It's time for a special spoooooooky episode of Says Who. Except Maureen and Dan just talk about the news this week and, let's face it, that's scary enough. BOO.
Jeepers creepers, SayWhovia! It’s Halloweentime again. It’s time for candy, costumes, spooky movies, butt dialing reporters, and shitposting! Yes, it’s been a weird one. How weird? Weird enough that Rudy’s butt dials to reporters aren’t even close to being the thing that caused Dan’s mind to snap like a twig.
Oh yes. Dan has been working hard on impeachment.fyi. His mind is always spinning out with news, and his eyes roll in different directions. He is deep into the soup. Maureen has been in Texas and preparing to go to LA for the premiere of Let it Snow. She also had a problem with her pen.
And there’s Brexit, of course! The ultimate spooky Halloween treat for our UK friends! That’s going well. It’s all just going really, really well. And now, as we roar into full impeachment and the holidays, things are only going to get better.
Trick or treat, SaysWhovia. Smell our feet, Give us something good to eat. It’s the witching hour, and someone needs to call Tim
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Maureen: Hi, I'm Maureen Johnson and books are the most important thing. Truly Devious. Look, holidays are coming up. You're looking for a gift, Truly Devious, it's a paperback, it's like seven bucks. You can say my friend Maureen wrote this, and I did because I'm your friend Maureen. And I did write it. You could be like, "This is my book my friend wrote, you going to like it, yay." It's brute cheap and that's that.
Maureen: But coming in a week and a half on Netflix, on a Netflix near you let it snow, comes out November 8th. And if you have Netflix, it's free. It's probably free to try Netflix or just watch someone else's Netflix account because that's what a lot of people do anyway. I'm a good representative of Netflix. I don't work for Netflix. I work for Netflix. I don't care. But, yeah, let it snow. I think you'll enjoy it. I think it's pretty funny. I think honestly, it's funny. I laughed out loud and I don't laugh at anything. Anyway November 8th, on Netflix and all books.
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Maureen: Boop, I want to end it with something for boop.
Drive Thru Kid: Happy Halloween can I take your order please?
The Passenger: Trick or treat.
Drive Thru Kid: Oh-
The Passenger: Trick or treat?
Drive Thru Kid: I actually need you to place an order. I know I started by saying Happy Halloween but what would you like to eat?
The Passenger: Candy corn?
Drive Thru Kid: No.
The Passenger: It's good. That stuff is disgusting. It tastes like wax.
Drive Thru Kid: We have hamburgers and fries and shakes.
The Passenger: I'll take the Halloweenie burger.
Drive Thru Kid: Just made that up.
The Passenger: Vampire fries.
Drive Thru Kid: [inaudible 00:03:08].
The Passenger: And a mummy shake.
Drive Thru Kid: That all sounds very festive, but I'm just going to put in an order for a burger and fries and a shake please. Please drive through please.
The Passenger: And a pumpkin. On of the pumpkins, you got the pumpkins?
Drive Thru Kid: We don't- No.
The Passenger: I'm going to pull up.
Drive Thru Kid: Just drive through.
The Passenger: Yep.
Drive Thru Kid: Okay.
The Passenger: Hey kid.
Drive Thru Kid: You're wearing a what? Is that a painting?
The Passenger: Yeah, it's my costume. It's George Washington.
Drive Thru Kid: That looks really real.
The Passenger: Dolley Madison. Yeah, she saved this painting when the white house was on fire and just as you can see, I just poke some holes through it and it's my costume. I've wrapped the wire around my back to hold it in place and it's my costume.
Drive Thru Kid: I don't think that's something that you're supposed to do. That's a priceless painting.
The Passenger: We do a lot of things we're not supposed to do, kid. It's a lot of stuff that's not supposed. In the grand scheme of things, this is not the worst thing that's come out of the White House today. I'm putting this in the wind column. I've been subpoenaed kid.
Drive Thru Kid: Oh.
The Passenger: He's not letting me go.
Drive Thru Kid: Well, it seems like you could do the right thing and go, right?
The Passenger: You don't know what it's like. Did you see what he was like when they booed him at the baseball game the other day, and he turned around and he started palpably puffing in and out like a Gila monster. That's his public mode. That's a smiley mode. You do not want to see what it's like where I am kid. Jail would be a welcome, welcome thing compared to what he's going to do me if I testify.
Drive Thru Kid: Okay, what you going to do then?
The Passenger: I was hoping you could help me out.
Drive Thru Kid: I can give you your food it's ready.
The Passenger: Come trick or treating with me.
Drive Thru Kid: I'm working.
The Passenger: I know that. What time do you get off?
Drive Thru Kid: 8:30.
The Passenger: That's fine I can pick you up at 8:30. I pick everybody's at 8:25.
Drive Thru Kid: That's after hours for trick or treat.
The Passenger: No, no. I got ways of fixing that. I'll get your painting to. There's a really good one of Abraham Lincoln I can get that for you, put the holes in-
Drive Thru Kid: I don't think that's a good idea.
The Passenger: No, no. We'll be twins, we'll be two paintings from the White House and we'll go trick or treating at nine o'clock. I got someone that can hack all those home security systems, those plug and play ones those are easy to hack. And we go in, we get candy and we maybe stay in their house for a while because a lot of people got spare rooms they very rarely go in, like a rec room or something or even the attic or sometimes there's space between the walls that you don't know about you and me kid will trick or treat but in someone's house for about a week. We'll just pretend to be painting. We'll just lean against the wall. They won't even notice us.
Drive Thru Kid: I don't know.
The Passenger: Will see you at 8:30 kid. Happy Halloween and just throw the pumpkin in the trunk.
Dan: Welcome to Says Who the podcast that isn't a podcast.
Maureen: It's a coping strategy. I'm sipping coffee I'm Maureen Johnson.
Dan: And I'm Dan Sinker. And if you have joined us via being a reader of the impeachment.fyi newsletter, welcome.
Maureen: Welcome.
Dan: Whole bunch of you are new. We've been doing this for what, three years now? It was supposed to last eight weeks, the last eight weeks of the 2016 election, and then we got trapped in a Phantom Zone of our own making. I am a journalist.
Maureen: And I'm YA author and the two of us, basically, we just sit down each week we go through what's happened and we process it. We say it's a coping strategy because that is exactly what it is. We're not trying to make you smarter about the news, where we sometimes tell you stuff that you don't know, like stuff about the Omelet Bar, or how Ketchup features and everything that Trump eats, but mostly we are trying to prop each other. And by extension you up we formed a community. We all hold hands and we walk into the ocean together.
Dan: Sounds accurate. Welcome to Says Who.
Maureen: Can I just talk about my pen for a little bit?
Dan: Well, sure, who doesn't want to listen to about a pen?
Maureen: This is my new podcast about a pen. About a year ago, a beloved person who was... I first met her when she was a reader, when she was a teenager and now she's grown ass adult, the wife and cats and everything. And she is a serious fountain pen aficionado.
Dan: Oh, wow.
Maureen: She gave me a pen, which she had like tune the nib. I don't know what that means. But she did it. And gave me all the stuff that goes with it, like the bulb syringe and an ink syringe and a bunch of Japanese inks, and she showed me how to use it.
Dan: Wow.
Maureen: I paid no attention to the refilling thing. And the other day the pen was out of ink and I said I'll refill it and I just grabbed all the stuff and went to the kitchen said I know what I'm doing. And I filled a syringe with ink and I jammed it in the cartridge and I couldn't get in one in, so I jammed it in the other and I just kept jamming. I filled that thing with ink and I got in there. And it turns out that was not the cartridge you were supposed to use the syringe on. And I had a pen. I basically filled a cylinder with hot pink ink.
Dan: Good.
Maureen: Like a hot pink ink bomb. And it was dripping everywhere. It was like bleeding. It was like I had a bleeding pen. When Oscar came home now. Oscar went to school in England and he went to some fancy boarding school where they actually had to learn and use fountain pens because apparently, I've married the ghost of a small Victorian boy. Well, he looked at it and he said, "What have you done to this? Because apparently this little reservoir is all you have to do is screw it down, dip it in ink and screw back up and it just sucks the ink up itself." Whereas I had taken that syringe because I got so excited that there was a syringe because it was like the character of Daryl Hannah from Kill Bill 2 where she's the nurse with the eye-patch over one eye and she's like, "Ah." with the syringe. That was me getting this syringe of ink into this pen.
Maureen: I created my little... I was determined to fix this. We spent an hour and a half fixing this pen last night. We cleaned it out with water by hand. I set a little table and as we watch the news, I was dipping it in and out, cleaning the reservoirs, like I will fix this goddamn pen. And the reason I want my pen Dan is because I'm trying to get away from doing everything on computers and do it in my nice notebook and put my thoughts down on paper again. And I got so obsessed with fixing my... It sound like I don't have other pens Dan. But I wanted this pen. We fix this goddamn pen together. And this morning, I was working with my pen and I set it down and went into the other room to get something and I came back and Dex had eaten the cap.
Dan: Oh, nice.
Maureen: So that's about my-
Dan: That'll be fun coming out too.
Maureen: Anyway, there's a lot of those coming out in a week and a half.
Dan: What?
Maureen: Let it snow. It's coming out in a week and half.
Dan: No, you said it so fast.
Maureen: Let it snow.
Dan: Yeah, you're heading back to The Big Apple Hollywood.
Maureen: That's right Vegas. Going on Friday.
Dan: That's exciting.
Maureen: And we have a press day on Saturday. And I just got the preliminary schedule and I believe we're doing something like 21 interviews.
Dan: Fun.
Maureen: 18 of which are with outlets from the Philippines.
Dan: Really?
Maureen: Yeah because the Philippines apparently they... you love a rom-com like [crosstalk 00:11:31].
Dan: Wow.
Maureen: They also love what? They're big YA readers. A lot of people end up going-
Dan: Oh, that's exciting.
Maureen: I've been saying, you want to go to the Philippines it's a brutal tour, it's a very long trip and you do a lot of events because they love YA and they love rom-coms. It was just this giant list of outlets from the Philippines. And I was-
Dan: That's amazing.
Maureen: Yeah.
Dan: I love it.
Maureen: And there might be more but I think we just sit in a room and we just answer the same questions over and over again, 10 or 15 minutes at a time.
Dan: That sounds like it.
Maureen: And then on Sunday-
Dan: It's 20 times.
Maureen: Oscar and my parents come out. Oscar is responsible for getting my parents on that plane.
Dan: Oh man, good move.
Maureen: And I gulped as I said that. I actually had that, I am doing all the prep work done. I'm getting the car [crosstalk 00:12:22].
Dan: Yeah, you sounded a little cotton mouth just then as you said it.
Maureen: That was the list I was making with the pen, that Dex ate the cap off. Because I have to make sure everything happens from that doorway to Los Angeles.
Dan: Wow.
Maureen: It's all fine then.
Dan: Via proxy now.
Maureen: Oh, I will have checklists printed out for Oscar that I will put in clear plastic folders. I will be in radio communication with him every step of the way. And then I will most likely go to LAX again myself to meet them at the other end and get them all in the car.
Dan: Man.
Maureen: Yeah. [crosstalk 00:13:02]. And then Monday is red carpet premiere, red carpet Dan.
Dan: Is there going to be paparazzi? There's totally going to be paparazzi
Maureen: I imagine there'll be some people with cell phones and someone with a camera from Netflix.
Dan: Who are you wearing? That's the real question.
Maureen: I actually I'm wearing a thing. Shut your face.
Dan: Oh, I think you're that much?
Maureen: Yeah. It's not a super-
Dan: I think you will go in the nude. That would be a hell of an entrance though.
Maureen: I'm not telling you where my dress is from. But I got it. Well, okay, I got it from-
Dan: From Target, isn't it?
Maureen: Yes. I wish.
Dan: Good stuff.
Maureen: It's from a place in England that I've gotten a dress from before.
Dan: Harrods?
Maureen: No.
Dan: Marks and Spencer?
Maureen: Nope.
Dan: Topshop?
Maureen: Boots.
Dan: Good one.
Maureen: I have never worn a sequin dress before Dan.
Dan: That's exciting.
Maureen: But I saw this for one.
Dan: I'm so excited for you.
Maureen: It's so shiny, but it's got millions sequins on it and they all catch on each other. That was my great discovery in trying it on. It's like just wearing a bunch of snakes. Yeah.
Dan: It's good. Don't walk next anyone wearing like a big furry thing or you will adhere to each other like valkyrie.
Maureen: Valkyrie. Yep. And I'll just be stuck to it. It'll be like [inaudible 00:14:24]. It become a great big ball of stuff that rolls through the theater.
Dan: Oscar is wearing a tux made out of tape. Maureen Johnson, you are not the only one getting on a plane on Friday.
Maureen: Oh, sorry, Dan. I'm so fancy. I'm dead. I'm getting on a plane.
Dan: Yeah, me and Janice and the two kids, Maureen Johnson. We're going to Disney World?
Maureen: Goddamn it. That's beautiful.
Dan: Yeah.
Maureen: Goddamn.
Dan: It's a big deal. It's a big deal, Maureen Johnson as we have discussed many times on this podcast a couple of years ago, pretty much two years ago, almost to the day. My wife Janice was diagnosed with breast cancer had to have surgery had to do all sorts of shitty things. It's not a great time. And she's two years in the clear right now, which is fantastic.
Maureen: Yes, she is. Yes.
Dan: This year she wanted to start getting her strength and endurance back. She began running in the early spring. And Disney does runs four times a year they have 5K's and 10K's and half marathons. We decided that a good goal would be to set up the food and wine 10K, which is this weekend, we're flying out on Friday Maureen. She's running a 10K on Saturday.
Maureen: Is the run through the park? Where is it?
Dan: Yeah. You start in a parking lot and you run in the grounds but this one the end of it you run through all of Epcot and end up just on the other side of the big ball, which is pretty damn cool.
Maureen: Do they do runs through the Magic Kingdom?
Dan: They do. It seems like the lower mileage runs are focused around Epcot and things like that. But the half marathon, you run through two parks. And then once a year they do a full marathon where you actually run through all four parks.
Maureen: Oh my God.
Dan: Which is pretty damn amazing. Yeah, so it's awesome. We're going to fly out on Friday. She's going to get up at the [inaudible] early time on Saturday. The 14 year old is going to accompany her in the cheering section. I will stay in the hotel with the four year old and then they'll come back we're going to hit the Magic Kingdom. Later in the day on Saturday. We're going to hit Epcot on Sunday in the Hollywood Studios with Star Wars land on Monday and then we fly home.
Maureen: Holy shit.
Dan: Its pretty-
Maureen: That's a really- I need to do something that where I have a fitness goal, that you get to do a thing.
Dan: I mean she fucking did the work. She has been running multiple times a week.
Maureen: It's great.
Dan: She's able, she's like, "Oh yeah, I'm going to go out." And she'll just run a 5K no problem. And yeah 10 K's she just can pull them off and it's great. Having that goal, having the commitment of first buying in on the race and then buying in on the hotel and the plane tickets and everything. It's like it was great. And now we have this big celebration weekend.
Maureen: I have never been a good runner. I don't know if it has a thing... I have flat super flat feet. Like a duck, like webs. And I don't know if that's part of it. But I'm always like, maybe I could, maybe if I just- It's never really been my thing but it always looks fun, doing a run seems fun and apparently it makes you feel great.
Dan: Yeah, no she often is like, man. She'll have a day where she's not feeling super great and then she'll run and she'll come back and be like, "I feel better."
Maureen: Yeah, it fills you with delicious endorphins.
Dan: But yeah, this runs they start you off with fireworks.
Maureen: Oh, my god.
Dan: There are like characters you can stop and get your photo taken with along the way. Like it's a whole fuckin thing.
Maureen: [crosstalk 00:18:37].
Dan: I know. You should her on for a town watch.
Maureen: Yeah, I want to hear about this.
Dan: Do an interview about after.
Maureen: I want this.
Dan: Yeah, for real.
Maureen: I want this. Maybe I want to do it [crosstalk] you and me.
Dan: It's pretty good.
Maureen: We do a Disney run.
Dan: I'm not a runner, I'm a walker though. I can walk like a motherfucker. But you have to hit a certain time but train for it. 5K that's not bad, it's three miles.
Maureen: Oh yeah, that doesn't sound impossible. I live in New York, I walk everywhere. And I walk pretty fast. We all walk fast, if you walk slow here, we're like, "We'll kill you." But yeah. All right Dan.
Dan: Do it, do it.
Maureen: Well, for [inaudible 00:19:18], I told you I've been trying to work on my notebook and my dog ate my pen. I've also been reading. I have been reading on a Kindle, is that okay?
Dan: As we have discussed so first of all, to get people up to speed says who you, is our... What do you call? Is it an initiative?
Maureen: Yeah.
Dan: It's something initiative. That's not very official. Where we decided you know what we need to step away from screens every now and then and step away from the madness of constant 62nd news cycles. And dedicate just 15 minutes a day where you are purposefully getting away from screens and focusing in on spending your time in other ways. People have been doing it, Maureen Johnson on the Facebook group. Holy cow. People are making Halloween costumes. Someone Maureen is crocheting a costume for their pet turtle.
Maureen: Oh my God, that's great.
Dan: Yeah, and someone else posted absolutely amazing, Princess Bride couple's costume, where she is Princess Buttercup and he is the Dread Pirate Roberts and they are beautiful costumes. People in a baking... A lot of fall, baking apple crisps, and someone's making apple cider donuts. It's pretty amazing.
Maureen: What I want to find, because I love to cook and bake. But I cannot eat all of the product. I want to eat six dozen cookies. The thing is, I do want to eat 6 dozen cookies, which is the problem. And I live near a bunch of hospitals and I'm always like, I wish I could... They don't just allow weirdos to bake stuff and bring like stuff over... "Will you eat with these cookies?" I wish I could bake for someone or something. Like fucking all December, I would make food for... and then... I'm trying to figure. If anyone could think of a way that could be a [crosstalk 00:21:19].
Dan: I think that's called friends Maureen.
Maureen: Yeah, but my friends can only also eat so many cookies.
Dan: True.
Maureen: It's also you know, the Christmas corporate gifts. They're all cookies.
Dan: Yeah, that is true. It is a big cookie season coming up.
Maureen: Right. I love to do this stuff but there's limits to everything. I would do anything. I'll pick you anything you want. But by the way, where did we come down on the Kindle?
Dan: I think that the thing is, that it's about being purposeful with your time.
Maureen: Right. It's okay-
Dan: Yeah. I think if you are reading a book and thinking I am reading a book and it happens to be transmitted via Kindle, I think that's fine. I have some fucked up eyesight and occasionally I can really only read off of a screen. To each their own, however you interpret it. This is not hard and fast rules, but the key is just taking a little time every day to be, "I am not following this bullshit."
Maureen: Because I bought Catch and Kill, right before the plane took off in Austin. And all I did on the flight home, I was like I have all these things to do, all this work to do and I said, "No, I've just got to read this book." Because it is gripping. It is real good. And if you have not read Catch and Kill, I highly recommend it. It's a great piece of journalism and also it teaches you the value of doing your homework because Ronan Farrow does the fucking homework.
Dan: He does the work. That he does the work.
Maureen: Really does.
Dan: But Maureen Johnson.
Maureen: Yes, Dan Sinker.
Dan: We should get to the news of the week.
Maureen: Should we?
Dan: It has been a big week.
Maureen: Has it?
Dan: We should. But even before we get to it, I am dying to talk to you about this overlooked Trump tweet. That I can't stop thinking about Maureen. I feel like nobody's talking about it.
Maureen: Well, I have seen his tweets this week, except for that one, so hit me.
Dan: So last Friday, he had a little pity party series of tweets. There was one tweet then there was one in the middle and then there was another tweet. And I want to give you context, I want to talk about the one in the middle. But what I have to talk about first is the one before and then the one after. And this all came in relatively quick succession. The first tweet, he's complaining about the fucking whistleblower and democrats and everything like that. Democrats just announced that they no longer want the White House to testify, but everything was about the whistleblower. They no longer want the second whistleblower either. Which they don't want because the [inaudible 00:24:13], call board no relationship to the call itself. The entire impeachment scam was based on my perfect Ukrainian call and the whistleblower account of that call, which turned out to be (false) or fraud.
Dan: Once I release the actual call, their entire case fell apart. The Democrats must end this scam now, witch hunt. Then there was one and then the final of the three was another two part. I appreciate the support of Senator Lindsey Graham, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the great Senate Republican colleagues on the resolution condemning, the do nothing, democrats for their witch hunt impeachment inquiry behind closed doors in the basement of the United States Capitol. They cannot win at the ballot box. Their sham for the past three years continues. The good news is the American people get it which is we proven once again, on November 3rd, 2020. All right, those are fairly straightforward, Trump tweets.
Dan: Sandwiched in the middle a single tweet, just a single short sentence. To Tim the button on the iPhone was far better than the swipe.
Maureen: What?
Dan: Seriously. Fucking complain ass pity party. But right in the middle he just has to be like "Tim Cook, bring back the fucking button on the iPhone."
Maureen: Dan. Dan.
Dan: I have read that tweet so many times Maureen.
Maureen: Dan.
Dan: To Tim: Home button on the iPhone was FAR Better than the Swipe!
Maureen: Dan. Oh, my god. Now, Dan, did that happen?
Dan: That happened. To Tim: Home button on the iPhone was FAR Better than the Swipe!
Maureen: Now Dan, I have an important question to ask you.
Dan: Yeah.
Maureen: Why don't you just keep that to Tim, the button on the iPhone was far better than the swipe comment running through your head as I asked this. This is like a meditation thing where we drop a question into your mind gently just very gently.
Dan: Okay.
Maureen: Because you run impeachment.fyi, something has made my life a lot easier because I know that you have your foot on the gas with this stuff.
Dan: Yeah.
Maureen: Do you think you're walking slightly closer to the edge of insanity?
Dan: Oh, without a doubt. No hesitation whatsoever there Maureen. I'm doing lasting damage to myself but for the betterment of others.
Maureen: I also just want to say that maybe has a point because I just this morning discovered that in all my years as a phone owner I just cracked my screen for the first time.
Dan: No, there you go.
Maureen: It's broken.
Dan: Never do it.
Maureen: Hey Tim.
Dan: To Tim: Home button on the iPhone was FAR Better than the Swipe!
Maureen: Oh, no. I knew this would happen.
Dan: Just there's such a wonderful mental picture in my head of him fucking ham fingering out these various pissed off tweets and then something happens and Twitter goes flying off his screen because he's swiped in the wrong direction when he thought he was supposed to be going home. And he's just fucking pissed and finally he gets it back and he's just like little sausage fingered, to Tim.
Maureen: Dan.
Dan: The button on the iPhone was far better than the swipe. And then he's just extra pissed when he leans into the democrats again.
Maureen: Do nothing democrats took my button.
Dan: All right Maureen there's one other thing we need to discuss before we get to the news of the day. Yesterday Trump flew to Chicago.
Maureen: Lucky you, congratulation.
Dan: Where he was met by a bunch of protesters but they had that shit locked down. He gave his speech to some police officers and then he went and made 4 million bucks and then he flew out. But Maureen Johnson they flew Air Force One with the Press Core. And a member of the Press Core posted a photo of the meal that they were served on Air Force One on the way to Chicago. We need to discuss this picture Maureen.
Maureen: All right, well, we've got a tray. I'm going to go from the outside in.
Dan: Yes.
Maureen: You got a plastic... What looks like really a kind of mundane cafeteria tray.
Dan: Yeah.
Maureen: Just like a round cornered plastic tray but it does have a like a... Like a mat or something with the presidential logo on the side. Now in the upper and the [China] has the monogram on it. That's nice real China. In the upper left corner, there is what appears to be just a lump of shit. I don't know what that is.
Dan: I do not know what that is. I have zoomed very close on that upper left corner.
Maureen: It looks like, if you've been given a piece of apple pie and you scrunched it in your hand until it was misshapen. And then formed a kind of oozy crust or a scone. Or [crosstalk 00:30:05].
Dan: Yeah. The best I can guess it is some kind of glazed scone. From a distance-
Maureen: Yeah, scone.
Dan: ... it really looks like a boiled chicken breast or something. But I'm pretty sure-
Maureen: Or like [crosstalk 00:30:19].
Dan: ... that, that is like the sweet on them plate.
Maureen: And sort of overlapping because it appears that the main plate is shoved on top of that small plate. Doesn't look like it all fits, or maybe the reporter tilted it. I think the reporter tilted it that way so you could really get a good look at what was on the plate.
Dan: Yeah.
Maureen: So there's a fairly decent looking bed of greens, like a mixed salad. A couple nice looking slightly roasted tomatoes. But sitting on top of it is the magic. It is an orange pepper, stuffed pepper, into which a jackal interface has been roughly cut. Is two misshapen triangle eyes and a lopsided slightly deranged smile.
Dan: I don't even know any more Maureen.
Maureen: It looks like a cry for help.
Dan: It's a cry for help on a plate. If you flip it over they've just [inaudible] help me into the pepper.
Maureen: It is really when you see the knee joint scone and the decent greens and then this weird slightly collapsed, creepily grinning orange pepper, stuffed pepper.
Dan: Oh my god.
Maureen: Trump did not eat that shit. That's not what [crosstalk 00:31:56].
Dan: No, there's not a single part of this meal that he would have eaten.
Maureen: Can you imagine him being given this? Can you imagine what that would look like? If you handed him a stuffed pepper with a smile carved into it like that and on top of a salad? He would hit that nuclear button. He would blow up a country.
Dan: He would throw you out of the plane.
Maureen: Oh, you'd go out the air lock.
Dan: Yeah. Without a doubt. That is an air locked meal if it is served to him.
Maureen: Well, Dan.
Dan: It is-
Maureen: Magic. We live in magical times.
Dan: Maureen Johnson.
Maureen: Ah, yes, Dan.
Dan: As a resident Brexit expert, you have been counting us down to October 31. To the deadline for the hard Brexit. That is tomorrow. Is Brexit happening?
Maureen: When we last left Dan, what was happening was Boris Johnson, the prime minister of the UK was saying over and over and over that Brexit was absolutely happening on the 31st of October. There's no possible way it was not going to happen on the 31st of October. And quote, "He would rather be dead in a ditch than not Brexit on the 31st of October." Millions of pounds were spent running ads telling people to basically get in the brace position, because they were about to leave the European Union on the 31st of October, make preparations. The plane is going down landing on the Hudson, the 31st of October is coming and nothing will stop it nothing, nothing, nothing. Your short answer Dan is no they are not leaving tomorrow. Because-
Dan: Is he dead in a ditch?
Maureen: No. Many people have asked his cabinet where the ditch is, because it's pretty funny. They have, they're like, "What about that ditch then?" No. No, they're not. Why Dan, you want to know why not?
Dan: I guess.
Maureen: Because he failed. He failed his stupid, fucked up dumb ass plan, which was to try to force through... He went back. He had to go back and ask for an extension. And he instead came back with a deal that was just like the other deal, but maybe, maybe slightly worse, and a whole bunch of legislation that had to go with it. And he said, "I need y'all to pass this in three days." And they said, "No, because that's insane. It's hundreds of pages, and we actually have to read it." And they were like, "What is this reading it?" And they said, "We have to read it because we're about to make the biggest change in law to do one of the biggest thing that's happened in the UK since the Second World War, we actually have to read the documents." And he was like, "You suck." So he tried to push it through, tried to push it through. Then the parliament pushed back and said, "You can't." So he had to ask for an extension, which he didn't want to do.
Maureen: Then he passive aggressively sent those three letters. The one that asked for the extension which you legally had to do which you didn't sign, and the two letters that said, "We don't want an extension. The extension suck, you suck, your opinion sucks." The EU's like, "What? What is wrong with you? What wrong with you? What is wrong with you?" The EU is like a parent, that's looking at a toddler on the floor. "What do you want? I put on Sponge Bob. I've given you the purple- What do you want? You want the box? You want to play with this cardboard box? What do you want?" They said, "Okay, you can have this flextension until January 31."
Dan: Flextension is terrible.
Maureen: It's not a great word. But what it means is that they can come to... I believe what it means is they can end if they pass the deal. They can exit at any time between now and the 31st?
Dan: No, perfect.
Maureen: I think they get every 15 days it gets reviewed. So it gets reviewed on the first of December, 15th and the first, and the 15th and the first something like that. What Boris Johnson is now doing is demanding an election, the general election. And there's this whole thing called the fixed arms Parliament act. He can't just call snap elections anymore. It has to go through Parliament. And there's pushback from labor because they were, "You're trying to pull something."
Dan: Sure, clearly.
Maureen: But two other parties, the Scottish National Party and the Lib Dems said, "Okay." Because he's like, "I want election on the 12th of December and those other two parties are like, "Okay." We'll give you your election, but you have to have it on the ninth. Now, why that matters, is that there's certain the terms of the calendar of parliamentary procedures.
Dan: Somebody had it, has a Christmas dinner booked.
Maureen: It's more that he's trying to push something through and by giving him those particular days, he might be able to push this kind of thing through that is really shady. And so they said you have to do it a couple days before that.
Dan: Got it.
Maureen: It does appear this morning that labor is now in. So inch to what all this means, the Brexit clock, that timer just started again. You know that twisty sound when you twist the timer?
Dan: Yeah.
Maureen: It's reset. That kitchen timer is ticking again. It's set for the 31st of January. The dance is continuing. And they have to have an election on top of it. Somehow, this all just got worse. It's better that they didn't crash out. They didn't crash through no deal. There's this whole thing happening about preventing a no deal. But honestly, I lost track of it. I thought they passed a provision that said they couldn't but that's a non binding provision. They're more trying to secure the conservatives to make sure that they don't pull a fast one to no deal out. So the whole thing is starting again and now they're going to have an election.
Dan: Oh, my god.
Maureen: And it's probably going to be a rough and dirty election.
Dan: Well, yeah. And fast.
Maureen: [crosstalk 00:38:31].
Dan: Because that's not very far away.
Maureen: That's how they do it.
Dan: Six weeks.
Maureen: That is how they do it. Not sensible.
Dan: I guess if they move it up a little bit, a little more like five. One of the main concerns that a lot of people brought up is that, say in Scotland, it's real dark on early December. And they really had a lot of concerns about people trying to get to the polls. If the weather is inclement and it's dark at 4:00. And they're trying to get there at 6:00 or whatever. But it's going to happen Dan, there's going to be an election.
Maureen: I'm sure it'll be real straightforward from here. No [inaudible] smooth sailing England.
Dan: All of that...
Maureen: Pip, pip.
Dan: I've realized Dan while this has been going on, they have been able to do precious little else but Brexit.
Maureen: Sure.
Dan: All this other legislation they have to do, gets tangled up, because it's all Brexit.
Maureen: Yeah. That's very relatable.
Dan: And also Dan, let's just say that they get this through. And they pass and they exit. That's not the end. That's the start. That is the start of what people are estimating is maybe 10 or more years of a process.
Maureen: Good.
Dan: Because these exit proceedings have a lot of stuff built in that like two years to do this, four years to do this. So it's still going to be... It's not like getting [inaudible 00:40:08], they always refer to it as let's get Brexit done. No, no, let's get Brexit started, then the pain really begins. Anyway Dan, let's talk about here.
Maureen: Well Maureen Johnson, you'll be glad to know that there is nothing stopping legislation from happening here.
Dan: Oh, good.
Maureen: Everyone's focused on doing their jobs.
Dan: Is that true?
Maureen: It's not true. No, it's not.
Dan: Maureen, this past week has been weird. I think is probably the right word for it. It started with one of the dumber things that I feel like I have been witness to in what has been a dumb fucking run, ever since 2016. Easily top five. You had republican Members of the House who had been complaining for the last few weeks that they are locked out of the impeachment proceedings as they currently stand because they are still in an investigative stage. So they raided the secure facility, the skiff, that testimony has been taken in, occupied it, ate pizza, took a bunch of pictures and tweeted with their cell phones, which you actually are not allowed to do in a fucking secure facility because it's a secure facility in the basement of the House of Representatives and communications devices are not allowed in.
Dan: They finally were forced back out by the sergeant at arms of the house Maureen. All to prove the point that they are somehow kept out of these procedures except for the fact that fully a quarter of the people that took part in the protest have full access to the hearings. Because fucking 48 republicans serve on the fucking committees that are running the goddamn interviews right now.
Maureen: What was that about Dan? What was it about?
Dan: Pizza? I think it was about eating pizza.
Maureen: This may be better than the time Rand Paul was pushing that copier around, although that will always live in my heart Dan. The sight of that dumb motherfucker pushing that copier around. That he was a little trooper that day and I was proud of him just pushing that copier.
Dan: And what thanks did he get? He got beat up by his neighbor over a lawn care dispute.
Maureen: They just lead such weird fucking lives.
Dan: He was sent to the fucking hospital over how they cut their lawn. Maureen Johnson, after the pizza party, NBC then drops that Rudy Giuliani but dialed one of their reporters in the middle of the night.
Maureen: "Hey, I got to go down, I just...
Dan: And ended up leaving a voicemail because the reporter did not wake up. He wakes up in the morning to three minutes of Rudy Giuliani talking to someone else in the room. The most operative part of it all, this is a quote from the article, Rudy Giuliani saying, "The problem is we need some money." Then the article goes on. The two men then go silent, nine seconds pass. No word is spoken. Then Giuliani chimes in again. "We need a few hundred thousand," he says.
Maureen: Now, Dan, I have a couple questions.
Dan: Yeah.
Maureen: First, isn't this cyber security expert Rudy Giuliani.
Dan: It is Maureen, it is. Little remembered fact, Rudy Giuliani, who, originally when Trump took office was believe might become the attorney general or something like that. He's only position in the actual administration was a Cyber Security Adviser to Donald Trump.
Maureen: Yeah, that's grandpa's Cyber Security Advisor. Cyber Security Advisor to the guy who just tweeted at Tim, What did he say again Dan? Why was it? Come on, what was it?
Dan: To Tim the button on the iPhone was far better than the swipe.
Maureen: Send tweet. So secondly, what do you think they did during those nine seconds?
Dan: That is a long time.
Maureen: Yeah. Okay, let's do it.
Dan: To sit in silence.
Maureen: Let's actually...
Dan: I like this.
Maureen: You say the lines and I'll [inaudible 00:45:11].
Dan: All right, let me get it, I got a timer. I got a timer.
Maureen: Okay.
Dan: We'll do this hold on.
Maureen: All right.
Dan: All right, stop watch. All right, here we go. The problem is we need some money, we need a few hundred thousand.
Maureen: He took his dick out. That's what he did.
Dan: I don't want to think about that.
Maureen: But by accident. It was completely accidental.
Dan: Gross.
Maureen: It was totally accidental. And he realized it and then he put it back in again. It was more than he like... He says it, now say it again. We'll time it again. Are you ready? And I'll talk you through what happens.
Dan: Oh, no.
Maureen: Come on.
Dan: I don't know that I want to.
Maureen: Do it.
Dan: All right.
Maureen: Do it.
Dan: The problem is we need some money...
Maureen: Loosens his pants. He's absently looking around, he lowers them, it comes out. Oh, what am I doing? Check that back in.
Dan: We need a few hundred thousand.
Maureen: Told you, see, it works.
Dan: Yeah, that times out perfectly.
Maureen: Now we know what happened in there. And second, what do you think they need a few hundred thousand for?
Dan: Well, this is a guy who is currently representing himself as he becomes further and further the central figure in the potential impeachment of the President of the United States. My guess is, he might need some money to hire a real lawyer.
Maureen: Personal legal fees.
Dan: Yeah, that would be my gut. Certainly, if he made a list, granted that he's Rudy Giuliani who knows what the fuck he's up to you. But if I was making a list that would be at the top of my list of things I need money for.
Maureen: I would feel like he would have enough money to do this. I would feel like he has a couple hundred thousand dollars.
Dan: You would think. But apparently not.
Maureen: Who would you end up butt-dialing probably your wife. He's somehow butt-dialing at a journalist.
Dan: Yeah, yeah. And amazingly, in this article they reveal that it wasn't Rudy's first butt- dial to this same journalist. In what is a really wonderfully ride early moment in the article, I'm going to just quote it all. "The late night Giuliani butt-dial came 18 days after a mid afternoon Giuliani butt-dial. The first one happened when the NBC News reporter was at a fifth birthday party for an extended family member in Central Jersey. It was 3:37 pm Saturday, September 28th. And a pink unicorn piñata had just been strung up around a tree in the backyard. Amid his three year old daughter's excitement. The reporter decided to let Giuliani's call go to his voicemail."
Maureen: Damn. This is a magical time. Also, you know how he was texting? The [inaudible 00:48:14]?
Dan: Yeah.
Maureen: What if he accidentally calls her. The reporter he was texting with? That would be-
Dan: I think that all bets are off in terms of if your phone rings. It might be Rudy Giuliani.
Maureen: We got to get that number from her.
Dan: Yeah, we do. We really do.
Maureen: We all need his number.
Dan: We really do. Maureen Johnson the week just continued with Donald Trump going to the World Series on Sunday night. Originally he was going to throw out the first pitch but that got canceled. They got a hold, this is like beloved Chef Jose Andres to throw it out.
Maureen: That guy is a hero.
Dan: That dude is going to win the Nobel Prize soon and I'm all for it. Anyway, he goes, Matt gets in his box. There's a bunch of republican folk in the box with him. They don't announce that he is there until they do a salute to the troops which a friend of mine who was actually at the game and has been at all of the games because he's a massive Houston Astros fan, said they do that every night. They do a salute to the troops and their various service members in attendance and so the whole crowd starts cheering. And then they go and in attendance the President of the United States and they cut to Trump on the jumbotron, and the fucking crowd loses their shit. And all just starts booing. This is a World Series game, it's full. It's like, a couple 10,000, 15-20,000 people, all start chanting lock him up at the same time.
Maureen: That footage of him realizing what's happening is the best thing I have ever seen.
Dan: It really is.
Maureen: Because if you haven't seen it, he's smiling, him and Melania are smiling and waving and then it slowly dawns on him. He hears it. The smile melts and he turns face forward. And he just tries to resume a calm, just a face forward expression. But he turns really orangey red, and actually, his jaw hyper extends, his lower jaw hyper extends a little bit like he's got like an overbite. And he puffs like, like animal does on the muppets for a couple seconds. You have to really look at it a couple times, but he really does that animal thing of the... You know what I'm talking about, right? Like it's really...
Dan: Oh, yeah.
Maureen: He's clearly just about in check of himself.
Dan: Yeah. This is a guy that does not go out much.
Maureen: No.
Dan: His only trips are to his own properties or to rallies that he throws for himself.
Maureen: And he goes out in the real world and he gets booed. And here's calls about him going to jail. And physically seethes. I've never actually... He looks like a cartoon villain. He seethes physically.
Dan: Yeah, he does. You know in, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the holiday cartoon special. If you were to watch that moment, where the Grinch his heart grows, three sizes that day, but if you watch it in reverse that's what happens.
Maureen: He does a thing that I didn't know actual non cartoon people did, which I guess the cartoons come from something which is this heaving seething... But I've never seen a human being do it before and it's really wild to watch it, genuinely. It's weird.
Dan: Yeah. It is weird. It is a very...
Maureen: He didn't like it.
Dan: It is a remarkable clip. No, he did not, but Maureen Johnson.
Maureen: Do you think it's dawning on him?
Dan: No. Yes, very little self awareness, Maureen. He's still pissed about the iPhone button.
Maureen: What did he say about that again?
Dan: To Tim, the button on the iPhone was far better than the swipe.
Maureen: Dan is this good for you this impeachment.fyi? Are we near to impeachment, Dan?
Dan: Maureen Johnson, are we nearer to impeachment?
Maureen: I set it up, you hit it out.
Dan: You sure did. This is like a home run at the World Series. Knows my best sports analogy I've ever had. Are we closer to impeachment? Maureen Johnson last evening, literally as I sat down to write the impeachment.fyi update for the day, Nancy Pelosi announced they are going to take a vote to officially call impeachment, impeachment.
Maureen: When is that vote?
Dan: It's all happening Maureen, Thursday. We are in theory going to see the resolution today. It's going to outline essentially the rules of play for an impeachment proceeding, what they're going to do with the transcripts that they've already acquired during the investigative phase, what do process for the President's going to look like. How they're going to conduct out in the open hearings. The whole fucking game is about to be laid out for us and then they're going to vote for it on Thursday. Democrats have a majority in the House unless a whole bunch of them get cold feet. We will officially be in impeachment proceedings by the end of the week.
Maureen: To be clear on Thursday, they're going to vote as to whether or not to start the hearings?
Dan: Yeah.
Maureen: Okay. When would be the estimated actual vote on impeachment?
Dan: That's a little bit unknown. I think that we will know a little bit more once we see the resolution in terms of what they are thinking about. But the general articles that were written last week, which Pelosi was sort of a surprise, no one really expected this. But last week, there were certainly grumblings happening and reports happening that Democrats were Looking at it, and at that point, it seemed that their timeframe would be potentially a vote right around the holidays.
Maureen: Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, there's going to be an impeachment. We're going to find out about impeachment?
Dan: In theory, yes.
Maureen: Make your alternate Thanksgiving preparations now.
Dan: Seriously?
Maureen: You thought some of these Thanksgivings couldn't get worse. Just saying, but also, who said it? Who said it?
Dan: You said it Maureen.
Maureen: You said it.
Dan: You got your fall wish. You did.
Maureen: I told you.
Dan: You told me.
Maureen: And you were right.
Dan: You told me.
Maureen: And you said, "No Maureen, you know, no Maureen."
Dan: That's why I know better than you Maureen.
Maureen: I've got a beard. I'm Dan, no. And I said Dan Sinker. Daniel Sinker, Daniel Jonathan Sinker, there's going to be an impeachment proceeding in the fall. Dan? I just want you to know one thing.
Dan: You were right.
Maureen: When I was at Austin, I forgot to tell you about Austin.
Dan: Oh yeah, we go swimming?
Maureen: No, it was fucking freezing. And it was weirdly cold. And I could not find [inaudible] tacos.
Dan: What? People told you where to go?
Maureen: I know but I just I could Dan, it was complicated.
Dan: You just didn't listen to them. You got to listen to people Maureen.
Maureen: I had one in the airport that was delicious. They have a proper taco stand in the Austin airport.
Dan: That's the what? The Salt Lake or something?
Maureen: It's got the word peach in it.
Dan: Oh, okay.
Maureen: Peach [inaudible] or something. But it is a fresh made proper... It was the cauliflower [inaudible] store with watermelon radishes and the... And multiple sauces there, fresh sauces, fresh habanero sauce, like a really sweet and- This was an airport taco and it was a fucking deli- You had a choice of-
Dan: Austin Airport has good tacos.
Maureen: What kind of fresh tortilla you wanted. It was unbelievable.
Dan: The beauty of that town. That is the beauty of that town.
Maureen: But if you can't get to the Austin airport, maybe you want a taco at home. Why don't you try?
Dan: Yeah.
Maureen: Blue Apron\sayswho\ Daniel Freddy Sinker\taco and you will get-
Dan: Just stop it. They are not-
Maureen: And uncooked potato.
Dan: They are not fuckin [crosstalk 00:57:38].
Maureen: So you just wrap it up in, and then you just suck on the potato. Angrily suck on a potato-
Dan: It is dumb.
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Maureen: No, I hate that song so much.
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Maureen: Oh I hate the song.
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Maureen: Yeah, sounds right.
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Maureen: Hot episode.
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Maureen: I'll be able to tell you all about how the premiere went, LA, all the tacos I ate.
Dan: [crosstalk] Disney.
Maureen: Can I get some tacos?
Dan: What? Maureen Johnson, the day after that Friday, November 8th, your new Netflix stand up special, Let It Snow will be out.
Maureen: That's right. That's right. I recorded back at the Comedy Store.
Dan: Maureen Johnson, John Dean, Dean Martin, Martin Lawrence. All your favorites.
Maureen: That's right.
Dan: Let it snow November 8th, it is a festive snowy story.
Maureen: Snowy.
Dan: About snow.
Maureen: It's funny.
Dan: And letting it.
Maureen: It's funny.
Dan: It is funny.
Maureen: Please watch it.
Dan: And then on November 22nd-
Maureen: Or just turn it on and leave it alone in the background.
Dan: There you go. I'm excited. We're all watching it in my house. November 8th.
Maureen: Are you?
Dan: Yeah, we are.
Maureen: I wanted to try to figure out how to do a viewing party. But then I was like it's Netflix. It's not like it comes on... I could say like, "Well, I'll watch it at a certain time."
Dan: It's true. You couldn't do it, that's exactly how it would work. At the stroke of midnight. Then everyone watches it.
Maureen: You dropped the thing again.
Dan: I did. I am clumsy today.
Maureen: You are.
Dan: I keep dropping shit, all fidgety. I keep grabbing things but then I drop them. It's good radio. Is it good radio Maureen? Is this good? Is this good radio? [crosstalk 01:04:08].
Maureen: On November 22nd I'll be in Miami Florida at the Miami Book Fair scheduled to come not, wait. Oh boy, he's broken. You can join me and Dan. Me, Dan every night in your inbox if you subscribe at impeachment.fyi. Subscribe to impeachment.fyi it is free. It is amazing. Every day he goes through the shit and condenses it for you and its really funny and informative. It's free to sign up. What are you waiting for? It's not going to spam you extra you get one update a day.
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Maureen: I haven't been in the closet for a long time. I've been out in living room.
Dan: I know but we never updated the notes.
Maureen: All right, I'm in the closet.
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Dan: To Tim, the button on the iPhone was far better than the swipe.
Maureen: Just let it go. Just let it go.
Dan: Far better.
Maureen: Time to go.
Dan: Tim.
Maureen: All right.
Dan: It was far better. Tim, Tim, Tim.
Maureen: Okay, Dan.
Dan: It was far better.
Maureen: We got to go. I'm just turning it off Dan. Just turn it off.