John Favreau
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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How many fans demanded this? So many. What was the outcry like?
I don't like watching anyone do anything hygienic in public or not hygienic, but like, I guess, grooming or personal care, cutting their nails. I mean, I guess people don't really do that in public, but I just don't like.
You've seen it.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's like he has to lubricate his entire body to be involved in this. I don't know. It's just something, I just don't like watching it, that's all. I don't like watching people brush their hair. I don't like watching people put in contacts is a thing that I find really rewarding.
I'm so used to being around that because I work in television that at this point it doesn't bother me. But it did bother me at first, I think. I was still like a little bit put off by it. I don't know.
Yeah, I'm very squeamish about all of these things.
I'll tell you what. Having an 18-month-old, and you asked how my life is going, is very humbling for anyone who doesn't like hygienic things in public or nudity. Yeah. Especially when you're 18-month-old, just decides randomly that baths, the thing he was totally cool with for the first 18 months of his life, are now like being dipped in hot lava.
And he will scream an ear-splitting screech unless Mama, fully clothed, gets in the bath with him. So that was the thing that happened last night.
I get a couple newsletters, one of which is the Times newsletter. I think that's the one I could probably go back. But in any case, eventually it took me back to a CNN story where it laid out what this man in Georgia is describing in detail, which is amidst the... non-discriminate cuts to USAID, and they have been, this has been reported, this is just simply fact.
Elon Musk made claims that they were being very careful about not cutting off life-saving aid or whatever. This has all been proven to not be true. They're just slashing and burning and then figuring it out later, which has, of course, been the approach to a lot of things. So one of the things lost in this process was this contract.
And the story talked about how this particular company had $10 million worth of this life-saving, nutritious food in a warehouse in Georgia, ready to go, but then they couldn't ship it because all of the money had been cut off, putting the lives of hundreds of thousands of children at risk around the world. And I Yeah, it just stuck me when I first read it.
And then I think a day later, I was still thinking about it and just the senselessness of it. So I just screenshotted those facts. Again, the facts. This is not an opinion story. This is not a column. And just shared it on Twitter, which we can talk about. I have mixed feelings about using generally.
And then this dude, Jon Favreau, who's one of the hosts of Pod Save America, the political podcast, who's a former Obama speechwriter, reshared that. Then he got in a back and forth with Elon Musk about it, where Musk... lied and denied. And then he looked into it as well, I guess, or had his minions do. And less than a day later, they, I believe, restored that contract.
So then there was a follow-up from CNN saying that this guy was now able to ship all of this food around the world purely because Musk saw the story and decided that he didn't want to, I don't know what motivates him these days, and decided to release the funding.
Not all Americans can agree. This is, was to me, and the reason why I did a screenshot it, I was like, this is about as straightforward as a bad thing that gets in the world, and an obvious thing. It's not only just like, hey, should we help starving kids, but also we already created the capability to do this. This is not just shameful, it's wasteful and stupid, right? And
I did look at some of the replies, and there's people saying, it's not our job to feed the world. We need this. Teach them. Some guy said, teach a man to fish, and he'll fish forever, which that one really got under my skin. And then there's this belief that we have been overtaxed in helping other people.
We're talking about, as you just said, a very tiny amount of money in this grand scheme of things. And by the way, when this money is overtaxed, you know, saved, which is a word that I hate, it's not going to help the people who need it. It's going to give tax cuts to people like the three of us. But whatever, that's not neither here nor there.
And look, the worst of the people are being amplified. So when I look in the replies, I am seeing the worst possible people. But it was so unbelievably disheartening just to see something that seems so simply good and right be subject to controversy and debate because of the misinformation being propagated on that platform.
Pablo, your point about, like, this should be, like, a feel-good story. I felt good about the role that I played in this for about 15 minutes. 15 minutes. I thought, hey! All right, maybe I can use my platform to do good things. This thing happened, and it's obviously good, and I am very relieved.
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