[SPEAKER_09]: It's political Thank you, radical Don't think it's a part of where we were The politics march Shotsmith Pearson, Shoddy Hamilton Shoddy Shoddy You had a morning I was You had a morning Yeah, I had a morning And an afternoon It was an interesting day here in the Virginia area of the D.C. Area of Metro Area Just a
[SPEAKER_09]: All I can say is modern technology is great, so long as you have power and then you didn't.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, with us definitely something we will have to discuss this at some point, all these damn data centers.
[SPEAKER_09]: But there's a lot of other things to discuss in the news on tap today.
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[SPEAKER_09]: It's kind of funky right now.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So how is your weekend, Jodie?
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm finally almost rested because we saw my mom and my step dad.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, her husband he doesn't like when it's hard to say that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, that's okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: But you know, I mean, you know what you mean?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Um, and and a person that's worked with my mom for years.
[SPEAKER_10]: So is a lovely dinner and then the next night we had dinner with some other friends.
[SPEAKER_10]: So Lonnie and our both like,
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, my wife worked most of the weekend.
[SPEAKER_09]: I did some work on some stuff here for us.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I helped out Martin and Renee.
[SPEAKER_09]: They've got a new promo, which is running on all your favorite NSW podcasts.
[SPEAKER_09]: If you did not catch the Martin machine podcast by the way, I listened to it over the weekend.
[SPEAKER_09]: It was a great two minutes.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a nice calming look.
[SPEAKER_09]: If you need something to keep you calm.
[SPEAKER_09]: definitely.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's the one to go.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, it's calm, but it's also interesting.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's both.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's it's it's soothing without putting you to sleep.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's the perfect way to describe it.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's this.
[SPEAKER_10]: It just kind of lets you calm down with not fall asleep.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a good thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: It is understandable that people are um,
[SPEAKER_09]: anxious angry pissed off frustrated.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, the Republican shutdown is getting worse.
[SPEAKER_09]: We have that in the news on tab by the way, if you have not subscribed to the news on tab, you should do that.
[SPEAKER_09]: It is you can get any time for free at the politicsbar.com.
[SPEAKER_09]: So there was a story over the weekend.
[SPEAKER_09]: I actually got it from the New York Times.
[SPEAKER_09]: I got a gift version of it, put it in there.
[SPEAKER_09]: You had a version, I think, from Raw story, which was kind of a rewrite of it.
[SPEAKER_09]: But I think people should go and they should read the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: Basically, Tiny Johnson is marginalized Congress and himself.
[SPEAKER_09]: I guess he got an ass who had been verbally before Trump shuffled off to Asia.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, didn't Trump say that he was a speaker of the house?
[SPEAKER_09]: It's hard to tell with some of this quote and quote reporting and it's it's it's it's even harder to tell because we can't trust some of the old Fashions the outlets that we used to I saw Margaret Brennan over the weekend trying to to question a keen Jeffries on press the meat or whatever CBS wants to call it these days
[SPEAKER_09]: And let me tell you, Margaret Brennan has had a lot of integrity in the past, but clearly somebody got to her with the whole Barry Weiss thing and she was, her questions were so stupid.
[SPEAKER_09]: I came Jeffries was basically, he was a half second from going, what the hell is your problem lady?
[SPEAKER_09]: So, I mean,
[SPEAKER_09]: Folks, I understand it is hard out there to find jobs, especially if you have experience in your field.
[SPEAKER_09]: We understand that said your integrity is not worth it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hey, Jonathan Carl, literally asked the president, why did you lie?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, that's in his new book, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, and Donald can handle that word.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, well too bad, but you noticed that Jonathan Carl hasn't been thrown out of the press corps and he had chopped off.
[SPEAKER_10]: Not yet.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, Jonathan Carl actually, if I remember, right, comes, he's kind of like Caitlin Collins comes from the right wing end of the spectrum as far as that goes.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, but he used the word lie.
[SPEAKER_10]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm finally there are there are things that I don't necessarily like always about Jonathan Carl's coverage in part because he frames things sometimes more from the right than then straight down the center, which whatever.
[SPEAKER_09]: But anybody who's going to do that, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_09]: You can you can make a few mistakes and be in media and I'm okay with it.
[SPEAKER_09]: But if you decide in a very obvious, well, now we have new bosses
[SPEAKER_10]: No, you don't Carl definitely did not because most of them go did you say this or did you mean that he's like you lied Which is great and we should maybe we should maybe we should reach out to him and see.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know if he come to the bar, but I mean, you know, well, we can reach out and see I think we should The big thing to me is the shutdown itself
[SPEAKER_09]: It the things remain the same and actually it was funny talking to an old friend of mine mentor friend used to be my college professor over the weekend he's now finally retiring 40 years which is pretty nice so nice.
[SPEAKER_09]: But I said, you know, we've talked about it on the show enough and and everybody here in the bar.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's a lot of people who contribute.
[SPEAKER_09]: You guys don't always see it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Sometimes they put it out on social media and sometimes they just private messages and sometimes you email us because that's what you do.
[SPEAKER_09]: The politics bar at gmail.com this word and it's really nice because we're able to kind of refine this stuff from what you guys say here in the bar.
[SPEAKER_09]: And as I was talking to my mentor and I said, look, I said, there are these three things that everybody's well at down to.
[SPEAKER_09]: The first thing remains the same, which is no vaccines.
[SPEAKER_09]: No vaccines, no resusions.
[SPEAKER_09]: You make a deal you stick with it.
[SPEAKER_09]: And virtually everybody I've talked to, even if they're magnifokes says, you know what?
[SPEAKER_09]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's the way it should be.
[SPEAKER_10]: I've gotten that same reaction back.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Look, it should be that way.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's no question that it should be that way because of the fact that if you make a deal stick to it, that's the American way, the idea that the current Republicans and the tiny Johnson has, and these Republicans wave in their tiny Johnson around and us pointing and laughing because, you know, I mean, they have basically ineffective if not impotent, tiny Johnson.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm sorry, but, you know, you guys, I'll have a Republicans today have a serious size issue.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a smartman pointed out that you can't be in recess for more than three days unless the other.
[SPEAKER_10]: part of Congress says it's okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: And now the House has been in recess for a month.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, they've been doing what's called provolation.
[SPEAKER_10]: Cavaliers.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right, which basically is they come in to the house.
[SPEAKER_09]: They flip on the lights.
[SPEAKER_09]: They go up on the dais where everybody saw the idiot with the buffalo horns and the urr.
[SPEAKER_09]: They go up on the dais.
[SPEAKER_09]: They gather in and they say, oh, we're kind of here, but we're not, and then they gather out.
[SPEAKER_10]: So that's how they're getting around the legal aspects of the three days.
[SPEAKER_09]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Proform is now you realize in a pro form of session, you can do things that do not require the rest of the house.
[SPEAKER_10]: I know you can, I don't know, swear in somebody.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Jody is right.
[SPEAKER_09]: But you know what?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, this is Tiny Johnson.
[SPEAKER_09]: And he does not want.
[SPEAKER_09]: to see the Epstein files out there.
[SPEAKER_09]: He also doesn't want to do really anything because he's backed himself into a corner.
[SPEAKER_09]: He said, well, I can't do it because of this excuse and I can't do it because of that excuse and I can't do it because of that excuse.
[SPEAKER_09]: If he does it, then somebody will say, well, hey, you did it.
[SPEAKER_09]: And you said you couldn't because of X, Y, and Z.
[SPEAKER_09]: And if you did that, then you could do these other things.
[SPEAKER_09]: And if you do these other things, well, hell, you may as well just call the house back to session.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I've been hearing this.
[SPEAKER_09]: We've been talking about it here.
[SPEAKER_09]: Some of the folks in the mainstream media are starting to, but they're low to talk about it.
[SPEAKER_09]: The real problem is Johnson himself.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not Democrats who would vote as long as thing won no vaccines, thing 2, ACA subsidies, thing 3, Medicare and Medicaid money back from the big ugly bill.
[SPEAKER_09]: These are so easy to understand.
[SPEAKER_09]: Everybody can understand.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: But, but, but the problem is in the Democrats who would pass a bill that would have one or two or one or two or three.
[SPEAKER_09]: The Democrats in the House would pass that Democrats in the Senate would pass that, that there are at least four Republicans in the Senate who would pass it.
[SPEAKER_09]: So if they went to 51, they went nuclear option for just this one bill, like you have said from the beginning, like Marjorie Taylor Greene has said, yes, it could get passed.
[SPEAKER_09]: The problem is that tiny Johnson can't control these caucus because there are 50 Republicans who say, hell no, we will absolutely, first of all, we want to be able to change the deal after Democrats sign it.
[SPEAKER_09]: So screw them.
[SPEAKER_09]: Second of all, we don't want to give ACA subsidies.
[SPEAKER_09]: We think the ACA sucks.
[SPEAKER_09]: So this is, I'll talk about this guy that I met over the weekend.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's the granddad of a neighborhood dog that's a friend of my dogs.
[SPEAKER_09]: and he's a conservative.
[SPEAKER_09]: And we and I had a really good discussion and he said, you know, we've talking about us here at the politics bar and he says, you guys sound like you have a really good place and he said, yeah, he said, we don't necessarily agree, but you're making a lot of sense.
[SPEAKER_09]: So well, I appreciate that that's that's what we do here at the bar.
[SPEAKER_09]: We have fun.
[SPEAKER_09]: We have discussions and we don't throw chairs.
[SPEAKER_09]: We don't always agree, but you know, as long you don't throw chairs because these are some nice chairs just like
[SPEAKER_10]: There are.
[SPEAKER_10]: Look at him.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, but the problem is tiny Johnson has 50 people on his in his own caucus, who say absolutely not.
[SPEAKER_09]: They will not do number one, number two, and sure his hell won't do number three, and he has 50 people in this caucus, who say, look, can't we find half dozen of our members who are willing to vote for at least number one and number two, including people like Marjorie Taylor Green.
[SPEAKER_09]: She will.
[SPEAKER_09]: but tiny Johnson will not put those two groups in the same room because he knows if he puts those two groups in the same room.
[SPEAKER_10]: He's going to lose and Donald can't be king anymore.
[SPEAKER_09]: it's very simple so long as the house stays out so long as Mike Johnson keeps the house and keeps Congress as a whole marginalized that allows rust vote to do more of what he wants that allows Steven Miller to do more of what he
[SPEAKER_09]: He wants Congress is supposed to be controlling these things, but if there's nobody at the wheel, it allows the executive administration to do a whole lot of things.
[SPEAKER_09]: And unfortunately, none of that is going to get people fed.
[SPEAKER_10]: No.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I think that there are some people in the Republican caucus that are like ready to get him ousted.
[SPEAKER_09]: There is some discussion we started hearing about that and I heard a little bit over the weekend that there are there are some people who are there is some grumbling that there are people who are like you know what this was.
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, this, this was going on for a little bit and now it's been going on too long.
[SPEAKER_09]: There, there is one of the unions, uh, uh, one of the government unions who are saying, Democrats should get back, but it's not up to Democrats.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's not.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know which, which your union leaders was too stupid to realize that, but this is not up to Democrats.
[SPEAKER_09]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is up to Mike Johnson.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's the one person.
[SPEAKER_10]: And there are some Republicans going, wait.
[SPEAKER_10]: We're ready to replace him, which is will be hilarious.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Let's let's see if that those cries get a little bit louder.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're going to talk a little bit more about the food aid, because that is going to be a big, that is a big part of this.
[SPEAKER_10]: This weekend, it's Saturday.
[SPEAKER_09]: It is this Saturday.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, we got to talk about that.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's a lot to talk about in the news on tap.
[SPEAKER_09]: Of course, we have a very good drink today.
[SPEAKER_09]: You will be right on time, like any good train.
[SPEAKER_09]: And, uh, look, and we also Brooklyn Dad to find it coming in.
[SPEAKER_09]: Best thing you can do fresh in your drink.
[SPEAKER_09]: Come all back for another round with Jody and me on a Monday night here at the politics bar.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Monday nights here at the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, Joe.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's got a rock fingers going.
[SPEAKER_09]: She's in a good mood.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Remember two on three six seven seven seven seven two five eight.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's two one three six seven seven salt like in your mom go beat up by the way.
[SPEAKER_09]: Some comments from those social media channels.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, Jody Tom Schaefer on blue sky still says that he's hoping there's a lawsuit or two that will gum up this whole Trashing of the East Wing of the White House in the courts and leave Donnie staring at a very hard for the rest of his hellish term, which
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, I'm down with that.
[SPEAKER_10]: I, it's a 90,000 square foot thing.
[SPEAKER_10]: It takes more than a year.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not 90,000 square foot exactly exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, because remember, the architect, we talked about it.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not really going to be 90, but I want first of all.
[SPEAKER_09]: I want to see plans if he's, you know, since he's going to do it.
[SPEAKER_09]: And just remember, for all those maggots out there who were like, oh, yeah, well, this is just like his health care plan every two weeks.
[SPEAKER_09]: He said he'd have it.
[SPEAKER_09]: He'd have it for us in two weeks.
[SPEAKER_09]: And that was 11 years ago.
[SPEAKER_10]: And what mice, what many people are pointing out is that he destroyed the part of the building that women controlled.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, that is, that is a key part as well.
[SPEAKER_09]: And and he controlled the part that is the the public facing.
[SPEAKER_09]: And basically basically getting a giant finger to the public.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I mean, I know his
[SPEAKER_10]: wife.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a hard word for me to say in the video.
[SPEAKER_10]: Liberty on she says F the Christmas.
[SPEAKER_10]: So there is that.
[SPEAKER_10]: So she's happy she doesn't have to decorate anymore.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, supposedly they are going to decorate the White House except again, then they'll have to figure out a new way to get the public into the White House.
[UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's no, that's that was the public norm norm sent us a message on on one of our social media channels too.
[SPEAKER_09]: He said I don't know about the laws in DC, but I believe in general if they 10 it destroys the landlord's property.
[SPEAKER_09]: They can be held liable for the cost of repairs and since Trump is our 10 it's we should make Trump pay to put the east wing back.
[SPEAKER_10]: And you know what there are some lawsuits going on like that.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm sure they're plenty.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, by the way, um, uh, uh, you and I both saw this.
[SPEAKER_09]: We didn't have enough room for it in today's news on tap.
[SPEAKER_09]: But, uh, Eric's wall well over the weekend on one of those Sunday.
[SPEAKER_10]: I saw him do that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: He followed what Joe Wall said here in the bar last week that, uh, anybody who is running.
[SPEAKER_09]: or president.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm 28.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Me, too.
[SPEAKER_10]: It doesn't be the top of their thing, but it should be down there.
[SPEAKER_09]: It should absolutely be on the list that if you are democratic candidate running, you are going to knock down whatever monstrosity that they put up, you're going to return the East.
[SPEAKER_10]: Or a name, it's just Barack Obama's ballroom or something.
[SPEAKER_09]: The Barack Obama East Wing.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, no, we.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, I want to go on.
[SPEAKER_10]: I want to go on.
[SPEAKER_09]: But yes, yes, return the East Wing the way it was.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Turn the Kennedy garden, which they also
[SPEAKER_10]: they did all those trees.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, just anyway.
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, and, uh, Darrell by the way, on, uh, also on, uh, I believe Blue Sky said to us blank, meaning basically anything for Trump is like chickens for catchatory.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's, it's, can I say, it's best best pretty good Darrell.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's pretty
[SPEAKER_10]: Lobsters for lobster soup.
[SPEAKER_10]: Whatever.
[SPEAKER_10]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's the same.
[SPEAKER_10]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's the same.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, we are back to the news on tap and look, the Republican shutdown is going to get worse in a lot of ways.
[SPEAKER_09]: This next week especially so y'all hang on to your butts because first of all, Snap is going to be gone.
[SPEAKER_09]: Wick is going to be gone.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, for those people.
[SPEAKER_09]: All week care about the children.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, they're not Christians.
[SPEAKER_09]: damn skipy on that one joddy joddy is right.
[SPEAKER_09]: They are not Christians.
[SPEAKER_09]: At least not by another acting.
[SPEAKER_09]: Roll air service.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, we cared about the rural people.
[SPEAKER_09]: Really?
[SPEAKER_10]: Couldn't hear that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Then how come you're cutting the air service?
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, uh, by the way, head start also being cut in most places military pay.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, they had one of the was it the melon family who's a big day in pay.
[SPEAKER_12]: One day in pay.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, it's not military payable basically stop and federal civilian contractors and also we had a good piece in there from Bobby Cogan who Bobby was in I know he was in the Biden White House and he was in the Obama White House too.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's he's another one of those great financial people that like Jared Bernstein and Bobby goes through in his piece that we have in the news on tap today.
[SPEAKER_09]: How the Trump regime basically violated the law to pay the military for just a little bit longer.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, it's totally a violation, it's a bribe.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, you can't put money from one thing to the, and you, the bribe and anyway, but you guys want to read it's, um, the, the, the long of the short is this stuff is going to get really, really bad with the food aid, especially.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I think that's, that's the biggest thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: Go to Tim Walsh.
[SPEAKER_09]: He was doing a thing today up in Minneapolis.
[SPEAKER_09]: He had some members.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's great.
[SPEAKER_09]: Cody would have been a great VP.
[SPEAKER_10]: He really would have passed.
[SPEAKER_09]: He had some members Democratic members of a house who were touring up there and he was talking about the whole shutdown thing here.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, let me play this from the DVR.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hang on.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is not a both sidesism.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is owned by the Republicans.
[SPEAKER_06]: It is owned by their ability to want to have anything their way.
[SPEAKER_06]: They've got a president that is pulling money back that was appropriated by the legislature, which these legislators, I know I'm glad they are, would be horrified.
[SPEAKER_06]: by that idea, giving up their authority as an independent branch.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I know Democrats are ready to go.
[SPEAKER_06]: I know they're ready to come back and do this.
[SPEAKER_06]: They're ready to come back and protect things that had passed the legislature.
[SPEAKER_06]: They are not willing to come back and let the authoritarian president do whatever he wants.
[SPEAKER_06]: The people are going to be lined up out here to get food.
[SPEAKER_06]: And we're talking about a damn ballroom.
[SPEAKER_06]: Don't lose the plot.
[SPEAKER_06]: Don't lose the plot of what's going on here.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: And number two walls is right.
[SPEAKER_10]: So I wish he were our vice president right now.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, me too.
[SPEAKER_09]: Me too.
[SPEAKER_09]: I wish he were our vice president and people like Stephen Miller and Russ folk were in jail.
[SPEAKER_10]: And Donald J.
[SPEAKER_09]: Just just as well.
[SPEAKER_09]: Just just think because there is this wonderful thing called the statute of limitations.
[SPEAKER_09]: So they may not be there now, but that doesn't mean they all won't always be there exactly.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hi, John Dean.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: And just think all they would have had to do to make sure they never had to do that first of their life was not tried to help to do whatever they did to get done in there.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, just Stephen Miller's the worst.
[SPEAKER_09]: Steven Miller is somebody who I have yet to find anybody who actually likes him.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's even some clips out there of his wife, basically ripping on him.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm like, when even your spouse rips on you in public, does anybody actually like him?
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_10]: And he's what 38.
[SPEAKER_09]: And he looks like he's 60.
[SPEAKER_10]: He looks, I'm 58.
[SPEAKER_09]: So he actually, he actually, he made a comment here.
[SPEAKER_09]: What was it Friday?
[SPEAKER_09]: Something about the board of a troll can do, whatever the hell they want to do.
[SPEAKER_09]: And they have a immunity for that.
[SPEAKER_09]: in you are correct, Jody, law professor Steven Vladik, one of the law professors that we occasionally won't refer to because you know we obviously won't expertise here.
[SPEAKER_09]: He has a great piece that he's in the news on tap today that says Steven Miller claimed ice officers have immunity for anything they do and their claim is overstated at best.
[SPEAKER_09]: Professor Vladik goes through the whole thing and he's he's he's he's right he's very good about this.
[SPEAKER_09]: Look, we've all become desensitized to this stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: But the fact of the matter is, there are limits to, so what Miller was probably talking about was called the supremacy clause, which basically says that if somebody in the federal government is doing their job properly, properly, that's the key word, thank you, Jody.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're doing their job properly.
[SPEAKER_09]: You can't arrest them, you can't.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, of course not.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, and I'm with them on that.
[SPEAKER_09]: but picking up random people.
[SPEAKER_09]: No reason.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right, exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: That is a right.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's a big note.
[SPEAKER_10]: The guy at the laugh factory in Chicago.
[SPEAKER_10]: He's a US citizen.
[SPEAKER_09]: The guy who runs the laugh factory gets in the arrest of him.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: He still laugh out.
[SPEAKER_10]: Is he out?
[SPEAKER_10]: Do we know?
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know if he is or not.
[SPEAKER_09]: We'll have to check on that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Get back to you guys in that tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_09]: We do know that the head of Border Patrol, Commander Greg Bavino.
[SPEAKER_09]: Who, by the way, if you actually google bovino, you'll get a bunch of pictures of cows and him.
[SPEAKER_09]: I just find that funny.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, yes, I know what's bovino, but it's bovino.
[SPEAKER_09]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I get it, but it's also kind of funny because if you just type in bovino and you're like, well,
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, I mean, it's kind of right should do the other into the cow, but I just said.
[SPEAKER_09]: But Bavino is actually getting called into court.
[SPEAKER_09]: Good.
[SPEAKER_09]: Because he was caught on tape throwing a tear gas canister at a protester.
[SPEAKER_10]: He did, I saw it.
[SPEAKER_09]: If you click through, I believe it is the second link in our immigration wars section.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, it is.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's an NBC news piece and it has the video.
[SPEAKER_09]: You can actually check that out.
[SPEAKER_10]: You can see him doing that.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's pretty clear.
[SPEAKER_09]: You catch it.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is why we keep telling people, look, capture video, capture your notes.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, I sure you have them and give them to people who are, you know, your local Democratic representative, your state Democratic representative, your federal Democratic representatives, make sure that you give them to people you trust.
[SPEAKER_09]: so that they can have that information and in certain states like ill and only if you happen to have uh... looked your great governor there has put together this commission is amazing they are keeping all of this information because of statute of limitations and uh... when the good guys get back in control and we will exactly we're going to go after the people who did the things that they shouldn't have been doing
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, it reminds me of one of the rock and roll radio DJs that I used to to hang out with.
[SPEAKER_09]: He always used to say, people would call in and they would be like, oh, you know, there's a speed trap such and such a place.
[SPEAKER_09]: And he would say, you know what the best way is to avoid the speed trap, tell us to know what.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Look at this.
[SPEAKER_09]: Jody is so smart.
[SPEAKER_09]: She didn't even know the guy I'm talking about and yet she knows exactly the correct answer.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, it's right.
[SPEAKER_09]: You and think you would think that would be the correct answer.
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, if you don't want to, you know, be penalized for the crime.
[SPEAKER_09]: Don't actually do the crime.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: You don't like my mom used to say that hurts when when you do that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Don't do that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Even hurts when you break the law when you're trying to do immigration enforcement.
[SPEAKER_10]: Don't break the law.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, this is not that complicated, but Apparently this is beyond the scope of the ice monsters who if you remember we we talked about them and they're they're wonderful New folks, they're bringing in who can't even pass an open book Exam test.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, seriously Yeah, I never got one of those ever as a kid I was like, I want an open book.
[SPEAKER_10]: They're like we don't do that here.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm like You let you them and you just said, you know what I am I just a point at
[SPEAKER_10]: But then they went, sorry, you're gonna have to actually study.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly, and Jody was like, damn it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Don't it?
[SPEAKER_10]: It's still graduated, man, and come loud, so there was that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Mmm, well, because you're brilliant, because you're Jody.
[SPEAKER_10]: I was just silly, but I was Magnum's close.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, look, look, look, you were brilliant, and I'm close enough.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, I skated by, but that's only because I know only occasionally went to class.
[SPEAKER_09]: If I actually applied myself, I probably would have done a whole lot better.
[SPEAKER_09]: I was applying myself in the journalism lab, I was applying myself in the theater.
[SPEAKER_09]: Do you want there?
[SPEAKER_09]: I did well in the places where I applied myself.
[SPEAKER_09]: At a man and in the classes when I went.
[SPEAKER_10]: We'll talk to Mindy about the school that we went to.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Well played, Jodie, well played.
[SPEAKER_09]: I love that, that's yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: So you have all kinds of fun, yes, here.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right, back to the news on Tap for the Day.
[SPEAKER_09]: Because it is, it is one of those fun things.
[SPEAKER_09]: You should, you know, you guys should be paying attention to this.
[SPEAKER_09]: So Trump and Bessant are over in Japan.
[SPEAKER_09]: right now.
[SPEAKER_09]: God, they've been moving all over the place over there.
[SPEAKER_09]: So even though inflation is climbed to highest levels since January and beef prices are soaring, a lot of other prices are soaring too.
[SPEAKER_09]: Trump had a tantrum over the weekend because of these ads that we we talked about.
[SPEAKER_09]: We played it here on Friday.
[SPEAKER_09]: We gave you guys the links to all of them on the social media.
[SPEAKER_09]: If you missed it, check out all the social media channels we have from the from Friday because we put out the
[SPEAKER_09]: which oh, by the way, a Doug Ford and your governor at that end of the bar Gavin Newsom have a whole little thing going on about who's going to win in the world series.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's hilarious.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's adorable.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's we definitely.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, we'll have to talk about that because I mean, you know, it's it's entertainment.
[SPEAKER_09]: It sports.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's one of things we talk about.
[SPEAKER_09]: Also, I mean, it's your team.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not just the LA Dodgers.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's Jody's LA Dodgers.
[SPEAKER_10]: My yoders.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm sorry, but if the blue jays win, I'm not going to be that up.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not either, I'm not either because, you know, Donnie's going to get down on the ground and do the whole three, two, just.
[SPEAKER_10]: I want my doors to win and they have a chance because they're back in LA now, so game 3 tonight in LA Do not tell us to score right now.
[SPEAKER_09]: We'll check it later Whatever, but look, we do have the drink of the day coming up and it is gonna be right on time and Look, there's not gonna be any any negative vibes Black cats are are not a best Exactly exactly look drink of the day.
[SPEAKER_09]: We'll do that for you guys next here to Monday night here to politics bar hang on
[SPEAKER_04]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar.
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[SPEAKER_09]: All right, Jody, today's drink of the day.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's got two events kind of inspiring this kind of a thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: One of them happens to be your little boy who is is somebody.
[SPEAKER_10]: My little buddy, he's over yonder.
[SPEAKER_10]: Wait, the lady's coming in.
[SPEAKER_10]: So it's not.
[SPEAKER_10]: They be girl.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's hanging over in the corner of the bar there just that would be Vinny.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're not, we're not talking about the Daisy who everybody sees.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, Daisy comes up and gets right into the camera and then of course we always hear from Lonnie he just walks by and says the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thank you Lonnie.
[SPEAKER_09]: We appreciate that.
[SPEAKER_09]: But now this is Vinnie.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, Joe he's other black cat.
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, because today is
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, today is the New York subway opening and national black cat day.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, national black cat day and the anniversary of the New York City subway opening.
[SPEAKER_09]: By the way, if you don't think cats can ride the subway, we haven't videoed the drink of the day today.
[SPEAKER_09]: They do.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I've actually heard a number of things.
[SPEAKER_09]: This one happens to be a video a black cat on a subway, so it kind of is even better.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, look, there is a drink called a black cat.
[SPEAKER_09]: And that drink happens to be a what is it called again in the groanie?
[SPEAKER_09]: I know, Charlie was just telling us last week that he just had his first in the groanie.
[SPEAKER_09]: Which I remember.
[SPEAKER_10]: The groanies are yummy.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Very, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm not Charlie Pierce really, but yeah, anyway, so Charlie likes the groanies.
[SPEAKER_09]: Black cat is special type of the groanies, but a man hadn't transferred as a different type of the groanies.
[SPEAKER_09]: They, these are all kind of content.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the man hadn't transferred one kind of goes along with it, because we saw the Black cat in the subway and also the fact that on this date in 1904.
[SPEAKER_09]: The New York City subway was opened by the way.
[SPEAKER_09]: Initially, it was not called Metro System.
[SPEAKER_09]: That wasn't until like the 60s.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, actually it was originally owned as the interburo rapid transit system or IRT.
[SPEAKER_10]: It makes more sense.
[SPEAKER_09]: Kind of, kind of.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, it's also the the still to language of, you know, that time period, tread.
[SPEAKER_09]: Anyway, I journeyed a great right up in the history of it.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's fantastic there.
[SPEAKER_10]: Of course, obviously since the name of the cocktails, the Manhattan transfer cocktail, we had to put in a little video of Manhattan transfer, which was Okay, so I discovered them in 1977, I believe They had a summer show on ABC that it was their show sketch comedy in mainly music and Carrie and I
[SPEAKER_10]: would just watch it.
[SPEAKER_10]: We're like, they're so good, because they had a pile of stuff.
[SPEAKER_10]: They were just amazing set of singers.
[SPEAKER_10]: And my mom and everybody made fun of them on my mom's show, which I know that they loved, because they're pushing it right.
[SPEAKER_10]: But no, I mean, if you all have never heard the Manhattan transfer, especially, Oivea, such a great singing group.
[SPEAKER_09]: I got happy to the Manhattan transfer when I went.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I went to a junior Schinger high school.
[SPEAKER_09]: Like it was six years.
[SPEAKER_09]: So like it was at the 1500 people, something like that, whatever, anyway.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the guy who was the music director, vocal music director for the high school, his name was Pete.
[SPEAKER_09]: And we did this thing for years, they still do it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm glad that the My Old High School still does this called Expressions, where they would basically take like modern songs and they have their music theory class, go through and rip the song apart and rewrite the song, note by note.
[SPEAKER_09]: Wow, and then that's given to the band and the singers and people have to relearn how to do it and add in choreography.
[SPEAKER_09]: Wow, lighting and then we would perform those so that the end of the year and they do it every year.
[SPEAKER_09]: So we'd just great.
[SPEAKER_09]: And one of the things occasionally somebody would do is throw in a Manhattan transfer song because Pete was always like, look, if you if you listen to Manhattan transfer, if you listen to say Linda Ron's dad and the eagles.
[SPEAKER_09]: uh... if you listen to uh... some songs the jackson five he was the o j's if you listen to you know a lot of those uh... uh... uh... got list of Oak Ridge boys yes uh... harmonies it's all about that
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_09]: So Manhattan Transfer, if you have not heard them, definitely can now listen to our little video audio clip.
[SPEAKER_10]: One of my favorite songs to eat and put up was Operator, which is super-operative.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Uh, my good Janice and all of them, it was just like,
[SPEAKER_09]: Click through and listen to the one we've got there and then find operators.
[SPEAKER_09]: That one's good too.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_09]: I also get to see a cute picture of Vinny.
[SPEAKER_10]: I know I got a little baby.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's so cute.
[SPEAKER_09]: Anyway, so black cat, one type in a groinie, but today's drink of the day is a Manhattan transfer cocktail.
[SPEAKER_09]: Bingo and that is also a variation on the groanie.
[SPEAKER_09]: What is in a Manhattan transfer cocktail, Jody?
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, you need a mixing glass, a pure chilled nicken Nora or kuklas, as we've done prior.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_10]: Ice.
[SPEAKER_09]: Got it.
[SPEAKER_10]: One and a half ounces of rye whiskey.
[SPEAKER_09]: And you got to get the good stuff.
[SPEAKER_10]: Always the good stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: Maybe some rautam rye, just suggestion.
[SPEAKER_10]: Anything good.
[SPEAKER_10]: And now it's a drive from move.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's a lot.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a bit of that Italian Amaro, right?
[SPEAKER_10]: It's like a, it's an orange kind of like the cure ish kind of thing.
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[SPEAKER_09]: and then drink exactly and enjoy some great singing this subway especially if you're in New York or anywhere really that you have a nice subway system and of course lovely black cats because black cats are awesome they are and don't be afraid of them they're the sweetest babies there is no reason to be afraid of a black cat come on there's that's just superstitious baloney it is baloney exactly the drink of the day you guys know what to do go subscribe
[SPEAKER_09]: All right, um, something that is questionable about its blowniness, um, the, uh, there's some elections that have already happened.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's some elections that are ongoing.
[SPEAKER_09]: By the way, first weekend of early voting shattered the records in New York City.
[SPEAKER_09]: My, I'm Danny had a rally thousands in Queen.
[SPEAKER_09]: My God.
[SPEAKER_09]: I was so curious.
[SPEAKER_09]: great stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: You can actually definitely check out the link.
[SPEAKER_09]: We've got that in our election land section.
[SPEAKER_09]: Also record early voting numbers recorded here across Virginia and Mikey Cheryl getting major boost from early voting in New Jersey.
[SPEAKER_09]: So look, we've told you guys remember, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_09]: I have to take a big breath because here's the deal.
[SPEAKER_09]: There are big elections in New Jersey, Virginia.
[SPEAKER_09]: California Prop 50, Jody, how do you vote in Prop 50?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: And if you're in Maine on prop one, how do you vote?
[SPEAKER_09]: No, exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: If you're in Maine, do not vote for prop one because that's Leonard Leo, who already stacked the Supreme Court trying to take your right to vote at home for the male invalid.
[SPEAKER_09]: He wants to take away from you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Tell him, hell no, tell Leonard Leo, if you would have a nice day.
[SPEAKER_09]: So also by the way, if you're in Pennsylvania, you guys better watch out on your Supreme Court.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, they have elections for Supreme Court there.
[SPEAKER_09]: You want to keep
[SPEAKER_09]: Because in Republican hands, especially with elections coming up, do you actually trust them?
[SPEAKER_09]: Not to sway the elections?
[SPEAKER_09]: Just saying.
[SPEAKER_09]: Go, there you go.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right, here.
[SPEAKER_09]: Let's see what else in that election land section.
[SPEAKER_09]: So we had thought that Indiana, the legislators had said no.
[SPEAKER_09]: But this morning, Governor Mike Braun announced that, well, he's going to bend the need of Trump and call a special session to legislator to consider a new map that would benefit Republicans.
[SPEAKER_10]: But they don't want to do that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: The legislators don't want to do it, but because he's such a gutless coward.
[SPEAKER_09]: he said you know what i'm gonna bend and i'm gonna push this off to the state legislators so that they'll have to deal with it i won't have to deal with it i want to have i can turn to trump and say see masza i did what you want in masza and yes i just said that and yes he's acting that way
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, I mean, how was his biscuits?
[SPEAKER_10]: I went for Angela there.
[SPEAKER_10]: I just went for Angela there.
[SPEAKER_09]: Look, friends with the ride about that.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's one of the reasons we loved to have me here in the barn.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the fact of the matter is, is that he could have said nobody didn't.
[SPEAKER_02]: He didn't.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's still saying no one can's as thankfully, but they have a democratic governor there.
[SPEAKER_09]: So Laura Kelly's pretty good there.
[SPEAKER_09]: You guys need to be watching all of this stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: And
[SPEAKER_09]: the idiots in the national media are once again looking ahead to 2028 which really pisses us off.
[SPEAKER_10]: But it's just so far.
[SPEAKER_09]: We've got to get through 2025.
[SPEAKER_09]: Then we've got to survive 2026 and 2027 and then we'll get to 2028.
[SPEAKER_09]: There are people in this country who are not looking past next week because they don't know if they'll be able to have food.
[SPEAKER_10]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: And you idiots that we share our media environment with are going well, gee, I don't know what's commonly going to run again is is, uh, ruse them going to run.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hey, they might who cares at this point.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't care.
[SPEAKER_09]: Why would either one of them block off their own possible potential future.
[SPEAKER_10]: Of course not.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's kind of like asking somebody who, well, sir, the cops catch this guy.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, sir, we think you might be the robber.
[SPEAKER_09]: Are you a robber?
[SPEAKER_09]: What is it gonna do?
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, you got me.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, how dumb do you have to be?
[SPEAKER_10]: Jesus.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, and we need to get through this year, especially in the next year, because Donald is threatening a lot of stuff next week.
[SPEAKER_09]: He always threatens, he and his people threatened.
[SPEAKER_09]: So there was a story that was running around last week about Bannon saying that Donald is going to run again and he's kind of running with it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't think that Donald is going to make it to 2028.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't think so either.
[SPEAKER_10]: He's not healthy.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's been some discussion about his health.
[SPEAKER_09]: So Trump was bragging, bragging, I had an MRI.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's not the thing to brag about, dude.
[SPEAKER_10]: You only need them if you have issues.
[SPEAKER_10]: I've had three.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Sorry, I hit the wrong button.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, you're fine.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, I had one.
[SPEAKER_10]: I had a CT scan actually years ago with die because I was contrast, contrast, yes, contrast die and it was because I just quit smoking.
[SPEAKER_09]: OK, that makes sense.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I was getting dizzy.
[SPEAKER_10]: And my sister had just been diagnosed with lung cancer.
[SPEAKER_10]: So they were seeing maybe you need a scan if you're brain and it wasn't MRI, but it was still like and then the radiologist came back and he goes
[SPEAKER_10]: Why?
[SPEAKER_10]: And I'm like, this is why.
[SPEAKER_10]: And he goes, well, you're fine.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm like, good.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then I've had MRIs for my neck because I have issues in my spine.
[SPEAKER_10]: Apparently I'm unremarkable in my upper thorax.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think I'm remarkable, but whatever.
[SPEAKER_09]: We all figure hello.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think I'm adorable, but we think you're fantastic.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, you know, Lonnie always just looks to you.
[SPEAKER_09]: And he just looks at you in smiles and says the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's how I get, that's how my panties go away.
[SPEAKER_10]: Um, anyway.
[SPEAKER_10]: So, no, I've had MRIs for my neck and my back, which means something's wrong.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: You don't brag about having an MRI, but you recommend, they recommended it this spring.
[SPEAKER_09]: He finally got one, I guess.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now the White House is finally being that Trump is, they said he's taking something like aspirin.
[SPEAKER_09]: They weren't 100% accurate, but it means he's taking a blood thinner because of the stroke.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean.
[SPEAKER_09]: we've been talking about this and you know all all the science keep pointing to a vascular issues folks so yeah remember on the right a lot of times they're trying to scare you so when they say things don't necessarily pay attention keep it in mind
[SPEAKER_09]: but don't get too freaked out about it.
[SPEAKER_09]: They say a lot of stuff, it's a lot of bull crap.
[SPEAKER_09]: So there you go.
[SPEAKER_09]: We actually have a lot of facts, not bull crap coming up.
[SPEAKER_09]: We've got Brooklyn dad to find coming in.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's got a great piece at his defined dispatch.
[SPEAKER_09]: His sub stack will talk to him about that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Of course, more news on tap.
[SPEAKER_09]: We will get to that discussion about the world series and about our friends in Canada.
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[SPEAKER_09]: So California Governor Gavin Newsom and Ontario's premier Doug Ford.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, the guy behind the Reagan ad that got Trump all screaming mad.
[SPEAKER_10]: because panties weren't a bunch.
[SPEAKER_09]: They were, oh my god, I was thinking that phrase I didn't say it and then you did, which just proves we're on the same way.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, so Doug Ford, and Gavin Newson both, they've been taking swipes a little bit of Trump because they have this friendly wager between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays for the World Series, you know, that's always how it goes with mayors and governors and what is a thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's fun, exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: And, you know, on Terry's province, California is a state basically same thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, so I mean, it's it's fine that they're having fun with it.
[SPEAKER_09]: But the fact that they're trading insults as well over Trump is just hilarious.
[SPEAKER_09]: Let's be honest.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm like, you know what?
[SPEAKER_09]: That's another thing that great Canadians and Great American share are dislike of Donald Trump.
[SPEAKER_10]: The whole planet shares that with us.
[SPEAKER_09]: True.
[SPEAKER_09]: Jody is right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thankfully, I mean, you know, he is on the other side of the planet right now, Donald.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's in Asia.
[SPEAKER_09]: I would not say let's keep him there because I would not want to curse the Asian people.
[SPEAKER_09]: Look, you won't, you don't want to be like, look, man, I have this really nasty thing in my backyard.
[SPEAKER_09]: How much you keep in your backyard?
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, we don't want to curse the folks throughout Asia by making Donald be there permanently.
[SPEAKER_09]: However, if you went to see Vlad in Russia and ended up there personally, perpetually, I mean, I would not necessarily mind.
[SPEAKER_09]: Keep, keep Donald and Russia, you know?
[SPEAKER_10]: What does it, Kim Jong-un, or is that his name?
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, he just wanted to meet with them.
[SPEAKER_09]: Donald keeps trying to get a meeting with Kim Jong-un.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's like, I might total around Asia for a little bit to see.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's acting like some kind of love-sick teenager because he's missing his boyfriend.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's weird, right?
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: kind of weird.
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, especially for a guy who is almost 80 and married.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, I mean, I mean, I'm not going to judge if Donald.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hey, honey, if you're gay, baby, just come out like Lindsey.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_09]: Wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, we do know Lindsey Graham has said this as Carlos has rocky continues to make fun of Lindsey Graham has said that he just likes rack and balls.
[SPEAKER_10]: He loves to rack balls.
[SPEAKER_09]: Till the sun comes up.
[SPEAKER_10]: Till the sun comes up.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's his thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, you look, Lindsey, it would be nice if Lindsey would just be honest about it.
[SPEAKER_09]: But,
[SPEAKER_09]: Look, maybe Donald's got the same thing, maybe he's, it's just, you know, he's got a thing for him, and he's just, you know, he's got it, and look at that's the case, dude, whatever, I get it, that's up to you, Mr. Trump, you have a thing for Mr. Kim, whatever I get it, that's on you.
[SPEAKER_09]: But I, we're not going to get your y'all.
[SPEAKER_10]: Never, I never yuck anybody's y'all.
[SPEAKER_10]: Good for you.
[SPEAKER_10]: He is your boyfriend.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my god, I wish we had that sort of like, that would be without a imperfect right there.
[SPEAKER_09]: Show it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Spot on.
[SPEAKER_09]: Per usual.
[SPEAKER_09]: But yeah, so Donald is over there in Asia.
[SPEAKER_09]: And so that's why things may be a half degree a little bit senior here.
[SPEAKER_09]: There is some other entertainment related news.
[SPEAKER_09]: Unfortunately, June, Lockhart loved it mom from Lassie and lost in space, died at 100.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, she did a lot, she had a good life.
[SPEAKER_10]: And she was friends with somebody that's how I know Stephanie and now eventually you.
[SPEAKER_10]: Very good friends with our friend, our mutual friend, and he would go with her to all these events all the time and they were very close and so as soon as I heard that she'd passed away, I emailed him immediately as how he's doing and I said, I'm so sorry for your loss because they were.
[SPEAKER_10]: but a good 30 plus years and and then my friend Bill mummy obviously was on loss in space with her and so it's just like she was a beloved actor I never got to meet her but apparently she was just the nicest human.
[SPEAKER_09]: Look, and you don't, you don't have to necessarily know somebody to feel bad for.
[SPEAKER_09]: You feel bad for the people who cared about that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Like, former jet center, Nick Mangold.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: That was a late, late-out heard about that one.
[SPEAKER_09]: Diet of 41.
[SPEAKER_09]: 40.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's up to bed.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Less than two weeks after he announced that he had kidney disease, which, that sucks.
[SPEAKER_09]: I guess, nobody in his family matched for, for mayor or whatever.
[SPEAKER_09]: It just,
[SPEAKER_09]: Look, take care of the people who are around you, cause that's the important thing.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, you know, animals, some of our animals are some of the best people in our family.
[SPEAKER_09]: And when you consider some of the other people in our families, they are deafers.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's the best people in our families.
[SPEAKER_09]: But yes, but long and short, I mean, take care of the people around you and take care of your community, both here at the politics bar and locally wherever you are.
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[SPEAKER_09]: It's important to do that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, something else that's important to do, um, no when it's time to go, and John Dickerson obviously is doing that.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's exiting CBS news after the right wing nut jobs have taken over.
[SPEAKER_09]: Some people will say it's raising questions about the future of the CBS evening news.
[SPEAKER_09]: CBS evening news is, by the way, on a daily basis, the single program that gets the biggest ratings for CBS.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not the evening news gets the biggest ratings of any of the broadcast stations.
[SPEAKER_09]: So anybody who would actually get rid of the evening news programs is a complete moron just from a business standpoint that said Barry white is a complete moron so it's entirely possible that she could get rid of it but.
[SPEAKER_09]: Look, I do not trust CBS anymore, if there's a CBS thing, there's a CBS piece in our news on tap.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's because we've checked it elsewhere and the people there happened to do a good job and they didn't skew it too much too much.
[SPEAKER_09]: I was a raid who's written it, look, that's part of media literacy is having a bunch of journalists that you know off topic, you may not be able to list them all.
[SPEAKER_09]: But you should have a good feeling for a list of journalists that you know, TV journalists, radio journalists published journalists, whether they happen to be in dead tree form as a friend of mine calls them or online, you know, writing.
[SPEAKER_09]: know some people that know what they're talking about.
[SPEAKER_09]: And that way when you see somebody who you're like, I don't know, go look them up.
[SPEAKER_09]: Look up who they who they pal around with, who they are connected to on social media, who recommends them, who's been chatting with them, who they are arguing against.
[SPEAKER_09]: That will give you a good idea usually of what journalists are trustworthy in which ones aren't.
[SPEAKER_09]: And if they're doing things like
[SPEAKER_09]: Now, in 2025, when that raises until 2028, or if they happen to be on TV, making pot shots at that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Those are the people who you look at and go, y'all are too full of yourselves.
[SPEAKER_09]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_09]: Y'all are, you know, give me a break, dude.
[SPEAKER_09]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, it's, or the people who, you know, you read a story and you go that, that has a approach from Slant.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then you look at another piece they've done.
[SPEAKER_09]: That has a approach from Slant.
[SPEAKER_10]: Like the Wapo saying that it was okay for the East Wing to be torn down without permits.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: That absolutely drive me out.
[SPEAKER_09]: The Washington Post had a piece we didn't even put her in there because it's so disgusting.
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, I am this close.
[SPEAKER_09]: I have to renew my Washington
[SPEAKER_09]: two years ago.
[SPEAKER_09]: I keep it so that way if there is something important that I can give gift links to the folks here at the bar.
[SPEAKER_09]: But I am this close to getting rid of it.
[SPEAKER_10]: I got rid of my hair times and wapo.
[SPEAKER_09]: I have, well, I still keep the New York Times because they still have a little bit more that's not as bad as how I get some of the things like the the first link on our next app today.
[SPEAKER_09]: But even that said, the usefulness and the
[SPEAKER_09]: And yet I am just a hair away from saying, you know what, I'm done with you.
[SPEAKER_09]: I like the Philly inquirer, Philadelphia just up the road.
[SPEAKER_09]: If I get rid of the Wapos subscription, I will probably subscribe to the Inkey because they're good.
[SPEAKER_09]: Inquirer by the way, not profit, so run a little bit differently and they care actually a little bit more about the quality of the journalism, just saying.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I am, uh, the Washington Post has problems and they, they have made the stupid ass mistake that some in broadcast media for too long, especially over at CNN have made the idea of of, oh, we have to chase after the Fox viewers.
[SPEAKER_09]: for the umpteenth time.
[SPEAKER_09]: Let me put it to you guys.
[SPEAKER_09]: They are never, ever, ever, ever going to love you.
[SPEAKER_09]: The right wing hates your guts.
[SPEAKER_09]: They want you dead as much as they want Jody and I and everybody here hanging out in this bar dead.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.
[SPEAKER_09]: So chasing after those people, oh, but they'll buy almost anything.
[SPEAKER_09]: They are not buying what you're selling.
[SPEAKER_09]: And they will never, ever buy what you're selling.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's why the turning CBS into this right-wing thing is one of the stupidest things that they could have done, because they're taking all the credibility of people who've trusted CBS since the days of Walter Cronkite and before the days of Ed Murrow,
[SPEAKER_09]: and they're throwing that out the window and they're saying, well, because we don't like you guys reporting the facts.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, God, I wish I could, I need to track this down.
[SPEAKER_09]: I haven't finished tracking this down yet.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, somebody over the weekend said something and I think it was Stephen Miller replied to it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Somebody was related in the Trump atmosphere.
[SPEAKER_09]: And they were bitching and moaning because they're like, do you know how hard it is on the right?
[SPEAKER_09]: Damn it, the left just uses facts.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know it's so hard, you know, they use facts and stuff.
[SPEAKER_10]: We can even counter that.
[SPEAKER_09]: That was literally, that was literally their post and his project.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I know.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I'm going, okay, nice that you people admit it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, we have facts.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, we operate from a fact-based reality in this corner of the universe.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, how dare we.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the broad left is Bruce Bartlett says, basically everybody who is non-front Republican, independent, centrist, center left, left, even liberal.
[SPEAKER_09]: We all tend to operate from that fact-based universe.
[SPEAKER_09]: Don't it?
[SPEAKER_09]: That's just how we are.
[SPEAKER_09]: And we're not changing, suck it now.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I have other words in my brain.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, but, you know, we're the end of one of the words.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's the end of one of those words that's in my brain.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's like fire truck.
[SPEAKER_09]: Just cut out the middle, right?
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[SPEAKER_09]: Mr. Majeed, how was your weekend, man?
[SPEAKER_08]: More you up to this weekend.
[SPEAKER_08]: I was chilling out this weekend.
[SPEAKER_08]: I was watching this thing about the Ed Gein, you know, and he, I haven't seen it yet.
[SPEAKER_09]: I hear it's amazing.
[SPEAKER_09]: OK, what is, what is that whole thing about?
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh my God.
[SPEAKER_08]: So it's about the guy upon whom so many different horror movies was based, but primarily Norman Vachem Psycho.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: OK. Really?
[SPEAKER_09]: Really, I'm a real-life person.
[SPEAKER_09]: that a lot of characters are based on in horror movies.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_08]: So this guy, he was portrayed by Charlie Hunnam, who did a fantastic, I've never seen him act better.
[SPEAKER_08]: The guy himself, the serial killer, was kind of like a meek, soft-spoken guy,
[SPEAKER_07]: And, you know, I am from Wisconsin and some of my mother's very much, you know, and right, but that show is a monster.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it shows whole life, and you know, it's a testament to the acting and to the directing and the writing.
[SPEAKER_08]: And they made this character somehow sympathetic.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_08]: Like it's weird.
[SPEAKER_08]: Like he kills.
[SPEAKER_08]: He kills some people.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_09]: Making your murder sympathetic is not easy.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, now he's going to go with that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: There is, I mean, he's no dexter.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's for sure.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, he had a purpose.
[SPEAKER_10]: He had a code.
[SPEAKER_10]: He had a code that he lived.
[SPEAKER_10]: That is dad taught him.
[SPEAKER_08]: So good.
[SPEAKER_08]: Harry.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: That was such a good show.
[SPEAKER_09]: But yeah, it's very, would you do anything else of it and watch the series as we can?
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, yeah, you know, um, we're doing some prep for, um,
[SPEAKER_08]: My the family and I are going to be visiting a family friend this weekend this this coming weekend who's gotten married.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's my wife's My wife's childhood friend.
[SPEAKER_08]: So yeah, it's a pretty big deal.
[SPEAKER_08]: So we have to you know, get some things out of the way.
[SPEAKER_08]: I helped put an arch up in the
[SPEAKER_08]: in the garden for the vines to climb over.
[SPEAKER_08]: So that was one.
[SPEAKER_09]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_09]: The whole helping the whole helping your friend, though, I think a lot more folks are going to be doing that, obviously coming this next week, because obviously, as we all know, they're probably going to shut down, things keep going, things are getting worse.
[SPEAKER_09]: And with the loss of snap and wick, especially coming up this weekend,
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I mean, it's been a country to what the the Trump regime is talking about.
[SPEAKER_09]: It is Trump's USDA, the Department of Ag that refuses to shuffle funds around or to allow states to take their extra funds and use the snap program, which is what usually happens.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I shouldn't have to say this, but what usually happens in a federal government shutdown.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the worst thing is, is that the Trump USDA had said earlier, I don't know, we'll do the same thing that had been done before.
[SPEAKER_09]: Doing it this way actually causes more pain, more unnecessary pain and cruelty.
[SPEAKER_09]: And this goes along with the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: So it is,
[SPEAKER_09]: Rip Jai Paul was on MSNBC earlier today talking about this and and you know having read your piece BDD over Add to find dispatches Immediately I'm wondering maybe she's a subscriber here and let me play this on the DVR you can you can let's do it yourself here
[SPEAKER_01]: And when Donald Trump can spend $40 billion to bail out Argentina, but refuses to use the funds that are available and make additional funds available to feed 42 million people.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of four kids in this country relies on snap benefits on us.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is just cruelty, meanness, and every single state in the country, red, blue, every district is going to be affected by this.
[SPEAKER_01]: But she's right.
[SPEAKER_09]: She's right.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to tell you why why they're doing it the way they're doing it because they've read the tea leaves and they've already figured out that they cannot
[SPEAKER_08]: At the status quo, with things the way they're going with the economy and their unpopularity, they know that they're going to get covered in 2026, but unless, unless they're somehow able to conflate the pain they're feeling, they're somehow able to blame Democrats for the pain they're feeling.
[SPEAKER_08]: That is their only hope right now, because they keep
[SPEAKER_08]: the what they keep messaging messaging is that this is the Democrats shut down.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is the Schumer shutdown, despite the fact that they control the house and the Senate and the White House despite the fact that they could right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, and the Supreme Court, they could end this today.
[SPEAKER_10]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: With the so-called nuclear absolutely right now, there would need one
[SPEAKER_08]: Democrats, but even still you need you got 53 Republicans.
[SPEAKER_08]: You need seven Democrats.
[SPEAKER_08]: What are you doing?
[SPEAKER_08]: The only says upon you to negotiate, but they are not negotiating because Donald Trump won't let them.
[SPEAKER_08]: And so they're doing all this.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, remember, it's not even just it's not so much Donald Trump.
[SPEAKER_09]: Although as as we noted at the top of the show and there happens to be at the top of the news on
[SPEAKER_09]: Speaker Mike Johnson, tiny Johnson himself is not only marginalized Congress, but he did it.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's doing it because he is any time that the tiny Johnson insists that he's a Christian and that he's bored.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, no, his his god is actually the orange monster in the White House that is now one third less of his big is it used to be, but tiny Johnson's god is Donald Trump.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: So when he claims to be a Christian,
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not.
[SPEAKER_09]: Tony Johnson is marginalizing himself and it's not Trump that's keeping them from negotiating BDD.
[SPEAKER_09]: The person who's keeping them from negotiating, we've said this before and we keep reminding folks, pass it on.
[SPEAKER_09]: You guys have helped us narrow it down here at the bar.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's important that everybody reminds themselves of the three things the three demands that Democrats have.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thing number one, no back seats, no resisions, when you make a deal, stick with it.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's something that even Maga agrees to.
[SPEAKER_09]: because magas says, look, man, I'm making a deal with you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Don't well-shone it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Don't screw me on the deal.
[SPEAKER_10]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: So no back cease.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thing number two, ACA subsidies.
[SPEAKER_09]: And with that cliff coming here at the end of this week, there are a whole lot of people who are seeing their rates, two, and three, and four times, which, when Charles Gabbos here in the bar here, a couple of weeks back, he reminded people, these things are going to go through the damn roof.
[SPEAKER_09]: And that's all on the Republicans.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then thing three that Democrats would really love to get is the Medicare and Medicaid money back that the Republican stole in the big ugly bill.
[SPEAKER_09]: All the other three things that Democrats want.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, back sees ACA subsidies, Medicare and Medicaid money.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is not hard any news organization local or national who is saying oh, it's hard just to know what they they you can anytime you hear him if you hear him on the TV you hear him on the radio you read them and they say well, we just don't know what Democrats want get right out there in your social right on the right of an email right on my note sent him a voice mail and be like, look, Jack asked these are the three things that Democrats want no vaccines, ACA subsidies, Medicare and money and Medicaid money back.
[SPEAKER_09]: Punch them in a face with it because they need to be punched in the face with it, but here's the bigger question, the thing that goes to what you were saying there, BDD.
[SPEAKER_09]: So you said that it was Trump that's keeping the Republicans from negotiating this, and it's actually not.
[SPEAKER_09]: Because we found out, we still have sources, the fun thing about living in the DC area is that people talk to you.
[SPEAKER_09]: And people talk to each other.
[SPEAKER_09]: Conveniently, out in the open, restaurants, grocery stores, places where people like me happen to be.
[SPEAKER_09]: And that's my mother used to say, little corn has big ears.
[SPEAKER_09]: So that was one of my small, I'm much bigger now.
[SPEAKER_09]: But anyway.
[SPEAKER_08]: Where was the rim shot?
[SPEAKER_08]: Where was the rim shot on that?
[SPEAKER_09]: So Mike Johnson's problem is that he's got about 50 members of his caucus that actually agree with Marjorie Taylor Green.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're willing to do number one.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're willing to sign a deal with Democrats that will hold the deal that will cut out Russ vote.
[SPEAKER_09]: That will tell Russ vote.
[SPEAKER_09]: Go F yourself.
[SPEAKER_09]: Have a nice day.
[SPEAKER_09]: We made a deal.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is the way it's going to be.
[SPEAKER_09]: You don't like it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Suck it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Have a nice day.
[SPEAKER_09]: And they're willing to go ahead and extend the ACA subsidies.
[SPEAKER_09]: The timeline is where they're kind of arguing, but they're at least willing to do it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Then you got at least 50 Republicans in Tiny Johnson's caucus, who say, hell no, they see this as the perfect chance to let the ACA blow up and kill itself.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now I mentioned earlier tonight, um, so Friday night got back for the bar was home was walking my dog Kiwi and uh, met up with the dog who's a friend of his Nemo Nemo and Kiwi or friends, they they like to, you know, hang out and frolic and have fun, whatever.
[SPEAKER_09]: But Nemo was being walked by his grandpa.
[SPEAKER_09]: hadn't met his grandpa for a recognized name also like you know and he was like hey let me go see him so we got to talk and and his grandpa was like oh so what do you do of course I told him about here politics bar we have friends like you bdd and joddy and I have no good time we bring in all kind of good people and he says well you know I'm kind of a conservative and I said well that's fine so as long as you don't throw chairs we don't care if you're you know what and you don't just don't don't don't throw chairs and don't want to kill us and we're fine with that
[SPEAKER_09]: And so this conservative guy from South Carolina was talking.
[SPEAKER_09]: And he says, you know, we get talking back and forth about the shutdown and and he says the thing is a lot of these people are scared to do things that they've never done before.
[SPEAKER_09]: And a lot of these people are scared because of, for example, in Johnson's case, he's scared because, well, you know, Trump might get mad at him.
[SPEAKER_09]: Here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: You gotta do things that scare you sometimes.
[SPEAKER_09]: And there's a lot of stuff out there that scares a lot of us.
[SPEAKER_09]: For a lot of these people who have to go to food bags for the first time in their life, they were just time in my life when I had to get, I had to go to a food bag because I was that poor.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I get that fear, I have had that fear.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know that fear, it's a sucky fear.
[SPEAKER_09]: But the fear that Mike Johnson has is some douchebag in an office building.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not his, may make people mad at him.
[SPEAKER_09]: But guess what, people are mad at him.
[SPEAKER_09]: And people in his own party are mad at him.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the thing he's not doing is getting 50 people in his party who say, let's do this.
[SPEAKER_09]: Let's work with the Democrats and 50 people who say Democrats compounds hand and putting them in a room.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's what Johnson's afraid of because Johnson knows if he puts them in a room.
[SPEAKER_09]: The people who say, let's make a deal with the Democrats, they're going to win because there are more of us than there are of them.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Johnson is really afraid that he's going to lose them and Donnie will make him look weak.
[SPEAKER_09]: We've been talking now for what, Jodie, about week we've been starting to hear some rumblings that people are in the Republican Party.
[SPEAKER_09]: House members are not exactly thrilled with Mike Johnson.
[SPEAKER_09]: There are rumblings that maybe we do better with a different speaker.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, Donald just called himself the speaker.
[SPEAKER_09]: Kind of.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's also in that piece that's at the top of the news on tap.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's, we got the free link there to the near-time speech.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, Donald called himself the speaker because he marginalized tiny Johnson so much.
[SPEAKER_09]: literally Donald Johnson, Donald Trump was waiting his tiny Johnson at tiny Johnson at tiny Johnson.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Judges right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: So look, the whole point about this is just to say that the biggest problem right now is the fact that Mike Johnson won't do his goddamn job, he won't put the people in his own caucus.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, tiny Johnson cannot control his tiny caucus.
[SPEAKER_08]: The reason I said what I said about Donald Trump won't allow them to, is because he is the one who's calling the shots, nobody makes, nobody makes a move that he doesn't back and as soon as they clear up.
[SPEAKER_09]: but that's not the speaker's job.
[SPEAKER_09]: The speaker is not the speaker of just the people who agree with that person.
[SPEAKER_09]: The speaker is the speaker for all of the house.
[SPEAKER_09]: All of the speaker's job is to make sure that the actual house of representatives gets some of its work done.
[SPEAKER_09]: He keeps going, well, we got our job done, no part of you did, but it's the whole house.
[SPEAKER_09]: And that includes people you don't like, Mikey, too bad.
[SPEAKER_08]: But here's the thing, the minute they settle, the minute these shutdown gets settled, he has no more excuse.
[SPEAKER_08]: He said, I will swear in Adelaide, to Grihava, the minute the government is open again.
[SPEAKER_08]: So as soon as he does that, he's got a hold of vote and they will vote.
[SPEAKER_08]: She's the 218 vote.
[SPEAKER_09]: They don't even have a hold of vote, BDD.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's just saying your vote.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now, all she has to do is sign the petition.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the way that the discharge petition works, the minute that she is finished signing that discharge petition.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's done.
[SPEAKER_09]: Pingo.
[SPEAKER_09]: Automatic.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: So he's a hero.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's done.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Tiny Johnson is scared of a whole lot of things, folks, which, you know, if you're a small and impotent and ineffective as he is, I mean, you know, and look, I understand Republicans are mad.
[SPEAKER_10]: Because I was that out loud.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, well, maybe.
[SPEAKER_09]: Maybe.
[SPEAKER_09]: I didn't hear it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Did you hear me?
[SPEAKER_09]: I didn't hear that.
[SPEAKER_09]: I didn't hear it.
[SPEAKER_10]: I didn't hear it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I didn't hear it.
[SPEAKER_10]: I didn't hear it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I didn't hear it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I didn
[SPEAKER_09]: which hopefully you guys are not getting your code yet.
[SPEAKER_09]: Look, we got one more round here.
[SPEAKER_09]: I am energized in a wake.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Mr. Machine and Jodie trying to make me break and I am it's hard man.
[SPEAKER_10]: You're very good.
[SPEAKER_09]: You're very you're very my mom Oh, man, that is that is probably the highest compliments.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think I could possibly get is being like Carol.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, you know very much she she very
[SPEAKER_09]: But yeah, although it was funny occasionally, you know, when she has, you know, if you guys have seen some of the, oh, oh, by the way, um, my, my dog's friends grandpa.
[SPEAKER_09]: So we were talking and he was like, oh, yeah, the, the channel that's on Roku that's the Carol Burnett show.
[SPEAKER_09]: I watched that.
[SPEAKER_09]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_09]: I laughed.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm like, yeah, Jodie does that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Jodie did that.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's, you know, so.
[SPEAKER_09]: I helped edit those.
[SPEAKER_09]: Look, it's fun sometimes when you know somebody who's done some stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: But it was kind of interesting that he was like, oh, oh, you know, you know, I'm like, well, I work with Carol's daughter.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, I mean, there's that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_08]: Was Tim Conway unable to make her her break?
[SPEAKER_10]: on occasion he could he really was he was really evil evil funny man because he just wanted to argue to just break all the time and I know I'm sorry hard department is also one of my favorites too because among other things blazing saddles this one of my own yeah well when i when i produce the
[SPEAKER_10]: It was after a dress we taped dress in front of an audience and was taped and Harvey came to me and said, hey, I did something wrong.
[SPEAKER_10]: Can you make that not be in the edit?
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm just looking around going, wait, you're talking to me.
[SPEAKER_10]: I can't tell.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, Harvey, you're recording a gorman.
[SPEAKER_10]: And he was like, sure, I'll make sure that when we go to edit, it won't be there and he goes, thank you.
[SPEAKER_10]: He treated me like a producer and not like this little kid to these know my whole life like not like Carol's daughter because no it was I you're the producer you're one of the producers at the show.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm not saying your brother I'm not saying Rick I'm saying you so both but that is but that is a nice way it was like the sweetest thing he could have ever done was treating me like a producer.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's always great when you you know when you interact with somebody or when you see.
[SPEAKER_09]: great work, great TV work, great, you know, where you listen to great music, whatever the this Springsteen movie I've heard, we warn people it's not going to be a big concert stuff and I'm glad we did because some people have said, hey, you know, I like it for what it was.
[SPEAKER_09]: It wasn't what I thought it would be necessarily, but I really enjoyed that.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm like, good.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm not appreciate that.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's kind of a good thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: But what did you see it?
[SPEAKER_08]: Did you see it?
[SPEAKER_09]: Hi.
[SPEAKER_09]: I have not seen it yet, but you know, one of the things, when you grow up in Nebraska, especially if you like classic rock or you're literally a classic rock DJ, you have heard that Nebraska album on teen times, you know, all the stuff you've got to special, you didn't all look like.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's about him and his dad, isn't it, the movie?
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a lot about his personal relationships, a lot about issues that he was dealing with.
[SPEAKER_09]: He actually had depression, had serious depression back in a time when we didn't really talk about it.
[SPEAKER_09]: And it's kind of cool to see that Bruce Springsteen, he's talking about it now.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Through the movie, I mean, the character, the actor is really great, too.
[SPEAKER_10]: Jeremy Allen, why do I believe it is, and it's apparently he's like, just is amazing.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, yeah, from all the clips and everything I've seen, I've not seen the full thing yet, but I'm like, yeah, this is, it's worthwhile, everything that I've seen.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I'm like, yeah, it's, I still really like weapons.
[SPEAKER_10]: I need to see that again.
[SPEAKER_09]: Look, I'm still, I'm still seeing some more clips from K-Pop Demon Hunters, and I got that solid stuck in my head.
[SPEAKER_09]: My wife's like, you have like a teenage girl's music selection now.
[SPEAKER_09]: Like, you know, K-Pop Demon Hunters and Taylor Swift, and I'm like, oh, shut up.
[SPEAKER_10]: What do you mean?
[SPEAKER_09]: What do you run?
[SPEAKER_09]: I run.
[SPEAKER_10]: What do you?
[SPEAKER_09]: I started watching the music.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's positive music.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's happy stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: You know?
[SPEAKER_09]: I helped out a little bit.
[SPEAKER_09]: Given everything.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, you know, way of hands and everything going on, so, you know.
[SPEAKER_08]: I started watching that movie, the K-pop thing, it's very cute, it's very, it's very good.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's what I'm talking about.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hey, the second spinal tap is really good.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, that's on my list too.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's on my list.
[SPEAKER_09]: BDD's out.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's out.
[SPEAKER_10]: And honestly, I was expecting to not like it because I mean, I have that first movie like up way up here.
[SPEAKER_10]: because I saw in the theater, back in the day.
[SPEAKER_10]: It is, it's so lives up to it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Is it Netflix or is it Amazon, I can't remember where we were.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, okay, it's on the list.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: Every, every where you want to get it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Unless of course, you want to be a drummer for Spinal Tap and then we're real.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, and the new drummer is hilarious.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's, anyway, it's, it is so well done.
[SPEAKER_10]: And so what we would hope it would be.
[SPEAKER_09]: which is good.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then some.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's as good as the first film.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's what it should be.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's what a sequel should be.
[SPEAKER_09]: Just very good.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, it's hard, because it was like, posh, posh, posh, posh, posh.
[SPEAKER_09]: Something else you guys should put on your list to watch if you haven't watched it yet already.
[SPEAKER_09]: BDD, you were saying there was something else about the stuff you were watching this last weekend.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, so back to that movie.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was monsters, the Ed Geen story.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: What was interesting was that they had Alfred Hitchcock.
[SPEAKER_08]: in, you know, like somebody playing Alfred, his crack.
[SPEAKER_08]: I can't remember the name of the actor, but he was very good.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: And they showed the behind the scenes.
[SPEAKER_08]: They showed a hand picking, um, damn it, what's his name?
[SPEAKER_08]: Norman Bade's actor, what was his name?
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, the Anthony Perkins, Perkins, Perkins, that's what's on.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, so his wife, Alfred Hitchcock's wife in the movie is telling him that
[SPEAKER_08]: There's no way he'll be able to get audiences to watch Psycho because it's too, it's too extreme.
[SPEAKER_08]: And so here's the, I thought his voice over was, voice over quote was fantastic.
[SPEAKER_08]: He says, but she's dead wrong to say that people won't want to watch it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Our audience lives in a world in which God has been banished.
[SPEAKER_08]: They live in daily fear of nuclear annihilation.
[SPEAKER_08]: They have stared, quaking, minds numb at the sheer magnitude of the evil that was not, not see Holocaust.
[SPEAKER_08]: Seeing for the first time in history, what human beings are capable of when the moral compass is off, our audience has found the new monster that monster is us.
[SPEAKER_09]: and which that kind of yeah that kind of ties into your piece that defined his patches the king of cruelty which that's right look Donald Trump is a monster he has so are so are the people who are surrounding him we all know that Stephen Miller isn't absolute disaster we don't find me here in Los Angeles or Santa Monica we just don't and look you shouldn't uh you know don't don't don't be burdened by that you know he is he is a monster
[SPEAKER_09]: So as Russ vote and more people there was an NPR special I heard of this weekend when I was at the grocery store That is going over that on the media.
[SPEAKER_09]: I believe had had that speed special for that I mean people are recognizing these these monsters and you talk about it in your piece at defined dispatches
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I mean, obviously, there's there's there's the blatant stuff like when Trump does the whole poop plane thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, and I just I feel like we've been to de-sensitized to to not just his, you know, juvenile antics, but also the cruelty like we're seeing the cruelty on a daily basis and I am keeping my outrage
[SPEAKER_08]: uh... sensor fresh and costly hours like every time i see a woman thrown to the ground by one of ice thugs uh... you know one of those like our fact that i'm a gazela she's got a uh... new and uh... shows that them doing that i'm a manager at the last factory in chicago right so that's a nice which is just absolute look the the
[SPEAKER_09]: Even for those people who they try to say, well, I'm not that kind of a monster.
[SPEAKER_09]: I want to take the money.
[SPEAKER_09]: that we spend on government programs like SNAP, and I want to give it to a private group to take care of it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Like food banks, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: The food banks can take care of the poor.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is another clip.
[SPEAKER_09]: I can't remember where this is from, but this is a food bank director.
[SPEAKER_09]: It was NBC or MSNBC, one of the two.
[SPEAKER_09]: They were interviewing a food bank director.
[SPEAKER_09]: And they were saying, you know, hey, is, is this something you guys can handle it for only another, the Republicans, they always say, you know, let, let the private agencies handle this, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: Here's her, here's her response, because this, this shows you the level of cruelty that the Republicans are engaging in by the, not handling snap by not handling work.
[SPEAKER_09]: Here, listen to this, is, this is tangible.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not.
[SPEAKER_05]: It won't be from the first day.
[SPEAKER_05]: For every meal at a food bank provides the SNAP program provides nine.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's no way we can meet that gap.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals.
[SPEAKER_05]: It is not sustainable.
[SPEAKER_05]: For food banks to fill this gap, we were not built to do this.
[SPEAKER_05]: We will stand out there and we will do our very best.
[SPEAKER_09]: But they can't do it.
[SPEAKER_09]: They can't do it.
[SPEAKER_10]: I thought we were a Christian nation.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: not by the actions, not when we say things and do things like this.
[SPEAKER_09]: When we let people go hungry, go hungry.
[SPEAKER_09]: In the richest country in the world,
[SPEAKER_09]: And it's not just the food thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: It happens to be, look, while Republicans refuse to come back to the house, to negotiate with Democrats, to make sure that Americans can get their health care insurance, even though it's still more expensive, even though Americans are saying it about a 70% rate look, we're glad for the ACA, but it's still too expensive, even with all of that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Congress members are enjoying luxury health care insurance.
[SPEAKER_09]: But Republicans are the ones who are fighting to cut and make sure you don't have health care insurance.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know how we can make this more clear as to who is being cruel and who is not being Christian.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, you know, yeah, go for it.
[SPEAKER_08]: So it's the people saying, Cry more when you complain online about the people who are suffering.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, the people at those food banks say, Yeah, thanks again.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think 30 to 50 percent of those food banks are down.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're lacking resources and they're going to get a huge, huge surge because if Republicans do not come back, Republicans who control the House, the Senate, the White House, and the Supreme Court, if they do not get their asses back, even though some of them want to, but if Tiny Johnson doesn't come back and allow them to come back and get this done,
[SPEAKER_09]: at the end of this week.
[SPEAKER_09]: Not only will insurance costs absolutely go through the roof.
[SPEAKER_09]: And here's the thing for those Republicans who say, Oh, well, snap is just those poor dumb bastards.
[SPEAKER_09]: 40,000,000 people.
[SPEAKER_09]: 42,000,000.
[SPEAKER_09]: Nearly children and the elderly.
[SPEAKER_09]: 60 to 70% of the people who are on snap.
[SPEAKER_09]: actually have jobs, but they work for companies, Walmart, McDonald's, who do not pay their employees a living wage.
[SPEAKER_09]: So we are subsidizing those corporations because they won't pay their people, and we subsidize them with snap.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's how it works.
[SPEAKER_09]: So it's not that they're not working.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're already working.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's it is cruel.
[SPEAKER_09]: You're 100% correct, BDD.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's absolutely cruel.
[SPEAKER_09]: And we're better than that, but, you know, maybe, maybe not all of us, a lot of us, but I'm sorry, Tony Johnson claims to be a Christian.
[SPEAKER_10]: So does Pam Bondi.
[SPEAKER_10]: So does Caroline.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know Burning Cross is pretty close.
[SPEAKER_10]: I can't believe these women don't have falses women right here.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't want to stand in the discussion.
[SPEAKER_09]: Will I stand in the discussion here a little bit in the after hours of Brooklyn, Dad, Defiant, PDD?
[SPEAKER_09]: People can find your stuff online at Defiant Dispatches and Substack, correct?
[SPEAKER_08]: That is correct.
[SPEAKER_09]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_09]: We will have him for a little bit longer.
[SPEAKER_09]: Look tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_09]: We got Mindy Cone.
[SPEAKER_10]: We do.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, we got Ron Roberts as well.
[SPEAKER_09]: Come on back tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_10]: Your face is so cute with Mindy.
[SPEAKER_09]: What's up here at the Barn Eyepokes?