Supreme Court decisions, Paula Deen, and court case trivia

And Welcome to the Sarcastic News Show. Today is June 27, 2013, and my name is not Paula Deen. And I'm glad to be with you folks tonight. We are coming at you live from the Skid Row Studios in the heart of LA's 100% human hair district. Our guest tonight on tonight's show, he is going to be calling in from Minnesota. He's the professor of diversity education at the Metropolitan State University. Victor B. Cole will be joining us to discuss yesterday's Supreme Court decision supporting equal marriage rights, as well as some other Supreme Court decisions as well that happened this week. And joining us in studio, a good friend of mine, a local musician here in LA, and also a magician as well, Tony Lunn Jr. Actually, just Tony Lunn. I like to add the Jr. part. Thank you. For my own... Esquire. Esquire. Esquire. Thank you for having me. Yeah. That's the just sensuous way. That's the voice of Matt Sugar Mills right across from me. Hey there. Matt Sugar Mills. Matt Sugar Mills is going to be on hiatus. I am going to be on hiatus, so, you know. We're going to talk about that later in the show. Your ears better soak it up. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to talk about that later in the show, and we're going to demonize you. How are your listeners going to be, our listeners going to be so turned on? No, you had it right the first time. My listeners. My listeners. My hair them, actually. I call them Charlie's Angels. Justin's Angels, actually. Yeah. Welcome back, Sugar Mills. Dude, he's going to be doing so many sound bites tonight. It's going to be ridiculous. Oh, sorry. All right, Mills. I'm sorry. I had a Mexican hot dog downstairs. All right. That's also the voice of the recently divorced Jeannie. I'm sorry. Recently engaged Jeannie Aguilar. I almost had that right. Oh, yeah. Last Thursday. Okay. Who didn't make the show? Oh, last Wednesday. Wednesday night. We told the world on Thursday. Okay. Okay. I thought that was a convenient excuse for you not to be here last week, really. That's... Because, you know, if you guys had your email list together, then I... Looking at you. That's right. Ezzy. That's right. That's right. Yes, Ezzy. Ezzy Ahmadinejad Hussein is in the house with us, our chief Middle Eastern correspondent. And that's the laugh of Jake the Snake Cranny and his sideburns. How's it going? Thanks. Thanks. Glad to be here. We got a packed house here tonight, guys. We got a lot to talk about. As usual. This is a huge news week, so we're going to just jump right in. As always, we begin tonight with by far the top story of the week, okay? Kim and Kanye named their baby Northwest. That's right, folks. They couldn't help but name their own flesh and blood after the Space Needle and Mount Hood. That's right. The Space Needle is a reference, by the way, to where Kanye is holding his next live concert from. And Mount Hood is, of course, what Kim calls Kanye's uncircumcised penis. Oh. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. He's going under the hood. Sorry. Actually, a lot did happen this week. First off, we begin with the Supreme Court of the United States, otherwise known as SCOTUS, otherwise known as what sounds like an urban dictionary term that refers to an act of oral sex that involves plastic sheets and some wet naps. It sounds like a STD. It does. SCOTUS. Sounds like it. SCOTUS. Something you have to take around antibiotics for. No, just make sure you always get your SCOTUS regularly checked. That's true. That's true. Play with the SCOTUS. Yeah. They like that. Two landmark decisions, guys. Two landmark decisions happened this week. By the way, I like how they're always landmark decisions. You ever notice that? More than a few, yeah. They're very epic. Yeah. Well, they don't call them. They're not the Supreme Court. Well, epic is for movies. Right. Landmark is for Supreme Court. Like Supreme Court decisions. Well, no, they were epic. I mean, the interns were running out of the building while it was exploding behind them. Michael Bay. Michael Bay. They corrected it. Yeah, exactly. It was great. But don't you agree, though? It's always like a landmark decision. It's not. Right. I feel like anything they do, like Scalia could go take a shit and they'd be like, that was a landmark shit that he just took, you know? He laid some landmark cable. Or legal argle-bargle, as he called it. Well, five justices. Scalia, Chief Justice Roberts, my favorite, Alito, Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas repealed a crucial element of the 1965. Voting Rights Act meant to keep Southern states from passing discriminatory anti-voting laws. Justice Roberts said that things have changed in the South and blatant discrimination was rare, to which the NAACP responded, no shit, Sherlock, that's because the law was there. That's right. I mean, SCOTUS wasn't done, though. After this judicial cumshot, folks, they voted to keep legalization of same-sex marriage in California as well as to provide the same benefits. For married same-sex couples as heterosexual same-sex couples. I said that completely wrong. I'm confused. I'm going to do it again. Try that again. From the top. Ezzy was right in this one beforehand. No, I mean, there are heterosexual same-sex couples. Well, yeah, that's what we're going through right now. You're doing a terrific job of translating it from Arabic, though. That's Farsi, actually. Ahmad Jadiz. Farsi. Farsi. So, in California, California, we're going to... It's going to basically be the 13th state to legalize same-sex marriage. And this ruling allows same-sex couples to have the same rights as heterosexual couples. Now, does that make sense? That makes sense. That was a little bit better that time. Much better. Thank you, guys. I'll say it five times fast. Okay. Same-sex. I see why people use the term gay. It's just one syllable, three letters. It's a lot easier than same-sex. Like, it's hyphenated same-sex. You know? Benefits including the ability... This is true. Benefits that include the ability to share joint health care. Make decisions on estate planning. And the natural decline into dispassionate conversations, lackluster sex, and a general aloofness to his or her spouse's own wants and or desires. Those are the benefits. Those are the benefits. That's right, audience. Those are the benefits that same-sex couples will have now under the Supreme Court decision. And in other news this week, I don't know if you guys caught this, Paula Deen. Paula Deen got fired for using the N-word and saying that she wanted to have, quote, a plantation-style wedding. Obama gave a historic climate change speech. Nelson Mandela is on life support. Africa is dating China, and we're starting to get a little jealous. Harrison Ford will be playing Edward Snowden in the future too. The Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup. And, oh, yeah, an NFL player was accused of murder and weight. Oh, wait. Oh, hold on. One more thing. Kim and Kanye named their baby Northwest. Big week in news this week. Big week in news, guys. That's applauding the news. Ezzie, do you have our sarcastic news snap? Gut reaction survey question for tonight? Yes, I do. But first of all, I don't want to have a repeat of last time. Can you hear me? Yes. Yeah, we can hear you. Okay, excellent. Right. So just kind of appending to what you mentioned about the not renewing that particular aspect of the Voting Rights Act. So is that something that even if they're saying it's because it's no longer applicable to today and there aren't as many discriminatory laws, does that mean they should have not renewed it altogether or maybe updated it? So I would like the question to be, should the voting rights act be renewed? She's making up in us. So my vote for the question tonight is. I would like to vote. No, I would like to know, do you feel like the Voting Rights Act should be updated so it is applicable to today or just let it go? That's what I would like to have people weigh in. Yeah. So basically do nothing. Because if we're just going to go ahead and do what the Supreme Court is saying to do, we let it go. Okay. All right. That's what. All right. All right. Well, we're going to see. We may have to append that question based on audience reaction. But I like it. We're going to go with it for now. I think it's a good one. Did that make sense? No. No. I didn't know it made sense. It made sense. Like basically they're going to revise and edit it or they're just going to hit the delete button. Exactly. Okay. Yes. All right. So that's our sarcastic news survey. Snap gut reaction survey question tonight. We've got Ring of Fire coming up next. But to play us out before our first break, local L.A. musician, a good friend of mine, Tony Lunn Jr. And Tony Lunn, as we're going out, do you have a song that you want to play us out on right now? I don't know. You know, I think. We'll just play a little something. Okay. Upbeat. Okay. All right. This is Time of Your Life by Green Day. Play this out. Tony Lunn Jr. I see myself departing, sitting off to sea. I don't think I can stay here. Too much left for me. I got trouble with the words you say. Trouble on my mind. It's harder to get away when you don't know what you'll find. And I think that it's best for me to stay here. But the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know the more I know We'll see you next time. We know who we are now So just leave us alone Just leave us alone Well I met you from the voices In my head It felt like a reaction From all the men Now I don't feel that different Now they got me strapped down In the top But as long as you're beside me Babe I don't care Well I guess it's been a really Fucked up year No, no We know what they don't know We see what they can't see And we're back on the Sarcastic News Show. My name is Justin Cross. We got a packed house here tonight. A lot of moving parts. We got Tony Long Jr., a local LA performer here in the house. That's right. We got a house musician. Wow. Now wait, hold on. That time we cannot hear Matt. Hold on. Can we hear you now? Yeah, we can't hear Matt. Oh, maybe I can hear you. Oh, there he is. It's cursed. That's the same mic I was having trouble with. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Okay. Well, screw it, you know. All right. All right. So let's go ahead and before we check in on this, Sarcastic News gut reaction question. First of all, Snake Cranny, do you have one of our fake sponsors right now? I want to promote one of our fake sponsors. Our spank sponsor. He's on a roll. I do. I'm very excited to announce a brand new sponsorship sponsoring Sarcastic News. Carl's Jr. with drive-thrus now open 25 hours a day. Because who are we kidding? Your fat ass isn't going to Whole Foods. Excellent. That's a Hardee's to the middle of the country. Oh, yeah. It's Hardee's. Yeah. That's right. And, uh, and we've got our, our, uh, game coming up here. Matt Sugarmos, are you ready for it? Are you ready for the wacky Supreme Court decisions? Yes. So, well, you know, it's, it's, um, there were a lot of important court decisions this week. And so I thought we would kind of go through some of the crazy court cases and court decisions. Not always just from the Supreme Court, but, uh, just that have gone around, uh, other places as well. So, uh, so a little bit we call, uh, Here Come the Judge. Excellent. Here come the judge. Oh, nice. Nice. We've got theme music and everything. How did you do the theme music? This is great with our disco ball. Oh, yeah. This is fun. Okay. All right. I'm ready for this. I'm ready for this, Sugarmos. All right. So some of these actually might be true. Some of these might be false. Uh, let's, um, let's take a listen to, uh, let's go through some of the ones, these court cases that these are actually possibly maybe true court cases. So you guys chime in, you know, what you think, and let me know if you think they're true or false. So first one we got here is in 2004 in a lawsuit, Frank D'Alessandro, a court official in New York, sued the city for serious injuries that he sustained when a toilet he was sitting on exploded, leaving him in a pile of porcelain and human excrement. Wow. He claimed $5 million compensation and a lifetime supply of Charmin. Is this true or false? I don't know. You guys tell me. I'm going to say that's, I'm going to say that's true. I believed it until the Charmin. Yeah, I was going to say, yeah, that part was a little too punchline. I'm going to say, I'm going to say false. I'll say false too. Well written, but false. Oh. Yeah, the Charmin, I'm going to say false. Tony Juan Jr., what are you going to do here? I'm going to say true. Yeah. All right. Because it's so easy to get companies to send you stuff. Okay. True that? That actually, if you complain. You should get sponsored by Charmin. All you got to do is complain and companies will send you stuff. Well, you are all right. It is true, except for the Charmin. Nice. Yeah. Oh. Come on, Tony. Yeah. You totally convinced me. All right. All right. So, all right. So, next one we got here, this also comes from us from our- Winner gets my boxers. Again. I'm running out of boxers, guys. Yeah, I know. Your one pair somehow gets split up evenly everywhere. So, this one comes from our sponsor, State Florida. Oh, wow. As always, they're always a big fan of bullshit news. I've noticed this, Nash. You like to go after Florida for some reason. Is this Jake the Snake Crane and I? Why could that be? I don't know. Oh. Taking personal shots. What do you think about that, Jake? What do you think about nasty- Let's hear what he has to say. It is the state news that keeps on giving. Okay. Okay. That is true. So, in 2009, in the case of Painter versus Florida, a man refused legal permission, or was refused legal permission to name his son F percent sign, number sign K. That actually does sound like something a Floridian would do. I'm going to say it's true. Permission was denied or declined on legal basis that all names must be- That all names must be capable of being translated into English. What do you guys think? Oh. I'm saying true. Oh, is that a law? I'm going to go true on that because of the key and peel sketch that I saw a little while ago regarding football player names. I'm going to go false because I know there's a LaDasha and there's a hyphen. Oh, yeah, LaDasha. I'll go false. By the way, well, this is not the time necessarily, but I was going to ask Mark and Jeannie what they're going to name their first child. And it's going to be something along the lines of LaDasha. LaDasha is a great name. I mean, I got nothing against it. I'm just saying. All right. So I'm going to say it's true. You're going to say it's true, Jake? Yes. Tony Juan Jr. I'm going to go with true just to be consistent. I don't know. It seems false. I don't think they can force you to have a name that can be translated into English. So I'm going to say false. Yeah. I think it is too. It is false. Yeah. Damn it. Yeah. That did not actually happen. Take your boxers off. Live right now. It's funny because I'm not wearing anything. Strip, pull. This is strip. Here comes the judge. Did we tell you that? Okay. So for our next case, we got in the case of Walton versus the Fuzzy Peach. Okay. Classic. A Delaware woman successfully sued the owner of a nightclub in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies' room. to avoid paying the $350 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 in dental expenses. I'm going to say true. I'm going to say true because that's the same thing I've done every time. So one of them's got to be true. So I'm going to say true on that one. Oh, damn it. I don't want to live in a country where that's true, but I'm going to say true. That sounds like... Okay. Sounds more like something a Floridian would do, but I'm also going to say true. Tony Juan Jr. I'm going to say true. All right. It is true. Yeah. Yeah. It's on the board with us. Okay. You know, maybe one more. Yeah, let's do one more. The way this works is this one counts and all the other ones don't. Okay. So this is the lightning round. The lightning round. Lightning round, yes. In the case of Morse versus Frederick in 2007, a high school principal, Deborah Morse, suspended 18-year-old Joseph Frederick after he displayed a banner reading bong hits for Jesus across the street from the school. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. During the 2002 Olympic torch relay, Frederick sued, claiming his constitutional rights to free speech were violated. It moved all the way up to the Supreme Court in which the court held six to three that the First Amendment does not prevent educators from suppressing student speech. I got to go with SCOTUS on this one. That's true. Yeah. SCOTUS. I don't know. What would Jesus do? I don't know. Bong hits for Jesus. I mean, I think that's actually I'm going to say true. I'm going with true. Everyone says true? I want to be a dissenter, so I'm going to say false. I'm going to say true. Wait, Jeannie, what did you weigh on here? I say true. It is true. That actually was a Supreme Court case. All right, I keep my boxers. Okay, all right. That's all I got for... Here come the judge. Here come the judge. Here come the judge, y'all. That's awesome. Where did you get that, by the way? Where did you find that? Oh, just, you know, my magical soundboard powers. Is that a sitcom that played, like, for an episode? It was. Wait, really? It has to be. That's kind of a known song from the 1970s. So I think Sammy Davis Jr. did a bit back in the day when he was like, here come the judge. Here come the judge. So there we go. That's great. Well, we're going to be back here in just a minute. We've got ringtones. Ring of Fire coming up. Call in 800-893-9562. Corey Hill, call in from San Francisco. Very smart man. He always contributes on our Ring of Fire. He's going to be calling in. We've got Victor B. Cole, also professor of the humanities, calling in a little bit later. And just before we go to break here, I do want to give a shout-out to Nick in the back. He is sober tonight. And first of all, I don't like that. Oh, wow. Yeah, never said I was sober. Uh-oh. I was going to say, is that why my mic cut? I don't know. Because he's just, yeah. He's too on the ball tonight. He's on it, man. He is on it. And taking us to break, very talented local musician. Tony, what song are you going to play to take us to break here? You know, I'm going to play an old spiritual number. Okay. Taking us to break, this is Tony Lunn Jr. playing some song. I want to say to my sisters and my brothers, keep the faith. When the storm raves and the wind blows, go on in a steady pace. When the battle is fought and the victory's won, we can all shout together, we have overcome. We can talk to the Father and the Son when we make it to the promised land. We can walk together like children. We don't have a problem. We don't have to worry. Through this world of trouble, you've got to love one another. Take your fellow man by the hand and try to help him to understand that we can all be together forever and ever. We'll make it to the promised land. Oh, by the way, in the air with the fly by day, no further warning. No further instruction. Come on, man. Take your fellow man by his hand. Try to help him to understand. We can all be together forever and ever. We'll make it to the promised land. Oh, by the way, we'll make it to the promised land. Oh, we'll make it to the promised land. We'll make it to the promised land. Come on and talk to me. I will try my utmost to be honest with you. Try to be honest with you every single one. Come on and talk to me. I will try my utmost to be rhythmical. Try to be rhythmical. I've been thinking a lot since the end Of our family affair About the things that went wrong In the manner of speaking I should have been more forthcoming About the things I needed to say But you seem to be talking to someone else Now you got me feeling so sorry For something I didn't do You had me crawling round the gutter When I should have been busy making love to you So it's all smoothed out But you cover your ears real tight Is it up to me to be telling the Black from the white? We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. lady, Corey, all right? She's a big bone lady. That lady is on a treadmill every day. Wait, play that one more time, Matt. Make me a sandwich, Paula Deen! Who is that? I have no idea where I got that from. That's Corey Hill from San Francisco. Paula Deen, that's what came up. Corey, I do want to know, what do you think about the Food Network? Did they do the right thing by firing her? Did her sponsors do the right thing by dropping her? I kind of think that was a bit of a preemptive strike on their part, kind of feeling out what the public feeling will be, because there have been times when folks like Fox have stood up for someone who said something crazy, like that kind of nappy-headed hose type comment about the basketball players, and they get a huge public pressure campaign. So I feel like they were just saying, like, you know what? Let's just cut this one off at the pass, and drop her right now before we have to deal with all that. And so, I mean, I look at it more as like a business decision than a morality decision. I mean, they probably heard all of these things previously, but now that the kind of public pressure is out there, they're just cutting it off already. That makes sense. Anybody else want to weigh in on the Paula Deen situation? It's the same with, I mean, I agree with Corey, it's the same also with Aaron Hernandez, the NFL tight end who just, every day he wakes up and there's a murder charge. He's just like, keep him coming. Patriots released him, like, the second he walked out. I think they had a heads up on the, oh, wait, so you mean he did it? You mean when he broke his cell phone and his cameras at his home, then he probably had something to do with it. Exactly. Taking a selfie with a gun in his hand. I just like the idea that he's, like, you know, he was, he was a tight end and now he will definitely be a loose end. Thank you. I wrote that myself. Here's what's interesting, though. Corey, you made the point that it was kind of a preemptive strike on the Food Network's part and the sponsors' part as well, but in general, should the Food Network, I mean, should they have provided some sort of sensitivity training? Should there have been a course of action as opposed to just letting her go like that? What do you guys think? I think now she's just becoming a self-parent. She's becoming a minority of herself. I mean, I think that's why people are, I don't know, shocked, outraged, slash entertained. Did anybody catch the Matt Lauer interview with her? No, I heard about that. Was it on the Today Show? She broke down crying? Yeah. What do you think about tears, Jeannie? Does that make you any more... I don't think it's anything about the N-word. I think it's about all the other things that she said and that she's clearly racist and now she's crying about it and I don't feel sorry for her at all. I mean, she's a millionaire. Doesn't she just go and live the rest of her life? Racist, racist. Nonstop baking. Watching out for flying hams. I've had a lot of corporate jobs where you do have sexual harassment training and you have to sign the little paper saying that you were showed the video and I don't know, maybe we do need, maybe that should be something that we do in addition to sexual harassment training, sensitivity training. But no, it's not an excuse. I mean, she's, any idiot knows that you don't say derogatory things about other people in public. And we all say the N-word when we're rapping in our car to ourselves. Yeah. Well, I do that all the time, guys. I'm singing along to Ice-T, but I would never use that word or, you know, say anything discriminatory against anybody in a malicious way. Makes sense. Lastly, I want to wrap this up real quick. Corey, being in San Francisco, what was the scene like on Wednesday? How were the parades? Were there lots of beads being thrown around? Not necessarily the ones you see on Mardi Gras. What was the scene like? Were the streets filled? Was it like the movie Milk at all? How did it, you know, describe the scene real quick. Well, I had to leave to go home right afterwards. A number of my co-workers went and shared photographs with me. Somebody made the comment that this is a community, meaning the community in the Castro, that knows how to organize. A party in short order because they had the streets blocked off. They had bands playing and they had people filling up block after block after block just on a moment's notice. There's a lot of comments about people just really amazed by the positive energy and how many folks were out there. Pride is this weekend too. Really? Wow. It's probably going to be a total madhouse in downtown San Francisco on Saturday and Sunday. If for no other reason you can be the most close-minded person out there, most parochial son of a bitch in the world, you have to give the gays credit. They know how to party. Okay? And for no other reason, yeah, keep supporting the cause because it's just going to be more parties, guys. It's going to be more parties. And Corey, thanks so much for joining us via the Jack in the Box hot mess phone line. Thanks for calling in tonight. No problem, you guys. Have a good one. Thanks so much. And we're going to be right back here with diversity educator Victor B. Cole calling in as well from Minnesota on the Jack in the Box hot mess phone line. But taking us to break. I'm a man. I'm 40. Taking us to break. He's a man. He's 40. I don't know how old he is, but he's a man. Tony Juan Jr. here in L.A. What song are you going to play us, Tony? I think I'll play Change. Change. Change. Talking about yesterday and all the great things that have happened this week. That's right. That's a great point. And note, Tony Juan Jr. playing Change. I want to be there for you. I want to be the avenue that you drive down to get to where you want to be. And I want to be your satellite climbing up in your skies watching over you and everything you do. You hold on to me and I'll hold on to you. Cause change is gonna come. It's gonna carry you. Yeah, change is gonna come. It's gonna pull you through. And I want to be by your side in the dark and in the light. I want to be there for you. I want to stay with you and help you to find your way through. Cause I don't want to see you losing faith or letting all your dreams slip away. I want to be the one that makes them all come true. I want to be the one that makes them all come true. I want to be the one You hold on to me and I'll hold on to you. Cause change is gonna come. It's gonna carry you. Yeah, change is gonna come. It's gonna pull you through. Yeah, change And I'm not turning back this time Not gonna change my mind Leaving the past behind I wanna stay with you Yes, stay with you guitar solo Yeah, change is gonna come It's gonna carry you Yeah, change is gonna come It's gonna pull you Yeah, change is gonna come It's gonna change It's gonna come It's gonna carry you Carry you Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, change Change It's gonna come It's gonna come It's gonna come It's gonna come It's gonna come It's gonna come It's gonna come It's gonna come It's gonna come It's gonna come It's gonna come It's gonna come It's gonna come It's gonna come To toss up between North Dakota and Texas, I imagine. Really? Yeah, definitely. Not Mississippi? I mean, both the Dakotas and several of the southern states are part of the voter race, you know, preclearance process. Fight back and forth around that. It'll probably be like, well, you know, you give us preclearance and we might give you marriage. But I don't know. It's just too strong in Texas. I don't know. Friends of mine are getting married in San Antonio next month. I mean, I don't know what they're thinking, but love is love, I guess. They're getting married in San Antonio? San Antonio, yeah. Really? How does that work? I'm sorry. Is it not recognized, but they're still doing it? Is it a ceremony? Yeah, it's not recognized in the state. It won't be recognized in the state. Maybe they'll do a border run to Iowa or something and come back to Texas. I mean, can I ask you from your perspective how far along now that you think? Now that it is mostly a state's issue, do you think that there's still a lot more to fight? Is that a fight worth having is going to those states, or do you think it's now? The culture has progressed so much, and the attitudes have progressed, and that it's sort of like, okay, and what happened yesterday. Okay, that was a big part of the fight that's been won, and everything else is just kind of icing on the cake. Yeah, the momentum is there. It's just going to keep going. It's just going to keep going. I mean, even, what, the Republican senator in Philadelphia just proposed, you know, same-sex couple law in Pennsylvania. So, I mean, you know, the Republicans are opportunistic, if nothing else. They're going to get them elected. They're going to jump right on that, okay? They're just going to jump on it. And the problem with that, also, is the Democrats are so fucking, I mean, they are just so weak sometimes. They're like, I mean, Bill Clinton signed DOMA. Why? Because he just needed other things to get done. Right. So, you know, he had a private conversation, like, okay, I'm going to sacrifice you to, you know, do this other stuff. So, I mean, they're going to jump on. They're going to jump on. They want election. They want re-election. So, it's going to happen. So, let me ask you this. What is, why has, why has the same-sex movement, when it comes to gay marriage, why has it, like, catapulted like it has in the last 10 years? I mean, literally 10 years ago. Yeah, it was really slow for about 40 years. It was really slow. Just taking its time. Just building up. But now it's like, I mean, seriously, it's, what's going on right now? Well, you know, it's part of the agenda. We were going to go slow. You know, promote, you know, gay cruises and, you know, throw Ellen out there first if she got, you know, asked. But it was slow. It was slow. You know, we had a plan. We have an agenda. You've heard of it, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Starbucks first in the morning and then some Pilates and then. Right. No. How, how, yeah, I mean. Well, actually. Beer bust on Sunday. You know, it's all in the plan. I actually, but I do think pop culture, speaking of Ellen, that has huge impact on it. Will and Grace, for example. Yeah, Will and Grace. Really? It made it relatable to somebody. It's in your living room. You're not that afraid of it. And then maybe, for example, if they make it satirical. Right. And they catch themselves laughing at it. It's no longer such a stigmatized, never to be brought up kind of thing. I mean, that was it. It was making it relatable. I think it was. It really is. Knowing that your neighbors. Yeah. You know. And it was incremental. I mean, you know what it was? Seven years before Will on Will and Grace had a boyfriend. I mean, it was incremental. They just couldn't have a boyfriend the first year. Well, even in modern family, that's a big controversy is that they don't, you don't see them kiss and, you know, they're not married, you know, and even that. You see, you still see that. We got to wrap up here. Yeah, you know. Go ahead. L word and queer folk. That wasn't part of the agenda. There's a lot of kissing going on there. That wasn't part of the agenda. But, you know, it was cable. So it's excusable, I guess. But queer for the straight guy was. Yeah. Yeah, that was pretty good. What is, what do you think is, what is your favorite? Gays at their best. Dressing other people and rearranging furniture. I mean. Well, you notice they didn't try to like take over any VFW. Try to like remodel the whole thing. You were also helping straight men get laid. So, you know, I mean, that's really. I love going to gay bars. It's like there's no competition at all. It's awesome. It's fantastic. Yeah. But don't go to the bathroom by yourself there, Justin. Or do I want to? All right. It wasn't just a phase in college. Okay, Victor. Yeah. Gay men introduced manscaping to the straight men. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for that. You're welcome. You're welcome. Victor, that's all the time we have, but thank you so much for joining us. We've got to have you back soon. Thank you very much for joining us, and we do really appreciate it. And I like that song, TLJ. Wasn't that it? Oh, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, totally. Yeah, that was nice. That was nice. I like that. Change. Change, I think. It might be my theme music from now on. It's going to introduce me all the time. Take it. Take it. Share it. Love it. Go love you back. Victor, thanks so much for joining us tonight. Yeah, thank you. And we appreciate that. That's Victor Cole. Good night. Victor Cole, he is the community engagement coordinator at Metropolitan State University. Guys, thank you so much for listening. This has been the Sarcastic News Show. We've got a great crew. Nick in the back, Matt Sugar Mills. Matt, this is going to be your last show forever, right? Because we're not renewing your contract. I am going out unceremoniously. No. No, I'll be taking. I'm going to be taking a bit of a hiatus to educate myself a little bit further. But you will be here. Yeah, no, we will be here. We will be here. We're going to have you call in live from wherever you're getting your DUI course from. And I want to say a special thanks to Ezzy and, of course, Jeannie. Mark in the back, he's been holding that camera for us the whole time. We really appreciate that. You're good at that. And congratulations again, guys, on your recent engagement. That's pretty exciting. And Jake the Snake Cranny. Yes, Jake, I will bring your flash drive. I know you forgot it. And finally, playing us out tonight, before we end the show tonight, Tony Leung, a local L.A. musician. You can catch him. Is it TonyLeungMusic.com? Yes. TonyLeungMusic.com. You can download him on iTunes. You heard the song Change. Fantastic song. It's Victor Cole's new theme song before his drag shows. And Tony, I'm not kidding. And Tony, what are you going to play us out on here? I'm going to play Welcome to the Past. This is Welcome to the Past. This has been the Sarcastic News Radio Show. My name is Justin Cross. Guys, we will be off next week for the 4th of July, and we will be back on the 11th of July, I guess. That'll be a fun show. So playing us out, Tony Leung. Tony Leung. I'll dedicate this to the Voters' Right Act. Excellent. It's called Welcome to the Past. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Welcome to the Past. I hope all your dreams and your love runs last. And I pray that you're always in love. And your wishes are granted by God up above. It's been a cold, cold summer. Without you here with me. And I'm just trying to find. Yeah, I'm just starting to see. What you meant to me. Well, I'm haunted by a ghost in my soul. Taunted by memories that will never grow. And I wish you were laying by my side. Whispering secrets until you lie. It's been a cold, cold summer. Without you here with me. And I'm just trying to find. Yeah. I'm just starting to see. What you meant to me. See, I've been here for 28 years. Padded sweat beneath these wheels. Tattooed lines beneath our skin. No surrender, my Bobby G. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 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