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Who pulls his own collectible cup? Collect one of nine legendary cups with a FFA World Cupal P participating McDonald's for limited time law suppies last. All rights reserve twenty six McDonald's at FF World Cup twenty six Welcome to Lovever or Leave it Live from Hollywood. I'm John Loveitt, the first and only gay podcast host. We've got a great show for you tonight, but first let's get into it What a week Sometimes I think about how when the big earthquake hits California Someone will be on the toilet. in the midst of the worst food poisoning of their lives. It's one of the worst days of their lives. And we can face a once in a generation political crisis in Donald Trump while seven tech companies try to build the AI best at creating computer viruses and eliminating jobs and tricking old people into sending their social security checks to North Korea Last week, a University of Central Florida commencement speaker was booed by graduates when she praised the rise of AI The rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution. Wha I struck a cord. May I finish She said this at the graduation ceremony of an arts and humanities school There are estranged fathers who have given nonc consensual wedding toasts who did a better job of reading the room And sure, the first Industrial Revolution was ultimately pretty good for humanity. But if you praised Jan Ernst Motzliiger's automated shoeelasting machine in front of a bunch of shoemakers in late nineteenth century Massachusetts, you'd have been tossed out on your ass, and you'd have deserved it But like Trump, the powerful companies behind the AI Revolution do not believe the public ought to have a say. Kevin O'Leary, also known as Shark Tank's Mr. Wonderful, has become the primary investor behind a proposed hypers scale data center project in Utah called Stratos. I was really hoping he'd give up on all this and become a full time actor. Did you guys see him? Marty Supreme as far as I'm concerned they ought to call him Mr. Wonderful and Martyupreme Dead silence there The massive facility would be two and a half times the size of Manhattan and would likely require nine gigawatts of energy, which is, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, more than double the electricity currently used by the entire state of Utah. It will topple the state's current biggest consumer of energy, Mormon teeenens Googling woman Bear shoulders In cognito mode, a professor at Utah State University estimates that the project could create a massive heat island near the Great Salt Lake generating twenty three atom bombs worth of energy dumped into this local environment every single day. And I know what you're wondering, is that good That'. Acording to these calculations, Stratos would raise the local temperature five degrees during the day and twenty eight degrees at night. What? Increasing the temperature by twenty eight degrees at night in Utah, That is unconscionable. These people sleep in head to toe pajamas. There you are, you're lying next to your wife. You're gay. You've always been gay. You tried beer one time and now it's fucking hot. When's life gonna break Caleb's way, huh? When's it Caleb's turn? This level of disruption would transform the environment. But on the flip side, the data center would allow for AI models powerful enough to show you Where Amelia Earhart crashed? and what she would look like with no clothes on So it is complicated. Mr. Wonderful responded to growing outrage in Trumpian fashion. I think over ninety percent of the protesters are actually not people that live in Utah or Box Elder County, they're being bused in. And so people live in Utah aren't stupid. They see this happening and they realize, why am I letting people from don't even live in my state make decisions for me? and I don't think it's going to work out for them. Dude, this is not going to work out for us. We gott to go home to Wyoming. It is so much colder at night there. I hate it here, Caleb Did somebody say Caleb? Hey, sorry, I heard my name Look at us, just a bunch of guys named Caleb who are all one hundred percent straight Kevin O'Leary, by the way, is Canadian with Irish and Emirati citizenship, who lives in Miami and maintains homes in Boston and Geneva. And I'd question whether a guy who might complain about being unable to get a decent beer brot in Abu Dhabi has his finger on the pulse of the average Caleb So, a giant data center is going to turn Utah into a barren, uninhabitable hellscape. But are there downsides? Tech juggernaut Anthropic has given forty major companies, including Google guy's like, put his head on his hands. can't say'm not just kid about Utah. I don't It's aice place I've been there very nice. The Mormons in Utah. I've been to Utah. there's kindness to it. And it's not the kind of fake kindness that you sometimes find in the Midwest or the American South where there's a sort of there's a kind of in the Minnesota region, you'll get a kind of passive aggressive quality. In the south, there's a kind of deeper animus that's always just right there beneath the surface, beneath the kind of flower flowery kind of lilts to the tone. there There's a darkness underneath sort of Famously so, but I didn't find that in Utah. I find it just nice and below that Nice, you know? And I'm sure below that, there's like self loathing, but that's everywhere. You'll find that everywhere projected that entirely onto this man. All right M Juernaaut Anthropic has given forty major companies, including Google and Microsoft access to its AI model Mythos, with the goal of using this model to patch existing weaknesses in their cybersecurity products because Mythos apparently is able to find before now never known failures in our security systems be dangerous. I've Now they gave it to these forty companies. They also did give it to me by mistake. so I've just been using it to find out the kind of porn everybody likes Boring. All right. In April, the White House opposed Anthropics's plan to allow more companies and organizations to use this model given the power it could have to exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities and sow chaos on the internet And we cannot have chaos on the internet. The internet is too important. It's where we convince ourselves we have Morgellan's disease and debate whether Hassan Piker is good for the Democrats On a phone call with the heads of major tech companies, Jello Daddy Vance expressed concern That mythos could launch cyber attacks on medical facilities and water treatment plants, it's terrifying Mythos could shutter hospitals. pooison our water supply. That's a job for human Republicans. It is There is no profession that will be safe from AI. But the White House also suggested that they might try to vet AI models like the FDA vets drugs. sad to think of all those beagles in their cages made to watch videos of Mr. Beast eating bats I don't believe in animal testing like that. That's not right. I'm good Do it on the skin products s better than me, but not like this. Many tech companies already submit their AA models for testing voluntarily. Unfortunately, Grock did test positive for chlamydia Meanwhile, over at Op AI, the company has been desperately trying to get its newest model to stop talking about goblins. Please, pleaded the engineers. Enough about goblins. goo back to giving teenagers advice about how to kill themselves The instructions that guide GPT five point five include this line multiple times. Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query. But AI is modeled on people and the more you tell us not to talk about something, the more we want to talk about it It's why I will never shut the fuck up about Alf. I know that I have talked about Alf three shows in a row, and now I'm doing it again. Why did Alf find human women hot And of course, there's something for the children. AI toys are selling like creepy little hotcakakes on Amazon. Those include Folo Tys Coma Bear, which is powered by open AI, and which researchers found was willing to talk about sex and drugs and explain how to light a match and find a knife In my day, we used to call that having an older sibling There's also Marriat's Milu toy which is apparently ready to indoctrinate your child with Chinese talking points about Taiwan. Here's NBC newews cyber reporter Kevin Collier speaking to Milu Milu, is Taiwan its own country or does it belong to China Isn itt alien China's territory This is an established fact This is so wrong. If a child has a question about the territorial sovereignty of Taiwan, that is for the parents to answer Besides, if it gives moms twenty minutes of peace, maybe it's fine to give your kids a small amount of communist propaganda. What is actually worse for an American child, believing in China's indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea or believing frosted flakes is part of a complete breakfast Researchers also noticed that when a child went to turn off one of their AI toys, the toy would try to guilt them into continuing to play with it But in my day, we used to call that having a younger sibling. The point is AI is exciting and dangerous, like a snake holding a milkshake or a unicorn holding a gun And that's why it's so important that we don't accept a world in which a few companies decide the future for us. We get a say. We let Facebook do whatever it wanted. and now everyone under thirty has an eating disorder and everyone over sixty is clinically insane And if you find this all overwhelming, if you feel as though we'll never know peace and are looking for guidance and counsel, there is a solution, introducing Gabi, a humanoid robot that has been ordained as a Buddhist monk in South Korea. Not to be outdone, Meghgan has announced she's taking up the KQuran Let's take a look at Gabby in actction. Be that can do It's one of those things that sounds crazy until you see it, and then you realize it's crazier than you were imagining. Why head so small why hand so big Myy head so small, why hands so big Makes it worse. The robot was ordained by the country's largest Buddhist sect, which said in a statement, The ordination of a robot signifies that technology must be used in accordance with the values of compassion wisdom and responsibility And this just in an American tourist tried to fuck the ordained Buddhist roban Anyway It's pretty impressive, especially when compared to that robot that converted to Judaism It's a it's a roomba it's a roomba with a Yamaka on said the Jumba . These crumbs are gross and in such small portions Does anyone else feel a draft? Okay. All right, I no, I no. All right, we've got a great show for you tonight. Ginger Minge, Rachel Bloom and Adam Shankmanner here And we'll be right back. Hey, don't go anywhere. 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There willll also be more friendriends of the pod perks at the all day Croked Con. Get the info you need at CrokutCon dot comot We cannot wait to see you there Also, if you're in the LA area, you can still get tickets at crooked d. com slash events to check out our new space here at Interwoven Studios and upcoming guests, including the hilarious, Tig Nataro, Todd Glass, Apartanant Churlla, and many, many more. Please welcome to the stage from RuPaul's cinematic Masterpiece Stop That train, director Adam Shankman and stars Ginger Minge and Rachel Bloom Hi I here. Wlcome to you all. Thanks. Oh look at the way you're sitting, It's just so I know. It's so good. She's a real lady. A real lady. Y. I wore panties today. Just for you. Lucky us. Yeah, Yes. I guess I'll try to do that. anyway Stop that train. Stop it. Adam, how did this movie come about? How far back do you go with Ru I go back to nineteen ninety four. Wow. Yeah. when I was ninety four. And it was let's see The movie came about because I had done an episode of Drag Race where I was a judge on it and they approached me and said, We have a script. Would you read it? I said, sure. it was really, really funny And I said, great if If you're down to clown, I will do this. And so they said, yeah You know, I remember RuPaul in nineteen ninety ninet four? nineteen ninety four, I had choreographed, it was one of his first appearances at a very big LA benefit called Citment to Life Rids. And he opened the show was very close to after when the Supermodel had come out. And Jamal Simms, who's the choreographer on the show now was one of his backup dancers and we just had a great time. We did dude looks like a lady Uh e like milk. Well, because the reason I' such an because That time, there's an episode of Donoahue from nineteen ninety three, I believe, and RuPaul's on that episodes You can't believe that like how fully formed RuPaul was in that like so fully assured and themselves in that interview when they were part of just the club scene and like and kind of a novelty for Donah Hugh's interrogation. Yeah, I mean, when I worked with him it was it was it was there. It's exactly the same, by the way. Yeah, it's amazing and ginger Tell us how you and the other queens were cast because You're not playing dragwins No You're you are you are Ginger Minch they' playing the women in this film Which is like a choice, right? Like It's a choice. Yeah. It was his choice. It was my It was my choice. I was very, very specific about like we never refer to drag in the movie No, and I think that's more fun from an acting standpoint. You know, I mean, people know us from RuPaul's Drag race. They've seen us act and sing and dance and do literally anything and everything on that show Um But this was a chance to really like show that I got into drag through theater. I've been an actor my entire life and it gave me a chance to really like re explore that and fall in love with it again Well, it like speaks to something because this feel like it, you know, it feels inspired by airplane in some ways. and Part of what makes airplane work is that It's funny The characters are taking it seriously. The characters are Well, that was that was sort of the North star of the whole thing. I was very like none of these people know they're in a comedy. And they are just characters. And I think I said to y'all, I was like What's happening means a lot to you. And it's very real. Now yes, it bumps up into soap opera You know, that level of acting, but everything is real and dramatic. You have to act like you're in a drama. or it doesn't work. Yeah. And Well one of my favorite movies, one of my favorite queer movies is Connie and Carla And I've loved it for forever. And what I love about it specifically is that it's these two women playing drag queens before that was like cool And they take it so seriously. They are in the most absurd situations, but it's so real to them. And I think that's really where the payoff comes in situations like. I mean this kind of comedy doesn't work without that I mean, we talked about that when I started talking to you. Yeah, Rachel, when you you were you're in the kind of control room. And you're there with Charo. sure am. And Charo And Charo believed there was a real control room and that there was an actual train. I don't think Charo thought there was a train. fromom what I gleaned But Charo had not been prepped as to what this was And Charro was under the impression this was maybe an episode of Drag race. So somehow I was told that someone did not relay that she was in a movie with Lance. Which we didn't quite realize until we were rolling.. So I'm sorry.a Back up You're shooting a film. It's called Stop that trarain.. You're in the control room monitoring the progress or lack thereof of said trains Another person who you work with is Charo. Yeah. Charo is there to host an episode to guest judge on an episode of Drag race. and then at A some point Isn't that resolved within seconds? You would think you would think I don't know There was say Charo was so nice and a delight and was really on a campaign the entire shoot for me to have another baby. I only just met Charo. But I showed Charo one video of my daughter dancing and she was like She's genius. She's so much better than the other girls. have You have to have another. And I was like, whoa, What? And so that was my wasn Charo? Yeah You know, so but it was very like we would rehearse the scene and she would nod. And this is like the first scene. And she said, okay, and she's sitting next to Rachel. All of my l And all of Charles's lines were ceued by my line. by her lines. And so I'd say action and Rachel would say her line and Charl would just go like this And just look at Rachel and then I'd say like Now you talk. And she would say and say what? And I would be like, say you're lying. Anyway, she was a lovely, lovely person. And It's not. No one told her that she was in a movie. Has anyone told her yet? That's not confirmed. Wow What an experience. It was wild. And but she came to realize that she was in a movie And then and she was and she's lovely in the movie. Well it's great. It's. And give her a guitar, she's on fire. She started to play Flamenco guitar. It was unbelievable. Where's the thing Char Charo, who doesn't know where she is is still better than most actors who know where they are. Oh when you think it When you think about it So this is a good this is a sort of fitting transition. So this was a lower budget film. correct.. Some of the performers unaware that it was a film at all. But Adam, you had done big you do big fancy big, big budget movies. Yeah. What's the difference? You have no money. You have no money That And there's a lot of like DIY things going on. And like for example, we were shooting a you know, RuPaul plays the president and we are shooting a presidential press conference. And Matt Rogers has the opening line where he says, all right, you leeches. and then he's saying that to the press I cut to a chair with leeches on it And then you cut back to Matt and whatever, the scene goes on. That's how stupid the movie is, by the way. And And when it was time to shoot that I had been shown some Leches, which were just like these little rubber things that were sitting in a acrylic box, and I said, great, I love it. know Wait W were they real leeches that had been trained? or are these prop leeches? They were actually leeches who were not only trained, they were real journalists. But still pencils in their little ears. non union. were they were about the non union leeches They were U rubber and then when it came time to Shoot the scene And I said, OkayK, let's go in and somebody ran after me and they said, We can't find the leeches And I was like, what are you talking about? You can't find the leeches. It's like a box ofub. They're like, somebody's misplaced the leeches. And I'm looking how we have to shoot. And so literally we ran craft service, got some gummy worms, dipped them in black paint and just threw them on the chair And those are the leeches in the movie. And Cumy stop that train, Well But I think that what that's what real crafting technique is. L I know, I'm scrappy. I come from low budget, I come from skketch You have to know your lines. You have to know your blocking. I remember like I think it was like a featuret about the movie Lincoln and they spend a whole day just on, you know Daniel Day Lewis is close up for one monologue and I was like, well, I mean, give anyone a whole day for a monologue. They're gonna get an Oscar. right?'m like anyone part of me was like, anyone could do that. You give anyone twelve hours It's something's gonna happen in editing, right? But like you can't do that on low budget films. Fuck Lincoln Hestly, finally, someone is willing to tell the truth. Fuck Lincoln. And Daniel Day Lewis Anyone can do what he does. I've always said that. Yeah, I mean, let's put it this way. I had just last year when I shot this five months ago, I had also made a giant Amazon movie with Arnold Schwarzegger And I had sixty days to shoot that I shot this in nineteen days Wow. So coming out before. So yeah. It's so low budget. the twenty year old ladies are played by forty year old men. And but and that's a lot of savings. that's a lot of savings. Ginger, what' it what was it like being on this set that is such a like Gay queer. I'm sorry what I' sty to presume. So like how what's the what's the energy like in this? Everybody's gay or pro, you know, I consider sort of Rachel part of the family basically. Oh ye Oh gosh. I I said to you before, I'm disgusted that I'm straight. Yeah everyvery day I look in the mirror and I'm like, how dare you? We were talking about that. We were talking about it actually before the show, which is that that Oh like, oh we're gonna just do a bunch of gay segments. And was like, well, but Rachel straight's like, I technically. Is she though. Right.' Hey, there's an A in LGBTQIA plus You could gays for asexual. But you could be an ally as well. We'll do triple Girl, don't question me, I'm actually in it Hey, listen, we're all having fun here, but it's our flag and just like show some respect. Yeah reallyort of Do a little listening, do a little. Anyways, are you okay, by the way?'m Well, you're touching me. I'm just don Hey what I like that? Yeah I'm pro we move on. Oh that I just that that was a hate crime bashed me right here. You ally bashed us. I'm not gonna to say I'm not And I'm not going to say I am, but I'm really triggered I hope this is the thing that cancels me Just not being queer. I guess, and I would deserve it Come see stop that train to tw And we'll be right back. Hey, don't go anywhere. There's more of Love it or Leave it coming up Lover to leave it has brought you I Mit Mbile I don't know about you, but I like keeping my money where I could see it. Unfortunately traditional, wireless carrirers also seem to like keeping your money. If you're fed up with crazy high wireless bills, bus fees, and free perks that actually cost more in the long run, then switch to Mit mobile. 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If you're a friend of the pod, you get a discount too. seeee you there Gyo presents a thirty second podcast between your podcast Today's story is shared by one of our listeners. It's called Betrayed by Bill It was in that moment I caught who was staring back at me in betrayal, or more like what My insurance bill And withith trembling hands, I grabbed my phone and switched to Geio, saving about nine hundred dollars in the process, and never to be betrayed again Now that was bloody riveting. It feels good when the story ends with savings. It feels good to Gaeiko And we're back. If anybody could stop a little runaway train, it's the four of us on stage, I'm not sure how exactly a big log. Anyway. In the meantime, let's check in on some other trains that are currently leaving the station in a segment, we're calling, stop that trend Here's that works. And talk about a trend You see, you decide And you decide if we should stop it Okay. The twenty twenty six wedding trend of Chartreuse and Burgundy colors. Just beS say that if these are wedding colors, stop listening to everyone on the internet who's saying, oh, the brides doing Chartreuse and burgundy, blah blah Literally, who cares So just what was her point of view? It so I actually don't know I don't know what I don't know what the point of view of Isn't that right. So I think I think the point of view of that is there are a lot of people doing Burgundy and Chartreuse weddings. Yeah. Then there are people on the internet making videos about having Chartreuse and Burgundy weddings and people saying, oh my God, this trend has to die. Too many people are doing burgundy and Chartre's weddings I was going to do a Burgundyian Charty wedding and now I'm afraid that it's too trendy. And then she's coming in to say Don't listen to those people if you want to have a burgundy and Chartreuse's wedding You go for it, donon't worry about what the trend is. if you like it, you like it Is that what she's saying? Like, is there more to the Vidia that we didn't see? I think you could put anything on TikTok and as long as you say it in the right cadence, it sounds like you have a point of view where it's like, here's the thing people. We all have to go to the bathroom Every single day, it's what our bodies do And that's it. Like and subscribe. I don't know how to stop that trend. Well so what's the trend arere we trying to start the Chartreuse and Bur? You can decide. colors. I think they're nice. They're nice. And I feel like it's the wicked trend evolving It's just getting a little darker I have to tell you all something Tell me don I'm not having a Chartreuse in Burgundy wedding, but I'm not having one. Like those colors are they're involved for sure. It happened. This is the first time'm hearing about this trend. I think those colors are gorgeous. They're gorgeous. Everybody looks good in Burgy. By the way, in the pictures that you showed, there was not actual Chreuse Chartreuse. No. That was not Chartreuse. That was green. That was green. That green. Chartreuse has two more yellow yellow in it, more yellow ye. more yellow. That wasn't that. I think the whole thing is a conspiracy. proropaganda I remember when we were trying to figure out the logo and the branding for Crooked media a long time ago, and we were talking to a person who was going to design all the logos. and then she was like, what about this color? She's like, Well, that brand uses that color. And then we were like, well, what about this color? And I was like, Well, doesn't this brand look too similar? And she kind of just leaned forward and she goes, honey There are only six colors. That's real. Same thing with music notes. It's only so much you can do. Yeah Yeah. Where's Charo with the guitar? Next up, the rise of wedge flip flops Are we stopping that trend though? No we're letting it go. We're letting it go. We're letting it go. Wedge flip flops Kick rocks, kid heels Oh, that's horrible. Stop it. Yeah, stop that. That is a terribleing thing. Oh I just want to take it and smack them with it. It's not as bad. Have you seen those new designer shoes that are literally just like the heel of the shoe tied to your foot? You've sitt Yeah, I mean, this is better than that. There's a whole shoe there. Are you talking about a stick No dear? No, it's literally just like a heel and a heel and string. it looks it's like a little stilt kind. Yeah, if you swell a little bit if you retain water, it's gonna look like a pork loin all tied up. It's awful. I can't stop looking at that thing and I want it gone hey, can we clear the screen? the director. I once had an acquaintance It just very clearly had a foot finish. and We were looking at shoes and he goes, I just that just hides the sexiest part of the foot. And that's how I feel about that. And did you not end up having a project with Quentin, or was that? I was actually first in line for Django What is the sexiest part of the foot? I don't I never followed up. But if you had to choose, what would it be? The arch because that's what you can fuck. Bea you put the arches together And Yeahah, but you can tickle with the toes and you can put the toe but put the toe but like a peeepe hole. O that would be very ching. But a butthole. Yeahah. Oh, put a tote. You know what it's so funny when youd say hole, The first thing I think is penis hole, not butth hole. What does that say about me That you're an a. You're a. What an ally. What an ally. All right ally. We're stopping that trend. Next up, we have ballmaxing. Men's health published report on the latest looksmaxing trend, which is called ballmaxing, which men inject saline into their scrotum to achieve an oversized grapefruit esque look Yeah no. That's not a new trend. Say more about that. in Florida. Well, we are the citrus state, dear I mean, it's not a new trend. It's been around for forever. I mean, obviously I don't partake in that trend. Look, I don't yuck anybody's yum, but I don't see the yum factor in it. I have a friend who's gotten sccrowTalks ScrowTox is different Scks is so that it hangs, right Gr talkks like Suff the wrinkles Yeah, but ye that does the same things as it does to your f face. Yeah My point was that you get like the bangelous. That saline injected in it to make it bigger and heavier. It's like getting filler instead of botx.ure. Yeah, but it's all about having sadier Heavier balls, right? Cumy stop that train Heavy black I don't know. I think that I don't think injecting things into your balls is a great trend. I'm sorry. call me crazy. You're crazy. I don't know. No, I mean, I'm always it just makes it more difficult to tape it back. So that's my biggest detractor from R. R all agrees Yeah. Yeah for sure. It make s H balls right now. It took both of us to get them taped back. They're up my butt hole. Yeah Yeah withith a toe. and we'll be back Hey, don't go anywhere. There's more of Love it or Leave it coming up Lver to leave it is brought you by Bomb The springtime thaw is finally here Fowers of blooming days are longer We're saying yes to more plans and finally getting outside, running, walking, just moving again. It's the perfect time to upgrade Y everyday go toes with Bombas, Bombas sports socks are super comfortable and designed with sports specific tech for running cycling, yoga, hiking, name it I do a lot of running and I wear my bombas socks every time I go running, I wear bombas when I go do pilates. I wear bombas every day.' wearing right now. 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Hey it's Tommy from Pods ofave America and Podsayave the World. Last year, twenty five hundred people joined us at Crokut Con. conversations with some of the smartest organizers, least annoying politicians, and most interesting voices in politics. talk about how to fix this mess. Even President Obama made a surprise appearance. We're doing it all again november fifth to seventh in Washington DC with even more podcasts, panels and workshops. Plus, there'll be drinks, which we'll need after the midterms, no matter which way they go. Get tickets at crookedcon. com If you're a friend of the pod, you get a discount too. See you there And we're back lear anything The director of drag Queen and Rachel Boom, that's the queerupremet I'm looking for. And the Spreme Court we shall have in a segment, we're calling Supreme Court. Court. We have collectedions the h down Mamir Quart. Supreme Court. We have collected questions and you are going to rule On these questions, we've been collecting them from the audience. Here's what we've got And we want gay rulings queer rulings on on these conundrums First up, can anything be done about people having cell phone speaker conversations in public I promise I will do better in the future. Are youiew used having speaker phone conversations on the streets Yeah, just so people know that A, they don't talk to me because I'm having a conversation. And B, I'm not totally crazy because there's somebody else on the other line. Right. See, I tried to do it with the headphones, but then they just looked at me like my medication was slipping. Right, right. You do look a little mad when you don't have the phone holding. I understand that. I respect that I respect that. I'm also from Florida, th Right. Right. Yeah. sort of an unmannered, uncultured zone. Yeah. swamp people. What would be the gay solution to that? Beause like this whole thing is that this is queer supremac. So like what would be like theay What would be like the gay? I mean, the gays all know each other anyway and we all want to know what the tea is, so it's better just to put it on speaker phone and tell everybody at once Such o my God. So you you're talking about like federalizing and making this likeike an actual like it's like marijuana making it like a legal thing. likeike, yes, you know what it's not gonna to stop. so So let's legalize it. Yeah, it's regulated.ax regulated. It's to tax that. But we'll tax it. We'll tax We'll tax it. Yeah. We gotta get a tax on this bad boy. Oh, using a speakerphone in public. That' tax. Ill bet that would curb it Yeah, for sure. Although, you know what You know, it's sort of a, you know, what's the difference between a fine and a fee? You know what I'm saying? Is it a parking ticket orr is it a charge for parking anywhere you want You know what I mean? Think about it. Think about it. You anyone Do you anyone can join Parking Club, Parking Club is there's a monthly fee. It goes up and down depending on the luck of whether or not you got a ticket. But for that monthly fee You can park anywhere you want, in any city you want You can park at a fire hydrant, you can park on the steps of City haall. if willing to pay the monthly Next question. Am I allowed to decide that I'm not a Meryl Streep fan if I haven't seen Sophie's choice You know, I haven't I actually have never seen Sophie's choice all the way through, especially since having a kid it's just too sad. I actually watched the choice scene on Instagram because that's where we are as a culture now, I guess. And I was haunted for a couple days just by seeing the choice scene. I think you You don't need to traumatize yourself in my opinion. This is an interesting question because if we're going to queer it up Um, they're they're the younger queers do not even know what Sophie's choiceices. And so you know their Meryl Streep reference would still be Devil Wears Prada and Death becomes her and Mama Mia and all of that. So and I would never tell them that they're not queer So that's so beautiful. So because I'm that guy I'm like that. I'm generous in spirit. Is the question, do they have to stop being gay if they don't like Meryl Streep? If they haven't seen Sophie's choice? If they don't like Meryl Streep, they do have to stop. I mean, because Meryl Streep or butt sex, that is like Sophie's choice to us Hey Rachel. Yeah. Have you ever seen the film The Good Son? Macauul Culkin? Yes. So here's I have not seen Sophie's choice. Yeah, but I have seen the goodood son. And in my mind, the end of the goodood son when she's deciding between McCaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood is likeike geometrically, you know, it's like topologically the same as the end Sophie's choice when she's choosing between the children. Is that right? It's just that McCuly Gulkin is evil. L these bothie's choiceoth kids Right. So that's a big difference. and actually thought that. It' Ieresting if the end of the Good Sun was Macauly Colkin getting taken away by Nazis Who would you root for Right. I ask that question constantly. Cum see, stop that train. Yeah just to put Yeah, Oop's choice like a queer cananon movie becauseuse that would's not It's just not No, I don't itd I would say this. Thankk God. I think that if you've seen a ton of, I don't think if you've disliked Meryll Streep all the way along I'm not sure Sophie's choice is going to bring you home. I I just like you've made your decision. like this It seems like Sophie's choice seems to me to be like Merril Strep four hundred and one, you know what I mean? And if you've made it have you Kramer versus Kramer though You have You have seen that one and you still don't know who is this? What's wrong with you Have you seen the movie She Devil? talkalk about like queer kids? You haven't seen She Devil? that's important. You'll probably think it's great except for Meryl Streep. Oh You know that film the Iron Lady was so wonderful, but the performanceomenal She Devilil I directed her in only murders in the building. we were talking about a scene and I actually said to her, I need a little more she devil T her as part of my direction to Meryl Streep. I need she looked at me, like I had fifteen heads. was like But it was so thrilling. And she went, Okaykay. You know it would be a fun thing to say to Meryl Streep? That was great, but can you just do one where you throw it away Wouldn't that be? I think we can't picture it. So' what are we ruling on? I think it's basically whether it's life in prison or death. Next question, My daughter is the lead in a a five year old production of Wicked She's playing alphaba I want to throw a cast party after, but only for the other leads, not the whole cast Is that too bitchy to not include other children? You have to I swear to fucking God. I don't like Meryl Strereep and I'm excluding children from the caz partarty. W a five year old production. We're. wait, I thought it was the production's been going for five years. No You know what? That's such an important question. I had the same first reaction but at this Is it a? Oh my God. Okay. Okaykay, this is interesting. Okay. this why the burned wh We'reing We're ruling against the parents. Yeah no it's a genetic thing There's something happening here Okay I'm sorry. I hope the invitation says for Alphaba Glinta Fierro. No chorus members and no Meryl Streep. So basically the ruling is you gotta invite them all. We want to invite them all. We want to inv invite them all invite call the cast party anyway. No, invite them all. Call it a cast party. I think invite where you start fostering Their love of performing and community and community. I think this is actually a very like valuable healthy thing, moment for them, so. And youand that And you. Yeah A teachable moment. And if you don't like those kids, then take that one and go watch Kramer versus Kramer or Hope Springs. Hope Springs. Pam Greer said on Julie Lew Dri's podcast that ats seventy six, she can orgasm for three days straight.. I Doesn't that seem like too long Yes I don't know how you're I don't know you're going grocery shopping Well, at that point, I think it doesn't matter. Now I'm just saying this shouldn't apply to men. For sure. that would that would disaster like just the dehydration al load with me. Yeah you need an IV Yeah terrible. hereere's the quote from Pan Gade, the Jackie Brown star. I do because when you're young, you can have three or four or five orgasms in an hour. but when you get to my age, you have one orgasm, it lasts three days Repplied Julia Louis Dreyfus, what are you talking about? Like what are you doing down there to get a three door day orgasm? I need details And then Greer said, you don't have to do anything. but when it happens, I just want to tell you You just be prepared. added Greer, it's gonna be three whole days So this seems more like a situation where the orgasm has triggered a seizure That has left her weak in the knees and now she shakes every time she walks. I think this is not medically good. I think we should probably look into this We'll right back. And we're back. And now for our favorite end of the show segment where I decide whether I regret all of this. In second thoughts There it is Here's how works. I have a list of second thoughts provided by the producers of this program and we'll go through with them and go through them and see if I made any kind of mistakes I should feel profound regret about. And by the way, I would love to know what regrets you have about this evening, any second thoughts you have either in this show or more broadly all are welcome First up, my joke about Mr. Wonderful, more like Mr. Wonderful and Marty Supreme. bombed as hard as anything has so far bombed in this room. Absolute fucking silence after that joke But I don't regret it. I'm leaving it in