Hey, everybody. Before we start the show, I wanted to let you know that I will be performing

at the San Francisco punchline on Tuesday, October 17th alongside Mahasbund. I have to say

that I'm like Melania. Matt Leeb, comedian and podcaster, you have heard and seen on Good

Mythical Morning and on Pod Yourself, The Wire. Get tickets right now. There is a link in

the podcast description and I hope to see all the frantifa and all the dragon squad and all the

piggies there.

Welcome back to another Friday on The Damage Report. I'm Ravenna filling in for John Eidorola

and I'm really excited for today's show. We've got a lot of great stories. We're going to do some

updates on the Kevin McCarthy drama, which is seemingly endless now. We're going to talk about

lawsuits against AI that might be fruitful for creatives who are trying to fight against AI

stealing their jobs essentially. We're going to talk about how Taylor Swift is registering

people to vote so all that and more coming up. Enjoying me today is none other than Brett

Erlich back from vacation. Brett, it's so great to be here with you today.

Yes, I am back. Brett Erlich stayed in America, but his alter vacation ego,

Vincenzo Asul left. My wife, she stayed. Her alter ego, Connie Thumps went abroad. So Vincenzo,

Asul and Connie Thumps took over Southeast Asia, got a little bored and then went to Tokyo.

That's what we did. It was very fantastic. And we're glad that our bodies returned

to Los Angeles so that we could fully contribute to John in his absence. And I'm so happy to be

with you, Ray. It's been a long time since we did a show together. And guess what? We've got two

today because I will also be on our two of main show along with Jordan. You will have bad boys

of TYT will be in studio and you will have to wrangle us from afar.

Oh hell yeah, okay, that'll be exciting. But a good story is coming up on that too that I'm

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