Mitch McConnell: New Health Update

**Branson Quirke** (0:08)
Hey, welcome to The TMZ Podcast, I'm Branson Quirke.

**Courtney Doucette** (0:11)
I'm Courtney Doucette. Still always throws me off that you, I have to say my name with you.

**Branson Quirke** (0:16)
I honestly, I didn't even know I was going to do the intro until like a millisecond ago. I was like, oh, Courtney's doing it. Wait, Courtney, can you scoot in this way a little bit? You're way on the edge here. I'm looking at the framing here. How are you doing today? Good.

**Courtney Doucette** (0:29)
Yeah. It's Friday.

**Branson Quirke** (0:30)
It's Friday. You got any plans this weekend?

**Courtney Doucette** (0:33)
I'm throwing my dog a birthday party tonight.

**Branson Quirke** (0:35)
Really? Yes. You have a dog?

**Courtney Doucette** (0:37)
I have a dog, but it's just like an excuse to make jello shots and paw margaritas for my friends and then just go out after.

**Branson Quirke** (0:43)
The funniest thing on the show yesterday to me, I was laughing my butt off, was when you were saying something about drinking or whatever, but you flubbed the word and it sounded like you had your drink yourself.

**Courtney Doucette** (0:53)
Well, you know what? It happens. It's the after effects.

**Branson Quirke** (0:56)
It wasn't in the final cut, but it was funny. It was so funny. Yes. But that's cool. I we threw parties for our cat as well.

**Courtney Doucette** (1:04)
OK, that's a thing.

**Branson Quirke** (1:06)
You think that's not that's not necessary? You know, they're very smart. They are. I like people.

**Courtney Doucette** (1:10)
I want a mancun.

**Branson Quirke** (1:11)
Oh, yeah, we had a mancun. Did you really? Yeah. And he passed away a couple of years ago and he had a heart failure and it came out of nowhere, like out of nowhere because they're bigger. Yeah. And there are hearts and everything. Yeah.

**Courtney Doucette** (1:22)
What are you doing this weekend?

**Branson Quirke** (1:23)
This weekend, I'm seeing Spider-Man tonight.

**Courtney Doucette** (1:26)
I hear it's good.

**Branson Quirke** (1:27)
Yeah, I heard it's good too. And then Disneyland tomorrow. And then Sunday.

**Courtney Doucette** (1:33)
Disney Marvel full weekend for you.

**Branson Quirke** (1:35)
Look at you. I know. I'm like a-

**Courtney Doucette** (1:37)
Sunday going to Universal or something?

**Branson Quirke** (1:38)
I'm a good consumer. That's what my friends say. I'm a good consumer for the corporate ladder. Keeping the economy up, are you? Exactly.

**Courtney Doucette** (1:43)
Doing your part.

**Branson Quirke** (1:44)
Right. Well, somebody who we know their weekend plans is at home.

**Courtney Doucette** (1:49)
Yes.

**Branson Quirke** (1:49)
Mitch McConnell.

**Courtney Doucette** (1:51)
All right.

**Branson Quirke** (1:52)
So, P, I swear, I was just in Minneapolis, and I was at a lot of events, and I was obviously representing TMZ, and people would come up to me and ask me, is Mitch McConnell okay?
Is he okay? Yeah. You got this question too as well? No.

**Courtney Doucette** (2:06)
I have not got this question.

**Branson Quirke** (2:07)
Maybe it's like a Midwest thing, like a very American place, and they're wondering what's going on with college. So, Mitch McConnell has been discharged from the Rehabilitation Center, where he was recovering from a serious fall. There's been a couple of photos that were released by his team, where his wife is standing next to him.

**Courtney Doucette** (2:26)
I thought they were both AI.

**Branson Quirke** (2:27)
They're inspecting the shirts and everything. We saw even her out like a week later in the same shirt as well, which was interesting. I think it was like oranges all over the shirt.

**Courtney Doucette** (2:36)
Yeah. Oranges or cherries.

**Branson Quirke** (2:38)
I think it was oranges. Maybe it's cherries.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:40)
I don't recall.

**Branson Quirke** (2:41)
Some fruit.

**Courtney Doucette** (2:42)
That was the same day that the photo was taken. And that's how people was like... Yes, because people were questioning, she would never wear a 12 over 99 shirt. But then, Baccarat actually got her out in that outfit.

**Branson Quirke** (2:51)
In that outfit. Yes, on that day. It's almost like she's thinking, okay, if I wear this shirt all the time, everyone's going to think it's real.

**Courtney Doucette** (2:57)
Or her team just had to run out because she was with him and she didn't have time to go home to get changed. And she was like bringing some clothes. And just went to the store together.

**Branson Quirke** (3:06)
I think we're overthinking it.

**Courtney Doucette** (3:07)
I think we are.

**Branson Quirke** (3:08)
I think we are.

**Courtney Doucette** (3:09)
We'll get into it more. Or just going into it.