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[SPEAKER_07]: It's been a long day for both of us, actually.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, I left the house this morning at 430 to take Lonnie to the airport and then break right over to Stephanie's.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then you pretended to be Lonnie over there, although actually, you know, honestly, I still said you look better in Lonnie, just this means.
[SPEAKER_15]: I don't think you've seen enough of him to be accurate in that assessment.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's been one of those interesting days.
[SPEAKER_07]: It actually hasn't been as busy news wise.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've been, I have been actually knock on wood kind of glad this week.
[SPEAKER_07]: There has been obviously, I mean, you know, it's a day during a Trump regime.
[SPEAKER_07]: So that's obviously a fire hose of news.
[SPEAKER_07]: But there's a certain level of fire hose, which you get used to at some point.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's almost like they hit 11 on the dial for this.
[SPEAKER_15]: I know.
[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly and and you're like, okay, that's fine, but as opposed to sitting there jacking around going 6 to 11 11 down 7.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right, right, they're just holding you're going okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, good.
[SPEAKER_07]: I got this thanks to keep keep things steady.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, I mean, it's steady stream of garbage, but it's still steady right.
[SPEAKER_07]: And that's, I mean, look, there are, there are three things that are guaranteed.
[SPEAKER_07]: You are guaranteed in any Trump regime.
[SPEAKER_07]: It happened in the first one, happened in the second one, from what I've heard it happened when he was running his businesses, the three things are always cruelty, failure, and cover-ups.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Which am I wrong and any of that?
[SPEAKER_15]: No, not at all.
[SPEAKER_15]: In fact, he's getting bad at the cover up part.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think I am so glad to see that he is getting bad at the cover up part.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because that's the key.
[SPEAKER_07]: That is one of the keys is we keep pressing forward.
[SPEAKER_07]: We keep pressing forward on things like the law and rules integrity.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they keep pressing forward and failing.
[SPEAKER_07]: there is a point in time in which those charts that the lines cross.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not usually good for somebody doing that.
[SPEAKER_07]: So with that in mind, in the news on tap today, we start the first round with the war against the ice monsters, because that is where the majority of the news is today.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, actually, uh, um, Johnny talked to friend of mine.
[SPEAKER_07]: I happens to be up in Duluth.
[SPEAKER_07]: I happen to talk to somebody else in the cities and talk to somebody down by the Southern border and not matter where you're at in Minnesota.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, there are ice monsters roaming everywhere.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, although they're everywhere and and when when Tom home and says we're going to reduce the force by 700 people, that's not out.
[SPEAKER_15]: What?
[SPEAKER_07]: That's not it.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've mentioned that yesterday.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're right.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not a lot at all.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, it's not.
[SPEAKER_07]: Whatever.
[SPEAKER_07]: They still have two grand there, two thousand and and and they're still doing some of the same things.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've had stories.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think every day this week and the news on tap about stories in Minnesota and stories of them elsewhere, just mucking about.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're not doing it as blatantly.
[SPEAKER_07]: Remember when Tom Hobag, I mean, home and sorry.
[UNKNOWN]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: But when Mr. Holman came in, yes, exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: When Mom was came in and said, well, you know what I was going to do?
[SPEAKER_07]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: When he said basically, I'm going to put a nice face on all of this cruelty.
[SPEAKER_07]: And that's,
[SPEAKER_07]: They're still being more blatant than they should be, but they're still doing some of these crap things that they should not be.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we have stories about that in the news on tap today.
[SPEAKER_07]: However, a lot more fight back.
[SPEAKER_07]: Minnesota districts and teachers, the union, is suing to stop ice being near schools in Minnesota.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good.
[SPEAKER_07]: Which, yeah, I got to give some applause to those folks.
[SPEAKER_07]: They look, Minnesota has taught a lot of us, different ways to fight back.
[SPEAKER_07]: Which as my friend in Duluth told me today, he said, you remind everybody there at the bar, he said Minnesota doesn't take crap from anybody.
[SPEAKER_15]: No, and they're nice people.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm, yeah, they look.
[SPEAKER_07]: Most of the people I've met in Minnesota have been pretty nice.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dated a girl there back in the day, has some great college friends there, friends from high schools, family members, and trying to think of anybody in Minnesota that I have met, but I haven't really liked.
[SPEAKER_15]: I can't think of anybody either.
[SPEAKER_15]: I mean, I have friends that still live up there and I can't think of anybody that I've met either through my friends or other people that isn't nice.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's just there.
[SPEAKER_15]: There's a reason they say Minnesota nice.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was working my brain and I can't.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I've met and know a lot of people in my life, through Minnesota.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think maybe there was a guy at the A&W kind of restaurant when I was seven, who wasn't the best behaved, but that is literally my brain is scanning and that's, that's, I mean, a friend of mine worked for Prince who was from Minnesota and he was a generous boss.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yes, and he would visit hospitals without press like if he heard somebody was a fan and he would go visit a lot of stuff with it.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, she said he was he was great to work for a paid really well.
[SPEAKER_15]: But yeah, he she said it was a great experience working for him.
[SPEAKER_15]: So there you go.
[SPEAKER_15]: And he's a super famous guy.
[SPEAKER_15]: He was God rest his soul.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I still wish he wasn't around man.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's weird that he died at 51 and so did Michael Jackson.
[SPEAKER_07]: and they both died because of drug overdoses, right, which touches kills me.
[SPEAKER_15]: It surprised everybody with Michael, not so much with, I'm sorry, with the prints.
[SPEAKER_15]: Not as much with Michael Jackson.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, but still, I just, it just sucks.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're like, damn it, man, you know.
[SPEAKER_07]: Some of the, yeah, I've said it before.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll say it again, I have a list.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sorry, I have said I have a list.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's true, I have lots of lists.
[SPEAKER_07]: Actually, a grocery list.
[SPEAKER_07]: Plus, so I have lists.
[SPEAKER_07]: You figure out which list I was talking about there, just saying.
[SPEAKER_07]: Anyway, so we are thankful that the folks in Minnesota are doing some good things and they're being honest as Minnesotans are the top Minnesota GOJ prosecutor has said that ice cases are sidelining their other pressing priorities.
[SPEAKER_07]: I would imagine this is what everybody said this was going to do is if you make the focus of every part of government only about.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, non-white people basically, uh, then that would shove out all the other priorities and they just keep confirming it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like, you know, it's like somebody saying, did you know that there is snow outside in Duluth right now?
[SPEAKER_07]: And you go, no.
[SPEAKER_15]: Really?
[SPEAKER_15]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_15]: What?
[SPEAKER_07]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's times like this that we could actually use Bella with a Z because that's funny.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's going to step into the bar at some point, that'd be fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: But remember when we were talking about the DOGA prosecutor Julie Lee, who first they moved to somewhere else because she was like, please, please give me contempt of course.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yes, please put me in jail for the night so I can sleep.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, first they moved to somewhere else and then they fired her.
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course they did because she was being honest.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she was given all these cases 88 cases in less than a month, 10 times the work for each case, basically means when you're planning out your time for your day, you have to plan out that in less than a month, you suddenly got 880 cases worth of work dropped on you.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's.
[SPEAKER_15]: So that's a seven day week job at that point, even though the courts are not necessarily open seven days a week, but you're seven to two.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, 24 hours a day.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_15]: You're lucky if you get a few hours of sleep and night.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think she's probably like, you know what?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm good.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm good with being fired.
[SPEAKER_07]: And look, Americans understand this.
[SPEAKER_07]: New Quinnipiac poll shows 58% of voters think that DHS secretary Christy
[SPEAKER_07]: The thing is, so the folks in Minnesota did a good job of starting it, but other states are picking it up.
[SPEAKER_07]: New Mexico.
[SPEAKER_07]: Their Senate has just approved a bill.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not sure if they're governor, Michelle Luhung, Christian, assigned it yet, but it's going to ban ICE detention centers in the state.
[SPEAKER_07]: In Virginia, obviously, we're talking about that yesterday, how, what are local communities not too far from from the DC area here, very red, and they were like, nope, sorry.
[SPEAKER_15]: Oklahoma is doing it.
[SPEAKER_15]: I think the mayor in Oklahoma cities like don't even don't even don't even in Kansas City.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is a federal judge ruled that ice agents can no longer may make warrantless arrests in Oregon unless there is a risk of escape.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, they're they're doing their stuff out by Portland.
[SPEAKER_07]: Virginia we just mentioned that's a new governor Abigail Spanberger has ended the statewide ice cooperation program local governments can still do it, but a lot of them are saying no as well because they're like they're doing the same thing that the DOJ prosecutor did where they like dude, I have my own things to do.
[SPEAKER_07]: I have my own work.
[SPEAKER_07]: You need to do your work, and I'll do mine.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: So take this, you pencil that geek, and I will do my stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: If any of you know that reference, thank you, Ghostbusters.
[SPEAKER_07]: But yeah, no, it's it's, um, I'm glad to see all this fight back going on.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, oh, you got the story, uh, the newly exposed documents that reveal the real reason for the overnight rice raid on the Chicago apartments.
[SPEAKER_07]: Remember this last year when they were doing that, repelling down in the middle of the night and helicopters and like taking kids out in the middle of the night in zip tying their hands?
[SPEAKER_07]: I could not believe this when you said that to me.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm like,
[SPEAKER_15]: I was shocked too, reading that this morning.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, are you kidding me?
[SPEAKER_15]: Really, they're squatters, squatters, but not from the gang that they kept saying, they're just squatters.
[SPEAKER_07]: Not from trend to era, but they're just, they're people who needed a place to live, and there was an open apartment, and the people in the neighborhood went, eh.
[SPEAKER_15]: And then, but the landlord obviously wanted them out and instead of going through proper procedure to kick out squatters, which there has to, I know, and there is, and virtually every city in town.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, I know that that in Los Angeles, because I used to work long story.
[SPEAKER_15]: Anyway, it was three months to get somebody out.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, we were talking with that with Mayor Bassman.
[SPEAKER_07]: She was here before Christmas, yeah.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, it takes about three months to kick somebody out, whether they are a squatter or not, and it's the sheriff's to go and do it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: And in the places where it works, like in L.A. where Mayor Bass has been working on it.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's where is it Austin, Texas, they've been working on it, too.
[SPEAKER_07]: Prior to the Trump regime cutting off their funding.
[SPEAKER_07]: This stuff isn't even in the news on tab, but there's just stuff from us talking to people and we know stuff, the things that works have worked in Austin have worked in L.A. have worked in New York to some degree is they get the unhoused, the homeless places to live.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just like those squatters that were there in Chicago, they're just poor folks looking for a place to live.
[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't even include this.
[SPEAKER_07]: I saw a piece and I didn't include it for us in the the Trumponomic section today.
[SPEAKER_07]: But there are some estimates now that to get the proper number of housing units, apartments, houses, condos, farmhouses, whatever, that we need in the United States for the number of people,
[SPEAKER_07]: we would need between two and 18 million more housing units than we have currently which tells you how many people we have like you live on top of each other and put I mean does that count is that counting all the empty buildings in New York
[SPEAKER_07]: no unfortunately because there are there's that's that's something we should talk about sometime there are there empty buildings in New York there empty buildings in Miami where they're just they're just investments and they don't want to tax shelter yeah it's a tax it's a weighted longer money yeah for lack of a better phrase no but I mean they're just sitting there empty and people in New York City hopefully ma'am damn meal be able to deal with that there's some there's some solutions we should talk about that one evening here at the bar but the
[SPEAKER_07]: The economy ate that great.
[SPEAKER_07]: We will be looking at that and, oh, and I have this clip from Senator Warren doing an awesome beat down on Pessent today.
[SPEAKER_07]: That was, that's great.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, freshing your drinks, it's a Thursday night.
[SPEAKER_07]: John Feekel-Sang will be in later, Jody and I gonna hang out with you and go through the news on Tap.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, well, freshing your drink and coming right back.
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[SPEAKER_07]: All right, back to the news on tap here on this Thursday night, I'm sorry, I love this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Before we go on from the ice stuff, I got to drop this from Harry in today, because as you
[SPEAKER_07]: His normal tone is very kind of dead and then he's okay, normal.
[SPEAKER_07]: But then when he gets excited, he's adorable.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's let me just play this clip.
[SPEAKER_11]: The numbers here absolutely tell a story.
[SPEAKER_11]: It has been a bad political situation for the president of the United States.
[SPEAKER_11]: And more than that, it is only getting worse.
[SPEAKER_11]: Just take a look at ISIS net approval writing.
[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, look at this.
[SPEAKER_11]: And unfortunately, immigration must look was already low in early January, right?
[SPEAKER_11]: It was minus 17 points.
[SPEAKER_11]: Last month, we are now talking about minus 29 points.
[SPEAKER_11]: The worst, it has ever been, it gets worse among independence.
[SPEAKER_11]: It is even worse than that.
[SPEAKER_11]: We are talking about a negative 40, negative 40 net approver rating for ice on enforcing immigration laws.
[SPEAKER_11]: No one of the president United States is changing his tone.
[SPEAKER_11]: And that is because you just look here, you see the American people aren't just not with him.
[SPEAKER_11]: They are on a totally other planet.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_15]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: It'll be a good voucher.
[SPEAKER_15]: Hey, you know, you're, it's okay, you know?
[SPEAKER_15]: Where to bar, you're allowed to burp.
[SPEAKER_07]: Apologize, sorry about that.
[SPEAKER_07]: But yeah, the fact that nobody, nobody is with him, the way that they're doing this, they are, they've lost the independence, they've lost, obviously, everybody that left, and they're losing their own people in my world.
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, I mean, the Texas vote proves it.
[SPEAKER_15]: I mean, that was a 31 point swing.
[SPEAKER_15]: That's an amazing swing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and about a year, about a little more than a year.
[SPEAKER_15]: I mean, and that district in particular, it's a, it's a, it's definitely, definitely that.
[SPEAKER_15]: So that means Republicans voted for the Democrat.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep, actually, I saw a story that broke down some of the numbers and actually said just that.
[SPEAKER_07]: That it wasn't just Democrats and independence, but it was also people getting off the bench.
[SPEAKER_07]: People getting off the bench, getting off the sidelines, getting into the quote-unquote game if you will, the game of politics.
[SPEAKER_07]: And yes, politics is not a game, it's serious.
[SPEAKER_07]: But they're getting on the field.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're getting into the event.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they're going, you know what?
[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't vote last time, that time before, that time.
[SPEAKER_07]: But you know what?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's important now.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm gonna get into it and yeah.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, no, I mean, it's it's it's encouraging because that because now that California can continue with our Jerrymandered map only to 20 30 people right
[SPEAKER_15]: just letting y'all know.
[SPEAKER_15]: We would like to go back to the citizen.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, some other news in the redistricting wars.
[SPEAKER_07]: Actually, this one's down in the election land segment.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's under the fourth round in the news on tap.
[SPEAKER_07]: Virginia Supreme Court has agreed to hear the redistricting challenge to see if democratic efforts can move forward.
[SPEAKER_07]: So big congrats.
[SPEAKER_07]: That way.
[SPEAKER_07]: It honestly, I think they've done it pretty fairly here in Virginia.
[SPEAKER_07]: So that's.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know that they're playing by the same set of rules that Republicans did, it's just for Republicans don't like it when the rules are used against them.
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, I mean, the argument for the California GOP was that the Jerry Mendered map was racially tingeed, which is against the law still.
[SPEAKER_15]: Right.
[SPEAKER_15]: But.
[SPEAKER_15]: the obviously California proof.
[SPEAKER_15]: No, it's partisan changed, but you already said that's okay Right this Supreme Court said well you can do that and so California went okay And our voters voted we voted I mean it was the easiest ballot I've ever had it was a paragraph very easy to read and you'll think
[SPEAKER_07]: 17 different different things to vote on which is oftentimes the case in California.
[SPEAKER_15]: Oh my god, we have pages of stuff usually especially with propositions and things like that It's usually you know 400 and they like Prop 8 was worded to a point where you didn't know whether to vote for it or against it and let's write You know better.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, but this was very straightforward.
[SPEAKER_15]: This is what we're going to do until 2030 Cool with that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm hopeful of the Virginia want to keep going forward too, which basically ends up if nobody else Doesn't think of no other states actually end up going all the way through it, which they may or may not But it's interesting for that too.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's getting very late to Exactly because you got to have because the primaries are already going on
[SPEAKER_07]: And, uh, if nobody else actually ends up going through with it, um, I think Democrats will end up with a net two, at least, I mean, there's some people just taking for the elections or actually held a net two of, you know, leans one way or the other.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, you know, Republicans tried to, we're going to skew them up and Democrats are like, okay, finally, you want to play my year rule?
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_15]: They didn't expect us to fight back because Democrats
[SPEAKER_07]: Democrats need to get up on the fight and, honestly, there, there is another piece.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, we'll get to the Trumponomics bid in a bit, but I want to jump down to the third round in the news on tap in Trump's war on democracy because, um, so DNI Tulsi Gabbards office has confirmed that they obtained and tested voting machines in Puerto Rico.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know, but there is definitely something hinky and and you can tell that it's about that they're trying to do stuff to set stuff up so they can steal future elections.
[SPEAKER_15]: Oh, no, they they want to do it.
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, that's the whole point of the the Georgia ballots, which they're trying to get back.
[SPEAKER_15]: But
[SPEAKER_15]: the whole point is see he won, which is why we need to go and take care of all the machines for the 26 election or the 28 election, and then I'll all that stuff is local.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's that is one of the things that my friend of Duluth, my friend of the cities, they reminded me they're like, make sure people understand it's local power, your elections.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's one of the things in other countries look at us and at first they think it's really stupid.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then when there's an election problem, they're like, oh, that's kind of smart.
[SPEAKER_07]: In the fact that our elections in the United States, we don't really have a national election.
[SPEAKER_07]: We have national offices, but not right, but we have thousands of smaller elections in different districts in different states in different territories.
[SPEAKER_07]: We have lots of little elections here and there and everywhere.
[SPEAKER_07]: And there are differences that can make a difference in each one, but it makes it extremely difficult for a country this size to cheat a single election.
[SPEAKER_07]: because there isn't a single election.
[SPEAKER_07]: There isn't something where you can just bunk press a button on a computer and it distributes this cheat code throughout the system.
[SPEAKER_07]: So there's somebody somebody wrote about this today and we stuck it in the news on tap one of our members of our legal bar the first actually member of our legal Bar Ellie missed all wrote this Actually in the nation today.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, we got to get him back.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm trying to convince him to find find some time when he's you know Not doing the dad thing and the legal expert thing and he like can he give us a half an hour brother
[SPEAKER_07]: But he did write a really good piece, and we stuck it in the news on Tap today, and he talks about how Democrats need to get serious about stopping Trump from bringing the mid-terms.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, he talks a lot about the save act and we talked a bunch about that yesterday if you guys missed it You should check out the news on tap because we have the articles there and they go through the things that we hit in the save act Or you can just check out the podcast yesterday But Ellie also mentioned something else that that we didn't mention here yesterday called the mega act have you ever heard of this one, Jody?
[SPEAKER_07]: No, what is that?
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, this is another bill that Republicans have cooked up.
[SPEAKER_07]: It called the Make Elections Great Again Act.
[SPEAKER_07]: Be mega.
[SPEAKER_07]: God.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I know.
[SPEAKER_15]: I wish I could swear on this show.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hence the buzz.
[SPEAKER_07]: As Ellie said, it's name that because these people are obviously in a cult.
[SPEAKER_07]: So the mega act basically includes all of the same garbage that was in the safe act.
[SPEAKER_07]: But then it also requires a new form of identification to be shown by voters when they try to cast their ballot.
[SPEAKER_07]: It ends universal mail-in-balloting completely, anywhere, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: And it eliminates any grace period for ballots.
[SPEAKER_07]: So basically, you have to show up in person on the day.
[SPEAKER_15]: And what kind of special ID is it?
[SPEAKER_15]: I mean, a real ID has so much information on it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I told you about my friend who's been trying to get his real ID for like a year and a half was born in a on a German military bay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean he's born on a U.S. base in Germany, but it's military base.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, so that's American territory.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: But, you know, they're like, oh, well, no, no, anyway.
[SPEAKER_15]: That's ridiculous.
[SPEAKER_15]: He has a passport.
[SPEAKER_15]: I assume, because he lived in Germany.
[SPEAKER_07]: He has a passport.
[SPEAKER_07]: His passport is at a date.
[SPEAKER_07]: His passport is from when he was much younger.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so now they're like, well, okay, you have to update your passport.
[SPEAKER_07]: You have to get your license, but your license has to be a real ID.
[SPEAKER_07]: He says, well, that's what I'm trying to do is to get this time with the game.
[SPEAKER_15]: All I know is when I got mine years ago, it was such a pain, like, do they really need myself to secure a number?
[SPEAKER_15]: Don't they already have it?
[SPEAKER_07]: I brought in a stack of papers that was about an inch thick, and remember, I'm, you know, a white, sis-hat, married, male, middle age, don't change my name.
[SPEAKER_07]: other than when I was on air and I'm just mean legally haven't you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's different.
[SPEAKER_07]: And and I brought them this stack of papers, but I did that only after so at the first time and they were like, oh no, you missed this one thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I came back a second time and they're, oh, you miss this other thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: So then I brought back this inch thick stack of papers and the woman behind the counter was like, uh, and I said, there will be no fourth time.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she just kind of looked at me like, uh, and I'm like, now my deal man, hey me, is this not me?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is this a dark talk talk talk to your people?
[SPEAKER_07]: Talk to your boss.
[SPEAKER_07]: Talk to them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Don't talk to me.
[SPEAKER_15]: George W Bush that passed that law correct.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think so, I think so, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: But look, there are a lot of things that can stop a lot of this this chicaneary.
[SPEAKER_07]: That said, as Ellie mentions in his piece, there's a lot of other ways that we can do about this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now, Ellie talks about a nationalized response and it would be nice if we had a nationalized response.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sherry's talked us about it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've talked with Bruce Bartlett about it before.
[SPEAKER_07]: It'd be great if Democratic Party assigned somebody kind of like a shadow cabinet to be the shadow voting master and blah, blah, blah, blah.
[SPEAKER_07]: But that's not what the Democratic Party is doing right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: There are some...
[SPEAKER_07]: different stories out there that I'm reading versus what I'm hearing, but if you look at the fools on the Hill section, basically Democrats are sticking to those that short list that we suggested yesterday.
[SPEAKER_07]: No masks, get a name tag.
[SPEAKER_07]: You need a judicial warrant.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can't imprison
[SPEAKER_07]: And when it comes to things like elections, they should be doing the same thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: And Ellie talks about that.
[SPEAKER_07]: He said, you know, if we had an elections are in a shadow democratic administration, that they can maybe they could do that.
[SPEAKER_07]: there are other things you can do locally and you should as as they're at the grassroots level there are all kinds of things if you are if you're worried about it right now yes obviously sign up for the no-kings protest or else it may get some folks from indivisible in here but also you can sign up to be an election monitor you can sign up to to help out with your elections to volunteer for the elections in your community your honest you may not
[SPEAKER_07]: And if everybody is trying to act on their best behavior, it's like going to church, or mosque, or synagogue, maybe more like it used to be, I know there are some churches now who, you know, you can wear shorts and a thong, and we're gonna play guitar and you're like, okay, more like older fashion versions of your religious things, or an older fashion version of a town hall, where people would get dressed up in the Sunday finest,
[SPEAKER_07]: And they get dressed up and they go, and they're on their best behavior.
[SPEAKER_07]: They don't bring their kids if they're screaming and crying.
[SPEAKER_07]: They don't bring their dog or their bird.
[SPEAKER_07]: They go.
[SPEAKER_07]: They act polite.
[SPEAKER_07]: They pay attention.
[SPEAKER_07]: They don't fall asleep during the sermon or any of them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can do that kind of thing with the elections because it keeps the elections honest by just volunteering and saying, Hey, I'll be a poll worker.
[SPEAKER_07]: Stop laughing you over there.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm seeing you tittering.
[SPEAKER_07]: Not that kind of a poll worker, but you can be a poll worker You can volunteer to help out.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can volunteer to help set up and tear down the polling stations Because Not everybody who helps out sticks around for that, but it's still important.
[SPEAKER_15]: The thing that Donald and Steve Bannon want to do is put ice
[SPEAKER_15]: people on the outside of said.
[SPEAKER_07]: Paul right place where you can start talking right now to your town council to your city council to your to your mayor and to your city manager and say look we don't want that so right now you guys can already get into effect get going local bills like they are in other states where they say no no ice prisons here you can also say sorry no federal forces on voting property.
[SPEAKER_15]: especially in swing states and swing districts.
[SPEAKER_15]: That's where it's necessary because they're not going to do it.
[SPEAKER_15]: I mean, they'll try it in Los Angeles, but we're going to go turn it right up.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're number one.
[SPEAKER_15]: You're number one in the middle of my hand.
[SPEAKER_07]: I agree with you though, I mean, you know, look, the fact that matter is there are a lot of things you can do.
[SPEAKER_07]: You should read that piece from Ellen Nistall at the nation.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is in our news on tap today.
[SPEAKER_07]: But the biggest thing is there is more.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, Democrats in Congress are doing some things to fight off the ice monsters.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're doing some things.
[SPEAKER_07]: They have done some things in the past for elections.
[SPEAKER_07]: But the fact of the matter is the best
[SPEAKER_07]: People who can fight all of this chicaneery, the Donald Trump is trying to do wouldn't steal any elections.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right there, right where you said.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, alright.
[SPEAKER_07]: Speaking for all those people who are sitting there and going, well, I appreciate that, Sean, but can I get some to drink?
[SPEAKER_07]: We will get you a drink of the day.
[SPEAKER_07]: We will get you the drink for today, as a matter of fact.
[SPEAKER_07]: As I mentioned before, it's not, man.
[SPEAKER_15]: I mean, it's not just nuts.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's also sweet.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we'll talk about some ways you can change that to.
[SPEAKER_07]: Drink the day coming up next.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You're still looking good, though.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You know, we're not really looking at you through the radio.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I like this one, have you had this particular, do you regularly have this particular product in your house?
[SPEAKER_15]: The first time I tried it, now I'm going to sound so elite, I hate saying this, so you might think I was in Europe.
[SPEAKER_15]: I was, and we were in finishing school, which we did not finish, and therefore, ya got me.
[SPEAKER_15]: But my little sister and I were sent to this school in Switzerland, and in the first morning we're there.
[SPEAKER_15]: They have toast out and they have this stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're like, what is that?
[SPEAKER_15]: And so we put it on the toast.
[SPEAKER_15]: That was breakfast.
[SPEAKER_15]: We called it chocolate bread.
[SPEAKER_15]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_15]: And I mean, all the Americans that were there, they were several.
[SPEAKER_15]: We were like, what is this?
[SPEAKER_15]: This is 1982.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it didn't really start to make serious inroads in the U.S. until I think the mid-80s.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, it was 80 to as 15, so it was 1982, and so it's like, what is this?
[SPEAKER_15]: And they never told us what it was.
[SPEAKER_15]: It was just available.
[SPEAKER_15]: I'm like, can we get that at home, mom?
[SPEAKER_15]: You know?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, you can, as a matter of fact, you can.
[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: For those of you who are subscribed to the drink of the day, you guys know we're talking about.
[SPEAKER_07]: And for those of you who are not, you should be.
[SPEAKER_07]: Can you help out the people who are not subscribed, Jodie?
[SPEAKER_15]: Okay, so the drink of the day is a chocolate hazelnut martini, by the way, they call this a chick drink because there's a lot of booze.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not just because it's fancy, but frankly, I don't mind some chick drinks, some quote unquote chick drinks, I'm like, whatever.
[SPEAKER_15]: And beware of a chick drink because you will get hammered because it usually has more alcohol than say it.
[SPEAKER_15]: and a lot of flavor often times.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's usually sweet and easy, you know.
[SPEAKER_15]: It tastes nice, which is why they call them chick drinks, but though they are dangerous people.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ha ha ha ha.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now, what is the inspiration for the chocolate?
[SPEAKER_07]: Hayes only at Martini.
[SPEAKER_15]: I did not know this until I found this.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's World Nutella Day.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yay!
[SPEAKER_15]: Who knew?
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, exactly or knew.
[SPEAKER_15]: Right, I mean, it's just, it's, and this is the stuff that we had in Switzerland.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nutella is excellent stuff actually, I mean, it's not Swiss, it's Italian.
[SPEAKER_15]: I know, but we had it in Switzerland.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, I didn't.
[SPEAKER_07]: I get that.
[SPEAKER_07]: You did some of the history.
[SPEAKER_07]: I back some of the stuff up and actually, I looked because I was like, wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_07]: I thought, remember, I had a weird memory of I'm like, wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think you're a story about this like Nutella stuff for like World War II.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, okay, so it's kind of,
[SPEAKER_07]: Newtella is this stuff you spread on right it's like if peanut butter we're chocolate basically which is why we called a chocolate bread right which is it look when you put the two of them together oh yeah but here's the thing newtella actually started as something after World War two because there were severe cocoa shortages in a lot of Europe and there was this baker and pastry maker Pietro Ferraron that looks right
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, well, the the name some people know Ferro Roche, same people, they in fact own Nutella as well.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, they did this thing where they created a substitute after World War II.
[SPEAKER_07]: They mixed the scarce Coastal Coco they had with sugar and finally ground hazelnuts, which were abundant where he lived in Piedmont, Italy.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it's like, okay, they made it in a like a loaf, kind of a dried loaf and you slice the loaf and you'd put that between two slices of bread.
[SPEAKER_07]: But then, yeah, things moved on, 1950s.
[SPEAKER_07]: They made it into a spread, and then, of course, went elsewhere.
[SPEAKER_07]: Found out when I looked up the WWE two thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: The World War II thing, it's like, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_07]: That wasn't the first time they'd done that, actually, in Italy.
[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, in the 1800s, because of the continental blockade from Napoleon,
[SPEAKER_07]: same thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: They had created a version of this.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the name that Signora Ferraro gave to his new invention in World War II.
[SPEAKER_07]: We called it to what is it?
[SPEAKER_07]: Jandwo.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a play on Jandwo, which is the original Italian blend of chocolate from the early 1800s.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's all of this and it's related to this character and comedian del art.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's a whole bunch of history involved.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys should absolutely
[SPEAKER_07]: It's it's chocolate paste.
[SPEAKER_07]: I love it man.
[SPEAKER_15]: I just love that stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: Actually these friends.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wait facts about it.
[SPEAKER_15]: A friend of mine's mom made these things called peanut clusters.
[SPEAKER_15]: This white chocolate and yeah, and marshmallows and stuff back in the 70s.
[SPEAKER_15]: We were eating good.
[SPEAKER_15]: That's why I got fat.
[SPEAKER_15]: Anyway, I've had so many of those, and so I got the recipe from her, but a friend of mine is a allergic to peanuts, so I made a version of it with Nutella and hazelnuts, and it's very similar, and but it's something he can eat.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you can substitute hazelnuts a lot and sometimes there's some stuff for peanuts and hazelnuts mixed, but it's Nutella is really good.
[SPEAKER_07]: I love the little facts that you stuck in here too, little history facts.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's also world Nutella day activities like, for example, making yourself a Nutella sandwich.
[SPEAKER_07]: I stuck in the fact you can put some peanut butter because look peanut butter chocolate, the two go together.
[SPEAKER_15]: They do.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's a whole candy bar.
[SPEAKER_15]: There's whole candies about peanut butter and chocolate.
[SPEAKER_07]: On Nutella, on donuts, you can do a lot of things with Nutella.
[SPEAKER_07]: And in fact, you can use Nutella in the drink of the day.
[SPEAKER_15]: You can't.
[SPEAKER_15]: Day.
[SPEAKER_15]: You can.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, so how do we make a chocolate hazelnut martini with you?
[SPEAKER_15]: I bet you know what kind of glass we need.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, I'm guessing a martini glass.
[SPEAKER_15]: Very good ding ding ding.
[SPEAKER_15]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_15]: You need a shaker some ice.
[SPEAKER_15]: One and a half ounces of vodka vanilla flavored or regular depends on how sweet you want the drink to taste.
[SPEAKER_07]: True.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think I would go with the vanilla flavor because I think it'll be a little smoother.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, the drinks that I used to drink up to so the restaurant, they didn't use the cream.
[SPEAKER_15]: They used coconut rum, like Malibu rum.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_15]: Oh, so good.
[SPEAKER_15]: But it was regular, regardless.
[SPEAKER_15]: So one and a half ounces of vodka.
[SPEAKER_15]: Right.
[SPEAKER_15]: An ounce of chocolate liquor like Gadaiva, if you're going to splurge, I would go with that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_15]: An ounce of hazelnut, the cure like French alico.
[SPEAKER_07]: Very good.
[SPEAKER_15]: And then an ounce of half and half or heavy cream.
[SPEAKER_07]: or, as you said, you could use Malibu rap.
[SPEAKER_15]: Malibu rap.
[SPEAKER_15]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_15]: I believe it was not quite an ounce.
[SPEAKER_15]: I want to say, well, this is a lot of booze in here.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I mean, it's, it's a very, as you know, it's, it's a heavy booze drink, but it's.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is.
[SPEAKER_07]: So for the garnish, there's a whole bunch of stuff in the car.
[SPEAKER_15]: So many things you can do with the garnish chocolate drizzle or Nutella with crushed hazelnuts or chocolate powder, chocolate shavings and chocolate.
[SPEAKER_15]: And this is all optional because you've already got a very sweet drink.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, if there's a lot of the stuff for the garnishes, are you making it look pretty and pretty cool?
[SPEAKER_07]: And, you know, maybe you don't do it if you're doing this to drink for yourself at home.
[SPEAKER_07]: But if you're doing it for a party, when you got people at your place, then you can.
[SPEAKER_15]: Or at a bar, I mean, you're going to see that at a bar.
[SPEAKER_15]: So, okay.
[SPEAKER_15]: So, if you are going to do the garnishings, you can remitial glass with melted chocolate or Nutella.
[SPEAKER_15]: Then cover the coated rim in crushed hazelnuts or chocolate powder, yaddi, yaddi, yaddi, yaddi, yaddi.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think it would be better actually to use the Nutella because then you don't have to melt the chocolate.
[SPEAKER_07]: The Nutella is already there.
[SPEAKER_07]: You just open the jar.
[SPEAKER_07]: You just take, you know, put it a little bit of a plate, take the glass, turn upside down, then you got it, you're set.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's easy.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's easy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Toss over the crushed hazelnuts and the chocolate powder empty out there, that from the glass and you're there.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, that's perfect.
[SPEAKER_15]: And what you do is you put everything else in the shaker.
[SPEAKER_15]: You combine the vodka, the liquor, the chocolate liquor, the hazelnut, the cream, the cream, your shake it, and you strain it into the martini glass.
[SPEAKER_15]: And then if you want to put little chocolate shavings,
[SPEAKER_15]: Right on top or chocolate syrup on top.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's up to you guys because again, this is a very sweet drink without all the extra So we've been talking about an extra thing you can do if you want a little spice because chocolate and spice is kind of nice So you can put on a little heat you put on a little to Vasco or maybe some Frank's red hot just a couple of drops and and you know Check it up even another notch.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, so it's I mean again do not have too many of these because you will okay So one of my birthday parties years ago
[SPEAKER_15]: Lonnie's not a drinker.
[SPEAKER_15]: Okay, yeah, and I'm Irish and the night of my birthday party was a Friday I believe so the next day we were going to go to my vet to learn how to shoot my dog with arthritis medication
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_15]: And so I had resolved to myself, do not drink this evening because you don't want to be hung over or shake your anything because I need to put a needle in my dogs, but And so, and I was like, okay, but Lonnie, we had just discovered the chocolate hazelnut Martinez at this restaurant and they gave me the recipe.
[SPEAKER_15]: Right.
[SPEAKER_15]: And so I made it first for his aunt because, oh, that's good and Lonnie goes, well, you make me one.
[SPEAKER_15]: I'm so sure.
[SPEAKER_15]: I think he had three.
[SPEAKER_07]: So he went one, two, three, floor.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, and so that morning, I get up and I'm chipper.
[SPEAKER_15]: And I'm like, Tucker, we're going to go to the vet.
[SPEAKER_15]: And he's like, please no, and I'm like, yes.
[SPEAKER_15]: And, uh, and Lonnie just was so, because first off, sweet drinks will give you the worst hangover of your life.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just the sweeter the drink, the more serious it doesn't matter whether it's sweet like chocolate or sweet Doesn't matter melons.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's it's something with the sugar.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's a sugar thing in an alcohol that that gives you the worse and the sweeter the drink The worse your hangover and this poor man like I said he doesn't drink and he's like I can't I'm like I know here I put a bucket near the bed just in case
[SPEAKER_15]: he was he didn't have to use it, but I did.
[SPEAKER_15]: I put it by the bed when we would sleep that on him like honey.
[SPEAKER_15]: He just I'll be shooting the dog now.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's fine, you know.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, the chocolate martinis are good.
[SPEAKER_07]: And there's one of the reasons why we did it today for the drink of the day.
[SPEAKER_07]: So if you guys made, if you guys missed any part of it, just look, subscribe at the politicsbar.com.
[SPEAKER_07]: You'll get the recipe and of course you can hear us with podcast stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: So there you go.
[SPEAKER_07]: I have not had a chance to look at a whole lot from the the muppets.
[SPEAKER_15]: Oh, I watched it.
[SPEAKER_15]: We watched it last night.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, you did.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't get a chance.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_15]: Loved it.
[SPEAKER_15]: I just, it was exactly what I expected.
[SPEAKER_07]: I said the first five minutes and then I had to take, you know, Christopher outside and then I got distracted.
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, it is really exactly what I remember from them up at show.
[SPEAKER_07]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's sweet.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's funny.
[SPEAKER_15]: And my erudolph does a lovely cameo.
[SPEAKER_15]: And it's altered.
[SPEAKER_07]: By the way, sent me his, uh, he said, uh, last night, uh, he said his favorite muppet that that he would be.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_07]: He would prefer to be Ganzo.
[SPEAKER_15]: And I was like, Ganzo and Ganzo.
[SPEAKER_07]: I like Ganzo too.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I could, I could see Jared as Ganzo.
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, no, I mean, if you say that, it's cutively.
[SPEAKER_07]: We love your brother.
[SPEAKER_15]: He, they do a great bit with him, and it's just, it's a very sweet, I hope they continue.
[SPEAKER_15]: At least once a month would be great.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, I would love that, too.
[SPEAKER_07]: Clearly, they obviously put the work in it.
[SPEAKER_07]: They really do.
[SPEAKER_07]: And that's, yeah, Seth, if you're listening, dude,
[SPEAKER_07]: No, it's, it's really, it's really, it's, it's really, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's
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[SPEAKER_14]: Hey, hey, Jordi.
[SPEAKER_14]: Oh, hello.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hola, how are you?
[SPEAKER_07]: No?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah?
[SPEAKER_07]: No, yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's been a day.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's been a long day, because you started taking Lonnie the Airports.
[SPEAKER_07]: The Good Airport, not the LAX is not my favorite.
[SPEAKER_15]: No, I would have sent a car for him, were you kidding me?
[SPEAKER_07]: And then you went and hung out at Steph's.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then you went and hung out at Bob's.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then you came.
[SPEAKER_07]: Although it's different, it was a little bit different than your usual Tuesday, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: We know where you do 4,380 shows.
[SPEAKER_07]: This was, you were pretending to be Lonnie today.
[SPEAKER_15]: I did.
[SPEAKER_15]: I ran cameras for him.
[SPEAKER_15]: So anybody that's disappointed in his camera work today.
[SPEAKER_15]: That was me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nobody should be disappointed when Jody is doing camera work or anything else.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because you do a great job.
[SPEAKER_15]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_15]: No, it was funny to at one point Stephanie asked me to do something.
[SPEAKER_15]: I went, no.
[SPEAKER_15]: I didn't even have a mic and Chris and they both just started laughing.
[SPEAKER_15]: That was the quietest.
[SPEAKER_15]: No.
[SPEAKER_15]: Povino.
[SPEAKER_15]: I'm like, is it Dan Bongino or Greg Bovino?
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, yeah, it's look look.
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[SPEAKER_07]: John will be in in just a little bit when the train gets here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Back to the news on tap said we would hit this earlier.
[SPEAKER_07]: So the Trumponomics.
[SPEAKER_07]: Trumponomics is failing badly.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, this from CNN this morning, Sarah Sider and the gang over there here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let me play this on the DVR.
[SPEAKER_00]: January was the worst month for job cut since the 2009 great recession.
[SPEAKER_00]: Seeing and seeing a reporter Madigan is joining me now.
[SPEAKER_00]: What else is this report telling you?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I look, this is a bad way to start 2026, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Layoffs way up hiring way down.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Challenger Gray and Christmas reports that during the month of January, U.S. these employers announced just over 108,000 layoffs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, that is roughly double.
[SPEAKER_01]: January of 2025 and roughly triple the end of last year.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, Sarah, as you mentioned, this is the highest since January 2009 during the great financial crisis.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course,
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, well, just this week with the Washington Post and Amazon laying off all these people.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, Amazon remember, we hit Amazon, we have a UPS laying off because of Amazon FedEx laid off before that because of Amazon, and wait a minute, Amazon, what do you last at Amazon, last the Washington Post, the UPS because of Amazon, the layoffs at FedEx because of Amazon, all have in common.
[SPEAKER_15]: Uh, 75 million dollars spent on a bad movie.
[SPEAKER_07]: Joey is right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, by the way, did you see in the entertainment section?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm laughing my ass.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm about that fifth round entertainment and more.
[SPEAKER_07]: The first story, Michelle Obama's documentary is right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Has risen 13,000%.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, that is not a mistype.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because the Melania film has opened.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's what they're figuring because the people are like, do I want to watch that?
[SPEAKER_07]: No, I want to watch a real first lady.
[SPEAKER_07]: And somebody that we're going to find information about and and somebody that's actually pretty and, you know, not a fake well and Bob just pointed out that there's reporting that there were bulk ticket prices bulk buy yeah, uh, uh, of tickets like they did with Donnie Jr's book where nobody actually read the book, nobody bought the book, nobody saw the book, but the RNC and heritage and stuff bought the book and oh,
[SPEAKER_15]: It happened in the record business in the early 90s, and it happened all the time, but the fact of the matter is there's no way she sold $7 million worth of individual tickets to people that actually showed up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, and as I said, it's a cafeteria problem.
[SPEAKER_07]: There were so many reviewers that went and because they weren't allowed to get free viewing, they had to pay for their own tickets.
[SPEAKER_07]: Those people ain't going back.
[SPEAKER_07]: We have the review yesterday.
[SPEAKER_07]: Remember the one that that brother David forward to us.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys can look it up.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not a kind review.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's an honest review, but it's not a kind review.
[SPEAKER_15]: Well, I mean, it's just, it's, you know, the faithful of it.
[SPEAKER_15]: I watched, I watched, I think it was, I think it was, I forget what show it was, but they had a reporter out talking to people that saw it.
[SPEAKER_15]: Right.
[SPEAKER_15]: I'm going to say he interviewed, it was all women that he interviewed, and a one guy.
[SPEAKER_15]: In general, it was women, and I think it was maybe seven or eight people.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is like KTLA or local station.
[SPEAKER_15]: No, no, no, I want to say it was a daily show.
[SPEAKER_15]: I forget what it was.
[SPEAKER_15]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_15]: But the guy interviewing these people out of the six or seven people that he interviewed, at least five, were not from this country.
[SPEAKER_15]: At least their accents should something else.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they're like, yeah, this sucked.
[SPEAKER_15]: No, they loved it because they're a little rick us.
[SPEAKER_15]: Oh, they loved it.
[SPEAKER_15]: They were a little magas.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just I didn't like the movie and I don't I don't like the movie that's playing right now that's the economy movie.
[SPEAKER_07]: The economy is it is absolutely sucking so badly.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys can check that out in the second round.
[SPEAKER_07]: Trump dynamics is failing.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's in the news on tap.
[SPEAKER_07]: Labor departments just trump's own labor departments.
[SPEAKER_07]: reported U.S. job openings fell to 65 million the fewest job openings since 2020.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you actually check out, I think I did it on my own social media, but if you check the chart that's at the top of the news on tap, that's actually from Steve Ratner, and you can see that the manufacturing employment is going down since Donald Trump got back in.
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not just that, though.
[SPEAKER_07]: Private firm, Challenger Gray and Christmas, CGC, confirmed US layoffs in January were the highest number of layoffs to start a year since 2009, which is what Matt
[SPEAKER_10]: Now this a new poll from the Pew Research Center shows 72% feel that the economy is in poor or only fair condition.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's not good for once they tell the truth on Fox.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_15]: Every now and then certain people do tell the truth.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's rare, but well, no, it's also Fox business.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_15]: That's a whole different.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: So the Secretary of Treasury Scott Besend.
[SPEAKER_07]: Guy Liza's as a guy who was a Wall Street paid in the ass.
[SPEAKER_07]: He was up on the hill yesterday, pissed off a bunch of people, even pissed off some of the Republicans ended up being a shouting vest.
[SPEAKER_07]: Today he was in the Senate.
[SPEAKER_07]: And one of my favorite members of Congress, Senator Elizabeth Warren got out there, you have to hear this.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys remember, she used to be a teacher, she's been a mother that you just let me play this for you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Let me just ask about what's happened in the one year that Donald Trump has been president.
[SPEAKER_09]: Last week, President Trump said, quote, we have the groceries going down.
[SPEAKER_08]: Numerous prices have did grocery prices drop in 2020 numerous grocery prices have gone down.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know if you can't hear me grocery prices drop in 2025.
[SPEAKER_08]: Numerous grocery prices have gone down and she kept this garbage up.
[SPEAKER_07]: She she just basically whooped his ass on this.
[SPEAKER_07]: She she here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let me let it continue.
[SPEAKER_08]: And in fact, we have seen inflation 2.1% for the past the long time.
[SPEAKER_09]: Have you seen the Bureau of Labor Statistics that is Donald Trump's own Bureau of Labor Statistics Numbers that report that grocery prices were 2.4% higher at the end of 2025 than they were at the end of 2024.
[SPEAKER_09]: Trump's own department of agriculture has projected that those prices would climb higher in 2026 and under Donald Trump, families are paying more and more for groceries.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, if you're just going to insult people by denying the facts that are out there and tell people they're doing great when they're struggling, I think that's just another way to say,
[SPEAKER_07]: Amen, professor.
[SPEAKER_07]: Senator Professor Warren, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wuppin' the ass of Scott Bessons.
[SPEAKER_07]: Which God, I'm glad she did.
[SPEAKER_07]: Jackass.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a Wall Street Jack.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't like Jackass's in general.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think either of us, I don't like anybody here in the bar does, but we really don't like the Wall Street Jackasses.
[SPEAKER_07]: We were like, oh man, it's just, I can't believe a price I had to pay for this Ferrari.
[SPEAKER_07]: Shut up.
[SPEAKER_07]: or her second or third yacht exactly you're like give me a damn break man so I I love Warren but yeah this economy it is it's really really crap you can check out the articles yourself there in the Trumponomics is failing section also Senator Warren by the way launching a probe into the booming levels of car repositions and as anybody who knows the economy knows car repositions only happen
[SPEAKER_07]: when the economy is bad.
[SPEAKER_07]: People don't want to get their cars repossessed.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now, but unfortunately, that happens.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, look who just popped into the bar.
[SPEAKER_07]: But one of the only John Cuba saying, hello?
[SPEAKER_07]: Hello, sir.
[SPEAKER_07]: How you doing here in this one of the Thursday evenings?
[SPEAKER_13]: I've come here to let your audience know that Donald Trump appears in the Epstein files 5,000 times more than the word abortion appears in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, we were just talking about numbers.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is important to understand the number.
[SPEAKER_07]: I believe his name appears more than Epstein.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, it does.
[SPEAKER_07]: In the Trump Epstein files.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was just why a comment now the Trump Epstein files because when you have your name that much in the files more than the guy that they've named it after I'm sorry You have to put his name on it.
[SPEAKER_07]: You have to call the Trump Epstein files because his name is there more is it in their 58,000 times
[SPEAKER_07]: 153 hundred documents.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's an insane number of times that he's and yeah, I'm just like well Yeah, he's so innocent.
[SPEAKER_15]: There's nothing to see here kids.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's worth breaking the law for 50 days straight to protect child rape This isn't it Trump and Pam Bondi.
[SPEAKER_13]: Wow, they the Pam Bondi thing is fasted They always they always believe that I was just following orders will work none of these people have ever watched a movie about Nuremberg They always think the ones without a music
[SPEAKER_13]: Yes, featuring Russell Crowe eating scenery is guring.
[SPEAKER_13]: I know, I know, I know.
[SPEAKER_15]: But this is the guy.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, but look at this.
[SPEAKER_13]: I mean, look at what they're doing.
[SPEAKER_13]: They've broken their own law every day, every single day.
[SPEAKER_13]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_13]: They're they continue to break it because half the files haven't been released.
[SPEAKER_13]: Now, they're pretend, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
[SPEAKER_13]: And the DOJ's point now is there's over a thousand girls abused, a massive year's long sex trafficking operation, millions of documents, hundreds of trips, multiple co-conspirators that have been named by Jelaine Maxwell and the government knows who they are, but the number of men charged with trafficking or raping those girls.
[SPEAKER_13]: is zero zero the guy ran a global sex trafficking ring for years with zero actual class first case in history where there's victims and evidence and money but somehow no customers no customers that if you're a five-year-old kid in a blue hat and a spiderman backpacks dad is illegal asylum seeker we've got a concentration camp for you but a powerful child rapist they will jump in front of that like like
[SPEAKER_13]: like Clint Eastwood jumping in front of a bullet from John Malkovich in the line of fire.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, go talk about this job earlier tonight.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, when it comes to being in a Trump regime, there are some hallmarks, cruelty, failure, and cover-ups.
[SPEAKER_07]: There are actually, you have a few pieces in your sub-stack.
[SPEAKER_13]: They're actually talking about 3 million dogs, Sean.
[SPEAKER_13]: $3 million documents they're holding because they're irrelevant to a child sex trafficking operation.
[SPEAKER_13]: They're not relevant to the show.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's like the Warren Commission single those four bullets aren't relevant to the rest of the assassination.
[SPEAKER_07]: We will talk more about that.
[SPEAKER_07]: John Feekel's egg is in the house on a Thursday night here at the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_07]: We will talk about the Trump Epstein files and, of course, some of the other news of the day.
[SPEAKER_07]: Get your drink refreshed and come on back, hang on.
[SPEAKER_06]: We'll be right back after we'd pay some bills at the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thursday night, here at politics bar, you know who our worth.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thursday regular is the one and only John Hugo sang back in the bar.
[SPEAKER_07]: We love you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Put your shirt on.
[SPEAKER_07]: He doesn't need to see that.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yes, please, sir.
[SPEAKER_13]: Please come on.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't mind a crowd beats for you exactly exactly thank you for hanging out with us here man we appreciate we know obviously you have a lot to do you have been prolific lately on your side yeah it's been great I love I love reading the stuff you guys should subscribe to that of course you should listen to John stuff also on serious xam week nights over the progress channel but
[SPEAKER_07]: I got to say, there is the corruption that is endemic right now, it makes a lot of people want to turn away from the political news and look at things like entertainment, like the muppets being out there, like the Grammys, did you see the Grammys this weekend, John?
[SPEAKER_13]: I know you're a huge... You know, I wanted to watch the Grammys, but that was my night to go perform Felacio on the homeless.
[SPEAKER_13]: So, I didn't catch a lot.
[SPEAKER_13]: Well, you know, it was my turn and they're mad if you're late, but no I thought it was awesome I mean like I watched the highlights like every angry conservative I love the Kendrick took home the most trophies and I love the I love that a bad bunny made history with the first Spanish language album of the year which is gonna impress I mean offend all the right people I mean I mean folks you listen angry white people
[SPEAKER_13]: clean your house to this album and you'll get it, okay?
[SPEAKER_13]: You have to clean your put this album on while you clean your house and you'll understand.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's a dance party record.
[SPEAKER_13]: That's all it is.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's harmless.
[SPEAKER_13]: These racist, these turning point USAP, I repeat myself.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're having their.
[SPEAKER_13]: their white supremacy alt super bowl halftime show because bad bunny is so unamerican despite the fact that Puerto Ricans are American and they don't like that um so they're having kid rock who literally writes songs about statutory rape and smells like the climidi of virus so that's that's who they get you know it was Billie Eilish saying like no one is illegal on stolen land but the happiest part of the Grammys for me and because I'm supposed to be depressed about the state of the world and I'm
[SPEAKER_13]: But the cure won their first two Grammys, and this made me suspiciously happy.
[SPEAKER_13]: After all these years of dread and existential joy and eye liner, they won two Grammys in one night And here's the best thing about it because they're new album songs of a lost world.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's great It's so terrific.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's like it sounds as good as disintegration.
[SPEAKER_13]: I really mean that it's a great record
[SPEAKER_13]: Um, and they want to grab me for the song alone, which is great because the cure being honored together for a song called Alone is the most cured thing I can imagine.
[SPEAKER_13]: But they weren't there to accept it because, uh, uh, uh, Perry Baman from the cure died, uh, just last week at a 65.
[SPEAKER_13]: So they couldn't go to the, so think about this.
[SPEAKER_13]: The cure couldn't accept their first Grammy because they were all at a funeral dressed in black.
[SPEAKER_13]: There's nothing more cure than this folks.
[SPEAKER_13]: like like this is God waking that it's okay to laugh at things and and so Robert Smith is still singing beautifully and wearing too much eyeliner and if you can win too much
[SPEAKER_13]: If the Kierkin went to Grammys, the same night they're literally at a funeral, that's the irony that gives me hope and times like this.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, I love, I look, I love BDD, Brooklyn Dad to find was saying on Monday how he's like he remembered that back in the day when rap and hip hop were relegated to maybe a small corner of the Grammys if nothing and rock dominated.
[SPEAKER_07]: And this time, you know, obviously a little bit reversed, but it's nice to see that the Kierkin did finally win.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, Jodie what I remember when Jethro tall one for heavy metal ban for heavy metal Right, I'm 89.
[SPEAKER_13]: 89.
[SPEAKER_13]: I think you're 91.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, 89.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, 89.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, 89, 90.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I was like, are you freaking kidding me?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, my god.
[SPEAKER_15]: I was like zero.
[SPEAKER_15]: I love Jethro tall, but no Right, right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, there were people like Aussie yet.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yeah, I mean, come on.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's that old people voting at the Grammys.
[SPEAKER_15]: I know the Jethro tall people That's right, guys.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's a good thing that can happen at the Oscars folks
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, and we're going to see the we're going to see Bad Bunny and Green Day this weekend with the NFL and that is just going to make the the right wingers heads explode even more because I'm probably watch it.
[SPEAKER_13]: I always watch it.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's always awkward for me these super bowls because I don't really blend in with the rest of this culture, you know, because I have this thing where like I hate football, but I love head injuries.
[SPEAKER_13]: So it's always weird for me and no one wants me at their party.
[SPEAKER_13]: So I
[SPEAKER_13]: CTE on there, but actual pig skin, uh, I'll go in the kitchen and hit on the wife's.
[SPEAKER_13]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: I still watch.
[SPEAKER_07]: I still watch for the ads because, you know, being in media as long as I have been.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I have been disappointed many years when you're like really those are the ads.
[SPEAKER_07]: You spent six million dollars on that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like what the hell?
[SPEAKER_07]: I just go be a congressman.
[SPEAKER_12]: But I
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, I'm I'm it's late stage capitalism shot.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's late stage capitalism.
[SPEAKER_12]: Just go with it.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's make the ads better for God's sake.
[SPEAKER_07]: Come on But but now it's it's look.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean it there
[SPEAKER_07]: it goes along with the other things that we were talking about and we do I mean because it is you know the politics bar we got to talk about politics and news and it comes to the Trump regime I'm sorry but the things that they're doing are awful it is nice to see the polls that that you're seeing more and more megaphoax basically the independence have overwhelmingly joined the folks on the left and like not not not on having anything to do with that and it's great fine wonderful
[SPEAKER_07]: But then you're even seeing some of the megaphoax who were like, no, I'm not interested in this stuff either.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then on top of all of that, you're seeing it out in the open that they're trying to do these, these half-assed cover-ups.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, here.
[SPEAKER_13]: Which one do you mean?
[SPEAKER_13]: You mean the murder of citizens in Minnesota or the child rape us on Epstein Island or keeping Jack Smith's files bare, which you gotta now write down, man.
[SPEAKER_07]: Which cover-up are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, that's just it.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's the thing is that people are going
[SPEAKER_07]: how many told them the bureau of labor statistic numbers that's the cover up you're talking about yes about that today too yeah Elizabeth Warren absolutely who up in the ass of Scott Bessons today on the hill I he just he said there there are so many people who are that they're looking around and they're going that they're waking up to the what the rest of us already were awake too and some of them are but I don't think people realize fox news is this ivy drip of rainwash
[SPEAKER_13]: All through the entire country.
[SPEAKER_13]: I mean, it's just always there and they will keep on they will the more corrupt Trump gets The dirtier the the cover-up is the higher the prices go the more trans children will be held responsible I mean we know how these oligarchs bring this is how the feudal lords get the serfs to fight for the feudal lords, right?
[SPEAKER_13]: That's what Fox News is feudal lords and the serfs who love them.
[SPEAKER_13]: They will always get the Confederates to go fight
[SPEAKER_13]: for the rich plantation owners.
[SPEAKER_13]: When there's nothing in it for the Confederates.
[SPEAKER_13]: This is the oldest rack in the book.
[SPEAKER_13]: But look at Texas.
[SPEAKER_13]: Look at Texas this week.
[SPEAKER_11]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_13]: A union man, an Air Force veteran, Taylor Rammett, won the Texas State Senate, see the Trump and won by 17 points and his opponent who Trump publicly endorsed three times
[SPEAKER_13]: spent $736,000 for a Texas Senate seat and rem it spent about 70 grand.
[SPEAKER_13]: He was outspent in Texas in a district Trump won by 17 points by 10 times the financial amount.
[SPEAKER_13]: This was like a go-fun be beating a hedge fund and Trump had kept saying,
[SPEAKER_13]: She asked me a complaint to a linguist man in all caps and then as soon as the results came and he said I'm not involved with that I don't even think about that local race and it's like dude you you don't get to scream get out and vote all caps and then say you don't remember that and then say cognitively you're fine you can't do all that at once okay
[SPEAKER_13]: But Democrats have now flipped right eight Republican held state legislative seats since Trump took office and Republicans have flipped zero.
[SPEAKER_13]: And that's why they're talking about having the ice Gestapo come on that's why Steve Bannon, who looks like a sack of pus that caught Rickets, Steve Bannon, the least healthy man in the worst Steve, you know, Steve Bannon, he looks like gout that caught gout, right?
[SPEAKER_13]: Steve Bannon comes out and he says,
[SPEAKER_13]: We're going to have ice around the polling places like outing that they are Trump's personal Gestapo.
[SPEAKER_13]: And the great thing is so many young people know who Steve Bannon is now, because he appears so often in the Epstein files too.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh God, yes, that's it.
[SPEAKER_13]: Jeff was his pamphlet Bat Tubba goo, that human pig pen the hut.
[SPEAKER_13]: Jeff Epstein was his pamphlet flying girls around the world for that humongulous.
[SPEAKER_07]: all of these cover-ups and all of these these horrendous stories are crashing together including Russia, Russia, Russia is back.
[SPEAKER_07]: So we we caught this one last fall.
[SPEAKER_07]: I remember seeing it and I brought it up today and put it in the news on tap because in the segment that is in the fourth round under the Trump Epstein files.
[SPEAKER_07]: So Epstein in his emails.
[SPEAKER_07]: claimed that he gave Russians insight into Trump.
[SPEAKER_13]: There's been stuff bubbling around all over now.
[SPEAKER_13]: And it's bad in stocking about it, too.
[SPEAKER_13]: How easy it is for the Russians to control Trump.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, now, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that Poland will probe whether Epstein had direct ties to Russian intelligence that tie in to Donald Trump.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yes, they did there going and and and the thing that they're saying over in Europe I think Malcolm said at this morning when he's talking to staff I've heard other people that I know talking about it the Europeans are all looking over here and going Okay, everything that's involved with that Trump regime is awful But then you've got the whole Epstein thing you've got so many of those people who are connected to Trump and Epstein
[SPEAKER_07]: and any of the people who do anything they're firing you guys aren't doing anything now it looks like the Europeans are going you know what we're so sick and disgusted we're gonna see if we can do some and pay we said if we if we prosecute these people everything will fall apart cool
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_13]: You know, it sure would be wouldn't it be awful if foreign governments did their own investigation and didn't protect wealthy child rapists while not protecting the privacy of the victims like some other governments I could mention wouldn't be terrible if some foreign government some ally that actually cares about men.
[SPEAKER_13]: doing this for children, actually revealed these names, you know, Epstein's Island is on American soil is the U.S. Virgin Islands we can prosecute at the very least we can make sure they don't get away, but no, this is the government cover up and this is going to haunt not just, I mean, Trump and Bondi, but this is going to cover, this is going to hunt a lot of them.
[SPEAKER_13]: for the rest of their lives.
[SPEAKER_13]: And let's not forget, just last week on a Florida bar came out and said they're not going to do anything about Matt Gates, because he had sex with an underage girl.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: So I mean, but like again, that was 2024, the House report on Matt Gates, Mike Mike Johnson was covering up child rape a year before Pam Bondi made a trendy.
[SPEAKER_07]: It doesn't surprise me that tiny Johnson is covering up
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, and he shares that stuff with his son.
[SPEAKER_13]: So, he doesn't, he does not share that stuff with his son.
[SPEAKER_13]: That is not what he does.
[SPEAKER_13]: He and his son have the, he and his son have the same porn monitor on their house.
[SPEAKER_13]: So, they can smell their own flatulence and bask and glory at how virtuous they both are.
[SPEAKER_13]: Like, you don't reveal, oh, I make sure my son that I don't watch porn.
[SPEAKER_13]: What, I mean,
[SPEAKER_13]: This guy is so disgusting.
[SPEAKER_13]: This guy, Mike Johnson is invented this brand new Christianity, and what they did was they got Jesus like those suctioned out of it, like he's trying to outbibble to Pope, what Jody just mentioned.
[SPEAKER_13]: Because you know, God of the Old Testament is not ambiguous.
[SPEAKER_13]: You have to welcome the stranger and treat the alien as one of your own Jesus.
[SPEAKER_13]: shows up in Matthew 25 and says individuals and nations will be judged by how they welcome the stranger and go to hell by how badly they didn't do that, which is why Republicans never quote Jesus and they asked him about it because the Pope quoted Matthew 25 and my Johnson's like, you know, oh no, he's wrong.
[SPEAKER_13]: I mean, okay, but okay, welcome the stranger, but did the stranger assimilate?
[SPEAKER_13]: Right?
[SPEAKER_13]: If Mike Johnson was around in Jesus' time, he'd like sorry Jesus.
[SPEAKER_13]: We already have Roman gods.
[SPEAKER_13]: You're expected to assimilate.
[SPEAKER_13]: But Mike Johnson says the Bible welcomes immigrants as long as it don't change anything.
[SPEAKER_13]: We just kind of wacky because I don't know if y'all know but Christianity is an immigrant religion.
[SPEAKER_13]: Born in the Middle East, written in Arabic and Greek, and then it entered Christianity snuck across the border into Europe, and it refused to assimilate, and it refused to assimilate in the Americas.
[SPEAKER_13]: I mean, the Bible is one long story of people fleeing famine and escaping violence and crossing borders, and God said, don't you dare mistreat these people.
[SPEAKER_13]: And now it's like, oh, immigrants will, if they don't assimilate, they'll change society.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yes, that's it.
[SPEAKER_13]: That's how we got pizza.
[SPEAKER_13]: That's how we got jazz.
[SPEAKER_13]: That's how we got Catholicism and proud.
[SPEAKER_13]: That's how we got Southern Baptists.
[SPEAKER_13]: If everybody is, if everybody refused to assimilate Mike Johnson would be British, you understand?
[SPEAKER_07]: These people aren't words me and they just don't write for them people are like Jesus well, and then of course the other thing I'm sure that in senses you as well when there, you know, they're they're going after Don Lemon and the other independent journalist there for Minneapolis and they're like oh my god Can you believe that somebody created a ruckus in the church temple?
[SPEAKER_07]: You're going, you do actually know like the story of the guy you pretend to care about, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: You, you, you, you know the origin story you know.
[SPEAKER_13]: Well, and what that was about was, I mean, the whole Temple Freakout by Jesus.
[SPEAKER_13]: You know, it was about exploitation of poor people.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: Because you, you'd come from all across the, all across Judea for Passover.
[SPEAKER_13]: Right.
[SPEAKER_13]: And, and you'd have to have your own currency.
[SPEAKER_13]: So out so at the temple, you exchange the currency for the temple currency, right?
[SPEAKER_13]: Like like tokens at an arcade, but the problem was they would jack up the prices, like surge pricing, you know?
[SPEAKER_13]: And you know, when you get your animals to sacrifice, like we used to do with grandma at the holidays, right?
[SPEAKER_13]: So they were jacking up the price, and when you jack up the price, it hurts one group, it hurts poor people, rich people don't care when fees go up, poor people do.
[SPEAKER_13]: So Jesus is literally having this famous flip out, because they were exploiting the less fortunate.
[SPEAKER_13]: This whole thing with these four African American journalists, covering a non-violent protest with zero property damage, zero injuries, to document a protest of a pastor who also works for ICE, which means he does not follow Jesus as teachings in welcome the stranger.
[SPEAKER_13]: And look how they do it.
[SPEAKER_13]: They're not throwing these journalists in Gulags, like the old fashioned days.
[SPEAKER_13]: Now they do the Trump way.
[SPEAKER_13]: You prosecute them and try to bank for them with legal fees.
[SPEAKER_13]: That's how they're trying to intimidate.
[SPEAKER_07]: independent journalist yep yeah look in 2000 years and the monsters are still playing the same old songs you think they'd learn by now but
[SPEAKER_07]: John, can we keep you around for one more round?
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll talk about that and some of the other things going on in the news on tap.
[SPEAKER_07]: Didn't mean to get you so incense there.
[SPEAKER_07]: But we agree with you.
[SPEAKER_07]: We 100% agree with you.
[SPEAKER_13]: This is how I warm up.
[SPEAKER_13]: This is like four play for me.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: See, some of you out there, be nice.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, he's got to do work after this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Don't think about it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Anyway, you loved it.
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[SPEAKER_13]: Shody, I think he just called you a $3 broad, by the way, to see you know.
[SPEAKER_13]: I think this Sinatra wannabe just called you a $3 broad.
[SPEAKER_14]: I thought he called me $3, but whatever.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just saying, well, speaking of $3, do you want to talk about Meghan Kelly and that hole?
[SPEAKER_15]: Talk about a hole.
[SPEAKER_13]: By co-worker Meghan from Down the Hall, yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: Listen, people say, why do you stay in this horrible time?
[SPEAKER_13]: Slotted serious XM because I'm waiting for the day that I'm her secret Santa at the Christmas party.
[SPEAKER_13]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_13]: You know, she doesn't talk to me in the commissary, but some day, what do you want to talk about?
[SPEAKER_13]: What do you want to talk about?
[SPEAKER_14]: What do you want to talk about?
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you want to talk about?
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you want
[SPEAKER_07]: Make it Kelly had that thing where, you know, she, she was harassed.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_13]: No, when was she somewhat okay?
[SPEAKER_13]: When was she somewhat okay?
[SPEAKER_13]: When she was fired from NBC for being too racist?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_07]: She tried, she tried being somewhat okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: When she was trying to go after, oh, it was Roger Aels for sexual assault.
[SPEAKER_13]: Right, after all of her years at Fox News and being racist, can I?
[SPEAKER_13]: Tell you something.
[SPEAKER_13]: I carry a $100 bill in my wallet at all times, and I will hand it to the first person to show me footage of Megan Kelly ever calling a white lawbreaker a thug.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_13]: You find me footage of her using the thug word on any white criminal and I have a $100 bill that I will that I will give you.
[SPEAKER_07]: I guess that she was trying.
[SPEAKER_07]: She was not very successful at it, which is of course why, you know, she tried and BC trader and then she was not successful in a candor.
[SPEAKER_13]: No, she got fired for saying blackface was no problem again.
[SPEAKER_13]: The woman keeps she and Donald Trump were both fired for racism from the same network and she has shown everybody exactly who she is but then doing yes, but people like that one third of us like exactly who she is Sean one third of us find that very acceptable I don't even think it's one third because remember it's there only about 18% of the total population of the ones that show up to vote one third
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's just a bit of the ones that show up to vote.
[SPEAKER_07]: We all have to show up to vote to stop these monsters pardon me.
[SPEAKER_07]: We got to show up to vote.
[SPEAKER_07]: We got to show up to be involved in our politics.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'm going to show it.
[SPEAKER_07]: We got to show it for our media too.
[SPEAKER_13]: I mean, Megan Kelly, look, if you're I always say if you're a black man who's going to put down black women in black men, there's a white man who'll put you on TV.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, God, you got woman like me.
[SPEAKER_13]: And if you're a woman who's been sexually abused by a powerful man and you're willing to praise powerful men who sexually abused women,
[SPEAKER_13]: they'll put you on TV.
[SPEAKER_13]: She's exactly the kind of puppet she wants and she used.
[SPEAKER_13]: I mean, look, she didn't deserve the treatment at the hands of Roger Rails, but right now she is blindly defending an administration that is covering up rapists of children.
[SPEAKER_15]: Yes, she is.
[SPEAKER_15]: And it's
[SPEAKER_13]: and she's by the way covering for them.
[SPEAKER_13]: She's making excuses.
[SPEAKER_13]: They're not really kids.
[SPEAKER_13]: They're 16, they're 17.
[SPEAKER_13]: They know what this child rape.
[SPEAKER_13]: And again, the thing about the smile more Katelyn Collins was literally asking Trump.
[SPEAKER_13]: And this is what Trump is good at, at changing the narrative.
[SPEAKER_13]: You know, we all talk about how he mocked a disability of a reporter.
[SPEAKER_13]: No one ever talks about why he did it.
[SPEAKER_14]: Right.
[SPEAKER_13]: He did it because that was the reporter who wouldn't back up his lies that thousands of muslims were dancing on 9-11.
[SPEAKER_13]: So if you don't back up one of his lies, he will punish you.
[SPEAKER_13]: So the question Caitlyn Colin Aston was completely overshadowed by his rudeness.
[SPEAKER_13]: But what she said was the fact that
[SPEAKER_13]: So many women who are in the Epstein files did not have their identities protected.
[SPEAKER_13]: Rocana and Thomas Massey, my favorite unlikely cop-body movie, these guys got all these brave women to come over and sign on to this bill because they were promised that their names would be safe.
[SPEAKER_13]: And Pam Bondi and Donald Trump didn't do that.
[SPEAKER_13]: They put their names out there.
[SPEAKER_13]: I think it's 43 of the 47 women.
[SPEAKER_13]: So their addresses are able to look up.
[SPEAKER_13]: They've already been harassed by their big numbers.
[SPEAKER_13]: humiliated all over the place, and yet the men who actually raped children are protected.
[SPEAKER_13]: The men who raped children have their names redacted, and you can see these guys writing them very specifically to Epstein.
[SPEAKER_13]: At one point Epstein tells Seed Ben, and he doesn't like talking like this on texts.
[SPEAKER_13]: So she asked him, you're protecting the child rapists, but you're exposing the victims.
[SPEAKER_13]: that was the question and because he can't answer that because he's not a man he has to say you should smile more and then we're all talking about the outrage but this is what he does he is a master to flexor at getting people off the original question because he can't answer it because he's not a man my problem with what happened wasn't just that part because that's just ugh this is Trump being drunk right my problem is the other reporters should said well we answer her question
[SPEAKER_13]: exactly.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, of course, but they've cleared those reporters out.
[SPEAKER_13]: There's very few actual journalists left in the White House press pool.
[SPEAKER_15]: They're all like they don't think they can use pillow people.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And there's even fewer journalists in Washington.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's it's somewhat of a personal thing for me because, you know, I used to really advocate for the Washington Post.
[SPEAKER_07]: I liked the Washington Post last year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I just and then Bayzos.
[SPEAKER_07]: God, who was it?
[SPEAKER_07]: It was, I think it was Steve Ratner or no, it was Peter Baker who did the math at the New York Times and I'm not always a fan of the way that Peter Baker handle things, but he did the math and he said, look, with the money that Bayzos earns, literally, you know, they're they're complaining watching posts like, oh, we're losing money and a hundred million a year, a hundred million a year.
[SPEAKER_07]: He says in one week five days.
[SPEAKER_07]: just he could make at that money no problem.
[SPEAKER_13]: So it's that's it.
[SPEAKER_13]: You know, it was a week's pay for this.
[SPEAKER_13]: So it's not about finances at all.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's about a Peter Peter movie.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's not about that either, although he just spent 75 million on that piece of propaganda for this Epstein files of veteran.
[SPEAKER_13]: And then he fires 16,000 people from Amazon last month.
[SPEAKER_13]: And again, then this week he has he has delivered the
[SPEAKER_13]: to the authoritarians with overnight shipping.
[SPEAKER_13]: This guy has a $500 million yacht, $75 million for the millennia propaganda.
[SPEAKER_13]: A million bucks he gives the Trump's inauguration.
[SPEAKER_13]: And he looks at the Washington Post and says, we can't afford journalism, okay?
[SPEAKER_13]: The Amazon reporter who covered Amazon was laid off, which is the most Jeff Bezos sentence imaginable.
[SPEAKER_13]: Jeff Bezos didn't do this because he had to.
[SPEAKER_13]: He did it because authoritarianism, like in Minnesota, is terrified of independent media, and weak billionaires don't survive authoritarianism by being brave, they survived by kneeling early.
[SPEAKER_13]: This is Musk destroying Twitter, David Ellison, hollowing out CBS news, Jared and the Saudis are trying to buy paramount and CNN and Jeff Aso's decimating the billionaires aren't neutral guys.
[SPEAKER_13]: They aren't visionaries.
[SPEAKER_13]: They are cowards with money and all they care about is more money.
[SPEAKER_13]: And this is what it looks like.
[SPEAKER_13]: Again, it's not journalists and jail cells or censorship laws.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's billionaires pulling the plug and saying it's just business.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the thing, we started the week talking with Brooklyn Dad to find about this about there, there's a certain level of cruelty and crassness and half-assidness.
[SPEAKER_07]: and it all circles around the Trump Epstein class.
[SPEAKER_07]: They do this and they think they can get away with anything.
[SPEAKER_07]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, you know, we can get away with the no killing people on boats and I will get away.
[SPEAKER_13]: Again, it's a logical outgrowth of late stage capitalism.
[SPEAKER_13]: These men who think they have the evidence that laws and basic human decency don't apply to them because they've won welcome you've left that world of losers in behind the velvet rope.
[SPEAKER_13]: You want to you want to hurt a girl you want to hurt a girl come on the island and this is why these Democrats man
[SPEAKER_13]: They're on a good position now, but the Democrats who start saying the words independent counsel in the F.C.
[SPEAKER_13]: case, who say that we have to appoint an independent counsel to make sure that this is accountable and that this child rape is not allowed to continue because otherwise you're just protecting it and we're all enablers that Democrat and I'm talking someone who says we got to go to that island and bring the technology to see if there really are bodies buried under the ground.
[SPEAKER_13]: Because there are reports of women being murdered there, so we have the Democrat who promises this is going to capture the imagination of the public, and it's because we're at an amazing time in history.
[SPEAKER_13]: Here's the thing, as awful as all this is as horrific as this is.
[SPEAKER_13]: look at the historical timeline.
[SPEAKER_13]: This outrage over the Epstein files and this width of accountability only half the files.
[SPEAKER_13]: This wouldn't have happened in the 90s.
[SPEAKER_13]: This wouldn't have happened in the 50s.
[SPEAKER_13]: This wouldn't have happened in the 1800s.
[SPEAKER_13]: This is happening right now because of a few groups of people.
[SPEAKER_13]: Me two survivors, Catholic altar boys, who showed us how to be brave men to stand up against an institution that's covering for child rape, the women of me too, the women in men who've been victims of military sexual assault.
[SPEAKER_13]: who went public and stood up to the institutions is because of these brave people who moved us from a culture of victims to a culture of survivors because of that.
[SPEAKER_13]: This is happening.
[SPEAKER_13]: This would not have happened without those brave people.
[SPEAKER_13]: The very fact that we're all seeing complaining they didn't release it up.
[SPEAKER_13]: They wouldn't have released anything.
[SPEAKER_13]: We wouldn't have had this happen.
[SPEAKER_13]: We wouldn't have had the power as a society to begin to have a whiff of a counter.
[SPEAKER_13]: She lay in Maxwell wouldn't have gone to jail for this in the 90s.
[SPEAKER_13]: So just remember that.
[SPEAKER_13]: We've come so far, gay marriage, a black president.
[SPEAKER_13]: We're not doing people in jail for weed, and as awful as it all is, we are becoming more decent as a species, and I'll prove it because it's never been harder in the history of the human race for men to get away with interfering with a woman or a child than it is right now.
[SPEAKER_13]: And men have done this to women and children for thousands of years, and it's only become slightly inconvenient for them in the last 40.
[SPEAKER_07]: I love to hear that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I love to hear that because that is, it's positive, happens to be true.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think that's what you're saying there among other things, John, is that we can press more.
[SPEAKER_07]: There are, there are a lot of Democrats who are good people, but they need to be pressing more.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they need to press in the right way.
[SPEAKER_07]: They were just doing polls this week that said abolish ice for some reason isn't quite as good.
[SPEAKER_07]: There are a surprising number of people, but replace ice.
[SPEAKER_07]: works even with some of the maga people great fine because you know when you actually pull out the whole phrase it's abolish and replace ice but fine just call it replace ice whatever push on that go forward push and get as much as we can on in everything that the
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you know, you know, but you know that racket, right?
[SPEAKER_13]: So if you talk about this before abolish ISIS, it's like a boss, the police.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's something that the left creates.
[SPEAKER_13]: So Democrats can throw it under the bus.
[SPEAKER_13]: No, no, it exists.
[SPEAKER_13]: So David, so Joe Biden can say, I don't want to abolish the police.
[SPEAKER_13]: Folks, that's too far.
[SPEAKER_13]: That's too lit.
[SPEAKER_13]: This is how Democrats sell themselves to nervous moderates.
[SPEAKER_13]: This is how the left helps get moderate selected.
[SPEAKER_07]: But this is why I'm saying this is why I'm saying some good Democrats.
[SPEAKER_07]: There are more Democrats who should not be afraid because of the things that you're pointing out.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is no way they're not going to get elected on it.
[SPEAKER_13]: They're not going to get elected on abolish ice.
[SPEAKER_13]: Right.
[SPEAKER_13]: You know what's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_13]: Republicans are going to say they want more illegals to come here and rape your daughters when you say a abolish.
[SPEAKER_13]: You know how they're going to say.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're already doing what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_07]: Don't do a abolish.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do a pretty nice.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, because we do want to replace us, they'll say reform it.
[SPEAKER_13]: They'll say reform it.
[SPEAKER_13]: They'll say replace it.
[SPEAKER_13]: But either way, this is the personal Gestapo of a president.
[SPEAKER_13]: They have a higher budget than than than the Navy.
[SPEAKER_13]: I mean, this is insane.
[SPEAKER_13]: The Coast Guard.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_13]: It's insane how these thugs, these cowards, these curves have been enabled by this government to do the opposite of everything our constitution and our new testament tell us to treat people.
[SPEAKER_07]: But at the same time, there are more people standing up all the time all over the place.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, of course they do have to listen and read things to kind of pump up their spirits.
[SPEAKER_07]: How we are hoping, obviously, did they listen to you?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, read.
[SPEAKER_13]: I know you'd make it woke by the end with your reading things.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, look, your sub stack is definitely worth reading and subscribing to and people should do that if they don't know where it's at look We've got the link in the guess section of the news on tap to that.
[SPEAKER_13]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_13]: My last name is too tough.
[SPEAKER_07]: Go to the get to go to the guess Look, you can just click it's easy John.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you so much for hanging out with us every Thursday night.
[SPEAKER_07]: We thank you both We will see you next week here Tomorrow is Friday, Karen and Anita will be here holy crap.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's gonna be great.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Get home safe, whatever you do in, and we will see you here tomorrow night, Karen, Anita, Friday night, of course we'll get to the news too, and another drink.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, all right, we'll see you then.