Lemon LIVE at 5 | Who Is This Week's SOUR LEMON?! - May 2nd, 2025
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Where is Don broadcasting from and why does he mention Louisiana at the top of the show?
Oh, welcome, welcome, welcome. Hi, everybody. Welcome to Lemon Live at 5. It is our Sour Lemon. I guess it's a special. We can call it special of the week. Everyone's asking me, where am I? I am in Louisiana. You see that gorgeous view out there? Beautiful. And then we have The White House, which is not so gorgeous right now, or at least the occupants of the White House. So what a week it has been. A chaotic, messy, exhausting week. We saw Trump's liberation tariffs continue just to tank the global economy. But, you know, in Trump's world, everything is great. When the economy goes down in Trump's world, it means it's up. But then when the economy goes down under any other president, it means that it's actually down.
So, you know, hey, take it for what it's worth. The first member of the Trump administration was fired and then subsequently rehired. And we watch unprecedented attacks on the rule of law and free speech. And as I always tell on every Friday, every Friday on this show, on this show, we can either choose to laugh or we can choose to cry. And we choose to laugh. So welcome to the 11th Sour Lemon special, my friends, number 11. So I am glad to be joined by a brilliant, hilarious voice on Friday, a returning guest and friend of the show. And that is none other than a phenomenal stand-up comedian, a former white writer for Jon Stewart, and an X-Men superfan. Jay Jordan joins us. Jay, it's been a couple of months.
How have you been? How are you dealing with all this race play and stuff? Absolutely not, Don Lemon. Also, Don Lemon said former white. I heard what you said, and then you corrected it. You said former white.
You are a former white.
When did you turn black? My great, great, my great, great, great granddaddy, he was white, so I can't say crackers, but I try to soften it. It goes even closer for me. Well, you're in Louisiana. Yeah. You passe blanc? You watch the center? Oh, my God. We're all mixed up. And luckily, I had a brown dad because then I would have been, you know, real, real. Yeah. I had my DNA done when I was on CNN. And so I was, you know, pretty down there. My mom was like 73%. Ooh. All Asian, honey. Oh, no. You know, my grandmother was like, hmm. up there. There's a lot going on. They would have called you Don Lemon and you would have been high yellow. That's what would have happened. They would have called me Don Lamoie. Don Lamoie?
Laissez les bon temps rouler. Laissez les bon temps rouler down in the bayou. They were mixing it up, getting it in. This is my bayou impression. They go, who did that talk about being in the sense on that bayou, that child, baby? You know, my granddaddy was a nutria rat. You are a fool. Oh, my gosh. You know, I was just talking to a friend. We were talking about the difference between, he says, how does it feel to be back in the South? And I said, I'm not sure if I could be here. But what I do realize is that in the South, honestly, and I've lived in a lot of cities. I've lived in the Midwest. I've lived in the North. Never really lived out West. But black and white people really live together here. Yes. It's not as when I moved to Chicago, the blacks on one side of the city, whites on another.
It was segregated. And not so much as New York is not so much segregated as it is polarized. Yeah. Chicago is segregated. And then also that we have these levels of class. Right. But here, pretty much you may have the white neighborhoods where people go to their white neighborhoods and black neighborhoods. Right. but pretty much black and white people live amongst each other here. So it's an interesting sort of mix. They mix more than in the North, I believe. I was just down in New Orleans too. And it's, it's not as separated primarily because of all of the service industry stuff that happens, especially in New Orleans where like white people and black people have to work together for this many tourists to come here to Thrive.
And with New Orleans, because of jazz, because it's so many, like if you have three black musicians in your band and two white musicians in New Orleans, you kind of have to be all over the place.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Where is Don broadcasting from and why does he mention Louisiana at the top of the show?
0:14–5:53
2
How does Jay Jurden introduce himself and what personal stories does he share early on?
5:53–13:08
3
What personal anecdotes about family, food and Popeyes set the tone before the news segment?
13:08–28:41
4
What happened with Michael Waltz and the Signal chat controversy?
28:41–48:52
5
Why is Marco Rubio being ridiculed for holding multiple White House roles?
48:52–1:01:17