Lemon LIVE at 5 | Who Is This Week's SOUR LEMON?! - April 25th, 2025
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How does Lemon LIVE open and set the tone for the Sour Lemon Special?
Finally, it is Friday evening. Remember what we said, everybody. Remember what we said earlier. Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. Welcome to Lemon Live at 5 on the Don Lemon Show. Live and in living color, as they say. And you know what we do on Friday. First of all, let me know where you are. Hi from San Francisco. You guys know the score. You know the drill. Can you please just do I have to keep asking you to let me know where you are watching us from? Do I have to keep telling you to hit the thumbs up button, the like and subscribe? Must I keep telling you that? Like and subscribe. Also, please become a member. It helps us out here on these streets. Brooklyn, Anaheim. Wow. San Francisco, Austin.
All over. Arizona. I see you. We're going to get some of your comments up. We're going to welcome some new members. And we're going to read a lot of your comments. And we are going to talk about the sour lemons of the week. What a week. What a chaotic, dark, exhausting week. We saw Trump's liberation tariffs continue to tank the global economy. The Pope passed away. We learned about yet another Signalgate scandal. Somehow, this one was very, I should say, this one was even, does that make it stupider than the original? Is that proper grammar? And we watched unprecedented attacks on the rule of law. So, as I tell you every Friday in these times, you can either laugh or you can cry. And on this program, on this channel, we choose to laugh.
So welcome to our 10th Sour Lemon Special, my friend. Number 10. Wow, has it been 10? And last week we didn't do it because we thought you needed inspiration. Remember, we had a yanla. So we actually skipped a week, okay? So I'm glad to be joined by another brilliant, hilarious voice this Friday. And that's none other than Francesca Fiorentini. She accused me without due process of something. I think she convicted me without due process earlier. A political commentator, comedian. You've seen her on MSNBC, Zateo. Killing It is a host of the Bituation Room podcast on YouTube. Francesca, welcome back. It's been a little while.
Yes, thank you so much for having me. And just like on the theme of needing to laugh, if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, I will be live at Cobb's Comedy on May 7th. So get tickets. Come see me. Take a load off. There'll be political jokes. There'll be non-political jokes. It'll be good. Wednesday, May 7th. Come through.
Come through for Francesca Fiorentini. Hi, Francesca. You know we put the comments up here. You can see them live. So folks are saying hi.
I know.
Our community is very welcoming and very friendly, except... Can I... Do I want to start a mess? Except for just name names. Except this one person. Except for someone you used to work with. They're not a huge fan.
Oh.
Yeah.
There's a couple of those. In fact, there's just two.
I'm just saying. I'm trying to adjust my set here. But I'm just saying, yeah, so Francesca, they love you. You're all good. I'm just trying to adjust my monitor so I can actually see the YouTube. There we go. So pardon the interruption here. Okay, so we're up. So Francesca accused me and convicted me without due process of stealing her purple colors. Now...
And teal. I see some teal back there. This is a Vanderpump Rules lighting here, and I feel like you've bitten off the lemon.
So here's the thing. I had no idea. I don't know. I've never seen Vanderpump Rules. I've heard it's on Bravo, right? Heard of it. OK, so here's the thing. Just randomly, I said it is Friday. We're going to have a couple of drinks. I can go a little fun. I'm going to try something different with the lighting. And did I not say that team team? Can you back me up? Okay.
You did say that.
Yeah. I just took all of the blue out of it and I added red and the red looks purple. And so, yeah. All right.
Who is Francesca Fiorentini and why is she joining the Sour Lemon Special?
So I stole your, so all right. We're matching.
We're matching. Absolutely.
Let's get to it. All right. So let's, oh, before we start the show. Well, someone said before we end the show, this is how much my producers love you. We must plug that Francesca will be performing at Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 7th at 730.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How does Lemon LIVE open and set the tone for the Sour Lemon Special?
0:15–4:22
2
Who is Francesca Fiorentini and why is she joining the Sour Lemon Special?
4:22–15:05
3
What do recent polls say about Trump's approval and the economy?
15:05–34:32
4
Why is J.D. Vance being mocked after visiting the Pope?
34:32–48:00
5
What did Marjorie Taylor Greene say about the Pope that caused backlash?
48:00–57:25
6
Why is Kash Patel criticized for the ICE judge arrest and Signal chat behavior?
57:25–1:08:03
Speakers
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