In this episode of In The Litterbox, host Alex Blumberg is joined by his good friend and co-host, Rachel Goodman, to talk about what it's like to work for a major network like HBO. They also discuss what it was like to be on the set of the hit show Veep, and how the team pulled it off in record time.
00:02:20.360I'm down on Panama City Beach looking at the ocean right now.
00:02:23.580Nice. Very nice. You're getting ready for that big show on Sunday. So are we. We're so excited about this whole thing.
00:02:30.420You know, I apologize for not making it yesterday. I just got I was originally going to be off Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, but I decided to switch it on you with one second to notification.
00:02:40.020Oh, my gosh. I know. But you know what?
00:02:43.060No, it was okay. Because I'll tell you one thing. I have got the most amazing team ever. And when I got the word that you weren't going to be able to make it on the show, they pulled that thing together in record time.
00:02:56.460And a lot of people say, hey, how come you you name the show early in advance the day before and all this stuff?
00:03:02.340A lot of people don't recognize the fact that I work in downtown L.A.
00:03:06.220And I've got people looking at my computer the entire time I can't set up shows.
00:03:10.820And so by the time I make it to this place where I'm actually broadcasting, I am literally out of my car and sitting in front of my deck going, OK, let's go, because I have zero time.
00:03:24.000And when I let my team know exactly what was going on, they put together a killer show.
00:03:30.760And I am so proud of them for that. It was all them, not me. It was all them.
00:03:38.140So Rob Plegram, Sr., Patriot Penzi, Fleet Admiral James, unbelievable.
00:03:43.540You all did the impossible and the unthinkable. You you pulled it off in record time.
00:03:48.360So great job. We've been scrambling, though.
00:03:52.840I mean, there's this huge event that's going on. We updated the website so everybody knows what's going on.
00:03:59.420We will be broadcasting and streaming it in the litter box.
00:04:02.980So you can either go to our website in the litter box dot com, go directly to Rumble and it will be there as well.
00:04:10.520It will also be on all of our regular channels, just so everybody's aware there is something that I have to ask of you.
00:04:18.320And it is that we have been having all of these issues with the stream lately and people have been commenting about it.
00:04:27.180Granted, there have been a lot of different things.
00:04:28.900We don't know if it's hackers or what, but I have a questionnaire.
00:04:33.340If you are experiencing trouble on Rumble, that's in the description box.
00:04:37.820And if you could just fill it out, let us know what your issues are.
00:04:41.500You can send it to at tech in at in the litter box dot com.
00:07:21.220Quit throwing the money away and start standing up for the people's candidate.
00:07:25.080I mean, when you look at some of these poll numbers, it's outrageous what a landslide this is turning out to be.
00:07:30.460And they're wasting time, effort and energy playing all of this ridiculous, you know, handsy pansy with DeSantis and Nikki Haley and all of this stuff.
00:07:52.920When you talk about Florida and when you talk about what's going on here, here's the Florida Republican primary where you have DeSanctimonious.
00:08:01.900I mean, little little D who is sitting up there and he's at 21 percent.
00:14:10.120And then you have somebody else that comes out that says VP of customer operations, a voting machines company that flipped vote says it was human error.
00:14:20.080Someone from our team programmed the election.
00:14:56.840There's just, you know, and Dan Bongino talks about it.
00:15:00.120And he explained something I was able to listen to a little bit of him today in that some of the areas in, like, dark blue New York and little places like that where the crime is so bad.
00:15:12.380They were voting for Republicans for the first time in a gazillion years.
00:24:30.740They are trying to put money in their political coffers because you have to understand, the people that are deciding all of this between Letitia James and Gorin, let me tell you what.
00:34:39.020This is why they're moving these groups of people to different areas and settling them in on planes in the middle of the night and everything else.
00:34:49.220They're creating these seats for that purpose.
00:34:53.240I mean, this is what she actually said.
00:34:55.820From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate.
00:35:04.300My work and advocacy has always centered in justice and dignity for all people, no matter faith or ethnicity.
00:35:13.380So, Dan Bongino points it right on out.
00:44:46.720They were just some of the dumbest people in the world.
00:44:49.640It's like, let's get the dumbest people in the world, the dumbest women we can find in the United States, and let's let them talk about big ideas.
00:44:57.340And it's the most crazy thing when you hear them talk because they have no idea what they're talking about.
00:45:51.660I mean, she's getting her digs in there every way she can.
00:45:55.620Then you've got this story about censorship.
00:45:59.520Did you hear about, you know, I mean, this is amazing.
00:46:02.180You've got Dinesh D'Souza's, his police state DVDs, in just one week after the U.S. government agency blocked the bank transaction by producers.
00:46:12.760They're not going to sell his video for Christmas.
00:46:24.720So the FBI, to prove that his movie is false, they're going to censor it and make sure nobody can see it, which proves exactly that everything he says is true.
00:47:24.340I don't understand why people can't just boycott and just break these Walmarts and these targets and all these junk places to go that sell China junk.
00:49:40.400It's like, God, who comes up with these things?
00:49:44.360Well, it looks like we've got things heating up over there with Ivanka.
00:49:48.740They're calling it Javanka, of course, her art of the deal.
00:49:52.860Ivanka reveals husband Jared Kushner gave her perspectives on father's business loans
00:49:58.160as judge allows emails between the couple to be used during questioning.
00:50:04.240So here you've got the former first daughter faced questions about emails she shared with Jared.
00:50:12.260And that happened right there on the stand, which is unusual.
00:50:16.120Generally, you don't have that happening, but they allowed it.
00:50:20.280So Ivanka was questioned about how often he talked to husband Jared Kushner about work with the Trump organization during her testimony in the New York fraud trial on Monday.
00:50:38.420In the emails, Ivanka appeared to share details of Trump organization loans with her businessman husband.
00:50:45.440In return, he told her how to get better deals.
00:50:49.160She said that she hasn't worked for her father's business empire since 2017 and detailed her involvement in a $150 million Miami golf course in a claim and collected appearance on the stand in New York fraud trial on Wednesday.
00:51:53.120We had a former CIA guy come on primetime the other day and he said the CIA makes money on the side with drug trafficking.
00:52:02.600It's like a side hustle because their funding isn't big enough.
00:52:05.880So, they do some, you know, black ops in order to boost their budget and hide it from congressional oversight and then use it for dirty stuff.
00:52:15.920So, that's what they're doing with the drug trafficking.
00:52:18.320And one of the reasons, one of the reasons, one of the reasons Donald Trump was defeated was because the CIA had had it with this guy because he was threatening the cash flow, that and the China tariffs, among many other things.
00:52:30.300So, when you threaten the donor money and you threaten the Democrat voters and you threaten the CIA cash flow, it's a problem.
00:52:38.680Joe Biden is such an agreeable empty suit.
00:53:19.580He just, they didn't, they said he didn't like what he was saying on the megaphone, which was like, freedom and liberty and patriots and stuff like that.
00:53:33.580Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to visit the J6 prison housing Owen Shroyer and John Strand after disturbing allegations of political retaliation.
00:53:46.320That shouldn't surprise anybody at all.
00:53:59.180You know it's got to be just horrible.
00:54:00.940I mean, some of the stories that have come out of there, when they do, they're just awful.
00:54:06.540So you have Representative Matt Gaetz.
00:54:08.820He has accepted an offer for an on-site visit to investigate the treatment of prisoners who have been jailed after the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
00:54:18.840Also likely to join him is Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican Georgia, who publicly expressed her desire to join Gaetz in the probe.
00:54:28.700So this opportunity came when you had Florida congressman who confronted the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Colette S. Peters, on what conditions the arrestees have been subjected to.
00:54:44.160I was very heartened by your discussion of site visits to our prisons to get a first-hand understanding of what is going on there, Gaetz said to Peters.
00:54:55.380Sometimes members of Congress have had challenges doing that.
00:54:59.860Could you give us some advice if we wanted to glean those benefits and get that first-hand experience?
00:55:05.380But what's the best way for us to go about that with your team?
00:55:12.020So if you have your team reach out to our Office of, you know, Legislative Affairs, we will be happy to make that arrangement.
00:55:20.100Gaetz then asked her, does the Bureau of Prisons retaliate against people based on constitutionality-protected speech?
00:55:27.460Peters insisted that retaliation will not be stood for on her watch and that if anyone engages in retaliation, they will hold them accountable.
00:55:38.940So he went on to ask about John Strand, who Peters claimed to not know.
00:55:46.880He said, Mr. Strand was a witness at a hearing that we had regarding some of the civil rights concerns of people who interacted with the Department of Justice in January 6 matters.
00:55:59.920He was convicted, sentenced in his FCI Miami.
00:56:03.300And I have received word that he had been placed into enhanced confinement and into higher acuity, securing as a consequence of information that others had put out on his Twitter feed.
00:56:57.500I'm out, you know, I'm on the beach doing stuff right now.
00:57:00.100So I'll try to take my mobile unit and be on the show every day, no matter what's happening.
00:57:05.920But it's just been a busy week this week.
00:57:07.640It has certainly been busy on both sides of the fence.
00:57:10.900And just so everybody knows, we have been working extremely hard.
00:57:14.000Our team has been working really hard to make sure that we are able to get this stream up and running so that you all can watch it for free.
00:57:20.900If you have not subscribed to this channel, please make sure you do so.
00:57:32.960I mean, we've already had one check with the audio and the video.
00:57:37.920We're going to do another one on Saturday.
00:57:40.520So when you do get alerts that we're doing something over there, make sure that, I mean, if it's off hours, it's only because we're testing the stream.
00:58:39.140Three, are you using the app or the website?
00:58:42.440Four, do all rumble live streams cause the same issue?
00:58:48.380Five, are you able to take a video of the issue?
00:58:52.620If you could answer those questions in an email, I can send it up to the powers that be.
00:58:57.380I had a really long conversation with the CEO of Rumble, who is just awesome, yesterday.
00:59:03.200And he's asking for your help because they are definitely jamming something with our stream.
00:59:09.040Not only ours, but just Rumble in general, and we need to be able to pinpoint where it is so that we can go ahead and take action for it.
00:59:17.080So if you can help us with that, if you can just answer these questions and send it again to tech, T-E-C-H, at inthelitterbox.com, we would certainly appreciate it.