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Lovett or Leave It

Lovett or Leave It

News, Comedy

4.725.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Lovett or Leave It takes summer by storm with the help of the good people at Los Angeles’s fabulous Dynasty Typewriter. Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton (Brendan Scannell) death drops into the non-debate about children watching drag. Mother Jones’ Hannah Levintova goes public with the truth about private equity. Adam Conover takes a seat to explain the impact of public transportation. Brian Simpson sends his apologies to Sarah Palin in Ok, Stop, and we cool ourselves down after a round of Hot Takes.

 

 

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0:00.0

Hello Los Angeles. Lovely to see you all. We did it. We're out and about. Thank you for coming.

0:22.9

Amidst the Summit of America's, which is shut down, all of downtown. Welcome to

0:30.4

Love It or Leave It Live or else recording on the eve of what's certainly going to be the most exciting hearing that's happened tomorrow at that time.

0:37.9

We've got a great show for you. Mother Jones reporter Hannah Leventova is here to talk about private equity.

0:45.9

A lot of KKR executives in the house. Adam Conover is back with thoughts on public transportation in honor of Pride. We flew out Texas State Representative Ryan Slayton to have a good faith conversation about his bill that would ban children from drag shows.

1:00.9

It's not him. It's just a person. It's Brendan's going to help playing him. It's fine.

1:06.9

Brian Simpson, Swingsby for OK Stop and Hot Takes. Come in your way. But first, let's get into it. What a week.

1:17.9

The California primaries were Tuesday and it looks like L.A. Mayoral candidates Rick Caruso and Karen Bass are headed to November runoff.

1:24.9

If you're a wealthy celebrity who doesn't live in Los Angeles and you haven't endorsed Rick Caruso yet, stay in line.

1:33.9

I have often believed that a lot of fancy L.A. people who think of themselves as Democrats are really just cosmopolitan conservatives without a home.

1:43.9

What their preference is is to live in a pro gay pro choice authoritarian state.

1:50.9

And man, how quick they were to get on board with Rick Caruso. Listen, I like the grove. We all like the grove. Now imagine you couldn't leave the grove.

2:04.9

You can live in the grove. But it's locked from the outside. Not as great. Maybe it's pretty great.

2:14.9

The L.A. Times called the election turnout dismal with only 14% of the ballots cast as a Monday afternoon. 14% turnout. We can do better Los Angeles.

2:23.9

This is a mayoral primary, not Adam Connovers' birthday party.

2:29.9

Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana said this to Fox News.

2:33.9

Meanwhile, I don't know about where you live, Jesse. But in my state, the price of gas is so high that it would be cheaper to buy cocaine and just run everywhere.

2:49.9

A plus. A plus joke. You fucking old loon. I love it.

2:55.9

Seems like California has some good ideas after all. Is the Matt Wright Senator. That's why I tried to give Madison Compton cocaine. They were going to carpal.

3:06.9

Addressing the floor, representatives Andy Bigg suggested moving unused COVID relief funds to enforce school doors against potential shooters.

3:14.9

The Republicans have also said, let's harden the schools. Look, you've got $122 billion that you gave in relief COVID relief to K-12. More than 90% of it remains unused.

3:26.9

And you say, well, that we don't want to talk about doors. What do we do? We hide behind doors because they work. You can harden schools and make them work. You can armed guards and make them work.

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