Hey everybody. I know it was a little bleak yesterday, so I got a treat for you. And for me, Ben Stiller,

wanted to come on the pod. We've been DMing. He does a lot of work with refugees and everything that's

in the news with USAID and everything. I was like, man, John, come on. We can talk about your work doing that,

but then also take a little break, do some Hollywood chat. It wasn't maybe quite as

light affair as I wanted, but there are at least some laps for everybody. So I hope you enjoy it.

We were taping this on Tuesday afternoon because I'm headed out to Palm Springs for a book

festival for the rest of the week. And so if something happens

between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning that wasn't covered here, you'll know why. But before

you get to Ben, I said a few stray thoughts on some news items. I just wanted to share with everybody.

The first one is it's kind of an action item. Tom Malinowski, former congressman from New Jersey. I think we're

going to hopefully have him on the pod here in the next couple weeks to talk about this at greater

length. But he has a really, really great piece in the bulwark that was out on Tuesday morning

called Five Things Dems Must Do to Fight Trump Now. Go check that out if you haven't because it gives a real

an action plan. And I know there are a lot of people that feel maybe lost, including elected

Dems and some Dems strategists I've been talking to. Tom gives some real tangible things folks can do.

And reading it, it buoyed me a little bit. When I was like, yeah, that's a good idea.

That's a good idea. Yeah. This is manageable. I mean, it's bad. All the things Anne was worried

about are worth worrying about. But there's some countervailing influences that the Dems can leverage,

including the courts and the people that Biden put on the court recently, but also some strategies from Congress. So hopefully we can talk two times about that at greater

length, but you should go read the article regardless. Two other just sort of news items I wanted to

jump on. On Friday, I guess it was, I gave the plea to Bill Cassidy to do the right thing, my

senator here from Louisiana, acknowledging during the plea to Bill Cassidy to do the right thing. My senator here from Louisiana,

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