May 17, 2024 • 29 mins
Desi Lydic provides an update on Trump’s criminal trial, where his lawyers’ attempts to discredit Michael Cohen turned into a roast of the former president. Plus, Sen. Menendez throws his wife under the bus at his corruption trial, and Josh Johnson weighs in on Virginia schools reinstating their Confederate namesakes. Turn your anxiety about the 2024 election into a toned bod with Joe Biden’s Build Bods Better, the only full-body workout that utilizes the stress of watching the President speak to help you burn calories. Farmer and author Helen Rebanks and her farmhand, who happens to be Emmy Award-winning actor Nick Offerman, discuss Rebanks’s book “The Farmer’s Wife,” which celebrates the often-invisible work carried out by women around the world. They chat about the origins of their friendship, their favorite recipes, and how Offerman reconnects to his roots on the farm.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
Welcome, Henry Jo.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I'm Henry Lenek. We've got so much to talk about tonight.
Everyone is debating about the debate. Bob Menendez has found
a new way to get divorced. And you're not going
to believe this. The South did something racist. But first
breaking news, Donald Trump is still on trial. Let's get
into it with another edition of America. He has most
(01:00):
tremendously wanted.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
The whole things are scammed.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Day eighteen of Donald Trump's porn star hush money trial
was another star turn for Michael Cohen, former Trump fixer
and all of Long Island distilled into one man. Cohen
is the lynchpin of the government's case because his testimony
directly ties Trump to the falsification of business records, which, remember,
is the actual crime here. The porn star hush money
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part is just a little thing we keep saying because
it's fun. So for the last few days, Trump's defense
attorneys have been doing their best to make Cohen seem
less credible than a Boeing in flight safety video, and
they have a lot to work with.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Today, Trump's defense has pressed Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer
and fixer. The defense has also highlighted some of the
various insults that he has lobbed against Trump over the years,
painting him is a man out for revenge after their
relationship fell apart. At one point, the defense played this
clip from Cohen's podcast in October of twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I truly hope that this man ends up in prison.
It won't bring back the year that I lost or
the damage done to my family, but revenge is a
dish best served cold, and you better believe I want
this man to go down and rottenside for what he
did to me and my family.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Wow. That is an angry podcast. It must be hard
to keep that level of anger when you also have
to read podcast ads. I'm hungry for vengeance and also
for when a Blue Apron's delicious home cooked me a little.
I mean, honestly, I feel bad for the jurors. As
if jury duty isn't bad enough, now they have to
(02:49):
listen to a dude's podcast, And who is Michael Cohen's podcast?
Even for do the people who hate Trump not have
enough content? Is there some guy who's like, I love MSNBC,
but it's only on twenty four hours a day and
it's not just his podcast. Trump's lawyers are dredging up
all the nastiest things he's ever said about Trump, and
(03:13):
right in front of his face.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
You referred to President Trump as a borish, cartoon misogynist,
didn't you? Defense attorney Todd blanchast? It sounds like something
I would say. Cohen responded, a cheeto dusted cartoon villain.
That also sounds like something I said.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
You're referred to President Trump as dictator.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Dbat didn't you?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Cohen says, sounds like something I said.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Damn Trump is just sitting there while his own lawyer
roasts him. And did you also call the president mister
bitch tits?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
How about resting bullsack face? That's a good one. Commander
in cheese Dick, You never said that, but you could?
Is that true? Look get the defense's argument that you
can't trust Michael Cohen because he hates Donald Trump, But
to be fair, everyone who's ever worked with Donald Trump
hates Donald Trump. At some point, you gotta be like
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I think it's Trump. Let's change gears because Trump's not
the only politician on trial right now. There's also Bob Menendez,
New Jersey senator and grown up cabbage patch kid. He's
facing corruption charges and now we know he's going with
the borat defense. My wife.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Lawyers for Senator Bob Menendez trying to shift the willame
for his alleged corruption onto his wife.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
An FBI search of the Menendez home in Englewood Cliff's,
New Jersey in June of twenty twenty two turned up
more than four hundred and eighty thousand dollars in cash
along with gold bars.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
And the Menenda's defense suggesting his wife, Nadine, was responsible
for the gold bars found in their home, saying they
were in her closet, have a key to that closet,
and did not know of the gold bars in that closet.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
The defense attorney said, this is shocking. Okay, this tall
blonde woman who lives in New Jersey and has a
locked closet full of goat gold bars is not a
real housewife, Andy Cohen, wake up. So Bob Menendez's argument
is that his wife was secretly orchestrating a corrupt international
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bribery scheme and hoarding gold bars in his own house
and he never knew it. And that, gentleman, is why
you need to ask your wife about her day.
Speaker 9 (05:38):
Okay, ask your wife about Jayat.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
It's a little things. Seriously, though, the balls on this
guy to throw his own wife under the bus. Is
anyone buying this? Menandez's lawyers are actually arguing that his
wife had the gold bars because she's of Lebanese descent
and the Lebanese love gold, which is a stereotype I
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did not know even existed. Like, doesn't every culture like gold,
No one's ever Like, oh, I couldn't possibly accept your
gold bars. My parents are Canadian. Let's turn to some
news from the culture war. Back in twenty twenty, towns
across America decided to take down Confederate statues and monuments
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because it was time to move on. Well, now they've
decided it's time to go back.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Two schools in Virginia are getting new names. Actually they're
old names, the names of Confederate officers. The Shenandoah County
school Board is the first in the nation to revert
to names from before the racial reckoning of twenty twenty.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Mountain View High School will be renamed for Confederate General
Stonewall Jackson Well Honey Run Elementary School will bear the
names of two Confederate rules, Robert E. Lee and turnaroush Beat.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Guys, Come on, after all that effort to remove that
disgusting legacy, we're just putting the Confederate names back. Now.
It's like asking your doctor to reattach that hairy mole. Oh, like,
I'm the only one who's ever had a harry mole.
You know you're out there and if you're wondering who
(07:26):
are the people who would support this type of move well,
they're exactly the people that you think it would be.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Tear down statues, a monuments and the racing history while
indoctrinating children is exactly what Adolf Hitler did.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
What are not rasis have been We have been tagged
that we are just because we want a name back
on the school.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Please do what's right for center O County or store
our irrigage, our history in our school names.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Okay, let's be honest here. This isn't about restoring your
hair heritage. If it was, then you would name it. Hey,
my cousin's kind of hot high school. I could make
that joke because I'm from Kentucky and my cousin is
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kind of hot. We know what you really mean by this,
But if you want to honor white people, why can't
you at least pick white people that everybody likes? What
about Paul Rudd High or Dolly Parton Elementary? Okay, we'll
even be happy with white people that are just not
(08:39):
Like how was graduating from Justin Long High? It was fine,
wasn't great, but it was fine. For more on the
Confederate name change, we go live to Stonewall Jackson High
School with Josh Johnson. Josh, what is the what's the there?
Speaker 11 (09:01):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Does he have been talking to a lot of people
who want to change the name back to the confarisee
in Osley.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
I think we should let him have it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
But let him have it?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, I mean, have you seen the guys who are
arguing for the name change, Like, look at them. They
look like they've just lost a civil war.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
Like this morning.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Plus, if you're a middle aged man trying to unrename
your old high school, you don't have much. These men
are at school board meetings like we gotta go back
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to the glory days when I want state, Do you
guys remember that? Anybody please remember that?
Speaker 12 (09:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
But they have to accept that the culture has changed.
Speaker 11 (09:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Sure, but the culture has changed, whether they accept it
or not. I mean, these people are living in a
time where all the best musicians are black, all the
best athletes are black. The only living president with a
functioning brain is black.
Speaker 11 (10:14):
What black people do.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Is literally called the culture.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
All right.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The only place these guys feel like they're winning is
the first half of a civil rights movie.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Okay, having a school named after a Confederate general.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Is racist, exactly, It's just racist enough. Look, America is
always going to have some baseline of racism. You just
have to direct it towards stuff that doesn't really matter. Okay,
if you keep them squabbling over school names, they're not
going to have the energy to go march in Charlottesville again.
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For example, while they were fighting out for a black
little Mermaid, I was able to slip into a bank
and get a mortgage.
Speaker 11 (11:00):
Don't pretty joke.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Okay, So you're okay with Stonewall Jackson High.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, I mean Stonewall Jackson sounds pretty black anyway. Like,
if you didn't know history, you think that he was
the one who got all those snakes off that mother plane.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Okay, so I guess going back to the old name
is good.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Wow, DESI that's racist. Sorry, but just a little the
right amount.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
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I have to talk to some Democrats who do see
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My guest to Night.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Helped run her family farm in England. She has a
new memoir called The Farmer's Wife, My Life in Days,
and she's brought one of her farm hands tonight, who
you might know from other stuff. Please welcome helenry Banks
and Nick Afferman. Oh my god, what a treat it
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is to have you both here. This is thank you
for being here so much. Nick. I think most people
knew you from your brilliant comedic work. You just won
your first Emmy for the Last of Us, you played
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the president in Civil War, and now somehow on this side,
you're also a master woodworker.
Speaker 11 (16:57):
I'm an aspiring master woodworker. I know some the masters
that I take classes from. Would bristle to hear you
describe me that well?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I doubt that. I think it's pretty safe to say
that you were officially a renaissance man.
Speaker 11 (17:10):
I'll take competent.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, we'll settle for that. So how did the two
of you meet? How did this friendship get started?
Speaker 11 (17:19):
Well?
Speaker 14 (17:19):
I guess social media kind of connected as up initially,
didn't it. I mean, we were both huge fans of
the writer Wendel Berry's work, and when we were over
in Kentucky we did an event my husband was speaking
with him in Louisville Public Library. And you've been connected
with the work of Wendell for a long time, you know,
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sharing his work and stories about looking after the land
and food and farming for a while, and then you
came to stay when you were in the UK working
on a project.
Speaker 11 (17:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, so all of this started on social media.
Speaker 11 (17:55):
That's right. If you want if you want good farming content,
you go to Twitter.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Some people go to Twitter for other things. Check my mentions.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
But yeah, I love the great Kentucky writer Wendell Berry
is the subject matter that drew us together because we're
all very interested in knowing about our farmers and knowing
where our food comes from and who's growing it and
if they care about our health or not, or if
they care about their profits. And so it was through
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Twitter I befriended them, and I had an acting job
in Manchester, England with Alex Garland, a show called Devs,
and that took me very close to them, and I
started spending weekends there, had some of Helen's cooking and here.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We are.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You're cooking that good? I enjoyed your book so much.
You really walk us through a day in your life,
all of the daily work that you do taking care
of a family of six. You're heard of sheep dogs,
fifty chickens, five hundred sheep. I can barely keep my
kids goldfish alive. How much coffee and drugs do you
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have to take to get all of your work done?
That's my main question.
Speaker 14 (19:12):
Oh, it's a way of life on a farm. It's
I mean, I guess this to me is the hard work,
like being on doing all this, all the interviews, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's totally different. I love it.
Speaker 14 (19:25):
I love it from on untill night. It's a completely
sort of immersive thing to be on a farm. You
respond to the weather, the livestock, the kids, whatever needs doing.
And I wrote the book to celebrate the people that
do that daily kind of mundane work. Really, but to me,
it's like really important.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It's such important work, and it really is such a
beautiful tribute to all the invisible work that so many
women do all over the world. Was that your intention
when you came into the book, or were you just
kind of wanting to tell your personal story, a.
Speaker 14 (19:58):
Bit of both. Really, It's arted off with personal stories
and recipes and I wanted to leave a collection for
the kids of what mum makes. And it soon developed
into kind of a really deep kind of dive into
like what society tells us women. You know, it's really hard,
isn't it to figure out a path through and navigate
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how do we have kids and run business and do
all the things? And I kind of through the stories
through the writing. It's just been absolutely brilliant to share
it with readers that have resonated with it and feel seen.
You know, there's not many books that I felt seen in.
I read a lot, and I love stories, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
It really accomplishes that. And I love how you talk
about when you were growing up. You grew up on
a farm, and you always thought this is not what
I'm going to do, and then you chose differently. You
chose to follow in the footsteps of your mom and
your grandmother. Why did you change your mind?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Oh?
Speaker 14 (20:57):
I think love changes a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I felt in love with the farmer. That's how it happens, against.
Speaker 14 (21:05):
All my better judgments. And here, yeah, yeah, yeah, here
I am. And it wasn't it wasn't initially kind of
I want to just do the things that my grandma
and mum had done.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
It's like.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I'm making art.
Speaker 14 (21:20):
As well through this writing and working and thinking about
life through the creative projects that I'm doing. So it's
not just I'm just doing one thing. And I think
we're all lots of different things, aren't we.
Speaker 11 (21:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I love when you when you say in the book,
I choose this life. I choose this life. And that's
how I feel as a New Yorker when I see
someone masturbating on the sixth train, I say, I chose
this life. This is funny, and I had to live
with those choices.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Nick, you.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You're probably you know, when you're acting and you're on set,
people take really good care of you. I assume you're
at this point in your career, mister Offerman. Can I
hold your umbrella for you? What can I get you from?
Speaker 11 (22:06):
I'm fully molly coddled. It's a contract.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So was it when you went to do real work
on Helen's farm? Was that like a was that a
rude awakening?
Speaker 11 (22:16):
Well? No, that's actually the strange thing that attracted me
to them, And this subject matter is I grew up
in a wonderful family in small town Illinois. My mom
and dad both grew up on farms a few miles
to each side of where I grew up, and they
have these incredible work ethics and family values. And so
even though my life led me to like show business
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and Chicago and then Los Angeles, I still gravitate towards
like it's like my Disneyland. I crave can I just
please go to a farm and do the dishes or
help you shovel some sheep muck? And so, I mean,
it wasn't something that I like cognitively sought out. It
happened more more organically, or I said, and I'm really
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attracted to this family. And I showed up and they
have four kids. I come from a family of four kids,
and I just tried to subtly adapt myself into the family.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Didn't work, And he's pretty much did.
Speaker 14 (23:14):
And we had no clue who Nick was when he
first arrived and he was working on a show call.
Speaker 11 (23:22):
It actually makes me feel really good because I know
that they're not going to tweet about me.
Speaker 14 (23:28):
They had a big beard and he was bald, and
he'd been filming on devs so that was, you know,
a sort of strange look that you were pulling there.
And then my mom she called in for something and
she said, who is this guy, Helen?
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 14 (23:44):
He looks like an escape convict. Are you safe tonight?
You know, are you going to be saying American?
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 14 (23:53):
Yeah, And you know she's not too keen on your
first look, but she's since warmed up peasant shay.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
Thank you. Yeah, yes, she's I've graduated to now I
look like an escaped invalid.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yes, congratulations. So you you worked on Civil War playing
the President. I imagine that was an incredibly intense film
to shoot. The second you wrap, did you run to
the farm immediately?
Speaker 11 (24:24):
Pretty close? Yeah, I mean it's it is very medicinal.
The thing that I love about the life I grew
up with and then the life that I experience on
Helen's farm is is that, in this world of too
much information and too much fast paced attention deficit, when
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you get into the subject of this book and just
raising food with your family, preparing that food with your family,
and just going about the daily life on a farm,
you suddenly don't need modern distractions like video games or
bullshit television program Oh yeah, we need.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Who needs basic cable late night exactly?
Speaker 11 (25:07):
And so for me, I just find that to be
incredibly palliative. That it's like reading a really good book
where suddenly the way they live is like a work
of art and you can you can curate it. And
it never has to involve shopping for anything online or
going to the mall, but instead it's just how good
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are your Yorkshire puddings? Suddenly, like, why aren't we all
living like this?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Well, if you ever tried my Yorkshire pudding, you would
know it would be better to just shop online too.
There are so many incredible recipes in this book. What's
your favorite recipe to cook?
Speaker 14 (25:46):
I think I like making something that's gonna last us
for a long time. So I'll cook up a big
part of like a broth or like a Hamhok broth.
You've had that before? Having you.
Speaker 11 (25:58):
Please get us? Can we just stop and me a sandwich?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Get a sandwich?
Speaker 11 (26:03):
Pass out?
Speaker 14 (26:05):
But yeah, something that's going to warm us up after
a day working outside. I mean, it's old fashioned to
talk about this kind of thing, isn't it. You know,
meals around the table and caring for each other and
connecting and having conversations around a meal. But that's the stuff,
that's the good stuff. To me, that's like so important
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that we try and encourage our kids to learn how
to cook, make things and so they can survive out
there in the world and understand where it's grown, how
it's grown, and let's ask the questions, the important questions
about how we're looking after the planet that this food
comes from.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Has it changed the way that you look at food
and how it's produced and what you choose to eat.
Speaker 11 (26:46):
Absolutely. I mean my fascination with agrarian material, starting with
Wendell Berry and the books of Michael Pollen and Elie
Waters and many more, are what led me to my
life with the Rebanks and getting to like help them
with lambing and actually you know see lambs being born,
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reaching in and doing some assisting. Were we have a
beef herd that I am an investor in, Yes, and
so it's the most gorgeous grass fed beef. And so
not only are these things delicious, but we're trying to.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Okay, now I need a sandwich.
Speaker 11 (27:28):
Striving to work against the modern idea that our problems
can be solved with technology instead of just working in
concert with Mother nature, and so this grass fed beef
is answering the question of how can we keep the
soil the most healthy, it holds the most carbon. All
of these things work together to answer a lot of
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the questions that are plaguing us in modern civilization, and
you get the most beautiful ribbis at the end of
the assignment.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
What life solves that. It's a beautiful book. Congratulations and
congratulations to you on everything. Thank you, so I really
really enjoyed it. Thank you for being on The Farmer's
Wife Bill.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
The Available dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
On May twenty four, Hellenry, thanks and Nick Afferman, we're
going to.
Speaker 11 (28:16):
Thinking that's tonight.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
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Speaker 11 (28:37):
Senator to be expelled? Menandez? Should he be expelled?
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Senator Mendez? And he gets convicted?
Speaker 11 (28:46):
Yeah, look, I'm really glad he's not a Republican.
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
Welcome, Henry Jo.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I'm Henry Lenek. We've got so much to talk about tonight.
Everyone is debating about the debate. Bob Menendez has found
a new way to get divorced. And you're not going
to believe this. The South did something racist. But first
breaking news, Donald Trump is still on trial. Let's get
into it with another edition of America. He has most
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tremendously wanted.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
The whole things are scammed.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Day eighteen of Donald Trump's porn star hush money trial
was another star turn for Michael Cohen, former Trump fixer
and all of Long Island distilled into one man. Cohen
is the lynchpin of the government's case because his testimony
directly ties Trump to the falsification of business records, which, remember,
is the actual crime here. The porn star hush money
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part is just a little thing we keep saying because
it's fun. So for the last few days, Trump's defense
attorneys have been doing their best to make Cohen seem
less credible than a Boeing in flight safety video, and
they have a lot to work with.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Today, Trump's defense has pressed Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer
and fixer. The defense has also highlighted some of the
various insults that he has lobbed against Trump over the years,
painting him is a man out for revenge after their
relationship fell apart. At one point, the defense played this
clip from Cohen's podcast in October of twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I truly hope that this man ends up in prison.
It won't bring back the year that I lost or
the damage done to my family, but revenge is a
dish best served cold, and you better believe I want
this man to go down and rottenside for what he
did to me and my family.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Wow. That is an angry podcast. It must be hard
to keep that level of anger when you also have
to read podcast ads. I'm hungry for vengeance and also
for when a Blue Apron's delicious home cooked me a little.
I mean, honestly, I feel bad for the jurors. As
if jury duty isn't bad enough, now they have to
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listen to a dude's podcast, And who is Michael Cohen's podcast?
Even for do the people who hate Trump not have
enough content? Is there some guy who's like, I love MSNBC,
but it's only on twenty four hours a day and
it's not just his podcast. Trump's lawyers are dredging up
all the nastiest things he's ever said about Trump, and
(03:13):
right in front of his face.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
You referred to President Trump as a borish, cartoon misogynist,
didn't you? Defense attorney Todd blanchast? It sounds like something
I would say. Cohen responded, a cheeto dusted cartoon villain.
That also sounds like something I said.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
You're referred to President Trump as dictator.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Dbat didn't you?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Cohen says, sounds like something I said.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Damn Trump is just sitting there while his own lawyer
roasts him. And did you also call the president mister
bitch tits?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
How about resting bullsack face? That's a good one. Commander
in cheese Dick, You never said that, but you could?
Is that true? Look get the defense's argument that you
can't trust Michael Cohen because he hates Donald Trump, But
to be fair, everyone who's ever worked with Donald Trump
hates Donald Trump. At some point, you gotta be like
(04:13):
I think it's Trump. Let's change gears because Trump's not
the only politician on trial right now. There's also Bob Menendez,
New Jersey senator and grown up cabbage patch kid. He's
facing corruption charges and now we know he's going with
the borat defense. My wife.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Lawyers for Senator Bob Menendez trying to shift the willame
for his alleged corruption onto his wife.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
An FBI search of the Menendez home in Englewood Cliff's,
New Jersey in June of twenty twenty two turned up
more than four hundred and eighty thousand dollars in cash
along with gold bars.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
And the Menenda's defense suggesting his wife, Nadine, was responsible
for the gold bars found in their home, saying they
were in her closet, have a key to that closet,
and did not know of the gold bars in that closet.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
The defense attorney said, this is shocking. Okay, this tall
blonde woman who lives in New Jersey and has a
locked closet full of goat gold bars is not a
real housewife, Andy Cohen, wake up. So Bob Menendez's argument
is that his wife was secretly orchestrating a corrupt international
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bribery scheme and hoarding gold bars in his own house
and he never knew it. And that, gentleman, is why
you need to ask your wife about her day.
Speaker 9 (05:38):
Okay, ask your wife about Jayat.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
It's a little things. Seriously, though, the balls on this
guy to throw his own wife under the bus. Is
anyone buying this? Menandez's lawyers are actually arguing that his
wife had the gold bars because she's of Lebanese descent
and the Lebanese love gold, which is a stereotype I
(06:07):
did not know even existed. Like, doesn't every culture like gold,
No one's ever Like, oh, I couldn't possibly accept your
gold bars. My parents are Canadian. Let's turn to some
news from the culture war. Back in twenty twenty, towns
across America decided to take down Confederate statues and monuments
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because it was time to move on. Well, now they've
decided it's time to go back.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Two schools in Virginia are getting new names. Actually they're
old names, the names of Confederate officers. The Shenandoah County
school Board is the first in the nation to revert
to names from before the racial reckoning of twenty twenty.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Mountain View High School will be renamed for Confederate General
Stonewall Jackson Well Honey Run Elementary School will bear the
names of two Confederate rules, Robert E. Lee and turnaroush Beat.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Guys, Come on, after all that effort to remove that
disgusting legacy, we're just putting the Confederate names back. Now.
It's like asking your doctor to reattach that hairy mole. Oh, like,
I'm the only one who's ever had a harry mole.
You know you're out there and if you're wondering who
(07:26):
are the people who would support this type of move well,
they're exactly the people that you think it would be.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Tear down statues, a monuments and the racing history while
indoctrinating children is exactly what Adolf Hitler did.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
What are not rasis have been We have been tagged
that we are just because we want a name back
on the school.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Please do what's right for center O County or store
our irrigage, our history in our school names.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Okay, let's be honest here. This isn't about restoring your
hair heritage. If it was, then you would name it. Hey,
my cousin's kind of hot high school. I could make
that joke because I'm from Kentucky and my cousin is
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kind of hot. We know what you really mean by this,
But if you want to honor white people, why can't
you at least pick white people that everybody likes? What
about Paul Rudd High or Dolly Parton Elementary? Okay, we'll
even be happy with white people that are just not
(08:39):
Like how was graduating from Justin Long High? It was fine,
wasn't great, but it was fine. For more on the
Confederate name change, we go live to Stonewall Jackson High
School with Josh Johnson. Josh, what is the what's the there?
Speaker 11 (09:01):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Does he have been talking to a lot of people
who want to change the name back to the confarisee
in Osley.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
I think we should let him have it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
But let him have it?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, I mean, have you seen the guys who are
arguing for the name change, Like, look at them. They
look like they've just lost a civil war.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
Like this morning.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Plus, if you're a middle aged man trying to unrename
your old high school, you don't have much. These men
are at school board meetings like we gotta go back
(09:43):
to the glory days when I want state, Do you
guys remember that? Anybody please remember that?
Speaker 12 (09:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
But they have to accept that the culture has changed.
Speaker 11 (09:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Sure, but the culture has changed, whether they accept it
or not. I mean, these people are living in a
time where all the best musicians are black, all the
best athletes are black. The only living president with a
functioning brain is black.
Speaker 11 (10:14):
What black people do.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Is literally called the culture.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
All right.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The only place these guys feel like they're winning is
the first half of a civil rights movie.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Okay, having a school named after a Confederate general.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Is racist, exactly, It's just racist enough. Look, America is
always going to have some baseline of racism. You just
have to direct it towards stuff that doesn't really matter. Okay,
if you keep them squabbling over school names, they're not
going to have the energy to go march in Charlottesville again.
(10:51):
For example, while they were fighting out for a black
little Mermaid, I was able to slip into a bank
and get a mortgage.
Speaker 11 (11:00):
Don't pretty joke.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Okay, So you're okay with Stonewall Jackson High.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, I mean Stonewall Jackson sounds pretty black anyway. Like,
if you didn't know history, you think that he was
the one who got all those snakes off that mother plane.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Okay, so I guess going back to the old name
is good.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Wow, DESI that's racist. Sorry, but just a little the
right amount.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
Okay, why Judy, no job Johnson everyone. When we come back,
we'll learn about joely have exercise programs to don't go away.
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Welcome back to the Daily Show. Joe Biden and Donald
Trump shook up the presidential race yesterday by agreeing to
two debates, which was pretty surprising. I mean, the only
thing these two have ever agreed on is that Eric
Trump is not their son. But what was especially surprising
was how quickly Trump agreed to the debates despite all
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of Biden's stipulations. He jumped at the offer like it
was a plea deal with no jail time. And now
some of Trump's friends are concerned he may have been
a little too eager.
Speaker 13 (12:37):
Excluding Trump from any input is beyond unfair. It is
beyond insulting the media mob and Joe Biden. They don't
get to collude and choose radical Biden's supporting hosts in
the moderator's chair. That means no fake Jake Tapper.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Is this a trap for Donald Trump?
Speaker 10 (12:56):
And is he walking right into it?
Speaker 11 (12:58):
How do you feel about it? I worry that it's
a trap.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Oh, come on, this isn't a trap for Donald Trump.
A trap for Donald Trump would be more like asking
him to play for Mary Kill with Milania, Avanka and
Jessica Rabbit. But as worried as Team Trump might be
about these debates, Biden's friends might be even more worried.
Speaker 10 (13:23):
I have to talk to some Democrats who do see
a downside in this, right, Can he actually win a
debate with somebody like Donald Trump?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
Definitely some people in the Biden camp that don't see that,
that basically see this as more risky than than not.
I myself would never recommend going on the stage with
Donald Trump, but the president has decided that's what he
wants to do.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Listen up, mister President. When you get advice from Nancy Pelosi,
you take it. That's what I always tell my stockbroker,
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Speaker 9 (15:30):
And Helen Raymonde joining me on the JOHNO Jove Away.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
All the mac Lady Show.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
My guest to Night.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Helped run her family farm in England. She has a
new memoir called The Farmer's Wife, My Life in Days,
and she's brought one of her farm hands tonight, who
you might know from other stuff. Please welcome helenry Banks
and Nick Afferman. Oh my god, what a treat it
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is to have you both here. This is thank you
for being here so much. Nick. I think most people
knew you from your brilliant comedic work. You just won
your first Emmy for the Last of Us, you played
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the president in Civil War, and now somehow on this side,
you're also a master woodworker.
Speaker 11 (16:57):
I'm an aspiring master woodworker. I know some the masters
that I take classes from. Would bristle to hear you
describe me that well?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I doubt that. I think it's pretty safe to say
that you were officially a renaissance man.
Speaker 11 (17:10):
I'll take competent.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, we'll settle for that. So how did the two
of you meet? How did this friendship get started?
Speaker 11 (17:19):
Well?
Speaker 14 (17:19):
I guess social media kind of connected as up initially,
didn't it. I mean, we were both huge fans of
the writer Wendel Berry's work, and when we were over
in Kentucky we did an event my husband was speaking
with him in Louisville Public Library. And you've been connected
with the work of Wendell for a long time, you know,
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sharing his work and stories about looking after the land
and food and farming for a while, and then you
came to stay when you were in the UK working
on a project.
Speaker 11 (17:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, so all of this started on social media.
Speaker 11 (17:55):
That's right. If you want if you want good farming content,
you go to Twitter.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Some people go to Twitter for other things. Check my mentions.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
But yeah, I love the great Kentucky writer Wendell Berry
is the subject matter that drew us together because we're
all very interested in knowing about our farmers and knowing
where our food comes from and who's growing it and
if they care about our health or not, or if
they care about their profits. And so it was through
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Twitter I befriended them, and I had an acting job
in Manchester, England with Alex Garland, a show called Devs,
and that took me very close to them, and I
started spending weekends there, had some of Helen's cooking and here.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We are.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You're cooking that good? I enjoyed your book so much.
You really walk us through a day in your life,
all of the daily work that you do taking care
of a family of six. You're heard of sheep dogs,
fifty chickens, five hundred sheep. I can barely keep my
kids goldfish alive. How much coffee and drugs do you
(19:06):
have to take to get all of your work done?
That's my main question.
Speaker 14 (19:12):
Oh, it's a way of life on a farm. It's
I mean, I guess this to me is the hard work,
like being on doing all this, all the interviews, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's totally different. I love it.
Speaker 14 (19:25):
I love it from on untill night. It's a completely
sort of immersive thing to be on a farm. You
respond to the weather, the livestock, the kids, whatever needs doing.
And I wrote the book to celebrate the people that
do that daily kind of mundane work. Really, but to me,
it's like really important.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It's such important work, and it really is such a
beautiful tribute to all the invisible work that so many
women do all over the world. Was that your intention
when you came into the book, or were you just
kind of wanting to tell your personal story, a.
Speaker 14 (19:58):
Bit of both. Really, It's arted off with personal stories
and recipes and I wanted to leave a collection for
the kids of what mum makes. And it soon developed
into kind of a really deep kind of dive into
like what society tells us women. You know, it's really hard,
isn't it to figure out a path through and navigate
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how do we have kids and run business and do
all the things? And I kind of through the stories
through the writing. It's just been absolutely brilliant to share
it with readers that have resonated with it and feel seen.
You know, there's not many books that I felt seen in.
I read a lot, and I love stories, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
It really accomplishes that. And I love how you talk
about when you were growing up. You grew up on
a farm, and you always thought this is not what
I'm going to do, and then you chose differently. You
chose to follow in the footsteps of your mom and
your grandmother. Why did you change your mind?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Oh?
Speaker 14 (20:57):
I think love changes a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I felt in love with the farmer. That's how it happens, against.
Speaker 14 (21:05):
All my better judgments. And here, yeah, yeah, yeah, here
I am. And it wasn't it wasn't initially kind of
I want to just do the things that my grandma
and mum had done.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
It's like.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I'm making art.
Speaker 14 (21:20):
As well through this writing and working and thinking about
life through the creative projects that I'm doing. So it's
not just I'm just doing one thing. And I think
we're all lots of different things, aren't we.
Speaker 11 (21:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I love when you when you say in the book,
I choose this life. I choose this life. And that's
how I feel as a New Yorker when I see
someone masturbating on the sixth train, I say, I chose
this life. This is funny, and I had to live
with those choices.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Nick, you.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You're probably you know, when you're acting and you're on set,
people take really good care of you. I assume you're
at this point in your career, mister Offerman. Can I
hold your umbrella for you? What can I get you from?
Speaker 11 (22:06):
I'm fully molly coddled. It's a contract.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So was it when you went to do real work
on Helen's farm? Was that like a was that a
rude awakening?
Speaker 11 (22:16):
Well? No, that's actually the strange thing that attracted me
to them, And this subject matter is I grew up
in a wonderful family in small town Illinois. My mom
and dad both grew up on farms a few miles
to each side of where I grew up, and they
have these incredible work ethics and family values. And so
even though my life led me to like show business
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and Chicago and then Los Angeles, I still gravitate towards
like it's like my Disneyland. I crave can I just
please go to a farm and do the dishes or
help you shovel some sheep muck? And so, I mean,
it wasn't something that I like cognitively sought out. It
happened more more organically, or I said, and I'm really
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attracted to this family. And I showed up and they
have four kids. I come from a family of four kids,
and I just tried to subtly adapt myself into the family.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Didn't work, And he's pretty much did.
Speaker 14 (23:14):
And we had no clue who Nick was when he
first arrived and he was working on a show call.
Speaker 11 (23:22):
It actually makes me feel really good because I know
that they're not going to tweet about me.
Speaker 14 (23:28):
They had a big beard and he was bald, and
he'd been filming on devs so that was, you know,
a sort of strange look that you were pulling there.
And then my mom she called in for something and
she said, who is this guy, Helen?
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 14 (23:44):
He looks like an escape convict. Are you safe tonight?
You know, are you going to be saying American?
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 14 (23:53):
Yeah, And you know she's not too keen on your
first look, but she's since warmed up peasant shay.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
Thank you. Yeah, yes, she's I've graduated to now I
look like an escaped invalid.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yes, congratulations. So you you worked on Civil War playing
the President. I imagine that was an incredibly intense film
to shoot. The second you wrap, did you run to
the farm immediately?
Speaker 11 (24:24):
Pretty close? Yeah, I mean it's it is very medicinal.
The thing that I love about the life I grew
up with and then the life that I experience on
Helen's farm is is that, in this world of too
much information and too much fast paced attention deficit, when
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you get into the subject of this book and just
raising food with your family, preparing that food with your family,
and just going about the daily life on a farm,
you suddenly don't need modern distractions like video games or
bullshit television program Oh yeah, we need.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Who needs basic cable late night exactly?
Speaker 11 (25:07):
And so for me, I just find that to be
incredibly palliative. That it's like reading a really good book
where suddenly the way they live is like a work
of art and you can you can curate it. And
it never has to involve shopping for anything online or
going to the mall, but instead it's just how good
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are your Yorkshire puddings? Suddenly, like, why aren't we all
living like this?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Well, if you ever tried my Yorkshire pudding, you would
know it would be better to just shop online too.
There are so many incredible recipes in this book. What's
your favorite recipe to cook?
Speaker 14 (25:46):
I think I like making something that's gonna last us
for a long time. So I'll cook up a big
part of like a broth or like a Hamhok broth.
You've had that before? Having you.
Speaker 11 (25:58):
Please get us? Can we just stop and me a sandwich?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Get a sandwich?
Speaker 11 (26:03):
Pass out?
Speaker 14 (26:05):
But yeah, something that's going to warm us up after
a day working outside. I mean, it's old fashioned to
talk about this kind of thing, isn't it. You know,
meals around the table and caring for each other and
connecting and having conversations around a meal. But that's the stuff,
that's the good stuff. To me, that's like so important
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that we try and encourage our kids to learn how
to cook, make things and so they can survive out
there in the world and understand where it's grown, how
it's grown, and let's ask the questions, the important questions
about how we're looking after the planet that this food
comes from.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Has it changed the way that you look at food
and how it's produced and what you choose to eat.
Speaker 11 (26:46):
Absolutely. I mean my fascination with agrarian material, starting with
Wendell Berry and the books of Michael Pollen and Elie
Waters and many more, are what led me to my
life with the Rebanks and getting to like help them
with lambing and actually you know see lambs being born,
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reaching in and doing some assisting. Were we have a
beef herd that I am an investor in, Yes, and
so it's the most gorgeous grass fed beef. And so
not only are these things delicious, but we're trying to.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Okay, now I need a sandwich.
Speaker 11 (27:28):
Striving to work against the modern idea that our problems
can be solved with technology instead of just working in
concert with Mother nature, and so this grass fed beef
is answering the question of how can we keep the
soil the most healthy, it holds the most carbon. All
of these things work together to answer a lot of
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the questions that are plaguing us in modern civilization, and
you get the most beautiful ribbis at the end of
the assignment.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
What life solves that. It's a beautiful book. Congratulations and
congratulations to you on everything. Thank you, so I really
really enjoyed it. Thank you for being on The Farmer's
Wife Bill.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
The Available dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
On May twenty four, Hellenry, thanks and Nick Afferman, we're
going to.
Speaker 11 (28:16):
Thinking that's tonight.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Now here is your.
Speaker 11 (28:37):
Senator to be expelled? Menandez? Should he be expelled?
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Senator Mendez? And he gets convicted?
Speaker 11 (28:46):
Yeah, look, I'm really glad he's not a Republican.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
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