Lemon LIVE at 5 | Who Is This Week's SOUR LEMON?! - July 4th, 2025
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Who is filling in for Don Lemon and why is this episode a 'Sour Lemon' special?
Hello, Lemon Nation. Hello, Lemon Heads. Your eyes do not deceive you. I am not Don Lemon. The white twinkle for you is not Don Lemon. I am producer Peter filling in because Don is on a well-earned vacation. He's somewhere on a yacht. Having fun, enjoying some drinks. But we have a great show, a great Sour Lemon special for you today. The one and only Godfrey. Fan favorite is back again, Godfrey.
Oh, wow, really? How you doing, man? The music came in. Whoever made that music, man, go ahead. That was nice.
It's a good sign.
It's like, oh, the graphic's beautiful, man. You guys are at 750,000 subscribers now?
We're killing it. Don's killing it. Don is on top of the goddamn world right now.
He's about to hit a million. That's incredible. He's about to hit a million easily. That's so fast, so great. This is beautiful. Hardest working man in media, easily.
Hardest working man in media.
He is. He is. And, you know, back in the day when you watched news, when the person couldn't make it, they'd be like, Don Lemon is on assignment. He's on assignment now called Fun. He's going... Don is away doing wealthy people things. I'm here. I'm stuck at home doing nothing in New York City.
He's earned it. He's earned it. This is the Lemon Nation. Hey, guys. What's up?
What's up? What's up, peoples?
You all know it's the 4th of July, but this isn't a happy 4th of July. This is a very dark day for a number of different reasons. We're going to go through them. In times like this, when you've got... 15, 16, 17 million Americans losing health care when we've got a secret police being established through ice, when you've got frickin' alligator Alcatraz being opened up with merchandise, no less, like it's Disney World. In times as dark as these, you can either laugh or you can cry, and as Don tells you on Friday nights, we choose to laugh on this show. So, Godfrey, thank you so much for coming on again. Let's get this show on the road, shall we? Let's go. All right. Number one, our first Sour Lemon nominee is...
is, of course, Magic Mike Johnson. So Magic Mike Johnson was pretty busy this week, Guyver. He took a break from monitoring his son's porn. And instead, he put his nose to the grindstone and passed one of the most horrific pieces of legislation in modern American history. Andy, if you don't mind, let's play a clip of him taking a victory lap. This is just yesterday, I believe.
The big, beautiful bill. Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address, we are dedicated to this proposition. One nation, under God. A government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. This is an experiment. It's only 249 years, y'all. That's not a long span of time in human history. It's just a blip on the whole scale of human history. It is up to us to save it. It's up to the duly elected representatives of the people to come here and represent. And it's up to every single one of us. Of the people, by the people, for the people. All of us. So you've got to be engaged, and we've got to pass this along to the next generation. Reagan reminded us, freedom's not inherited in the bloodstream.
It's got to be protected. It's got to be fought for. It's got to be taught to the next generation so that they will have the same liberty, opportunity, and security that we have all known and too often take it for granted. So I just want to say we're going to get to the main event here. We're about to sign this bill and get it over to the White House, okay? Wow.
Thanks, Andy. So, Godfrey, I don't know about you, but it takes a specific type of gall, some pretty large cojones to sell what is the single largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in American history as something that will expand freedom, opportunity and security.
And then, you know, they use the right words for us, for people, the people. And it's the people that basically for us. you know, rich, mainly white, you know, wealthy, and, you know, the poor can kiss our ass. Finally, we'll get this bill in, get rid of these poor people, and just own the goddamn country, huh?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is filling in for Don Lemon and why is this episode a 'Sour Lemon' special?
0:15β6:43
2
What is the 'Big Beautiful Bill' and why do the hosts call it harmful?
6:43β8:37
3
How did Mike Johnson and other Republican leaders justify the bill in their clips?
8:37β21:48
4
What arguments do the hosts make about who will be most harmed by the bill?
21:48β50:23
5
What is 'Alligator Alcatraz' and why do the hosts consider it a human-rights crisis?
50:23β1:03:12