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Trumpcast Live: Vicky Ward And Aparna Nancherla

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

From our full day of live shows at Slate Day comes Trumpcast Live! Virginia Heffernan welcomes to the stage Kushner Inc author Vicky Ward and comedian Aparna Nancherla to talk about the Kushners, the anxiety olympics, Trump’s penchant for cheating and the casino roots of the term “collusion,” and much more. Plus incredible live improv by Kate James, Ben Rameaka, and Marla Caceres, the “Trumpcast Colluders.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I have never walked that music that's exciting and sort of

0:14.3

vaudeville. Welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who is from Mars, which is part

0:20.6

of the moon. Wait, I think I reversed it. Is Mars part of the moon, the moon part of

0:26.8

the moon? I just want to get Trump's astronomy right. All right, we have a great show tonight.

0:32.4

It's a live show, but I need to apologize at the top. It's late. We really are very committed

0:37.8

to diversity and pluralism in what we do and everything we do. We try to do really diverse

0:42.0

hiring. And we did try to find men who could talk about politics tonight. It is, it's

0:48.6

not easy. I mean, they didn't, they didn't have the advantages we have. They didn't have

0:52.0

the education. It is not, I'm not being essentialist. It's not like men can't talk about politics.

0:56.6

They just don't train. And so it's really difficult. So we don't have men tonight. We

1:03.8

do have, and he's going to be front and center. Someday it'll be 50-50. We do have a token

1:09.4

mail in our improv group, which is great because he could really help with the prep, the sort

1:14.2

of admin part of things, which men with their laser-like focus are so good at. So it's

1:21.1

going to be all women tonight, and we really do promise to do better in the future about

1:24.3

that. Also, what makes our show live tonight is that we have Trumpcast's very own improv

1:29.6

troop, the Trumpcast colluters. This is Kate Marla and Ben, a man. He's got a beard. He's

1:39.5

very manly. We'll try to push him out front. They have not prepped at all for this. And

1:44.0

that is truly the magic of improv. I mean, I can't quite say like a magician that we've

1:48.4

never met, but I can say they have no idea what we're going to talk about tonight. And

1:53.6

basically they hear what goes on here, and then somehow turn it into, I don't want to say

1:59.5

comedy gold, comedy magic. They take magic and turn it into more magic, because that's

2:05.7

how comedy works. And then we also have the brilliant and more serious voice of Vicki Ward.

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