What A Weekday: Hobby Horsing Around feat. Adam Rippon
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This show is the only reason that I've started shaving my legs again. I gotta do something about that. I got my legs lasered. Really? Yeah. I've been lasering. It was, um, okay. You have been lasering. Yes, yeah. What are your thoughts? I love it just because I always hated waxing so much. But wait, which parts are you- Is it whole? Oh, I, I, yes, I do the whole, not, not all of it, but I, I, I have a werewolf-like level of body hair, so I'm doing every part. Yeah. Every part is getting affected. I'm,

also doing, I'm doing every part except for I have like a one inch piece above the unit. Right, yeah, to draw the eye. Exactly, you have the simulacrum. Well, I don't want, yeah, I don't want it to, I don't want to look like a baby. No, no, no. It also is visually, like, your eye does look for pubes, right? Constantly. The adult, I mean, I'm always looking for pubes. Yes, exactly, so. ...

Wow. Should we start? Yeah. We have started. Okay. Well, in case you were wondering, yes, I am the hairless worm that did eat just a little bit of RFK Jr.'s brain, Adam Rippon. Oh my god, hooray. Thank you. We're honored to have you. And I didn't die. I was just very tired. Very similar. But it was delicious. And I'm here filling in for...

Jake? Can't remember his name. We don't know either. No, I know. We forgot about him already. Yeah. But I am here. I'm joined by producer Kendra and writers Hallie and Sarah Lazarus. You guys, how is everyone now that I know that we're all hairless? I'm still working on it, but yeah, I'm good. It's a new struggle. Now that that's clear, I think let's get into it. What a weekday.

So Donald Trump joined TikTok over the weekend after trying to ban the app with an executive order while he was in office. OK, if that seems hypocritical to you, cut him a break. He's neurodivergent now. So I think also it's a cunning move because no one is talking about Trump's felony conviction. Instead, they're talking about his skibbity riz.

I think that's really important. You know, Skibbity Riz is important and I think it could help win elections. You're not going to pretend to know what it means? I do think he has it. That's the problem. It's like he does have Skibbity Riz. Unfortunately, yeah. No, he has whatever they talk about, like the it factor. He has it. Yes. Like Stephen King's it, but that is the same it. He is Stephen King's it. That is so true.

Personally, I hope that his next TikTok video is a what's in my bag video where I predict he's going to have the following things. More hush money, top secret documents, chapstick and a loaded gun. You can't keep it in your pocket. It's going to fall out on stage. No, absolutely. It'll tumble across stage. We don't need that. I still don't know if he's ever applied chapstick. It's hard to picture. Yeah, it's more of a prop. Yeah. Yes. Like the gun, I would assume. Hard time holding it in small baby hands.

That's so true. God, that was a period. Those tiny hands. You made us think about Trump's hands. Yeah, that really I had to take a step back. Yeah. Wow. You know, they're so soft. Are they? How do you know?

No, I just got to send me a horrific vision. A very soft. I feel like he got lucky. Like King Charles's hands took over the Trump hands things because King Charles's were just so visibly upsetting. Yes. No, it takes more upsetting hands to upset upsetting hands. That's true. That's how hands work. So Trump's first video posted on Saturday features UFC CEO Dana White. Even worse, the video was of them twerking.

I'm kidding, of course. Let's take a look. The president is now on TikTok. It's my honor. That is a crazy video. It's a crazy video. And when he says, it's my honor, your honor. It's my honor to be on TikTok. What?

Okay, you know what? Let's take a look back at Biden's first TikTok, just for comparison. Jason Kelsey or Travis Kelsey? Mama Kelsey. I understand she makes great chocolate chip cookies.

Okay, well, if you can't film at a UFC fight, you might as well film at a nursing home. Okay. You know, at least we have those felonies. You know, that's something. Trump's account had 3 million followers by Sunday night, surpassing the Biden campaign's TikTok follower count several times over. Now, this is really scary because I just read an article that said TikTok now has over 100 electoral votes. And that article was a TikTok video. Okay.

So I think the only thing that Biden can do now to save the White House is he has to turn it into the hype house. There's no other option. So in the wake of being convicted on all 34 counts in his Manhattan hush money trial, Trump held a press conference on Friday to cheer himself up with some ranting. Judge allowed them to go into everything that I was ever involved in, which is a first. In other words, you could go into every single thing.

That I ever did. Was he a bad boy here? Was he a bad boy there? Referring to himself as bad boy. Mr. President, happy pride. Trump on Sunday called on the Supreme Court to step in before his sentencing next month. Way ahead of you, said Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, sending his wife outside to hoist a flag with Judge Juan Mercan's home address on it.

I really do love Samuel Alito's take on like blaming his wife for the whole flag thing. It's so smart. It's so it's compelling. You know what? I like the stance of, OK, you know what? I will believe women, but I have to be able to blame women. Absolutely. And I think that in a way it's progressive.

For what they think the world is going to look like after they... They're flying their flag. It's progressive. Oh, they are. Because also in their world, men don't do with the home decorating. That is a woman's work. Yes. Home decorating is hoisting an upside down American flag. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

wrote Trump on Truth Social, the sentencing for not having done anything wrong will be conveniently for the fascists four days before the Republican National Convention. A radical left Soros-backed DA who ran on a platform of I will get Trump reporting to an acting local judge appointed by Democrats who is highly conflicted will make the decision that will determine the future of our nation. The United States Supreme Court must decide.

Honestly, why even bother posting this? You have Clarence Thomas phone number. Just ask him what kind of boat he wants. Unless I'm not trying to help Trump with his new TikTok account. But I think that this was a greatly missed opportunity to make a get ready with me while doing my makeup and talk about a radical left Soros backed DA who ran on the platform of I will get Trump reporting to an acting local judge who is highly conflicted video.

Those are my favorite kind of videos. That's all I'm watching. Those are the videos I'm going to make when I leave here. It's that and cottage cheese ice cream. A lot of cottage cheese on TikTok right now. Oh, I revealed something. What is going on? Oh, no. Fuck. I don't even know how it came to me. No, I think we know. It's an algorithm. It works in... They said, you seem like someone who would eat cottage cheese. And they were right. Yeah.

That's devastating. House Speaker Mike Johnson also called on the Supreme Court to save his beloved convicted leader on Fox & Friends last week. This entire thing is absurd. This is a purely political exercise, not a legal one. I do believe the Supreme Court should step in. Obviously, this is totally unprecedented and it's dangerous to our system. Ah, yes, a political exercise as opposed to the physical exercise he paid Stormy Daniels not to tell people about.

Meanwhile, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reacted to Trump's conviction on CNN on Sunday. You know politics. Is it a good idea, separating out your view of the verdict, is it a good idea for the Republican Party to nominate the convicted felon?

Listen, is it a good idea that Donald Trump is the nominee? The answer is 100% yes. Will Donald Trump win this presidency? The answer is yes. Just to remind the listener, Kevin McCarthy is, of course, the man who correctly predicted his own victory after being wrong about it 14 times.

Now, Trump's conviction triggered a wave of violent rhetoric from his supporters, which is so unlike them. That is kind of shocking. Yeah. Wow. You? OK. They're usually so level headed, you know. And they took to social media and fringe message boards to call for the judge, prosecutors and jurors to be doxed and killed. Oh, no. But if they're all busy writing violent comments online, who's going to knock over all the pride mugs at Target? Oh.

It's locker room talk, but the sport is competitive, terrifying Facebook posting. Trump himself seemed to invite violence during a Fox News appearance Sunday, saying this about the possibility of him facing jail time. I'm not sure the public would stand for it. With a house arrest. I think I think it would be tough for the public to take. You know, at a certain point, there's a breaking point. You know, imagine thinking most Americans aren't like six years past our breaking point and

And you know what? Yes. At a certain breaking point, there is a breaking point. And for me, that was when Rudy Giuliani started his own coffee line and said, it's so good I even drink it black before his veneers fell right to the ground. Earlier today, President Biden signed a restrictive border policy which will allow the president to temporarily shut down the U.S.-Mexico border at midnight and suspend protections for asylum seekers.

Genius. Distract progressive voters who are mad about Gaza by trying to give them something that will also make them very mad. That's how it's done, baby. That's how we do it in Pennsylvania. As a Pennsylvania boy, I go amazing distraction technique.

The decision follows attempts by the GOP to cast Biden as weak on the border. Republicans refused to pass a bipartisan border bill in February, a move they publicly admitted was an attempt to boost Trump's presidential campaign. The new policy is similar to a measure Donald Trump passed in 2018, which was later struck down in federal court. Now, why would you want to follow in Trump's footsteps on anything? For one thing, he's an evil, unprincipled monster. And on top of that, you're right in the fart zone back there. Mm-hmm.

And I personally believe the only footsteps we should be following are the ones in the sand. Because they belong to our Lord and Savior. That's right. Yes. Who's so strong. I just like the idea of Jesus physically hoisting someone up. Oh, I love it. And I also love that it was in every grandmother's bathroom. And it was specifically my grandmother's bathroom. And also all grandma bathrooms are the beach. Bathrooms equal the beach. Yeah.

Bathroom equals shell. Yes. Right. And that is... Seagull. Sand. Little glass bottle. Yes, the little glass beads. Yes. A picture, a painting of a lighthouse. Yes. That's the bathroom. Oh my God, nothing makes me want to have a bowel movement more than a lighthouse.

Now, Republicans on a House panel investigating the nation's COVID response dragged former health advisor Anthony Fauci in to testify on Monday, with Fauci dismissing the false claim that he organized a cover up of the pandemic's origins as simply preposterous. Now, this is absurd. Fauci is an 83 year old retiree. He should either be at home resting with his family or running for president of the United States.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a member of the panel who skipped seven of the last 10 hearings, used her time to say this. You know what this committee should be doing? We should be recommending you to be prosecuted. We should be writing a criminal referral because you should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. You belong in prison, Dr. Fauci. Yes, prostituted.

If Marge wants to see one of the main characters of 2020 go to prison, I have some incredible. But we already knew Greene was unserious. So here's GOP Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis posing this absolutely devastating gotcha question. How much have you earned from royalties from pharmaceutical companies since the pandemic began in 2021? Zero.

Checkmate. And, you know, this answer was obviously a huge blow to Mally Otakus, who did absolutely no research or fact checking in preparation for this hearing. Also, like royalties from a pharmaceutical company. Was it like for writing the Sky Rizzy songs? Like what was she asked?

game. Also, she did say the pandemic started in 2021, which it does seem like they're intentionally trying to somehow imply that it didn't start before the 2020 election. It's like, oh no, everything about the question was insane, but of course it's not about the answer. I distinctly remember getting off a Star Trek cruise and walking into a pandemic in March of 2020. We were all there. I stepped right out of a nightmare into a different nightmare. No, you're correct.

Yes, I was on a Star Trek cruise for work. Several people on the cruise. It was right before shutdown. They were giving away free COVID. Yeah. Well, you had to take advantage of that. Not for this work. Right. Oh, yeah. Your Star Trek work. Star Trek work. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they were giving away free COVID. How could you not? We didn't know. It's like, oh, okay. And it was new. You can pick them up.

I wanted it. Yeah. Was on a silent yoga retreat. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Oh, my God. And then he tweeted like, hey, I've been away for a week. What's going on? It was absolutely chef's kiss. So Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin slipped in this burn. They're treating you, Dr. Fauci, like a convicted felon.

Actually, you probably wish they were treating you like a convicted felon. They treat convicted felons with love and admiration. Some of them blindly worship convicted felons. Now, isn't it so crazy that Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jamie Raskin have the same job? Well, OK, they have the same position. Marjorie Taylor Greene's official job is being a heckling CrossFit witch, which it doesn't pay well. I applied for that job.

Now I'm here. We got to start as an intern. It's a whole thing. Yeah. Your dad has to be a witch before you to really. So we're in the business. You know, it's yeah, it is a nepo sort of business. Yeah. Start in a CrossFit mailroom. Yeah, exactly. Right. I wasn't thinking. I wasn't thinking. Parts of California, Arizona and Nevada are facing excessive heat warnings this week thanks to a heat dome that could bake some desert areas at temperatures as high as 120 degrees.

Okay, the older I get, the more I realize that Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze were correct and their plans would have been absolutely the right move for us.

And the other thing about that Batman movie that's correct, I think that all the Batman and Robins should have nipples in their costume. Once you see it, you're like, all right, okay. You go, oh, yeah. Why not? Why not? Otherwise, they're just chafing in there. You got to get them somewhere to go. Oh, you think the actual nipple itself fits right in there. Oh, that's true. Oh, yeah. It's a pocket. A hot pocket for your nipples. A little pocket.

Meanwhile, Claudia Scheinbaum was elected the first female president of Mexico this week, breaking the techno de cristal. Man, we still trust Google Translate, right? Okay. Well, it's like peering into an alternate dimension to see what we could have accomplished if only people were willing to Pokemon Go to the polls. Scheinbaum is also the country's first Jewish president.

God, they're running rings around us down here. Tell Biden to stand down. Our next president needs to be a trans Quaker. In addition to being the former mayor of Mexico City, Scheinbaum is a climate scientist with a Ph.D. in energy engineering.

Oh, yeah. Well, our current president is an 81 year old man from Pennsylvania who trips going up the stairs. And our former president is a compulsive liar who goes poopy in his diaper. So now what, Mexico? USA. USA. USA. Yes. That's I think that what I just said will galvanize the country. Mm hmm. Finally, it'll unite us. OK, well, maybe not. Hey, don't go anywhere. There's more of Love It or Leave It coming up.

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Jennifer Lopez tragically canceled her This Is Me live tour after scrapping several dates and struggling to sell out venues. Well, at least she has a thriving movie career to fall back on. Oh, no. More like this was me. Seems drastic. You know, I think that she should just change the name to This Is Not Me and send out Chapel Roan.

Problem solved. Everyone's happy. Everyone's happy, especially Chapel. I think Chapel is the only person who we should elect president. I think so. I'm fine with that. I love, love. I'm in. I know. I love a short woman in a tall wig. Someone said she's uniting the lesbian music and the gay, it's like lesbian gay pop music. She's the bridge. It was.

We needed it. So why not elect her? Why? She's not 35. No. But when she is. When she is, she has that incredible credential. She has it. She has it. What we were talking about earlier. Stephen King's it. Yes, she has it. She has it.

Per a statement on her website, Jennifer is taking time off to be with her children, family and close friends. I guess it's finally time for Jenny to go back to the block. They don't want her either. I promise you the Bronx does not want her. Yeah, I don't think that they want her back. I will say that. That's my general consensus on the block and Jenny. Yeah.

I like that statement because she does sound like a congressman who got caught having an affair. Yeah. Yes. That's OK. Take all the time. Like no one is out here like, how dare you? You don't feel well. Strike me as someone who has many close friends. Oh, I think you're right. But that's sad. I want Jennifer Lopez to be happy. You know, some some people and definitely not close female friends.

Oh. Right. I mean, did you see? What a read. I have not seen. I need to watch the documentary. I didn't do the documentary. I did the movie. Oh, and how was it? There was one really good scene. The one where she could, the one with Derek Hough and it was her wedding, actually really interestingly staged, beautiful choreography. The rest of it I could have done without. A movie that you watched, you said, you know, she doesn't have a lot of close female friends. No, no, no.

Because they maybe would have said something to me. Yeah, well, nothing says I don't have close female friends like Derek Hough choreographing your wedding. Well... You know? I think that's true. In happier news, Lopez's new sci-fi thriller, Atlas, is currently the number one movie on Netflix this week. Wait, that can't be right. Maybe they mean it's number one alphabetically? Okay, gun to my head. What's the plot of Atlas? Answer? Pull the trigger. I have no idea. I'm shot in the head. No.

In other career highlights, Simone Biles won her ninth national title at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships on Sunday night.

I've obviously already texted Simone in our gorgeous, pretty, beautiful Olympic icons group chat. But just to say it here, too. Congrats, girly. Biles also won every individual event title, even after falling on the landing of a very difficult Yurchenko double pike vault. It's like they always say, it's not about how hard you fall.

It's about how high a difficulty score you racked up before you fell. I mean... Now, I mean, that's so true. I always say that. You know this. Yeah. Well, truly. Okay. So my favorite moment of yours, and stop me if this becomes traumatizing. No, I'm actually addicted to trauma. Skate mode activated. Yeah. Yeah.

My favorite moment of yours is it was either 2017 or right at the beginning of 2018 where you fell during your long program. It appeared that you dislocated your shoulder on the ice. We just see like tears start to spill down your face. I'm going, yeah, I have like my nails are into my fist and blood is coming out. Go on. He gets up. And everyone should go watch this. He gets up. He pops his shoulder back into place. We just had a clip ready. Well, I didn't know if this would be true.

No, no. Yeah. So you know what? So like when you're like a competitive athlete, like you're not raking in tons of money like you are when you guest host this podcast. Right. And so if you don't like do well at a competition, you don't make money. You can't like keep training. And I remember on my first jump, like I put I put my hand down. It was a quad. Let's so everyone. Yes. Thank you. You're all right. Picture it. Now you get it. Now you have it. OK. Yeah.

So I put my hand out. I feel my shoulder like pop out. And it's done this before, but never like in a competition. Very cool. I'm bragging. And I can see I do it right in front of my coach and I can see him go like, no, no, no. Like, stop, stop, stop. And I think to myself, I'm like, if I stop.

I'm not going to get any prize money. So I yank it back into place. And then I kept going. And that's money, baby. And then goes to the Olympics off that performance. And I will also say that wasn't the crazy thing about that, which I was at. There were bugs falling down from the ceiling onto the ice that every skater was having to pick up.

up before they started. What kind of bugs? I don't know. Okay. So wait, this was a Skate America. Skate America. Yes. Yes. This was Skate America in the Olympic season. And I remember I was just feeling a little like sassy and there were bugs, big, big hunking flies. Oh, we were in Lake Placid. So you know those things like they have nothing to do except grow. Right.

And there were these giant bugs on the ice and the referee stopped me before I could start. And she calls me over and she's like, can you pick up the bugs on the ice? And I'm thinking, can I pick up the bugs? What? Huh? And so I think to myself...

Yes, I'll do it because I love instruction. And then I think I turn right to her and I'm like, I'll pick them up if you give me an extra 30 seconds before I start. Oh, and she's like, well, it was genius because you you have a certain amount of time. And I was thinking she's going to make me do janitorial work and then perform. Now I need 30 seconds, honey.

And she was like, okay. And I was like, all right. And so I went over, I picked them up and then I dislocated my shoulder. It's the perfect plan. It was the perfect crime. It is truly one of the clips that I tell when people are like, skating is not a sport. Skating is not intense. I'm like, please go watch this man pop his shoulder back in and continue a four minute long program. How many

flies did you have to pick up? Three giant ones. That's crazy they don't have a bug guy. Yeah, like a bad boy. Melt him into the ice. Yeah. I mean, you know, what's also crazy is that like in the in earlier in the event, someone did dislocate their shoulder and had to withdraw. And as soon as it happened, because I could see it on like a monitor backstage, I said to myself, and this is really good self-talk.

Oh, no. I'm going to pop my shoulder out. And I knew it was going to happen. Damn. I just knew it was going to happen. I just didn't know I was going to have to also pick up bugs. So insult to injury. Listen. Now. Oh, sorry. No, please. One last. Would you say that doing this is a bigger dream come true than skating the Olympics? Yes. Or is it like the same? Okay, great. Yes. It's just as physically demanding. Mm-hmm.

And is it more painful or less painful than laser hair removal? This is less painful. Okay. That's what we strive for. That's what we could ask. Yeah. Because I don't know if it'll be up at the top, but I did from my first treatment after I thought it would work like magic the first time, one and done, I did leave in welts, giant welts on my chest. And I remember thinking this is the most painful thing I've ever done. I don't think I'll be able to make it through. And here I am.

12 sessions later, hairless. If anyone can do it, I can do it. Now, if anyone can do this floor routine, it's Simone Biles. Now, this is Simone Biles winning floor routine. That last pass is as perfect as she could do it. And she looks like she's having a lot of fun.

mom loves it oh i know it's so sweet to see her mom cry even after like you know that she's done this a million times she's the best gymnast in the entire world maybe even ever um and she still gets emotional after that she's not like reading a book up there

Knitting. I'm like not a sports person at all, but I do see this. I'm like, this is why we need sports. Like I didn't know I needed to see Simone Biles, but every time I do see her, I'm like, I did need to see this. I just needed to know. It was like, it's thrilling. I'm so excited for these games. Like to see her come back is going to be...

I'm really pumped. Oh, it's going to be absolutely phenomenal. Yeah. The one thing I love about this flow routine is that I think ever since Rio, she's always, no matter what the music is, she's always added this, oh, at the end of it. And she's done that for maybe now we're going on eight years. It's great. Yeah. It's an amazing effect. Oh my God. And she always does the hand over the mouth. Oh, I love it. Catchphrase. It's a catchphrase. It's so good. Yeah. Yeah.

So now in a darker twist, TikTok was gripped with controversy this week. And the question at hand is, is hobby horsing a sport? The answer is, of course, nay. In case you're not familiar with the concept, hobby horsing is when a human pretends to ride a horse doing dressage and launching themselves over jumps with a toy horse head instead of an actual horse. And we have a clip.

It is amazing what the human body can do. I just like to slow it down on the turn so we can really see the moves. It's really a great choice. Oh, that's the videography at the highest level. Honestly, I think this is disgusting because this is an attack on the dignity and status of some of society's most valued members, regular horse girls. Thank you.

The debate raged after famous hobby horse rider Anna posted a TikTok of herself collapsing after a hobby horse competition. She's wretching. Yeah, I mean, that's me every Monday morning. That's me watching this video. Right. And, you know, you're laughing, but the toy horse kicked her in the chest. They put that down after. Also, did you call her famous?

Oh, yeah, she's... I mean, she's the... You wouldn't call her famous? She's the... She's the... Okay. Well, I just don't know how many... Famous again compared to no one. To other Annas. Yeah. Yeah. Anna Kendrick and then her, right? And then Bellamy. And then Anna. Yeah. No, I mean, this is... This video is like art. It's just... Oh, my God. It's so good. But you know what? To be serious, I think that she really needs her inhaler. Oh, God. Yeah.

Please laugh. The video says, hobby horsing is not a sport. It's easy and everyone can do that. Oh, yeah? Well, this is me after my dressage routine. I was passing out, couldn't breathe, almost throwing up, dizzy, shaking, whole body burning in pain. Being overly dramatic for attention online while wearing a rainbow scrunchie. Anna, happy pride, you little freak. Happy pride! And that's it for me. Thank you so much for having me, and I'll see you sluts on the internet. ♪

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Love It or Leave It is a Crooked Media production. It is written and produced by me, John Lovett, and Lee Eisenberg. Kendra James is our executive producer. Chris Lord is our producer. And Kennedy Hill is our associate producer. Hallie Keeper is our head writer. Sarah Lazarus and Jocelyn Kaufman, Peter Miller, Alan Pierre, Will Miles, and Mahana Del Shiki are our writers.

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I've been lucky because my leg hair usually just blends into my skin. And so like, no one can see it. But then I was seeing myself on this. Yeah. So then you saw it. Yes. And then I was like, we have to fix it. Which is worse than anyone seeing. Right. Because no one will point it out. It's like when my hair is fucked up. I know I work with enough white people that like no one's going to point it out. Right. But like once I noticed. Even if we noticed it, to point it out, Kendra, what would that like? I would have pointed it out. Kendra, look. We can see. Yeah.

You've done better. Do better tomorrow. Kendra. Kendra.