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Fox News got very mad for a very stupid reason. Let's get into the headlines.

This past Sunday was Easter at the White House, which is an important holiday for President Joe Biden, who is also counting on a resurrection for his campaign. But unfortunately, this year, the timing of Easter caused a bit of a headache for Joe.

The Biden administration is firing back at conservative criticism over the White House acknowledgment of the Transgender Day of Visibility, which coincidentally falls on Easter Sunday this year.

The two days only coincided by chance.

The Day of Visibility is held every year on March thirty first, while the date for Easter changes year to year. Yes by total coincidence, Transvisibility day happened to fall on Easter this year, which seemed like, I don't know, a good fit to me. I mean, Jesus did identify as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Live your truth, queen. Now, you wouldn't think.

That Easter falling on a holiday that's been on March thirty first for fifteen years would be that big of a deal. But conservatives process this like a child meeting the Easter Bunny by losing their minds.

I think everyone should be insulted by this. The intentional nature of this.

To me is I mean, I'm just going to say it. I think it's a demonic.

They clearly want us to bow at the altar of the trans community instead of bow to God.

We can't have one day for Easter.

What the hell was Biden thinking when he declared Easter Sunday to be Transvisibility Day. Such total disrespect to Christians. And November fifth is going to be called something else. You know, it's going to be called Christian Visibility Day when Christians turn out at numbers that nobody has ever seen.

Before America, Buddy, every day is Christian visibility there.

Yeah, Conservatives threw.

A hissy fit over this, including Donald Trump, who, by the way, is not exactly an authority on Christianity.

I'm wondering what one or two of your most favorite Bible verses are.

Why I wouldn't want.

To get into it, because to me, that's very personal.

You don't want to talk about the Bible.

It's very personal, So I don't.

Want to get into I don't want to get into.

Means a lot to you that you think about her site.

The Bible means a lot to me, but I don't want to get into specifics. The Old Testament guy or New Testament probably equal.

Trump talks about Christianity the way I sounded every book club.

Oh my favorite part of the book. I'd have to.

Say the title and the symbolism, all the symbols. Definitely not hiding for my husband and children.

I also love that he.

Says I can't talk about it, it's too personal. Like he also has an nda with the Bible.

Don't believe that horse based Bible. But that's my Trump impression.

Thank you.

I'll work chop it, Oh, workp it.

Trump beside, I have a question for the actual religious conservatives, why are you so upset about this transvisibility day had no effect on your Easter. Nobody was at church like, well, we were going to celebrate the resurrection, but instead everyone line up for your gender reassignment surgery. Please leave your

The transgender community purposely chooses the day of Jesus's death. There is resurrection whatever Easter weekend, Yeah, you know Easter.

It was Jesus' king Sanira, or the day he was forced to leave the Big Brother House.

Whatever, But I'll.

Ask him about it the next time I go to the you know what's the place with all the lowercase teas hanging on the wall that the half maked.

A church, church that fit church.

And you know what, the Fox audience deserves a higher level of con artistry than this Jesse Waters. If you can remember the Green Eminem's entire sexual history, you can Wikipedia what Easter is. Look, I'm not here to pick a fight with Easter. Easter's great, probably our best holiday, featuring a bunny who crawled out of a nightmare, but the level of outrage over. This is totally out of

It's absurd and Joe Biden should be ashamed of himself and all these people say, yeah, but this is the day we've always recognized Transgender Visibility Day. Well recognize it another day, not on Easter Sunday. It's an affront to the Bible, and quite frankly, it's an affront to biology. There are two genders. People can't just go in and out of one like a revolving door.

It's not normal.

Ah, there it is. Thank you least interesting man in the world for saying the quiet part out loud. They don't think Transgender Visibility Day should be moved. They think trans people shouldn't be visible at all. Trans Day of Visibility could have been on National Pastaday and they'd be like, this isn't.

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And for what it's worth, there's a false premise at the heart of this entire controversy, which is that there's even a conflict between trans people and Christianity to begin with, there isn't. In fact, the Bible doesn't say anything about trans people.

It does, however, say to.

Love thy neighbor and to not judge other people, and perhaps the most famous of Bible versus.

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For more on the.

Controversy, we go Live to the White House with Michael Costa. Michael, you were at the White House Easter egg hunt on Monday.

What did you find?

Well, I'll tell you what I found, Desie a ton of Easter eggs. Okay, it turns out you didn't even have to hunt for him. You just wait for the kids to find them and you take them out of their baskets. It's like taking candy from a baby.

Congratulations.

I mean more about Easter being pitted against Transvisibility Day. It seems like all this controversy ruined the day for the trans community.

Are you kidding?

This was the most successful transvisibility day in history. Fox News raised trans awareness for five hundred straight hours. Yeah. And the best part is we'll get another round in a few weeks when Greek Orthodox Easter goes up against Greek Orthodox Transvisibility Day.

Okay, but then I don't think trans the transgender community wanted this kind of attention.

Well, look, I can't speak on behalf of the trans community. They've specifically asked me to stop doing that. But it seems to me that anyway a holiday can break through the noise, the better. There's just two many important days to remember Easter, Memorial Day, ourbor Day, my.

Kid's birthday, which is like every year.

Supposedly, it's too much, and there's way, there's no way to keep track of all these important days.

You know, what, DOESNY They need to invent like.

A spreadsheet, but for days like a calendar one of those things you drained pasta with. That'll never work.

Okay, But what about conservatives who say this was an attack on Easter?

Doesy?

This was good for both holidays?

What was the last time you saw people this fired up about Easter aka shitty Christmas? But now, thanks to this controversy, everyone and I mean everyone except for Jesse Waters knows what Easter is really about.

Okay, So you're saying that the clash of the two holidays forced everyone to appreciate the true meaning of each holiday.

Exactly.

The lesson we learned this week is that Americans appreciate holidays more when they're outraged, which is why I believe we need to pit more holidays against each other. Let's put Valentine's Day on the fourth of July. Let's let's move nine to eleven to Halloween. Let's let's move Mother's Day up against Juneteenth. Do you love your mom or do you hate slavery?

You gotta choose desert.

Michael, that is.

Your tough story.

That is incredibly offensive.

You see, it's already working.

Thank you, Michael, Michael Costa, Everyone, welcome back. Charlene mcgog will be joining us, so figure out. You know, all this week I've been sharing my opinions on the news, but I'm not the only one with opinions around here. So here with another installment of in my opinion, is our good friend Charlemagne the God.

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Okay.

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It's an actor who started in the new Peacock series Apples Never Fall. Please welcome Alison grace Yea hello man, thanks for being hoes for having me. I am such a big fan of yours. Thank you true story you have been in.

Yes, I'll tell you more. I will elaborate.

You've been on two of maybe the biggest television shows known to man community.

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Group of very avid fans. We appreciate it.

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I know, I loved that of my life. I loved working on Glows so much. I've never felt like more of a badass. Hell yeah, but when I worked on it, we're doing our own stunts. I'm training on flipping women. Let's be honest, I'm getting flipped by women more. And that still felt cool.

So it was so it was so inspiring. I love that show, and it was a real bummer to all the fans that it didn't come back. But I heard that it opened up an opportunity for you to explore more writing and produce it.

Yeah.

Absolutely, you know, I think there was something just about working with so many women, and that was the first time. I mean the show was created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mench and there were female directors, there were women behind the camera, there were women first ads. Just like in every department, female writers' rooms.

I mean, like it.

Sounds like it shouldn't be a thing that you have to say, wow, there were so many women on a set, but there were and even within the cast, you know, we were all learning how to wrestle, and each woman on the show was talented, you know, behind the scenes in their real life. They were dancers, there were singers, there were real wrestlers, and that was really inspiring to me. In the time that I was working on that show.

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It's based on a book by Leanne Moriarty. She wrote Big Little Lies. Nine Perfect Strangers also been made into buzzy shows, and yeah, it's I think the reason people really connect to it too is that it's about a family and a family that is not perfect, and every family has those idiosyncrasies and you kind of watch this family fall apart and come back together and sort of everybody has to like come to their own truth throughout the course of the.

Show, and that they get stronger. I don't know.

Yeah, I think it explores all of these interesting themes about you know, it explores the invisible woman. It explores playing these roles in your family and then your family members seeing you in a different role.

Definitely, the dynamics that we play in our family, and then sort of like all the things you sort of keep from your family members, and also they know some of your deepest secrets. Also, you can be honest with your family members in a way you can't with anybody else, and the things you say to your family members cut deeper.

Yeah, you know anyone else.

The show will definitely make you want to call your mom.

I think I can confirm that that's a thousand percent true. That's exactly how I felt. And your character Amy is described by her sister as I want to get this right, an emotional chaos sinkhole.

Yeah so lovingly.

Isn't that those are the words of a siblings Yeah, definitely. But you play her so beautifully and she's kind of this like hot mess on the surface, but you you play her like she's truly like one of the most emotionally evolved characters in the show.

She's definitely the best communicator in this family. She's the only person who knows the word feeling, I think, and she uses it often. But yeah, I love that she wears her emotions on her sleeve. It was a fun part of the character to play. And I also think because she's a bit of a catastrophist, she sort of like gets all of her mess out early on. Other characters continue to be surprised and she's like, I've been there, I'm evolving now.

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Yes.

Now, when I think about the purpose of going to work, it's to get away from my husband, you feel differently about this.

Is very much the opposite. Yes, especially this one. It's a horror film. I don't want to say too much about it. The film is called Together, and it's about the horrors of codependency. We play a couple that's been together over ten years and is a bit codependent. And you know, we spent two months on this choot together twenty four hours a day every day, producing this movie, acting in it all day every day, and I loved it.

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Yeah, I'm very excited to see it. Congratulations on everything. I love the show so much. I cannot wait to see the movie. The entire season of Apple's Never Fall is now available on Peacock.

Alison Green, I'll make a comment putting it well back in two thousand and nine, putting the dates on March thirty first, whoever created the trans day on that date new eventually it would fall on Easter.

I guarantee I guarantee.

They knew that, and now it happened.

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