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Le Show For The Week Of March 29, 2026

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Politics, News, Society & Culture, Sports, Music, Tech News

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us regular features like News of Microplastics, News of A.I., Truth Social Audio with Donald Trump, News of Crypto-Winter, The Apologies of the Week, and News of Musk Love. He also considers Donald Trump’s claim about $5 personalized sharpies and plays great music about springtime.

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0:00.0

Here it is!

0:01.0

From deep inside your audio device of choice.

0:06.0

Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't know yet, you do now or in about a minute.

0:14.0

The felon in chief spent five minutes of Thursday's cabinet meeting boasting of his thrift with a story about negotiating for $5 personalized

0:23.6

Sharpies. The Washington Post reports. The company that makes the permanent marker said the exchange

0:31.9

never happened. Trump was busy touting his plans to make over the, what used to be the Kennedy Center

0:39.1

and criticizing the renovation of the Federal Reserve headquarters. You've heard him do that, right,

0:44.8

about 4,000 times. Then he went off on a tangent about the pen he was holding. Quote,

0:49.2

this pen is an interesting example, he said, of the black permanent marker. This pen is very inexpensive, but it writes

0:55.4

well, I like it. He claimed that he'd gotten a deal on White House Sharpies. His preference for

1:04.6

Sharpies is as well known as his tendency to, you know, loosen up with the truth.

1:12.4

He said he asked the marker maker

1:14.6

for a solution to make the pens look more official.

1:17.7

I called the guy.

1:18.6

I said, I'd like to use your pen,

1:19.8

but I can't have a great thing with the big ass on it,

1:22.0

saying Sharpie as I'm signing a $1 trillion airplane contract

1:25.3

to buy brand new fighter jets,

1:31.5

he said. Then back to Trump.

1:35.6

He says, well, I can make it nicer. I said, what can you do? He said, I can paint it black.

1:40.9

I said, that's nice. And he said, I can even paint the White House on it, sir, if you like in gold,

1:48.0

almost real gold, not bad. And I can even do your signature, sir. Trump continued.

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