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Thanks for coming to Love It or Leave It. I am your host, John Love It. Let me introduce our panel. He's an actor who was in the highest grossing movie of 2017 so far, but his part was cut out.

He's also in the second highest grossing movie of 2017, and his part wasn't cut out, just heavily minimized during editing. Stephen Merchant

Thank you very much. He's the host of an awesome news show on Comedy Central, problematic with Moshe Kosher. I was actually a guest on one of the test shows. That's when they like you enough to have you on the show, but not enough to have you on a show that will air. Welcome Moshe Kosher.

And our final guest. She was a deputy national security adviser under Gerald Ford. I don't think that's right. She's also a very funny writer writing shows like South Park and a lady dynamite. Pam Brady.

Hi. Thank you guys for being here. Thank you for having us. Stephen, tell us a little bit about your role in Beauty and the Beast and what happened.

Yeah, it's things. I was asked if I would appear in Beauty and the Beast, the most successful film of 2017, and so I went down to Pinewood Studios in England and they dressed me up. I've not seen Beauty and the Beast either version or read the script.

And apparently lots of characters get turned into objects, I think, and then maybe get turned back into people again at the end. Is that kind of regular hands? I don't play dumb with us.

And they wanted someone to cameo to be the guy who transformed back from a toilet. And that was me. So they doused me in sort of fake urine and then they filmed me and I sort of just looked shocked and just said, the horror. And then they cut it out.

But you probably want to know my opinions on North Korea. That's great Hollywood Hollywood. Let's get into it.

So happy first 100 days of Trump everybody. How do you guys how do you guys feel? Pretty good. It's not cool. Now I know it feels long. So I thought I would help by putting it in context.

It's only 7% of his first term. There's 93% left. I did a little math before the show. They say that politics isn't a sprint. It's a marathon. We have not yet jogged two miles of the 26 mile Trump marathon for you.

You coast elites. If you were flying from New York to LA, we're just out of New Jersey. We're above Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. And one more. One more for fun. If we were flying to the moon, we have not yet reached direct TVs satellite.

Because it is in geostationary orbits to the listener at home. Two people have killed themselves already. Yeah, brutal. Isn't it? Yeah. It's going to be a long 1460 days. I stuck one in. I didn't even plan that one.

John, thank you guys for coming to Santa Monica. Is this a bad time to tell you that I voted for Trump? No, we want some difference. We want, you know, I'm very excited to hear why everyone super pumped up. Speaking of who you were for toilets.

You did work for Gerald Ford. So 100 days in before we get into the week, I kind of wanted to step back. We have a little bit of context now as to the Trump presidency. I think a lot of us expected things to be pretty dire. Where heads up? Do we think he's exceeded our expectations of direness?

Well, either direction, right? It's been as bad as we were afraid it was going to be. I mean, let's be honest about it. I mean, you know, again, throughout this podcast, please bear in mind that I am looking at you obviously from an outsider's point of view. So you're very much like a zoo to me. And I just peer in. But I can leave anytime.

And go to the wonderful world of Brexit. So I, you know, obviously I couched everything from an outsider's point of view. I couldn't vote. I didn't vote. And it's your president, although he of course has an impact on the entire fucking globe.

But I think he's a lot of criticism for not achieving a great deal. I think it's very hard to get anything done in 100 days. I don't know that you can get. It took me, it took me about six months to choose a couch.

And he's been moving house. He said all sorts of stuff. So I genuinely, I don't know. Like are people normally getting a lot of shit done in 100 days? I mean, don't you have to just get the machinery oiling up during that time? I honestly, I don't know. I'm.

You know, he's not doing that well.

So like President Obama, by this point, had passed a stimulus bill to revive the economy. He had begun the work on a Wall Street bill. The healthcare process was ongoing. He had continued bailing out parts of the economy that were failing.

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