Hey everyone. I'm Jonathan Cape Heart and welcome to Cape Up.

If you're like me you're worn out by all the seriousness of everything.

That's why for this week's episode, I've turned to L.com writer R.

Eric Thomas.

The man who gave us the phrase, Auntie Maxine, the man whose humorous take on

politics has had me in tears. Oh wait, that's not the right word.

Lou Shook, yeah. I'm trying to take Shook to all different languages. I'm trying to figure out how to say Shook and host up just so that we can really like bring it across the globe. Eric and I talk about Emmanuel Macron, Barack Obama, clipping Claire Huksibyl,

Vanessa, Denise Latavia, and who in the Trump administration

he'd like to meet?

Jeff Sessions, for what?

Honey, no.

Come on y'all. Let's get shit.

Okay, so let me read this one thing to you.

Here's a quote from L.com.

The headline is Maxine Waters will read you now.

Quote, I have never seen anything like this outside of a family reunion.

Congresswoman Waters is definitely that auntie who got rich selling Avon and doesn't really like your father or any of these low-rent people.

But you sit by her so that she can stage whisper critiques with a mouthful of potato salad.

That one thing that I just read you

was one of many brilliant things in the piece

that I mentioned before, Maxine Waters will read you now

and the person who wrote it is here on the podcast

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