00:01:22.860We told you that the Democrat congressman had dropped out of the race to be California's next governor amid sexual misconduct allegations.
00:01:29.360And if you want to know what he's really been accused of, you go back and listen to that.
00:01:33.640Since then, though, the pressure only increased on Swalwell, and he announced last night he's also resigning from his seat in Congress.
00:01:40.120That was a question we and many others had been asking.
00:01:42.300Why is he fit to be a U.S. House member but not California governor?
00:01:47.620In about 30 minutes, we are expecting a press conference where a new accuser is set to reveal more about what Swalwell allegedly did to her.
00:01:56.400We don't know whether this is somebody who's been represented in the CBS piece at all.
00:02:01.440That's really the one, the CNN piece, I should say.
00:02:04.400And CBS did a piece this morning in which we had two accusers speaking out for the first time.
00:02:09.960So we're getting, they're coming out of the woodwork.
00:02:11.580and we're keeping our finger on the pulse
00:02:14.320so that we can figure out what the narrative is
00:02:16.920and make sure we're not having duplicates here
00:02:29.260and she says Walwell began sending her inappropriate messages.
00:02:33.080I think while she was still in, was it college, right?
00:02:37.840Still was sending her inappropriate messages.
00:02:40.180While while she was still in college after they had a group event with him as like their congressman and then an individual message popped up from him to her after the event.
00:02:53.600And ultimately, he invited her to meet him at a hotel.
00:02:58.220Annika Albrecht was still in college when she says she got what she thought was a big break.
00:03:03.380California Congressman Eric Swalwell offering to stay in touch
00:03:07.400after meeting with her student group in Washington, D.C.
00:06:10.080I was a low-level staffer who had no real political background.
00:06:14.760And he was this established figure in Democratic politics.
00:06:17.900They began to text, but she says he soon asked if she, too, was on Snapchat, where messages and photos automatically get deleted after they're viewed.
00:06:28.060How did the tenor of his conversation change?
00:06:33.180It started out as professional and platonic, and then slowly they became more and more explicit, asking me what I was wearing.
00:06:42.420then one night he was on a trip and he was laying in his hotel room bed and then he sent me a photo
00:06:50.060of his penis oh okay that's lovely classy guy um i just want to state again for all men out there
00:07:00.040no woman wants that women don't work the same way men do when it comes to getting turned on0.58
00:07:06.420all right you maybe send a picture of your bicep or depending on your situation your wallet0.89
00:07:12.060just being honest about some women but the dick pics it doesn't work like that pretty much all1.00
00:07:20.940men would appreciate a naked photo of a woman women aren't dying to have a naked photo of the
00:07:25.940guy like it's just not the like maybe show a picture of a guy like coddling you know being
00:07:33.780nurturing of a baby or playing with a kid on the baseball field you're like that stuff turns on a
00:07:39.260woman. It's like caregiver, loving husband, loving partner. You know, that's hot. We don't need a0.99
00:07:45.420dick pic ever. That doesn't work. That's for you. It's just like the sexy lingerie at Valentine's.
00:07:51.640That's for you. Okay, so there's some free advice for you. Now, this is all terrible news for Eric
00:07:56.600Swalwell. Well, no one gives a shit about him. What does it actually mean for the California
00:08:01.120gubernatorial race? That's something we do care about. The Golden State has a unique primary
00:08:06.220system where the top two vote getters go on to the general election, regardless of political
00:08:10.780party. The primary schedule for June 2nd, but early voting begins early May. Currently in the
00:08:15.920Real Clear Politics average of all polls, which only includes polls conducted before Swalwell
00:08:20.800dropped out, Republican Steve Hilton, our friend, yay, leads the field at 15.5, where he's been
00:08:27.800steadily all along. He's followed here by Democrat billionaire Tom Steyer at 13, Swalwell here in
00:08:33.800third at 12.5, and Republican Chad Bianco in fourth place at 11.8. Meanwhile, betting markets
00:08:42.100show that Steyer's odds have surged into the lead since Swalwell's departure. What about Katie
00:08:48.100Porter? What do you mean? If we're going to have to deal with a Democrat for four years,
00:08:52.120it needs to be the angry one for me, really, just for entertainment value. I'm sorry to the people
00:08:57.500of California. If you're smart, you will vote for Steve Hilton, and you will get a better life and
00:09:01.460a better state. Here to react to this entire scandal and the latest news is our pal Steve
00:09:07.000Hilton. He's a Republican candidate for governor in California and indeed has been and remains
00:09:12.640the front runner. Here's a question for you. How many brokers does it take to ensure your
00:09:18.140business? If you're like most business owners, the answer is too many. Multiple policies,
00:09:24.520multiple applications, no clear view of how it all fits together. It's a nightmare.
00:09:28.220And when questions do come up, it's not easy to get the clarity you need.
00:09:32.680And when it comes to insurance, you always need it quickly.
00:23:37.920That's why we have the highest taxes in the country for the worst results.
00:23:41.140So that fourth biggest economy, that's not the private sector apart from technology.
00:23:45.640That's the government. So you remember that. And then when he talks about how we're dominant, he uses that word all the time.
00:23:51.540You listen to him. We're dominant in manufacture. We're dominant in this and that.
00:23:55.760Yeah. What he means is we've got the biggest.
00:23:58.460But of course, we've got the biggest because we're the biggest state with the highest population and the largest number of most things.
00:24:05.660But when you look at the rate, the proportion, for example, of our population living in poverty is the highest of any other state.
00:24:13.200So we've got to read. He's so sneaky with this stuff, gaslighting everyone on a great job.
00:24:18.000He's I give one pathetic example. He did an event the other day about his ridiculous high speed rail thing.
00:24:24.120Right. And he after, I don't know, like nearly two decades, still isn't built billions of dollars spent.
00:24:30.440It's now going to be like 20 years late, 100 billion over budget.
00:24:34.100the last leg of it is now going to be a bus if you can believe it so he does it's a total disaster
00:24:39.700like symbolic of the catastrophe of the whole thing he does a press conference right listen
00:24:44.720to how he speaks and he stands in front of a train which is not a high-speed train like
00:24:49.280pretending everything's happening and he literally says this we are and he has got some you know like
00:24:54.480slogan about high-speed rail on track and he says we are now entering the track laying phase
00:25:01.320the words he is like making out that they're finally after nearly 20 years going to be
00:25:06.220laying the tracks they haven't laid any tracks and there's no plans to lay any tracks and they
00:25:11.160haven't got the money to lay any tracks but he's trying to spin it as something positive he says
00:25:15.700we're entering the track length phase this guy's just so full of it as if it's progress i know
00:25:21.120amazing so all right what happens now steve what do you think because i mean as i said if we have
00:25:26.000to have another Democrat in the, a Democrat in the top two. I'm voting for Katie Porter. I would
00:25:31.440like to cover her for four years if I have to. But here's, realistically, walk me through it,
00:25:36.880because even though you're the front runner in this wide, weird primary, if you add together
00:25:42.480all the people who are backing the Democrat candidates in that primary, and you add together
00:25:46.300all the people who are backing you and Chad Bianco, the Democrat number is much higher.
00:25:51.620It's not much higher. It's like nine or 10 digits higher, which doesn't bode well because this is a blue state and the odds of them electing a Republican have always been kind of a long shot. So what are you hoping for right now?
00:26:05.240So let's just take it in two phases, the primary and the general election.
00:26:08.520The primary, it's very important that we understand something now.
00:26:11.520And it's exactly what they want, right?
00:26:12.960Which is now that Swabwell's out, you've basically got two candidates in the top tier.
00:26:18.020You've got a bunch of what I call the LPDs, the low polling Democrats, who've got no shot.
00:26:31.960if you do get consolidation behind them some of swalwell's votes obviously that's got to go
00:26:37.420somewhere it's likely that it'll split roughly equally between the two of them i don't know
00:26:41.800we'll see there's no polls since he dropped out those two could move up and so actually and this
00:26:46.720is what i've been saying all year the more likely scenario than two republicans in the top two
00:26:51.380is actually two democrats unless we really consolidate further on the republican side
00:26:57.780And that's why my argument to Republicans has been, OK, we've got to get behind the leading Republican candidate.
00:27:05.200That's clearly me. All the polls show that. You just showed the average.
00:27:08.700Yes. It's very important that Republicans understand that this idea of having two Republicans in the top two, if it was ever realistic, it's gone.
00:27:17.360We've got to be we've got to be practical, get behind the leading Republican.
00:27:21.660Then we'll be fine because there's enough Republicans to to get me into the top two.
00:27:26.880And at this point, my expectation and my plan, although we're the opposite of complacent, we're working harder than ever, is that I'll win the primary.
00:27:35.040Now let's look at the general election. The starting point for how we can win is what I said earlier.
00:27:39.840There's a majority for change in California. Well over 50 percent say we're going in the wrong direction.
00:27:45.980That is a good starting point. Secondly, in a midterm election, it's all about turnout.
00:27:50.760it's about who gets their voters out and actually this november we've got two things that are on
00:27:55.820the ballot ballot initiatives that have qualified for the ballot that will really help drive
00:28:00.780republican turnout one of them is save prop 13 that's about tax increases very popular with
00:28:05.840republicans the second one the really big one is voter id whatever happens with the save america
00:28:11.600act and all of that in california we will have the chance to vote for voter id this november
00:28:18.400that's going to really get republicans out every i'm doing town halls up and down the state
00:28:22.760every time i mention voter id huge cheers big enthusiasm the third thing is the fact that you've
00:28:28.460got these terrible candidates styer and porter i mean then they're not sending their best that's
00:28:34.980an asset to us in terms of winning and then the final point i'd make something big is happening
00:28:40.020in california particularly with the business community they've reached a breaking point
00:28:44.580And so for the first time in 20 years, you're seeing real engagement of business prompted by the fact that everything's such a disaster, but also this ridiculous billionaire's tax and they're getting engaged in the fight.
00:28:57.820And Steven Spielberg and so many others have moved out where I am.
00:29:01.200And so, you know, I've got an event in L.A. tomorrow night. It's mainly Democrats.
00:29:05.100And so there's a sense of, you know, we can't go on like this. Something's got to change.
00:29:10.100Even if, you know, we don't have to sort of become Republicans, but it's 16 years of one party rule is not healthy.
00:29:15.960We need a bit of balance. And so I think that actually I understand that it's going to be difficult.
00:29:21.900I'm the opposite of assuming that the terrible results of this Democrat rule will turn into an automatic victory.
00:29:29.880But people are really changing in California.
00:29:34.400And so the point about the business community is that for years, Republicans have faced a totally uneven playing field because you've got the unions, especially the government unions, massively spending to elect Democrats.
00:29:46.740And the business community has kind of been absent, honestly.
00:34:30.680I mean, a couple of observations off the top.
00:34:34.300We have long contended here in the Ruthless Variety program that the first time that you see something like that is most definitely not the first time somebody has done it.
00:39:29.680But you know, the way that the media is patting themselves on the back in the wake of this
00:39:35.540Swalwell story is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen in modern journalism.
00:39:41.020I don't know if you saw Brian Stelter, who went on CNN and starts talking about how great
00:39:45.700the media is doing these investigations.
00:39:48.520One thing that we know about the mainstream media is that they only attack a Democrat
00:39:53.800If it's in service of a second Democrat, you just had a great conversation with Steve Hilton.
00:39:58.640I hope to God that that guy can get over the finish line in California, because what good would it do for the state?
00:40:04.020My but my point is the media, while they're patting themselves on the back about how well they're doing on Swalwell, all of a sudden, you know, they have no interest.
00:40:13.360You know, that video, for example, there's a famous video that's flying all over Twitter of Swalwell French kissing some, you know, sex work.
00:41:19.000They're going to get locked out of the runoff in this thing.
00:41:21.340And so the Democratic establishment, these other campaigns, the whole grassroots component of the Democratic Party are now trying to, you know, get rid of Swalwell for that reason.
00:41:37.920But Hilton is charming in a very disarming way that I'm sure they find extremely threatening.
00:41:43.420And to your point on the media, what would the San Francisco Chronicle have done if this woman came to them when it was a general and it was Steve Hilton versus Eric Swalwell?
00:41:56.040Oh, you know what they would have done.
00:41:57.540Oh, yeah, that would have been a real catch and kill situation.
00:42:00.920They would have been like, ah, they would have been doing the fair and balanced report that I did yesterday, which brought a little bile into my stomach because I have zero desire to help Eric Swalwell.
00:42:11.160Well, but I did take a hard look at the allegations and I raised points about she sent him the nudes first, according to her testimony, you know, like all those points.
00:42:19.560They would have read all that and they would have been like, she's not really not a credible accuser.
00:42:34.700They all jumped on board. It was like CNN, Sarzesko Chronicle, CBS News, queuing up these women like within hours because they knew he had to go.
00:42:47.440We played a great clip on our show this morning of him during the Kavanaugh era.
00:42:52.560I think he was on with Ari Melber or somebody from MSNBC back in the day and was saying like, well, either four women who have never met each other, don't associate with each other,
00:43:01.820but all have similar stories about Kavanaugh, are telling the truth,
00:43:05.640or he's the most unlucky person in the history of the world.
00:43:08.900Meanwhile, he's got all that going on.
00:44:20.840Because the whiff around this guy for years now has been he's a perverted creep from Fang Fang, which was very public and in front of the scenes.
00:44:30.000to like look how little it took one little thread was pulled by the san francisco chronicle like
00:44:35.800the one woman and now they're in the midst of a press conference i'm going to play you the sound
00:44:39.760bite in two minutes of the latest accuser like they came they came running running just one0.97
00:44:45.760reporter need to pull a little thread so yeah where was the interest from the san francisco0.70
00:44:51.000chronicle and others two three four years ago he's a useful pervert he's a useful pervert he
00:44:57.060was out there willing to say the most incendiary things possible about donald trump and republicans0.53
00:45:02.640that's it and that's it right there it's because in this whole story we can't lose what a trump
00:45:09.460antagonist he has been he's been like the face of trump antagonism and he and adam schiff who just
00:45:16.580got promoted to senator from what state oh california right and then there's nancy pelosi
00:45:22.220Oh, wait, where's she from? Okay. Right. So it's like the cabal protects its own until you're no longer useful. And then you will get Nancy Pelosi's stiletto up your ass.
00:45:34.380yeah no it's true and you know look like we used to have johnny and i used to work in
00:45:39.260in senate leadership and if allegations surfaced in any material way certainly like that video that
00:45:47.340that um you were talking about last segment where you know he's talking about i only bang tens and
00:45:52.860things like that like if that stuff comes out you have a very serious conversation with your
00:45:56.860member you certainly don't appoint them to be the point person right to attack a sitting president
00:46:01.420the united states because you know the liability associated with that they didn't feel they didn't
00:46:05.820think anybody would care and they thought they could just steamroll the media it doesn't matter
00:46:09.900what information people have it's the information flow that they think that they control that
00:46:15.900matters here and that is the way that democratic leadership has worked in perpetuity for so many
00:46:21.020generations it's crazy you get a new media environment and some of this stuff starts
00:46:26.060coming out like that that video that we were just speaking about but it didn't really take hold in
00:46:30.300the mainstream media until he presented a liability to the democratic party now everybody's
00:46:36.860interested in it the women can't wait to come forward everybody's talking about it it's like
00:46:41.260i don't think that you can divorce anything that we've learned here in the last 48 hours
00:46:45.980with a partisan opportunity that democrats have by having eric swalwell exit stage left they do
00:46:52.220control the information flow that was very well said and it's not just eric swalwell you were
00:46:56.540We're talking about Katie Porter and her volcanic temper.0.99
00:49:24.560It wasn't until a Democrat pitched the story so it's in service of another Democrat that you learned anything about Katie Porter, which is the same as Wola.0.91
00:49:31.680You don't even have to read the divorce filings if you just watch that video and you see her eyes change.
01:00:10.160but just on its face that's extremely serious and devastating no kidding no i mean it's where
01:00:15.960it travels from being a creep to being a monster right and you know you hate to hear it and you
01:00:22.000can see the pain in that woman's face it's just it's it's awful i and i do understand conceptually
01:00:28.400the idea that when a whistle is blown on a potential monster as as is being alleged
01:00:35.040of Swalwell here, how other women could find the courage to come forward and wouldn't do so
01:00:41.300before. What irritates me about this entire situation is that her pain or somebody else's
01:00:49.960could have been prevented in the first place if somebody did a little bit of due diligence on what
01:00:54.620appears to be a pattern over a long period of time. But as long as this man was saying the
01:01:00.360right things to the right people and the wrong things about the right people he was fine in
01:01:06.100democratic party politics he was protected he was a made man he was put in charge of things i mean
01:01:10.580this guy sat on the intelligence committee for crying out loud will you trust this guy with your
01:01:14.920secret i mean i guess he knew how to keep a secret but other than that what an absolute monster and
01:01:20.300it's just it's the sickening part of politics and in particular democratic politics where they think
01:01:28.020if you don't find out about something that's perfectly fine as long as somebody like eric
01:01:33.100swalwell is in service of their larger mission which is to try to destroy conservatism donald
01:01:38.800trump or republican party and not for nothing guys but that was 2018 she said i mean he got
01:01:45.940married in 2016 and as you heard her say his wife was pregnant at the time which she knew when she
01:01:53.400was you know seeing him but um it's just it's just so disgusting not that not that it's great
01:01:58.480to cheat 10 years in either but like two years you didn't even make it two years before you
01:02:04.460cheated on your pregnant wife like that that's just next level demonic but homes unfortunately
01:02:11.280it's not just democrats because this guy tony gonzalez is going to go too and his allegations
01:02:16.660are awful they're awful now they're not the same as swalwell but he's now being forced to
01:02:22.920resign early because he had an affair with a junior staffer who was married, and he was married
01:02:31.840with six children, and he was sending her inappropriate texts. There's a record of them.
01:02:38.960Her husband found out. Her husband was livid, and she set herself on fire and killed herself.
01:02:48.060And this guy has been lingering on in the House.
01:02:53.720He said, I'm not going to seek re-election, but he didn't step down and no one made him step down because the Republicans have a very, very slim majority in the House.
01:03:04.920I mean, and now in the wake of Eric Swalwell being forced out, he's like, OK, I'll go to, you know, and now the Republicans are like, OK, we can we can sacrifice one because they're losing one, which is also very skeevy.
01:03:17.300Yeah, I think it's different, honestly. I mean, if you look at the sequence of events on the Gonzalez thing, which is horrible, absolutely ridiculous in both in terms of power structure within that office, the fact that it was a staffer, the fact that obviously there was mental health issues involved in what ultimately became in a very tragic situation.
01:03:38.400But when all this came to light, it was presented to Speaker Johnson and he immediately said, this guy needs to go. You should not run for reelection. I mean, it was very close in proximity to when this comes out. And it wasn't driven by Speaker Johnson. Like these were evidence. These were things that were happening that we were all learning at at the same time. And appropriate action was taken. Now, should he have had a vote to expel him?
01:04:05.620i mean that's an argument that you could make certainly um but as this happened republicans
01:04:11.400had no it was all harm and yet he went out and said he should not run for re-election when he
01:04:17.500was in a tight re-election race thereby risking the seat altogether there's not a single democrat
01:04:22.840that did that in fact swalwell it wasn't until he posed a problem to the democratic party that
01:04:30.300we started learning this, and I would suggest this whole thing was pitched by the Democratic
01:04:35.260Party to begin with, which is certainly not the case with the Gonzalez thing in terms
01:06:11.220It's not like two teams that get to trade picks with a player determined later.
01:06:14.440It's like who we kick out of Congress.
01:06:16.440I think it cheapens the whole process.
01:06:18.240and what I would hate to see happen is it's like, oh, well, you get one, we get one, they're both
01:06:23.940gone, we wipe our hands, and then we don't actually get to the bottom of all this stuff
01:06:27.980with Swalwell. That's really my concern, is like, there is a process of justice here that victims,
01:06:33.740if they are actual victims, deserve. And I don't like entering into that political sphere.
01:06:39.440You won't read anything about Eric Swalwell in three weeks. They solved the problem.
01:06:45.220they solved the problem so true there is no problem how many other problems are yeah well
01:06:51.020yes but it's not until it becomes a problem for the democratic hierarchy that you learn about it
01:06:57.000and once that's solved it's over like this victim i feel horrible this tape that you just played
01:07:01.680she's not going to read a single thing about any justice administered until or unless they bring
01:07:09.480charges and he has to stand before a court it will not be covered the problem is solved from a media
01:07:15.440perspective everyone's talking about this old madison cawthorn soundbite he was a member of
01:07:24.080the house who got pushed out for being kind of awful i don't like what was the general buzz around
01:07:29.440him no that's i think that's a fair assessment but and now he's renewing this comment online
01:07:36.380And there are some who are in the House saying, take a seat, Madison, which I guess is not the best phrase because he is wheelchair bound.
01:07:44.460But here he is in a warning about what really goes on behind the scenes in Congress before he was pushed out in 2022.
01:07:55.600The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington.
01:07:57.560I mean, being kind of a young guy in Washington with the average age of probably 60 or 70.
01:08:02.820And I look at all these people, a lot of them that I've looked up to through my life.
01:08:05.820always paid attention to politics guys that you know then all of a sudden you get invited to like
01:08:10.140well hey we're gonna have kind of a sexual get-together at one of our homes you should come
01:08:14.360what did you just ask me to come to and then you realize they're asking you to come to an orgy
01:08:19.580or the fact that you know there's some of the people that are leading on the movement to try
01:08:24.100and remove you know addiction in our country and then you watch them do you know a key bump
01:08:28.020of cocaine right in front of you and it's like wow this is this is wild I mean okay I don't know
01:08:36.140that I've been invited to an orgy if you fellas where where where was this stuff when I was 22
01:08:40.620yeah I mean that was like that at 22 that would an orgy I've been like you got to be kidding you
01:08:46.780think you would have done it no he'd have been in on the orgy Megan he's he's not telling the
01:08:52.680No, the funny thing is you hear this stuff from time to time and that guy is like the least credible person in the history of the world to talk about any of it.
01:12:56.060I just want to say, because Tony Gonzalez did not send a dick pic.
01:12:59.180He solicited a nude photo from another staffer, and he sent sexually explicit messages.
01:13:05.260So just to be clear, he wanted the sexual photos to be incoming.
01:13:08.760he didn't yet send one outgoing as far as we know um so that's that i don't know i i will say this
01:13:15.540like the the odds of getting accused by like a dozen people of the same exact thing um and there
01:13:25.020being no truth like that that just that's a bridge too far it's one thing like well you take the
01:13:29.940gonzalez situation like if if it had been one staffer who came forward and it was like well
01:13:34.040is this a consensual affair that these two had and whatever but like this thing spun so out of1.00
01:13:38.380control and the woman's results were so devastating. You know, I mean, she died by
01:13:43.320suicide in the most horrific way. She clearly was very manipulated and traumatized by this guy,
01:13:49.400but then she was manipulated and traumatized by the fact that her husband found out about the
01:13:52.240affair. That was part of the driving factor there. Um, it just, it couldn't be ignored.
01:13:57.140I mean, it's just, it couldn't, but, but with Swalwell, it's like, I don't know how many we're
01:14:01.700going to get total. And the, and it seems to be on a downward slope toward more and more severe.
01:14:05.640It's just like in my experience, you don't get a dozen accusers coming forward when there's there's absolutely no they're there with Trump.
01:14:14.000It was different because he was at the highest levels of politics and they threw everything at him.
01:14:20.500And he had had years as like a playboy man about town where, you know, he admitted that he was a bit of a bore with women.
01:14:29.360And so it was hard with Trump to actually understand exactly like what's the boorish behavior of a celebrity playboy and what's a Me Too situation, you know, like that ridiculous person who sued him claiming that he raped her and Bergdorf Goodman.
01:14:45.980I didn't believe one word from that E. Jean Carroll, not one word, which is my right, by the way, E. Jean, in case you're getting any ideas of suing me, I don't believe you.
01:14:55.520That's my opinion, and I'm entitled to it.
01:14:57.780In any event, okay, let's keep going, because there's other news to get to on Capitol Hill, and I want to get to a lot of it.
01:15:03.780But before we do Capitol Hill, now we're on the subject of perversion.
01:15:06.700Can we talk about Sidney Sweeney for a second?
01:19:35.980My geology professor in college told me that that was going to happen within like 10 years, that California is going to fall into the ocean as a result of the San Andreas.
01:20:11.860She's hawking a memoir that she's written, and she's got a lot of thoughts.
01:20:16.500She wants to talk about her body image because she's very large now.
01:20:22.100She's gained a lot of weight and she's not afraid to discuss it.
01:20:28.320She wants to talk about how the intense rage she faced about her body, like as a result of that show, Girls, etc., have like really affected her.
01:20:41.160And also here she is talking about how people cannot empathize with her on the weight issue.
01:20:46.220here's top 47 let's start there and I felt sad that that person didn't have a sense that she
01:20:53.900it's not even just about being normatively beautiful although like the I although the way0.56
01:20:58.800that I was spoken about I mean that's what so many women's bodies look like that's not what
01:21:04.580my body looks like anymore but it was I was like full of light and if and it's interesting as I
01:21:11.400looked at the photos over the course of the show I could see it's such a cliche but it was like the
01:21:17.120lights just went out somehow my health picture kept getting less clear not more clear which also
01:21:22.880makes it very I understand very hard for other people to empathize with because it seems abstract
01:21:30.700amorphous like they lose sympathy or think you're making it up and the highest value is just to be
01:21:37.120able to go and go and go. And it took me a really long time to understand that wasn't like my only0.90
01:21:44.040value that actually I could have a fragile body and a strong mind and have a lot to offer without
01:21:52.520like betraying my own physical self over and over and over again.
01:21:59.320Okay. Now I pardon you if you're confused by her messaging, but she appears to be saying
01:22:04.700that when she did Girls, which was a hit,
01:22:07.380I don't know, 10, 15 years ago, whatever it was,
01:24:22.780You know, she and the thing is, back then she was kind of known as being a little chubby, like she talks about herself now, like she was Elle McPherson.
01:24:30.720But like she was known as being like a little on the chubby side, but like very, very quick to take off her clothes on throughout this series.
01:24:39.040And now she's like blaming whatever positive feedback there was about that body on her.0.60
01:24:45.420She blames her eating problem on it.0.94
01:24:48.660She's very she's almost incomprehensible now.
01:24:51.000And on top of that, she's ripping on her co-star, Adam Driver, suggesting that he has been, like, violent, that he's been throwing things around.
01:25:03.480Do we have that, you guys, where she accuses Adam Driver of being a hothead and throwing the chair?
01:25:19.340I, you know, the thing is about all of this, and you alluded to the, when you said, I don't really remember any of us forcing her to go be public and have a public career, but there's few things on this planet that I find more annoying than somebody who foists themselves in the public spotlight and then complains about the, their own way of dealing with it.
01:25:41.760it's like no dude you could have just been an accountant yeah you could have done what i like
01:25:47.020nobody's you're fat you're thin lena dunham i haven't thought about her name since it was
01:25:52.620foisted upon me 15 years ago with that shitty show right you know like i've never and now she
01:25:57.800is she's back she's like well now i'm fat and unhappy because of all the things that right i0.56
01:26:02.660never remember asking about it then or now about how she's doing she could have just written the0.72
01:26:08.480show yeah she didn't have to be topless playing ping pong horribly by the way she's very bad at
01:26:13.760ping pong that's really what did it for doug yeah it was the acumen the acumen of the of the ping
01:26:21.860pong that's right he's a very good ping pong player i'm sure you objected that i was just
01:26:27.840thrilled another person who's been complaining this gal i'm about to show you to your point of0.75
01:26:33.080trying to break you guys she's complained too about her media coverage she doesn't like when1.00
01:26:38.100the press comes down on her at one point she actually i think said she was quitting music
01:26:42.120altogether because she didn't like what people were saying about her and that woman is lizzo
01:26:46.300and the reason i'm raising that is because lizzo has decided to appear at coachella um recently
01:26:53.460and uh she went here's the here's my team's note lizzo twerking with life-size labubu on stage at
01:29:30.400And I think part of the problem here, Megan, you're talking about our exhibition culture, like an event like Coachella, it's not even about the music anymore.
01:29:37.860People show up there to be influencers or quasi-influencers and take a bunch of pictures in the VIP lounge.
01:29:43.760It's not really about the music anymore.