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- Today, we're gonna be talking about nuns and their podcasts. Politicians posturing for the midterm elections, the record numbered of Republicans who are retiring right now.

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“- The only thing I know about the latter day”

Saints is like what was on the commercial in the 90s. Do you remember that? Like it like the infomercials that would come up. - Well, since you brought your hand into it. (laughing)

- Now here, Algorithm's gonna be, have you seen the podcast of the nuns? Let's get into a sidebar with the nuns podcast. Let's have what's happening with the nuns in America. (laughing)

- They take you break from praying and podcasting. - Everyone has a podcast now. - There are these two nuns I'm obsessed. - Are they in habits and stuff? - Yeah, they're in like the fall will be goldburg.

They're doing, um, yes sister. It's like, (laughing) - Are they being cheeky? - It's edited to be cheeky. I don't know if they're intentionally being cheeky.

- Are we sure that they're nuns? - I mean, I didn't, I didn't. - They say they're nuns and it's like a faith-based podcast. - Oh, okay.

But they're always like sister tell me.

(laughing) And they tell like modern woman stories from the habit. - Okay. - I know you have a lot of nun trauma from your life, so it did, it probably doesn't hit as far for you.

- It's like whatever, anyway. So I used to, I worked someplace where the office manager had been a nun and she became a nun because she was a lesbian. And she was much older, right?

- Okay. - And she had said that in her day, like. - Which she became a nun because she was a nun? - Yes, because her family would have expected her to get married.

So she was like, I don't know what I'm gonna do, but I know for a fact that I don't wanna be with a nun. - She was like, I'm a celebrity, get me out of here. - Yes, and she was like, so I'm going to become a nun. - Good for her.

“- And so, I can't remember how long she was in nun for,”

but she said she met her first girlfriend in the house.

(both laugh) - I would watch that next heated rivalry season two. - Oh yeah. - Back in the monastery, what is it? - There are probably a lot of former nuns.

- Yeah, we'll have that experience, right? - Right. Is there like a, is there, (both laugh)

- She said that to you. - She said that to you. - We'll talk to you team at the nunnery where they meet me. - Maybe because that's the heated rivalry. - Yeah, yeah.

- I want to watch. - I don't know, but I remember thinking that was really funny. Like, oh, okay. - And she was such, she joined because she was like, I'm two gay, I'm gonna,

- Yes. - Imagine joining the sisterhood to like, mean a girl. - I mean-- - That's a meq.

- It isn't it? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I mean, it's, I am not surprised that like 1956 that somebody who was a lesbian or a gay man would be like, what am I going to do?

I know, I'll be, I'll, you know, participate in a religious order. - I was hooking up in college with one of the guys who was like in the like religious studies program. But he was just like studying and it's like a scholar.

I never remember for like,

- Was he out? - Yeah. - Okay. And I remember for spring break, he went to a monastery for like a week.

And I was like, I can't talk to my boyfriend. He's in the monastery. (laughing)

“- Was it like, do you remember if he was a silent retreat?”

- I think it was, I think it was a silent retreat. - I remember when I did a silent retreat and he said that like, Dave, it was for 10 days. Dave 3, he said he felt he was losing his mind.

- He said fuck that. - But he stayed, he stayed. And he was really happy that he did it. But he was like, he was fucking hard. - Yeah.

- Like, yeah. - No books, no... - No podcast. - No podcasting. - Yeah, it's going to be really, really.

- Miss us. (laughing) No podcasting, no nothing. - We're no books. - No books.

- Oh, because some people move their lips when they read. - No. - That's probably why they do that. - Can I tell you something?

(laughing) When I was, who is the worst? Remember when you were a little kid? I don't know if they did this when you were a kid. You would have to read something out loud

and if anybody had a turn. - Yeah.

- So I always read faster, right?

'Cause I used some really like to read. So I would figure out where my plan was. - Or where my plan was. - I would figure out where my point was and I would like hold it.

And then if some kid, whatever I wanted to even say the name 'cause I was in trouble. But like if some kid got stuck on a word, I would say the word was heba-padamist.

And then the kid was like, "Hey, hi, hi!" (laughing) And I would get in so, Melissa, you can't do that. - Sister Teresa was just a... - Sister Mary Claire. - Sister Mary Claire.

(laughing) - And I would get so mad when the kid would be stuck on a word. And I'm just like, "Oh, I can't believe you freaking pet it." And why is it just correcting all the kids?

“- I would do all the time and I remember one time I asked”

the kid. - You freaking know it all. And you still to this day will be like, I told you so. - Oh, you still are, you've been that girl. - Yeah.

- You've always been that girl. - Yes, I mean. - Even in Sister Mary Claire's class, up and so now. - I don't, oh, I make no up. That's who I am.

- That's who she is. It's just gonna correct you. - I am gonna correct you and- - Or let the record reflect. - Let the record reflect.

And if you do something that I suggest that you not do and it fucks up, I'm going to say to you. I told you. - Alyssa. - I think that's her all the time.

- Should we call her? Let's see if she'll answer. She's not gonna answer. - A bit. - She's gonna like be somewhere.

That's the thing with Alyssa. - When is she somewhere? - She's not gonna answer. - She's not gonna answer. Because you know what?

She's probably on a plane. Yes, see? All right, she got a third concussion this year. - I know she did. - Unbelievable.

- I asked. I was like, why do you keep on hitting your head and she's like, "I know it's not ideal." (laughing) (laughing)

- I know it's not ideal. So I got it out of pariah to pull out full litigation strategies just to get the information out of pariahs to how she busted her head for a third time.

She walked into a glass door in Miami. It was her glass door. - In her home? - In her house. - And let me do you think we concerned about this house?

- It is never her fault. - Never. - She was like, "My friend closed the door.

"That door's always open.

"You leave the door open in your house. "What do you talk about?" - Which door? - I'm testing her corner and I was backing immediately. - Which door? (laughing)

- What? I mean, was it like-- - It was like the sliding glass door to the patio. - Oh. - And she walked into it, hit her head again.

And I found out about this because I called her and she was like, "I'm driving and everything's really blurry." I was like, "I'll listen to it off the rope, pull over." - I mean, what? I have a neighbor.

I have a neighbor who I can't remember why. Oh, he was upset because our building, we live in a condo, our building, would not let him get an e-bike? - Oh, okay.

- Because they explode or whatever.

“And he said, "I don't know if that's why."”

- Yeah. - That's why? - I don't eat bikes explode. - A little bit like the lithium battery. - Yes, yes.

- Wow. - Okay. And so he said the reason why he wanted an e-bike was because the DMV, the DMV was going to take away his driver's license because his vision was going.

- No.

And I keep on looking at him.

- And you're like, "What are you doing?" - Oh, no. - No. And now it's going to be flying down the road on an e-bike, maybe. I don't know what's worse. - All of it is dangerous. - All of it is dangerous. - All of it is dangerous.

“- You need to be driving. - I don't know if I'll let you”

shoot with Uber or Lacer or something. - Right. - Get off the fucking road. - But I remember thinking before, before my dad died, I was like, at some point, we're going to have to take his keys away from him. And Mike, you do know I'm saying, like, just, you know,

he wasn't by the time he was the way he wasn't, yeah. He wasn't there yet. But I remember just like, "What looking at my dad? I was driving behind my dad once. We were both going back to his, my parents' house."

And I was like, "Oh, man." - Oh, man. - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Here we go. - I remember driving around with my grandma and, and I don't even think I knew how to drive yet.

And I remember being like, "This isn't how it's supposed to go." (laughing) - I don't think this is what I want. - I don't think this is how you're supposed to park this car. I remember being like 10, and being like that,

that's not the way you do it. - That's not how that works. - I don't want to be a backseat driver. - However, yeah, yeah, and that's not how that works. (laughing)

- It was you, yeah, yeah, right. - I did have a, yeah, but she was my great auntie with me, yeah, yeah, yeah. But my grandparents, my grandmother, but the Greek people have, yeah, yes, yeah.

And yeah, towards the end, my mom would have to teach me how to make Ias cocktails because-- - What was Ias cocktail? - It's usually vodka water with ice, but towards the end--

- vodka, like, this vodka and water? - With ice, yeah, in a highball.

“But, and I was little, and so they would have me”

as the bartender, and so, because they wouldn't have to pay you. (laughing) So, by Yaya, what they would do is towards the end, she couldn't drink that much.

She wasn't supposed to drink that much, on all her medications. They would have me just put a little bit of vodka on the top of the glass of water, so that when she sifted it, it tasted like vodka,

but it was really mostly water. - Mostly water. - I have a relative who does that with her, has been she adds water to the wine, so that--

- If you water sit down-- - If you water sit down-- - Do you think? - And I'm like, he doesn't, doesn't he know? - This is like, no.

- There was a TikTok this week that really sent me to Jupiter. This girl was like, I know they're watering down the gasoline. The, they're watering down the gasoline with a run because it tastes different.

(laughing) - Oh bitch. (laughing) (laughing) - This is what I'm saying, it's good girls.

Like, I weep for our nation. Like, what is happening? - She was like, it tastes different than it is. (laughing) - Before the war.

(laughing) - Like, it's funny, but I'm also like-- - She was like, what? - Did she really do that? - Did she really do that?

I think she was really joking. - Oh yeah, just, did you ever see that show my weird addiction? - Where she's eating the sofa cushion? And she was like, I didn't,

and there always, there are always,

the doctor is always sitting across from them like this. I have to tell you, (laughing) my strange addiction seat is only good. - Yeah, yeah. - The doctor sitting across, I have to tell you,

the sofa cushion, if you keep eating it, it is gonna, you're gonna have kidney failure and you'll die. And the person's always like, shocked. I couldn't, a bunch, much, much,

nibbling away, what do you mean? The cup of leech, I drank this morning. - This is not a show that I watched, but my friend watched it, and she made me watch a couple episodes with her.

“But the one episode that I will never forget”

was this woman, her husband and past away. - Okay. - And some of the ashes spilled? - No. - And she started eating it.

- Okay, we're gonna take a break. - I swear to God, I know it's fucking gross, but her hoping was like, she was afraid to like, run out. - Don't like, throw it away.

Like, I don't know what happened, the urn or whatever, tiptoe of urn, she tried to sleep it up and was like, what a taste like. - I don't know.

- Okay. - I don't know if she said. - I don't, I don't remember. Ash is taste like ash, whatever. Ash tastes like.

- Oh man. - People are not okay. - That's not as white. - People are not, I mean, why are you eating your sofa?

- Yeah, I mean, like, what is happening? - Right. - What is happening in the home? - What's happening in the home? - What's happening in the home?

- What's happening in the home? - What's happening in the home? - That's good. (laughing) - What's happening in my home?

Actually, this is not helping because my stomach is already a little bit weird. - Why? - Because Brad cooked. - And that's the way the cornchower is.

- And this is last rites. - Mm-hmm. - Because he was like, oh, I want to make a red sauce. - Like, like pasta? - Oh, yes, yes.

- Okay. - At two in the morning, I'm texting Charmaine. I don't feel good. - Oh, no. - 'Cause I called her when he was cooking.

So I was like, please help me. Please keep me from going in the kitchen to fix whatever he, we know he's not doing it right. - Okay. - And she was like, don't go in there.

- No.

- He would never watch anything.

- I'm a part of it. - Should I go ahead? - So she's like, don't go in there and interrupt his flow.

This is something, something is a mess in the home.

- What do you think he did? - I honestly don't want to know, I want to just recover and move on with it. (laughing) Just stomach didn't even matter.

- Okay. (laughing)

“- That's why I'm drinking a full-fat coke and crackers.”

- Okay. - That's what I've been eating. - Yeah. - When was this? - Last night.

- Oh, okay. - Yeah. What's going on in the home? - What's going on in the home? - Bradley, what'd you put in the sauce?

- I don't know, let's take a break. - What'd you put in the gravy? (dramatic music) (dramatic music) ♪ Ten ten shots five city all going ♪

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in your feed because the news has been freaky, diki wicked and wild. - It has been kind of fun. - It's been action park, DC bless you.

- It's the action park, DC, it's allergy season, actually.

We've got a sneeze in the studio. - Okay, maybe we just don't like the rules. - We don't like the rules. - We don't like the rules. - We don't like the rules.

(laughing) - Stop it, it's this, anyway, go ahead. - I don't really left out, I can't fix news. - Yes, you can, that's terrible. - That was the best I could do.

- That's, you need to work on it. - I'm gonna have at some point during recording this show, one week I will real sneeze. Because I went to the allergies, they did the test. - Is it okay, everything?

- They left and came back and they were like, "Oh my God, they had to do triage "because my whole arm was like swollen." - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - They were like your allergic to every type of trip hauling.

And I was like, "You didn't want to ease into it, "you didn't want to do it." - No, they do it. - They do the whole thing. - Yeah, they do everything, yeah, I know.

- Yeah, so I have to take crazy allergy medications, but anyway, speaking of things I'm allergic to, we should talk to, we should talk about what? - What? - The Senate approved legislation

to fund all of DHS, except ICE, and CBP, and then the house was like, no. - Right. - They just shut it down in the past. - Are we surprised?

- I wasn't surprised that we're still in a shutdown, like that's not surprising to me. There was a flurry of activity, where I just imagine like papers flying, like running Senate quickly passed it,

and then they were just bolted to the airport to me for the week for recess. So they bolted to the airport and then sort of like, it seems like they just left a turn on the door. A doorstep of a lid on fire.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, they did. - Like at the house, and the house was like, they didn't pay her back, yeah, and then I mean,

“I think a lot of what's happening in DC right now”

is people are just doing really petty things. At our expense, as citizens, so that they have talking points in the thermal actions. So they did this, left it with the house,

knowing they probably would never approve it,

and then they were the house Republicans, we're like, we were gonna approve. - Yeah, we're not gonna do this yet. - We're not gonna approve this whatsoever. - So we're in the same situation, and it's in travel is getting worse for people.

- Right, I guess it did score some political points for the campaign trail to, for Democrats in the midterms to be able to say, look, they did impasse. They were given the opportunity to reopen the airports and they did it. - And they chose not to.

- And they chose not to. - And they all did have to go on the record. I mean, the press conference and said like, we are absolutely not agreeing to all of this, but I don't know, what do you think about it?

Because I have very specific opinions 'cause it's like ice funding. - Again, I just think that every day, something new happens that tells me that these people don't really care about what happens

to the people in this country, right? They're so focused on winning, getting their way, that there is no compromise. Like for me, it just feels so profoundly selfish.

“- Yeah, I think it's like, hey, it's very selfish.”

Be it's like, every single time we come up against this, it's like, we are again in a place where the system that was set up hundreds of years ago is not serving us in modern society. And we have congressmen and men and women

who are in a congress forever or Susan Collins, who is a Democrat and supposed to be a Democrat but then votes every time what's wrong. - And has, she literally has a Mac on it. - Right, right, right, right with it.

- I was reading today that Republican a record number of Republicans are retiring before the midterm elections. ABC reported on this since 1930. There's almost 100 years.

There have never been this many Republicans retiring

before a midterm election. - Why, what do you think that's about? - I think they know they're about to get walloped. They're about to get dogwalked in the midterms. And I think that everyone's trying to say face rather

than spend all the money to lose. And then be a big fat loser. They're like, all right, I'm gonna wait five years and run again in 20, what would it be 2030? Let's just wait and see.

It's easier to do that. Go on the speaking circuit.

“- Right above. - I wonder if people will remember”

what they didn't do. Do you know what I'm saying? You had the opportunity to put the country back together again. At the very least, the airports running appropriately again. And instead, you decided not to because you're being petty.

And now you realize you're probably not gonna win. So you're going to quit. You're not gonna run again. You're not gonna quit, but you're not going to run again. And now that this sort of things have settled down,

then you're gonna go back and try and run again.

in this country.

And it may seem really weird to you and me, gas prices.

If you had some sort of effect on the gas prices as a politician, they will eat you up. No crumbs. - Absolutely, gobble you up, Miss Piggy. - What does it say about, not, I mean,

that literally, if it's like a quarter, they're like, "GET HIM!" (laughing) - What does it say about us? - I don't think so.

- That's like, that's gonna be the thing. Not kids being killed in school, not gonna control. - No, the gas. - Americans, if you fuck with their gas prices, they snap off the nails, they take off the earrings.

Gas lean on the face. - They take the folding chair, La plancha. They go, they go, lucharito on you. If you fuck with the gas prices, even a little bit, did you see that interview with the woman at,

she was at the pump. And she was like, this is like a local reporter who was interviewing her and they were like, "So what do you think about what Trump is doing in Iran?" And she tore into this man.

If you could say something to President Trump, he was gonna hear you right now. What would it be? - You're a worthless tile of shit. - This woman, I think it wanna say

was in Philly or Pittsburgh, it was definitely, one of these cities in America where they will be chewed a death with a sock filled with batteries. - You know, like it's one of those times. And so she was like, and I voted for him three times.

And I, she's like, and that's my bad. - Oh, I did see him, so I should say him on me. - She's got sunglasses on and she's next to her on time. - On your court, she's got two thousand condo court. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- It's like this woman, but it's true.

“That is what I think we're in a bubble, right?”

Like we live in New York. - Yeah, Fisher. - Most of the people we know are on the coast. - Yes, yes. - There are a lot of people in America

who 50 cents at the pump is a huge deal. They've got to drive to work. They've got to drive to pick the kids up like, people really care about the gas prices. - They do, they do.

And Americans love their cars, right? And there's been so much time in their cars. And you know, now the things that let's say you couldn't afford to go on a vacation where everybody gets on a plane and goes someplace, but you would like,

drive to your grandmother's house or take a road trip. And now that is, it's cost prohibitive. They can't do it like they used to. - And also, like, there's something about the inconvenience of transport, whether it's the subway, the bus, the car,

the bike, the second, it's like remotely interrupted. It is the thing we're doing to get to the place. It's like, it is not joyous. - Never.

- Transportation is never.

- Right, type. - Never. - Plains, whatever. - Right. - It's a means to an end.

We're trying to get to a place to do a thing. It's usually to make money because we're all stuck in a capitalist hellscape, right? Like, it's never, it's very rarely for pleasure.

“- I mean, you're going someplace because you have to go.”

- So when that should get interrupted or a little bit more expensive, you're like, are you fucking, now it's just, it adds to it. - It does.

- It does. - My bike, someone locked my bike to their bike accidentally. - Oh no. - Town and so, oh, I know this is different

than the plate of working class America, but it's been spending more money at the pump, but I did some day. - That's how you make their bike to my bike. - Right, that's how you get around.

- And it's how we get around everywhere. - Yeah. - And so all weekend I went, so I went to this party on Thursday night and I tied up my bike.

- Have you been visiting your bike? Did you get your bike back? - Melissa, I've been visiting it. - Yeah.

- And I've been putting flowers at its second site.

- Yeah. - I've had to go back like three or four days in a row because in New York City, your bike survives. Maybe 24 hours, chained about size. - And then people start taking shit off.

So the wheels are gone. - Yeah, yep, yep. - And things just start disappearing.

“- I mean, you should've just gotten a bolt cutter.”

- It's a giant. It's a huge, I would need like an actual electric saw to get through this lock. - Okay. - So, I've been going every day.

- You still don't have a back? - I've been biking, I find they got a back yesterday, but it was four days without my bike. - And I just showed up and it was untethered. Like the person had taken the lock off.

My lock was still locked. But they went over my lock and left it there for days. I was like, this person has some nerve. And they don't know anywhere. And they don't, where are you?

- Yeah, yeah. - Don't you have anything to do? - I finally got it back. And then I get a text message from the girl who sells me my glasses.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

- She sent me a photo of me trying to unbuckle my bike.

(laughs) - So instead of being helpful, she was like, she was just recording you. - Yes, this you. (laughs)

Just like me picking a fucking lock. I'm the size sitting on the sidewalk and so, - Wait, what are you crying? - I'm just like, you just saw me on the street and kept going.

- Yeah, kept going. - Oh, it was so sad. Yeah, anyway, that's my algorithm for this week. (laughs) - Wait, what's in your algorithm?

- It's a photo for me. What is in my algorithm? - Yeah, you didn't say. - Well, well, like a disease, it's been infected by someone who's sending me

AI fruit videos. Melissa, the only AI fruit videos I want to see. - Yeah. (laughs) - What?

“Which AI fruit videos do you need to see?”

- Actually, man, yeah, I was just gonna say,

I don't think there's any. - Yeah, I know I'm not alone. Last week for some reason, all of a sudden, I started seeing-- - I know we're not alone.

We stand in solidarity with Melissa's life. - All of a sudden, I started seeing like these weird AI vegetable soap operas. Now, a lot more have come out and I'm losing interest. Like I will say, so it did last very long.

- Season two? - Yeah, yeah, but-- - Describe for the people at home who have taste to have no idea what this is. - Fuck off.

- So, the one that I saw that really pulled me in, right? (laughs) (laughs) I didn't myself. It was a broccoli, and the broccoli--

The broccoli wasn't old woman who's 60 years old because she keeps on saying, "Oh my God, I'm 60 years old." Who had an affair with a carrot? And she has a baby, and my question was,

how can a carrot and a broccoli have a baby? And the baby is a broccoli? Like why is it? - Oh, yeah, and then it makes that to an interspecies. - And for some reason, she's like really embarrassed

that she's had this broccoli baby. Yeah, it was broccoli baby, and she throws it in the dumpster. - Infanta-side. - Yes. - Infanta-side.

- But the broccoli baby is rescued by the old homeless potato woman. (laughs) (laughs) - Imagine, I just imagining the backstage casting call. Homeless potato woman, seeking voice actor

for homeless potato woman. - I don't know.

“I just, and now they're getting more like spicy, right?”

So like, there's a banana who's having a three-sum with some black beans. (laughs) Oh, and this is what happened, either. So I can't remember if it doesn't matter.

I can't remember if the banana-- - That's a banana. - I don't remember if the banana is male or female, but it doesn't matter. Because then the spouse of the banana,

who I think is a strawberry-- - Thank you for using the gender neutral term. I wouldn't want this to ever get-- - Well, whatever, that's the matter.

- I would have never wanted to get canceled,

so that AI food could be known. - And then somehow the strawberry and the banana get into it, she throws, I think the banana gets thrown out, and now the strawberry is having an affair with the beans. - This is the days of our lives.

- Yes. - And let me tell you the reason why it's getting spicier is because you're interacting with it. And now this AI bot is creating more and more insane shit. - There, it's absolutely wild.

- A couple of beans in a banana. - It's three beans. - That is, that's polyamory. I mean, that's a push-wing problem.

“- But also like the beans are like very muscular for some reason.”

- I feel like this is like this is vegan porn. Like I feel like the vegan's are watching us and getting off. - So fucking weird, but I can't stop watching it. Although I didn't say I put it to the side,

and it's not like enough, because it was too much. - The beans, the three beans in the banana was too much for me. It was too much for me. So that's been in my algorithm.

I need something else. I want something else. - All right, well get you. I'll start sending you something. Lastly, I do have an update on the meadows.

- Okay, I'm riveted. - I went back to the store because I saw my niece. She took me to the slime museum of New York. Actually, no, put some respect on their name. Slime Institute.

- Okay. - Sorry. - I know there's a lot of research happening at the slime. - If people will correct you. - Yes.

And so before we went, I was like, you know what, let me check the store for the meadow. Let me go back to the local choice store. I got there, and there's a new sign on the door. - Oh, Michael, what does it say?

- It says, if you're reading this. - No, what does it say? - There's a new, aimed for your face. - Shut up, all right. - No, new sign.

It says, we still don't have the meadows. No one can find the FedEx box.

- No, no, it's not a sign on the door.

Now it's a missive. - It's like, what is going on? - It's the whole thing.

“There's a whole thing because people are still harassing”

this woman for these meadows. And I asked my sister and she said that my niece has her driving all over Long Island looking for them. And they're nowhere to be found. - You know, when I was a kid.

If we played with rocks. - Well, yeah, literally no one gave a shit about us. But like, when I was a kid, if I wanted something granted, nothing ever went this crazy. I mean, catish patch kids, but I don't know.

My parents would just say, no, and I'd be like, okay. It's like, I've had this conversation with people. I grew up in a house with guns, and they're guns. I'm just listening, my dad used to hunt. - Okay, sorry.

We went from being told no to guns. - Well, yes, because I'll tell you why. - And because my dad used to go hunting, and his rifles were in his closet. - Okay.

- They were not locked up. - Yeah. - The bullets were right there. - Oh my god. - And my dad said, was this in New York or did he?

- Yeah, okay. - Here, wow. - Here, and in Haiti, but here. - Oh, wow. - And he said, don't touch it.

- And you didn't touch it. - And I didn't touch it. - Yeah, of course. - Like, you know what I'm saying, my parents would say no to stuff.

And I'd be like, okay, now when I got older. - Right. - I would argue with them, but when I was a kid, no, Jaddi, no, I said, no, okay. I don't cry, but like whatever.

My mother never would have taken me

in the cart, traipsen around the streets of Long Island to look for this fucking slinky. - Yeah, it's the new generation, slinky. - Slinky, slinky. - Melissa sent me a photo of her confirmation this weekend.

- It's a crazy, had braces and straight hair. And like, and it was one of those pictures where, you know, the double picture where there's, like, you're looking straight. And then the other you was looking that way.

(laughing) - And it was like modern photography. (laughing)

“- I think it was for, I think it was for my confirmation.”

- It was the ghost of you looking over the shoulder. - It is so funny. - It was so funny. - It was so funny. - The whole the ghost is for your confirmation.

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- This is under oath we're going to get into a deep dive on an awesome topic in the news right now. I'm really excited. We have Afro-man joining us. - Sadly, I'm going to be so it's such a great interview.

Afro-man is the Grammy-nominated musician for his song because I got high. It's about life in a hot air balloon. It was released in 2002, and he's back now with his titular song, Lemon Pound Cake,

which is not about running a small bakery. - It is not. - It's not. He joins us today to discuss how a local sheriff's department rated his house under false pretenses, and then try

to play the victim and sue him for defamation, and it's a case they recently lost.

Very famously, all over the headline last week,

so we are thrilled to welcome Afro-man to brief recess, yay! Afro-man, I have to tell you my birthday is for 20, and the number of people that forget to wish me happy birthday. - Because they're so high.

- I'm looking at you, Grandma.

“- I think I just might drop it for 19 now,”

just after this conversation. - That's a good idea, police do. (both laughing) Well, congratulations on your winning court. We wanted to talk to you a little bit today about your win.

I've just can do a quick update for everyone, Afro-man. His home was broken into by police who were conducting a raid based off false information, isn't that right? - Yes, sir.

- They're after because they destroyed your property and ate your cake. You wrote an album inspired by that experience, right? You really turned lemon into lemonade. - Lemon, no, no, no, no, no.

- I'm a pound cake, passionately. - Right, yes, and so could you tell us a little bit more about that? Tell us about your experience and your court case and sort of what happened.

- The cops were at in my house, you know, they have authority and power, and I don't have any. They took advantage of that authority and power, and they evangelize the place. And then they were kind of cheerful and unapologetic

about the destruction they left. - Right. - Kind of, it kind of brought a little delight to their souls that they destroyed my house, even though they didn't find that

and they kind of got a cake in the destroyed everything. So anyway, I know you need police in society. I mean, society needs a scarecrow. The bad man needs to wake up and know that there is consequences for his bad actions.

So even if a police officer didn't do anything, we'd need like a society scarecrow. - Sure. - These officers, at the same time, you know, when people do wrong, they need to be checked.

- Yeah. - I thought about everything. They didn't want to help me with the damages. So I make money rapping. So I didn't want to spend my because I got high money

paying for police damage. - I thought I would write an album about the police officers. And let my story about them pay for their damage that they brought to my house. That was my solution.

I didn't want to go down to the police department and throw trash cans up against the door and get arrested in the lawn and get taken in the jail and get empty. So I thought the most positive, constructive thing

I could do was to make money off the situation. I thought about my life and I thought about how I sung my way through all my problems.

But then I got high. You know, like, that song is not funny. I made it funny after I put it on a piece of paper. - Yeah. - And I let everybody laugh at my heartache

and my disappointment. And it turned funny with strength and time. But it wasn't fun at first.

“But I remember how that song helped me get through”

those bad times. So in other words, in my life, I have wrapped and sung my way through my problems. So this is like another little thing. You know, okay, all right, I'm gonna just make a little song

about these cops. And they got songs that they're like after police and I'm gonna kill it. I see got cop you.

I didn't, I have never said after police.

And after police officers take pictures with me all day long. They come over with slices of lemon pound cake, these smiling face, you know, hey, hey, hey, hey. So I never said fucked up police and none of that. I called them out by name.

I found out who they were. And I didn't even say fucked them. I just said, you know, you really like my mom's lemon pound cake. Look how you're looking at it, you know. And I sold the records.

They got a lot of attention. Not that much money. It's hard to make money off of records in, you know, this side of 2000, you know. I was the first rapper to go viral,

but that was the beginning of artists getting ripped off. Like, yeah. The reason why they didn't go platinum was people didn't have to pay for my record. The whole world had it.

And nobody, nobody, nobody was like foul share

and they was just laughing at me in the street. Like I got your whole album free dude, like, they didn't, anyway, blah, blah. So it didn't make that much money. Record-wise, you know.

But I think it paid for the damage. The cops getting up out 14 to $30,000 worth of damage to my house. And last time I looked at my royalty statement

“two, three years ago, I think I had been sold about, like,”

25, $30,000 worth of lemon pound cake. A lot of people don't know this, but if the police damage her house while they are trying to execute a search warrant or are searching for evidence or something,

a lot of the most people don't get that money back. So in this case, you sued or they sued you because you made this album about them. And then you'll just won this case in court. - Yes.

- So you just won, I think it was last week,

what has life been like? It's been seven days. - Right, how do you feel? Like, what's the feeling? Like, once that sort of judgment came in

and you realized that you had won, how did you feel? - So many different ways, you know what I'm like? I felt like everything was a, was one of those weird lessons and disguises, like the Lord works in mysterious ways,

like the way I threw up and Jonah was just in none of them. You know what I'm saying? (laughing) It's like so stuff like that dude, like I can't do it. - It's an old testament shit.

I'm not an angel, I'm not super religious. - The book of Afro Man. - Yes, I guess, you know, God, you know, from what I read in here, God invented Jesus to seek if he could give the average human being faith.

You hear what I'm saying? - Right. - And so he had to test drive Jesus before he sent him into the public. So he made Jesus, he got baptized.

And then he said, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. I don't know if you guys are together you with that little sentence. - I'm not.

- Apart of the Lord's prayer or the daily prayer we supposed to pray is, you guys would probably hear it, "Everybody stand up, they go. "Our Father, Jesus told us to pray like this.

"Our Father, who aren't in heaven?" Okay, it says all that stuff. Now, there's this one key part. He goes, "Lead us not into temptation, "but deliver us from Him."

- Okay, now that line right there.

“I believe that line right there stops you”

from getting into mass shootings. It stops, it stops, you know. It gets you out of that wrong place, wrong time. And you don't get in the earthquake, you don't get on that bad airplane.

- Right. - You know what I'm saying? - So I really believe that the God must have led the cops to my house. It was just too much stuff was falling in my hand.

Like if you were looking at my Lickham Low Lisa video, I can't pay a woman that's my enemy to say those things. Like to really set me up that good. Like are you serious? - Yeah.

- Yes. - Like my only witness was the X-Cops wife. Like this is like, this is like, this is the masturbation material right here. - I don't believe this.

- It's for people who don't know the case. - This dude on national TV talking about,

So basically, I just need to set it up.

So people understand what you're talking about, affirmant for people who aren't familiar with your case. In the trial that they held in the defamation suit, a defense to defamation is the truth, right? If you're telling the truth,

then you cannot sue that person for damages because they're not making things up about you. Therefore, it's not defamation. So what affirmant had to do as part of his defense was he had to call these people

who he wrote songs about and the assertions he made in the songs he then had to defend by proving the truth of what he was saying. So for example, in the song, what is it? Like I'm Lo Lisa, he had to as part of his defense,

call certain witnesses to a test, to the truth of the lyrics of those songs.

“So that's what you're talking about, right?”

- Yes, sir. - Okay. Why do you think people were so drawn to the, because I think people were really drawn to this case and it really took over headlines.

And I honestly think it's because of one of these situations, the situation we're in in this country, where there's so many times where the little person, not to call you a little person, but the person of the David and the Galilee.

- Yes, yes. - I think it's made it, but I am. - The average person, the David and Galilee does the David does not win because they're up against a giant institution and they don't win for that reason.

But you won, like they sued you, they were trying to take the, you know, sue you for damages because you wrote this album. They were the aggressor in the situation. They worked on your door, they did $30,000 worth

of damages to your home for a search warrant. That was based off a tip that was erroneous.

“I don't think there was any truth about it, right?”

- No, there was no truth to it, right? - And then they were gonna leave you with a bill. And then they took you to court because you made this album about them and claimed a nation.

- Affirmant, let me ask you this, how do you feel? Right, you know, since this happened a lot of the sheriffs have retired or they've left or they moved away. Do you feel like, how do you feel that a part of the reason why they've done that is

because I mean, you basically drag them, right? You drag them, right? You showed exactly what they did, how they did. And they are, I mean, obviously humiliated, right? As they should be, what was the goal?

The goal was to raise money and paid for the damages. Personally, I thought they was tough, bad ass cops and they didn't give it to it.

I have never seen a cop care about what I say once he left.

- Yeah. - These are some real super sensitive poor sports, these other police officers are making fun of these guys too.

“Like, and I'm not, yeah, so the key was,”

my key was to pay for the damages. - Yes. - So I was trying to make the songs juicy enough for people to give it down to the viral. - Right.

I mean, so I mean, I feel like, even though I'm sure it was such a pain to have to go through this in the first place, but it feels like it's worked out in your favor, like it's gotten so much more attention because of this case.

- I hate to keep getting religious. I hate it. I really do, I really want to stay. No, so get this kind of a guy. - Right. (laughing) - No, I hear you.

- Or some sort of comic retribution. - Dude, I'm 245, I chase everyone and I see. I'm not an author, but this got to be cut. I'm trying to boost my followers for years. I've had 10,000, I've had 200,000 people

on Instagram for like the last 10, 15 years. I go crazy when I finally get that slow ass and I'm like, "Oh my God, it just went up a little bit." - Yeah, yeah. - Dude, to watch 800,000 people get on my situation in four, five days.

- Yeah. - That's incredible.

- It is incredible. - I can't do that, like I didn't do that by myself. Like God sent me these people. He gave me a story that's interesting that people are financially involved in.

Like this is, I've tried everything. I've tried everything. I wear different suits every night. I started doing the run-and-man, forward-end, backwards, I play with it.

I have tried everything. And then after I tried everything, I thought I was at my low. I don't know if y'all ever seen Shrayton places. - Yeah. - Within that.

- You have, it's like when the dog started being on the guy and they started raining, it's like that was my part that would be like, "They kicked down my door. "I'm powerless, my rap set, taking off no more. "I thought about buying a silencer

"and getting an address. "I was feeling less than a man." Like, I was feeling less than a man. Like, I was like, "Why can these guys,

"You think about disrespect?"

“And you want to, if it ain't gonna stop,”

you know, maybe I need to give up the ghost. And you know, what do I do? You know, 'cause they get to walk around with their guns, but I don't, and then I realize how they're AR-15's couldn't hurt me, but my jokes just kill them.

- Yes. - Yeah. - I feel like my silly little cake song retired 'cause sensitive acts. - Yes. - You got a mask, yeah, I'm happy.

And you know what, here you go, God again. Now many other people have they done this too. - Right. - Countless. - Right. - Countless. - Dude, dude. - Dude, platform.

- Dude. - Dude, I won everything in that court. They didn't make me pay for those people's hot dogs, so it doesn't nothing. - Dude, the police have to pay for your legal piece now that you won in court.

Are they paying your lawyers? (laughing) - We can't, we can't, we can't, we can't, we can't. - So again, just to go on with what you're saying. (laughing) You couldn't have possibly, if somebody had made a movie

about this, we wouldn't believe it. - What's up, you don't understand and be like, yeah, he caught me off the town cake and I'm mad about it. I get hundreds of cakes that we did. I can't, they know body to be that.

Like, this is like, it's like super troopers or something. It's stuff, it's like police academy, it's some goofy. Like, I can't pay for that, dude, like, what a strip.

“- Didn't you call the police chiefs X-Wife to the stand?”

That's a witness? - He wasn't the police, he was just like a regular person. - Yeah, his name is Sean Groams. I got a song called, Sean Grooming Groams. And he blamed here to force him, me.

I got to point out, what did you ask his X-Wife on the stand, what did your lawyer's ask? - If she had an restraining order against him and all kind of good stuff, you know, it just let him know.

The bottom line is he's a liar and a liar shouldn't have

police authority or power. He's a liar, back there, one of the cops was married to an X-Con big feet. Now, they say birds of a feather, you can finish the rest of that. You don't understand.

- Wow. - Then another cop, you know, all the people in the town, they say he's a statutory rapist, but he's a sheriff, and can't nobody do nothing about it. And then his brother, you can go look it up right now. It's a convicted pedophile that got fired

from the people's police department. He's the chief of police over there. - Okay, we have live fact checking and that has checked out to be true. So.

- Yeah, brother, that's not defamation.

“- I see, that's why they were trying to sue me and shut me up”

and steering me and intimidate me. But I told the truth and what did the truth do? - It's set me free. - Free, yeah. - There, all of these rivers are just leading back to the ocean of God and it's like it's got to be a blessing for God.

- What's next for you? What are you working on now? Where are you, where are you headed next? Your in Texas, what's on the horizon for out from, man? - I'm gonna run it down to you. - Here it comes. - No, please.

- Here you go. - All right, first of all, the album's coming up. You know, I am a rapper, first things, first.

MacDonald always got to serve you to Big Mac with the Coke.

We're gonna come with the Mac, hurry. In the Mac, we're gonna do everything. But first, we're gonna take care of business. We're gonna keep the Big Mac number one. Number one, I'm gonna make that album.

- That's April 19th, anywhere you got music. - After that, the Limit pound cake line is coming. You know what I'm saying? - Okay. - I would like to get a big train.

I would like to get a big train, that that professionally knows how to do it, but if they don't step up, I'm gonna move on with a little man, and I'm gonna make him a big man.

We're gonna big together. The Limit pound cake is coming together. Then the Afro-Man signature, freedom of speech, American dream suit is coming. - Beautiful.

- All we're on on the show. - I'm happy. - Yes, yes, it's coming. After this, you know, just more of it. Everything, the Afro-Man's super hero cartoon.

If you see the battle him of the police whistleblower, I got my, for hero character, he's thinking the last part of my song as I lose my voice, and he's dropping down, but it's a super hero.

This superhero is, he's gonna, he's gonna save society against bad cops. So when cops, I'm gonna have cartoon cops like, hey, we're gonna steal your money and plant drugs on you. You're going to prison.

I'm gonna have like these bad cops. Then he's gonna be like, isn't it a bird, isn't a plan, it's Afro-Man. And then the bad cops are gonna be like, Afro-Man, they're gonna have guns,

they're gonna start shaking. But Afro-Man, please don't wrap about us. Like, yes, please don't give us the year.

Don't give us humiliation. - Don't wrap about us. - Yeah. - Because they know what'll happen. - I'm gonna start wrapping and then they're gonna run away

and then all the community's gonna be like, thanks Afro-Man for saving us from the bad cup. It's coming, brother. - Well, thank you so much for joining us. - Thank you for your work. - Thank you for your work.

- I can't wait for it. - It's the sky's the limit. - We're so happy for you, like this just feels like, you know, the little man got ahead. Do you know what I'm saying?

Like, it's, yeah. - I thank God, he used the footage to confirm the wise. He worked in mysterious ways. - Yeah.

“- I think he let me, he let this go down.”

So he could use me to bring worldwide attention to corruption in government, period. - Yeah. - And they can all see it. I did it with rap music.

No money, just a little, just a little goofy drunk rapper. - Thank you, thank you so much. - It's close to government to the world. - Thank you. - And now all the scholars and the little man can use

his freedom of speech to acknowledge there is a problem. Use his freedom of speech to address the problem. - Use his freedom of speech to solve the problem. - Amen. - Hey.

- Hey. - Oh, it's so great to speak to you. - It's really nice to talk to you. Thank you so much. - Thank you, Aframan, for joining us on free free set.

- Yes, take care. (dramatic music) - Guys, God, God, God, God. - Oh, God, God give us like a little Lisa. - A side of us.

- One man, going down on another woman. - Thank you, God, for like a little Lisa. - And he's dressed like this. - And he's dressed like this. - And I'm not religious.

- Here's another story about God. (laughing) - It's like, oh my God. - This is so serious. - And that was actually, that was, it was fire.

- It was fire. - Oh my God. - Oh my God. - He's kind of cute. - Oh my God, my God, my God, my God.

- Oh my God, my God, my God. - I was just like, if I could do our ball. - Right, it was like, I don't like God at all, but let me quote him. (laughing)

- Oh my God, my God, my God, my God, my God. - But do you say me here and this whole situation was his joy? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's got to be God. - It's got to be God.

- It's got to be God. - Big Mac, the big Mac, the big Mac and the coconut milk. - We gotta keep it number one.

The big Mac will always be number one on the menu.

I'm gonna start saying that. - I love that. - I love that. - I really love that one. - I really love that one.

- That was great. - No, I love it because you're right. It feels like the little man, finally a fucking win. - And you know, and what he was saying, you know, not every rapper becomes Jay Z, right?

You know what I'm saying? So like this idea that this rapper who's known for making like jokes and he said that he'd been struggling. - He was like a one-hit wonder. - Correct.

“And this, you know, I must be a terrible thing, right?”

When the police come barging into your home, it's scary and all the things. And he took this terrible situation. And look at what he's done. It's, he's revitalized his career.

- Totally. - I think like he said, they do this to so many people. - Right. - And we don't hear it.

- We never hear about it.

- And they never get their bills paid, nothing ever happens. And there's no accountability. - Correct. - So I think this is like one of those rare times for fucking life and society where it feels like

the bad guys got what was coming. - Especially because we know like many times, far too many times, the police have barged into someone's home and the person there gets killed, right? So thank God this didn't happen to him.

And he was able to take a scary, terrible situation. And like, make it really funny. And now he's got new followers and he's probably gonna go on tour and do all this really cool stuff. - I really want to big Mac.

- I think I do. - I want some lemon pound cake. I love lemon pound. I love lemon pound cake. - If you do, you love a lemon.

- I love a lemon dessert. - Okay, we'll be right back. - Let's get into the DMs. I'm still so sick from whatever Brad fed me. - No, no, I'm sorry.

- This is Tales from the DMs. Let's talk about all the crazy things I'll send us on the internet. You send me some really good stuff.

“And I have been better at keeping track of who sends me what?”

- Okay. - And following up, and I'm asking people, can we read this? And then CJ gets involved. So we're being really official. - I'm happy to hear that.

- Yeah.

- Friends, what do I always say?

While Michael is a lawyer, he's not your lawyer, so get your own. - This one I actually love this. This is just, that's where he's from reviews. This is from last week's episode about

the Epstein files, Red Rose tells us, the ongoing studio lighting changes are interesting to observe. (both laughing) - It's Michael's fault, he's so vain.

- Oh, it's 100%. I don't give a shit. - No, Nick explained it to me and he really did a full breakdown for me. - He did. - He did.

- Up how it reflects of certain boards and like how they use certain lighting and some studios and none others. So I'm on the journey as well.

- I know you are. - This is from Mandy.

“She was talking about the America's Next Top Model”

with Yona, laundry chair girl here and active hippopotamus and pity-potomitous lover. I need this podcast in my life. Thank you for the last, the serious business, the tea and the strong reality based perception

of the world, its warts and highlights. She likes pit bulls, pit bulls are so cute. I love them. - My sister had pit bulls for many years when I was in college and they were so snugly.

- So snugly. - Spooning on the sofa, they were really, really cute. - When I was a kid, there was a pit bull in my neighborhood whose name was Cupcake and Cupcake was with like laid-down and like sway and like beg for bellywabs.

They're really sweet dogs. - I've gotten more and more. It's not that I'm hoping something happens to Jack. - No. - But he is getting older.

- Sure.

- See, I do need to catch about this for a second.

- Okay. - Because I love Jack, my dog, my 13 year old sheep, he knew. - Who's not very nice?

“- He's getting old and he's demented and...”

- Is he demented? - I think so. - Does he sundown? - Yes. - Okay.

- But I love him. - No, yes, of course. - Well, following me around panting everywhere I go and I'm reading about how dogs when they're older follow you around because they can't see or hear anymore.

So they like smell you, they just kind of are trying to, they're getting more nervous about being alone. - Yeah. - It's, oh no. - And it's sad.

- Yeah. - It's also annoying. - It's on, he's typically tap dancing with his long claws on my last fucking nerve some days. And I'm like, I don't know how y'all caregivers do it.

I don't know how nurses do it. I don't know how people in these jobs do this because I'm like, this is just my dog and I can't believe the house and go live my life. - You come back, but oh my god, leaving today.

- Does he cry? - No, he's just following me around like looking for a treat or whatever, just like trying to make sure I'm home or not or whatever. And then, and it's, it's most of the time it's really sweet.

But today I was like, I'm actually gonna lose my shit. You need to get away for me.

Leave me alone for one second.

I can't go in the other room without him following me. And it breaks my heart. - The dog, it's also very frustrating. - Yeah, it's a really frustrating, but I know one day I'm gonna wish you were following me around

and that I'm annoyed by him being there. But on the other side of that coin, I've also been really excited about potentially adopting. Another dog once Jack crosses the rainbow bridge which will probably be yours from now.

He's still 13 is actually kind of young for that period. And he's showing no sign of slowing down. He still goes on like four walks a day for like a 20, 30, 40 minute sometimes. But I'm like falling in love with all these other dogs.

I'm like looking around on the end. I'm like, oh, I'm actually really excited. - I'm really, really wants a dog and I won't get one. But I look at them and they're so cute. Especially the ones who need homes, the dough dough.

“The dough dough is like the worst thing.”

- Oh, I can't. - It just reals you and I know, but I love it. Just homeless dog who all of a sudden finds their home and now they're beautiful and love. - I saw one and it was like we're gonna test her out

for the weekend and like before the video was even over, they were like, there's no way. (laughing) - They're taking the dog shopping. I was like, there's no way you're sending that dog back.

- The dog has a sweater. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In credit card debt. Okay, oh, from the boomer banks episode, Nicole Phillips says, "Well, Melissa Michael

"so perfectly paradise hosts and makes every guest "feel like such a natural fit for them."

And I'm always obsessed with Melissa's jewelry.

- Oh, I'm both Nicole. - That's cute. - What do you think of it? - I love that. - I love it.

- I love this. - Where'd you get that? - A state sale. - A state sale. Oh my god, all right, let's get into some questions.

We got a clip from CJ. - I have a quick question regarding actual dual citizenship from the US to Canada. My son's great grandfather was born in Canada. And I know that they had voted on Bill C3

to allow those descendants to apply, but the extension temporary measure expired on March 19th. - So at this point, does my son have any way to apply

for Canadian citizenship due to his great grandfather being born there, thus being a naturalized Canadian citizen? Thanks so much. - Okay, so this is actually,

I'm really glad this came up because I'm actually doing this. Brad's great, great grandmother was Canadian. So I was like boots, like let's do it. Just for fun, like let's have Canadian passports

if we want them, why not? So I'm actually in the middle of doing this right now. So I'm glad, glad you called him,

having the middle of it right now.

And I think whoever gave you that March 19th extension deadline might have been wrong, or maybe we're talking about different things here, but from my understanding, the C3 bill is in full effect right now.

We're almost in this old era in April, 2026. And there is no extension deadline that sort of felt that you have since passed.

“So I think you should still be able to file”

for citizenship by descendant in Canada. You're just gonna have to prove that, that does that chain of descendant, right? So you're gonna have to get the birth certificate of whatever I guess it is his great grandfather

who is Canadian. So you'll need that birth certificate to prove that they're indeed related. - Okay. - Yeah, so that's where to help out works.

And you know, you follow it there.

And I called, I had to call, and I talked to you. - It was a super nice person of some more nice Canadian. - So I'm so stupid, I'm so stupid. I called, and this person had the craziest fucking accent. - No, I was like, like a Canadian accent

or like some other accent. - And I was like, wow, my call, like you're so ignorant. You didn't know that Canadians have these extreme accents. She was like, hello?

And I was like, "Huh, that is so obscure." The word part of Canada is this person from.

“And she was like, "Oh yeah, I just went through”

"this myself from from Ireland." - I was like, all right, I was gonna say, I was like, people in the Philippines like, there's also immigrants in Ireland. They're not all from kindergarten.

They're good to Canada, they're not immigrants in Canada. - And not everyone in Canada, those Canadian. For example, you, Michael, you're applying for Canadian citizenship, stupid bitch. - Are you, you're applying with Brad or is Brad applying

and-- - I'm applying for Brad. - No, no, I understand. - Lord, no, no, no, no. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. - So what will happen if you have a life?

- So then, if Brad gets it. - I will then apply on through him for me to get status. - But I'm doing the whole thing. - No, no, no, no, because he wouldn't be able to. - Yeah.

- All right, well thank you so much for sending in your - Thank you, thank you for sending in your messages. - Thank you for sending in your messages. We've got some more, we'll get to them next week. (whooshing)

- This was really fun. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you next week and a before then. - I'll see you in court. - Not me.

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