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What I\u2019ve read and heard about Jeffrey Epstein is that he was like this remarkably charming and intelligent guy. And then you read these emails, and frankly, he sounds like an idiot. Guys how are you doing? Doing well. Doing O.K. That\u2019s not very convincing, Jamelle. Why only O.K.? Do I want to know? Are we going to come back to that. I\u2019m just tired of being in hotel rooms. As viewers may have noticed you\u2019re the hardest working man in Opinion. This week, I feel that we need to dig in once again to the Epstein files. 23,000 of them. I assume that both of you have read them all. Every single. Every single word. I\u2019ve read as much as I can stomach. Let me put it that way. Michelle I have to say, I found the whole thing completely vomitous. But, I mean, bottom line, it sure seems like President Trump knew a little bit more about Mr. Epstein\u2019s predation than he had previously acknowledged. Just saying. That honestly seems like a bit of an understatement. I mean, by his own account and by Epstein\u2019s own account, they were close friends for over a decade. And it seems like every single bit of circumstantial evidence we get access to I\u2019ll put it this way, nothing has ever emerged to suggest that Trump didn\u2019t know at the very least what was going on. Nothing Everything that\u2019s ever emerged relating, relating to this suggests quite strongly that Trump was very aware of what was going on, and may have even participated. That\u2019s where the evidence falls. Not so much. I just I can\u2019t handle Jamelle. So not so much anything. Exonerative in these emails are just another example of that. We\u2019re taping on Thursday morning, so as always, things may change by the time you hear this. But give me your basic reaction, David Yeah I mean, all I would say this just advances a already terrible story incrementally in the more terrible direction. So let\u2019s put this in a larger context. So you\u2019ve had a situation where we\u2019ve had reporting about the Donald Trump what was it birthday greeting, where he allegedly drew the outline of a naked woman around a bit of a poem or some very what was very obvious, the content of the text there. It was very obvious that if that was from Trump, that Trump was signaling that he knew exactly all that was going on. And then you have the transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell to a far more favorable accommodations, reporting that she is now experiencing even favorable accommodations within the context of the more favorable accommodations, getting special favors even at this new prison. We\u2019re receiving reporting along those lines. Then we get emails that indicate that Trump may have spent many hours alone with a victim. Now, Republicans pushed back on that and said that this victim, who\u2019s a known person in the Epstein story, who passed away not long ago, that she had said that Trump had never done anything inappropriate. But once again, we had more evidence of connection to Epstein and Trump, more evidence that Trump seems to have known. Jamelle was saying, at the very least, seems to have known a lot about what was going on. And so it turns out that Donald Trump is not a big surprise, some avenging angel against sexual misconduct No, it turns out that all of the available evidence indicates that Donald Trump, when it comes to sex, is a really depraved man. He\u2019s a really depraved man. And she is not shocked. He is not MAGA, your warrior against sexual misconduct and abuse. All of this stuff is very incremental. None of it is dam bursting kind of stuff. But it\u2019s all incrementally terrible for Donald Trump. And very critically, it\u2019s also incrementally terrible for the MAGA movement going forward. Jamelle, did you have did you have deep thoughts on this. I\u2019m not sure I have any thoughts deeper than what David put forth. I guess I would just observe that in addition to the way the emails further implicate Trump, or further suggest the degree of Trump\u2019s implication to be precise about it, I was just struck going through some of them how you hear what I\u2019ve read and heard about Jeffrey Epstein is that he was like this remarkably charming and intelligent guy. And then you read these emails, and frankly, he sounds like an idiot. He writes in, this half literate style. Nothing he says is particularly perceptive. And one thing I was struck by is the extent to which with these very wealthy, very powerful people always hear that they\u2019re so charming. I think it\u2019s that people want to be charmed by someone with wealth and with power, and with access to things that they might want. I think that\u2019s true for Epstein. I think it\u2019s true for Trump. And one of the useful things about a glimpse into maybe more intimate communications is it allows you to see how much these people aren\u2019t particularly remarkable, that the only thing that really distinguishes them is that they have money and power. So, David, as you noted, this is not the first piece of evidence we\u2019ve seen of Trump\u2019s sexual degeneracy. I mean, we\u2019ve had the Access Hollywood tapes going way back. The birthday card for Epstein, multiple allegations by women of his bad behavior. But nothing seems to stick, or at least stick in any way that actually has repercussions for him. So do we think, or what would it take for this time to be different. Is it just the accretion, or would there have to be something, earth shattering? I don\u2019t see that there is anything but incremental losses for Trump. I think if you look back at everything that you walked through from the Access Hollywood tapes to the E. Jean Carroll situation, to the Epstein revelation so far, to the Ghislaine Maxwell transfer pile, that on top of January six pile that on top of all of the other Trump stuff and you really realize that, look, everyone who\u2019s sitting there saying, what is the thing. There is no single thing. It is. It\u2019s a number of things. But one thing that seems very clear to me right now is what we have is a one way ratchet that is moving against Trump in the public, in the arena of public support, that everything right now is causing Trump to shed support. And then what\u2019s more dramatic, though, Michelle, is what\u2019s happening the layer below Trump. That\u2019s where you\u2019re actually seeing dramatic activity. You\u2019re seeing dramatic conflict within the Republican world. That one layer below Trump, Trump is still largely untouchable, but any layer below Trump and people are willing to rip each other to shreds. And that is the dynamic that is taking place. MAGA below. Trump is cracking apart. And so that to me is what\u2019s the actual story of what\u2019s happening right now. Well, I don\u2019t know. It may just be me, but I mean, have you guys noticed the president and his people still seem to be on track to do everything possible to make themselves look more like. So this week, a New Democratic Congresswoman, Adelita Grijalva, was finally sworn in after weeks of delay. And there had been all this grumbling about how she\u2019s long vowed to provide the final necessary signature on a petition to force a house vote on whether to compel the Trump administration to release its Epstein files, which, of course, it was promising to get to the bottom of this for its people long ago from day one. But that\u2019s changed. So as Grijalva is finally being sworn in, there\u2019s this news that Trump is now like putting the screws to Lauren Boebert, one of the few House Republicans who has been willing to do the right thing in this regard and sign on with transparency parentsi group, but the minute it looks like that, they might have the momentum to get this moving again and force some revelations. Trump jumps in and is like squeezing people, which I don\u2019t know how you can look more guilty. I mean, it\u2019s just like they\u2019re handling this as poorly as possible. Is there a logic to this other than they just don\u2019t want people to know what\u2019s in there. I mean, what the hell. I think the logic to this is such that it is and this goes back to something David said earlier, is that they Trump specifically, but the people around him do not know how to engage in politics. In any other way other than being super aggressive, going on the attack and escalating. They don\u2019t know how to do anything else. No other thing seems to occur to them. This is their only mode of operation. We were going to try to use as much force as we can to beat you into submission, and when that doesn\u2019t work, they\u2019re kind of left adrift. And one thing I want to really strongly emphasize is that looking ahead to the next year, the only way things get better for the administration is if they can somehow recover. Switch gears, change course, whatever you want to use as your metaphor here. And there\u2019s no evidence that they\u2019re capable of doing that. Not even I\u2019m sure they might want to on some level. Someone who might be addicted to eating ice cream, might want to stop, but don\u2019t talk about me like that. But they don\u2019t have the capability to do anything different. And so one assumption I\u2019m operating for is that this right now might be the high water mark at this point of Trump\u2019s stature with the public. I don\u2019t see it going up in any meaningful sense. I think it\u2019s going to continue to go down because there\u2019s mismanagement of the federal government, there\u2019s is the material stuff. And then there\u2019s the fact, as you point out, Michelle, that whenever any kind of scandal comes up, they seem to make themselves look red handed taking Lauren Boebert into the situation room and trying to put the screws on her just doesn\u2019t just make you look guilty. It makes it look like you have published a book titled If I did it right Yeah, it puts you into late period o.j. Territory so I don\u2019t really understand how things are ever going to get better for them. I think that that\u2019s right. I mean, I will say obviously there are events that can occur. Here\u2019s a wild card. One of the things that could actually end up helping Trump quite a bit is if the Supreme Court strikes down his tariffs, because right now a Trump policy is a huge drag on the economy. So I think if the Supreme Court reverses the tariffs might actually see a burst of economic activity and optimism. That would be in spite of Trump, not because of Trump, but that he because presidents always benefit from a positive economic development. So I could see that there are events in the future that I could imagine helping Trump events. What I cannot see helping Trump is Trump, who I cannot see helping Trump is MAGA. That\u2019s what I want to get at next, which is that if as it looks like there is a house vote on the Epstein files, this is going to force Republican lawmakers to make a very uncomfortable choice between supporting their constituents who want transparency and not going against Donald Trump, who does not want these files released. What do they do. David, how do you expect them to navigate this line. And then, Jamelle, you\u2019ll see a few. Peel off a few more. In addition, I think to from Lauren Boebert and Massie and some of the others who have pushed forward on Marjorie Taylor Greene. I got to throw Marjorie every time. We\u2019ve got to get it in there and you\u2019re going to see a few more peel off, because there\u2019s this kind of calculus going on right now. And that calculus is we know that there is going to be a point in which Donald Trump is a lame duck, and we\u2019re going to have a point where Donald Trump is an anchor on me and my career. What about me. People are going to be starting to make these kinds of determinations at an increasing rate. With every month that passes and we get to the closer and closer to the end of Trump\u2019s term, and also maybe even closer and closer to the midterms because for all of the bluster you saw online about oh, big deal, Democrats won in blue states, there actually is alarm about what happened on election day. And so I think you\u2019re going to see again, I hate to keep using this word. It\u2019s a broken record. Incremental it\u2019s just going to be incremental. I think that\u2019s about right. Like, there\u2019s not going to be a flood of Republicans fleeing Trump. But there will be are small calculations here and there. Willingness to say, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to support this. I think with this bill to force the White House to release the Epstein files, passes the House, I would expect there to be a good deal of pressure on Senate Republicans, and I would expect some of the Senate Republicans to look around look around the environment and say, better to just support this than not. The sense that Trump is a lame duck, I think is growing. I think the shutdown contributed to it quite a bit, not simply because it went so long, but because he clearly wasn\u2019t showing any particular leadership during it, there was no indication that he was even capable of resolving it. The fact that there\u2019s nobody just didn\u2019t care. Yeah, that surprised even me. The fact that there\u2019s not really any legislation on the horizon, is there a Trump bill for anything that anyone sees happening over the next year. No, there\u2019s no particular legislative program. And then he\u2019s becoming more unpopular. So I would suspect that. And I will say not just more unpopular with the public at large, but among Republicans, he\u2019s not in the 80s anymore, not the 90 percent percent level. He\u2019s kind of hovering between high 70s, low 80s, which for him is not great. So I think as Republicans in Congress begin to pick up on what is actually happening in the public, they\u2019re going to David says, take incremental steps away from him. But a lot of incremental steps all of a sudden looks like a stampede. Yeah. And so it\u2019s which is to say, it\u2019s not going to look like a stampede over a course of a month or two months. But we may look back and see quite clearly the movement. O.K, so I want to run by both of you, something that our colleague Brett Stevens wrote this week about the Epstein mess. He was saying that the only way any of this sticks politically is a smoking gun. Red letter evidence that Trump had a sexual relationship with one of Epstein\u2019s victims. Otherwise, it doesn\u2019t do much but provide fodder for a few manic hours on MSNBC. Democrats need to focus a lot less on Epstein and start worrying a lot more about winning over normal voters with better ideas about governance. What? do you agree or disagree. I have thoughts. Go ahead. I mean, I disagree with that for two reasons. First is like a low level 1. The first one is when you just ask voters about this, do you care about this. What do you think about this. The answers are, yes, I care about this. I think it\u2019s very troubling. And when you have 2\/3 of American voters consistently saying in surveys that this is something that troubles me. I want to know more about it. It seems to me to be political malpractice, to leave it alone. The other thing related to that is the way modern American scandals work. In fact, it\u2019s not one big revelation that hurts the most. It\u2019s small revelations over time that hurt the most. And so just thinking politically, being amateur political strategist, which I think we should strongly encourage people in our business from doing that. But if we\u2019re going to do it, being an amateur political strategist here, the best thing to do is just to keep it going, have it be a thing that he\u2019s asked about constantly. That\u2019s the smart play. But the other thing is, I think Brett\u2019s analysis misses the symbolic aspect of this stuff. The broad public, and we see this with all these sorts of political insurgencies happening in both parties are extremely distrustful of the establishment. They\u2019re extremely distrustful of normal politics, of institutional politics. And here we have in the Epstein scandal, this example of corruption amongst the highest reaches of the American political and cultural and economic establishment. Major figures being palling around with this guy, politicians palling around with this guy. And so if voters are telling you in their actions that what they want is some kind of visible representation of you breaking with the way things are normally done, then here is this scandal, which gives you an opportunity to performatively break with the things that are normally done, and it\u2019s breaking with how things are normally done. This is going to open the pathway, I think, for voters listening to you on your other ideas. You show that you\u2019re not just another politician and then they listen to what you have to say. And so I think with all respect to Brett, I think his analysis here kind of just misses a couple steps and doesn\u2019t take seriously what the voters themselves are saying and signaling in their actions and behavior. So I think of it as short term long term. So I think in the short term it is. I think Jamelle\u2019s exactly correct that it would be in many ways, I think political malpractice for Democrats not to focus on this because voters do actually care about it. I mean, it\u2019s a target rich environment. Let\u2019s just put it that way. I mean, the record is full of Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, JD Vance, others like we\u2019re going to get to the bottom of Epstein. And then also there\u2019s this other thing that this is about the only scandal in the Trump era where he\u2019s engaging in that classic political dissembling that makes voters antenna go up. Like, is there something real here. Because the other way that he\u2019s dealt with scandal in the past, in his administration is just to do it right out in the public and brazen it out. I wrote about this. I mean, he pardons a guy whose company helped pump up the value of Trump Crypto And he just does it. Or he just releases the memo about trying to extort a political investigation out of Zelensky. He just puts it all out there. And it really confuses voters because they\u2019re not used to politicians just dumping their scandal out on the public and just saying, here it is. But this is classic political scandal conduct, hiding the ball, working very hard to keep things concealed. And all of that broadcast to the public. There\u2019s something bad here. And so I think it\u2019d be malpractice for the Democrats not to lean into that in the short term. But if all you do is win because the other side is bad, then what we\u2019re doing is we\u2019re trapping ourselves more and more into the cycle we\u2019ve been through for the past 20 years, which is Republicans win. They govern in a way that the public doesn\u2019t like. So they turn to the opposing party because that\u2019s the only alternative. Then Democrats win, and then very quickly, the voters turn to the opposing party. And then we\u2019re just we\u2019ve just been doing this every two to 4 to six years for 20 years now. So it is absolutely true that if a party wants to break this logjam for anything more than one election cycle or two election cycles, you do need long term, popular, stable governance, which involves a popular governing agenda that actually works in people\u2019s lives. So you have to walk and chew gum at the same time Yeah I mean, I think that the idea that you can just run against Trump indefinitely is obviously, look at where we are. I mean, that\u2019s what the party tried in 2024. And we wound back up in this pickle. Although I do agree with the point, and I think it\u2019s hard to overstate how much voters respond to that ug level scandal. I mean, you can talk about Democratic norms and the approaching autocracy and governance, good governance, all you want to. And they\u2019ll be like, yes, yes, we believe in that. That\u2019s not what really kind of sets them on fire though. Something like this is like the sexual predator version of taking a wrecking ball to the East Wing, which we\u2019ve all enjoyed. We\u2019ve all enjoyed the public response to that. But yeah, I was going to say, Michelle, that actually gets her thought I just had, which is that I think one reason, one reason that people in our business should not be amateur political strategists is that we think in terms of words and messages, but voters think in terms of images. That\u2019s what lands with people images. And so the East Wing is you ask a wordsmith. Do you think people are going to care about the East Wing thing. They\u2019ll say, I don\u2019t know so much, but people actually do care about it because it\u2019s a striking and dramatic image, and it represents something on a very visceral level about how they feel about what\u2019s happening in the world. In the same way Epstein is primarily about images. Images of this guy with powerful people. Images of this guy with teenage girls. These images are quite powerful. And so I think the task for Democrats politically is to be able to conjure up compelling images, compelling images that tar their opponent in talking about democracy doesn\u2019t do that. But this might. And then images that demonstrate a commitment to building a better world. For me, dismissing something as vivid as the Epstein scandal as a political tool is a good word for it, that it does feel like malpractice. The press conference the House did with victims of Epstein, I think, caught a lot of people\u2019s attention for exactly that reason. You had actual faces to put to some of this. But shifting to another set of images, since we\u2019re talking about the potential coming crackup of the Trump coalition, which I know David, is your favorite topics. You\u2019ve also been following the Tucker Carlson Nick Fuentes saga, which shifts us from sexual predators to groypers. What is the story for those who are out of the loop, and how does it fit in with the broader topic. So let\u2019s talk about both the individuals. A lot of listeners will be familiar with Tucker Carlson. They may not be familiar with the terms Tucker Carlson has taken since he\u2019s left Fox News. And when he was at Fox, he was a conspiracy theorist. He hasn\u2019t just doubled down on it. He\u2019s quintupled down on that since he\u2019s left Fox News. He has trafficked in all kinds of anti-Semitic tropes over the last several years. He has. I mean, he\u2019s dived into the 9\/11 conspiracy theories. He has given softball interviews to Vladimir Putin. And through all of that he is, by some measures, the most popular podcaster on the right. He then invited a guy named Nick Fuentes on. And a lot of listeners may not be familiar with this guy because he\u2019s not somebody who you\u2019re going to see on television, but he\u2019s a very popular, Nazi sympathizing fan of Adolf Hitler. And when I say his business card, when I say all of that, you\u2019re thinking, wait, what. An actual fan of Adolf Hitler. And he\u2019s popular. Yes I mean, this is a guy who will say things like team Hitler. I mean, he\u2019s a guy who has denied the Holocaust. He is. I mean, we\u2019re not talking about dog whistle anti-Semitism from this guy. It\u2019s bullhorn anti-Semitism, and he\u2019s built a big following. He\u2019s got about half a million followers on this video platform called rumble. And so Tucker Carlson has him on his podcast for what can only be described as an isn\u2019t just an incredibly softball interview. And for whatever reason, this blew up on the right. This blew up and it created some real anger, especially online, which then the Heritage Foundation, arguably the most prominent think tank in the MAGA universe, came forward. And the president of the Heritage Foundation condemned dot dot the quote venomous coalition critiquing Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. Unbelievable stuff. And this led to a staff revolt and heritage. It has led to a giant fight on the right over the Tucker Carlson Nick Fuentes, where you\u2019re really clearly seeing the different factions emerge, the pro-nazis versus anti-Nazis or let\u2019s say, just say Nazi curious versus not. I mean, and Rod Dreher wrote this, that about 30 percent to 40 of Republican male staffers on the Hill are what you would call groypers. And what is a groyper? There are people who follow Nick Fuentes. You\u2019re not going to encounter much in the offline world. You\u2019re not going to encounter much in the real world. Where you\u2019re going to encounter it a lot in the ranks of young MAGA Republicans. And so all of this is spilling out now into the open, and it\u2019s causing an enormous fight within the right. And if you\u2019re going to say it\u2019s a Tucker Carlson as the avatar for one side of it, and then Ben Shapiro on the very, very, very definite anti-nazi side of it. And so you\u2019re literally seeing people viciously attacking Ben Shapiro. Why? Because Ben Shapiro is mounted his horse and is righteously taking on Nazi sympathizers. He\u2019s taking that hard anti-Nazi stance. He\u2019s taking a problem and he\u2019s getting massive blowback about it, which is so it is shocking when you think about it. I don\u2019t find it that shocking because this has been, I mean, the groyper of the Republican staffer class, you might say, the young men who are entering into Republican politics. It\u2019s been like an ongoing thing for a couple of years. Back in 2017, after the Charlottesville unite the right incident, a writer, Alex pareene, wrote a piece saying that is the future of the Republican Party, that what we saw there, those young men, are the future of the Republican Party. And he was right that this thing has been happening for almost a decade now. And with all respect to Ben Shapiro, now, I\u2019d say it\u2019s almost a little too late to push back. So of course, he\u2019s getting the kind of ferocious pushback because it\u2019s almost like a fait accompli at this point. It\u2019s happened. You scroll the feeds of Department of Homeland Security, what you see are explicit allusions to Nazi propaganda. The vice president of the United States, JD Vance pals around with people like Curtis Yarvin, who, although does not identify as a neo-Nazi, has you might say Nazi adjacent, a Nazi adjacent ideology about the domination of subhuman peoples. This is just part of the firmament of a good deal of professional Republican politics right now. And I don\u2019t know what to do about it, but the rise of Fuentes as a player it could be seen coming a mile away. And it\u2019s just it\u2019s so clearly been percolating jemals. So right here. I mean, I was jumping up and down about this more than 10 years ago because more than 10 years ago, the alt-right emerged from the shadows, took direct attack, directly attacked my family in the most vicious and brutal ways you can possibly imagine. One of the reasons why I\u2019m no longer a Republican, and one of the reasons why I was very quickly became no longer welcome in a lot of conservative circles is because I was calling this stuff out. They were saying, shut up. The real enemy is Hillary Clinton. The real enemy is the Democrats. And so they were allowing into the tent anyone who would train their fire solely on who would train their fire on the Democrats. And they were shoving away outside of the tent anyone who was saying, we\u2019ve got a problem on the right. All of these things together started to pull some of the worst figures in American politics, including neo-Nazis, right into this broader right wing tent. This all feels to me a little bit like what we\u2019ve watched with the Trump movement from the very beginning, whereas these people make these accommodations in part because they think they can manipulate or control or make use of the extreme versions of their or the extreme elements in their party, but not get swallowed up by them. But then you turn around and next thing you\u2019re in Congress and trying to decide if you are going to vote in a way that makes you look like you\u2019re covering up child sexual predation. It\u2019s like once you go down this road and start accepting stuff that you could never have imagined embracing before, on the assumption that you can control it you just asking for a whole lot of trouble. Sorry I would go even further and say that being put in a situation where you may have to vote to cover up child sexual abuse is not just a hazard, but I\u2019d say like the inevitable result of this. Like the kinds of politics we\u2019re describing are politics that are built on exploitation and domination and hierarchy and the destruction of other people. And in \u2013 historically speaking, that stuff has always been tied up in the worst kinds of abuse of other human beings, not just in an organized state fashion center way, but also in a direct and quite personal way. So my knowledge base is American history and the history of the 19th century. And there were we have loads of evidence attesting to pervasive child sexual abuse in the slaveholding South. It was like it was arguably that\u2019s what it was, right. That was the whole thing. And those people produce ideologies that, on the surface were all about, order and organic community and such. But when it came down to brass tacks, were just elaborate justifications for dominating other people in the most disgusting and exploitative ways. And I see the same exact patterns with these modern day neo-Nazis and neo-Nazi sympathizers and all of these people. It\u2019s the same thing. There\u2019s a direct line from disparaging write the Declaration of Independence, which our vice president has done, and engaging in apology for really awful behavior and really awful conduct and really awful ways of relating to people. Let me put it this way. People were more angry at me for calling attention to the fact that neo-Nazis had photoshopped pictures of my then seven-year-old daughter into gas chambers with Donald Trump in an SS uniform, pressing the button to kill her. They were more upset that I was calling attention to that fact than that happened. Why Because they didn\u2019t want me to undermine the sense of solidarity against Hillary Clinton. And if that is the dynamic, if that is the moral calculus here, then everything that has happened since was almost inevitable at this point, because once you have said, I\u2019m going to accommodate neo-Nazi expression for the quote unquote greater good of taking down a mainstream Democrat, then you\u2019ve lost your way. You have absolutely lost your way. And here we are. And here we are. I\u2019m comfortable taking a hard anti-Nazi pro, David French stance. I\u2019m just going to come right out there and say, Michelle, I appreciate that. I\u2019m with you, David. So let\u2019s turn this after that kind of dark discussion. Let\u2019s turn this to some recommendations. What do you got for me, guys. And I don\u2019t want to hear anything about Nazis, I just don\u2019t it\u2019s very, very, very smooth transition. I love that transition. That was work with me. People that work for me. How about you go first, David. O.K, this is easy. This is the easiest recommendation week ever. One word. \u201cPluribus.\u201d It\u2019s by the creator, Vince Gilligan of \u201cBetter Call Saul\u201d And \u201cBreaking Bad,\u201d starring Rhea Seehorn, who is Kim Wexler \u2013 I love her. \u2013\u00a0in \u201cBetter Call Saul\u201d and I don\u2019t want to. It\u2019s one of these shows that really kind of was wrapped up in a lot of secrecy. The top line description didn\u2019t make it sound appealing that Seehorn is playing the last unhappy person in the world. It\u2019s like, what does that mean. So all I\u2019m going to say is in the opening three minutes, you discovered that there is a beam being emitted from about 600 light years away. And it has a message to it, obviously coming from an alien intelligence, and then just watch it. It\u2019s so phenomenal. It\u2019s just great. So I\u2019m so excited. I\u2019m just vaguely mad that it\u2019s coming out once per week. And you can\u2019t binge it. I need to binge. I really resent the non bingeable things. What do you got for me, Jamelle? I have a movie, so listeners, viewers may know that I buy lots of physical media. I have a big Blu-ray collection and recently, a couple months ago, I bought a new release of the 1993, 1992 film \u201cSneakers,\u201d directed by Phil Alden Robinson and starring. This is the most stacked cast you can imagine, starring Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, and David Strathairn. It\u2019s about two former kind of like hackers who all go separate ways, and they get embroiled into a grand conspiracy. It\u2019s kind of an obscure movie, rarely makes it onto lists of things to see in the 90s from the 90s. But I think it\u2019s like, if you could imagine the movie version of a big, warm bowl of chicken soup, this is what this movie is. It\u2019s so fun and comforting, and I highly recommend checking it out. It also looks incredible. It\u2019s a very good looking movie. Well, it\u2019s got Robert Redford, so yeah, but it\u2019s a good looking movie. All right. That sounds perfect for my holiday viewing. I\u2019m going into that. It\u2019s a good Thanksgiving Day movie, actually. It\u2019s a perfect Thanksgiving Day movie where you\u2019re like, I\u2019m usually the one doing the cooking. So, if I\u2019m in the kitchen and there\u2019s something on the TV, you can put sneakers on the TV and it\u2019s like people will enjoy it Yeah perfect. O.K well, I\u2019m going with a kind of nebulous recommendation, which is that I am recommending people get out there and organize a group outing that gets their friends out of their comfort zone. What brought this up is that on Friday, I am rallying a group of about a half dozen women to go take a line dancing and two stepping class. I like to dance, so it is hard to find line dancing in Washington, D.C. I have dragged my friends out to this thing before, but I have. I have rallied the troops, but I like to do this all the time. Over the years, rallied people to go skeet shooting, karaoke. Of course, all kinds of things along, salsa dancing, that thing. And it\u2019s always something that your friends are really. But then they have a great time. So anytime I hear the word dancing, Michelle, or that anyone\u2019s going dancing, my inner eighth grade self comes out. Which means I in real life would stand on the edge of the room affirmatively, not dancing. And in virtual life of a conversation means I shuffle to the edge of that conversation. I would go dancing. I think it\u2019s fun. Would you. Well, if you drive back up Friday, Jamelle, you\u2019re welcome to join us. I\u2019m very much looking forward to it. And if it goes well, this could just be what I do on Fridays. I\u2019m just saying. All right, guys, I think that\u2019s it. We\u2019re going to land this plane. If you do anything over the weekend out of your comfort zone, I expect you to report back to me. All right. Will do. Guys thanks so much. Let\u2019s do it again next week. Oh, looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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