Hey guys, welcome to the show. Let me bring out we have an awesome panel today. He is the

host, a co-host of the bi-weekly American History Podcast, The Dollop. They have a new

book, The United States of Absurdity, Dave Anthony. He is a writer for Inside Amy Schumer and the

upcoming Louis C. K. and Albert Brooks cartoon, The Cops, Mike Lawrence, and she's an actress

and comedian who's the sex-positive comedy talk show, Lady Freak, Grace Parra. I want to say,

you know, I didn't say this, we had Gareth Reynolds on the podcast last week who is your co-host.

The dollop is one of my favorite shows. You should check it out. I didn't say this last week when I

said it to Gareth behind, but like when we were off stage, who gives a shit? You guys should check out

the dollop. I fucking love your podcast. Thank you. That's all I want to say. Very nice. Thank you.

All right. I feel weird about compliments. Oh, you don't like compliments. I don't think make me feel

weird. I think it's nice to see men compliment each other, frankly. I like your podcasts.

Of all the podcasts I don't listen to yours is one of them. See? We'll do that. Thanks, Mike. All

right guys, what a week. Oh my God. What a week. What a week. What happened? Let's get into it.

Previously, on country falling apart. I have written on the top of my card here. It's not the crime,

it's the cover up, but also the crime. One thing that we talked about last week is we'll know that

things have changed because it'll feel different because what matters isn't the technicality of the

law, because whatever happens to Trump will be a political question. This week felt different.

Let's run through what happened in the past, say, 10 days. Trump fires Comey on Tuesday,

May 9th. On Friday, May 12th, he threatens Comey with tapes, which continues to be

fucking hilarious because the idea that Donald Trump on the recording would come across better

than James Comey is hilarious, which is how you know there probably aren't tapes.

He tapes everything. He's been taping everything for years. There was that story that said that

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