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Ladies and gentlemen, happy Thanksgiving. If you are one of the people who even on Thanksgiving needs to get your little political fix, we have a very special episode today where we're going through five things we are thankful for from the past year. All of that today on 10 Minute Drill. Everybody get up. Get up. The story of America is the story of an adventure. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. Gobble. I just want to tell you this very important. You are hereby unconditionally pardoned. To keep things light on this Thanksgiving holiday, we're going to go through five things that we're grateful for. Now, as somebody who enjoys the humor in politics, politics can be very, very serious, and there are really important matters that we deal with, but you have to enjoy the humorous parts of it to get through the day. And so we are going through five things that we are grateful for that are also very funny. First topic, theater. Kids in politics. Now, you may have seen in the last week, a church held a very special skit to talk about how to resist ICE arrests. Man, that lady in the red is really into this role. You've got people that are filming, they got to practice the filming and. And then people really leaning into how they resist ice. Man, this is a dedicated performance that was pretty funny. But moving on. One thing that's been tough to balance for Democrats is the fact that they're calling ICE the Gestapo, the secret police that's disappearing people. But one way they've chosen to protest Against Them is 80s themed aerobic dance exercise class. I love the guy in the blue with the pink shorts who really is dedicated to the cause. But then when you fast forward a little bit, you have got capes and an actual furry. Oh, man, this is already off to a good start. We also really enjoyed the dancing and singing demonstrations at Doge protests. That was the dancing protests at the Kennedy center against firings and layoffs. But the singing is even better. And in the season of Elphaba, I give you the singing Doge protesters. He's coming for our unions. He wants us all to fail. He wants us to bow to him, but we want him in jail. Oh, man, that's really good. I really like when she rises up. It's exactly like when Elphaba is running away from the Oz police force. But also, here's another gentleman who wrote his own original composition for a Doge protest. Keep on moving forward, never turning back. So basically, the Doge Protests became kind of like a, like a quirky resistance talent show. And I for one, really, really appreciated the content. Moving on. I also really wanted to highlight the joy that we found from a number of high profile book tours. First, Kamala Harris. Here's one story that she told about rallies where a very interesting thing happened. You know, one of my favorite things to see, and it would always happen spontaneously at our rallies and someone in the back would hand that baby over through the crowd up to you people who would bless the baby but pass the baby. See, it's a little bit hard to imagine that this is a real thing that happened. I have two very, very small children. One of them is a baby. And the idea of passing it around to strangers at a political rally is one of the craziest things I have ever heard. But when Kamala gets on a heater, she does that. Michael Scott Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way. But another highlight from Kamala's book tour was an anecdote about a time when she was not prepared for an interview. This was an interview with Dr. Mike, who is a huge Kamala Harris supporter and a feel good YouTube doctor. She was not prepared for the conversation. Here's an excerpt. When Dr. Mike asked, Are you getting your seven to nine hours of sleep these days? I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. At the end of the interview, I sent the junior staffers out, leaving just Kirsten, Brian, Ike, and Sheila. What the F was that? Now she says the actual word, my voice reaching a crescendo. Brian trying to channel Jen o'. Malley. Dylan's thinking launched into a detailed explanation about the rationale behind doing the podcast. I raised my hand and stopped him mid sentence. Brian, I said through gritted teeth, that was a rhetorical question. Unbeknownst to me, for the next few days, anytime any of those team members asked each other anything at all, that was a rhetorical question would be the lighthearted response. I love this because sometimes people use their books to try and paint themselves as really cool. Kamala is posting her Ls here by reminding everybody of a time when she said something that was kind of goofy and her staff made fun of her about it behind her back. I guess I can appreciate a little bit of self awareness there. But the last thing from Kamala's book tour we wanted to highlight was this incredible moment with Rachel Maddow to say that he couldn't be on the ticket, effectively because he was gay is hard to hear. No, no, no, that's not what I said. That. That's that he couldn't be on the ticket because he is gay. Now, lest we forget, Kamala Harris thought that Pete Buttigieg was too gay for her presidential ticket, so she picked Tim Waltz. We have more on Tim a little bit later in the program. But moving on to Karine Jean Pierre in her book tour. Hi, I'm Karine Jean Pierre and I am the author of a new book that's coming out this fall called Independent. One of many viral moments from Karine Jean Pierre's book tour is when she was asked point blank, do you have any regrets? And this was her answer. It's a simple yes or no. You don't even know no, no, no. Because you're asking for a yes or no question. I want to put some context to it, too. I wake up every day. I woke up every day very proud to be the White House press secretary. I woke up every day as a black woman who is queer. So not only does Karine not have any regrets, but she wants to make sure that, you know, she is a queer black woman. And that was a constant theme of this book tour. Shout out Matt Walsh for this very, very effective sizzle reel. As a black woman, as a person who's also lgbtq, as a black woman who has walked through the walls of that I meant a lot to people because of the communities that I represented. And they felt seen when they saw me at the podium, whether it was women of color, black women, queer community, LGBTQ community, immigrant. The third thing that we're going to express some gratitude for today is the humor found in identity politics. One of the priorities of DOGE early on, from the beginning of the Trump administration, has been identifying where identity politics was inserted into government functions. Senator Josh Hawley brought this up in a hearing with a major Biden crime official. Here's what you say we ought to invest in. Instead of funding the police, here's what we ought to invest in. We need to invest in programs that acknowledge the need for safe space initiatives led by lesbian, gay, bisexual, two Spirit, trans and gender non conforming people. What's two Spirit? Well, look, I don't know exactly. You guys are pulling some interesting quotes. This is from your report. I love this exchange because the person who's totally baffled by this. Ooh, you guys are bringing up some crazy stuff. He's the guy who wrote the report and he doesn't seem to totally know what two Spirit is Which is fair, cuz he probably didn't actually write it. Most of the Biden administration policy was written by radical outside groups. But we did a little bit of a deep dive to help people understand better what two spirit actually means. Though the label has only been used since the 90s, the concept of the two spirit is something indigenous groups have identified with for centuries. We're gonna cut that off right there so that we can explain that. 2 Spirit is essentially an identity invented in the 90s by left wing activists to cover both indigenous people who are non binary under the terms that people today as parts of the LGBTQ Alphabet mafia, understand. So they created a very special classification for that. And the Biden administration thought it was so important that they created all sorts of special privileges and protections for this incredibly unique class that was invented in the 90s to represent the ancient indigenous spirits. If that sounds weird to you, you are not alone. The next thing that we are grateful for is the opportunity to poke a little bit of fun at the California governor's race. Now, again, this breaks my heart as a native Californian who loves the state and would love to see it not implode. But if it's going to continue to implode, we need to poke a little bit of fun at the people driving it off the cliff. Enter Katie Porter to those voters. Okay, so you. I don't want to keep doing this. I'm gonna call it. Thank you. You're not gonna do the interview with us? Nope, not like this, I'm not. Not with seven follow ups to every single question you ask. Every other candidate has answered. I don't care. Now, after that interview went viral and people realized that Katie Porter might be a little bit of a borderline psychopath, another clip came out that was re her staff to air pollution and other problems, and the state could lose. Get out of my shop. Now, I would point out that there's a longer version of this clip, and at the end of it, you find out that Katie Porter's on a zoom with then Energy Secretary Jen Granholm, who sat through that entire tirade against Katie Porter's staff and never reacted at all. Which is crazy, but she also might be another kind of lunatic. But sensing the weakness in the field at Katie Porter's quirky demise, especially as people learn more about Katie Porter's court records showing that she had poured boiling mashed potatoes on her husband, things like that, a white knight entered the scene. Hey, Congressman, what's going on? Hey, Congressman, what's up? Hey, Congressman. Hey, what's happening. You're everywhere, manito. Excuse me, Mr. Wallace. Oh, that is Eric Swalwell, who announced very recently that he too is entering this clown car California governor's race. Eric Swalwell, most famous for having an illicit relationship with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang. But the good thing about Eric Swalwell is at least we know he exercises. I should be working right now. I should be at the capitol. I should be in a suit. Not too strong, though, because that is 135 pounds, which many junior high girls use as their baseline. Now, last but not least, we would be remiss if we did not pay tribute this special Thanksgiving Day to one of our very, very favorite figures in American politics over the last few years. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, none other than Tim Waltz. You are the dancing queen. Young and sweet, only 17. Now, going through our rundowns in preparation for this episode, I found that we have mentioned Tim waltz more than 40 times in a show that isn't even at 100 episodes yet. That's how much we love Tim. Why? For incredible moments like this. But I also was on the ticket, quite honestly, you know, because I. I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck. It sets up this incredible moment when he was talking about President Trump. But when it's adult, like Donald Trump, you bully the shit out of him. Back. You push back. Which makes us think of, jeez, and just maybe. Yeah, there it is. Slapped you. You probably think I'm finished, huh? On behalf of the full team at 10 minute drill, we are always grateful to Tim of the feminine products Waltz and the machine of content he always provides for us. May he stay happy and healthy evermore. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you for spending a few minutes your Thanksgiving with us. Please subscribe, tell a friend, enjoy your holiday, eat good food, watch football, and have a great weekend.