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John Lovett (0:00)
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Laci Mosley (1:38)
What's poppin listeners? I'm Laci Mosley, host of the podcast Scam Goddess. The show that's an ode to fraud and all those who practice it. Each week I talk with very special guests about the scammiest scammers of all time. Wanna know about the fake errors? We got em. What about a career con man? We've got them too. Guys that will wine and dine you and then steal all your coins. Know they are represented because representation matters. I'm joined by guests like Nicole byer, Ira Madison III, Conan O'Brien and more. Join the congregation and listen to Scam Goddess wherever you get your podcasts.
John Lovett (2:27)
What's up Los Angeles? Welcome to Love it or leave it. Live from Dynasty Typewriter. This is our first show under the new Trump regime. But the upside is this is the last time I'll ever be able to say that. Just one more term, people, probably. We've got a great show for you tonight. Laci Moseley is here, Guy Branham is here, and we're going to put some of these brand new scams in their rightful ranks. Then I would like all of you to start thinking now of any questions that you have. And I want to hear about your comfort food. All right, we're just going to have a little conversation, and I'm going to decide if your comfort food is correct. But first, let's get into it. What a week. On Monday, surrounded by his closest wife and billionaires, Donald Trump was sworn in as the nation's 47th president. It's not right. We all knew it was gonna feel bad, but I was not personally prepared for how bad it actually feels. I wish I could just shut off the part of my brain that knows what's happening. Like the characters in Severance or Joe Biden. We can't. We're running out of time. Last couple bites of that apple. Anyway, call me Garfield, because, boy, did I hate this Monday. In retrospect, Trump's victory in 2017 was a more acute but ultimately shallower feeling. 2017 was like a jump scare. 2025 hits deeper in the psyche. It's a rounder and more fully realized sense of dread. It's not the part of the movie where you realize the monster is in the closet. It's the part of the movie where you realize the monster is your husband. On Friday, ahead of the inauguration, Trump announced that he would move the ceremony inside, citing the very cold weather, adding, I think unnecessarily, on such a big historic day, one cannot take the risk in regards to. That's a weird thing to add. The extreme cold also complicated House Speaker Mike Johnson's pledge to say fuck Jimmy Carter and hoist the Capitol flags up to full staff for the day because the chords on the flagpoles froze. Good one. Jimmy laughed. God. Before simply watching as Trump canceled a bunch of cancer research. That was fun at the beginning, back to reality by the end. Ahead of the ceremony, outgoing President Joe Biden greeted Trump at the White House. Welcome home, he said. Welcome home. I can't claim to know what is in Biden's heart, but I know myself, and I would only give Trump that warmer welcome if I had taken a gallon of cow's milk Diluted it with some water, and then very lightly misted every curtain and carpet from the East Wing to the Oval Office. Oh, what was your plan? Human shit in the air vents? Sure, it's pointed, but it's instantly noticeable and solvable. Classic Democrat. Classic institutionalist. You have to think longer term and you have to think like a maniac. Think about how Trump would slowly be driven mad as day by day, a slightly musky odor gets worse and worse everywhere. Where is it coming from? It's coming from the fine mist of lactose. Trump's stop at the White House also gave us our first glimpse of Melania's inaugural day outfit. Looking like Carmen San Bernardino. The hat, it turns out, had a practical purpose. Couldn't get in there. People are always trying to read into Melania's outfits like she's sending us a message. And yeah, in a sense, all clothes send a message. You're born naked and the rest is drag and so forth. But it seems like it might be time we finally face the fact that the message Melania is saying is, I made peace with my choices long before you had any awareness of me or any desire to project your personal opinions onto my blank expression. And no one's even talking about the secret message encoded in Jill Biden's outfit. I like purple. As expected, Mega Rich Tech Bros were the guest of honor at Trump's inauguration. With Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook, TikTok CEO Shauzi Chu, and White House CEO Elon Musk were all in attendance. More like the capital Brotonda. I feel like I'm dead. Kicking off his second inaugural address, Trump announced that the golden age of America begins right now. Well, more like the gold plated age. Shiny surface, but the inside is still fentanyl. And wildfires. As he did eight years ago, Trump painted a sunny, cheerful vision for America. As we gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust. For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens, while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair. Interesting message on corruption from the first president to accept payment via Zell. While the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair. If you'll indulge me for a moment, I once had a serious job. First of all, what is the word seemingly doing here? Are the columns not in complete disrepair or are you just not sure? But how can you not be sure? It's not a real column. It's a Metaphor. And you are sure they're broken? You didn't couch broken. And the columns are not just broken. The columns lay broken. Now, you could argue that a column can be broken without being in disrepair, right? It's cracked in some way. Part of the capital at the top of the column is chipped off. But these columns lay broken. And I am not sure how a column can lay broken while not being in disrepair, let alone complete disrepair, unless it literally just fell down, which would be a weird point to make. So it would seem to me that we have found a great place to cut out a few words. It's something any decent speechwriter would catch. Which is also strange because I was told we were finally making hiring decisions based on merit. Again, best of luck. To the best of the. Our new empath president also weighed in on the devastating California wildfires. They're raging through the houses and communities, even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country, some of whom are sitting here right now. They don't have a home any longer. That's interesting. Well, when he's right, he's right. It is interesting. They're wealthy and powerful, but their houses burned down. They're homeless, but they have suits. Life is so full of contradictions. Trump once again pledged to rename the Gulf of Mexico, drawing a visible laugh from one Hillary Clinton. A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Gotta laugh. All right, listen, we're just letting this one go. He's gonna have this one. Who gives a fuck? This is the presidential equivalent of really, really caring about your birthday. This is Disney adult shit. Reprint the maps. I don't give a fuck. Just hours after Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk spoke at a celebratory rally at the Capitol One arena and made this gesture. Now, a lot of you have jumped to a pretty shocking conclusion, which is that this was a Nazi salute, which is ridiculous. This was just a wave gone wrong. I've seen it a thousand times. You're excited. You try to wave and you fuck up the choreo. Besides, immediately after, Elon Musk put out an unequivocal statement saying it was just an awkward hand gesture he met, no association or offense, and that he was sorry. Oh, he didn't do that at all. He didn't do that at all. He had his pal Benjamin Netanyahu, obviously the head Jew, I guess, speak out on his behalf. And then Elon mocked the whole episode with a bunch of Nazi punts. And I have to say, Elon's jokes about all this, especially given his embrace of the German far right, rang a little holocaust. But. But, okay, let's say hypothetically, in a moment of fervor, Elon Musk felt inspired to throw up a siggy H, which he knew better. Which he knew better than to admit. What's the message? That he has embraced far right politics? That he's a troll who wants attention and power without any forbearance or humility in wielding it? That he doesn't feel accountable to anyone who would care? We already know this. Trump and his little coterie of goons are gonna be coming at us with a lot. We don't need to focus on the signs of how bad this could get. It's right now. On the first day of his presidency, Donald Trump pardoned over 1500 people convicted of federal crimes for their roles in the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. No, that's wrong. The pardons and commutations included proud boys and others convicted of brutally assaulting the police officers who defended the Capitol. The Q Anon shaman, who was also pardoned and released Monday. Posted to X thank you, President Trump. Now I'm gonna buy some motherfuckin guns. Trump is fulfilling his campaign promise to release every prisoner in Arkham Asylum. Meanwhile, one free January 6th prisoner has already been arrested again on gun charges. And others will now know that if they do violence on Donald Trump's behalf, he will protect him. The president isn't supposed to have a private far right goon squad. He already has the military, and that's just being greedy. The police officers who were injured, who were beaten and tased, and in some cases, who had to beg for their lives, who showed up that day and did their jobs to protect Congress. Protect members of Congress who now spit on that service are, as one retired officer told the Times, angry, sad and devastated. They too, cannot believe how many nominations Amelia Perez received. It is. It's polarizing. It's a polarizing film. Eager to see it, Trump also signed dozens of executive orders within hours of taking office. For example, Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate agreement. So throw another log on California, I guess. Yeah, too soon.