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Mike Pesca (0:55)
It's Friday, January 16, 2020. Peach Fish Productions it's the gist. I'm Mike Pesca and today is a funny you should mention day. Funny you should mention that Lisa Traeger is on the show. She's a very. Did I say funny twice already? She's a very funny comedian. She loves owls, she loves weed. She does videos where she talks about all the money she wastes like on Moenchi Chi, little purses and handbags. But she also has, I guess, radical politics which you'll hear by the end of the interview. We get into one of the residents of the Metropolitan Detention center and that's Luigi Mangione. She is, I thought as mostly a bit obsessed with Luigi Mangione and I actually forgot to ask about it during the interview. And then my intrepid producer and Lisa Trager fan Michelle Pesca said ask about Luigi. So I did. Now you will hear her make some assertions about Luigi. I couldn't fact check. I couldn't fact check all of them in real time. Couldn't exactly. Didn't want to spar with her in real time. Sometimes the philosophy is okay, let these incendiary statements out there and give what pushback you can write. The direct confrontation I think, and I shouldn't say confrontation, the direct challenge I think would have just occasioned. Lisa, you know, she's, she's funny, she's got a patter. She maybe have Gish galloped me debating term. So I just asked her a about a couple implications of her love of Luigi and her, you know, call for the blood in the streets that I thought she was joking about, but maybe she's not. She tried very hard to tell me she wasn't joking about that. But before we even get to that, we get into Liz's mind. If you have a chance to see her, you should. I think she puts most of her Luigi stuff. And it's funny. Fourth time I mentioned the word funny in the intro to funny. You should mention it's interesting because you never know exactly what line the comedians are on. They're playing with things like exaggeration and satire. And really, those are different. You can use exaggeration to achieve satire, but satire is poking fun at or embodying, often embodying a point of view with which you don't agree. And exaggeration is the opposite. Expressing your point of view, but in an exaggerated way for comedic effect. And sometimes you take the opposite point of view and you put that out there for mockery. So in a week or so, we're gonna have a great comedian named Jeffrey Osmus on the show. And he usually says things that he doesn't believe in a little. Like Colbert, he has, you know, pretends he's an alpha and talks about cocks. And it's not his Persona throughout the show, but he'll say some of these things with a wink and a nod. And so you do wonder if Lisa's Pro Luigi or Luigi Love is with a wink and a nod. But in fact, it was publicly showing a five on the Luigi and Tris scale when she's about an 132. Oh, yeah. So I didn't fact check everything. I will say that she was making some comments about why did UnitedHealth still have the meeting? That's really weird when your CEO is dead, as far as I could tell. I'm sure some big Luigi fan in the audience will write to me and correct this. They called off the meeting when they found out that Brian Thompson had been killed. But I don't know, maybe there's some deep dive on that. Then they continued the meeting a little too long. It's not as important. It's not as important as all the owl stuff and the wheat stuff and the mochi cheese stuff. Lisa Traeger up next. Thanks to Home Serve for sponsoring this episode. Being a homeowner is amazing. It helps to be married to a somewhat brilliant architect who designs a home such that it should go in some sort of digest. But I got to tell you, there's a lot of stuff to do around the house. Cracks in the ceiling, cracks in the facade. You know what the big win was in the last few months? The neighbors demolished their house. 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