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[SPEAKER_11]: it is Wednesday here at the politics bar what like you've never done that to your mom or dad when you were a kid come on you know you did you know you did look we're having fun things are not as crazy as they appear I realize you know if you haven't told me something on the news
[SPEAKER_11]: They are actually looked at the news on tap today.
[SPEAKER_11]: It is not flopping in for me.
[SPEAKER_11]: It is nice and smooth.
[SPEAKER_11]: Kind of like Donald Trump's brain, which we definitely will talk about that.
[SPEAKER_12]: No, I think it's more Swiss cheese than smooth.
[SPEAKER_11]: You may be right about that one, Jodie.
[SPEAKER_11]: God, what a mhm.
[SPEAKER_11]: Anyway, well, well, we'll talk about that.
[SPEAKER_11]: And of course, that 25th Amendment.
[SPEAKER_11]: Bob Cesska coming in a little bit later as well.
[SPEAKER_11]: The one who only go Bob.
[SPEAKER_11]: And, you know, we got some, we got a good drink, you know, drink of the day is, look, I like the drink, but the reason for it's, um, incredibly unattractive human.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, and we're not talking physically and
[SPEAKER_11]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, kinds of other ways.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: We'll talk about that too.
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[SPEAKER_11]: maybe you just happen to be one of those really cool people your future people you're listening to us tomorrow later tonight this is entirely possible you know maybe you're a west coast person and i'm on the east coast jodges in the west coast and you're listening to us a little bit later could you do that?
[SPEAKER_12]: and how the bar looks different because you are not you got there in the day?
[SPEAKER_11]: and i've got the dark behind mine look at that happens looking at the whole world turns although i'm not sure if Donald Trump is aware of it but
[SPEAKER_11]: No, it's head from the whole underground.
[SPEAKER_11]: I just, oh my god, the whole thing today at Davos, oh man.
[SPEAKER_11]: And look, I understand for those people who are really freaked out because they're like, you know what?
[SPEAKER_11]: The news just seems to be all crazy.
[SPEAKER_11]: But if you get the news on tap, look, you can pull a couple rounds from it with us tonight.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You're able to quick buzz through the headlines and you're actually able to see what's going on.
[SPEAKER_11]: Great.
[SPEAKER_11]: And read through real quick, and you're like, oh, hey, I have an actual idea and I have to waste like, you know, three hours sitting there with cable talk news, which isn't always necessarily news, anyway, but this morning Donald Trump, obviously, he was he was in Davos Switzerland at the World Economic Forum we mentioned that to you guys yesterday and to say that's,
[SPEAKER_11]: Look, you know the difference between Greenland and Iceland, right?
[SPEAKER_11]: One of these is called, and it isn't the one that you would think is called.
[SPEAKER_12]: Well, they're both cold.
[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, where they live on the planet, it's not warm, but Greenland used to have more ice than Iceland, but it's starting to lose its ice sheets, so there's that.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, yes, thanks to people like Donald Trump who doesn't want it.
[SPEAKER_11]: No, anyway.
[SPEAKER_11]: Look, this was not either they who couldn't tell the difference between Greenland and Iceland.
[SPEAKER_01]: If for us, they're not there for us on Iceland, then I can tell you, Mayor Suckmark, it took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's because of Iceland.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's already cost us a lot of money.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_12]: I assume that Stephen Miller or some other lackey wrote something on the Promptor for him.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, yeah, but of course, you know, I'm just going to go off Promptor because I'm Donald Trump.
[SPEAKER_11]: I don't have to do anything.
[SPEAKER_11]: I don't want to do.
[SPEAKER_12]: I just, it's, I'm sorry, but no water apparently comes out of faucets either.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, God.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_11]: We have that story today in the news on tap if you scroll over to it here.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, you do have a whole section
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm not kidding.
[SPEAKER_11]: You can click into it and see that Donald Trump gave a headscratching answer about his 2026 agenda talking about water coming out of a sick.
[SPEAKER_11]: I didn't pull that one of us from a belief news nation, but he was asked, especially in the mid-term year, what is your goal for Congress?
[SPEAKER_12]: water out of faucets so far i mean okay you have a well that has no water that's one thing right and my sister carry used to have a well in colorado so that's a whole thing well uh... but well i read that i read that quote to lolly this morning before he went to work uh-huh and he was like huh i'm like okay the quote the quote joney talking about here so this is this was Trump
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, one of the things I'd like to do, you know, we pass so many executive orders.
[SPEAKER_11]: I have great executive orders and they're really common sense and good.
[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, like water coming out of a sink, the water wouldn't come out.
[SPEAKER_11]: They had all sorts of ridiculous restrictions.
[SPEAKER_11]: I took all of that off.
[SPEAKER_11]: Coming out of the shower head, you'd stand under a shower.
[SPEAKER_11]: There's no water coming out.
[SPEAKER_11]: So I passed so many things like that.
[SPEAKER_12]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_12]: So first off, I have two low flow shower heads because it's California droughts.
[SPEAKER_11]: Right.
[SPEAKER_11]: Which thankfully it's not in Jordan anymore, but...
[SPEAKER_11]: But, me and we always were in this history.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's a thing.
[SPEAKER_12]: And it's more... Raised like strut, I raised this way.
[SPEAKER_11]: Right.
[SPEAKER_11]: No, no worries, make sense.
[SPEAKER_12]: Especially, it's even more important nowadays.
[SPEAKER_12]: But still, we have a low flow shower head.
[SPEAKER_12]: And like that's my favorite thing ever.
[SPEAKER_12]: because it works.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, it looks.
[SPEAKER_11]: It doesn't matter whether it's as long as it works and it gets you what you want.
[SPEAKER_12]: And it's the right pressure and it's all of that.
[SPEAKER_12]: It just, it does save water.
[SPEAKER_11]: But that's, that's the kind of thing where you understand when people say, you know, 25th Amendment.
[SPEAKER_11]: Look, you can walk through it yourself.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's why we included it today in the news on tap, but you should walk through it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Just let's walk through it with them together.
[SPEAKER_11]: So he starts with one of the things I'd like to do.
[SPEAKER_11]: So I'd like to do, focus on him.
[SPEAKER_11]: We pass so many executive orders.
[SPEAKER_11]: First of all, you don't pass executive orders.
[SPEAKER_11]: You just sign them.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then he says, oh, executive orders.
[SPEAKER_11]: So the next sentence comes to it.
[SPEAKER_11]: I have great executive orders.
[SPEAKER_11]: And they're really common sense and good.
[SPEAKER_11]: So he's justifying his executive orders.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then he says, I mean, like water coming out of a sink, which water coming out of a sink is good.
[SPEAKER_11]: But then he's brain goes to water.
[SPEAKER_12]: And because it doesn't come out of the sink, it goes into a sink, by the way, from a faucet.
[SPEAKER_11]: Exactly, but then he goes that that's where his brain is going though.
[SPEAKER_11]: So he says water sink.
[SPEAKER_11]: And the next phrase is the water wouldn't come out.
[SPEAKER_11]: They had all sorts of ridiculous restrictions.
[SPEAKER_11]: I took all that off.
[SPEAKER_11]: So in his brain, it went executive orders.
[SPEAKER_11]: Good.
[SPEAKER_11]: Me.
[SPEAKER_11]: Like water.
[SPEAKER_11]: Water.
[SPEAKER_11]: Biden.
[SPEAKER_11]: Biden energy restrictions.
[SPEAKER_11]: I took off the restrictions.
[SPEAKER_11]: that this is his train of thought.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's literally just a stream not to be talking about water, but it's just a stream of consciousness.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's where his brain was flowing.
[SPEAKER_12]: And then he says that straws that paper straws melt first off, they don't.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: Do you want me to continue it?
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, please.
[SPEAKER_11]: OK.
[SPEAKER_11]: So he continues with this babbling stream at any of you see.
[SPEAKER_11]: Donnie says straws.
[SPEAKER_11]: They don't have to be paper anymore.
[SPEAKER_11]: And they don't have to melt in your mouth.
[SPEAKER_11]: So I pass so many different things like that and much more important things.
[SPEAKER_11]: But like that, they're important.
[SPEAKER_11]: They're quality of life.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I'd like to have all of that confirmed by Congress if we can.
[SPEAKER_11]: And if we've done a lot of it, we've done probably 35, 40%.
[SPEAKER_12]: I don't use them personally, because whether they're plastic or paper, I just don't.
[SPEAKER_11]: There's lots of different ways to make straws these days.
[SPEAKER_12]: They have a metal one that a lot of restaurants are using.
[SPEAKER_12]: They just clean them and like they do with other glassware.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's just.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's what I think.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's what I think.
[SPEAKER_12]: So the word, yeah, yeah, that's cheaper to me.
[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, that's kind of a smart investment.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, so we actually have middle straws here at the bar and we have a couple miles, too.
[SPEAKER_12]: So I mean, it's just like he's just, remember when he was talking about you could, you had to flush your toilet 10 times?
[SPEAKER_12]: I just want to know why he had to.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, I think we all know that, given his diet.
[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, it's, I can't believe he's still alive with that diet.
[SPEAKER_11]: I keep saying, go arteries, go arteries, go arteries.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm just saying, although, although we didn't get this in the news on tap today, but apparently I'm sure you didn't knock on the door.
[SPEAKER_12]: I says there.
[SPEAKER_11]: Apparently, Ushavance is pregnant with their fourth one and I'm like, girl, it's not his.
[SPEAKER_11]: I kind of hope not because you.
[SPEAKER_11]: But okay, so what I saw a number of people on social were saying is they say, girl, that
[SPEAKER_12]: Which is she really want to?
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh no, that's that is a great ponder.
[SPEAKER_11]: I would not.
[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, seriously.
[SPEAKER_12]: Look how he's speaking about immigrants.
[SPEAKER_12]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_11]: And anybody of color and yet his kids are mixed.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, and Caroline, as we know, is pregnant.
[SPEAKER_12]: Right.
[SPEAKER_12]: And Levoa said the other day that there's a photograph going around
[SPEAKER_11]: I think I heard about that, yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: Now, girl, hey, girl, um.
[SPEAKER_12]: I hope it was just the triple second just a mixer and not actual or the salt because there's a both alcohol and salt bad when you're pregnant.
[SPEAKER_11]: They have now said that there is a small amount.
[SPEAKER_11]: Some doctors say it's okay.
[SPEAKER_11]: I look, my mom was a baby nurse, my mom would just say, just don't even chance it.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's not worth it.
[SPEAKER_12]: And what's funny is, which is with, we're getting, I'm totally off topic, but.
[SPEAKER_12]: No, it's right.
[SPEAKER_12]: manage pregnant ladies and say they see a woman that's in the latter stages of her third trimester.
[SPEAKER_12]: So she's super showing and she has a glass of wine and people give her crap.
[SPEAKER_12]: Right.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's like when you're not showing is when it matters more than in the third trimester.
[SPEAKER_11]: Right.
[SPEAKER_11]: I and and also this is this is one of those kinds of things where you just you can't tell other people sometimes what to do, but isn't she a family values person and shouldn't she be taken care of her child?
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, but I mean, if I were to, well, I can't know because I'm almost 60, but had I decided to have to have reproduced human beings.
[SPEAKER_12]: I wouldn't have had anything to drink for the entire, the moment I found out.
[SPEAKER_11]: I would have been like, no, my mom as a nursing nursery and Nick you, especially Nick you, nurses, they know.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, yeah, yeah, but but at the same time,
[SPEAKER_11]: You can't control what other people do.
[SPEAKER_11]: I wish we could, especially because, look, Donald Trump, dottering Donald, dottering Donnie.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm sorry, dude needs to 25th Amendment should have been happening a long time ago.
[SPEAKER_11]: We cannot make Republicans do that.
[SPEAKER_11]: but they should.
[SPEAKER_11]: Absolutely, they should.
[SPEAKER_12]: The thing is is as Charlie Pierce said yesterday, would you really want a president to appoint a cabinet that would get him out?
[SPEAKER_12]: Don't you want them to be kind of loyal?
[SPEAKER_12]: But again, you want them to be loyal enough to the country to get them out?
[SPEAKER_11]: You have to be loyal to the country.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's that's something that that having been in
[SPEAKER_11]: the military in the Navy.
[SPEAKER_11]: You learn these things real quick, because doing illegal orders or being told to do illegal orders or being being hinted in that gray area, it's not just big things, it's little things too sometimes.
[SPEAKER_11]: But if you know the rules and you're like, no, you just say no, and most of the time it's not a huge thing if it's something small.
[SPEAKER_11]: But these kinds of questions happen all the time.
[SPEAKER_11]: You see somebody who you know is pregnant.
[SPEAKER_11]: and they're drinking to access.
[SPEAKER_11]: Can you stop them?
[SPEAKER_11]: Do you have any, if it's your bar like here, yes, we can, we can, we can.
[SPEAKER_11]: But if you're just, you know, random person walking by, you don't have any power to do that.
[SPEAKER_11]: You can't always change people's minds.
[SPEAKER_11]: God, I look, if we can control other people that way, would we be here right now?
[SPEAKER_11]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_12]: We would have just be a totally different show.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, this is true.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: What's again?
[SPEAKER_11]: Judi is right.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, if we do have a lot more of the news on Tap, we will talk about all of that Bob Cesca coming in and yeah, we will get to that character.
[SPEAKER_11]: Who is at the center of the Dreg of the Day today?
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[SPEAKER_11]: Matter of fact, let's see here.
[SPEAKER_11]: We had a couple of them here.
[SPEAKER_11]: Remember yesterday, Paula was saying that there was all that stuff about the Duage Bank executives who were committing suicide.
[SPEAKER_11]: Tom Shaffer actually over on our
[SPEAKER_11]: Tom's great.
[SPEAKER_11]: We love you, Tom.
[SPEAKER_11]: He actually posted links that he found his stories that back all up.
[SPEAKER_11]: So Paula Poundstone is right.
[SPEAKER_12]: She's brilliant, but cannot figure out how to call from her microwave to Stephanie's house.
[SPEAKER_11]: Are you on?
[SPEAKER_11]: Hello, are you there?
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, she uses her blender.
[SPEAKER_11]: She's the microwave.
[SPEAKER_11]: We love you, Paula.
[SPEAKER_11]: Let's see who else was out there today.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, common ground over in the in the blue sky corner of the bar here said, I'll be joining you
[SPEAKER_12]: I love like peanut gracious.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's my my preferred one.
[SPEAKER_11]: See, common knows these things.
[SPEAKER_11]: So thank you, common for that.
[SPEAKER_11]: Also, Darrell, the thing I don't see to be hanging on the blue sky corner of the bar now.
[SPEAKER_11]: He says the only difference between watching this Trump administration and watching sausage being made is at some point with sausage making at least you get sausage.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, at least you got something at the end of it.
[SPEAKER_11]: something it's worth while you get that sort of thing yes look you can you can make a vegan sauce I know there's a really good vegan sausage out there indeed but at the end of the process you still get sausage you get something worthwhile exactly unlike Donald Trump which he's I don't I don't know why more people haven't said anything but people were saying stuff today and I'm glad the rest of the world is waking up to
[SPEAKER_11]: we do and I think some of them will, but so here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_11]: Trump today, shortly before it was after I think we set out the news on tab, but before or in the process, we were getting the bar.
[SPEAKER_11]: He made some quote unquote framework deal about Greenland.
[SPEAKER_11]: which his framework deals are nothing.
[SPEAKER_11]: The trade deal that he had with Europe, the the EU has they they froze work on the trade deal indefinitely after Trump pulled all this greenland crap and we are so screwed.
[SPEAKER_11]: We were screwed in some ways, we're screwed for different reasons, but here's, here's a good example.
[SPEAKER_11]: So you heard Donald earlier, let me go back to back just because I don't think everybody quite, they may not have completely heard in that first round.
[SPEAKER_11]: Maybe they just got to the bar with a bit late.
[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_11]: But this was Donald at Davos this morning here, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: For us, they're not there for us on,
[SPEAKER_01]: Iceland, then I can tell you, when I stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland.
[SPEAKER_11]: Who is that?
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, and he's getting confused with Dyson and Greenland and he's saying they know the stock market don't because you don't ask.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_12]: He also said I believe that NATO has never come to our defense.
[SPEAKER_12]: Hi.
[SPEAKER_11]: Which 9 11.
[SPEAKER_12]: Liu.
[SPEAKER_11]: Liu.
[SPEAKER_11]: OK.
[SPEAKER_11]: Compare that to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Karny.
[SPEAKER_11]: Also in Davos.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, your day.
[SPEAKER_11]: Here's a little mashup that the Washington Post did.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let me be direct.
[SPEAKER_07]: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.
[SPEAKER_07]: Over the past two decades, the series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.
[SPEAKER_07]: But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons.
[SPEAKER_07]: Terrifices leverage.
[SPEAKER_07]: Financial infrastructures, coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.
[SPEAKER_07]: argue the middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu.
[SPEAKER_07]: In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice, compete with each other for favor or to combine to create a third pass with impact.
[SPEAKER_07]: The powerful have their power.
[SPEAKER_07]: We have something to.
[SPEAKER_07]: the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together.
[SPEAKER_07]: That is Canada's path.
[SPEAKER_07]: We choose it openly and confidently, and it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with.
[SPEAKER_12]: Hey, man.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's a real leader.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's what a real leader sounds like.
[SPEAKER_11]: So if you notice, Mark Carney is saying, look, you know, if you're not one of the great powers like the US or China, like Canada, like, you know, although admittedly the EU, in many ways is a, they are a second great power.
[SPEAKER_11]: And people don't realize this.
[SPEAKER_11]: The EU is our biggest trading partner.
[SPEAKER_11]: They're bigger than China, 20 seven nations in the EU.
[SPEAKER_11]: Here's, by the way, the president of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen, and she makes what Mark Carney was saying, even more explicit about the path forward for the rest of the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in my view, the seismic change we are going through today is an opportunity, in fact, a necessity to build a new form of European independence.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this need is neither new nor reaction to recent events, but the truth is also that we will only be able to capitalize on this opportunity.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we recognize that this change is permanent, of course no studious part of our human story, but nostalgia will not bring back the old order.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: We are so screwed.
[SPEAKER_11]: We are and we aren't.
[SPEAKER_11]: We are screwed in a different way than I think some people think.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's not like everything is over and we're all done.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's all over the quarterback is toast.
[SPEAKER_12]: No, but hey broke his leg.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, Bonix from the Broncos.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, but what they're saying is the world order as virtually everybody who's here in the bar and pretty much everybody that we know
[SPEAKER_11]: Maybe, maybe your mom, maybe a few people she knows, but most of the people we know have lived in a world that is post world war to rules based world order with the United States at the center and because of that, the things that we can do with our monetary policy, with our politics.
[SPEAKER_11]: because of that world order that put the United States dollar at the center of virtually every economy.
[SPEAKER_11]: One of the reasons that we are not as screwed as some people think is because everybody bases their economy off of our dollar in large or small part.
[SPEAKER_11]: We can print as much money as we want.
[SPEAKER_11]: When you look at people, what do you mean, you say, well, ah, you bought your house 30 some odd years.
[SPEAKER_12]: You got a joke?
[SPEAKER_12]: Yes, I did.
[SPEAKER_11]: 30 your mortgage, right?
[SPEAKER_11]: So it's paid off, right?
[SPEAKER_12]: No.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_11]: I had to pay for a movie, so there's a, I don't know, you're refinancing.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, I get it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Right.
[SPEAKER_11]: But a lot of people would pay it 30 years.
[SPEAKER_11]: Right.
[SPEAKER_11]: When you go to, when you go to the bank at that point, what do they do?
[SPEAKER_11]: Do you understand how that whole set up works?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, I don't know if everybody here does.
[SPEAKER_11]: You go to the bank, they look at what you've earned over the last five or 10 years.
[SPEAKER_11]: And they say, what do you likely to earn in the next 30?
[SPEAKER_11]: It's the same way with debt for nations.
[SPEAKER_11]: What do you likely to earn in the next long period of time?
[SPEAKER_11]: Usually with nations, it's closer to a century, especially big nations.
[SPEAKER_11]: Looking back at the US history,
[SPEAKER_11]: People are like, even when everybody counts you out, you guys always come back bigger and better than ever.
[SPEAKER_11]: You have consistently always proven that, the entire time you guys have existed.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh yeah, that's the history of the US, that's what we do.
[SPEAKER_11]: We make a way when there is no way, that's America.
[SPEAKER_11]: So the bank of the world, other nations barwing and buying our debt,
[SPEAKER_11]: Um, they look in the, they go, you're good for it.
[SPEAKER_11]: You're good for it.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_11]: So they look in the future and they go, you guys are always good for it.
[SPEAKER_11]: What the hell?
[SPEAKER_11]: Because we've, even when things have been a little bit odd, and we've had a little bit of a bad government, they're like, yeah, but you guys aren't completely back crap crazy.
[SPEAKER_11]: So, you know, they think we are now.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's for us.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's for all of us.
[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, the people that voted for him to come back,
[SPEAKER_11]: It's on them and those that did exactly it's on them we Bob has a great piece out We've got it linked in the guest section of the news on tap today and Bob is right He says he's not gonna forgive those people.
[SPEAKER_11]: I am never gonna forgive those people either I never gonna forgive those people because everything about the world order Everything from the money to the you know our entertainment our entertainment is everywhere because our money is everywhere
[SPEAKER_11]: because we are the dominant culture on the planet.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's not even that.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's there's potential more more three.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's that's even more dangerous.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, there's the military thing.
[SPEAKER_11]: So let's say that Donald says, you know what screw it?
[SPEAKER_11]: I made a framework deal, but I don't like it.
[SPEAKER_11]: I changed my mind five times today, and you know what screw it?
[SPEAKER_11]: Let's attack Greenland.
[SPEAKER_11]: And we said this before, our allies will say FU because we can't trust you anymore.
[SPEAKER_11]: Our enemies will say, that's just further proof.
[SPEAKER_11]: We absolutely can't trust you.
[SPEAKER_11]: We will be a pariah, but not only that, the reason the US military has been able to have the kind of force it does.
[SPEAKER_11]: We got to get Malcolm back in here, although we know he's going elsewhere.
[SPEAKER_11]: But whenever he gets back here to the States, we'll get him back here.
[SPEAKER_11]: But
[SPEAKER_11]: Here's the thing, the reason that we can project power the way that we can is because we were, we have been the biggest, most generous super power.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, we've had done some bad things, there's been some bad, I'm not saying we're perfect, but because of the positive nature of many of the things we've done, that's allowed us to put bases, including staging bases.
[SPEAKER_12]: All around.
[SPEAKER_11]: 17 bases we had there at one time, which we never controlled it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Donald was long when he said that today and talked about that later, too.
[SPEAKER_11]: But we only have one active base there.
[SPEAKER_11]: But the agreement that we have with the Danish government and with the Greenland government is, all we gotta do is basically call them up and go, hey, we're going to un-mothball like three of these bases.
[SPEAKER_11]: They'll be like, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_11]: Let us know when you'll be here and we'll, you know, dust the roads from snow for you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, good.
[SPEAKER_11]: People go really, I go, yeah, it's
[SPEAKER_11]: The reason that we've been able to do that, the reason that Russia fears NATO, the reason that Putin hates NATO, the reason that NATO is so powerful is because from World War II, from the end of World War II on, after us on the rest of the Allies won, people let us put launch tool, Germany.
[SPEAKER_11]: huge base, not as big as you used to be, but still very big.
[SPEAKER_11]: They're bases all over the world.
[SPEAKER_11]: We can get almost anywhere within a few hours.
[SPEAKER_11]: That allows whoever sits in the seat of power in the White House or in Congress, if Congress would get off their asses.
[SPEAKER_11]: And a moment's notice, snap fingers and say, we got to be there and bam, we're there, because we're already halfway there already, right?
[SPEAKER_11]: And the reason that we are is because of all of the work that was done on the post-World War
[SPEAKER_12]: And you know, who's doing that right now in other countries that are having issues China.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yep, Joe, they're investing in other countries.
[SPEAKER_11]: Although China is not doing as much of it as people think in part because China doesn't want to do that.
[SPEAKER_11]: China doesn't want, remember we've talked about that before.
[SPEAKER_11]: China doesn't want the number one role.
[SPEAKER_11]: They want to be number two.
[SPEAKER_11]: They want to draft behind the United States.
[SPEAKER_11]: They want the United States to handle all the messy stuff.
[SPEAKER_11]: You do the building bridges crap.
[SPEAKER_11]: You do the feeding the poor people crap.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's that's messy and annoying and it pisses people off.
[SPEAKER_11]: You guys do that.
[SPEAKER_11]: We'll draft behind you.
[SPEAKER_12]: They are doing that though.
[SPEAKER_12]: They are doing that.
[SPEAKER_11]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
[SPEAKER_11]: All of this postworld were too ordered.
[SPEAKER_11]: One of the things that people didn't like is they said, oh well, where the cop for the world?
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, the American police.
[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, it was in the South Park puppet here movie.
[SPEAKER_11]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_12]: Here's even America.
[SPEAKER_11]: That was right.
[SPEAKER_12]: Brilliant.
[SPEAKER_12]: Brilliant movie.
[SPEAKER_11]: Here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, Europe and a lot of places in the world have been leaning on us to do the dirty work.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_11]: Since the end of World War II.
[SPEAKER_11]: And there have been a lot of people who've been saying, well, you know, somebody should get on them and get them to get off their ass.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, they are finally getting off their ass.
[SPEAKER_11]: And what that means among other things is, especially if they follow through with this.
[SPEAKER_11]: And it seems like Vonder Lane is saying that they're going, and she's pretty tough.
[SPEAKER_11]: Um, there will probably be a time when they don't need or want our bases over there.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then that suddenly reduces the amount of power America has.
[SPEAKER_11]: There are people who no longer trust because of what Donald's been doing the American markets, and so they've been moving money out of the markets and other places.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's great to be the super power, but it also, what's that line from Spider-Man with great power comes great across the city?
[SPEAKER_12]: It's from the city, yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, Donald is irresponsible as hell.
[SPEAKER_12]: Peter's uncle said so.
[SPEAKER_11]: And for all those of you who voted for Trump,
[SPEAKER_11]: More importantly, because they're probably not that many folks like that who are here in the bar, but there are probably some who are like, well, you know, I didn't know or I couldn't really vote for the black woman guess what you could have and you should have they's going to be changing blank yeah that was also bad look things are going to be changing because you didn't do what you could have done and you should have done when you had the chance so
[SPEAKER_11]: We'll talk about that.
[SPEAKER_11]: We'll talk about that with Bob when he comes in a little bit later.
[SPEAKER_11]: Just say and things, small things make a huge difference when you look back in history.
[SPEAKER_11]: Matter of fact, actually, we got the drink of the day, we will do that next.
[SPEAKER_11]: We will talk about something that may have seemed small, but holy, how many huge difference in the 20th century.
[SPEAKER_11]: And look, if you're subscribed to the drink of the day, you already know about it, and if you're not, you should be, so come on back.
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[SPEAKER_11]: All right, Jodie.
[SPEAKER_11]: time to talk about monsters and I don't mean Donald Trump or Steven Miller, surprisingly.
[SPEAKER_11]: Although Steven Miller does, in some ways, represent this, can you see the in the crazy in the eyes?
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, God, yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, it's playing, you know, maybe shave, maybe shave like the first three force of his bald page.
[SPEAKER_12]: Right up here.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, just, you know, also, Steven Miller's 20s and
[SPEAKER_12]: He says 30s though, isn't he?
[SPEAKER_11]: I think he's in his 30s, but he looks like he's in his 50s.
[SPEAKER_12]: He looks at these.
[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, I'm almost 60, and I'm like, yeah, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_11]: He doesn't even look like one of our contemporaries.
[SPEAKER_12]: So I'm like, you know, look at Alex Jones too.
[SPEAKER_11]: So look, look, hate does awful things too.
[SPEAKER_11]: It makes you look,
[SPEAKER_11]: On the outside is ugly as you are in the inside.
[SPEAKER_12]: See, the picture of Dorian Gray, he looked bad.
[SPEAKER_12]: Although he makes the painting make him look good.
[SPEAKER_11]: It makes me, it makes me worry about Caroline's baby because I'm like, God, that is just a vat of nastiness.
[SPEAKER_12]: I, I said to, I told a friend of mine about her being pregnant and potentially drinking alcohol in her first trimester, which is the most dangerous time to do it.
[SPEAKER_12]: Potentially like it.
[SPEAKER_12]: And my friend was sweet about it.
[SPEAKER_12]: He goes, well, let's hope that that child is healthy and changes her.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's very John Fugelsang.
[SPEAKER_12]: you know we love john and and quite frankly he he is more forgiving and kind and that's my friend he and the same with usha and and jadee goes let's hope that this child would change their minds possibly look you know what I could I could happen thanks we could you didn't know this it could happen got restaurant's all exactly yes kind of what I was thinking
[SPEAKER_11]: Look, I'm one more talking about ugly ugly guy here.
[SPEAKER_11]: We're not talking about look what's what's the drink of the day and what is the the inspiration behind it's probably start with the drink of the day is called a bulletproof monk.
[SPEAKER_12]: And it's inspired by the man, it was born to Jay, let me see what year it was today in 1869.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, would you like me to read his name?
[SPEAKER_12]: Grigory, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam, yam
[SPEAKER_11]: And y'all, if you see that picture, it just personifies that he was, he was awful that the right up, um, I think you and I both contributed a good bunch of stuff and he rescued and has always been one of those characters in history that I have, um, I won't say light, but I have kept an eye on because he was,
[SPEAKER_11]: Absolutely evil.
[SPEAKER_11]: And while I'm not necessarily a fan of royalty, imperialism, any of that kind of crap, the fact is,
[SPEAKER_11]: The rubbing of family did a pretty decent job of running Russia for 450 years or so.
[SPEAKER_11]: We just had Ivan the terrible.
[SPEAKER_11]: We had a dress based on Ivan.
[SPEAKER_11]: We were mentioning it to yesterday, actually.
[SPEAKER_11]: I believe.
[SPEAKER_11]: Didn't, didn't we?
[SPEAKER_12]: I don't remember.
[SPEAKER_11]: I believe that we were talking about it yesterday as well.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, with Phil.
[SPEAKER_11]: Phil in her.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_11]: And we completely got that one.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, but we did.
[SPEAKER_11]: So I've been the terrible in Russia 500 years ago.
[SPEAKER_11]: Um, basically crashed the government.
[SPEAKER_11]: They had a period of, I don't know, 30, 35 years or so, known as the time of the troubles and awful.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then the Romanos, and they had the Romanos, I see.
[SPEAKER_11]: And they did pretty decent for about 150 years.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then there was Rasputin.
[SPEAKER_11]: or more specifically, the end of the, the Roman off dynasty.
[SPEAKER_11]: I doubt Rasputin is, is oftentimes,
[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know what you want to say, credited or demonized as being the reason behind it.
[SPEAKER_11]: I don't think the Roman officer, I mean, there was issues there anyway.
[SPEAKER_11]: But his story is interesting and fascinating, and he was actually a very evil man, convinced Zarniklus and his wife Alexandra, that he had some kind of magical powers and could heal their son, Alexi, who suffered from hemophilia.
[SPEAKER_11]: Basically, he got in there.
[SPEAKER_11]: He was kind of like Steve Bannon in Donald Trump's first regime, and people thought he had a lot more power than he did, and he did have quite a bit of power, but eventually, unlike Congress here, and unlike a lot of voters here, there was a group of people, the group of Royals, who decided to kill Rasputin, and here's where it gets interesting.
[SPEAKER_11]: Have you ever heard the term to Rasputin someone, Jodi?
[SPEAKER_12]: No.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_11]: There are two meanings for Rasputin, as far as the...
[SPEAKER_12]: The verb, Rasputin.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_11]: The verb, two Rasputin someone.
[SPEAKER_11]: The first one is the common meaning to exert a powerful, often insidious or corrupting influence over a leader or authority figure, which is what Rasputin did to the Roman
[SPEAKER_11]: The other meaning of it is to kill someone in multiple ways.
[SPEAKER_12]: He had to be.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, he was.
[SPEAKER_11]: So before before he gets into the actual day, you realize like a year before the day that he was killed, he was stabbed and survived.
[SPEAKER_12]: He was just, he was like the ghoul in a fallout at this point, you know.
[SPEAKER_11]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_11]: He was stabbed, shot, hung, no, he wasn't hung, but he was, he was stabbed, he was shot, he was poisoned, he was drowned, and then later by the way, I don't think we got this
[SPEAKER_11]: Um, his body was, uh, cremated dug up and cremated so that it couldn't, that there couldn't be a shrine built to him.
[SPEAKER_11]: So he was stabbed, shot, poisoned, drowned, and cremated.
[SPEAKER_12]: He, it, it's, it's insane that this, I mean, he literally could not die.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's that's that's that is but that's also part of the whole thing across some garlic I'm just That's that's part of why you say Rasputin is if you hate somebody that much that you're like I want to Stab them shoot them hang them drawn quarter them Cream ate them I mean that is a bad person to make somebody want to do that to them and Rasputin was well pretty much like that
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, but the whole thing is the drink of the day is the bulletproof monk and they did multiple autopsies on him and he was clearly not bulletproof.
[SPEAKER_12]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_11]: But but so one of the radio stations I used to work at one of the guys there
[SPEAKER_11]: had an inside track to one of the other radio companies.
[SPEAKER_11]: It was buying companies up, having to be clear channeled it was buying where we were at.
[SPEAKER_11]: And he knew about it, but he couldn't tell anybody.
[SPEAKER_11]: And he was always the one who put up the music logs at the classic rock station that I was at.
[SPEAKER_11]: So he put a single line across the top of music log each week that would change.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then all of a sudden didn't change.
[SPEAKER_11]: And it just kept saying, become bullet proof.
[SPEAKER_11]: And everybody was like, what are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_11]: He's like, I can't say.
[SPEAKER_11]: What are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_11]: What he was saying is, become so good that they can't get rid of you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Become bulletproof.
[SPEAKER_12]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_11]: So, in light of that, and in light of obviously, Rasputin, who was not bulletproof?
[SPEAKER_11]: How do we make a bulletproof monk cocktail, Jodie?
[SPEAKER_12]: Okay, we have a bar spoon again now.
[SPEAKER_12]: I figured out why.
[SPEAKER_12]: Anyway, a mixing glass, a bar spoon, a pre-chilled,
[SPEAKER_11]: whatever type you like.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, no, no, specific.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: Half ounce of green shark truce, not yellow.
[SPEAKER_12]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_12]: A third ounce of big LA China China, which is a French bitter orange liquor.
[SPEAKER_12]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_12]: So it's American Picon or Picon or Toriani Amir is another substitute.
[SPEAKER_12]: These are different things.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's in the thing.
[SPEAKER_11]: We've got them linked.
[SPEAKER_11]: The turning on the aimer is probably the easiest one to do if you don't have it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, because it's turning, you know, whatever.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's easy to get to.
[SPEAKER_12]: So what I figured out the whole bar spoon thing.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_12]: You add all the ingredients to the missing glass.
[SPEAKER_12]: Then you add the ice.
[SPEAKER_12]: And you start with your bar spoon.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, okay, that would make sense.
[SPEAKER_11]: Better to stir it with the bar spoon than your finger.
[SPEAKER_11]: Because it's true.
[SPEAKER_11]: We do not give a hair.
[SPEAKER_12]: For a paper straw according to Donald.
[UNKNOWN]: Um.
[UNKNOWN]: Ha.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well played.
[SPEAKER_12]: Um, Mr. Ritz.
[SPEAKER_12]: You stir it to chill it and then you just strain it into your a pre-chilled glass and and become bulletproof.
[SPEAKER_11]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_11]: You know, you don't ever stand as wise become bulletproof.
[SPEAKER_11]: I have known a few people who have drank so much that they feel their bulletproof.
[SPEAKER_11]: They are not.
[SPEAKER_12]: No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_11]: They get that.
[SPEAKER_11]: Look at me feeling in your life.
[SPEAKER_11]: God knows.
[SPEAKER_11]: No.
[SPEAKER_12]: Bad idea.
[SPEAKER_11]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_12]: Bad planning there.
[SPEAKER_11]: look, we'll do some entertainment news since we're having some fun.
[SPEAKER_11]: Some good planning actually by Savannah Guthrie.
[SPEAKER_11]: She did a little video chat this morning on today and debuted her new voice.
[SPEAKER_12]: How is she sounding?
[SPEAKER_11]: Sounds actually pretty good.
[SPEAKER_12]: I was glad to have surgery or something.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, she had like, uh, polyps on her vocal nodes.
[SPEAKER_11]: Um, so that was fast.
[SPEAKER_12]: She's a singer.
[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, how did she, I know she talks for a living.
[SPEAKER_11]: But, well, yes, she talks for a living.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's all they.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's like her, you know, it's like us.
[SPEAKER_11]: And, uh, I'm not sure how she got them.
[SPEAKER_11]: But, um, her voice had been alternately kind of soft.
[SPEAKER_11]: And there was a little bit where she had a little bit of that arcade junior thing, kind of almost going for a little bit.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I was like, and I knew that it's because she was trying to push her voice.
[SPEAKER_11]: Obviously there was something wrong.
[SPEAKER_12]: Whispering is the worst thing you can do to your voice.
[SPEAKER_11]: Right, what she did and then she ended up having the vibrato thing.
[SPEAKER_11]: Anyway, but now she sounds fine now.
[SPEAKER_12]: The best thing you can do is sing.
[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_11]: Singing is magical.
[SPEAKER_11]: Singing.
[SPEAKER_12]: If you do it right, the air goes properly through your larynx or larynx or whatever.
[SPEAKER_11]: And it comes from a completely different part of your brain.
[SPEAKER_11]: So if you have a stroke and you can't speak, try singing.
[SPEAKER_12]: Um, but no, it definitely that's the best thing for your voice whispering is the worst thing you can do if you're trying if you're a singer, especially don't whisper.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_12]: I've had I've watched singers like, oh, I have to sing today.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's like, don't whisper.
[SPEAKER_11]: Don't whisper just talk.
[SPEAKER_12]: You can talk.
[SPEAKER_12]: Do you don't have to yell?
[SPEAKER_12]: You don't have to scream.
[SPEAKER_12]: Use your breath properly when you speak and you get notes on your throat.
[SPEAKER_12]: I know several singers that have gotten them because they're not singing properly.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, that's important, too.
[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, it's major singers that have gotten them because they forgot.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's, look, it's, it's, use your voice as an instrument as we do.
[SPEAKER_11]: You got to be a professional about that kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, speaking of professionals and singers and songwriters, Taylor Swift, Lannis Morrisett, Kenny Loggins, and Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley all inducted in the 2026 songwriters Hall of Fame, Taylor, by the way, the youngest member ever for that.
[SPEAKER_11]: So good.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, Lannis is in her 50s now, isn't she?
[SPEAKER_11]: She's a guy which is hard for me to believe, but she started when she was a baby.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yep, but I still like her stuff.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, sure.
[SPEAKER_11]: By the way, all eight best new artists nominees are set are now set to perform at the Grammy Awards So usually even you might have a couple.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's gonna be all eight of them.
[SPEAKER_12]: So not sure how they're gonna get them all in But they'll figure it out and if they don't then it'll be really bad show
[SPEAKER_11]: you know, that's going to be something for the producers of the Grammys to figure out and considering that we are bald producers, we're not going to tell you guys how to do it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Figure it out you're so stupid.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'll tell you how my dad wanted to produce the Oscars one day.
[SPEAKER_11]: You and I can talk about that here in the break.
[SPEAKER_11]: Look Bob Sask is gonna be in in just a little bit We have more of the news on tap.
[SPEAKER_11]: There is some fresh news.
[SPEAKER_11]: We didn't get into the news on tap that has dropped since we sent that out to you So we'll let you guys know about that as well and of course obviously updates on what's going on in Minnesota and in other places around the country on Capitol Hill Democrats are standing up
[SPEAKER_11]: Damn, Skippy.
[SPEAKER_11]: So, look, with top of the hour, you know what to do, you've got to go down the hall, left right and center, you're going to wear it as a man, look, we aim to please your politics bar.
[SPEAKER_11]: You aim to please.
[SPEAKER_11]: And come back, freshen up your drink, and hang out with us in a Wednesday night, Bob Cesca, coming up next hour, hang on.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Shot Smith Pearson, Jodie Hamilton.
[SPEAKER_12]: Hello, Jodie.
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, that's Sean.
[SPEAKER_12]: Go for it, Star.
[UNKNOWN]: Eh.
[SPEAKER_12]: They're like, eh, they're not really good.
[SPEAKER_12]: But did find out nice work though, because I was going to get blood work on Monday.
[SPEAKER_12]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_12]: Because I have a check up on the fourth February.
[SPEAKER_12]: So I was going to get blood work in time.
[SPEAKER_12]: And so I called the doctor's office to make sure that they were going to turn in the blood order.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_12]: And I found out that they don't have to get it every six months anymore.
[SPEAKER_11]: Nice, yay, we love that.
[SPEAKER_11]: I was like it that.
[SPEAKER_11]: Whoo!
[SPEAKER_11]: We have all kinds of good news here.
[SPEAKER_11]: And of course, we have Bob Sesson coming in as well.
[SPEAKER_11]: He'll be talking with us about all kinds of stuff, including about the people that he's not going to forgive.
[SPEAKER_11]: And well, I don't think we are either.
[SPEAKER_11]: You know, that's just how that works.
[SPEAKER_11]: There's certain people that some people don't deserve being forgiven, just saying.
[SPEAKER_12]: Well, and then what was funny was the woman that I talked to with the doctor's office, who I know, she said, yeah, she just wants to do a blood pressure check.
[SPEAKER_12]: And I said, well, I hope that I have really low blood pressure.
[SPEAKER_12]: And she goes, don't read the news.
[SPEAKER_11]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_12]: I love my doctor's office so much.
[SPEAKER_11]: I still remember when I was down in Florida, working for Randy and they tried to call me for jury duty.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I was the only member of her staff who was there.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I was the person primarily who, you know, between she and I who put together the homework.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I said, um, A, I can't take time off from the job.
[SPEAKER_11]: And B, even if I could get time off, you would, you know, hypothetically give me time off.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I'd figure something out in the schedule.
[SPEAKER_11]: I literally have to read the news every day.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I'm not going to not do it.
[SPEAKER_11]: And they're like, okay, you can go.
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, that's not like California.
[SPEAKER_12]: In California, you are required to call in the Sunday through Thursday to see if you will be called.
[SPEAKER_11]: I just told him, I said, I can't.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I can't not read the news.
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, no, they used to do that.
[SPEAKER_11]: The biggest thing was the not reading the news thing.
[SPEAKER_11]: They were like crap.
[SPEAKER_11]: But, you know, if you were going to do this, you would have to not read the news.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm like, I'm, that's kind of what I do.
[SPEAKER_11]: So, it's my living.
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, no, I was, I was actually, I got paid once.
[SPEAKER_12]: without being honest with you, because in California, you are literally, you have to call in the Sunday before you're the Monday and then all the way through that Thursday.
[SPEAKER_12]: To see if you're gonna be called in.
[SPEAKER_12]: And if they call you, you don't get paid for that first day, because you're still just in the jury pool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_12]: And so you have to spend eight hours wherever they call you.
[SPEAKER_12]: I've been called down town.
[SPEAKER_12]: I've been called downtown three times.
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh yeah, I mean, they pay for parking, but everything else, you miss a whole day of work.
[SPEAKER_12]: And then once in Burbank and once in Van Eyes, the first time was in Van Eyes, which is nice and close.
[SPEAKER_12]: And so, but if you were called back, because basically I was in a jury pool and they didn't dismiss us.
[SPEAKER_12]: So I got paid a whole $15 for the one day.
[SPEAKER_12]: But as long as you serve one day, you're done for a couple of years.
[SPEAKER_12]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_12]: And I have found out that the way to get out of it.
[SPEAKER_12]: And I'm going to say that on the air.
[SPEAKER_11]: No, and also look, if you have the ability, you should serve on a jury, if you're always wondering, how come people, how come there's so many of these stupid asked court decisions?
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, it's because you, if your smart didn't actually serve on the jury, only the idiots who didn't figure out how to get out of it.
[SPEAKER_12]: Well, no, I mean, when I was in one,
[SPEAKER_12]: jury pool and I was at the point where they were trying to see the jury.
[SPEAKER_12]: So I was, you know, in the jury box and I was getting in the middle of what year and it was a domestic violence case and one of my oldest and dearest friends was beat up like crazy when we were 16.
[SPEAKER_12]: And so I think it was the defense attorney started the questioning, have you known or have you ever been?
[SPEAKER_12]: No, it was the prosecutor.
[SPEAKER_12]: Have you known or have you ever been?
[SPEAKER_12]: Have you known somebody or have you ever been abused by anybody?
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, so yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: And it goes, and then they elaborate because yes is not an answer, the elaborate.
[SPEAKER_12]: So I did, I mean, it was literally, it was five minutes.
[SPEAKER_12]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_12]: You have your number 26 year excused, go back into the jury pool until later.
[SPEAKER_12]: Today, you have to go back and wait until another jury might be seated.
[SPEAKER_12]: Right.
[SPEAKER_12]: And so so far.
[SPEAKER_12]: And the last time, it was like, what do you do?
[SPEAKER_12]: And I said, the time I was working for hotel chain.
[SPEAKER_12]: And then I was also doing my podcast.
[SPEAKER_12]: So the judge was like, so what is that like?
[SPEAKER_12]: And I told him.
[SPEAKER_12]: And it was way before we were about to be seen.
[SPEAKER_12]: Nobody was in the jury box yet.
[SPEAKER_12]: It was just kind of the judge asking questions.
[SPEAKER_12]: It was 300 of us in the room.
[SPEAKER_12]: It was a big case.
[SPEAKER_12]: OK.
[SPEAKER_12]: So he's like, oh, what is that like?
[SPEAKER_12]: And I told him, and he goes, oh, nice.
[SPEAKER_12]: And then the next person, next person.
[SPEAKER_12]: And then he goes, OK, we haven't seated because there were two juries being seated.
[SPEAKER_12]: So there had to be like 30 people.
[SPEAKER_12]: OK. You know, for alternates for both juries.
[SPEAKER_12]: And so we got dismissed.
[SPEAKER_12]: We came back the next day, and they finally seated us.
[SPEAKER_12]: And we all of us that were kind of...
[SPEAKER_12]: high on the total poll.
[SPEAKER_12]: We're in the hundreds.
[SPEAKER_12]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_12]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_12]: Nice meeting you.
[SPEAKER_12]: Goodbye.
[SPEAKER_11]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
[SPEAKER_12]: a thing.
[SPEAKER_11]: Right.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'd be excused because the death penalty.
[SPEAKER_11]: So there are people who who still they think that the the old line from blazing settles will get them out.
[SPEAKER_12]: No.
[SPEAKER_11]: You know, where do I want that?
[SPEAKER_11]: It's like, no.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_11]: You got you got mag out there, folks.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm sorry, but that line no longer works to get you out.
[SPEAKER_11]: You can't just say, you know, where's the water fountain for the white people?
[SPEAKER_11]: They're like, oh, so you voted for Donald Trump.
[SPEAKER_11]: You can get seated and go over here.
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_12]: I watched a judge.
[SPEAKER_12]: Completely annihilate this one guy trying to get off jury duty
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, saying, no, not quite that, but he's like, well, this button, she goes, no, you work for the state, because he worked at UCLA.
[SPEAKER_12]: So he's getting paid no matter what.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, then he's fine.
[SPEAKER_12]: So you're getting paid.
[SPEAKER_12]: And he says, but this, that, you know, she goes, all right, honey, I know you're trying to get out of this trial.
[SPEAKER_12]: So I'm just going to send you back upstairs, because you're here all day.
[SPEAKER_12]: And I will let them know upstairs what you just said.
[SPEAKER_12]: Don't try to get out of jury duty in front of a judge.
[SPEAKER_12]: They know the answers that you're trying to do.
[SPEAKER_11]: Right, because they hear it, or that's their job.
[SPEAKER_11]: All the time things that right exactly.
[SPEAKER_11]: It is important to make good judgments.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm of mixed about this.
[SPEAKER_11]: So we have this in the news on tap today.
[SPEAKER_11]: Obviously, there's some stuff going on in Capitol Hill.
[SPEAKER_11]: And one of the things that I'm, we put it in again today.
[SPEAKER_11]: Second, second time we put the same thing in a day, because Congress has released the funding bills that they're going to be trying to pass here, ahead of the deadline.
[SPEAKER_11]: Now, earlier today, Democratic leader, House Leader Hakim Jeffreece, came out against the bill to fund DHS and ICE, which, yeah, I judge that as a smart thing.
[SPEAKER_12]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_11]: However, journalist David Dayan, we've had a number of his pieces in the 40s, over the American prospects, put up here earlier this afternoon.
[SPEAKER_11]: He said, well, Jeffreece has announced he's opposing, he personally is opposed to the DHS and ICE funding bill.
[SPEAKER_11]: His team is not whipping the vote.
[SPEAKER_12]: Well, who is the one, man?
[SPEAKER_12]: Who is the minority whip?
[SPEAKER_11]: Uh, right now is, I think it's Hoya.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think Hoya is still the minority whip.
[SPEAKER_11]: But the long and short of it is, look, y'all, seriously.
[SPEAKER_11]: I mean,
[SPEAKER_11]: If you guys don't want this to happen and we don't, we absolutely don't because we want to support our friends and our family who are really fighting on the front lines of this attack by Donald Trump on America.
[SPEAKER_11]: So look, here's the number 2022243121, yes, it's late.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, you can leave messages in many places and you can get up tomorrow and leave a message.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's the number for the U.S. House switch board.
[SPEAKER_12]: And they will tell you if you give them their zip code, they will tell you who you're representative is.
[SPEAKER_12]: If you don't know.
[SPEAKER_11]: And they'll put you into the box, the voicemail box, if you look, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_11]: You need to get on the phone and the phone is still the best way.
[SPEAKER_11]: to register it for your member of Congress that this is how you feel on something be nice to the staffer always be nice to the staffer probably some young twenty something who's sitting there working getting paid peanuts but uh... be nice to the but call and let them know hell no don't just vote no to fund the hs and ice vote hell no vote
[SPEAKER_11]: If you've got a buzzer sound effect, you can play it in the phone, whatever.
[SPEAKER_11]: But let them know.
[SPEAKER_11]: Call that number again, 202, 224, 3121.
[SPEAKER_11]: Call your congress member and let them know.
[SPEAKER_11]: Be like, look, if a keen jaffer isn't going to do the whipping, we got to do the whipping.
[SPEAKER_11]: But somebody's got to whip up the door.
[SPEAKER_00]: The nice way.
[SPEAKER_11]: The stand thing.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_11]: Look, assertive.
[SPEAKER_11]: Not aggressive.
[SPEAKER_11]: Say.
[SPEAKER_11]: Uh, you know, this is an election year, and if you'd like to have your job again, I could vote for you or not.
[SPEAKER_12]: I think it just you might be pulling a Pelosi, allowing some of his caucus to vote for it because of where they, their, they are.
[SPEAKER_12]: And I understand that.
[SPEAKER_12]: I disagree with it, but I understand it.
[SPEAKER_11]: I understand it, and look, you know, we all know that a came Jeffrey knows how to handle his caucus much better than tiny Johnson does.
[SPEAKER_12]: Well, tiny Johnson can't fuck away.
[SPEAKER_11]: bad ham.
[SPEAKER_11]: No, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_11]: You are, you look, look, it might be bad in some ways, but it's actually correct.
[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, you know, once again, you are accurate correct, right in that particular sense, Joey.
[SPEAKER_11]: Just bad, hammy.
[SPEAKER_11]: Bob says it is coming into the bar whenever he gets his bicycle here.
[SPEAKER_12]: No, I'm kidding, he's not bicycling in the head.
[SPEAKER_12]: No, whenever his wife allows him, wait.
[SPEAKER_09]: How you doing, Bob?
[SPEAKER_09]: How's the guy, Sean?
[SPEAKER_09]: Hi, Jodie.
[SPEAKER_12]: You know, he's already cheating on you with Lonnie, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: So, yes, I've heard.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm not happy about that.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, we just got back from our honeymoon in Bora Bora.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, right, and then he gets on her way too soon.
[SPEAKER_11]: He heard this noise in the other room.
[SPEAKER_11]: And he's like, what is that sound?
[SPEAKER_14]: The politics bar.
[SPEAKER_10]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_10]: That is like, oh, man, Lonnie, again, the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_11]: that is that has been a whole gig I I should send you the the promo this week for the Bob Cesca show because you guys know I build those and and yeah thank you and I put them out there and that is the promo this week is is the you know when you and Jody and David were talking about that earlier this week because it is freaking hilarious it's just it's all the all the photoshopping that people have been doing putting you know it's getting way too good though it's getting like looks real so let's stop that
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm getting some, I'm getting some remarks about the fact that I referred to Stephanie this morning as darling.
[SPEAKER_09]: Don't even worry about it from today.
[SPEAKER_08]: Darling, we can't watch TV tonight because the sun is in shining darling.
[SPEAKER_12]: And we will get water out of our faucet darling.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, my darling.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's no water in the faucet darling.
[SPEAKER_08]: The water pushes too low darling.
[SPEAKER_11]: Look, I am very glad that you wrote the piece.
[SPEAKER_11]: We linked to today in the guest section of the news on tap at the politicsbar.com.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think we all have kind of said this.
[SPEAKER_11]: You did, you've done a video clips of this as well.
[SPEAKER_11]: But look, you've made it clear that the piece, by the way, it's over the banter.
[SPEAKER_11]: Bob Road at the title is, no, I will not forgive the voters who did this to my country.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, I don't forget these people.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hell yeah, it's I mean, maybe one day I'll find my way to doing that beginning with some of the people I know personally, but it's right now We're in the meat of it.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're in the center of this nightmare, and I can't do it
[SPEAKER_11]: the entire postworld war two rules based world order he's ordering war on americans especially up in Minneapolis case you missed it by the way the update on that judge said yes ice can go ahead and pepper spray and beat people up again at least temporarily until it's
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, well, we'll talk about all of that.
[SPEAKER_11]: Bob is here to talk about all of this and pull a few rounds from the news on tap with us, because that's what we're doing Wednesday.
[SPEAKER_11]: We hang out with one and only Bob SESCA and look, you know, if you're like, you're listening this on the podcast, you can't get enough Bob don't or you can also go over to the Bob SESCA show or you can go to Trek Politics.
[SPEAKER_11]: Bob is everywhere the cool people are, which can mean you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Where you are tonight.
[SPEAKER_11]: So,
[SPEAKER_11]: You know, look, Bob will be with us for the rest of the evening.
[SPEAKER_11]: Fresh up your drink, do what you got to do.
[SPEAKER_11]: You know, maybe get a new shirt over to politics bar.com store.
[SPEAKER_11]: Or you're going to Bob's place and get another shirt.
[SPEAKER_11]: Just make sure it's Jody.
[SPEAKER_11]: Get all the shirts.
[SPEAKER_11]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_11]: We'll be right back with Bob's S.K.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hang on.
[SPEAKER_11]: Wednesday night, here at the politics bar, you guys know what that means, the idea of a Pope Bob, like whoa, the one the only Bob Sesska in the house, one of these days I'm gonna be in the hat, all right, yeah, we're just gonna wear a pop hat, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely nothing wrong with that, you know, we appreciate it when people walk by Bob and they bow and they throw coins and money in his ring.
[SPEAKER_11]: Exactly, you know, I mean, that's the, you know, look, and besides that, then you can call your car the potmobile.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, actually, you know, and then I burst into flames.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's just cast like that.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's the Italian.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's that idea.
[SPEAKER_11]: But you do, you do like Chicago pizza, the thin crust.
[SPEAKER_12]: You know, it's thick crush Chicago.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, Chicago.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, Chicago is actually the cracker crust.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's that's real.
[SPEAKER_09]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, but the big thick No, that's it.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's an actual pizza pie is Chicago style pizza.
[SPEAKER_11]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, my wife is a Chicago native.
[SPEAKER_11]: She says the cracker crust is the original one and that's just what they they do for the ribs the visitors
[SPEAKER_11]: Talk to Francia Long, I think you're making a mess.
[SPEAKER_12]: Talk to Francia, Kelly, or about that.
[SPEAKER_12]: She's Chicago native, she's talking to her about it.
[SPEAKER_11]: We can talk to her about that too.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm sure she knows about both of those because Francia is always brilliant.
[SPEAKER_11]: As a group of Bob, as a group.
[SPEAKER_11]: I do like that piece, though, that we mentioned there in the last segment.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I do think, yeah, it's not that, that,
[SPEAKER_11]: It's not that you know by I'm not forgiving the people who have given this absolute disaster both foreign and domestic by not voting or by voting for Trump.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's not like we hate these people when we want to shut them out forever, you know, it's not like you know, you could 20 inches of snow and go stand outside and the cold you suck go to hell forever.
[SPEAKER_09]: But we'll look there's an advantage to not running for Congress and yeah, a lot of the fact that I'm not running for Congress allows me to be authentic about how I'm feeling about 77 million people in this country, who put Lee walked into a voting booth knowing full well what Donald Trump was all about.
[SPEAKER_09]: Knowing about January 6, knowing about the negligent response to COVID, which also sank us into a steep recession, all the things that happened that first time around, the allegations of rape, the corruption, cozy association with Jeffrey Epstein.
[SPEAKER_09]: These were all things that were well-known a year and a couple of months ago, and yet people still walked in with this ridiculous misapprehension.
[SPEAKER_09]: that Donald Trump, the guy who had to be put on her allowance because he was so irresponsible with money, was somehow going to magically return prices to where they were in 2019, which can only happen if there was a deflationary economy, which goes along with, you know, a serious economic meltdown territory.
[SPEAKER_09]: Where is there?
[SPEAKER_12]: So my gap to 2019 prices, we're getting there.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, yeah, but I mean that has to go along with an economic meltdown.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's the thing and and yet people still win and settled us with this Fascist authoritarian imperialist weirdo that you know once again we're dealing with to great pain and this ongoing nightmare
[SPEAKER_09]: So good job.
[SPEAKER_09]: Good way to go because inflation is still rising jobs are being hemorrhaged.
[SPEAKER_09]: The economy is entirely disabled.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's all our allies people taking their money elsewhere.
[SPEAKER_11]: The Danish pension fund.
[SPEAKER_09]: yeah selling a hundred million in treasuries and yet the treasuries secretaries like who cares after them yeah well plus he's manipulating the stockmark yes all the time the announcement of tariffs against Europe over Greenland sent the markets downward now don't try if you have money you just buy yeah go back up in a minute
[SPEAKER_09]: yeah exactly or you short sell on the way down right and then and then he announced today that he's reversing he's doing a taco with those tariff threats right and the market's climbed again so he said he said this afternoon he said that that magically suddenly they have this Greenland framework what's the number the the trade deal with Europe was actually just a
[SPEAKER_11]: All of this is just basically trying to get people to kiss his ass and say, you're the best, you're such a good boy.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, that's.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's a child.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's right.
[SPEAKER_11]: I know that not everybody believes in spanking.
[SPEAKER_11]: But I also know my mother who did spank me and my siblings when I was child.
[SPEAKER_11]: Although she, she did it differently when it was my sister and I because my sister and I are older, my, my two younger brothers are younger.
[SPEAKER_11]: I always have this joke.
[SPEAKER_11]: Mom hates this joke, but I'll tell it anyway.
[SPEAKER_11]: So there are 13 years between my oldest sister and my youngest brother.
[SPEAKER_11]: So it's my sister and then three years later it's me.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then eight years later it's my next youngest brother.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then two years after that it's our youngest brother.
[SPEAKER_11]: And some people are like, what happened with the people in the middle?
[SPEAKER_11]: And I say, well, you know, my parents didn't like any stupid kids.
[SPEAKER_11]: We buried them in the backyard.
[SPEAKER_11]: But my mom, she did spank his my brothers, she spanked him in a different way.
[SPEAKER_11]: She didn't spank them to actually, you know, mean it like she did her with my sister and I with my brothers, she did the the invisible spank where she just stealthily sneaks up behind them and wham just gives him just a really quick spank on the ass and they're scared to death.
[SPEAKER_11]: Not so much because it hurt but because holy crap they didn't see her there and then
[SPEAKER_11]: and they immediately break into tears and whatever.
[SPEAKER_11]: But by my own talking about Donald Trump, I don't know, two, three weeks ago with her on the weekend.
[SPEAKER_11]: And she says to me, you know, somebody who really should have beaten his ass.
[SPEAKER_11]: Just whooped his ass?
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm like, are you kidding me?
[SPEAKER_11]: She says no.
[SPEAKER_11]: She says, if somebody had regularly beat his ass, and I'm like, okay, but what if they loved him?
[SPEAKER_11]: She said no, that's not possible with his parents, but at least they could have beaten him.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, okay, mom, she, she has a triangle of men as crib.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, that would have been helpful.
[SPEAKER_09]: But I mean, if you're going to go that far, go all the way.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's probably a nice.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's like killing baby Hitler.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's probably nice to think my mom has like, she absolutely loads him.
[SPEAKER_11]: loaves him with passion and she does not forgive anybody voted for him either.
[SPEAKER_11]: She doesn't forgive him and whatever discipline that might have worked or whatever love that might have worked to change him.
[SPEAKER_11]: I know that Jody, very much you said that before.
[SPEAKER_11]: You're uptried the whole love thing.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, but he's too old for that now.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm saying when he was a child had he been actually loved by his parents might have well, he might not have been here.
[SPEAKER_11]: They tried that will play Kate and will, um, what's what's the word I'm looking for?
[SPEAKER_11]: God, I think Neville, Chamberlain, oh yeah, peace of mind.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's the word and the adults are doing that or they have they did, but they obviously obviously from Mark Carney in Canada to Ursula von der Leyen, you president, they have now made it very, very clear.
[SPEAKER_11]: were done with that.
[SPEAKER_11]: And we're done with the world order the way it used to be.
[SPEAKER_11]: We're not going to be depending on the United States.
[SPEAKER_11]: We'll see what they do.
[SPEAKER_12]: We'll see what they do because what they do is different than what they're hopefully going to do.
[SPEAKER_11]: And what they say.
[SPEAKER_12]: Like the new song that Bob premiered yesterday on his show, we are so F.
[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know, we, we've been talking about that.
[SPEAKER_11]: I don't think that we're, as F, but I do think that things are going to significantly change and the ability to do whatever the hell we wanted as a nation, pretty much from the end of World War II on, that's gone.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's going to be gone.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's, it's gone now.
[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, how, how, how can anybody else in the world trust us when?
[SPEAKER_11]: The 76 million idiots to say, Hey, don't Trump's a good idea again.
[SPEAKER_09]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I don't know how that happens because, well, you know what the only way it does happen is if we as voters and activists for that matter decide to prioritize reforms to the presidency as part of a 2028.
[SPEAKER_09]: a series of policy plans and yeah platform planks and and that needs to be something that we demand of our democratic candidates for.
[SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_11]: We need to reform all three branches of government and the reforms are some of them are not that complicated.
[SPEAKER_11]: Supreme Court needs to be expanded whether it's the 13 or 18 Supreme Court needs to be expanded.
[SPEAKER_11]: They need to be forced to abide by the same ethics rules as every other judge.
[SPEAKER_11]: They need to have 18 year terms.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, you can cycle them down to other federal boards.
[SPEAKER_11]: These are those are three simple things.
[SPEAKER_11]: Boom.
[SPEAKER_11]: There's that.
[SPEAKER_11]: Um, we need more members in the house.
[SPEAKER_11]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_11]: We do.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: I can't afford you here.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: We need more exact multi member districts.
[SPEAKER_11]: Um, you know, these, those are just a couple of things.
[SPEAKER_11]: Presidency, obviously, there's a whole bunch of reforms that we need to do there.
[SPEAKER_11]: Including the fact that you cannot be a president if it was a serious felony.
[SPEAKER_11]: Sorry, sorry, you're a secret film, congratulations.
[SPEAKER_10]: Define serious felony though, but that's the job of Congresses to define stuff like that conveniently.
[SPEAKER_11]: We have a whole bunch of people sitting there, 435 of them whose job it is and many of them actually are experienced both in legislating and being criminals.
[SPEAKER_12]: But you're talking about a constitutional amendment because the presidency is three five years old and a natural born citizen that's pretty much it so you're talking about an amendment to the constitution to say a serious felon define that.
[SPEAKER_11]: But if we don't, if we don't tell them, these are the things that need to be done.
[SPEAKER_11]: We're not telling them that we expect it, you know, this is not Burger King.
[SPEAKER_11]: We are not expecting it in, you know, a minute and 30 seconds and you better have it at the drive through.
[SPEAKER_11]: We're telling them, you guys better get on it.
[SPEAKER_11]: We need to see some actual results from this.
[SPEAKER_11]: Show your work like you did in math class and fourth grade.
[SPEAKER_11]: Show your freaking work.
[SPEAKER_11]: Show us that you're out there that you're getting on your ass about this.
[SPEAKER_11]: This is when you came into the bar bar.
[SPEAKER_11]: This is when we were talking about.
[SPEAKER_11]: Um, I don't know if you heard earlier today.
[SPEAKER_11]: Kim Jeffery said that he's against the DHS Ice Funding Bill.
[SPEAKER_11]: Did you hear that?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_11]: Did you know what Dave, they and found out this afternoon that Jeffery's people are not whipping against the bill.
[SPEAKER_11]: So while he's personally against it, he's not pushing other house members to vote against it.
[SPEAKER_11]: You can vote for it or against it if you want.
[SPEAKER_11]: He says, which is
[SPEAKER_11]: job as a leader in a situation like this is for you to to whip people against it to say no, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_11]: So by the way, if you do not want them to pass the bill that allows them to fund THS and ice without significant changes, call your rep 202 224 312 120 2224 312 1 and let them know.
[SPEAKER_11]: So that way when they come into our morning, they're like, holy crap, my voicemail box is full.
[SPEAKER_11]: Damn it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, we need to come up with a better way to say that phone number.
[SPEAKER_09]: We need to like, like, a word, like, does it spell a word?
[SPEAKER_09]: No, because that was just a lot of numbers.
[SPEAKER_09]: I wrote a by heart.
[SPEAKER_12]: It was so funny because before he looked it up, I said, isn't it 2022-231-21?
[SPEAKER_12]: He goes, yeah, you're right.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm like, you're right.
[SPEAKER_11]: We were getting the number for the bar here we specifically didn't we like look for like like several weeks For remember that's why we have 213677 salt is the number for the bar, but no, they that that's that's completely different for the the house But yeah, we definitely 202 2 2 2 4 3 1 2 1 Call your house remember tell them to vote against that DHS nice bill and yes, and just tell them where you live and they will give you the person with whom to chat
[SPEAKER_11]: But I am disappointed.
[SPEAKER_11]: I am disappointed.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I came Jefferies for not whipping against that bill.
[SPEAKER_11]: I made it.
[SPEAKER_12]: Your job is, that's why I said that I think he's pulling a Pelosi where on certain votes, she would allow certain people in her caucus to vote, say, against something or for something that she knew as an individual district.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's a district issue with him.
[SPEAKER_12]: And I mean,
[SPEAKER_12]: They only need three or four Republicans to be smart, and I'm sure there are several of those getting phone calls.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, call your member whether they're a Democrat or independent or Republican, and tell them, I mean, just because they're not from your party doesn't mean you shouldn't call them in contact.
[SPEAKER_12]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, you are their bosses after all.
[SPEAKER_11]: Be like, hey, pop, pop, pop.
[SPEAKER_11]: But you were saying about that people weren't doing enough, that they didn't do enough.
[SPEAKER_11]: with the election that we got, this is one of the things that people can do.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, yeah, sure, sure.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, I think we're listening right now on the podcast to us, then they're going to listen to Bob Susska Show later.
[SPEAKER_11]: But there's a podcast.
[SPEAKER_11]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, God.
[SPEAKER_11]: I always love it when buzzes in on Wednesdays, but the fact of the matter is, they got the phone in their hand right now after they're done with the show, they just call.
[SPEAKER_11]: In fact, if they're doing a podcast, they can pause, go call and come back.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: Anybody who says, oh, it's too hard for me.
[SPEAKER_11]: Can't forgive that either.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_11]: No.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's crucial.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, now more than ever.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think we need to.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a bit say.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's all hands-on deck situation.
[SPEAKER_09]: Great.
[SPEAKER_09]: Democracy.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's an event.
[SPEAKER_12]: Your wife's has, uh, uh, the wife, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, damn it, hey, thanks a lot, thanks a lot.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, thank you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thanks, Lonnie.
[SPEAKER_09]: Good to see you, bud.
[SPEAKER_09]: I wonder how many people seriously believe that Stephanie and I are married.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now that's a serious issue.
[SPEAKER_11]: Look, propaganda is a wonderful thing when you're having fun with it.
[SPEAKER_11]: But when it's used to, you know, install a Russian puppet in the office of the presidency.
[SPEAKER_11]: I just, this is not nearly as much fun, you know?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: I would be fine putting, you know, Donald's head on somebody else's body for Photoshop.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think I've actually done that a couple of times, but unfortunately, somebody installed him in the White House.
[SPEAKER_12]: Now we're doing this for Vladimir.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: You suck, Vlad.
[SPEAKER_09]: You're saying.
[SPEAKER_09]: Watch out for the Polonium now, Sean.
[SPEAKER_10]: And yeah, they get a food taster.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm not going near any windows.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, that's, uh, uh, uh, uh, I'm sorry, on his, their way from earlier.
[SPEAKER_11]: So yeah, yeah, I'm, I can guarantee.
[SPEAKER_11]: I know that, uh, what is it, uh, talking points USA, they, they've looked at our stuff on, uh, what is it, LinkedIn?
[SPEAKER_11]: Ooh, I see you, whatever.
[SPEAKER_11]: I don't bite me, I don't care.
[SPEAKER_11]: Like anybody has any doubt of what side of the political aisle I'm on, bite me, anyway.
[SPEAKER_11]: Look, we got more to talk about with Bob.
[SPEAKER_11]: It is Wednesday night.
[SPEAKER_11]: We do have the one and only Bob Ceska hanging in house.
[SPEAKER_11]: Obviously, yes.
[SPEAKER_11]: The Bob Ceska of the Bob Ceska show.
[SPEAKER_11]: Bob Ceska who is married to Stephanie Miller.
[SPEAKER_11]: Not really.
[SPEAKER_11]: Stop.
[SPEAKER_11]: We're going to believe you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Bob Ceska of Trek politics.
[SPEAKER_11]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_09]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm also married to Mary Trump.
[SPEAKER_11]: There's that chair.
[SPEAKER_09]: I've got a long list of lesbians.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm married to.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm sure Mary's wife would be really happy to hear that.
[SPEAKER_10]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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[SPEAKER_11]: The one only bought SESCA hanging with us, and we're talking about furniture.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's one way to put it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I didn't know that Ushia was pregnant.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, they announced it today or yesterday.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think first time I saw it was today, but I couldn't be sure.
[SPEAKER_12]: She's due in July so she got pregnant around October.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, it's their fourth kid although, you know, like we said earlier, there are a lot of people online saying, girl, that ain't going to keep him.
[SPEAKER_11]: Erica knows she's going to go after him still.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm like, just saying any of those four children kind of look like a couch.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, like, I don't know who's responsible for this child.
[SPEAKER_09]: With the one, you know, the child with the cushions and the weird thick arms coming out the side, the bundle fly of JD Vance and a couch.
[SPEAKER_09]: Baby, that kid didn't come from Ushah.
[SPEAKER_11]: So wrong, so wrong, this, look, this could, this could be an exit ramp.
[SPEAKER_11]: This could be an offer ramp for her.
[SPEAKER_11]: She could be like, well, you know, and he was somebody else and that's fine.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then, you know, JD and Erica, whatever, I don't, I'm just looking to the whole thing going really, really people come on.
[SPEAKER_12]: Isn't Erica going on the road?
[SPEAKER_12]: I thought she was a trad wife and you're not supposed to work.
[SPEAKER_12]: That was just my thoughts.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, no, you're right.
[SPEAKER_11]: But look, we also know that they are if anything, they're all hypocrites.
[SPEAKER_11]: You know, as I tell you to do, not as I'm actually doing.
[SPEAKER_11]: So you need to be poor and tired and give me your money.
[SPEAKER_11]: So then I can have all this nice stuff.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, shouldn't Erica be out there looking for a husband.
[SPEAKER_12]: I think so much is he just wanted to be there.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, the whole thing with maga is you go to college.
[SPEAKER_09]: If you're a woman or go to college, I mean, didn't Charlie Kirk himself say something like this, that if you go to college, the reason you're in college is to find a husband.
[SPEAKER_09]: You have to learn.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's about finding a husband.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's all about their foreign estigree.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's the MRS degree, exactly.
[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, I knew people in college that were going for that at my school.
[SPEAKER_12]: And I just thought, what a waste of money.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, I never quite understood that on top of which, to me, it still goes along with the team theory of life.
[SPEAKER_11]: None of us gets through this alone.
[SPEAKER_11]: You're always having, you always have the chance to build a team, whether it's a team of your friends, a team of friends, family, and whatever.
[SPEAKER_11]: And like any good team, you want to pick the best player for the best thing, the best people who do the
[SPEAKER_11]: Why would anybody look at a world of eight million people?
[SPEAKER_11]: Any of these people could potentially be on your team.
[SPEAKER_11]: And you go, you know what, 51% of the team.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's true there.
[SPEAKER_11]: I don't want to have any of them on my team.
[SPEAKER_11]: They bleed occasionally.
[SPEAKER_11]: really know for every four to six weeks until they're old like me but also if they're on birth control or there's there's all kinds of other reasons why they don't but my whole thing is you know what folks that's just stupid that's sitting there saying I'm going to build a basketball team but nobody above five eleven what does that kind of stupid thing really
[SPEAKER_09]: I think a lot more voters need to utterly reject anyone who's career, who's income depends on political divisiveness.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right?
[SPEAKER_09]: Because that's the grip.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's the danger.
[SPEAKER_09]: As soon as you start monetizing political division,
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: It never goes away.
[SPEAKER_09]: It never goes away because people like Erica Kirk and before her Charlie Kirk and the entire mag entertainment complex, that is a more than a billion dollar industry right now.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's become its own wing of the entertainment industry and it depends on.
[SPEAKER_09]: people being pissed off and disinformed and all the rest of it and and that's the that's the grift and so when you start to see things through that prism you begin to understand that oh this is this is not seeking out some sort of end result that means everyone gets along and democracy flourishes this means the ongoing
[SPEAKER_09]: angst and rage and outrage and all the rest of it as a perpetual thing.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's almost like daytime dramas where the storyline goes on and on and never really reaches a conclusion.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's the kind of thing that I think is so toxic in our country right now and that's what's given us Donald Trump and he's certainly piggybacked his entire political career onto that.
[SPEAKER_11]: he has an invented anything all he's done as seen what rush limba did and what Roger rails did said I'm going to do that exact thing it's what he always does he co-ops other people's thing and makes it his own it's his entire business that that goes along what's going on up in Minnesota day in the second round of the news on tap and you guys miss that on Trump's war in americans so in Minnesota uh... trump is weaponized the DOJ hitting five minutes of democrats with bs subpoenas
[SPEAKER_11]: And Governor Walsh identified it right off the bat and said this is the partisan distraction.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, well crap, which yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, I mean, right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I don't know how much of a distraction.
[SPEAKER_09]: It is.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, it's just that it goes along.
[SPEAKER_11]: It goes along.
[SPEAKER_11]: But you're saying it's not necessarily a distraction in the sense of look at this over look at that.
[SPEAKER_11]: But it's a distraction in the sense of like a game on somebody's phone is a distraction.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's a keep a busy, which is what the, you know, the right wing hate media complex does.
[SPEAKER_11]: like you were just saying where they go oh look oh they must be doing something bad because we're investigating them is there actually anything there little care they just wanted to be able to say that there was investigations going on by the way the Minnesota Democratic officials are like you know what they're not being intimidated bite me on that they are blowing that off which is great.
[SPEAKER_11]: By the way it is dangerous though the kind of crap that they're
[SPEAKER_11]: Uh, they were on ABC news.
[SPEAKER_11]: Got a little quote.
[SPEAKER_11]: Hey, we're distributing free whistles.
[SPEAKER_12]: It was the local ABC, not Nash.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, not ABC, not ABC, not ABC, not the ice monster showed up the door hours later.
[SPEAKER_12]: To get what, not, do they want their own whistles?
[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know what the hell they were thinking.
[SPEAKER_11]: But I'm like, what do you, what are you going to do?
[SPEAKER_11]: And then you've got like, uh, all of these Cubans in Florida.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's another story we have in the news on tap.
[SPEAKER_11]: Many of them who supported Trump.
[SPEAKER_11]: And now they're shocked.
[SPEAKER_11]: that the leopard is eating their face that there's gambling in Vegas what?
[SPEAKER_11]: what?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, no, look, you're right that people need to be much more intelligent and informed.
[SPEAKER_11]: This is not a high school class presidency that, you know, where there's nothing.
[SPEAKER_12]: Free pizza for everybody.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: This is actually the presidency and it's actually your members of Congress.
[SPEAKER_11]: And these people actually do things that have great effect.
[SPEAKER_11]: We had for the drink of the day of day, Bob, we had Rasputin.
[SPEAKER_11]: It was, was it his birthday?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think it was birthday.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, you could also call that the Stephen Miller.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yes, thank you.
[SPEAKER_12]: He looks exactly like him, just with your hair.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: He needs like to have three forces of bald paint.
[SPEAKER_09]: But otherwise, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: And they have the same role.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, what they do is exactly the same.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's like there's one tongue from Lord of the Rings.
[SPEAKER_09]: All the same interaction.
[SPEAKER_11]: It is literally the internal propaganda, who is probably that right wing hate media straight into his brain.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: The McEvelli and SIGAFAD to is constantly whispering in the leaders' ear.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's like in the two towers in the Lord of the Rings weren't tongue whispering into Thayodans' ear and getting them to do all the sinister things that he needs them to do.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's the same thing with Stephen Miller and Donald Trump.
[SPEAKER_12]: I love your nerdness.
[SPEAKER_11]: I know.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's pretty awesome.
[SPEAKER_11]: It is pretty awesome, Bob.
[SPEAKER_11]: I, I, I second Jodie on that, you know, look, you, you are intelligent, you know all the nerdy stuff.
[SPEAKER_11]: Obviously, you know the nerdy stuff with the Lord of the Rings and, you know, certain comic books, but also obviously with Star Trek, so I have to ask, um, this week's Trek politics.
[SPEAKER_09]: What are we looking at coming up?
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, thank you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thank you for asking.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, we're talking about the brand new Star Trek series.
[SPEAKER_09]: This week.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, yay.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, it's starting to be an academy.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, there's a lot of politics swirling around, start to lead a academy right now, because people like Stephen Miller, the aforementioned, rest-butin and Elon Musk and so many, many other maga people, are doing their same old, let's find some more.
[SPEAKER_09]: Why a Star Trek suddenly woke?
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh God, no.
[SPEAKER_09]: Don't you know.
[SPEAKER_09]: I've always been mature aware.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's 60 years old.
[SPEAKER_09]: This year, this September, it'll be 60 years since the original series debuted with the central theme of inclusiveness of walkness, of progressivism, and all the rest of it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Infinite diversity and infinite combinations.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's a falcon.
[SPEAKER_09]: maximum.
[SPEAKER_09]: And these people are suddenly like, oh, they're black people and women in Star Trek.
[SPEAKER_09]: How's this happen?
[SPEAKER_09]: All of a sudden.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_11]: There's aliens in Star Trek.
[SPEAKER_11]: Really?
[SPEAKER_11]: Also, did you know that water grids wet and fire is hot?
[SPEAKER_11]: No, right.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I mean on the show on track politics right now we're doing we're mainly covering the original series, but we're going to take a break on this weekend's episode to talk about Starfleet Academy and the politics around Starfleet Academy.
[SPEAKER_09]: And just generally what we think of Starfleet Academy, which spoiler warning, I think it's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm enjoying it so far.
[SPEAKER_09]: Good.
[SPEAKER_09]: That could change, but for the first two episodes that I've seen, I really did like it.
[SPEAKER_09]: And so yeah, I strongly recommend.
[SPEAKER_11]: So it's it is it is fun when you and Mary talk about Star Trek and you guys do have a lot of fun and you have Bobbisams if I remember right is it Bobcervations Bobcervations Bobcervations.
[SPEAKER_11]: Which look I mean you know look There are a lot of phrases you have to you have to know your shows because Bobbis on the Stephanie Miller show sometimes And then he takes that we won't go down there and then he's over here at the bar and then he goes over to his own show And then he does track politics Bob is everywhere guys.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, he's the right secret
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I wrote an iron competition to see who can give us a kill.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's the three of us.
[SPEAKER_09]: God.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: The Allison Gill.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_12]: He was the answer.
[SPEAKER_12]: Her birthday was, I think, yesterday.
[SPEAKER_12]: So happy belated birthday.
[SPEAKER_11]: Happy belated Allison Gill.
[SPEAKER_11]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Thank you for the paycheck.
[SPEAKER_11]: By the way, this got to positive.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think Jody's got the edge, though, because the politics bar is five days a week.
[SPEAKER_05]: It is.
[SPEAKER_09]: My podcast is the free version of my podcast is only three days a week.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think that meaning at the end of the show are at least a couple of episodes a week ahead of me.
[SPEAKER_12]: I had a few maybe, but not Allison because she's got the daily beans and her other issue.
[SPEAKER_09]: She's got 247, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I've got the Stephanie Miller show politics bar John Fuegel saying three versions of my show Tuesday there's Tuesday Wednesday.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's a then after party on Friday.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's four.
[SPEAKER_09]: But you got a three days a week track politics.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, you know, I just never shut the F up.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, and the live stream on Sunday, which we'll add over to Substack, which if you don't know where that is, so we've got the link by the way in the guess section.
[SPEAKER_11]: At the Baltic part.com.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I only tell you off now is Mondays.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_12]: You're like a Broadway star at this point.
[SPEAKER_12]: Mondays are dark.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_11]: But look, it's fun.
[SPEAKER_11]: And look, we have fun informing people.
[SPEAKER_11]: I am it's it is so much more fun when you have a conversation with somebody who is informed who is educated, who knows what's going on with politics, it is so much more fun whether you're talking about our politics or politics in Star Trek, and I'm glad that you are one of those really informed fun people to talk with about it, but I wish more people would be more informed, you know?
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not hard, I don't know about really informed, but I tried to be so somewhat in the form.
[SPEAKER_09]: And what I don't know about, I know where to find it.
[SPEAKER_09]: So there you go.
[SPEAKER_11]: Exactly, exactly.
[SPEAKER_11]: Bob subscribes to the politics bar.com newsletter to the news on DAP.
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[SPEAKER_11]: He still has that really cool spicy Jodie T-shirt over there at Popsk.com.
[SPEAKER_11]: So you should do all the Bob SESCA things.
[SPEAKER_11]: Bob, we'll see you back here next Wednesday and Jodie will do their tomorrow, I believe she's coming to your house.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, tomorrow, Jodie.
[SPEAKER_11]: See you next week, John.
[SPEAKER_11]: Thanks, Bob.
[SPEAKER_11]: Tomorrow for us here at the bar.
[SPEAKER_11]: By the way, John Fucoseng will be here and we will obviously talk about the little how the faith people are moving in on some of these protests in Minneapolis and elsewhere.
[SPEAKER_11]: Get yourself home.
[SPEAKER_11]: Um, bundle up if it's cold out there where you are, we'll see you back here