Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I was an entertainment executive.

I have had a...

It's weird to talk about it in past tense because it's kind of still there, but I've had a really fun career and I've worked at really amazing companies and brands and leadership positions that have taken me on the field at the Super Bowl and in private jets with Playboy and just really cool stuff.

But somewhere along the lines, 10 years of Donald Trump, more than 10 years now of Donald Trump, I just felt like, okay, I have a greater responsibility here.

I know better.

I need to do better with it.

We're the team people want to be around, so to speak.

... voter might be like, "Ugh, I'm not gonna vote for a Democrat, but I can't bring myself to vote for this guy."

I know.

And like also, I think I get a little bit too hopecore sometimes because we're so in it, but then you step out into the real world, and I remember distinctly working the polls in 2024, and a woman came up to me and like tapped me on the shoulder in Bel Air and was like, "Who's Kamala Harris?" And this is our, this was in basically Brentwood where Kamala lived.

And, and I'm like, this is the base.

This is, we're not even in r- a rural area.

We are in Los Angeles here, and these are the people who are showing up to the polls with intent to vote.

Yeah.

And it's upsetting, because we live in a world where, you know, we see these candidates every day where they're being nominated, even on the Democratic side, where someone somewhere is vetting them for eligibility and c- how strong of a candidate they are.

Really?

I mean, she had the hardest job.

Biden was, he was so far gone already when she was doing her job.

Like, I remember I went to the White House for a creator economy summit, and he was just going.

They were like, "Oh, you're, everyone's gonna get five minutes.

Fi- five minutes, he's gonna come in, he's gonna speak to us." And I realized why they capped it, because he started going off the rails at the, the six-minute mark.

And she had to come in, and I was like, "Wow, this is a crisis calms woman." Commanding the fort.

So Karoline Leavitt, where would you put her?

Not a

no.

Not a no. Yeah.

And she did this because previously she had entered into the conversation with the Swalwell takedown, which I was like, okay, you know, broken clock theory.

You can, he is a creep.

He's a predator.

He's dangerous.

But what so what are the what are the alleged allegations around Steve Bannon?

Okay.

And I, you know, I'm not really one to wanna interview electeds.

I think they're a snooze fest.

I'm not yet established enough or certainly wasn't at the time to really ask some hard-hitting questions.

So anyway, I have him in the studio that I was recording in at the time.

My studio guy, Andy, was all jazzed.

He was like, "This is a big deal.

I just think it's really interesting that the white supremacist, J.D. Vance, the white supremacist, uh, Stephen Miller, they're both with these ethnic women, which, good for them, but also, why are you, why do you oppose DEI, and why can't you condemn Nazi group chats and stand up for your mixed race kids?

Oh, yeah.

They probably see the scalability there, the money, and anything for a buck.

And she's preaching to this group of, it's a lot of young people, and they also have a pastor offshoot, Jesuschella, just for pastors where they're spending a lot of time being like, "Erika didn't do it.

Be nice to Erika.

Jesus and the Lord doesn't want you to question Erika." And then they, like, go send them off into their own churches.

So they're trying to really, like, indoctrinate at scale here, which is crazy.

Mm-hmm.

Maybe low propensity voters, or people who just, like, love racism and Israel so much that they're just going to kinda ship it no matter who it is.

mm-hmm mm-hmm yeah we talked to uh taylor yes yes yeah so what do you think about that i mean that's obviously like not a new idea that gay people when they're repressed tend to outwardly hate the thing that they can't act of themselves but i think there's i think i feel like it says that there's something new happening that someone like hunter is talking about it so freely

Yeah, it's like quite refreshing because we know these things and I've always, I've never even really been DC adjacent, but of the people I know that like came up through the DC scene and were interns on the Hill, gay themselves, they were like sleeping with their bosses who were Republican members of the house.

So it's like, that is not very like locked up information there that i know so i'd imagine at the high the higher you go up in this administration the more angry they are at the gays the more closeted they likely are and a lot of these closets are pretty glass if you ask me from an outsider looking in like mag of mike johnson to me he seems gay as christmas So I'm curious like to get some more names being dropped and like Lindsey Graham too.

Like Lindsey Graham, I remember distinctly there's a photo of him at the UFC bash where the men were all lubed up on the lawn.

Lady G was like stuck between two men.

I don't know if it was AI or if it was real.

It was AI

No.

Why do you think she demanded the cameras?

Because she wants the show.

Everything's a show.

She wants to sell something.

But also, I don't think it's gonna work out favorably for her unless it's all, you know, rigged in the back end because if you're gonna take advantage of anyone, it's gonna be, like, a small town in Utah, rinky-dink, whatever.

So it's, it's gonna be fascinating.

And she also invoked her right to, her victim's advocate right to a speedy trial, which is something that doesn't exist for victims except in Utah.

Right?

Most of the comments you've said have been reflecting on our, like, appearances or, like, our stereotypes, and I think we'll all listen to you a lot more if you back off on that and start using more facts.

Okay, so- [audience cheering] Thank you, Lauren.

What I will say is, like, I don't get to... [scoffs] Everyone feels very entitled to kindness, but at this, in the same breath, they're talking about killing mothers four times in the face, and we're like, "Whoo!"... and then you're like, "Hey, Lauren, be a little nicer." So it goes both ways.

I think you're-

... a fundamental misunderstanding of abortion, and it's very difficult to have a debate with conver- uh, around facts when people are not connected to reality, which objectively, the definition of abortion, which the room tended to just not agree with, which science is one of those things you either understand...

You can't not believe in it.

That's, to me, the strategy.

Yeah, it's absolutely the strategy, and I recognize the risk when I show up to protests every single time.

I've been protesting for over a decade now, and to your point, we see that when we're on the ground, protest movements are inherently peaceful.

There are, they're sh- people showing up in community together to resist and to demand peace, and, and, and resist.

And it's nuts to me, uh, y- you know, we saw this play out with the Black Lives Matter movement and the uprising in support of Geo- George Floyd and how they painted protestors as these violent criminals smashing windows and, and grabbing property and all this stuff.

But it's, it's a distraction from the real violence and what's happening here w- when they say Antifa and stuff, they're distracting from the real violence which is the state-sanctioned violence and brutality that's happening at the hands of our law enforcement, of ICE, of Department of Homeland Security sealing people off the street.

This...

So, Lauren-My question I want to ask you is, what does it say when the courts have to intercede, the courts have to demand accountability from a White House that's treating protestors as enemy combatants?