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welcome to skid row studios in downtown los angeles this is the weekly wrap-up where we get you caught up on the week's biggest stories like us on facebook subscribe free at the itunes store i am your host ken august i am joined today the return of drew marks i am back baby oh is this uh is this probation or did you escape parole what happened how are you i'm allowed back out in public no i had to go to denver last week holy cow fantastic that is uh welcome back buddy welcome back thank you good to be back i'd say we missed you but i don't know if you believe me no probably not it is true it is true and sal rodriguez also back holy crap it's like a reunion episode this is awesome uh host of reo how are you sir i'm doing great and can i ask you this ken have you lost some weight no no no i'm sitting down it's all in my ass no you look slimmer i haven't seen you in a couple weeks because you've been what globetrotting yeah but i'll tell you your face looks slimmer you look great thank you just my face has been working out wait till you see him next week he's gonna be all tanned up and whatnot going to turks and cacos by the way turks and cacos we will not be on the air next week so uh hold all news for a week but uh i will be in turks and cacos what the hell is that i thought it was in a real place that's like and yeah i'm going with my friend hr puff and stuff when i was first invited i actually i thought they were just saying they will have turkey and cake but it turns out no it is an island that people like me don't generally go to but i am excited to be invited excited to go you have fun in hummus and couscous thank you let us know how it goes thank you very much if anybody wants to get in on the conversation 800 eight nine three nine five six two uh on the docket today 37 days before the election and the new poll on likability shows mitt romney has just surged past gonorrhea good for him but behind hpv speaking of diseases senate candidate republican todd aiken who believes that rape victims don't get pregnant stuck by his beliefs and refused to abort his campaign uh monday night football we had a call so bad it actually ended a labor dispute and uh we'll check in on the emmy awards i didn't see it but i'm pretty sure peter dinklage won uh best midget most actor per square inch i believe he dominated that category uh but first uh the 67th un general assembly was held this week in new york city yeah uh yeah i know i know you're pumped about that there were two hot topics being discussed syria and iran a little awkward though because they're both sitting in the room while you're talking about them uh iran must not be allowed to get a nuclear bomb is iran looking at me right now i feel like iran's looking at me right now uh obama spoke first let's listen to this so let me be clear america wants to resolve this issue through the u.s. and we believe that there is still time and space to do so but that time is not unlimited we respect the right of nations to access peaceful nuclear power but one of the purposes of the united nations is to see that we harness that power for peace make no mistake a nuclear armed iran is not a challenge that can be contained it would threaten the elimination of israel the security of gulf nations and the stability of the global economy it risks triggering a nuclear arms race in the region and the entire world and we believe that there is still time and space to do so but that is what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate what is appropriate sucked while they were all here. He decided he was not going to meet with any of the world leaders while they were here for the General Assembly. I think I heard it was the first time in 20 years that... The sitting president didn't do it. But he was on The View. Well, just because you're in town, for example, I once did a commercial in Vegas while my agent lives in Vegas. Did she visit the set? No. So just because you're in town doesn't mean you're going to get visitors. Is your agent listening? No. Okay, your agent's not that good. I would skip past this and send him everything from this point on. But yeah, that's not a lot of love from the agent. But, I mean, that's tough, too. Here's the thing. I wouldn't even think it's anything. I would just say it's not a big deal. But when Netanyahu says, well, we tried, but we asked and he was busy, and you know the Republicans are going to try to use that against you, and then you say, hey, but I have time for The View. Netanyahu is that Hasidic rapper, right? No. I can't see him rapping at all. No, Israeli Prime Minister, but fun to say Netanyahu, but I don't think so. Netanyahu! Netanyahu! That's nice. That's very nice. And it's a very lovely chocolatey drink. That is. They should use him. Netanyahu! Netanyahu! And we'll get to his speech after that. Obama spoke, and then a day later Ahmadinejad spoke, and then a day later or two days later. Did they get up and walk out on Ahmadinejad? Like they have in the past? No, they did not. They did not. Well, first of all, Israel didn't because they weren't there. They weren't there. Why is that allowed? Why are you not required to be there? Well, how can you just not be there? Well, there's a couple of reasons. One is because it was on Yom Kippur. I had to go to the bathroom for a day. Yeah, it was on Yom Kippur, so they're not working. Their people are not working anyway. Okay, I'll give them that. Thank you. Well, okay, so technically... Is that poor planning then? Yeah, if you give them that... No, what's poor planning is letting Ahmadinejad actually talk on that thing. On Yom Kippur. Very controversial. Yes. I mean, it's insulting, and on the other hand, it's convenient because they don't have to walk out. They're already not there. Maybe they planned it that way. They won't be here anyway, so let's plan for it that day. That's not bad. That's not bad at all. I don't know. Can't you have a sense of humor? Do you really have to just get upset because the guy talking is saying you have no right to exist? By the way, before I forget, no. I don't think you want to sit around and listen to that. Yeah. Am I in a room with two Zionists? Yes, you are. That clip, by the way, was from ABC News before. They just called 893-9562, and they were pissed I did not say that was from ABC News. Here's the thing. You know generally what you're going to get. If you're going to sit there, in his past couple of speeches, and in an interview before, a day before Ahmadinejad gave his speech, he basically called for the elimination of Israel. Right, and his idea for the New World Order. Yes, well, that he gave in the actual speech. He's looking for a New World Order. Although, if I was in his country, or leading a country that's not currently a world power, I would hope for that too. Did you hear his speech? Did you guys listen to it? I did. I liked what the first five minutes was like. I am from the great land of sultans, and educators, and kings, and philosophers. All he did was talk about how awesome his country was for the first five minutes. Yeah, well, sometimes you wonder what audience he is talking to. He didn't, but apparently he was toned down a little bit. He didn't, on this trip, during the entire trip, during the actual speech at the UN, he didn't talk about or accuse the US of being in on 9-11, which he likes to do that on occasion. Although, I know people in this country that like to do that as well. I don't believe he claimed the Holocaust didn't happen. No, no, no. Although, I don't know if he brought it up as a topic. He still, you know, but... But he has in the past. Yes. He still thinks Schindler's List is a comedy, but that being said, he did not bring it up. They say, and this is his last time, he's already been here seven years, he can't run again in Iran, so this is probably his last speech. And some other people are saying, you know what, perhaps, well, let's listen to him. This is a clip from Ahmadinejad from ABC Exclusive News. The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, gave a final speech before the UN. His address comes a day after President Obama's strong words about the Islamic Nation's nuclear program. But Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the podium within the hour to lecture world leaders about what he called the dictatorship. The decline of capitalism. But by our account, a third of the delegations boycotted the speech, including the Americans and the Israelis. Ahmadinejad suggested the Israelis will not feel safe so long as Iran is threatened. The continued threat by the uncivilized Zionists to resort to military action against our great nation is a clear example of this bitter reality. Nice. Nobody's fault. I got a question. At the UN, if those 13 nations boycott and the seats are empty, do the other guys get to move to closer seats? They get to move to the better seats. Because how uncomfortable if you're one of those countries, you're in the back and go, man, this sucks. The United States is not here. Can I move there? Big and better food. How are you allowed to boycott? I don't understand why. Okay, you don't agree with the guy. Fine. You hate the guy. Fine. How do you just... What is this, the fucking Olympics? Why do you just get to boycott? What is that? You need them there to hear the speech? I... If... If the United Nations is a group comprised of countries who all get together to try to do shit, they should all be there. I agree with Sal. They should all be there. I don't think you can just go... It loses its identity if you can just go, I don't want to be there. How can diplomacy occur... It's not exactly united. ...if I'm not even there to hear what the hell you have to say? Okay, no. And I don't really have a strong argument against that. But then let me... To play devil's advocate, let me ask you this. If we're going to have that meeting and for the previous seven years, my speech is, you're horrible. You're horrible. Everything is your fault. Forget facts. The Holocaust didn't exist. You guys should be wiped off the map. And by the way, your allies bombed themselves on 9-11. Yeah. Do you really want to sit there and listen to that shit? I got friends that say that the U.S. bombed itself on 9-11. I listen to their crap. Yeah. Yes, but you wouldn't listen to it for an hour and a half. I just think it would be kind of funny if you occasionally heard the little... And like a little spitball just... That would be nice. I mean, I don't know when the walking out thing started. And I mean, they didn't walk out, like I said this time. They usually... Now, here's the thing. It's usually... But we have walkouts in Congress. Yeah? We, you know... I don't think they should be allowed to leave either. I think... Sal wants everybody to listen to everything. I don't support any of this. I mean, obviously, these citizens have their representatives. They have their delegates. They're sending them to other countries, to the United Nations. They need to participate. What are these guys doing? How about this? How about this for... We can do this for a fine compromise. You don't have to have your head delegate to do this. You don't have to have your head delegate there for... It's a week-long thing. The one guy is not... They're not camping out. So you send, like, you know, you send the low guy on the totem pole to just sit there and roll his eyes for an hour. I agree. No empty seats. No empty seats. You know those guys from, like, the tire companies? Like, the little fan guys that just blow up and wave? The big arms? The big swinging arms? Each seat should have one of those guys in it so that if you're not there, that's how you show your displeasure. It's like, we're not here, but you just get the big wavy guy at the seat. I like a little more creativity when they show the crowd shot. One guy's got that. Israel's got a blow-up doll in there. Somebody's got a scarecrow over there. I think that would be nice. I do agree with that. In other words, if you're going to protest, do it creatively. Yes. Not an empty seat. The empty seat can't... You're not allowed to have an empty seat. Okay, so you don't have to be there, but you have to fill the seat with something. Like the Oscars, you have seat fillers. Yeah, I agree. You should definitely fill your seat so that I'm watching it as a viewer go, wow, shit's really happening down there. So now... We do conferences. We do comedy. We'd be kind of like going to an empty room. It's like, this sucks, man. I'm performing for no one. Well, would you be happy to perform for a bunch of those wind-blowing arm-swinging tires? Better than no one. That would amuse me. That's not... All right. So Netanyahu, a day later, came in, and he came with the cartoon, or do you guys remember the game Kaboom? Yes. Okay, he had a picture of a bomb that was from Kaboom. Right, I remember that. Which, if that's what bombs really look like nowadays, I would be great at saving everybody because I used to zip around with three buckets and I used to catch all those things. It was the bowling ball with the fuse on it. Yes, yes. And he drew a red line on it in English, so from left to right. Let's listen to this. There's only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs, and that's by placing a clear red line on Iran's nuclear weapons program. Red lines don't lead to war. Red lines prevent war. Just look at NATO's charter. It made clear that an attack on one member country would be considered an attack on all. And NATO's red line helped keep the peace in Europe for nearly half a century. So in fact, the only way that you can credibly prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon is to prevent Iran from amassing enough enriched uranium for a bomb. Makes sense. Makes sense. Netanyahu doesn't sound Jewish, he doesn't sound Israeli. Where does he sound to you? He almost sounds American. Yeah. Where's he from? Is he Israeli born? I don't know. That's a fine question. And I would look it up as we speak, but then I would forget to talk for the rest of the time and I would just look shit up online. No, he is Israeli, but he's... I mean, he has a good command of the English language. I'm impressed by his English. You shouldn't be that impressed. No? No. Have you heard any Israeli leader that you couldn't understand? Well, look at Ahmadinejad. You don't hear him. You don't hear him. You don't hear him. You don't hear him speaking English. Slight difference. Is he the one nicknamed Bibi? Yes. Yeah, that's what his buddies like Mitt Romney call him. You know who needs to settle this? You know who I really feel needs to settle this argument with the Iranians and Israel are Persian Jews. Because Persian Jews are in the middle. I mean, they're Iranian, but they're Jewish. They're Persian Jews? They're the ones who need to settle it. Who are these people? I have not met them. Yeah, what's his name? Oh, there's Persian Jews. What's his name? His name is Mohammed Feinstein. Let me tell you something. I've known many Persian Jews as a large contingency in Encino, and they need to be the ones because they are in the middle. They are the hybrids. They need to be the peacemakers. I would like that food. I didn't know these people exist. They seem like a hard man to Feinstein. I don't know who this person is. Thank you. Thank you. So, what do you do with Iran, by the way? I mean, we obviously don't have all the information, but I mean, how willing do you think everybody agrees they can't get a nuclear weapon, but nobody else wants to go to war with the exception of maybe Romney and McCain? No, no. I disagree. I think there's a large contingency. Do you really? Yes. Yeah, there's a lot of people that want to go to war. Let me rephrase that. You think the American public, a majority of the American public? No, no. I didn't say the majority of the American public. I'm not talking about people that are going to make money off of it. I'm talking about, obviously. But there are war hawks that are just eager for that. Always. But, I mean, as far as the American public, there's no politician that wants to sell to the American public right now. Let's go attack Iran, which is not going to be a small war. No, and I also think there's a fair amount in Israel that are going, let's do it. Oh, yeah. I'm sure. Including Netanyahu, who wants us to draw a red line. I don't disagree with that thought process. If you are going to have the position that this is not going to be allowed to happen, you can't, it's like a parent. You can't say, you are not allowed to do that. You better stop doing that because you're not allowed to do that. I'm going to tell you one more time. Well, if there's not consequences for that one more time, you have to, you have to have a point. I agree with that. Although I think as an American president, I think they don't want to have to corner themselves into something. If, I mean, for the most part, yes, you may have a red line in your head and say they can't get there. If they get to that point, we're going to have to do something. But you don't want them to be able to know that, be able to play to that fact, and you now have to either look weak by backing down or have to go. You don't want necessarily, if you have to go, great. But I don't think, I think you hold as much information back as you possibly can. If the U.S. and Israel decide whether or not to bomb Iran, then what the hell's the point of the U.N.? It's supposed to be the U.N. who makes these rules, not... Yeah, but you always have countries with veto power. As much as we have the U.N., if the major powers decide they're going to do something, it's never effective for the U.N. Yeah, and that brings me to the next question, which is what, you know, which ties into the other big topic, Syria. How effective is the U.N. nowadays anyway? I mean, they can't even, their resolution on Syria, where there's, I think they say there's been, what, 30,000 people? Yeah. 30,000 Syrians have been killed since the, in a year and a half uprising. 30,000. We're still freaking out over 3,000 on 9-11. 30,000 people have died there and the U.N. will send over people unarmed and then they can't leave so they stay in there for a while, but they can't leave because it's too dangerous. And we can't even pass a resolution to decide that we may want to do something. Right. Here's the thing. Here's the thing with the U.N. It is one of those things that is good in hope and theory. In other words, you want to get something done. You want to pass a resolution, whether it be on Syria or Iran. So you'd go into it with the hope that maybe you're going to get a consensus. Like everyone, like if there was suddenly a Hitler, you know, something like that, you would hope that go, look, everybody agrees and now we get to do something and sing Kumbaya and everybody's happy and we work together. That's the ultimate hope. Yeah. That's not real. That's not reality. Now, when reality hits and it's not that, then somebody has to step up and that's generally, I'd say 99% of the time, the United States, if not 100%, says, okay, we weren't, we tried, couldn't get an absolute, you know, consensus, so we're just going to make it happen. Yes. Any country that doesn't, that most countries have some sort of financial ties to either us or Russia or any of the world powers, in which case, you know, if they don't have a big enough tie, I don't, I don't think anybody's going to waste their veto power and they don't care. But if somebody has a big enough tie, they're not, they're not looking to abandon whatever their business, whatever their, I mean, what does Russia get? Like billions, billions of dollars in arms sales to Syria. Well, let me ask you guys this. When a country goes against the advice or declaration of the UN, do they, what do they have? Do they have to pay a fine or do they get suspended? What becomes of them? They lose their parking space. I don't, I don't know and it depends on, it is. And there are plenty of people that eventually are, there's been scenarios where, I mean, Israel is, you know, bagged on all the time, but then it comes down to will veto anything against Israel, you know, that is against Israel and Israel will say has a right to defend himself. So what's going to happen? Nothing. Yeah. Nothing. I mean, for the most part, it's weird to have an, and I agree with you. I mean, in theory, it's nice. And when there's something bad enough, there may be a consensus, but it hasn't happened that way in a long time, which is why there's always people arguing that the UN is irrelevant and useless. And that seems a little harsh, but yes, I mean, for right now, it seems for the most part, what they do is they'll get together and they will vote on whether or not they believe you should stop fighting. We've all voted you guys should stop fighting. Oh, you disagree? We can't do anything. I believe the last time, and I don't even think then that it was unanimous, but when Iraq invaded Kuwait, that was the last time you really had a large consensus of people all agreeing on what should be done. Yeah. That was the last time. Yeah. And that was the last time and that was a long time ago. That was. Can the UN fight a country? You know, I mean, because the UN has a military. they can send NATO troops and they can do, but. They did that in Serbia. Yeah. So can the UN kick ass? So in other words, in other words, is anybody afraid of the UN? Because that's what it has to be. It has to be based on fear. People aren't afraid of the US. People are obviously afraid of Iran. It depends what the situation is. If somebody feels, holy shit, this may be a scenario where they're actually going to get action, then yes. That's what happened in Serbia. Yes. You know, it was UN troops. It wasn't, you know, a large contingency was the US, but. What about the Iraq war? Uh, there was several, but I don't think that was, I mean, yeah, I guess. I mean, that was not just us. It was a coalition. I don't know if it was the UN though. The first time or the second? Sure. Or the third. Well, you know what I'm saying? It was more towards the end when Bush was saying it's a coalition of the willing. It was like eight guys, you know. Yeah, it was us and 12 Canadians. Right. Yeah, no, no, no doubt. No doubt. Um, yeah, let's, uh, let's talk about, uh, politics here. Their new polls came out 37 days, 37 days away from the presidential election. Uh, Romney leads among rich white voters and members of the Romney family. Obama seems to have most of the other people, although in some cases, it's a small amount. Anything obviously can still happen, but Romney has had a rough stretch. Let's listen to these, uh, these polls. Here's the newest data that we've got on the state of the election, at least in two of the swingiest of the swing states in Ohio and Florida. There's new data out today. The Washington Post putting out new numbers showing President Obama ahead by eight points in Iowa and ahead by four points in Florida. Uh, there is also new national polling. Now, the Republican leaning Rasmussen poll is out with their new national numbers today. Their national tracking poll right now putting President Obama up by one point nationally. The Gallup tracking poll, which is also skewing a little more Republican than most other surveys this year, less so than Rasmussen, but still slightly more Republican leaning. Gallup's daily tracking putting President Obama up by three points today nationally. Of the last 20 national presidential polls, of the 20 national polls taken in the month of September, every single one of those 20 polls shows President Obama winning nationally. The range varies from one point, as you just saw with Rasmussen, up to eight points in some other polls, but 20 straight national polls showing President Obama ahead. That's what you call a trend. Ken, can you please have, bring back the hot British newscasters? Cause these American women just sound too dykey to me. That works. Oh, well, okay. Rachel. Yeah, need I say that was MSNBC's Rachel Maddow? Oh, was that Rachel Maddow? Yeah, it was Rachel Maddow. I didn't even know. Yes, you did. Yes, you did. I didn't know, I didn't know. Yes, you did. So also, Well, then I nailed it then. All sorts of polls. No, here's the thing. As polls change, polls will change. And I am not a guy who gets very confident. I still think the Mets will lose the 1986 World Series. But however, and I think something will happen within the next 37 days where they will be like, even if it's made up, they will say, oh my God, look at this. Oh, Obama's actually, you know, he was behind something. And I'm sure that's the case. They'll come with something. But Romney has had a rough, rough stretch. Yes. Well, I think part of the problem is he started off focusing on the economy and how we were heading in the wrong direction and it's bad for America. And the policies are all bad, and it's not gonna help the economy. Well, the housing market has shown a substantial rebound. It was up something like, I think 10% nationwide. So you've got that. The economy has been ticking up. So it's really hard to make the argument that you're heading in the wrong direction when things are showing improvement. Yeah, and they didn't like, several months ago when he tried the, you know, things are getting better, but not fast enough, they didn't, the Republicans didn't like that. That sounded too soft on the Democrats. Right. Also in the nine swing states, Obama has led in the nine swing states surveyed since the end of the Democratic National Convention. Well, Rachel Maddow used the term swingiest. She did, they are the swingiest. The swingiest. But these are the nine. I don't think these, these are more than, These are the nine. I don't think these, these are more than, than just the swingiest. But I guess you can always expect a good bump from Bill Clinton, by the way. And he may give you a boost in the polls as well. But he- I like that guy. So what, you gonna say the nine states? No, I'm not gonna say the nine states. But I will tell you, cause I don't have the numbers for all of them. Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire. Virginia. Virginia. And there's one I'm forgetting, but, but there's a couple I'm forgetting, but he's, he's leading in all of those. New Hampshire is a swingy state? New Hampshire, he is currently leading 51 to 44%. Did the Kennedys do anything at all? They drank. I mean, weren't the, aren't the Kennedys from New Hampshire? They had a lot of sex. They drank and had a lot of sex. No, Massachusetts. Boston. They're from Boston? Yeah, Massachusetts. I thought they were from New Hampshire, or maybe Teddy is, is in, was in New Hampshire. No, Teddy was shit-faced in Massachusetts the whole time. Did they vacation in New Hampshire? Fucking anything. No. What does it matter with you? I know nothing. Are you, did you, did you, did you, did you, did you, did New Hampshire pay you off to keep mentioning New Hampshire? I know, no one is from New Hampshire. No, I'm just surprised that New Hampshire's a swing state. No one has ever been from New Hampshire. And I'm, I'm reasonably sure no one's ever going to New Hampshire. I got no problems in New Hampshire. I don't like New Hampshire, fuck them. Wow, strong, strong stand against New Hampshire. Send your hate letters to Drew Marks. Unless people in New Hampshire listen to bad advice, in which case you guys rock. Now here, here's a strange thing. Now you would think there's certain things during, that Romney would have down by now, answers. They were talking about the uninsured. He was asked about the uninsured and what, you know, what you should do about these people. Cause he's still trying to backtrack from, you know, counting off 47% of America. And he was asked this on 60 Minutes. Listen to this. Does the government have a responsibility to provide healthcare to the 50 million Americans who don't have it today? Well, we do provide care for people who don't have insurance. People, if someone has a heart attack, they don't sit in their apartment and die. We, we pick them up in an ambulance and take them to the hospital. We give them care and different states have different ways of providing for that care. That's the most expensive way to do it. Well, the, the, the emergency room. Different, different, again, different states have different ways of doing that. So some provide that care through clinics. Some provide the care through emergency rooms. In my state, we found a solution that worked for my state. Yeah, the one that Obama did, now he wants to repeal. Romney used the word apartment. I would bet money that Romney has ever, never stepped foot in an apartment. No, and, and, you know what? I've heard him get a little crap for that. As far as people saying, and you notice he immediately went to apartment when talking about the uninsured, but I'm fine with that. I think they would have made fun of him if he would have said, oh, you know, the uninsured, they, they will leave their mansion. You're like, they would have made fun of him for that too. So I got no, I got no problems with that. If you have a heart attack in your second home. You know, no, actually it would have been funnier if he goes, they will pick them up in their car. They will take them out of their car. I mean, he has such a hard, he has a, one of the best things, he has done in public office has been to get all these people insured in Massachusetts when he was there. By having an insurance mandate. Yes. Which they're now very against. Right. And he's having a hard time giving himself credit for that and saying it is the worst thing Obama's ever done. Because your average conservative, nothing will mean anything to them. Paul Ryan can not lie all he wants. Romney can gaffe all he wants. All that, all that matters is that they have the R in front of their name and they're going to vote for them. No, no Republican has been budged or changed at all from all that has occurred in the last few months. Absolutely. But now I wouldn't say no. I wouldn't say no. You know, Republicans who are no longer Republicans now after what's happened recently. No longer Republicans. No, but Obama, Obama got some votes last time that were not all. Now there's hardcore people, a lot of hardcore people on both sides that would not vote either way. They're going their party lines either way. But there are people towards the middle of both parties. Mo, but do you know people that have changed, sing a different tune, since the Republican convention? I know people that are skeptical of Romney and are not backing Romney. Now who they'll actually vote for, I don't know. I don't know anybody that's changed from Republican to Democrat, but I know people that don't want to back Romney. I think also part of the problem they have, the two biggest problems that I think Romney's campaign has, first is they are very short on any sort of detail. In other words, when they say, okay, we are going to fix the economy, we're going to change the budget. How? Well, we don't really, we're not going to give any of the details now. We'll do that once we're in office. You'll see then. It is really hard to sell people on the, I will show you later. Yeah, well, and like you said earlier, if things are getting a little better, and Obama's always been a likable character, except for people that don't believe he's really an American, it's tough to keep running on just, well, he sucks. Right. Especially, when there's videos keep coming out of you basically saying, well, half the country doesn't take responsibility for themselves. Yes. And it's that old, the enemy you know versus the enemy you don't know. People are like, well, I may not love these policies, but at least I know what they are. And the other thing is Medicare. People do not, just because the Republicans are saying, anyone under 55 and under, it's only going to affect, you. Well, that's not, you know, it doesn't work because the old people are not so selfish. They're like, well, I'll be fine. They're thinking I've got kids or grandkids and it works for me. And I don't want that going anywhere. Yeah. That, yeah. So, and so therefore bringing Paul Ryan on is certainly being second guessed. I'm sure right now. And Romney recently on NBC news was asked about money, money in the campaign in politics. Obviously he believes corporations are people. Listen to his answer. In the case of the Democratic, Democratic party, I don't mean to be terribly partisan, but I kind of am in case of the Democratic party, the largest contributors to the Democratic party are the teachers unions, the federal teachers unions. And so if they can elect someone, then that person is supposed to be representing the public visa V the, the teachers union, but actually most of their money came from the teachers union. It's an extraordinary conflict of interest. That's something I think is a problem and should be addressed. How, how can you not replace the teachers union with, with the word corporation and that not be the same exact problem? Right, exactly. It's like where they get their money is bad, but we get our money is fine. We get our money from Dow chemical, not from the teachers union, which is an evil organization. Right. Well, yes. And, and, and, and obviously corporations give money. Yes. Corporations give money to both sides. It's, it is just as ridiculous, but that answer is not even close to even. No, but still the answer, I mean, how you can make that statement and, and say, well, once they back you, are you not really beholden to them? And yet ignore the fact that you've stood there and said, corporations are people, corporations are people. Our country unions aren't people profess to love teachers like, oh, teachers, teachers, give them raises teachers. And yet, as soon as you mentioned teachers union, it becomes partisan. Are they not the same fricking teachers we were supposed to honor five minutes ago? They are. They just, they want you to honor them. They don't want you to pay them a lot. Same with the troops honor them, but don't give them benefits. Yeah, exactly. Salute them as they walk by. Keep them busy. When they say honor them, they mean keep them busy by keep going to wars. So we were talking about, obviously we started this off by saying Romney had a rough stretch. One of my favorite Republicans that is actually on MSNBC, strangely enough, Joe Scarborough. Oh, Jesus. Let's listen to morning O. In the case of the democratic party, I don't mean to be terribly partisan, but I kind of. No, he's very partisan. I want to show you a sound bite. Mitt Romney is spending, of course, his third straight day in Ohio. Today's New York Times is reporting that aides to Mitt Romney say the Republican candidate and running mate Paul Ryan will be campaigning together more often in the coming weeks. According to the report, the move underscores concerns that Mr. Romney is not generating enough excitement on his own and needs Mr. Ryan to fire up supporters. That may have been evident during a campaign stop yesterday outside Dayton. Wow. That's quite a guy, isn't it? Paul Ryan. That's something. Wait a second. Romney, Ryan, Romney, Ryan, Romney, Ryan. There we go. All right. That's great. Thank you. Oh, sweet Jesus. Sorry. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be so hard on you. Well, the funniest thing is, you know, the Republicans and I was reading the news, and I was like, oh, my God, this is a big deal. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. If they're not appropriate, they're appropriate. If they're appropriate, they're appropriate. If they're appropriate, they're appropriate. If they're appropriate, they're appropriate. If they're appropriate, they're appropriate. If they're appropriate, they're appropriate. If they're appropriate, they're appropriate. If they're appropriate, they're appropriate. If they're appropriate, they're appropriate. 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And so in response, the Republicans immediately were trying to look for something and they're blaming, they're giving the Obama administration all sorts of shit for changing their story on the Libya attack. Changing it from their original assessment, which was just it was a protest gone crazy to it's a terrorist attack with possible ties to Alcancer. So you're talking about due to the Innocence of Muslims movie? Yes. Well, they originally claimed it came out of that protest. But then they're saying. It was far more organized and planned. Right. It would have occurred anyway in spite of the movie. Yes. The movie was used to manipulate some people, but it was planned. At least they don't know. They don't think it was planned way in advance, but it was it was a set up attack. It was strategically done. Yeah. The and it was done on 9-11. The protesters also. In the first place. Yeah. The protesters lacked the sort of organizational skills and weaponry. The. They had to pull off that attack. Either way, I don't I don't think much of this. I mean, basically, the Obama administration has come out with saying as new information comes out, we're going to change our assessment. Well, that's kind of the way he does everything. It's like I am going to I'm not going to jump to a conclusion yet. Let's see what the facts where that brings us, as opposed to the other guys. Let's just call for something right now. Well, yeah. Well, they're big. Also, we've seen some some Republicans big on I've already I've already bought into a theory. Don't give me any new information. Right. Which is why. religion is still around. All right, so one more problem. I want to spend five minutes on this at most is another problem for the Republicans is Todd Akin. For those of you that don't remember why Todd Akin is famous, here's a clip from the Jayco report on Fox 2. What about in the case of rape? Should it be legal or not? It seems to me, first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something. You know, I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child. That's a good stand. Good stand right there. You should, you know what? Yes, you should go after the rapist on that occasion. I think there should be some punishment. Instead of saying that, you know, the way the child was dressed, it was asking for it. Yeah, nice. Is that, no? No, well, there's no child in this scenario. Too soon. But yes. Dude, he is. Now, here's the thing is they all called a bunch of Republicans called him to leave the race because they wanted to pick up enough seats to win the majority and they figured he was going to lose. And so they pulled funding from him. Here is from CNN and Fox, almost everybody calling for him to leave the race. Republican leaders now call Akin a threat to their goal of winning control of the Senate and taking the White House. His comments about about rape were deeply offensive to the president and the president's family. And so he's going to defend him. Republican leaders circle the wagons pulling $5 million in TV ads planned for Akin's Missouri race. We're hopeful that he hears these things that people. The RNC chairman is among those urging Akin to step aside. The thing he should consider is what's in the best interest of the things he believes most deeply, what will help the country at this at this critical time. I wanted him to drop out. You wanted him to drop out. Tony Ryan. Because this this selfish swine, Todd Akin, is going to hurt the Republican Party. Nice. But nobody says can all these guys are saying we want him to drop out. We don't defend him. But nobody's saying they disagree with him. No, no, no, they're not. They want him to drop out because they think he's going to hurt the party. Right. Yeah. Not because they disagree with what he said. No, they're yeah. They think he's going to lose. And, you know, I won't say none of them said that. Some some some said they disagree with what he says. Yeah, well, some of them understand how they're doing. They're not going to do it. They're not going to do it. They're not going to do it. They're not going to do it. They're not going to do it. They're not going to do it. The human body works. And so they understand a part of it. They would they would disagree with the parts that they can disagree with without catching shit from whoever votes for them. Yeah. About the special workings of the lady parts. But fact is, is he just passed the the last deadline to drop out of the race has passed. He stayed in and now he's getting some funding back. He's already gotten. He's also been endorsed and supported by no surprise. Right. But Newt Gingrich and what's his name from? Santorum. Pennsylvania. Santorum. Right. Santorum. Yeah. And he just got two hundred and ninety thousand dollars donated from a conservative fundraising group. I'm looking Senate Conservatives Fund. Two hundred ninety thousand dollars he just got. And how's Claire McCaskill actually doing in the polls? What's that? Close. It is now within a few points. Yeah. But who's leading? She is leading, but it's close. And I think it depends. He could still win easily with all of this. He could very easily win. Could easily still win. So that that'll be interesting. But it's funny how they came back now because what are you going to do? They still want to win. Can't blame them. I'm pretty sure the other side would do the same. We had such a bad call in last Monday's football game. It ended a labor dispute. Listen to this from the NFL. The game's final play is a Wilson lock to the end zone, which is fought for by Tate with Jennings simultaneous. Who has it? Who did they give it to? Touchdown! One guy goes up touchdown. The other said no time. They're fighting down at the bottom of the pile with Jennings. Still down there. Tate off the pile with the ball. We must have a definitive call. There was one touchdown signal. The Seahawks have won! The previous play is under review. Yeah, it ends with them still reviewing. They had two refs standing next to each other giving opposite signals. Here's what I don't understand. I watched the game. I understand maybe you get the two different signals. If there was no review, maybe you come through with that bad call. I don't know how you would have done that. You would have had to have had a touchdown. You would have had a touchdown. You would have had a touchdown. You would have had a touchdown. You would have had you watch that under review and not see that Jennings caught it. It was awful. It was. It was an awful call. If you listen really closely to the crowd you would hear Romney-Ryan. So, that call was so bad, so bad, that the refs who have been on strike for months Suddenly you'll come back for free. Yeah, I think they suddenly tripled their you know what I want $3 million a game now. I mean, so all of a sudden negotiations kick back up. Let's listen to this. Nope. The uproar over those replacement refs and that now infamous call may finally force the NFL and the regular refs to end their labor dispute. This morning, the two sides are reportedly back at the table. You know it's a bad call when the president himself calls it terrible and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan agrees. It is time to get the real refs. It happened Monday night. The Hail Mary pass and the question, who caught it? The Green Bay Packer defender or the Seattle Seahawks receiver? And look at those two replacement referees standing over the scrum, one calling it a touchdown for Seattle, the other signaling something entirely different. On Tuesday, the NFL stood by the ultimate decision to give the touchdown to Seattle, but that did nothing to quell the uproar, which is really the climax of a week's worth of frustration. Over these replacement refs brought in by the league while the regular refs are locked out in a labor dispute. So who are these replacement refs? According to ESPN, the man who called the touchdown is a local executive for Bank of America who has only officiated high school and junior college football games. We've also learned that other replacement refs not involved in last night's game had experience officiating things like six-man high school football, professional poker, and that one of them was even fired from something called the Longstreeters, a tenth of a tenth of what they do in the NFL's stadium. Do you think that means jerking off somewhere in the arena? Is that what that means? Jerking off while wearing lingerie. I was going to say he had granny panties. I don't think he was playing. So these guys didn't go through any NFL training. The NFL did not train these guys. I don't think the NFL trains any refs. There's some kind of training that goes on. I don't know if the NFL does it or if the separate union does it, but I would assume the NFL has something to do with it. But, no, these guys were certainly not trained. I mean, to be honest, I don't think there's any skill that these refs have, the real refs have. And obviously, for anyone who doesn't know, the deal has now been struck and the refs are already back. The real refs are back. And they're going to go to $173,000 per year in 2013, up in 2019, $205,000 annual salary for the refs. I would do that job. Yeah? I would wear that striped shirt. Now, here's the thing. Somebody was arguing with me the other day saying that they don't deserve a pension because there's full-time people. That was a big argument, the pensions. And they get that, although they're, they're selling out. The pension years stop after a certain amount of years. The pension plan stops. And so some of the younger refs, a lot of the younger refs won't get to the maximum amount, kind of sold them out on the deal. But they got pretty much everything else they wanted. But this guy was arguing to me that the pension, they don't deserve a pension because there's full-time employees that are saying that don't get a pension for the NFL. Why should these guys do it? Well, there's this 47% of these refs who think that they're entitled. Well, this guy was arguing with me. He kept saying, you know what? Let the free market. Dictate how much? Because I said, well, how much do you think they deserve then? Well, let the free market dictate. I said, well, didn't the free market dictate? They were told, no, stay away. We'll replace you. Those replacements were so bad. They basically caved and said, okay, what do you want? So they like a plant. Maybe the real refs planted the fake refs to kind of throw the call. Kind of, you know, kind of like a fighter throws a fight. Who got hired. They were like, who looks good in a striped shirt? That would be great. It was a casting call. They had auditions for refs. Yes. That clip. It was a courtesy of ABC news. They weren't real refs, but they ended up playing them on TV. I mean, that was, that was crazy. But those poor guys got shit all over. They got blamed for everything. They got grabbed. A couple of Belichick got fined $50,000 for grabbing one of them. Shanahan was Shanahan's son. An assistant coach was yelling at him in the tunnel afterwards. And he got fined $25,000. What I like is, you know, the guy who he was an executive for Bank of America. So you're going from one hated profession. Now you're hated for that. I mean, there is no way. That guy is not going from here to like working at the IRS. Yeah. And then after that, he's going to work in cat vivisection. All right. Let's move on to the Emmys were last Sunday. Woo. Yeah, no, I know you're a big Emmy guy. We're going to give you a red carpet to walk in here and talk about how you were dressed on the way in, but we chose not to. Let's listen to this from ABC. I will admit that Downton Abbey is an amazing show. There's so much meticulous attention to detail. It's not the kind of show I typically watch, but it really gives you a sense. Of what it must have been like to grow up in Mitt Romney's house. Are any of you voting for Mitt Romney? All right. There's 40 Republicans and the rest godless liberal homosexuals. It's hard. It's difficult to be a Republican in Hollywood. Being a Republican in Hollywood is like being a Chick-fil-A sandwich on the snack table at Glee. Maybe it's just me, but does it bother anyone else that President Obama said his favorite show is Homeland? I don't think the president should be watching Homeland for the same reason I don't think Charlie Sheen should watch Breaking Bad. Nice. Good job by Jimmy Kimmel. I know neither one of you guys, I'm certain, haven't watched an Emmy Award since the Cosby Show won something. I don't think I've seen the shows that were nominated. I haven't. Especially Homeland, I really like. You watched that show. Oh yeah, it's great. Okay, I will remove that from my list then. We're going to ask you maybe five. I'm going to quickly read you a category, give you the nominees. You guys tell me who won. Best comedy series. Big Bang, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Girls, Modern Family, 30 Rock, or Veep. I got mine. Give it. Modern Family. Yeah, I agree. All right, you tied 1-1. That's nice. That's nice. That one I knew. Best comedy actor. Jim Parsons in a Big Bang. Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm. Don Cheadle in House of Lies. Louis C.K. Alec Baldwin or John Cryer in Two and a Half Men. I got mine. Ready? Yep. I'm going to go with John Cryer. I'm going to go with, who was the first name? First name was Jim Parsons from the Big Bang. I'll go with Jim Parsons. You are wrong. You are wrong. Yeah, baby. Two for Drew. This guy works in television. This is not fair. Let me tell you something. He could watch the Emmys and there's a decent chance he would still get most of them. I won't remember. That's right. No, Jim Parsons did win, I think, the last two years. Yes. Yes. That is true. Let's go with best drama actor. Steve Buscemi for Boardwalk Empire. Bryan Cranston for Breaking Bad. Michael C. Hall as Dexter. Hugh Bonneville in Downton Abbey. Damian Lewis in Homeland or Jon Hamm from Mad Men. You want to go first? Jon Hamm, Mad Men. Damian Lewis, Homeland. Holy crap. Did you study this? Yes. You knew Homeland. I just told you. I watch Homeland. He's great. How do you not know this? But just because you watch Homeland, how do you know that he won unless you... You know what? Because he deserved it. I think Drew studied the Emmys before today. No, he deserved it. I think so, too. I think so, too. I think you're a lying scumbag. I think you're a lying scumbag. What I don't understand is how Walking Dead wasn't in there. No, that's a fair question. Last one. Best variety series. The Colbert Report. The Daily Show. Jimmy Kimmel. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Bill Maher. Saturday Night Live. I have no idea. Wait. Wait. Saturday Night Live. What's the... Want it again? Best variety series. Colbert. Daily Show. Jimmy Kimmel. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Real Time with Bill Maher. Saturday Night Live. I'll go Jimmy Kimmel. It was, I believe, the 10th consecutive year that The Daily Show won. Wow. 10 consecutive years. So how many did I get right? You got one right, and you agreed with Drew on it. But that's all right. That's okay. That is the same amount. You won... I would like an all-expense-paid trip to Modesto. You won. An all-expense-paid trip to the bathroom down the hall. It was only going to cost like seven bucks. You're cheap. Let's get the headlines. I would like to have a... Who's the Jeopardy guy, the Hendrix guy, to replace me next time we have a quiz off? Oh, my goodness. Yeah, I wouldn't even do that. It would have been done. He would have owned it. Let's go with headlines today. We got, sadly, as we always start off headlines, it seems, a death. Singer Andy Williams has died of cancer at the age of 84. Best known for his rendition of the song Moon River, which ironically he never released as a single. By the way, I only know that song, Moon River, from when Fletch sang it when he was getting a rectal exam. That's the only reason I know Moon River. I don't know it from that, but okay. You knew what I was talking about as soon as I said... No, you didn't. I didn't. Oh, man. I couldn't... Here's the thing. Of that whole song, I know Moon River. I think that's all he sang. That's all I got. I think that's all he sang. Well, Andy Williams would have the Christmas specials, right? Yes. Yes, and he had the Andy Williams show from 1962 to 71. I miss him. I know you do. Okay. Also, the jackass who was behind the anti-Muslim film that helped spark protests around the world is now in jail. Is he? Yeah. He has... Protective custody? Turns out you can't arrest a guy for just being an asshole. If that was true, Donald Trump would probably be in prison. But he has used a fake name. He said his real name is Mark Basile Youssef, which using an alias currently violates his probation for bank fraud. Ah. So he's now in prison, and he has recently joined the Nation of Islam in prison. I was going to say... He's a Coptic Christian. If Muslims are mad, prison might not be the best place for you. He is not a Muslim. He is a Coptic... If he was a Muslim, he wouldn't have made the anti-Muslim movies. No, that's what I'm saying. But if other Muslims are mad at you, I'm guessing prison isn't the best place for you. But prisons have the black Muslims. Do the black Muslims align themselves with the Middle Eastern Muslims? I don't know, but I don't think this guy's going to have a lot of friends. Yeah. But I'm pretty sure they're not going to put him... Would you be wanting to take that chance? Well, no, but you know what? My brother. My brother. Even if he wasn't in prison... Pakistani railway minister put a $100,000 bounty on that guy's head. The government backed off from it. Yeah, the government said, not our official position. But this guy says, hey, you know what? I won't back off of it. He said, I'll do it to anybody else who blasphemes. It's a horrible verb, by the way. But yeah, $100,000. Not a fatwa, though. I like to say fatwa. I liked hearing you say blaspheme. Blaspheme and fatwa. That was a good one. Blaspheme, yeah, that's nice. Nice. I want you to say heretic next. I won't. I won't do it. Well, maybe. Maybe. After recently finishing their 50th anniversary reunion tour, original Beach Boy Mike Love now seems to be inappropriately named after firing all the other original Beach Boys. All of them. Wilson, Brian Wilson, Al Jardine, David Marks. Thanks for stopping by. Thanks for the reunion tour. I'm good. Wow. Mike Love owns the rights. He owns the rights to the game. Wilson was the guy who, like, went crazy and then came back. I'm back, baby. And they gave him Monopoly money. He was, like, the genius behind it all, though. Yeah. He's the only... He's the only Beach Boy that we know. Yeah. Well, I know the name Mike Love, although if he was here, I wouldn't... Yeah, I know Mike Love, I know Wilson, and I know the name Al Jardine, but basically, the three guys are like, I don't understand why we're fired. They were saying this is awful. Why would you have only one original member still in the band? The Beach Boy. Mike Love says his answer was, the 50th reunion tour was designed to be a set tour with a beginning and an end to mark a special 50-year milestone for the band. We don't want to risk... Overexposure. You're all in your 70s. What kind of overexposure do you think you're going to get at this point in time? They want to create a new fan base? Yeah, that is absolutely ridiculous. Fiona Apple spent the night in a Texas jail when cops found pot and hash on a tour bus at a border checkpoint in Texas. What are you checking a tour bus for? It's like shaking Snoop Dogg and then being angry and arresting him when weed falls out of his hat. Like, you know it's there. Leave it alone. The hell's the big deal? It's Texas. Yeah, no, I guess she should be happy they didn't shoot her. She went on to do her Houston concert and started rambling about having a lockbox with all the mistreatment that they did to her. But the lockbox was in her head. So apparently she got really high and listened to some Al Gore highlights or something. I don't know what was going on with the lockbox. She has since backed off any sort of... She's going to a Fiona Apple concert. Well, she's Steve Jobs' daughter, right? No. Good Apple reference. That's a fine Apple reference. Several months later, she's back. Several months later, she's back. Several months later, she's back. Several months later, she's back. Several months ago, we did a story about Erin Moran, the actress who played Joni Cunningham on Happy Days, who lost her home at the time and had to move into a trailer park with her husband and mother-in-law. Those were the good old days. And where's Chachi during all this? Where is he to lend a helping hand? She should have stayed with him. She should have stayed with him. Apparently that love had ended because her mother-in-law got pissed off at her apparent, quote, partying and kicked her out of the trailer park. I know. Tough. Oh, I thought the trailer park kicked her out. The mother-in-law said get out. Oh, the mother-in-law. The mother-in-law. Yes. No more Happy Days. Oh, man. Yeah, that sucks. I miss Joni so much. I guess now she's touring with Fiona Apple. She would. She certainly would. A hole was drilled into a driveway in Michigan in another attempt to find missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. If he's down there, he's being very quiet apparently because they did not find him still. They did a soil sample. It does not look like he is there. Was that Geraldo Rivera leading that search? That is so far from the Meadowlands. I don't understand. They were looking for him there, like a long time ago. We can keep that theory now. I kind of hope that they dug him out of the Meadowlands and put him into the new giant stadium. Yeah, he was always supposed to be under the giant stadium. Yeah, but it's a new stadium now. I don't think they moved the fake Hoffa area over, but they did not find him there either. So search for Hoffa continues. Did you guys use public transportation here? Yes. Unfortunately, yes. What do you mean unfortunately? That was an entertaining ride. Carmageddon 2 is here. Woo, Carmageddon. Woo, Carmageddon. Where they closed part of the 405 in Los Angeles. They say over half a million cars a day travel the 405. It was horrible. I basically came here for bad advice yesterday and stayed. I slept naked in that chair you're in right there, Sal. I can still feel your sweat on my bum. Yeah, you're welcome for that, by the way. It usually costs extra. Carmageddon was a big disappointment. Last year, Carmageddon was as disappointing as Y2K. Yeah, or you were looking for more destruction, were you? I want to see some shit. If you're going to call it Carmageddon. I was actually at Keith Coogan's house, I remember, as Y2K was coming, as 2000 was coming, and we were just looking at the internet, waiting to see, as soon as the first country went to the year 2000 to see how much trouble we were in. Were you talking about Carmageddon or Y2K? Y2K. You knew Keith Coogan then? Yeah. Oh, wow, I didn't know. See, Carmageddon, not Carmageddon, Y2K, I won't make this a long story, but the funniest thing is my dad was one of the original computer programmers, and he worked on the original computers. So when that whole Y2K thing, and everyone was worried, my dad told me that that's actually my fault. I'm one of the people that designed it, and we forgot to put it in, and I'm like, I have never been more proud of you. Seriously, if banks closed and planes fell out of the sky, I would have been able to go, my dad did that. Well done, well done, Mr. Marks. Council members in Selma, Alabama, voted to stop work on a monument until the courts can decide whether or not they needed to hide their racism. The statue was for a former Confederate judge, general who was also an early leader in the Ku Klux Klan. Nice. But that was the old Klan. You know, they would just like drink beers and stuff, you know. It's not the current Klan. No, no, no. Yeah, no, it was a more peaceful, gentle Klan. Yeah, they would like have potlucks. A kinder, gentler. Nice. Sensational trial in the Vatican got underway this week. How do you say the butler did it in Latin? The Pope's butler apparently stole documents and leaked it to the media in what he said was an attempt to expose some sort of, some sort of corruption and nepotism in the church that he said the Pope was not aware of. That's Michael Caine as the butler, right? I hope so. I don't understand that. Why couldn't you just say, excuse me, Pope? I don't understand that either. If he wanted the Pope to know and you're his butler, can't you just tap him on the shoulder and go, hey, look at this? That's a fine question. You would think maybe you don't have to leak it to the media. Yeah. Drew, what do you got coming up? You got your show coming up this week. I got bad advice every Saturday, two to three, here on Skid Row last Saturday. Hopefully. It's a hilarious show. I urge you to download it here at Skid Row or on iTunes. Sal, what do you got going, buddy? Myself and Chris Z are the host of Registered Ear Offenders right here on skidrowstudios.com every Friday, 1 p.m. Pacific time. That is very nice. As always, this is the Weekly Wrap-Up. I am Ken August. You can go all week to the Weekly Wrap-Up Facebook page and let us know what stories you want us to talk about. I will be off next week, so like I say, keep all news on hold for at least Saturday, seven to ten days. Wait, there's not going to be a show next week? I will not be. You're my douche of the week, Ken. That seems fair. Have a great week, everybody, and we will see you in 14 days. ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ Taught by a wisdom shin