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Lovett or Leave It
Lovett or Leave It
4.7 • 25.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Live from the SiriusXM studio, Lovett Or Leave It pits DeSantis vs Trump in a battle for the... well, not the soul of the country. The Academy’s own private detective (Brandon Scott Jones) pulls back the red curtain on this year’s Oscars scandal. Lovett and Larry Wilmore discuss police brutality and the debate over reform. Plus Josie Totah and Olly Sholotan face a 90s TV quiz, and the Rant Wheel? It spins.
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| 0:00.0 | Five days a week, a claimed interviewer, Tom Power sits down with the artist, writers, |
| 0:03.7 | actors and musicians defining the cultural moment. Whether he's ribbing Adele, singing a |
| 0:07.6 | boy band classic with Similieu, or dissecting Faith with YouTube frontman Bono, Tom brings the |
| 0:12.5 | same curiosity respect and meticulous preparation into every conversation. Here, your favorite |
| 0:16.8 | artist is a truly R on cue with Tom Power. Listen now everywhere you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.7 | Welcome to Love It or Leave It Live or else coming at you from the shortest month of the year |
| 0:38.9 | that feels like the longest. We have a great show for you tonight, Josie Tota and Oli |
| 0:42.8 | Shullatin are here and they are so young it makes me want to walk into the sea. Larry Wilmore is here |
| 0:47.8 | for our favorite segment, New Ones discussion, a detective who may or may not be Brandon Scott Jones |
| 0:53.4 | breaks out his transatlantic accent to crack the case of Andrea Rysbeurro's 11th hour Oscar |
| 0:58.8 | nomination and the Rattwheel spins because time is a flat circle and so is our fury. But first, |
| 1:04.4 | let's get into it. What a week. The Biden administration announced that it plans to let the |
| 1:12.8 | COVID public health emergency expire in May just in time for Sikko Demayo. Sikko Demayo. |
| 1:21.2 | President Biden's personal lawyer announced on Wednesday that the FBI is searching Biden's |
| 1:24.8 | vacation home in Delaware to investigate whether it too contains any classified documents. |
| 1:28.8 | The FBI said they'd need hours to comb through the piles and piles of boardwalk caricatures |
| 1:33.0 | of Biden on a skateboard, Biden surfing the waves, Biden playing tennis, Joe and Jill on a motorcycle |
| 1:38.2 | where the license plate says love to ride. The lawyer also said while the FBI is there, |
| 1:43.6 | I've instructed them to discard any expired aspirin bottles from the 1970s, along with thread |
| 1:47.9 | bears howl stolen from various mario hotels over the decades, you know, grandpa shit. |
| 1:53.7 | The college board is capitulated to Florida governor Ronda Santos and watered down its |
| 1:57.3 | AP African American studies course purging content about black queer studies and black feminism, |
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