of, in fact, the reason I bring it up is because I was somebody that was exclusively gay. I'm gay. I'm gay. Stop it. There you've said it. And then I, after 40, I meet someone who is trans and all of a sudden I discover that, oh, I didn't know my sexuality as well as I thought I did. And what I felt a kinship to your story is I don't really need to figure it out because I love this person and the rest is immaterial. Who cares what the description of it is? This works. And I wonder if that's changed how you think about sexual orientation as someone for whom the idea of being gay was the biggest thing that scared you for most of your young life. Well, I don't, you know, at this point, aged point, I really do think it is much more fluid than that if you allow it to be fluid. I think today the culture goes very much against that. Actually, people do not like the idea of bisexuality. 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One thing we talked about in the book as well, and I was interested in this. On the one hand, you're at ABC and you're making a movie a week. So that's a conveyor belt. And I think you've talked about that a lot. And I think you've said that you would admit that not every single one was a perfect work of art. Oh, I would say every single one wasn't. And there were a few over the years, really good ones. Really good ones. But then you also talk about being a perfectionist around advertising and marketing and keeping people there late until it was good and really driving people, hammering people. Yeah, we tried hard. Yeah, you tried hard. And I always find I struggle with people are working really hard, fighting to get something done. Something from 97% to 100% may not always be worth the effort. And then you think about the people like the sort of the famous success stories where like, no, everything has to be 100%. But in real life, sometimes you got to move on once something's good enough, because you don't want people to be discouraged. You want to do more work. How do you think about the balance between something having to be perfect? And also, first of all, perfect is rare. And perfect is a surprise. How about excellent? Usually, no, usually, usually, whatever is really good, to some degree degrades in the process to some degree, just process makes that happen. Rarely and occasionally, that process reverses itself and makes it come out great. But that's rare. Just I mean, you just look at all the things that you've really truly loved, that you've seen television, movies, whatever. You can, probably list them. It's what, 1%? Well, that's okay. But that ain't perfect. But what I'm getting at more is how do you decide? How have you decided when? When to give up? Yes. Yeah. When do you just say, ah, fuck it, release it? Or that ad's good enough. We're going to come back to that. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Ads have to be good. There's certain things you do not compromise. Okay. Because you can, just by denial. Constant denial. Until you say, oh, that's really good. You can get that right. But with a movie or a television show, there's a point you're making a movie, or at the really editing stage, let's say, or the preview and then re-editing or re-shooting stage, where you say, you know, I've done enough. And it's as good, it's probably, could I spend another X, Y, Z time, amount of money? Probably. But it really wouldn't do much good. And then you get over it. Do you get over it? Well, sure. So you. Except when I see Grease. Well, I thought you think you're, what are you not over about Grease? I think Grease is good. Oh. We don't like Grease yet? You talk about Grease, I know you were surprised it was successful, but people love Grease. Oh, everyone loves Grease. But you still think it's bad? All I see in Grease is grass. Mm-hmm. That was supposed to be green. That was brown. All I see is a dance between John and Olivia twirling around where the awkwardness is so bad that it makes me sick. It's campy. It's campy. Isn't it just camp? Can't we just call it camp at this point? It is that, and it was that to everyone else. I was shocked. You thought you were making a. No, we were trying to make a good movie. When I saw it with audiences, and they loved every second of it, I thought, well, there you go. You know, speaking of John Travolta, there was a moment where you're talking about how you were trying to harangue him into being an American gigolo. Yes, yes, yes. And he doesn't want to do it, and he has all these, what you think are excuses about loss and whatever, and he just won't do it, he just won't do it. And one of the things you mentioned is that you thought he might be worried about. The subtext in the movie, or the homosexual themes in the movie, and also in subtext in the book, you were a person who was afraid of being outed. There have long been rumors that John Travolta is somebody who's been afraid of being outed, but you don't. Was there a part of you that thought, oh, he's afraid that people are going to think he's gay, and whether he is or he's not, it was a big enough worry, bigger worry for him than for Richard Gere. Yeah, that's probably true. I don't, you know, I was there, and I know a lot about that. But I think he had, I really do think genuinely, John was at a very difficult time, and I think that he, for a myriad of reasons, he didn't want to do it. So you used to run Paramount. Yes. It's been in the news lately. Yeah. Any advice for David Ellison? Be presumptuous. I think the sad thing is, I mean, it's now happened to me twice. I also ran 20th Century Fox, a wonderful storied movie company. It was bought by Disney and has now disappeared. There is no such thing as Fox. It's gone. I mean, it's a relic of history. And now Paramount and Warners. And in a few years, probably Paramount will be gone. And so I see that contraction. And it just makes me sad. Is there any hope that, there's different prerogatives in a deal like this, in part because, well, there's, maybe there's incentives for scale to combine things at the top, right? There's still an HBO. I don't believe in scale. I know you don't believe in scale. I read the book. Fairly, better than me. But HBO still has to have HBO Max, and the studio has to support that. Paramount still needs to support Yes. its service. Those services must remain separate. No. Well, they would have to, they'd lose a lot of money to have people that were subscribed to both suddenly only subscribe to one. But they'll blend. Over time, they'll absolutely blend together. So you don't think there's a hope that there's a business incentive for both of those studios to keep running and make even more things? Insane. Insane. Yeah. It's a hope. Impossible. Impossible. Impossible? I think. That's a bummer. Yeah, I think it's, I think the contraction, all in the pursuit of the movie, is a bummer. In the pursuit of scale, I think it's, I think it's unfortunate. But you know, what are you going to do? I have not been able, I've been part of consolidation in my life in different areas. It is the way of things to consolidate. But I think it's, I think its progress leaves a lot, it leaves a lot squeezed out of the culture. The, you know, you talk about this about sort of, you know, you talk about the, you know, sort of people overvaluing scale, apart being sort of ego driven, people just want to control more and kind of have more under their roof. But, you know, there are, there are, there's business reasons, right? That they would say, oh, well, we can, you know, these are two companies that both have HR departments and both have legal departments and both have buildings with people in them that cost money and we can save that money and then maybe put more money on the screen. The thing is, is, yeah, if you take a building down, that's fine. Who cares about the building? But there, until we are in the simulation, there are people in the building. And there are people in the building and, and because there are people in the building, when they go, it's not that they will not go to another building. They will. But the building they were in, which had its culture and its history and its ethic is gone. And that, that's a loss. So. That sounds so sad. It is a little sad. It is sad. Well, I mean, you know, in this place. Progress. It's well, you know, the businesses, you were at Paramount at this golden age of what, what people consider now a golden age of film art, 1970s, late mid seventies to early eighties, right? Yes. Like we're incredible films. Yes, yes, yes. And then people in the nineties were like, man, you had it so good at Paramount in the 1970s. That's when you made real art. And now today people are like, boy, in the nineties, they knew how to make movies, you know? And I'm sure a few years from now, you're going to see it again. And I'm sure you're going to see it again. I'm sure you're going to see it again. early in your career. is founded uh over a hundred years ago you go to the the trades today and what do you see you see ari emmanuel insulting you uh two uh jewish titans going back back and forth the same as it's been for a hundred years what is it about what about these jews entertainment why are we why what is it about jewish people and this business i don't give the the conspiracy nuts uh anywhere to get purchased but you know we've been running this town for a hundred years because first of all by the way uh jews no longer run it so let's get that clear which was a which is a huge mistake so they don't run it any longer and and that uh that you know the there's a wonderful book called an empire of their own but neil gabler wrote about actually the mostly well they're almost all eastern european jews who were first first generation they were all born in europe they came over in the late 19th century in the early 20th century they invented the movie business and they every one of them was jewish there were five of them and every studio is one of their creations so why did they do it is it out of uh their historical empathy because of circumstances etc tied to immigrant ambition but it's certainly interesting we still have we still i mean maybe we don't run the whole town but we still got some sway here don't you think we love i mean some rich people at these temples there's a lot of a lot of money a lot of money in yom kippur these days yeah well not really from the entertainment business i mean if you look at the leaders of yes the major institutions today uh now you've been somebody you talk a lot about being in the right place at the right time right now so whether it's television and tv movies or or the film business fox and then the internet what's the right place at this time like what do you where do you look around and say you know what there are opportunities here there's whether it's the the the hedge against ai or places where the market isn't serving the audience where do you look about you're talking about purely in entertainment yeah entertainment or beyond whatever you what are you looking around and saying oh there's there's a lot of there's a there's a business here that people aren't seeing or there's there's a market here that isn't being reached we're in a period we're just beginning where uh the you know there's so much i got this that i would utter the word ai or super intelligence or talk about it as a total bore but uh sorry but uh we're without question entering a period of extraordinary change that is utterly unpredictable around every corner there will be an opportunity i don't know what it is but i promise you every corner will be more opportunity than ever conceivable simply because this kind of radical change this kind of creative destruction that's going to go on over the next probably it's begun now i think it'll gather real steam in a couple of years and for certainly the next period five seven ten years oh my god to be biting at that with youth and energy and intellect is going to be a thrill well that's exciting i wish i had some of those seem very excited well i know it's you know the it's uh uh the the way artificial intelligence you know you see bill gates talk about it and he's like yep everything it's going to be a huge problem you know this the the did you read his essay yeah because i think it was i i i like bill gates very much uh would you what do you you are you worried about it in the way i thought i thought what he wrote i thought it is the most balanced it is the most thoughtful it has the best plan for both getting the good out of it and protecting it and i thought it is i wanted to send it we have about 95 000 employees and companies i'm engaged with and i wanted to send it to every employee and so to the senior executives of the yeah both three companies i said wouldn't it be great and they said you can't do that it'll scare them all they'll be petrified of what it's going to happen to them you just can't do that and unsell their lives i said their lives should be unsettled and i i kind of lost the argument but i think everybody should read it well i feel like they're going to get the message now you mean from this yeah i mean people do it's i know i know it looks like it's not a lot but people get more audience it's a it's a surprisingly popular show barry diller all right barry you pioneered a new era of cinema the era that was by creating the abc movie of the week which premiered in 1969 and ran for six seasons and every single movie had a more deranged 70s plot entitled in the last in fact the only thing crazier than the abc movie of the week is every single week in the news today which is why we're going to play a game called movie of the week or news of the bleak from the twisted mind of barry diller you know you asked me how did i get here how did you get here now it's how do i get out how do you get out all right what do you yeah go ahead all right here we go this is you just have to decide is this a plot line from one of your movies of the week or something that happened in the news recently god first up a flight carrying a group of blind professionals seven in darkness yep it was about uh this was the first movie this was about seven people in a blind worst movie i mean these are movies that should be remade right fucking now seven blind people have to get off a mountain from a plane crash that's fantastic okay a giant and extremely poisonous gaboon viper terrorizes orange county only for it to be revealed that the snakes the snake was a hoax oh no that's that's a headline that was a that's a headline it wasn't a movie you're right you're you thought it was a movie or you thought it was the headline no it it wasn't a movie yes it was not a movie correct correct uh next up that was that was from the news this week two men win a grim trophy winners in a surreal grave digging contest uh the headline correct uh three for three you're three for three you're crushing it you're you know in the in the yeah go on four four elderly former texas rangers take down a small town crime boss i'm sure that's a movie it was with the over the hill gang oh god that we made that movie you did make that movie it's one of my favorite that's one of my favorite titles over the hill over the hill gang is great and again that is a remake dust these things off the shelf they made space cowboys remember space cowboys this is like a space cowboy on earth all right all right a heart surgeon discovers a plan to traffic human organs to an aging mogul trying to live forever i don't know it's a movie yeah it was called the man who wanted to live forever hey you're an aging mogul do you want to live forever uh you mean do i would i like to you have to give me the definition of forever and if i could go backwards in time like benjamin button oh no there's no backwards we're only moving forward through space time then you're out that's it no okay uh let's see i'm gonna go on for a while for a while yeah how you feeling excellent you're still like kind of like doing deals i'm still engaged which is what i want to be and uh and i think that that for me it's not for everybody obviously because some people like want to go smell roses uh and i still get to do those while i'm doing things that are active and engaging the distraught widow of a tech mogul falls under the sway of a deceptive gigolo oh that's a movie it's a headline what i'm a headline uh the widow of a man who invented the online game roblox sued sued a male escort claiming he manipulated her grief to the tune of six million dollars oh i just read that yes yes real but also could have been a movie it could have been one of the movies uh let's see let's do one more yeah please a psychologist interviews a tech expert who goes i'm going downhill well you're doing great no my last few have not been good but go on that's just the achieve the effort to achieve drive one i'm doing one more barry diller stop yelling at me a psychologist interviews a tech expert who claims he has spoken to his deceased daughter i don't care it's a movie daughter of the mind daughter of the mind i've never even heard of have you it's what you made that movie oh and people loved it yeah right all right uh do you remember satan's school for girls i remember the title yes uh i thought you were finished i am okay good barry diller everybody hey don't go anywhere there's more of love it or leave it coming up love it or leave it is brought to you by sundays we are what we eat and so are our dogs a long healthy active life starts with clean real food nutrition every day that's why sundays for dogs is different it's human grade real food sunday's recipes contain 80 plus all natural meat roughly twice the meat content of some leading frozen brands plus nutrient-rich ingredients like kale ginger blueberries and gently air dried rather than 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No, I love that your first guest is a billionaire media mogul, and then your second guest is like, watch my web series. We contain multitudes. That's diversity. That is diversity. That's beautiful. You based the series on a real job you had. Yeah, yeah. I used to set up and operate escape rooms on the road. Like my touring college agent, would sometimes send me to schools to do stand up and sometimes send me to set up and operate escape rooms. Boy, that agent's like, that's right on the edge of not being the business, I think. But here's the thing. My big plan was this is the business because it's going to pay for me to get on the road. And I just have to set up and operate an escape room one night and I can spread the flights out, book shows. I'll do a college in Michigan. The night before, I'll do a club in Detroit. Bing, bang, boom. I'm a touring road comedian, probably three years in. Did it work? It really did. Hell yeah. It really did. And you're in Dang. I'm in Dang. Dang. Dang. On Netflix. Yeah, yeah. Show's about a gay Asian guy living in New York. Yes. It felt really pointed that the scripts were being emailed to me. I was like, is this about me? Are you making fun of me? It's the kind of thing where you'd be insulted to be asked and to not be asked. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah, no, I'm only insulted, flattered to be asked. And it was the coolest thing ever. Did you enjoy recording your lines alone in a quiet booth? I did. I did. Have you done voiceover before? No. You haven't? No. You should do it. No. No. You have a great voice. I have a great voice. Yeah. Yeah. It's cool. It's different. I'm in podcasting. It's got to be something. Yeah, there you go. You know? Yeah. You do ad copy? Yeah, that's right. How are the table reads? They were great. They were so great. Because it's so hard to come by a job. And it's nice to be asked to go to a building, to go to Tipmouse, to be invited to Tipmouse for an hour, to sit down with a bunch of actors who you really respect and admire. And some of them are on Zoom, and they're still making you laugh. And it was so cool. It was so fun. I don't think she should be allowed to be on Zoom. I think she should have to come in person. Edie Patterson made it work. Every line she had were screaming. That's cool. Yeah, it was cool. This doesn't work over Zoom, this, what I'm doing. What you're doing? Personality-wise. Did you do a lot of Zoom over the pandemic? Yeah, we did. I did a lot of episodes. Yeah. It worked. Do you remember when I guest-hosted when you were on Survivor? Yep. And actually, by the time you guest-hosted, I was already out. And just in a rinky-dink hotel in Fiji, trying to tell myself that it's cool. Yeah. It's like I locked you in the dressing room so I could go on. Yeah. Yeah. That, like, basically, like, Survivor was a negative escape room in which I was desperately trying to stay in the escape room. And instead, they were like, we don't, you're out. You have to. You have to leave. You have to leave. You were the first eliminated, yeah? That's right. Did you go in feeling like you were going to win and last a long time? I thought it was either first out or out to the end. Wow. I really did. Okay, cool. So you know yourself. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. No, I also do think on the path that I was on, it was actually a good, me being laid to the fucking ground was good. It was good. It was a nice, it was a nice cap. Because basically, you know, I'd blown up my life. You know, I had a long-term relationship that got blown up. I turned 40. That was a lot. And I think I decided to do my midlife crisis in one episode of Survivor. And it has a nice beginning and middle and end. And then I came back to America and I was like, that's enough of that. And then now forward. That's fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. But I still want to do again. You probably, you could go back on, right? Yeah. I see that for you. Hey, Jared, there's too much free-floating discourse right now. So we need your help to clear the docket in a game we're calling Gay for the Algorithm. Here's how it works. I'm going to ask you a question about a little piece of current pop culture and the conversation, the debate, and you will make a definitive ruling so that I never have to think about it again. You will only have 15 seconds. We're just going to fly through a bunch of them. Okay, great. Okay. But also there's no rules and if we want to talk about it more, we can. First up, can you bring an iced coffee to a job interview? I have that bag. Oh, I have that bag and I've never seen anyone with it. And when I saw this headline, that's all I could think. I have that bag. It's Telfar. It's beautiful. As to the question. As to the question, I think it's case by case. I think, I think like you can bring an iced coffee to an interview. I cannot. Interesting. Yeah. I think like you are a serious person, so you can, you can have a little fun with it. You can walk in with, with an iced coffee. I think if I walk in with an iced coffee, I'm probably two minutes late. I don't have any experience. I'm telling them that in the interview and I'm shaking a coffee. It's too much. It's too much. But also my real thought about this is if you have a strong opinion about the answer, you're the problem in either way. No. Just. Don't have a strong opinion. Yeah. My, my view, which I, I discussed on the show Tuesday at the end of the show was only to say, uh, I would bring an iced coffee to a job interview. It would be a red flag. Don't hire me. You know what I mean? It's like, it would be like, why am I bringing this iced coffee? Well, because I do the things I want to do regardless of how it looks. Yeah. That makes me. A frustrating colleague. Sure. Um, next up. Or a chill colleague. Or chill. Would you guys say I'm frustrating or chill? Yep. Uh, Hey, people are saying Taylor Swift's new, uh, songs are bad. And that means that the Swifties are admitting, uh, that happiness is not good for her. So what do you, what do you, what are you feeling about the Swifties being upset about the new songs? I don't know. I actually, I saw a video today that it feels like, it feels like, um, an interesting, it feels interesting. And it feels like a relief. To see that the Swifties are having, they're like defecting, you know, like they're, that's, that's nice. Have a little like, uh, mystery. The Swifties have a mystique now that they are defecting. And, you know, it's like, we don't necessarily know what they're going to like, you know? That's interesting. It's also sort of like. They have like, they have autonomy. Like what, you know, she's happier it seems. And how's the, and maybe she has to learn, maybe a lot of her music has been about being unhappy. And now she has to find. Yeah. The path to great art by being happy. And some people say, oh, if I took people, there are artists that say, if I take an antidepressant, it'll destroy the part of me that makes beautiful art. But it's like, but then you're, you're a sad, you know? Yeah. And now, you know, if you're, if you're famous for writing albums about breakups and now you're in a happy marriage, you have to find a new access point for art. I think happy people can make nice art. Although not the first line of that book. Anna Karenina would say no. Yeah. Because happy is boring. You know, I don't really know who Anna Karenina is. She's a Russian lady. I know. Yeah. Okay. That's all I know. Is it embarrassing to admit you haven't read a book? I just, as someone who just admitted that I don't fully know who Anna Karenina is, there's a big space between never read a book. Oh, never read a book. Oh, yeah, sure. You gotta at least fake it. Alex, has Alex Earle never read a book? She said in an interview that she's never read a book. I think that can't be true. Yeah. I just don't believe that. I just don't understand how you can get all the way to where she is without reading a book. It's a very funny thing to say. I've never read a book. Maybe Dr. Seuss, but then it's like, wait, what happened? It's almost hard to not have read a book even by accident. Yeah. I mean, we are, like, doomed. I mean, I've read a book, but, like, because of GPS, don't ask me how I got here or how to get home. I truly don't know. Should limited series have to return their Emmys if they come back for a second season? Because the Beast Emmy with Matthew Rhys won two Emmys for their limited series only for Netflix to immediately order a second season, thereby making it unlimited. Um, no, I think awards should be taken less seriously. So give him all the awards and then take them all back and then put them in the toilet and then hand it back to him. And who cares? Yeah. You shouldn't worry about things like external validation, like awards. That being said, I am on a TV show next year. And if anyone wants to give me an award for that, I will take it. What TV show? I'll take it. It doesn't have a name yet. Oh. Yeah. It'll be on Apple. It's a comedy. You're an Apple comedy that doesn't have a name yet? Yeah. Yeah. Is that cool? That's exciting. I know. - I'm excited. - Yeah. - Ah, those escape rooms you did on the road were worth it. right here the escape room show watch that we'll be right back and we're back now it is time for that enduring podcast tradition let's spin the rant wheel jared we each get 60 seconds on the clock to let her rip about something that's got us good and steamed let's roll that beautiful wheel. It has landed on pundit because I think that was supposed to be for Barry Diller. Okay. I have a rant about Barry Diller and he's not here to defend himself. And sure, I'm a little scared because he's a billionaire, but I'm going to do it anyway. I really enjoyed that audio book. It was a beautiful performance. It was subdued, but a lot of pathos. However, there was one thing that caught me by surprise and I found shocking. You know the kind of movie that's about the true story of a real person. It goes through their whole life story. What are those movies called? Wait, what'd you say? Biopic. What did that, what else did somebody say? Biopic. You said biopic. What the fuck is biopic? It's not biopic. Well, here's the thing. I assume that it is wrong. However, Barry Diller, who knows more about the business than any of us will, says biopic in his reading. But I think you are both wrong. It is, of course, biopic, a biographical picture. It's not biopic because that's using the bi part as if that's the, it's not biopic. It's a biopic. So what the fuck are we doing here? Get Barry Diller back here. I agree. I think biopic was like invented like nine months ago and people went crazy on it. They're loving it. No, I've never, no, I'd never heard it. I don't like that. And I don't like what people say. Something is aesthetic. I don't get that either. That's rant number two. 60 more seconds. 60 more seconds. Let's spin it again. It has landed on Jared. What would you like to rant about? Stop saying colorway like you've always been saying colorway. What is, don't you do that? Don't, don't do that. You're lying to me and you're a part of a conspiracy. And I look, I get it. You want to feel included. You want to feel a part of something and you want to feel, you want to feel fabulous. You want to feel elevated and colorway saying colorway is one way to do that is one colorway to do that. But just do me a favor. And if you're going to say colorway to me, just also with your hands, hold up the number of times you've said it. And I guarantee you, you're only going to need one hand. See this, this colorway is white, black and brown, or, you know, this color. That's not really a colorway, but who knows what is colorway anyway. So, um, I have nine more seconds. So I'm still upset about colorway. Don't say colorway. Just say color. Why are we adding words? We should be shortening words. Thank you. I really agree on this thing about colorway because it's a very, it's a, it's a, it's a term of art from people that make it. It's a term of art from people that make it. It's a term of art from people that make things that come in different colors. And you're not a person that makes things in different colors. You're a person that buys things. Colorway is an interior industry term to describe because I, because I get why it is a value, right? Because sometimes like, you know, there'll be a shirt that comes in blue and red and a shirt that comes in blue and green. And it's like, well, they're two different colors. We'll be right back. And we're back. We end each episode of Love It or Leave It by reading a list my producers have assembled of all the things I did wrong and should regret from this show. One of them, one of the things I regret is not having enough of a rapport with Barry Diller to force him to stay. If you, Jared, regret anything from this evening, feel free to share during this segment. Okay. But let's see what we've got. I do not have the formula to defeat Trump. I lied. I joked about people who break the rules and bring their dogs to the farmer's market. I bring my dog to all the places where dogs shouldn't be. I do. I'm sorry. I don't think the rules apply to my dog. Let's see. Do any of the audience members regret coming here today? You're here all the time. You've never missed one. Ah, Betsy. All right. Let's see. I suggested that Richard Nixon is best friends with Anne Frank and Harriet Tubman in heaven. I don't regret that. Um, I said, I said in response to Barry Diller explaining a press release, I asked about cool. Um, let's see. I interrupted a thoughtful conversation about the state of Hollywood to ask about when Barry threw up on YSL. Yes, but I'm glad I did. Uh, yeah. A little energy. Uh, I used the transition speaking of fluid to go from barf to sexuality. Yes. Don't worry. Good for you. Uh, I love myself. I love myself in with Jews running Hollywood. Bit of a stretch. Oh, they wrote these down and hand them to you. Oh my God. Okay. Me learning the game by the end of it. Uh, and that's our show. Thank you so much. There are 32 days until the midterms. We will be back next week with Cal Penn, former Congressman Adam Kinzinger and YouTuber Michelle Correa. Love it or leave it is a cricket media production. Our show is produced by Kendra James, Bill McGrath, Kelsey Gante, and me, John Lovett. 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