Nov. 10, 2024

Did Saturday Night Live steal a bit from the Ballot podcast? PLUS Pod Save America is like "who us??"

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Man, that opening bit on Saturday Night Live sure reminded us of the "Trump, we never made fun of him" but we did ALL LAST WEEK.

Meanwhile, Pod Save America seems shocked to find out there's cambling at Rick's American Cafe.

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Callaroga Shark Media Live from New York. It's Saturday Night

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stealing our bit. This is ballot that's right, Go back

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and listen.

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I was doing the I always supported Trump bit all

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last week, but I guess I can't do it now.

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Thanks for nothing, Bowen, Let's hit this.

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Let's stop worrying about stealing elections and worry more about

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stealing bits. I'd love to know which of the Saturday

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Night Live writers is a fan of the show, and

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can you please leave.

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Me a five star review on Apple Podcasts.

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In their first post election show, the SNL cast went

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full please don't cancel Us mode, doing their best impression

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of every Republican politician circa January seventh. Keenan Thompson, who's

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been on SNL so long he remembers when Trump was

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just a punchline on The Apprentice, led the charge with

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we have been with you all along, which is a

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hilarious bit, to be sure, which is why I did

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it all last week. Bowen Yang jumped in with the

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sarcasm turned up to a probably hoping Trump doesn't have

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time to check his SNL archives between now and Inauguration Day.

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Bill Burr's monologue could have used the help of AI.

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Like this show, Burr kept it balanced by calling Trump

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an orange bigot who survived an assassination attempt through the

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power of bad dancing. Well, now that SNL ruined the joke,

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I guess I'll just have to make fun of Trump

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and eventually get to know my cellmate Jimmy Kimmel a

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little better. I probably should take my lawyer's advice and

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remind everyone every day that this show is parody. Anyway,

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between reading twenty seven commercials for Zip Recruiter, the Pod

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Save America guys found some time to talk about politics. Man,

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you know things are rough when even the Obama bros

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Are having there. Maybe it wasn't the best idea moment.

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The Pod Save America guys, who spent all summer screaming

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anyone but Biden like they were picking a restaurant for dinner,

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are now sitting there like, well, maybe the men you

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only had two options and they both gave you food poisoning.

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John Lovett, doing his best impression of someone who definitely

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didn't help create this mess, says nobody could have overcome

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Biden's on popularity, which is kind of like setting someone's

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car on fire and then saying, you know, I don't

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think anyone could have driven that anywhere. And Dan Pfeiffer

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get this, says he'll go to his grave believing nobody

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could have done better than Harris in one hundred days. Well, Dan,

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that's a pretty safe bet considering you guys helped create

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the one hundred day timeline. That's like showing up twenty

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minutes before your friend's wedding and saying I'll go to

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my grave believing nobody could have planned this better in

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twenty minutes. The best part these guys spent months going

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after Joe Scarborough like he was the last slice of

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pizza at two am, only to now be like politics

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is personal, we understand where he's coming from.

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Yeah.

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Nothing says understanding like publicly roasting someone for months and

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then hitting them with.

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The no hard feelings buddy.

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And now they're all we're on the same team here,

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which is what you say right after you've accidentally passed

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the ball to the other team and they scored the

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winning goal. Hey, at least they're consistent. They helped tank

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two Democratic campaigns in one year. That's what I call efficiency.

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John Lovett apparently auditioning for the role of reverse Mike

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Pence suggested to my cellmate Jimmy Kimmel that Kamala Harris

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should start her own January sixth, because you know what

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they say, if you can't beat him, join him in

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completely undermining democracy. He's out there, like I have questions

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about Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan. Buddy, the only question you should

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be asking is should I have said that on national television?

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And did I really think I was gonna win Survivor

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The best part these guys admitted they only agreed to

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do Kimmel's show because they thought they'd be celebrating. That's

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like agreeing to host your friend's wedding and then showing

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up drunk when they get left at the altar. Actually, wait,

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that's exactly what they did. A FEMA worker just got

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fired for telling hurricane responders to skip houses with Trump

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signs during relief efforts.

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That's right, while Florida.

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Is dealing with back to back hurricanes named Helene and

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Milton because apparently we ran out of scary hurricane names

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and started using your grandparents bridge club, this genius decided

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to play political hopscotch with disaster relief. Well, folks, this

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FEMA worker was out there treating Trump yard signs like

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some kind of reverse bat signal.

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Quick to the next house. This one's got too many flags.

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I guess they thought Mother Nature was checking voter registration

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cards before sending hurricanes.

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The worker got fired faster than you.

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Jimmy Buffett used to say, bring me a hurricane before

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I go insane, with FEMA administrator Diane Chriswell calling it

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reprehensible because apparently someone needed to be told that when

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your house is underwater, your political yard signs are probably

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floating away. Anyway, Hey, folks, it looks like Trump won

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the election in half of America. Just remember they own

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poster board. Let's break down these protests, or, as I

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like to call them, the Great American Cardio workout of

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twenty twenty four. In New York City, protesters gathered outside

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Trump Tower holding signs like we protect us and we

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won't back down, you know, just in case Trump couldn't

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hear them from his gold plated penthouse, where he was

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probably trying to figure out how to add more gold

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plating to the White House. Meanwhile, in DC, the Women's

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March decided to pay a visit to the Heritage Foundation,

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which is kind of like showing up at your ex's

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new job to tell them you're doing great.

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They were carrying signs saying well behaved women.

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Don't make history, which is true, just ask Marjorie Taylor Green,

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although I'm pretty sure that's not what they meant. Seattle

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protesters showed up at the Space Needle because apparently when

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you're mad about politics, you have to protest next to

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the tallest thing in town. They were out there in raincoats,

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because even when you're fighting fascism in Seattle, you still

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have to dress for the weather. Pacific Northwest protesters are

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nothing if not practical. And in Portland, because of course

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Portland is protesting, they went with the classic fight fascism signs.

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You know you're in Portland when even the protest signs

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sound like they could be the name of a local

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coffee blend. That's it was today. That funny No, but

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blame SNL for ruining a great bit. At least during

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Biden Harris, we had funny material thanks Bowen Yang. Portions

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of today's show were made with the help of PSA,

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SNL and AI. I finally got a Sunday off, and

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SNL had to go make me mad.

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Thanks Bowen.