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[SPEAKER_09]: Hey, Johnny.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hey, Sean.
[SPEAKER_09]: Guess what day it is?
[SPEAKER_07]: Today.
[SPEAKER_07]: Up day it is.
[SPEAKER_07]: Woo hoo.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is a very busy Wednesday here at the Pentecost Mar.
[SPEAKER_07]: Lot of news coming down.
[SPEAKER_07]: We have a very full cake of news on tap here tonight.
[SPEAKER_07]: And of course, we got a couple of great guests.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, you love them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Our friend Bob.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, he is coming in Bob Cesca is coming in an hour or two and one of our friends.
[SPEAKER_07]: We haven't seen him here at the bar yet although I talked to him pretty regularly online.
[SPEAKER_09]: We touch our colleague of his a few months ago.
[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: We talked to also his wife.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's lia.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: But they are the co-directors of individual and Leah's been here Ezra will be here tonight to get you guys kind of ready for the No Kings 3 rally.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So a ton of news today, Jody, no kidding and a lot of stuff updating today.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We've got that down there as well.
[SPEAKER_07]: Got to start out, obviously, with the updates from the war in Iran, Donald sent that 15
[SPEAKER_07]: send it back across the table and said, you know, we got another plan.
[SPEAKER_07]: How about you suck it?
[SPEAKER_07]: So which, I mean, I'm not surprised that they basically said as much.
[SPEAKER_07]: They did also confirm to the International Maritime Organization, the IML.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know it you may not, but it's basically international traffic cops, if you will.
[SPEAKER_07]: They said that they're going in a loud non-hospital vehicles to pass through the streets of Hormuz.
[SPEAKER_07]: So basically,
[SPEAKER_07]: If your ship is flagged with another nation and you, you know, commit to basically saying, I am not a friend of the United States or of Israel, I don't care.
[SPEAKER_07]: I couldn't care less about them.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not an enemy.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just don't want to deal with it.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're probably be like, yeah, okay, but then of course.
[SPEAKER_07]: the whole thing is any of the tankers, any of the ships that go through there, their captains and their owners have to go, okay, but do we trust the Iranians?
[SPEAKER_07]: And of course, many of them don't.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, are the Iranians going to board the said ships?
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, that's a question.
[SPEAKER_07]: that's not what they're they're worried about being fired on from the shore though drone's coming in and and and a lot of times it's not even the ship owner of the ship captain it's the ship insurance or reinsurance company who gives them the green light as whether they will let them go through but all you're trying not to do we're going to board the ships
[SPEAKER_07]: Right, right, but they may fire on them.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, um, that's been a good thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they're preparing to send another 3,000 troops.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, that's, that's Gary too.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, we don't want to have any troops.
[SPEAKER_07]: We don't want to.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, so many of the people who have died.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just way too freaking many.
[SPEAKER_07]: And already.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I got to say, um, uh, all of this, as the, as the, as the war drags on and gas prices are high, uh, 398, uh, and holding today is the AAA average gas price around the country.
[SPEAKER_07]: So at least it's holding it's 3 398.3 is.
[SPEAKER_09]: Was it that high when, uh, Joe Biden was running?
[SPEAKER_07]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
[SPEAKER_09]: I forgot about that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, a matter of fact.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's one of the other big ones in a second round under actually pardon me.
[SPEAKER_07]: This one's under the Yeah, it is under the second round.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: I get confused because there's so much news.
[SPEAKER_07]: The war over the shutdown today is day 40 of the DHS partial shutdown Democrats have been saying the same thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is now the 11th or 12th time that they've sent Basically a thing across where they said look we'll pay for everything except ice and CBP
[SPEAKER_07]: and the Republicans are like just ridiculousness.
[SPEAKER_07]: And Donald, did we play that cut for me yesterday?
[SPEAKER_07]: Where Donald was like, you know, I don't want any deal at all.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not in favor of anything.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't think we play that, but I did hear today, as I was listening to the Ms. Miller show.
[SPEAKER_09]: on the news section of WCPT and I'm going to say to WCPT maybe you want to get a different news thing because what do you mean there was an AP or was it was AP news saying the Democrats have shut down everything well AP news right now AP radio news has some problems they tend to be unfortunately a little bit more right wing that's what I'm hearing and I'm like
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, they need, they need to get their act, especially with CBS radio news, not going to be around much longer.
[SPEAKER_07]: They need to get their crap and gear, unfortunately, but no matter what the deal is, Donald is pretty much, he said that, that no matter what the deal is, he's just, he's not entirely in favor of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Here, let me get this slide to the other side.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't want to comment until I see the deal, but as you know, the negotiating a deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess they're getting fairly close, but I think any deal they make, I'm pretty much not happy with it.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's always unhappy.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's a little crybaby, which we have in the collage today at the top of the news on tap.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can see Donald crying.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, big congratulations, by the way, because one of the things, one of the main things he's crying over today, congratulations are in order in election land, Democrat candidates.
[SPEAKER_07]: Emily Gregory, and Brian Nathan, both in Florida, so close.
[SPEAKER_07]: Republican seats, so close.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, one of my no exactly where she's at.
[SPEAKER_07]: Emily Gregory, she flipped the Republican Health Florida State House district that includes Mara Logo.
[SPEAKER_07]: Brian Nathan, flipped the Florida State Senate district.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nathan's was the 30th red to blue flip during Trump's second term.
[SPEAKER_07]: How many seats have Republicans flipped a blue to red in that?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I was up in zero.
[SPEAKER_07]: Correct, Jody is right.
[SPEAKER_07]: None, nodda, zero, zip, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch, zilch,
[SPEAKER_07]: They had their primary here remember a couple of weeks back, um, had the recount going he lost by 23 votes.
[SPEAKER_07]: every vote counts children every single one so that there's some some great election news this is why it is important for everybody to stand up and get out there regardless of whatever it is look we still got the special election going on here in Virginia about whether we can you know read district and that type of stuff damn skipy if you have no to you got to April 21st if you're in the Virginia area anywhere in Virginia um
[SPEAKER_07]: there are lots of elections going on and we try to keep you guys abreast of them uh our old friend Nate blue and is uh he's still running up there and in Utah he's doing some things there so we are pretty happy about it and we're gonna try to get Zach walls on I just wouldn't be great I'm excited his people this morning so we'll see you night
[SPEAKER_07]: There are a lot of elections going on at the local, at the state, and, of course, obviously this fall on the federal level, but you got to remember that these things, the news happens all the time, and there are, there are things that are out of your control, for example, court cases.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then there are things that are in your control.
[SPEAKER_07]: The people you put in positions to do the things you want to do.
[SPEAKER_07]: Democrats have made it clear.
[SPEAKER_07]: They finally got the message last fall about the shutdown about how to do one, and that's why they're doing the same thing with the DHS.
[SPEAKER_07]: They want you guys to get funded by the way, you know, Journalist Morris, a Cabas Jodi, I saw her post that some pictures that somebody had sent her from Chicago.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, hey, I believe it is, where ice monsters are actually doing some of the jobs of the TSA.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's supposed to.
[SPEAKER_07]: The first of all, it's a big no-no, second of all.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a, there are all kinds of violations.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's an airport violation.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a union violation.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a big no-no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_07]: And those those individuals because they're on camera are gonna be in trouble and they're not masked
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, because I thought that if they were not mass, they'd get dogs, but obviously if they're bugging back, it's about being held accountable and I'm sorry, but you are doing a job that you are legally not allowed to do, I don't care if you're helping a friend, especially when it's a certain thing like this, I get it.
[SPEAKER_07]: You want to help.
[SPEAKER_07]: So do we.
[SPEAKER_07]: You want to know the best way to help the TSA agents out there at Coast Guard folks exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: then you should call your Congress person and this one you can call both your senators and your house representative a two-o-two two-four three-one two-one yes that's it two-o-two two-four three-one two-o-one was have it almost I'm getting there I'm getting there with the four-five six twelve is the white house two-o-two four-five six one-two one-two is the white house
[SPEAKER_07]: interesting good to know I didn't have that one memorized either so and we with numbers I used to have a back door number at the White House but I don't have access to that with anyone anyway but look the thing you need to do is call your member of Congress and tell them I skits nothing CBP gets nothing but fun the rest of DHS is stupid do what the Democrats want
[SPEAKER_09]: Hi, it's 12 times almost they voted on this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, 11 or 12 something like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Chuck Schumer has been holding the line.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's good about that.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean he's
[SPEAKER_07]: There are lots of things I have issues with them about.
[SPEAKER_09]: But he's doing well on this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, we give criticism where to and credit to.
[SPEAKER_07]: In this case, they're getting the credit because they're doing things the right way.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, with nothing else, call them, thank them.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't have to send them like a little bunch and donuts or nothing, but call them, thank them and say keep holding the line.
[SPEAKER_07]: Make sure you guys do this the right way.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, also speaking of accountability as we were, tech world has some accountability today.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, in two places, historic verdicts, in both New Mexico and Los Angeles.
[SPEAKER_07]: Go us.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep, humans.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mehta is being held responsible, both for platforms that are harmful to children's mental health and also for the addictiveness of their platforms.
[SPEAKER_07]: uh... this is kind of like the first few cases in the the tobacco stuff yeah the the big tobacco got their asses kicked back in the day uh... this is kind of like that and you and i were talking about uh... section two thirty and some of it applies but mostly this is is them just kind of trying to dodge stuff they were trying to use twelve to thirty two dodging
[SPEAKER_07]: They were trying to use everything they could to dodge it, but the long first amendment all this stuff right but the best comparison and the best counter is big tobacco because the documents that were held up in both of these trials in Mexico and Los Angeles were internal documents.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're a meta in both cases and Google is also with the one in the trial and loss and right but there were internal documents that said we know that the products that we put out YouTube included are addictive.
[SPEAKER_07]: They have a negative effect on our customers for the the trial in the Mexico it was basically we know that we're luring luring in kids that are not supposed to be on the platforms we're luring them in anyway.
[SPEAKER_07]: And well, we're just kind of going on, you know, the past it because we're ready to run out with them to sort of things we talked more about the algorithms later, but it is it's just
[SPEAKER_07]: look there's a lot going on that's why you can get the news on tap for free at the politics bar dot com that way you guys can scroll through it read deeper in the stories if you want of course you know you're gonna hang out later here with joty and need the bar it's just the way it is we we put that out usually after news that you guys have chance to read before you come hang out with us so there you go uh somebody's going to come hang out with us says rule of in yeah matter well Bob's going to be here later and then as a real event is going to be here from indivisible he is uh should be here very
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[SPEAKER_07]: Coming back with Ezra Levin of Indivisible talking about no kings coming up this weekend.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hang on.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It is Wednesday night here at the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm telling you, I don't want to talk this guy like actually talk, not like text for a long time, but not the only, as a live-in, comes out or co-director of indivisible.org.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a lot easier to talk to you this way than in a blue sky or back in the day Twitter messages.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is a lot easier.
[SPEAKER_03]: and we get all those nice chairs.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel so welcome.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, look, Jody and I, we wanted you here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Obviously, Leah was here before we had Antonio here before that.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys, honestly, we really glad that you guys come to the bar before all of these wonderful no kings rallies.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they keep getting bigger, which we love.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I love how when you came in, we're like, you know, you're you're apologizing, you guys in the bar you should know.
[SPEAKER_07]: So he comes in and he's like, oh, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, he's like 30 seconds after the clock.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's like, oh, you know, I'm, I apologize.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm a little busy.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're like, yeah, little busy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Only the biggest protest in the history of humanity.
[SPEAKER_07]: So far, so far.
[SPEAKER_07]: And he's like, yeah, but we did that a few months ago.
[UNKNOWN]: No.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now y'all are doing really well.
[SPEAKER_03]: It we've been in twice and by it's not me, y'all know this.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the organizers on the ground.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm I'm the cheerleader for the work that's actually being done that's hard But we did I do feel there's something about me that feels like it's it sounds like bluster it sounds like provider I say this is going to be the largest protest in American history But we said that before no kings to and we said it before neokings one and it was true both times and Right now that is indeed it's going to be enormous.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be historic.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be powerful.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be joyful So I hope a lot of people come out
[SPEAKER_07]: how many.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's fully.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, he's obviously how many rallies do you have now registered?
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I heard something like over 3,000 more than 3,100 at this point and we're accepting more registrations every single hour.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think it'll grow a bit more before we close it up Thursday night.
[SPEAKER_09]: So my question is I don't register, but I'm going to go.
[SPEAKER_09]: So do you count those numbers?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, so it enters like there's a lot of hell above over.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do I RSV where I do not look?
[SPEAKER_03]: Anybody's ever been to why these breakfasts?
[SPEAKER_03]: You know there's nobody taking attendance at or there's often not a door.
[SPEAKER_03]: Never.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: This ain't a nice little science class.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I recommend people RSV because it gives the organizers some sense of who's coming.
[SPEAKER_03]: We know that most people do RSVP.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think there's been
[SPEAKER_03]: Some discussion online of like, oh, but then I'm going to be on some list and let me tell you folks if your number one concern is that you're going to be on a list of people who are so you didn't know kings and that's what you're worried about you think the regime is going to go after those people we are far through the looking glass of that point we are in your right.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is really messy.
[SPEAKER_03]: And in fact, a lot of people are exercising a lot of courage to be out in this moment.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is what, look, IRCP, but if people don't feel comfortable, the number one thing is show up until at least a few friends to show up to because that's how we're going to build this.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm bringing at least two.
[SPEAKER_07]: And look, there are people in all kinds of places.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, I'm here in the DC area.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can't remember.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think you and the DC area too, if I remember.
[SPEAKER_03]: We were splitting time between DC and Texas, but now with the kids had to go to school, you know how to.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we're just in the DC area now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Don't totally understand that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, you know, I'm I'm more in the Virginia corner of the DC Metro area.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm LA.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I see Jody Jody.
[SPEAKER_07]: Jody's got the nice weather in LA.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just a little bit decent this weekend here, but depending on where people are around the country, no matter what the weather is, you're just saying, look, they still show forecast be prepared.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, actually the weather looks pretty good around the country.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a little bit cooler than it was last weekend, but we're not seeing major places being rained out although Arizona is going to be real hot, but they're used to it and the twin cities are all be it's going to be, you know, above.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will take, but you'll be with spring steam.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I mean, obviously, me and the boss are gonna be hanging out.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, what I said, I love the big events.
[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously, it's cool to see these crowds.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's cool to see the aerial footage of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's great to see famous artists throwing in.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I'm from rural Texas.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm from small town in Texas.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love seeing Kyle Texas where down the street where I grew up from has a nookin' drive.
[SPEAKER_03]: Coloma, California, population 372 have rally.
[SPEAKER_03]: Arco, Idaho, population 930 has a rally.
[SPEAKER_03]: Beatrice, we're asking.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, we're more or less just about anywhere within 30 minutes of an hour of where you live 95% of the US population lives that close to a no kings rally and so I encourage people if if you really want to go to the big city one that's fine, but I don't think.
[SPEAKER_03]: the whole purpose is served just by gathering the big city centers because half the battle is sending a very clear message that Trump is this puny weekling who is going down and democracies research itself.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's half of it, but the other half of it is not just to show up on Saturday.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's to start organizing in our own communities.
[SPEAKER_03]: And if you're show up in Kyle Texas, you're going to be in a smaller group.
[SPEAKER_03]: And those people are all going to be from Kyle Texas.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you can connect with them and recruit them and start organizing with them.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's going to be hard to build that sustained organizing infrastructure that I think we're going to need as we head towards a midterm election that Donald Trump fully intends to sabotage.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, look, I think, you know, we, we tell everybody here as a that, I mean, you know, this is our community here at the politics bar and, you know, Bruce Bartlett, who's some people have demonized, who she's actually friend of mine, which is weird, because if you would ask me that when I was a teenager, I would have been like, are you kidding me?
[SPEAKER_07]: The guy who's responsible for trickled out, you give me a knife and I'd be like, you know, people go, I don't know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, there are a lot of nice people.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bruce is the one who was coined this term.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's called it the broad left.
[SPEAKER_07]: And basically that means anybody who's not supporting Trump.
[SPEAKER_07]: The broad left goes from everybody like Michael Steele, who God love him.
[SPEAKER_07]: I used to be as pretty sure.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's still Republican.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm like, why, why?
[SPEAKER_07]: He's just, because that's where I am.
[SPEAKER_07]: He says, I'm like, that's okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Everybody from them to the independence.
[SPEAKER_07]: And there's lots of independence.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's some areas of the country more independence than there are Republicans or Democrats.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then you go through, you know, we are corporate Democrats.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you know, yeah, but there's still Democrats.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then you go to, you know, you're more progressive.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you go to more of your liberal firebrand, all of these people are on the broad left.
[SPEAKER_07]: And now even we even have a few uncertain issues, like the Epstein files, where you get the difference between, we do.
[SPEAKER_07]: We do.
[SPEAKER_07]: you said no more war and let's see you went to war in Venezuela you went to war with a ran and now you want to go to war in Cuba yeah I got an issue with you we have a friend of mine who voted for that
[SPEAKER_09]: person three times.
[SPEAKER_09]: And he's now like with the immigrant stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's done these are the two issues that we've seen that have broken through the most over the last 15 months.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing more that I've seen has broken through as much as the secret police good squad.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: American media and murdering people.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you can be the most hardcore libertarian out there.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you see a fascist secret police were show up in your community and start terrorizing you to me,
[SPEAKER_03]: You go whoa whoa whoa whoa.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is why they're losing even like the Joe Rogan types.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're losing the Influencers online That they are seeing this and pushing back ants and then the second thing is this war Which three quarters of Americans in want to strike around Trump had campaigned on being the peace presence specifically said He would not start a war with Iran and now we're spending a billion dollars a day while people's prices at home skyrocket and people are saying What the why are you doing that's why are you moving forward this easy alien folks?
[SPEAKER_03]: I do think to your point, Sean, if the broad left, it's funny, I don't even think of a ZDL article.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I look at the organizing that was done in the Twin Cities, the people who were linking arms to push back against that secret.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who you voted for in 2020?
[SPEAKER_03]: Were they in the Ask Quicker Party Registration?
[SPEAKER_03]: They saw harm being done to their neighbors and they link to arms and push back.
[SPEAKER_03]: So when I think about what success looks like for no kings, we welcome everybody.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't care if you're a former maga believer.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't care if you're a hardcore Republican, I don't care if you're a libertarian.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't care if you hate Democrats and think all politics is bad, but you feel like you need to show up anyway.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are welcome here and it's our responsibility to welcome you in.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I think that's the really important point, especially that goes along with what you're saying about towns of every size, small towns, medium towns, whether you're in the rural areas, the suburban areas or the urban areas is that at least on some of these issues, we all want democracy to work right.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we know that especially with like this stupid ass save act, which is garbage, they don't want democracy to work right.
[SPEAKER_07]: We wanted to work right so that when we say we don't want to go to war, that our government says right, then we're not going to go to war because the people don't want us to go to war.
[SPEAKER_07]: When we say that we want to see accountability for the monsters who do horrible things to kids, like Jeffrey Epstein and like the people who help Jeffrey Epstein,
[SPEAKER_07]: You get people who are, you know, the America first is who are like, I don't agree with you on a whole lot of stuff, but on that we'll go to the matter on that because those monsters got to go.
[SPEAKER_07]: They got to be shown accountability and then, of course, there's the affordability question.
[SPEAKER_07]: These are the two things that we tell virtually every Democrat and some independence, too.
[SPEAKER_07]: American needs AA affordability and accountability.
[SPEAKER_07]: and quite frankly i'm sorry but gas at four dollars a gallon of national average which you say jodied up that place was what uh not too far from you has like eight or nine dollars oh it's seven and some change a half a mile for my house right but then the other place that's gouging is well down town it's yeah i'm assuming right now it's close to nine
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and I'm sorry, but that ain't affordable for anybody in the United States.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whether you're in a small town or a big city, when you got that, because it's going to drive up the prices of everything and go to office, show up 20% of the world's will supply by in this war of choice and surprise, that negatively impacts us.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, no, he's done things at the same time, like people there are some folks, I mean, I have a PHEV.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know what you guys drive.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know, Joe, he's got a regular car and Lonnie, her, her, her, handsome and wonderful husband who, you've voice this stuff for us.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, Lonnie, the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's got some, you know, big old car machines.
[SPEAKER_09]: All cars and they only need gas.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I got a plug in hybrid, which is nice.
[SPEAKER_07]: But don't just go through and gut it all of the renewable energy stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so when people are going, man, you know, I wish it didn't have to pay this gas.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, you know, the government used to help, in fact, when President Biden and Vice President Harris and the Democrats, they did a lot to try to help us get, you know, those renewable energy cars.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now those are harder to get in more expensive because of Donald and the Republicans.
[SPEAKER_03]: So just like I think this is why Trump is headed towards an electoral disaster in the mid terms and he knows it and that is why he is openly talking about sabotaging canceling
[SPEAKER_03]: Messing with the elections when they come down and this is exactly what a Thoritarian suit I say this not to scare folks, but just to be real Like we are going to organize to get out the vote, but that's not going to be enough It's not going to be enough just to wait until this October next November to to get out and vote for the Democratic candidate for House or Senate We've got to be organizing that we've got to be building up the capacity to do at a national scale
[SPEAKER_03]: what Trump tried, what folks did in Twin Cities to push back against what Trump tried to do, which was organized block by block and push back against illegal and unconstitutional behavior.
[SPEAKER_03]: They are sending ICE agents out to airports right now, not just to terrorize immigrants at airports.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing it as a dress rehearsal for the midterms when they plan to use ICE and the national guard in order to do in
[SPEAKER_09]: But what's interesting is they don't have masks on.
[SPEAKER_09]: So what was the doxing issue about?
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's totally proof.
[SPEAKER_07]: We got a piece of the news on top today that basically says says as much that, you know, they're they're excuse that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, you got to have the masks.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, it's just an excuse.
[SPEAKER_09]: Cause they're doing illegal stuff and they're not doing it in the airports because they can't.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, and then there's the other part, as I don't know if you know journalist Morris Acabus.
[SPEAKER_07]: She doesn't go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody just sent her some pictures earlier today that we saw here earlier this afternoon.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I believe it's Chicago's O'Hare.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: There are some ice monsters who are actually doing TSA workers jobs and you go, well, that's against a law.
[SPEAKER_07]: But not only that, you're like, you know, there's Chicago law, there's Illinois law.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's the federal law, because that's DHS, you don't, you don't overlap there.
[SPEAKER_07]: You aren't trained for that.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's security issues, because they are not trained to look for some of the security issues of people coming through there.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, that the DHS, the other DHS people are, the TSA people pardon me.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you just sit there going, the number of violations you guys have on this.
[SPEAKER_07]: We said we want accountability.
[SPEAKER_07]: Obviously for the Epstein stuff, but we want to be held accountable for all this stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: The folks in Minnesota are actually doing accountability.
[SPEAKER_07]: Did you see the story that Minnesota is now suing to get the information on the the murders of Alex Freddie and Renee Good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I think shout out to the folks in Minnesota who are constantly in inspiration to us all, both that the normal everyday citizens of Minnesota, but also a lot of their leadership Keith Ellison is really leaning in hard and actually in a bring rule of law.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think.
[SPEAKER_03]: what we need at the national level once we take the house and the Senate on January 3rd win that Senate majority leader on the Democratic side and House Speaker on the Democratic side are sworn in.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want the subpoena to fly that afternoon.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want hearings.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want testimony.
[SPEAKER_03]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_03]: And not just not just for Trump not just for his top figures but anybody who broke the law anybody who violated the Constitution anybody who contributed to that needs to be brought in
[SPEAKER_09]: You're correct.
[SPEAKER_03]: Correct, but they know, oh, sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: Correct, they know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, that's one.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just, yeah, just, just a couple of minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: She knows.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love that she got, I love that she's out.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's great that she's, but that's not enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not a kind of relationship.
[SPEAKER_03]: She should have lost her job and now she needs to face the consequences.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's true for her.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's really a nasty, and yeah, I mean the whole thing about all of this, the common grand that we can find a lot with our friends who are registered into pendants, or some of them who are even the America first, is that they want things that they want people to be held accountable to, they're not, they're not in favor of these randomized monsters going around.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're like, hey man, I know Jorge.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've known him for years.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's operated my favorite taco joint for ages.
[SPEAKER_07]: And these jackasses just came in and rips stuff up.
[SPEAKER_07]: And he's a citizen man.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the poor Guatemalan woman and her daughter.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, I saw that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, this is why I don't know if y'all saw this a couple of weeks ago with a White House wizard that was actively advising Republicans to not talk about nasty deportation because it's a loser for them.
[SPEAKER_03]: A loser even among Republicans and independence.
[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: The one other, there's one other phrase that they've been advising them not to talk about as well.
[SPEAKER_07]: They've been saying absolutely unequivocally, do not talk about words like protest or no kings, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
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[SPEAKER_07]: It is the break.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Wednesday night here at the politics bar.
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[SPEAKER_07]: which is actually where Ezra Levine co-founder and co-director of indivisible is hanging out with us here in the evening.
[SPEAKER_07]: I had to say this week we were talking in the break here a little bit.
[SPEAKER_07]: We had Leah here as you know here last time that we did no kings and she helped everybody get ready.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I was thinking about the you know the two of you because you guys aren't your married you guys have you know the hectic the little munchkin which is is awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he is my lead, just turn three.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you look at that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Couple of hits.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: I had remembered, see, this last, you know, a pretty imperative march.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was March 23rd, I think, is the ACA's anniversary 16 years.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you guys, I believe, started dating and then you got married around this time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, so this is, you're, you're celebrating your anniversary.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: With the next largest, with all of us in American history.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a and the best gift that anybody could give me and Leah for I think that I looked at up the 11th wedding anniversary theme is steel, which I don't even know what we would do with steel.
[SPEAKER_03]: So instead we're just going to ask everybody to bring at least three friends that know King's protest to make his story.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, I'll let you know.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I'm getting more.
[SPEAKER_09]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I hope she gets better.
[SPEAKER_07]: She will.
[SPEAKER_07]: Think of a stealing America spine.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe that's how you could.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_03]: But steal ourselves for this.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_07]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, look.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I think that I think the thing that people don't understand necessarily what organizing means.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a part even even though they do it.
[SPEAKER_07]: They do it at their their churches and their mosques and their synagogues.
[SPEAKER_09]: But what you guys are doing is insane.
[SPEAKER_07]: But it's also the fact that people, you, you say organizing some folks and they do the gloss over thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know what you're talking about organizing, whatever, really organizing is just getting together with people in your local community in my wrong.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, if you can throw a birthday party, you can throw a no-kings protest.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's really simple.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's inviting friends and family and some friends and friends out, and then it's no-volts because people want to be part of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's one of the reasons why I do think sometimes people say, I don't want to ask people to do this thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to put that burden on them.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it is a gift to invite people out to a no-king's protest.
[SPEAKER_03]: You were inviting people to a historic, powerful, and joyful experience.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is.
[SPEAKER_03]: And maybe they didn't think they were invited or maybe they didn't think it was for them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because they're not a protest or they're not an organizer.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're not an activist.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't care about politics, but we need them there.
[SPEAKER_03]: And unless we invite them, then they're not going to come.
[SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, we call that organizing.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, my friend of mine who was very is is still super shy in June the first one Yeah, he emailed me because are you going to that?
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm like, yeah, can I come to your house first and then we'll walk and like absolutely it was his first ever
[SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Ever protest, and I've known him for a long time, and he was a little terrified.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm like, honey, I've been to so many protests.
[SPEAKER_09]: It'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're good.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then a friend's of mine showed up at my house and we all walked down, and he was like, okay, and then in October he goes, I'll be there again, I'm like, yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: And so he's getting used to being at protests.
[SPEAKER_09]: And he's like, he's super like not, he doesn't like crowds.
[SPEAKER_07]: for those people who don't like crowds since there are so many protest locations you can go to one of the smaller ones and maybe make more of a difference you don't have to necessarily cheer or bring a poster just you know we just bring american flags yeah that's a great thing bring american flags
[SPEAKER_07]: be happy.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know Malcolm Nance's, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And Malcolm has said for ages.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's been telling people, even before we did all the no kings rallies, that he says, go up on the overpasses and you know put out a toast.
[SPEAKER_07]: But then he says, you know, if you want to get dressed up, you want to put on your, you know, your turtle costume or your inflatable bunny or whatever, and he says, get bring a boom box, bring make our dance part.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_07]: The biggest thing is is that you go, it's not just that you're going to tell Donald Trump and the people who stay with him for any reason, that, you know, hey, there are more of us.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're also going to tell other people if you're somebody who is a little shy.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're going to tell other people, hey, man, there are people just like you and me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: We just want to be seen, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: That one of my favorite signs is so bad, even the introverts are here.
[SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: As an introvert, Lee, as an introvert, we find ourselves in this funny situation of often being in very large crowds, but this is not just the extroverts who are always party and who are going out and we're gonna keep things things.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's people who just care about their neighbors who are showing up.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this piece about bringing boombox or or have fun and actually, I don't think that's just a side feature of this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I actually think it's core to what we're dealing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Authoritarians love to be feared.
[SPEAKER_03]: They love for you to be isolated and alone.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was talking to an anti-authoritarian activist in Hungary.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he said something just stuck with me.
[SPEAKER_03]: He said he said these authoritarians as they don't understand Merth.
[SPEAKER_03]: And exactly, that's really true.
[SPEAKER_03]: They enjoy.
[SPEAKER_03]: They hints you're having fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: They hate that you're gathering community.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Refuse to be alone.
[SPEAKER_03]: Refuse to be isolated from your community.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gather with others.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is the first step to pushing back against these guys.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think one of the other things too, there are some people for whatever reason, who maybe they want to go when they can't.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe they have a work day and they'll still be on their phone.
[SPEAKER_07]: Children or whatever.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe they got chill.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe they got maybe they're handicapped or they're elderly.
[SPEAKER_07]: They can't get out.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, if you can help them get out, there's great, but maybe they just say, hey, I don't have the ability to.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are there ways for people who are still stuck at home to still be part of the community?
[SPEAKER_07]: Because so many people, they're part of our community here in the bar, but they're in their cars, they're at home, they're doing whatever, that's how they're part of our community here.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're listening on the radio.
[SPEAKER_07]: How are there ways for those people to be involved as well?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, it takes a village to organize these protests, keep in mind and some people need to be showing up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some people are going to be making signs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some people are going to be doing promotion.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some people are going to be doing training.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some people are going to be doing recruitment.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you plug in to your local indivisible group or your local 50-51 group or the organizers of your local protest, there is a place for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: There is a place for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: There is something for everybody to do and it might look different based on what your needs are, what your capabilities are, what your constraints are.
[SPEAKER_03]: that's okay, but there is no good reason in my mind other than you support the president right now doing what he's doing to sit this one out.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the time to lean in.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's how we're going to get more and more people to produce.
[SPEAKER_07]: One of the simple things that maybe folks could do is do you think just repost?
[SPEAKER_07]: If you see people's joyous pictures, the happy picture from whatever they're doing as the events going on, repost in whatever social platforms you're on.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's exactly right.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I would also not undercount the importance of the one on one conversation we talked about organizing, talking to another person who is in your orbit, who does not think of themselves as politically active and having a conversation with them.
[SPEAKER_03]: About what they care about, what they're worried about and then tell them, hey, I can't go to this, but I know my buddies are going, you should join, too, and I'll connect you.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is a valuable thing you can do right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I do too.
[SPEAKER_07]: We know you got to go.
[SPEAKER_07]: We know you got you got another interview or 10 to do Week for you guys.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're hanging out with Rachel Mano on Monday.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't get rid of me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, we want you back.
[SPEAKER_07]: We want you to come back for the next one.
[SPEAKER_07]: Which will also be the biggest protest rally.
[SPEAKER_09]: You're just getting bigger and bigger.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're growing.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're always walking in more people and they go.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just you and a few million friends hanging out telling everybody that we're not going to back down that this is our country because democracy matters.
[SPEAKER_09]: We won't back down.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're going to Tom Pettiet.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're not going to back down.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good job.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good to be King.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: as a thank you so much for spending the time with us man uh i enjoy and uh we will see you and everybody from indivisible and fifty one fifty and all the groups available making part of this we'll see everybody on Saturday.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's right see in the streets as a thank you so much man we'll talk here in safe.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll see you soon.
[SPEAKER_03]: God make sure you thank you.
[SPEAKER_09]: I love him so he really looks like Paul Red.
[SPEAKER_09]: He does look, you know, he looks like he could be Paul Rudd's cousin.
[SPEAKER_07]: It does.
[SPEAKER_09]: It was like, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_09]: Eight that was it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm like, it's a red.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's a handsome young man.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nothing wrong with that.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I just, I'm so excited and so glad that we got him to be able to tear in the barn, hang out with me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_07]: And, and the things he was saying is, look,
[SPEAKER_07]: We do everything we can to build this community here at the politics point.
[SPEAKER_07]: Make you guys understand that, you know, wherever you're at, whether you're down in Atlanta, whether you're in the cities, whether you Chicago or Tennessee, or wherever you listen, New York, California, Texas, wherever Washington state has some good folks up there, Alaska, wherever, maybe even overseas.
[SPEAKER_07]: We want you guys to feel like this is the place where you guys can come.
[SPEAKER_07]: You get informed, you laugh, you look at the news instead of sitting there going, oh my god.
[SPEAKER_08]: And we're welcoming?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, we try to be.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I don't think we've trying to think, I don't think we've ever had a fight with anybody here or with each other really.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, I can do it right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now, I wouldn't want to fight with you.
[SPEAKER_07]: First time I went.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, I went.
[SPEAKER_07]: I would totally win.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wait.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just saying, you know, that's it.
[SPEAKER_07]: We know Joe, he's a bad ass.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm Capcourt and I'm Irish, so come on.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I just look at the terms of there's so much fighting and hostility elsewhere, and when people come to the bar, we want them to know what's going on and learn what's going on, but also have fun and have a laugh.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I really think when you went to the last No Kings protest, or to the one before that, do you have a good time?
[SPEAKER_09]: I did.
[SPEAKER_09]: I had a great time.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's just so joyous.
[SPEAKER_09]: And anybody that came by that was kind of not happy because this is a small neighborhood where I live.
[SPEAKER_11]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, Everybody's like, whatever.
[SPEAKER_09]: Nobody went F.U.
[SPEAKER_09]: Nobody was like, Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Everybody was like, whatever.
[SPEAKER_09]: You're just stupid.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, and that's, and that's just, Oh, you're just the misinformed.
[SPEAKER_09]: We kind of all went there.
[SPEAKER_07]: And if and if people are, you know, it look, we had a guy at the, one of the protests I went to, who was a Trump fan or whatever.
[SPEAKER_07]: And some people at first were like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: There are a lot of magnifokes who are not going to come out and if they do come out and they're like, you know what, I support Donald Trump, but I don't like what he's doing with this around war thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Great.
[SPEAKER_07]: Come on in.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just let him know for that particular thing, you're not going to let him drive the bus.
[SPEAKER_07]: When we get back in power and politics, we're not going to let him drive the bus.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: But you drive the bus.
[SPEAKER_07]: But they can ride and then get him back in the tent.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not a big deal.
[SPEAKER_07]: You want to hang out.
[SPEAKER_09]: Just don't be a jerk.
[SPEAKER_07]: right, especially on the important things like, for example, today.
[SPEAKER_07]: Once again, we have this in the news on tap, getting back to that part of it here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Democrats, once again, try to put forward a vote, basically a war power's vote.
[SPEAKER_07]: And Republicans knocked it down.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, they're like, oh, let him do what he wants.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_07]: they don't like it because of the fact that I mean this is a third time in the Senate you're like what last two weeks the Democrats have tried to advance a war powers resolution to halt the Iran war and the Republicans are like well the Donald Trump should be able to do whatever he wants.
[SPEAKER_07]: Donald Trump is not a king.
[SPEAKER_07]: No.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the House has tried to do it, but you know,
[SPEAKER_07]: harder in the house and they're going to be going on break.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're going to be going on their spring break of course because they need time off apparently.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, can you pay if if they have yet but if they leave and they still haven't gotten the folks at TSA paid can you imagine the reception they're going to find at their local airports.
[SPEAKER_07]: Delta has already said we're not giving you a very special priority access We're members of their staff.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think Americans United South West, whoever Yep, just go Allegiant whatever you're flying on go feel like if you're a member of Congress who hasn't voted to pay us You get to go to the back of the line.
[SPEAKER_07]: No the back of the way back of the line wait for five hours.
[SPEAKER_09]: There you go Good luck getting on your plane
[SPEAKER_07]: We got so much more to talk about here from the news on tap Bob Cesska's coming in.
[SPEAKER_07]: We got the drink of the day coming down.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh man, look, we're glad you're here on this Wednesday night.
[SPEAKER_07]: Fresh enough your drink.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do what you got to do and come right back.
[SPEAKER_07]: You got Jody, you got me and we got you hanging out with us here at the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's political, thank you, ridicule.
[SPEAKER_00]: You think it's a part where we won the politics bar?
[SPEAKER_04]: Shotsmith Pearson, Jody Hamilton.
[SPEAKER_06]: Our two, Jody.
[SPEAKER_07]: We had a really good hour one.
[SPEAKER_09]: That was fast hour, wasn't it?
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, Ezra is a really fun guy, and I don't mean that he is a growth.
[SPEAKER_07]: He is a fun guy.
[SPEAKER_07]: And he's so pretty.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, he's a handsome man.
[SPEAKER_07]: He is exactly what they make and and it kids are cute too, so that's a good thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: But we are going to be hanging out with all of them and all of you, hopefully this weekend at the No Kings Rally.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll talk a little bit more about that Bob Cesska coming in to hang out with us, obviously.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've got more news on Taforia and the drink of the day, too.
[SPEAKER_07]: big thanks to everybody listening to us on great places like the detour talk in Tennessee or am nine fifty manyapolis safe haul maybe you are listening in Georgia and the lead to area on Georgia now radio or maybe you are listening on am eight twenty chicago W.C.P.T.
[SPEAKER_07]: or progressive voices radio worldwide wherever you happen to be or you know maybe you want to lose the future people.
[SPEAKER_09]: I will get a t-shirt.
[SPEAKER_07]: I swear.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll figure it out.
[SPEAKER_07]: We have a few things.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're not as busy as Ezra and Leah and their staff.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh God.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're not doing anything.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, and look, remember, as Ezra says, he says, everybody is organizing around the country for this.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it's a lot of people in a lot of local places.
[SPEAKER_07]: If there are a lot of people behind this.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know, my little local place, every Saturday, we do a thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, it's a great way to do things is to get to know your neighbors, it's a good way to do that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good way to get to know your neighbors by the way is to invite them over for a drink, which actually is kind of how the whole civil rights thing started.
[SPEAKER_07]: Kind of.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, look, they saw something wrong.
[SPEAKER_07]: They invited the people they knew to do something about it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they did, which is great.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then it's like, wait a minute, we can do something.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's more of us than there are of them, which, of course, ties into today's drink.
[SPEAKER_09]: What an amazing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, I'm very happy about this.
[SPEAKER_07]: What is the drink of the day?
[SPEAKER_07]: And what is the inspiration for it today, Joe?
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a classic screwdriver, but we have you, as you did, a mock-tail version of it, which is basic.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a little bit of a cocktail, and the mock-tail.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's get it, it's good, it's all there.
[SPEAKER_09]: Stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: But it was the March, it finished today in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery.
[SPEAKER_07]: on this day, March 25th, 1965, Martin Luther King and the folks from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Snick, and the SCLCA, Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, they look, we've got some great pictures that you included here and a really great history, too.
[SPEAKER_07]: And of course, I mean, you know, the beatings and the spread, and all the people who we think of as older leaders when they were so much younger.
[SPEAKER_09]: They were.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, people do not, they don't just pop out old.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, you know.
[SPEAKER_09]: But I mean, then James reach, I mean, the past year.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think I think of all of the great leaders of the civil rights movement.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then you understand that these people, they were just neighbors.
[SPEAKER_07]: They were just neighbors and they were organizing, like folks are gonna be organizing here for the no kings rallies again.
[SPEAKER_07]: This weekend, and probably we'll do another one.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because as there's like if it helps and he does help to help some other things steal the spines of the Democrats and defendants and it helps to make those some of those Republicans a lot more shaky on stuff even even foghorn leghorn Kennedy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Remember to be played him earlier this week, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: It it it shows them that there are more of us.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so I'm kind of glad they, you know, it's a good thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: How do we, by the way, make this particular, I know how to make a screwdriver.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think a lot of people do, but for those people who are unfamiliar, how do you make a classic screwdriver?
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, you need a pre-chill high ball glass.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, always pre-chilled.
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, Ice, and then one and a half ounces of vodka.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's if you're cocktail right poor or you can have one and a half ounces of non-alcoholic vodka.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're home.
[SPEAKER_07]: The conversions.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Clean co's clean V or RK zero proof vodka.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you can get the archaic like a Walmart if you want.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's really good.
[SPEAKER_09]: And orange juice.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a simple drink.
[SPEAKER_09]: You just fill the high, high bone glass with ice at the vodka or the alternative.
[SPEAKER_09]: Top with orange juice.
[SPEAKER_09]: Stir gently and enjoy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: And remembering those who walked.
[SPEAKER_07]: Those who marched, those who protest didn't that.
[SPEAKER_07]: So that future generations can fly and take.
[SPEAKER_07]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_07]: This country places we've never been before.
[SPEAKER_09]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you're looking for a higher reason to go out and protest this weekend, that's it.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're going to help somebody, you don't even know down the road, help somebody else.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a good reason to do that.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, if you missed any of the drink of the day, you know what to do, subscribe at the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_09]: I can already talk better, but today I'm not talking so well.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, we're excited, and we were thirsty.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now, now we're, you know, getting our drink on, which is good.
[SPEAKER_07]: By the way, in the entertainment section here, open AI's generative video creator program, Sora, they are killing that thing off, and Disney is taking back their billion dollar investment in that.
[SPEAKER_09]: You know what, I'm fine with that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Me too, for those people who think, oh, AI isn't habitable.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not inevitable.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you think fascism isn't habitable.
[SPEAKER_07]: it's not.
[SPEAKER_07]: These are proof that these things they are not inevitable.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you stand up and that the biggest reason, according to the article that we have in the news on tap today, basically is that it's not making them any money.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was a neat boy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: But they're like, okay, there are other things that we do that make us money and this is kind of dominant.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, and they were stealing from him.
[SPEAKER_09]: Sora was like,
[SPEAKER_07]: a lot of people in getting them in legal issues exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they're like, you know what, this is a really expensive toy that hurts people occasionally.
[SPEAKER_07]: We could do things better.
[SPEAKER_09]: I could want to do it, but he's gone now, so.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, you know, and look, maybe they could talk to the weapons manufacturers.
[SPEAKER_07]: Really, it's part of toy occasionally hurts people.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can do better than that, just saying.
[SPEAKER_07]: So anyway, elsewhere in the entertainment section of the news on tap today.
[SPEAKER_07]: Savannah Guthrie had an interview with Hoda Koppi.
[SPEAKER_08]: She's doing a two-part, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I think first part was to diving, second part's tomorrow, and then it still really sad.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was eight weeks since the World of Mom disappeared.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know, it's, I feel for her.
[SPEAKER_09]: I feel for her family, and I feel for her.
[SPEAKER_07]: her mom's friends and her mom her community and she's even with us I don't know that's I don't know it's going to be in a sister's gonna speculate heck of a it's going to end up being heck of a movie or TV show which speaking of which uh new episode of the pit is coming out featuring an E are reunion
[SPEAKER_07]: also know as no while he's wife but uh that the reunion specifically happens to be with somebody who I have uh bumped into a few times here in there huh but you don't know Mary McCormick?
[SPEAKER_09]: I've never met her.
[SPEAKER_07]: She used to she used to be on in uh in the westway.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know who she is, but I've never met her.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I haven't literally bumped into her, bumped into a mostly online, but she is just a doll.
[SPEAKER_07]: So she's great.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the fact that she and Noah Wiley were on ER back in the day, so that's kind of funny.
[SPEAKER_09]: I have a story about the ER live episode.
[SPEAKER_09]: So remember that episode right and they went live to the East Coast and they went live to the West Coast Right, so my friends had just had their first son Okay, and he was an infant what no he was it was
[SPEAKER_09]: a year old.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is creepy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: But still like, you know, could walk sort of.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: And so they, they said, can you babysit the Bubba?
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm like, okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then by the way, will you tape VHS ER for us tonight?
[SPEAKER_09]: Because they were pointing out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: And you're an L.A. and you're like, okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I put the VCR thing and I taped this and little Folsom.
[SPEAKER_07]: Cook, that's that's the small human.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, he's he's now twenty-seven.
[SPEAKER_09]: Anyway, it was a long time ago.
[SPEAKER_09]: And so I was like, is he breathing?
[SPEAKER_09]: I literally put him back in the crib and I put a mirror up to him to make sure he's breathing because I am not a parent.
[SPEAKER_09]: Where am I in?
[SPEAKER_09]: Nanny.
[SPEAKER_07]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_09]: And you're going to miss is this is one of the the earlier times that you've watched the children and you're like, okay, yeah, I don't know this is it to see breathing and then he was he was breathing and he's looked at me like, okay, and then we got up and we were like fine.
[SPEAKER_09]: He does not remember this because he's I'm sure he's like 30 now.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, and so the most terrifying thing I've ever done was watching a small child.
[SPEAKER_09]: I had to be sober because small child.
[SPEAKER_07]: right.
[SPEAKER_09]: While the ER live episode was going on and I'm having tape it I'm like kind of watching it and I'm like that's really getting they fell down.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's a falling down thing at the West Coast feed.
[SPEAKER_09]: It was kind of funny.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, see, look, I am glad these days that we have so much stuff where you can get it digitally.
[SPEAKER_07]: It would be fun still to do maybe.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh no, live is awesome.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's done that a few times.
[SPEAKER_07]: Life feeders, great.
[SPEAKER_07]: No question.
[SPEAKER_09]: Please don't eat live on television.
[SPEAKER_09]: He did a... Oh, with the, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good night.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good luck.
[SPEAKER_07]: No.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's all out.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think it was a call.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: and it was cloning.
[SPEAKER_09]: It was in black and white and it was live television and just keep doing that people.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, I like it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's different.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to be sad to see speaking of life to the Emory sad to see Stephen Colbert in the late show ending.
[SPEAKER_07]: But there is entertainment news on that as well.
[SPEAKER_07]: Colbert is going to co-write the script for a new Lord of the Rings movie.
[SPEAKER_07]: At least he announced that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I guess we know what he's doing with his summer.
[SPEAKER_09]: That seems interesting, I'm just going to win interesting.
[SPEAKER_07]: When he sees Cole writing, so I'm like, okay, well, does he know Tolkien that well?
[SPEAKER_07]: He's brilliant, so it wouldn't surprise me.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure he is.
[SPEAKER_09]: He would have to already know Francis Calier.
[SPEAKER_07]: We should ask her, we should get Franchal a back here in the bar.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm trying.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, we'll ask her about it.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're going to coordinate schedules.
[SPEAKER_09]: Because Francis knows Mr. Colbert.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah, that's right.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll ask her about that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nancy W. Men's and women's tournaments.
[SPEAKER_07]: The numbers are in now for the first rounds.
[SPEAKER_07]: The best ever opening week on record, averaging 10.1 million viewers.
[SPEAKER_07]: So if you're looking for something to be in community with people,
[SPEAKER_07]: that's yeah yeah mind blowing totally absolutely NBA owners by the way noticing that people are liking basketball and they want to approve expansion teams in Las Vegas and Seattle although I don't remember when Seattle had the Seattle Super Sonics and then they went to Oklahoma City whatever but
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, it's fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like the Minnesota wild.
[SPEAKER_07]: We all know that Dallas should not have a team just say sorry Dallas stars fans.
[SPEAKER_07]: Stout is we know we know really where they came from because they used to be the North stars just say anyway.
[SPEAKER_07]: MLD by the way today is opening day technically the the yanks and the giants are playing right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Go giants.
[SPEAKER_07]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_11]: Good.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, it's okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not, I'm not normally a Giants fan.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just saying sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sorry for you folks in the city.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, if you're Yankees fan, go meds.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm a Dodgers fan.
[SPEAKER_09]: So go Giants.
[SPEAKER_09]: So.
[SPEAKER_07]: Also, one more sports note American McKayley Schiff ran it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Heldorf, German emyker to win the record tying six overall world club skiing title.
[SPEAKER_07]: She is the most decorated women's downhill slalom skier in history.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm like, she could retire now if she wants to.
[SPEAKER_09]: She won't.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, she won't.
[SPEAKER_07]: She'll sit because as long as she's good, she'll be like, I have to have some more fun.
[SPEAKER_09]: Isn't what's your face from the other thing?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh yeah, he got hurt at the Olympics this year.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, she's she's like after I get healed back and maybe I'll come back to so if you like what you do It's not really work.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, it's not it's it's just it's like okay, and it's work glad that she's an American and Also she likes oh, god, what is that martini?
[SPEAKER_07]: She was she I don't remember if you I don't know if you remember this Once she got her metal she was at first time ever drinking.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think it was like a coffee martini and she swore on the NBC thing and they were like And she was like, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: I had a martini for the first time
[SPEAKER_07]: I was doing all the stuff and then I was tired and then I had a martini right exactly I was just going and winning a gold medal and I had a martini and I'm tired so I'm sorry if I dropped out.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I can swear.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Congrats to Michaela Schiffern.
[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody who doesn't swear he knows his radio rules well.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mr. Bob Saska he is coming into the bar next fresh in your drink do what you got to do.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, I said drink.
[SPEAKER_07]: Freshly drink.
[SPEAKER_07]: Drink.
[SPEAKER_09]: Drink.
[UNKNOWN]: Drink.
[SPEAKER_07]: Did I?
[SPEAKER_09]: I thought I said that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Like he said this morning.
[SPEAKER_09]: I want to feature.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've had a few.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bob will be here shortly.
[SPEAKER_07]: Fresh in yours and come right back.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bob says going to Wednesday night here at the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_04]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wednesday night here at the politics bar.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys know what that means.
[SPEAKER_07]: The idea of a pop-pop.
[SPEAKER_07]: The fuck whoa!
[SPEAKER_07]: It is Bob Cesca!
[SPEAKER_07]: Come in into the bar!
[SPEAKER_07]: It's been it's been in the same news day and and the thing is the good folks are really winning There's that there's a lot of there's a lot of well what I consider to be wins Come on oh by the way Ezra Levine of indivisible says hello He was at the bar a little bit earlier helpful.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's great.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, he's doing amazing work
[SPEAKER_07]: He was on Monday, he was on Monday, he was hanging out with Rachel on Monday and obviously came here.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, you know, he's doing the rounds and making sure everybody's ready.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you going to be going after the no kings rally this weekend?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, when I'm not watching the Trek Talks telephone, uh, uh, Trek Talks.net, I will.
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_05]: The, uh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're talking a little about that, because obviously, I mean, you know, you you've done this before and I believe, uh, early this afternoon, um, you had on, uh, the actor who is responsible for the Trek Talks.
[SPEAKER_05]: It partly responsible, yeah, John Billingsley from Star Trek Enterprise who played Dr. Fox on that series.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's all to benefit the Hollywood food coalition, which is a lot of my family.
[SPEAKER_05]: Non-profits, they provide incredible meals for unhoused people, people who are food.
[SPEAKER_05]: What do they call it?
[SPEAKER_05]: Execution.
[SPEAKER_05]: Food insecure.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: Food deficient.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I guess.
[SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, and so they do this annual event to raise money for the Hollywood Food Coalition called Trek Talks, which is a, I think is a 12-hour telephone that's virtual.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's at trektalks.net where so many star trek celebrities, writers, people who are performers on the, you know, our friend Tim Russ, Gates McFadden is going to be there to do some from
[SPEAKER_05]: from Star Trek Lower Decks and Starfleet Academy and so many others are going to be of course John Billings League himself and Bonnie Gordon are going to be the host sort of the Jerry Lewis's.
[SPEAKER_06]: The MCs if you will.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's all.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I strongly recommend, especially if you're a Star Trek fan to check this out.
[SPEAKER_05]: And if not, please support the Hollywood Food Coalition.
[SPEAKER_07]: Please, please, please, please.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look, there are so many ways that people can get out and get active and get involved.
[SPEAKER_07]: Obviously, that's going on, obviously, with the no kings or alleys too.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I think it's important that people feel, we've really been focusing a lot today on the community and on the wins, and especially when people feel like they can't get wins.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was so geeked up last night, I happened to know the exact Florida House area.
[SPEAKER_07]: Where, yeah, I'm sure you heard that the Emily Gregory flipped a Republican Florida State House District actually contains Mara Logo.
[SPEAKER_07]: I happen to know.
[SPEAKER_09]: Donald has now has a Democrat.
[SPEAKER_07]: He has a democratic state representative.
[SPEAKER_07]: What a shame.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, like also, they also had for the Florida State Senate.
[SPEAKER_07]: Brian Nathan, more than that one.
[SPEAKER_07]: 30 red to blue flips during Donald Trump's second term.
[SPEAKER_07]: And not a single blue to red.
[SPEAKER_07]: Republicans haven't pulled a single one away.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: it's an amazing thing and in Florida they still have a ways to go to take a chunk out of the Republican Supermajority right in the state legislature but at this rate I'm feeling pretty confident that that could actually happen.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah certainly when we're talking about you know the midterm in November.
[SPEAKER_05]: So beyond that it's incredible news and I'm so glad to see that and I think one of the things that I was taking away from
[SPEAKER_05]: Certainly those two victories, but all of the other, what did you say 30 different flips, 30 different, what flips exactly?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, a major how amazing that Elon Musk and Donald Trump haven't interfered with those elections.
[SPEAKER_05]: That indicates to me that, you know, look, if they were going to, or if they have the capability of being able to interfere some way with the vote counting, uh, terrible job.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're not doing a very good job of
[SPEAKER_05]: It's also firing the results.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know that Steve Bannon has been threatening it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know that Ezra mentioned it earlier.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I know that other people on the writer saying it, too, that these ice monsters who are going to the airports, that this is a test run for them at the voting booth.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ha ha ha.
[SPEAKER_07]: But this has been one of my bug abuse, too.
[SPEAKER_07]: I still, I, I, I'm big proponent.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're gonna have them in terms period.
[SPEAKER_07]: And two, it is illegal.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Completely illegal for any federal agent, especially if they are armed to show up at a voting place on voting day.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is totally illegal to do and some people say, well, you know, what could you do?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, what you can do literally you could still have a militia, but you could still have your local police.
[SPEAKER_07]: You have enough time that you can work with your local city council and your mayor or your state government to make sure that it is outlawed and make
[SPEAKER_07]: you send the state national guard.
[SPEAKER_07]: So we have guns, too.
[SPEAKER_07]: We don't want anybody to be hurt, but you need to step off and let people go vote.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because that's one of the reasons I don't think that as you're noting their Bob that they've messed with the elections is that
[SPEAKER_07]: They may be trying Elon and Trump and some of the mega folks may be trying, but when it gets down to the brass tax of local people taking care of their local elections, people who have strong disagreements find that they are proud that at least there's one thing that they can do.
[SPEAKER_07]: Follow the rules, keep the election honest.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is something I can do with people I hate, but at least we can do it because that's what we in America do.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So Donald Threatening and Steve.
[SPEAKER_07]: Jerk Bannon.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sorry, I, I, I almost did it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was, honey, we have so many things to like, the man has so many stinky shirts, I anyway.
[SPEAKER_07]: But the fact of the matter is, they're trying to make people be afraid.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I think it's important when we're in community when we're hanging out with each other in our community here at the bar or you know the Bob Cesca show or you know where it, uh, track politics or at Stephanie show or wherever we're not afraid, we're hanging out each other haven't fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're not afraid and we need to be not afraid.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm surprised there's I think there's a broader concern here, which is that if people who would otherwise turn out to vote are convinced that the election's going to be stolen, then they're less likely to turn out to vote, they're more likely to think, well, you know what, what can I do?
[SPEAKER_05]: If the election's going to be stolen, what doesn't matter whether I vote or not.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, it absolutely matters.
[SPEAKER_09]: The last two elections, we just saw last night.
[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the, the, the, the, the, the, We vote in North Carolina.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I mean, Trump, you know, Trump endorsed North Carolina State Senate leader.
[SPEAKER_07]: Republican Phil Berger.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, I'm powerful.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm head of the state Senate.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, dude lost his primary election.
[SPEAKER_07]: A primary election with another Republican by 23 vote.
[SPEAKER_09]: 23 votes.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's, every vote counts, children.
[SPEAKER_07]: incredible.
[SPEAKER_07]: So the idea that they can scare us and look, I do not exactly think of Chuck Schumer as somebody who is a, when I think of the word strong leader, I don't generally think of Chuck Schumer.
[SPEAKER_09]: God no.
[SPEAKER_07]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's just T.C.s kind of old and, you know, somewhat, he's old school.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, yeah, I mean, he's kind of wishy-washy.
[SPEAKER_07]: I guess I don't necessarily know that's old school.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's like I can work with people.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's how he thinks okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm with you.
[SPEAKER_07]: But yeah, but Schumer has been kind of good right now backbone of steel being like look.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, shoved that the DHS back across the so so as you know Democrats now, I think it's someone around 10 times maybe 11 as of today, whatever the they've they've said.
[SPEAKER_07]: pay everybody except ice and CBP and Republicans go, but how about if we include the Save Act?
[SPEAKER_07]: A Schumer goes, she'll slide it back across and go, how about you suck it?
[SPEAKER_07]: And we pay everybody except ice and CBP.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they're like, but you're Chuck Schumer, and he goes, how about suck it?
[SPEAKER_07]: And we pay everybody except ice and CBP.
[SPEAKER_07]: What part of this don't you understand?
[SPEAKER_07]: And they're like,
[SPEAKER_07]: Who would a place Chuck Schumer was somebody who has Batman?
[SPEAKER_09]: I think Chuck Schumer always had it.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's just regaining it because he's like, Maybe because he's talking for days, maybe.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, but for so much and Holland Adam and say, Dude, stand up.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, he was a younger man.
[SPEAKER_09]: Years ago, that it was probably more.
[SPEAKER_09]: that guy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: And so now that he's older, he's like, oh wait, let's bring that back because I don't, I want everybody to vote.
[SPEAKER_07]: When Democrats get back in charge of the Senate, we could vote for whoever we want.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I like Elizabeth Warren, but I don't know that she'd be the best leader.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm you know, I'm still acquaintances with with Cory Booker, right in front of mine.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't necessarily say whoever Democrats put in, I want to make sure whoever the next Senate majority, next Democratic Senate majority leader is somebody who is ready to come for the fight.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I don't know if you guys have talked about this aspect of the DHS funding and ice funding where John Kennedy, I think was on Fox news and he was talking about this thing that was on the table, where they pass the DHS funding bill without the ice funding as part of it.
[SPEAKER_05]: And the Democrats sign on to that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Obviously, that's what the terms are.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's when the Democrats are agreeing to yes, we'll fund DHS, but we're not going to fund ice.
[SPEAKER_05]: And so what John Kennedy was saying is that the Republicans thought and John Thune was thinking, okay, well, so we'll pass that DHS funding bill with the out the ice funding in it.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then pass a separate piece of legislation that funds ice through reconciliation where we don't need the Democrats.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you know what Donald Trump said no to that.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're stuck at a TSA
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not a security line at an airport.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's all right.
[SPEAKER_05]: You can thank Donald Trump for that because there was a very substantive proposal on the table.
[SPEAKER_05]: Donald Trump said no, and it's not ideal.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't want to fund ICE.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think the Democrat should be funding to be voting to fund ICE.
[SPEAKER_05]: But there was a way that the Republicans could have passed the DHS legislation to funding legislation and then also passed ICE funding without the Democrats' help.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Donald Trump said no to that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, that's why I'm saying why not just blow the filibuster up John through and if we're going to do that.
[SPEAKER_06]: He doesn't want to go.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, most members of the set exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: Most members of the Senate don't because they understand that that is one of their key pieces of leverage is having that.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I get it.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I'm with you, Jodie, if you really, really want to do, you could do it.
[SPEAKER_07]: But that just tells us they don't really, really want to.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, they want the Democrats to stop them from their own stupidity.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, stop me before I shoot myself in the head.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, go ahead, you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
[SPEAKER_07]: and they're gonna get toasted anyway.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my god, the numbers out there are absolutely insane.
[SPEAKER_07]: Harriet and it was was, oh, this is it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my god, what did he say?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, let me let Harry run the numbers here.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is no floor for Donald Trump.
[SPEAKER_02]: The floor beneath them keeps collapsing and he falls down to a new record low.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we can see it right here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Look at this, Trump sent approval march.
[SPEAKER_02]: All two term poster lows.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can it be at the best of the bunch?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, 20 points underwater.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yahoo, you've got 21 points below underwater.
[SPEAKER_02]: Various site, 23 points below underwater.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the new roiders, Epsos, Paul, 26 points underwater.
[SPEAKER_02]: all of these are term two record lows and in the aggregate of polls he is also at a term to low, a half out foreign policy approval rating trend.
[SPEAKER_02]: Look at this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a term to lower according to Roader Sipsos.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was plus two at the beginning of his second term.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hello, down he goes.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's now at negative 27 points, a 30 near 30 point drop when it comes to foreign policy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Among independence, just 22% of independence approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing on for a policy.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, this is from Blue ATL and Georgia.
[SPEAKER_06]: They did this great montage.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's a whole, like, another, like, minute and a half for this or whatever.
[SPEAKER_09]: I just want to know, Perry has all of this shoes.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's like Saul Rosenberg doesn't he?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, but, well, but I think the funny thing is that, I mean, he's, he's excited about this because, you know, he loves numbers and he loves to get to see extremes like this.
[SPEAKER_07]: But the extremes are very clear and the extremes for, for just in general.
[SPEAKER_07]: Republicans are getting their asses absolutely handed to them across the board.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm looking at going, it's, it's not surprising on the TSA thing on the economy because of the war and Iran, I mean, everywhere you turn and Republicans are keeping, they keep having this, this problem for them, where they go, well, we, we could stick with Donald Trump.
[SPEAKER_07]: Or we could do what the people who elected this one and like you thinking you folks haven't forgot did you folks forget one of the last things that Barack Obama said when there was an election going and he was still in office he said I can't run anymore I won all the elections
[SPEAKER_07]: which I hate Donald Trump, but he can't run anymore either.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's there's nothing more there.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And as the elections, the special elections at Florida prove, when Donald's name isn't on the ballot, the magnifocus don't come out.
[SPEAKER_07]: they broke down number of different people in Florida politics broke down who the electorate was the electorate was more Republican than it was Democratic or independent and the Republican still voted for Democrats because the Democrats put up the better candidates in the special elections in Florida.
[SPEAKER_07]: Republicans got nowhere to hide because they just have kept kissing Donald's ass and doing what over Donald's sense because I'm so afraid of him, what are you afraid of so there's nothing for them to be afraid of and I don't know I'm waiting for them to wake up to that fact at some point they probably will and the meantime and the meantime we go kick the ass as it has some fun which is good oh there is got there's so much more news on tap to talk up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Can we have you round for one more round like we usually do Bob?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes indeed.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will be here.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thank you, young man.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bob is, he is, he is, you know, getting his drink fresh enough.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's going to hang out here.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We're we're honest here.
[SPEAKER_07]: We tell you about what honest.
[SPEAKER_07]: We tell you about things.
[SPEAKER_07]: First mod.
[SPEAKER_07]: We know things.
[SPEAKER_09]: We know things.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yesterday's drink of the day was related to the godfather.
[SPEAKER_07]: So that's kind of been.
[SPEAKER_07]: We know things.
[SPEAKER_07]: We try to be honest here, which is Donald Trump is not in the news on tap today in the third round under the culture of corruption.
[SPEAKER_07]: Jamie Raskin confirmed it.
[SPEAKER_07]: The Trump DOJ accidentally gave Congress some of Jeff Jackson's myths records, which if everybody remembers, Judge Eileen Cannon.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, she said no.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, she said that's illegal.
[SPEAKER_07]: And yet it was the Republicans who actually ended up letting those albums.
[SPEAKER_09]: When she like you say Bob, I think Comer and others are like trying to get him done.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's what I think too.
[SPEAKER_07]: I see, you said that, Joe, you said that, Bob.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I still think that Comer is just too dumb for that.
[SPEAKER_07]: And yet, then they do something like this and you're going.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't think Comer's dumb.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think he's calculating.
[SPEAKER_07]: You think he's kind of like, uh, Foghorn, like Gordon Kennedy, you who pre-oh.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think so.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think they're calculating.
[SPEAKER_09]: try that it's possible it is time you know Republicans are very slow in what they do and they are very smart in this.
[SPEAKER_09]: But Colmer is Colmer himself is Emmy.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, he's not that dumb.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe I don't know that the fact that what came out from those documents, we have the links on that in the news on tap.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's pretty clear.
[SPEAKER_07]: Jack Smith found that Donald Trump had business motives, aka making money.
[SPEAKER_07]: And that was one of the reasons that he was keeping the classified documents in his restroom at Mara Logo.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do we have any specifics on what exactly he thought was going to happen with these documents that would enrich him or was he trying to have a document with he, but keeping documents that had something to do with his tax returns or I think it had something to do with they were being investigated.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, then there's a token and then squash it it's that's my story stories, but I would bet if we had both volumes of Jack's method, yes, we'll volume one and volume two and we'll volume two to one that that I don't can and said nope.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right, she's trying she's still trying to hide that and as I recall talking to Glenn he said at some point it's going to come out anyway, but I would bet the specifics are in there I agree and then we'll actually know what Donald wanted to sell and to whom he wanted to sell it and I think he was squashing those all he could right and now that he's back in office, he can squash him.
[SPEAKER_07]: I, I don't know how her parents figured out to name her what they did because it's very clear that you know, I lean.
[SPEAKER_07]: She clearly leads like way to the right.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, I think your name is alien, but okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: What?
[SPEAKER_07]: I just say she's she leans this.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's pretty obvious she leans one direction and certainly is George John Louise.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just saying anyway stories are there.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys can read that in what We don't have a corruption in that we know where the corruption in the Trumpstein files and it nearly released depositions that
[SPEAKER_07]: This is another one of those comers and charges in charge of this, too.
[SPEAKER_07]: They released the depositions and Epstein's accountant and lawyer told Congress they were never interviewed by federal investigators.
[SPEAKER_09]: They were not in before 2008 and they were not in again in 2019, so I did not complain.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, but, but, but, but, but if you go back, it was, um, Pami Bondi was the age of Florida and then if you go, it was first term Donald and they didn't, and you go, I'm sorry, but that just sticks to high hell.
[SPEAKER_09]: That, you know, and the reason that people weren't interviewed during Biden was because it was still a thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, well, still a live case, but also there are reasons why it wasn't
[SPEAKER_07]: Joe Biden is a rule follower.
[SPEAKER_06]: He is.
[SPEAKER_07]: He is.
[SPEAKER_06]: He is a rule follower.
[SPEAKER_06]: They are.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, and Barack Obama was in electing yet.
[SPEAKER_09]: It was 2008, then 2008.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah, but he was like, right, exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: But the whole idea, the people who were like, oh, well, if they only pressed harder, I'm like, no, it's not about pressing harder.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's also about the people who didn't do the things they were supposed to do along the way.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I, a lot of this does keep coming back to Comer.
[SPEAKER_07]: convince me that I'm wrong, Bob, convince me that I'm wrong.
[SPEAKER_07]: The comers not a moron.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, I'm with you, Bob.
[SPEAKER_07]: You, you guys can both convince me.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm with you, Bob.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, there may be something strategic here with Jim Comer, I lean in that direction as does Jody.
[SPEAKER_05]: But then there's also a possibility.
[SPEAKER_05]: And this is maybe me sort of triangulating between the two co-hosts of the politics bar that I also see Jim Comer as kind of being an idiot.
[SPEAKER_05]: He doesn't, he keeps to maybe he's doing this inadvertently keeping this story in the news.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I think I don't imagine that that thing on the race.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, it's hard for me to go to the, he's just doing this because he's a, he's dumb.
[SPEAKER_05]: Because he's got staffers.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's got people around me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Other members, other Republican members who also have staffers on that committee.
[SPEAKER_05]: But that, I don't think they're going to do this solution.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I don't think they're going to do this solution.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think they're going to keep the story in the news accidentally because someone's going to go way, hang on a second.
[SPEAKER_05]: What are we doing to Donald here?
[SPEAKER_05]: What are we doing to?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm with you Bob.
[SPEAKER_07]: But remember, if the member of Congress loses their job, the staffers usually lose their job, too.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it could be that Jim Colmer is an idiot, and it's the staffers who are trying to do this, so that they can position a point in time where they tell him, okay, now you can step away from Donald, because it's pretty clear that he's screwed everything up.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you can step and they don't want to be guilty.
[SPEAKER_09]: We also have John Kennedy throwing Donald under the bus.
[SPEAKER_07]: uh... right right which uh... you know that we named he's like the worst name ever right that's why we're following leghorn also because if you say john Kennedy somebody thinks of you know jfk the right guy and also if you do you guys remember uh... i saw this guy i can't remember when because Kennedy's been in congress for quite a while and back in the day he was oh i'm a harver train lawyer he did the whole you know i'm a harver train lawyer and he spoke like this
[SPEAKER_07]: And then I think it's a house, then he won the Senate and then he turned in the fog horn leg horn and you're like the man is Oxford educated Right, yes, right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh honey.
[SPEAKER_09]: I can do it so the max ant all the day, you know, I can sound like that
[SPEAKER_05]: All day long, if I can't get it, does this trick where he's got all his teeth as New Year's I can tell, but he looks and sounds like he doesn't have any teeth.
[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: Trick.
[SPEAKER_05]: How do you do that?
[SPEAKER_05]: But that's the scam.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's he's playing his playing all Republican voters certainly in his state as the suckers they are.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Jim Comer may be doing that in House of Cards.
[SPEAKER_05]: where he would put on the accent for the release.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then when he was, you know, there was that S&L sketch with Ronald Reagan, where he was one way in front of people and another way behind closed doors.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And Colmer may end up inadvertently doing this because he is a moron, but his staffers want to keep their jobs.
[SPEAKER_07]: So maybe they're the ones that, oh, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: Document came out that says you were going to sell those documents in your bathroom, Donnie, Donnie?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, well, sorry boss.
[SPEAKER_07]: and their boss likes them so comers says oh you all I understand you you probably just doing that you what you didn't mean to do anything so yeah I think I think Bob is right or no I think but I'm saying I'm saying I think I think we may have figured out
[SPEAKER_05]: that Jim Comer is an idiot and also it's the staffers who I think there's a calculation here electorally where we're keeping the Epstein files in the news here that's going to be more important than supporting Donald Trump that people will reward
[SPEAKER_05]: Republican members of Congress who are investigating the Epstein files, more than they will punish them for keeping the story fresh in the news.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_05]: Does that make sense?
[SPEAKER_07]: It absolutely does.
[SPEAKER_07]: It does.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's the whole split we've talked about it before here and I'm glad that some of the other people in mainstream media are starting to finally figure it out, the split between Maga and America first.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, you got Lauren Bobert who, you know, look, she's always willing to give a hand to somebody.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sorry that jokes are just saying can you even say that you're not allowed to say that on the radio.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you?
[SPEAKER_07]: Would just be an honest Bob just you know, look, I'm smart.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm telling you things.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm just being on her friend also gave her a nice thing
[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly, right.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's just being good friend.
[SPEAKER_07]: Anyway, but she's she has made very clear that she is not going to vote for any of the supplemental money for this stupid ass war in Iran at a girl and she said that's one of my red lines.
[SPEAKER_07]: You said no more wars.
[SPEAKER_07]: I say no wars and there is a subsection.
[SPEAKER_07]: G Elliot Morris over at strength and numbers who is become one of my favorite pollsters saying and he has yeah, he's great and he said look.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's it's a 10% differential, which in our extremely tight political temperature is huge.
[SPEAKER_07]: Exactly, Jody.
[SPEAKER_07]: So that's yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm like, look, if we can get those people for a couple of things, the war, the Epstein files, whatever, anything where they can be sane and agree with us and go, whoa, okay, normally I think, you know, alien space lasers and the moon is made of cheese, but on this particular thing and we're like,
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, sure, you know, we're not going to give you the keys to the bus.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're not going to put you in the driver seat, but you want to have on a bus.
[SPEAKER_07]: Have at it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Come over here on that particular issue.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's what Chris says all the time.
[SPEAKER_09]: Like vote properly.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's about it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's about the individual vote.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm.
[SPEAKER_07]: And maybe his maybe Commer staffers are just trying to figure it out on their individual thing too and saying,
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, people agree more with, because who doesn't agree with wanting to get accountability for the Epstein files for the Epstein stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, you got Jamie first.
[SPEAKER_07]: Go on.
[SPEAKER_05]: A lot of people who separate Donald out of that equation and who are into the Epstein files, merely to expose the.
[SPEAKER_05]: you know, uh, Democrats have a great time in ping pong and so that's kind of the idea.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's the most of us on our side.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're like, uh, go ahead.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: You, you can try that and get them to go get them.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're fine with that.
[SPEAKER_07]: If there's something there, great, get them and yeah, otherwise we know there's not so whatever have had it, you want to run your head into wall, you do that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hey, go get the dams.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're cool with that.
[SPEAKER_07]: They've done stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Totally.
[SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_07]: We got to start cleaning up here.
[SPEAKER_07]: We know that you've got track politics.
[SPEAKER_07]: You and Mary, what are you guys going to be talking about this on this week's episode of track politics?
[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe highly regarded as the one of the greatest episodes of Star Trek, sitting on the edge of forever.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's one with some columns.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it was written by Harlan Ellison.
[SPEAKER_05]: And yeah, we're talking about that.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's such a good one.
[SPEAKER_11]: check.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, I need to watch that again.
[SPEAKER_07]: Watch it and listen in.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys should watch to trek politics and dot com and of course, every, well, almost every weekday.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can go to Bob Saskin dot com and hear Bob's dulce a tone.
[SPEAKER_11]: Most of which, yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: And of course, great guests like today.
[SPEAKER_07]: See you tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_05]: On your interview show today, who do you have?
[SPEAKER_05]: John Billingsley from Star Trek Enterprise and the Trek Talks.
[SPEAKER_05]: Tell a thong this weekend.
[SPEAKER_05]: Trek Talks.
[SPEAKER_05]: Not net.
[SPEAKER_07]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bob, we love having you here.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll see you here next week, man.
[SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely, we'll see you then.
[SPEAKER_07]: All righty.
[SPEAKER_07]: See you tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_07]: John Fugelsang will be in it.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll be Thursday.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, well, get yourself home safe.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we'll see you guys here tomorrow night at the Palm Beach.