hand off the hour to rach m rachel maddow. can we do this half box? >> yes, every pretend you're a mime. you've been so great this week within alex. chris, alex did such a good job this week, we hatched a plan in my news meeting today we with send our show drone down to your news meeting. trailing a banner that said, no pressure. but our drone broke. so we didn't do it. >> that's amazing. the pressure drone. only from the mind of rachel maddow. >> thanks, guys. great weekend. thanks, chris, good luck to you. >> thank you. >> thanks to you at home for staying with us the next hour. there's a lot going on, obviously at msnbc there's a lot going on. but there is a lot going on in the world. the new pope, pope francis, washing the prisoners' feet.

popes have washed the feet of priests on thursday before easter but this new pope shows prisoners and women prisoners and muslim prisoners before them to try to embody christ. it seems like the new pope does not care particularly about them caring. on o the korean peninsula today the young leader of north korea continued to up the belligerence and bluster factor. he released this weirdly staged and probably doctored photograph purporting to show plans in a sort of situation room for an attack on o north korean attack on the u.s. mainland. they also declared tonight that his country is in a state of war with south korea. nobody knows exactly what that means from a country that regularly threatens to nuke everyone in sight. but even if this is just more north korean crazy, it is in

fact an uprise in the north korean crazy. president obama making the case for infrastructure projects and to put people to work and invest in infrastructure we need as a country. new rules to extend the anti-smog, anti-soot air pollution rules that apply in california to the rest of the country. the extension would happen to the rest of the country by 2017. some environmentals are handling this as the most significant things president obama has done on o the environment in the history of his entire presidency. there is a lot going on in the world. but we begin tonight with the republican party. republican party specifically trying to hack its way out of a wilderness of its own making. trying to make connections with. trying to reintroduce themselves too, a whole swath of the american electorate, who thinks that republican party issic. is ick. >> there is a hilarious episode

on "seinfeld." anyone "seinfeld" friends? jerry likes a asian woman but he says, is it okay to like someone in another race? >> senator rand paul of trk kentucky then went on in the same speech to read to the assembled crowd which was the hispanic chamber of commerce, to read to them a love poem. not a policy poem, not a poem about commerce or chambers. but rather a love poem. to show his love of how romantic latinos are. latino business leaders who turned out to hear a policy address by a united states senator, instead got a love poem. in his profession of the romantic love of latinos. after the election, the republican party decided this year that one of its catastrophic failures, not just little thing that needed to be tweaked, some embarrassment, one

of the structural things that threatened their existence as a party to compete nationally is latino voters. how much they do not like the republican party. right after the election within weeks of the election they made a big show at their first big national republican party reinvention pageant. they made a big show of trying to fix what's wrong with their appeal it latino voters. republican congressman got specific advice. they got a list of dos and do t don't. from a group formed to try to make la teen yoes like republicans more. . the hispanic leadership network encouraged leaders in congress to please quote please consider the tonal messaging points as you discuss immigration. don't use phrases like send them all back. or electric fence. or build a wall along the entierp border. don't use the word illegals or aliens. don't use the term anchor baby. don't characterize all hispanics as undocumented or all undocumented as hispanics.

and it is kind of embarrassing, right, that a member of congress, republican members of congress have to be told this, to v to be told ton characterize all hispanics in the united states as undocumented aliens or illegals. it is embarrassing to give and presumably to receive advice like this. but it is probably practical for the gop. even with all of that practical yet embarrassing advice though, i'm guessing that it never occurred to anybody trying to rebrand the republican party for a latino audience. i'm guessing it never occurred to anybody that they might also need to directly tell rep members of congress to not use this word in public. >> my father had a ranch. we used to hire 50 to 60 wetbacks and to pick tomatoes. it takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. it's all done with a machine. >> who knew the 2013 messaging

points would have today tell congress don't use words like that. not when you are in bar with buddies or at home by yourself. not ever. that congressman don young speaking into a microphone at a radio station at his hometown. hasn't anyone ever told you, sir be don't talk like that? don young did put out a statement saying he didn't mean any disrespect by it. congressman young quote stopped short of apologizing. finally light today we did go back for another pass and he did end up apologizing. did take a couple tries but he finally got there. there's today we found the great state of north carolina decided to get rid of the office of hispanic and latino affairs. they have this state office in north carolina for a good reason. latinos are the state's fastest

growing ethnic commune bait mile. this office was designed to help the latino community that is growing so fast. it was wear hispanic residents, spanish spaeshing residents went to get bilingual help. north carolina's hispan pan population grew by 111% between 2000 and 2010. that's a fact we know because it was put together in a report by the director of north carolina office of hispanic affairs, the office they are now closing. the ren they are now closing it is because now north carolina has a republican governor. elected just this past election, decided that now he is the governor there and there isn't a democrat in the governores a office any more, the latino office has to go. it was founded in 1988. the office survived just fine for 14 years. for the 14 years that north

carolina had democratic governors. but enter the first republican governor of 14 years, pat mccrory, three months after taking office he closes it down. that's republican outreach to the fastest growing ethnic community in the state of north carolina. that's how that goes. the republican party has a deep, deep problem. an image problem, a deep problem with latino voters. the the base problem, it isn't the real don juans of the world. although that is a problem. but they don't like what republican party is offering. didn't like what the republican party is offer og as politics. doesn't like what the republican party is offer og as policy. la teen yoes support it by 57%. republicans just marked their 39th attempt to repeal obama care. republicans are dead set die on a hill opposed to taxes being any part of bringing down the debt and deficit. that's what they most want to be known for this year. while lat tinos who disagree say

tax increases should be a part of debt reduction is 83%. how about climate change which republicans denounce as a hoax. if you ask latinos if climate change is a serious problem, 70% of latinos say yes. latinos support gun safety lejs lakes. 62% support high risk magazines. ask la teen yoes about marriage equality for same sex couples. a clear majority say yes, they are in favor of that. the senator rand paul speech that i love hot latin culture, let me read you a love poem, before he got to the love poem that speech was all about how he is sure that latinos agree with him on abortion and same-sex marriage. he said he was sure they agree with him. check the stereotype. that's what the stereotype says. he is teetly wrong with that no matter what the stereotype is. they do not agre with him on those issues probably but he

want thester why tight # type to fit so why change it? he looks it. >> part of the bigtory of the republican party in 2013 is going to be watching them try to bridge this gap. try to fix this problem that they've got with la teebo voters. this problem if they cannot fix it they cannot win a national election. when the party released the formal autopsy of what they did so wrong in the last election, the when they meant minority, what they said minority, they really meant hispanic and latino. the word hispanic appeared 99 times in this 97-page report. once per game and then some. this is the their absolute focus a as party. today we also learned that one of the things we should expect from republicans toward this aim is that they are working on new tv ads pb new tv ads starring the chairman of the republican party that are aimed at rebranding the republican party for latino voters. basic idea has to be what? sorry about that whole racial

slur thing from don young? never mind that. we love you. thank you for picking our food. thank you for picking our food? what? yes. according to media matters reporting today, the republican ad man making the mad at a a new york poll things conference yesterday said it will rae neur reince priebus reaching out to the latin americans who come to the united states to help us build our country, to help harvest our food. thanks for picking our food, latinos. love the republican party. this is the thing the republican party is suppose lid working on harde hardest. and this is how it is going so far. joining me now is pulitzer prize winner for washington post, gene robinson. gene, very good to see you. thank you for being here. >> great to be here, rachel. i mean, where do we begin? may i just say, dios mio.

>> i have to say my favorite part, don young is amazing hp his first explanation is he didn't know it was bad. which says, okay, you didn't know. but presumably that means you've been using this in other context and nobody you have ever spoken to raised an eyebrow or told you that's a bad thing? then he came around and apologized. you did see republican leadership, other republicans jump on don young and say he had to apologize today spp that a sign of progress? >> i suppose. it is a sign of progress but doesn't get them very far because don young set them so far back. so really they are just recovering a tiny bit of ground they might have lost earlier in the day. and let me just interpose a word about rand paul and reefing the poem to the chamber of commerce. was he aware that poet was a communist? one of the great poets of the 20th century, but he was so far

from rand paul or anything rand paul would ever believe in. but of course, i doubt that rand paul understands that. i imagine many people in his audience might have. >> actually, the rand paul thing, i feel like it's important. because it is a perfect microcosm of what is going on. he is there giving what is billed as a policy agrees to the hispanic cham chamber of commerce. to business leaders from the latino community. instead of talking about policy he diverts into a "seinfeld" episode that makes him feel better about his general racial feelings about hot-blooded latinos. then he general generalizes from the hot blooded romantic stereotype that he's got to say, i'm sure you agree with me on abortion. the distant is a distance i'm not sure the republican party has the depth position to pick up. i'm not sure when that starts to change. >> the party clearly doesn't

understand it and those in the party who do sfls it, either don't want it change it or don't know how to change it. marco rubio understands some of this stuff, right? he understands for example, that the party has to change its tune on immigration in a major way as a threshold issue to this group of voters. but he can't get that message through. pour rand paul's steech and whole setting and the way it was delivered and pop iks he covered. he doesn't get it at all. so his own fumbling attempts a the going somewhere on immigration which really didn't lead any place have to be totally discounted because clearly the man doesn't know where he is when he is talking to latino voters. he doesn't have a clue. >> while this is happening on the republican side and i think the thing that's maybe most important about it is this is their highest priority. are they making such fools of

themselves that democratic party is in danger of just sitting back and popping popcorn and watching them do this and democratic party may not feel like it has to work to continue to court the latino vote. few and far between in top tier democratic party politics. and to make sure they husband toll get, for example, immigration reform actually done. >> absolutely, rachel. and given the -- just the politics of the matter right now, why would democrats do anything but sit enback and pop pop can corn? because republicans are doing such a good job of setting themselves back as opposed to forward in the relations with latino voters. but you raise an important point. it takes the onus off of democrats to demonstrate, to be what they claim to be. representatives of this mast-growing communities. largest community in the country and to move forward on immigration reform and take for what some democratic senators

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for my campaign and for governor romney's campaign to lead it. we can fix this. and we will. the american people demand it and so does our democracy. >> the idea of a presidential commission to fix voting problems in this country. you know, as of this week we now know that this idea, which is one of those things i thought you said in the state of the union and poof, goes away forever, turns it has not been relegated to big speech ideas. it is not an orient express ayla ronald regan. >> the republican co-chair said he was going to appoint to the commission, mitt romney's ginsburg is going along with it. ginsburg and bob bauer will come up with a variety of making elections more efficient and

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. major point of discussion in american politics right now is whether or not gun reform can happen, whether the politics of gun reform is actually possible from within this weird matrix we're in of huge public support. but also, voe sieverous lobbying against it by a very loud and occasionally intimidating minority. can our political system work this out? turns that one unexpected part of the politics is the actions of just individual human. notes. not in a bobby or part after group, just using whatever persuasive powers they have to make the case themselves in their own terms and own communities that there should be reform. like for example, this guy. this is jerry dewit or on

kpiter, common sense in co, co as in colorado, which is where jer ji lives. the shooter at sandy hook el hentry used extended capacity magazines in his semiautomatic rifle and shot over 444 bullets in less than five minutes. he tweeted a bunch of people including lawmakers and people in the news business which is where i saw it. the caption says as a colorado native i began hunting rabbits and pheasants in junior high. in high school i also hunted deer and elk. in texas i hunted dale, dove and dear. i'm 58 years old now. in my lifetime, i have not fired 154 pound. newtown school gunman fired 154 rounds in less than five minutes. please tell me again why high capacity magazine clips and assault weapons should be legal. this is just one guy.

a gun owner taking his own steps on his own time in his own way to push for the upon o possibility of gun reform from his own special perspective. tonight for the interslew rewill talk to another citizen who does not have political ties, is not part of any group, but personally because of what else he does in his life, has a done of resources to bring to this issue and he has decided to brings it in a very big and in fact historic way. that is the interview tonight. it is a fs nating story. exclusive to us here on the show. and that is next.fs nating stor. exclusive to us here on the show. and that is next.afs nating sto. exclusive to us here on the show. and that is next.sfs nating sto. exclusive to us here on the show. and that is next.ifs nating sto. exclusive to us here on the show. and that is next. nating story. exclusive to us here on the show. and that is next.nating story. exclusive to us here on the show. and that is next.cinating story. exclusive to us here on the show. and that is next.

okay gun buy back program came to new jersey. more than a thousand -- look at this. more than a how guns turned in from camden. payment was on a sliding scale due to the lethalness of gun you turned in. in california, oakland and san francisco collected hundreds of guns they paid hundreds of dollars for each one 6 them. in brooklyn new york, in december, the police department and district attorney's office co-sponsored a gun buy back. they got hundreds of guns off the street. baltimore maryland, police officers traded grocery store

gift cards for guns. and in los angeles, the city's gang-reduction unit sponsored a gun buy back program that brought in 2,000 weapons. or not o j county, new york. the sheriff's office of new york ran a buy back for three months straight. a hundred bucks for any gun turned in, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, that's the haul they got. fremont, new jersey, a a gun buy back. paying more than $150,000 in exchange of rifles and assault rifles. sarah county calf, the twounty provide money to exchange for guns. last weekend atlantic city new jersey, their guns for cash buy back in atlantic city, new jersey -- [ inaudible ] sometimes it's the attorney general's office. but it is almost always a government agency of some kind

that organizes these things. in new york city, there's an ongoing buy back program where you can turn in your gun to the police and get a cash reward. it takes in a few against over the course of in a city with 8 million people. you have to feel comfortable approaching the police with your firearm. in order to be able to hand it over to them. tomorrow, though, this weekend, in the biggest cities in the country, something new will happen. this is michael blue williams pap manager in the music industry and famous and successful one. he managed outkast, cee lo green, he worked with the flava unit, and he knows everybody. he is not that old but he has been in the business for decades. this weekend blue williams is taking the new gun buy back thing to a level it's never been at before. the city police commissioner

signed off on it. this is the first private sector gun buy back in new york. it is called guns for greatness. trade cash but not just cash, but the option of mentor shoips if you want them with successful professionals from the hip-hop world of blue williams to anybody turning in a gun who want it take advantage of the mentor ship idea. the yied with a program like this you may be able to reach people in the nation's largest city who have a gun, don't want it any more but might not feel comfortable walking into their nearest police station to hand it over. folks might feel comfortable dropping by this neighborhood church in the heart of brooklyn. it's never been done before. joining us for the interview is michael blue williams, music industry exec, founder of guns for greatness program. this kicks off tomorrow. with its first event. mr. williams, thanks you so much for coming by. >> thank you so much for having me. >> did i get any wrong some. >> no, you did it better than i

could have. >> i don't know. it seems logical you would want to do a buy back in new york city if you did one at all. how did you get this idea? >> way is challenged to do it. commissioner kelly was speaking about stopping first and he challenged the community to come up with better solutions than what they are doing with nypd. it inspire node think after way the hip-hop commune could give back. get on the good side of the new cycle. >> how zpt mentorship side of it work. obviously having been a manager and the different jobs you've done in the music industry, you know everybody. networking is a big part of how you have been as successful as you are. are you talking your network and music industry and community connections you've got to build that mentorship side of it out. >> yes. my idea was to take relationshipens and and partner a nung person that comes in and finds specifically a mentor for what they want to do. if someone wants to be an engineer, disk jockey, i should be able to take my network and

my ex stensive network and partner them up with someone specific. that specific mentor can keep them engaged longer than someone who is mentoring but they can't relate to. so i want to keep them on o on the path once they start. >> i know you've been raising money privately to do this. but also asking them to dot mentor shoip, have they been receptive? >> they have been totally receptive. people want to hoe help, you just have to show them how. everyone has run to the front of the line to be helpful. >> amazing. i'm ex traf trap lating from the way you are doing this and the way you talked about it some in the press po say you are trying to fill a need that tsh-there is buy back program that's an ongoing thing where you can go into a police station and give people a gun. oom i right in extrapolating the idea that this is for people who

don't feel comfortable walking into a a gun station carrying a weapon. >> it is about reaching a democratic that is not reached when the cities do it. 90% of crimes, especially in new york city are done by minorities between 16 and 37 years old. that's the hip-hop community. i'm part of the hip-hop community. so my techniques to market to them would be slightly different than maybe city hall's would. so this whole idea is based around how to get that target gem carafic. it is safe to drop off your gun but also a chance to change the path your life is on. >> do you feel, as we have this national debate about guns, sparked -- i mean a lot of people have worked on gun reform forever but now the discussion of newtown because of what happened a hyundais ago bb do you feel that the debate is talking about the types of gun violence that are happening in the communities you're talking about? >> i don't believe the conversations are meant to include that demographic but that demographic will be hardest hit by it.

when the laws change and gun laws become more strict then that democratic when they get arrested will go to trial, they will be the ones that get more jail time and they will be penalized more for the new laws. >> how do long do you expect to do this for? is s this a one-time thing or will you do this if it works tomorrow? >> this is my new hobby. my new favorite "pass time." i want to do each of the broes /* burroughs in new york. i want to take it through every city that hip-hop is. i have dilutions of grandeur so i have tempered it back and i feel if i get one gun off the streets tomorrow then i save two lives. the person that could have been vajt and the kid that might have used it for a crime and ended up p jail or dead. >> blue williams, it is really

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last month for the first time in more than 30 years the uk got its credit downgraded by

moody's. this week it happened again. on wednesday another ratings firm downgraded the uk. for the last five years since the global melt down bestowed upon us in the uk, the government has austerity with slashing government spending fast saying it doesn't matter what it was going to do to the population. they wanted to get their fiscal house in order. they wanted it shore up confidence in the british economy. what they have done, the austerity thing has done the opposite. the strategy hasn't worked very well. t the guy sellingous on this idea, the guy selling austerity for the u.s., is this guy, former senator from wiley wyoming. post economic crisis and in the middle of us trying to figure out how to restructure economy after that, he's back, suppose lid to be our national guru of austerity. it has not exactly worked out like that. first of all, because most

americans do not like the idea of austerity and places it has been tried give us good reasons to not like that idea. but the other reason is more personal. it is hard to be a guru for anything. when every time you talk, everybody goes like this and braces themselves. oh, god, what's he going to say now? people ushering their children out of room. people trying to distract their easier offended older relatives. oh, pay no attention pb he's talking opinion first, it was the green weenie. remember that one? >> i'm waiting for the politics to get up and say there is only one way to do this. you dig into the big four. medicare, medicaid, social security and defense. and anybody giving you anything different than that, you want it walk out the can door, stick your finger down your throat and give them a the green weenie. >> alan simton, everybody. when he said that, alan simpson's green weenie comment,

sent us as a a show, down a few rab et holes. he wasn't talking about actual weeniees a. he was talking about the army can commendation medal. so stick your finger down your throat and give them one? but the green weenie was just the start of the alan simpson wonder. mr. simpson criticized social security by saying quote we've reached a point now where it is like a milk cow with 310 million teets. except he didn't say teets. he said something that that rhymes with bits. really, alan simpson, give us a warning or something next time. to so the green weenie, the 310 million mmph and now alan simpson does it again. he implores his party to stop talking about gay marriage and

other issues. he said, quote whab is this hope phobic strain in our party? you're a republican, you believe in get out o of your life and the precious right to privacy. the. well then balance, i don't care what you do. you can go worship the great eel. i don't give a -- this can't be what alan simpson, if you are a i havo gamer and it is the world of war craft, i apologize. but i don't care if you are worshipping the great eel and green weenie and 315 million teets, makes me want to bang on my desk and have another alan simpson pop out o. >> i think grandchildren don't write a thank you for christmas presents. they are walking on their pants with their cap on backwards,

listen ing listening to snoopy poo '03 ypoop dog and they don't like him. >> he is an inexplicable but tell appropriate body general rig generator. from the green weenie to the snoopy poopy, to the 315 million teets, just give us a warning and let us know it is coming so we can get the kids out of the room. morning, brian! love your passat! um. listen, gary. i bought the last one. nice try. says right here you can get one for $199 a month. you can't believe the lame-stream media, gary. they're all gone. maybe i'll get one. [ male announcer ] now everyone's going to want one. you can't have the same car as me, gary! i'm gettin' one. nope! [ male announcer ] volkswagen springtoberfest is here and there's no better time to get a passat. that's the power of german engineering. right now lease one of four volkswagen models for under $200 a month. visit vwdealer.com today.

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we know to exist all the way to us. and it takes a long time for that light to get to us, so this is a picture taken now, but it is really a picture of the past. that's how it works, right? when you look up at the stars at night, some are relatively close up, some are newish light from stars that are not too far away, light doesn't take too long to get here. but you also see far away stars, light from so far away to get to us that it is pretty old light by the time it gets here. so old that the star that made that light might actually be gone by the time we see it. that old light, you can almost think of it as fossilized light, the imprint of something long gone. muhammad ali used to say he could turn out the light and jump into bed before the darkness could catch him, he was racing the light, that was the joke, and winning, and had to win or the darkness would catch him.

>> fast, fast. fast. last night cut the light off in my bedroom, hit the switch, was in the bed before the room was dark. fast. fast. >> incredible. and the darkness could not catch him because he is muhammad ali. this is when gay activists walked into city hall, announced they were taxpayers, gay or not, were there to claim the right to marry. they claimed that right, even if they had to conduct the marriage themselves and throw their own after party. this is 1971. >> you're welcome to attend if you like, free coffee, cake. you're all welcome to attend if you want. did you get an invitation? >> i don't speak english. >> well, we're having a wedding reception for gay people. >> gay people? >> gay people. 265, around the corner there, open to the public. room 265. you're all invited to come.

wedding reception for gay people, room 265. >> the leader of this marriage protest, 1971, the man passing out invitations, a man named arthur evans. he died a couple years ago, so he did not live to see the arguments this week, his arguments made before our nation's highest court. awhile back on the show, lori and jeff willford told us about the loss of their son killed in afghanistan by an iud. at the time he was killed, they banned service by openly gay people in the country. he was gay, he had been out to his parents and friends since a teenager, but went in the closet specifically because he wanted to sign up and serve his country. he was killed in afghanistan a few months before the repeal of don't ask, don't tell took effect. his dad jeff wrote me a letter this week saying he was watching the live feed of the scene outside the supreme court as the court was debating equal

marriage rights for gay couples. and jeff said as i watched live feeds from outside the supreme court on the marriage arguments, i would like to you know, this situation, action of the people, right of the lbgt community to stand before the courts, this is what andrew chose to serve and die for. our greatest regret, he never found that one true love, but was smart enough, wise enough, human enough to see and know that he and all others are no more or less than other citizens of this country, knew this above and beyond the marriage question. knew this was a thing worth service and his life. arguments this week at the supreme court, one of the most conservative justices cited during oral arguments the example of, asked questions about the example of gay military personnel and their families. said how will this effect them. andrew helped make that possible, even if he did not make it this far to see it himself. we are told that in the privacy of her home, one of this week's

leading plaintiffs in the marquise case before the court, we are told sometimes she will lean against a portrait she has of her late spouse to tell her late spouse how their case is going. this is the case, right? look at the specifics here. united states, petitioner, versus edith schlain windsor, about the estate. thea is no longer here, she's still fighting for the two of them. by fighting for the estate, she's fighting for the two of them, and fighting for something big indeed for our country and in order to do so, she has to find against something very big. >> it is kind of crazy. we lived together for 40 years, we were engaged with the circle diamond pin because i wouldn't wear a ring because i was still in the closet. i am today an out lesbian, okay,

who just sued the united states of america, which is kind of overwhelming for me. >> she's in her 80s. there are all sorts of people and all sorts of fights that technically are not still around, but they live and we can see them. we can see their light in some of the biggest deal and most difficult things we do today. whether you see equal rights for gay people as your particular fight, whether or not you agree with that particular fight, this was a big historic week for that fight, and therefore for our country. all the work, all the generations of work to get here, in fact, got us here. it worked. and when justice ruth bader ginsberg chris ened the marriages we have without full rights, when she in oral arguments crist ened those skim milk marriages, i decided to make a full fat, full cream drink in honor of that phrase.

tonight's cocktail moment is in honor of ruth bader ginsberg, easiest cream drink to make. a brandy alexander. if you know anybody that likes this drink, if you don't know if anybody likes this drink in your world, the person likely to like it is your mother, but your mother is right. equal parts cream. and cream decacao. it comes in dark and light. the difference is the color. other than that, they're the same. it looks nicer if you use the dark version. you take what you can get, it is not like we have supermarkets full of this stuff. what gives it its name, brandy alexander, the brandy. and because the bar car here at the show is getting a little thin, we only had cc