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[SPEAKER_08]: Up day.
[SPEAKER_08]: Exactly, Joe he's a hundred percent right, which she has often times feared Baltic It is homemade.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I know you're like wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's only the second day of the work week Well, we go.
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, it's weird.
[SPEAKER_09]: It felt like a Friday today.
[SPEAKER_08]: I was like I know that that stuff was having fun over to her place I'm sure Bob had a good interview today.
[SPEAKER_08]: Maybe we'll have to ask him.
[SPEAKER_08]: Did you actually have rude abundant?
[SPEAKER_08]: We'll have to ask him
[SPEAKER_08]: There's a joke in there.
[SPEAKER_08]: If you heard it this morning, you know, and if you don't, it's okay.
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[SPEAKER_08]: we do, but you know the growing army of future people I am very fine with and as soon as one of you figures out how to get us the lottery numbers we will definitely.
[SPEAKER_09]: That would be awesome because we could actually hire people to help us with the job.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well right you know and then we could actually maybe get you know a little bit more I got a little bit more sleep last night and not not too much I was rushing to the bar today and you know.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hey week you got it done.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then I got I got I got my stuff done.
[SPEAKER_08]: You get your stuff done.
[SPEAKER_08]: We got our stuff done.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's all good today.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, we got a good drink of the day coming.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I particularly love the architecture and the artwork that's involved with the drink of the day to day.
[SPEAKER_09]: Me too.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm a sucker for you like that, too.
[SPEAKER_09]: I that what it is one of my favorite buildings.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: See, I also like the joke that you said, well, we'll have to look into that a little bit later.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, there was a flood last night in case you missed it.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was in Texas.
[SPEAKER_08]: And while I cannot play it, I do happen to love the old Stevie Ray Vaughan song, Texas Flood, because that was, yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, we don't want to risk that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Look, you know, we try to follow the rules.
[SPEAKER_08]: We aim to please even the legal folks around here, at least so we don't get buzzed or dinged or whatever.
[SPEAKER_08]: But there was a flood of elections out of
[SPEAKER_08]: a little bit more than some people thought it would be.
[SPEAKER_08]: Did you, did you think that, I mean, I thought packs to move in, did you think packs to move in?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, I was, I think pretty much most people did, but I don't think most people had packs in beating corn and by 28 points.
[SPEAKER_09]: But by how many voters?
[SPEAKER_08]: Once again, Jody is spot on it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Dean Obedawa had a great post.
[SPEAKER_08]: He talked about it this morning over the Stephanie Miller show as well.
[SPEAKER_08]: But it's post up on Blue Sky.
[SPEAKER_08]: Really kind of puts it concisely.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, and he said quote the reality that corporate media ignores there are nearly 19 million voters in Texas those are I believe registered voters I think so right.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean registered as different than actual but there's like 30 million eligible and like 32 33 something like that million people in Texas.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Dean continues to say how many actually voted for Ken Paxton in Tuesdays run off?
[SPEAKER_08]: Which is open to everybody because their primaries are open.
[SPEAKER_08]: They have open.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's why some people voted for him that were Democrats.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_08]: 885,000 people out of roughly 30 million.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, but the question is,
[SPEAKER_09]: how to call it all red do and the others do with their votes.
[SPEAKER_08]: I have yet to hear fully on that and oftentimes you won't get the tallys until a couple of days later in most places, even when they do the initial counting fast, but I think Democrats turned out okay, I think it depends on the Democrats voted for Pakistan.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think there was that too and of course if they if they did that then you know, it's anyway But look this is why by the way, I'm against open primaries even for Republicans.
[SPEAKER_09]: I right completely against them because if you're not a part of my group my You should not be allowed to vote for the head of my group
[SPEAKER_08]: Right because you might be making decisions that I wouldn't like it in fact right Republicans tried a little bit of a chicaneary last night.
[SPEAKER_08]: We'll talk about that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, they did, but they did that.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, remember, Rush Limbaugh?
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I know.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know.
[SPEAKER_08]: But here, according was aware of the numbers last night here last was him and his concession speech.
[SPEAKER_01]: In this runoff election approximately 8% of registered voters made their voices heard.
[SPEAKER_01]: And above that 8% of voted, ruptly 16%, said they were ready for a different direction.
[SPEAKER_08]: Who voted for the end of the guy?
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Another reminder that those who show up decide for those who do not.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's not wrong.
[SPEAKER_08]: John Corne is right on that, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, I mean, it, it, our mayor election usually because we have a governor's election so I think that turnout's gonna be bigger.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right, because you got both governor and mayor next Tuesday.
[SPEAKER_09]: So it should be bigger for our primary.
[SPEAKER_09]: But in general, when we vote for the mayor in this town, we're lucky if 12% of the people vote.
[SPEAKER_08]: In general, Americans are some of the worst in the world in democracy when it comes to turnout.
[SPEAKER_08]: We are well granted if teen 1820.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: which I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_08]: You can't take any of that for granted anymore.
[SPEAKER_08]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_08]: I got some of the numbers on this from Texas.
[SPEAKER_08]: 2824 turnout was 56.8% of eligible voters in Texas.
[SPEAKER_08]: The turnout last night as corn and said it was about 8% that's 2.4 million out of roughly 30 million.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's just sad.
[SPEAKER_08]: But here's the thing, if you are listening to us from your corner of the bar there in Texas and you're going, hey, you know, like Anita, which we'll see Anita here in both of them on Friday.
[SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, I'm sorry, but, you know, if you're in Texas and you didn't like, you don't like some of the folks that are going to be running in the general election now from whatever party.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, if you didn't vote, dude, that's on you.
[SPEAKER_08]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_08]: Those, I mean, Conan said it right there.
[SPEAKER_08]: Those who show up make the decisions.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's not wrong.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, I'm against him on so much policy, but he's right there.
[SPEAKER_08]: Look, he married Anita and her husband.
[SPEAKER_08]: So we know if there are, there are some there is.
[SPEAKER_09]: Wait, I just can't.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well played, Jodie.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well played.
[SPEAKER_08]: But I, but I look at it and I just say, look, the whole fact of the matter is,
[SPEAKER_08]: Anybody who's still bitching about Kamala and Tim, it's like, did you vote?
[SPEAKER_08]: And if the answer is no, or if you were in a state that's contested and you voted third party, we just have a gigantic Hawk and Mug of STFU that has your name on it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_08]: Because I'm sorry, if you don't turn out, you got no voice.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, uh, here's the here's the key that I noticed a lot of the the national media folks didn't didn't focus on So according said that he has long been a loyal Republican.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, he has Yeah, I mean, and he's he's voted with Trump like like 95% something like that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah But he's still an old-fashioned Republican and What that means is that so he said I'll vote for the ticket
[SPEAKER_08]: meaning he'll vote for the Republican ticket.
[SPEAKER_08]: But if you ask him specifically, are you going to vote for Pakistan, he said, I'll vote for the Republican ticket.
[SPEAKER_08]: He specifically avoided saying that he was going to support Pakistan.
[SPEAKER_09]: He'll vote against Colin all red and the others that won in the states.
[SPEAKER_08]: Sure, you'll have no problem voting Republican down ballot, but he will likely leave that one on because he'll support the Republicans, but that doesn't always mean that's a trick the corner.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's a trick that McConnell has played at 100,000 times in the Senate over the years.
[SPEAKER_08]: And probably actually, you know, 100,000, because McConnell is, you know, he was there about the same time as Methuselah.
[SPEAKER_09]: I told you, she's about the same Methuselah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Great minds.
[SPEAKER_07]: Great minds.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: Texans, especially Texans from Republicans, were really, really stupid for a lot of reasons.
[SPEAKER_08]: One of them is a fact that you got seen your already.
[SPEAKER_08]: Charlotte Clymer did a fantastic piece on the way.
[SPEAKER_08]: She says, I'll see if I can repost it up on the politics bar account on threads.
[SPEAKER_08]: But she made the point.
[SPEAKER_08]: The longer you're there, any of the House of the Senate, even when you're in the minority, you get better positions on the committee.
[SPEAKER_08]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_08]: You get positions where you get to determine where the money goes and where the money doesn't go.
[SPEAKER_08]: Corning is the fourth most senior, I think fifth most, pardon me, senior Republican.
[SPEAKER_08]: Chuck Grassley, Susan Colin, Mike Crepo, and Mitch McConnell, aka dinosaur.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, they're, and McConnell, by the way, remember, he's checking out.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, he's retiring potentially get beats.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, Grassley at some point will have to join McConnell and Methuselah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Isn't he like 90 almost?
[SPEAKER_08]: 92 93 almost.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, honey, he needs to retire.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah, I'm, I'm well aware that the good old Chuck Grassley needs to go.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, why is he hanging on?
[SPEAKER_08]: It's all because he's from Iowa.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's because it's all he knows.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's been doing this for so long.
[SPEAKER_09]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, it's been a blast.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's been a blast about it.
[SPEAKER_08]: It really is in many ways a lot of the Midwest.
[SPEAKER_08]: If you are from the greater Midwest stretching basically from Central and Western Pennsylvania.
[SPEAKER_08]: Some people include that.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't, but all the way through Ohio Indiana and Illinois and down in Missouri and all the way up into part of Minnesota and whatever.
[SPEAKER_08]: find Stein held on to right but that's the thing is is that especially in those areas though there is the the life motto of if it ain't broke don't fix it yeah and there are a lot of people in Midwest where I grew up in Nebraska and Iowa where in Chicago or folks listening on WCPT y'all know um who
[SPEAKER_08]: They like what Grassley does for whatever reason, and they like the seniority that Chuck.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's what it is.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's just he knows what he's doing, and I understand that.
[SPEAKER_08]: He knows where all the bodies are buried.
[SPEAKER_09]: I have a no problem with with experience, right.
[SPEAKER_09]: At all, but he's 90 something.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Pelosi, she's in her 80s.
[SPEAKER_09]: Retiring, even Mitch, who's not well, retiring.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, uh, fine sign should have retired when she got shingles.
[SPEAKER_09]: Unfortunately.
[SPEAKER_08]: I understand that Clyburn, um, I understand him not retiring.
[SPEAKER_08]: I get that of some people now say the biggest reason he didn't retire was that he knew if he did in South Carolina.
[SPEAKER_09]: Then they would have read John the maps and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now he did the right thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: But at that point, it's one of those where you just kind of go, good God, get South Carolina.
[SPEAKER_08]: Y'all got to get your act together.
[SPEAKER_08]: Which hopefully, I mean, they've got to go.
[SPEAKER_09]: He'll find somebody to replace him.
[SPEAKER_08]: I hope so.
[SPEAKER_08]: So we know the seniorities part of it.
[SPEAKER_08]: The other big part of it that very few, I've heard a couple people mention it on the mainstream, but it isn't something that they're featuring.
[SPEAKER_08]: Coran was a big, huge fundraiser for the public party.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, he's like Pelosi at that point.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, she could raise money like crazy.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, but that's part of this and you already thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: You've been around, you know, where the body's buried, you know, the laws, you know how to skirt the laws and fortunately, because of our stupid campaign.
[SPEAKER_08]: Finance, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Paxton is a really crappy fundraiser.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, because he's a,
[SPEAKER_08]: douchebag right there he's a yeah spotted Richard yes he's an a-hole he's a well actually uh... the uh... tell a reco campaign has a great as a felon
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, yeah, I mean, we'll play the ad in a little bit here.
[SPEAKER_08]: But he is, he's got a list of, he's got a rap sheet.
[SPEAKER_08]: As I said, exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, he's got a rap sheet longer than she killed on Neil's arm.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, you know, I mean, it is, and you're sitting there going, wow.
[SPEAKER_08]: And that's how the Republicans are going to start is they're not going to have to spend a ton of money in Texas.
[SPEAKER_08]: But they're not going to be bringing in a ton of money from Texas, which is going to hurt them in Iowa.
[SPEAKER_08]: And it's going to hurt them in Ohio and in Alaska.
[SPEAKER_08]: And, you know, do the Howard Dean screen, if you will.
[SPEAKER_08]: But... Ah!
[SPEAKER_08]: Ah!
[SPEAKER_09]: Something like that, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: Ah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, no, no, that's that's pretty good, actually.
[SPEAKER_08]: Jody, you win for that one.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's been a minute since I remember hearing that.
[SPEAKER_08]: I was remember because he listed off all the states in any screen, but look, for those of you who are laughing and chuckling and needing another drink, we will get you another drink.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Lacken you margarita, uh, Jodi, uh, Steven North Carolina via the bar line last night.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, he had a correction, uh, primarily for me, uh, but also for, for all of us here last night.
[SPEAKER_08]: He said, uh, remember, butthead is the one with the list.
[SPEAKER_08]: Beavis speaks with the nasal grunge.
[SPEAKER_08]: He says, keep up to good fight.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I died.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I quit him.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, uh, uh, is beavis for butthead.
[SPEAKER_08]: He says butthead is the one with the list.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's about it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm beat up.
[SPEAKER_08]: Sound like that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Cheapy for my vocal.
[SPEAKER_09]: Got it.
[SPEAKER_09]: My vocal.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's a vocal.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you are correct Steve.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you very much for that.
[SPEAKER_08]: By the way, it's important.
[SPEAKER_08]: We all know which one is but head.
[SPEAKER_08]: I personally believe but head is actually Donald Trump.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Junior.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Eric.
[SPEAKER_08]: And most of the people in this cabinet.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, do you see the, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's once every six minutes, they kiss his ass according to somebody.
[SPEAKER_08]: I didn't, I could not verify that, but I think I saw somebody referenced that on one of the social media platforms and I'm like, Sounds about right.
[SPEAKER_08]: It does fill in Seattle by the way via the bar line also said today Donald was questioned by the reporters at his cabinet meeting and as usual he lied his ass off Trump has repeated over and over again the same lies about the war against Iran.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: It looked like Trump is a sick monster and and and and fills right on that.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know that's a that's a disparaging thing about monsters.
[SPEAKER_08]: I apologize to all the monsters that I have insults.
[SPEAKER_08]: I am not surprised that Paxton won.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm not surprised to some of the other results from Texas.
[SPEAKER_08]: And actually, I like this.
[SPEAKER_08]: You and I both have this one.
[SPEAKER_08]: The Cook Political Report has now shifted the Texas Senate race towards Democrats.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's still, it was solid Republican now.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's leaning Republican, which means it's moving to the blue.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, G. L. E. Morris, we like to have over-strengthen numbers, says the data is really pointing to the fact that the Texas Senate election is a toss-up, and it might even slightly favor Democrats.
[SPEAKER_08]: For the reasons we were mentioning earlier about the fact that that the money's not coming in, it's going to be flooding out and also people did not show up.
[SPEAKER_08]: Republicans did not show up to vote in Texas.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, and that's on them.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not, I mean, Democrats sort of showed up, but the way you need to show up, kids.
[SPEAKER_08]: You should know about every election.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't care if it's local, if it's county.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't care what it is, dog hatcher just show up.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right, exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, by the way, do we love for dog catcher?
[SPEAKER_09]: I've never had to do that.
[SPEAKER_08]: On some places?
[SPEAKER_09]: No, no, no, no, how to do that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Don't remember, but I do know that, I mean, I've, and remembering in years ago, we still have dog catchers.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, now it's known as animal control, but if a county, if a county or a city has like an animal control chief or something, sometimes they'll, I mean, you know, people still vote for judges, which I find weird.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, no, it's, it's, I had to vote for some.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know, but I look at it, and I still, I'm like, that just seems a little odd.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, but isn't it better than a point, I don't know how to do that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I mean that there are and maybe maybe we'll have to ask some of our legal folks about that at some point in time be like is there a better way to do it I get I look at it when they're appointed as they're appointed by people who well in some way elected so well right and in some cases they're actually appointed off a recommended list and the recommended list is put together by people who
[SPEAKER_08]: understand what they're doing for the heritage foundation or don't write so I mean it's they're I I keep thinking there's got to be a better way but I think electing them is better.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know I don't know I do know other elections that were in Texas Christian Manify and one time rep Al Green this is one of these things where they combine Republicans.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know and I love Al Green but I think she's gonna be fine
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[SPEAKER_09]: I know it happened in my district years ago.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here was the Republican chicaneary.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I believe it's Texas Democratic District 3435.
[SPEAKER_08]: 35.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's very.
[SPEAKER_08]: Democrat Johnny Garcia won the primary.
[SPEAKER_08]: There was a very shady
[SPEAKER_08]: And it's a matter of, I don't know, I'll show you.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's awful.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's awful.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, this is not, remember, you know, me being from Nebraska, they tried some of the chicane to read there, and they tried some of it down in Texas too.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's the thing is that there was a super packed that came in.
[SPEAKER_08]: And the super packed actually had a,
[SPEAKER_08]: bunch of ties to Republicans, popular information, Judd Legum's organization.
[SPEAKER_08]: He and his team over there, expose the dirt.
[SPEAKER_08]: We've got the peace from popular information in our news on Tap today.
[SPEAKER_08]: Basically, it's a Republican dirty tricks or known as lead left.
[SPEAKER_08]: Nothing like coming in saying, hello fellow kids, I'm a Democrat.
[SPEAKER_08]: It is, and they back to this woman who is extreme to say at least.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, the guy who won Johnny Garcia, he's moderate, but he's in an area where moderate Democrat is going to be just fine.
[SPEAKER_08]: The moderate Democrat may actually pick up that seat because of the redistricting
[SPEAKER_08]: that they're, you know, oh, they're ignoring it.
[SPEAKER_08]: They are getting as dirty as they possibly can.
[SPEAKER_08]: We also both of us have the same same piece I'll have that this from the New York Times.
[SPEAKER_08]: These seven takeaways, which Tuesdays, Wolves and Texas, you guys should take a look at those as well.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's not just top of the ticket, it's other stuff, but it's stuff that they will export and maybe that we can focus on.
[SPEAKER_08]: For example, the Republican primary between passion and corn and was ugly.
[SPEAKER_08]: that is going to hurt them because just sore feelings alone some Republicans are not going to join not going to come back for the general election.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Also, by the way, now that Corne is basically free, he's joining folks like Tom Tillis, you know what I can do whatever the hell I want.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's hope.
[SPEAKER_08]: I hope so.
[SPEAKER_08]: So we'll see.
[SPEAKER_08]: uh... me time some good and some bad news in the war of democracy part uh... sapphire line is trump factory district and bush failed twelve republicans actually joined so six more joined and had joined before yeah they'll do it in twenty seven i mean i'll just
[SPEAKER_08]: Although, I mean, I'm not, I'm not saying they won't try to cheat their way to a better map.
[SPEAKER_08]: They, they, they will.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's a secure line.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, you know, saying a secure line of Republicans must cheat is like saying they have to breathe to survive.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, it depends on the new legislature and South Carolina y'all elect some Democrats.
[SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: In fact, it liked a lot of Democrats and so many exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: But it was interesting that they noted the, the polls open yesterday.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think I heard the total early first day count was a record for South Carolina, something like 50,000 people voter on the first day.
[SPEAKER_08]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: And that was one of the reasons that some of the folks, some of the Republicans in the South Carolina Senate said we can't do this.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're voting.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, the other things, the election has already started and they're like, it would cost another $5 million.
[SPEAKER_09]: Was it Louisiana that stopped a vote?
[SPEAKER_09]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're correct.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's been down on me.
[SPEAKER_08]: Alabama, I believe, did the, uh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Alabama.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: No.
[SPEAKER_08]: But at least in South Carolina, they were like, yeah, that's too expensive for us.
[SPEAKER_08]: We, we can't.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I know, this is all it's, it's, look, this stuff is, and it's not, here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: Republicans are still failing at government.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, there's Trump's failed war of the ran.
[SPEAKER_08]: The story on that is not actually as long as people think a ran before to get another plan.
[SPEAKER_08]: The Trump regime knocked it down again.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's how you know a ran is feeling better about not just their position in the war, but their position in the world and how other people are looking at this war.
[SPEAKER_08]: They open the internet back up.
[SPEAKER_09]: First time since January, I think it was something like that's 80 something days.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, almost almost three days.
[SPEAKER_08]: They're like, yeah, the world's on our side now going dude, kick him in the junk.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I'm, look, there's also secondary tertiary issues that are no laughing matter.
[SPEAKER_08]: Famine is growing.
[SPEAKER_08]: You've got severe energy issues, like the 1970s.
[SPEAKER_08]: Those of you who remember the the gas line, I do.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, well, they're already happening in certain places in South East Asia, in certain parts of Africa, um, uh, yeah, that's so.
[SPEAKER_08]: There are a lot of people who are pissed off right now at the United States, they're, they're pissed at Donald Trump, but they're also pissed at those people who allowed Trump to get back into office.
[SPEAKER_09]: Sorry, y'all.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh-huh, and uh, let's, let's, let's do what the hell did corn and say when we started and we got it on the bar tonight.
[SPEAKER_08]: Those who show up make the decisions for those who don't.
[SPEAKER_08]: And the world is pissed at the United States right now because too many people sat near asses and couldn't go vote for the Black and South Asian woman.
[SPEAKER_08]: So if you're pissed about it and if you're like, damn, I hate being reminded of it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Remember what my mom has always said if hurts when you do that, then don't do that.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to keep reminding you, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: And then, you know, stop stopping.
[SPEAKER_08]: Start going to the polls.
[SPEAKER_08]: Every chance you get.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know.
[SPEAKER_08]: Pretend that you are Ken Paxton trying to cheat on your wife.
[SPEAKER_08]: Just saying, do it as often as you can.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's all, voting.
[SPEAKER_08]: Do it as often as you can.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's, that's where I was going to go.
[SPEAKER_07]: Joe, he's giving me the side eye.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's fine, whatever.
[SPEAKER_08]: Republicans are also failing on the economy.
[SPEAKER_08]: There is a second looming inflation wave because of the wonderful states of her who is being closed.
[SPEAKER_08]: New consumer board survey shows, even as the US stock market hits new highs, two of three Americans are cutting back on spending.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's 66%.
[SPEAKER_09]: But didn't has such a say that because we're spending so much money on credit cards?
[SPEAKER_09]: It's awesome.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, that's it's because we can't afford to pay it with cash.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're basically taking loans out on food.
[SPEAKER_08]: I just think we need to remove his age.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's an, and remove the E.T.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's just an ass.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's just a sort of a ass.
[SPEAKER_08]: It just, ass, ass.
[SPEAKER_08]: Just, just make his name ass.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, if it fits.
[SPEAKER_08]: I, I, in a friend, back in was a fourth grade.
[SPEAKER_08]: Dan and I were hanging out at his house.
[SPEAKER_08]: His sister was much or she was like early 20's at that point.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, I think they're in, uh, Arizona.
[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, and they had a brand new kid.
[SPEAKER_08]: And, uh, her, her, her, her, her, her, her, her, her married surname, her married last name started with an S. And they were going to name the kid.
[SPEAKER_08]: Something like Adam Sean Smith.
[SPEAKER_08]: And immediately our fourth grade brains went.
[SPEAKER_08]: Do not do that because every kid at that kid's school.
[SPEAKER_09]: A-s-s-s. Hey, ask, how you doing?
[SPEAKER_08]: A-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-
[SPEAKER_08]: Like how that the general rule of thumb, if you're creating a name, if you're creating a brand, ask a, you know, 12 13 14 year old boy.
[SPEAKER_08]: If they did it in laugh, probably a good idea that you need to change whatever it is general rule of thumb.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, you know Bob Cesska's one of his names is Dick Pinch.
[SPEAKER_08]: So this is true.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is true.
[SPEAKER_08]: Also, um, I believe What was it that crude?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, oh, Brent crude.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, Brent crude.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, always one of my favorite people who know
[SPEAKER_08]: uh... i believe uh... he he did a radio show i believe he really yes exactly but i'm still going the the economy is speaking of crude uh... cnn has a business expert predicts the gas prices are not going to drop a low three dollars until twenty thirty two due to the u.s a red war and tariffs and other trampolated factors
[SPEAKER_08]: And if you've got a mortgage on your home, don't look to refinance any time soon.
[SPEAKER_08]: Demand is dropping as a matter of fact.
[SPEAKER_08]: 18% month to month as interest rates have hit the highest level since 20.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, I are there right now because when I bought my house, I had seven, eight percent, something like that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, when I bought my house, my interest rate was 7.775.
[SPEAKER_08]: I didn't refinance that while back in the last one.
[SPEAKER_09]: A long time ago, but it was just, it was like, because I was 26 years old.
[SPEAKER_09]: My mom didn't co-sign, so it was my own,
[SPEAKER_08]: People still bought houses in the early 80s when the interest rate was like 12%.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, so I mean people will still buy homes.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's just harder.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, no refinances, as soon as they can.
[SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_09]: And yes, I did re-fire, I mean.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: People are, people are, as the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and the streets and
[SPEAKER_08]: uh... look i am as you can tell i'm a little um... dry uh... i need a drink united drink i do okay look then we can do the drink of the day next this one is uh... i i i like this one this one is uh... well look we'll just we'll tell you come now those of you who are already subscribed you know and uh... those of you who are not don't just stand there like some kind of gargoyle just go subscribe but the politics part dot com coming up with the drink of the day next shake your head i get it i get it come on back hang on
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[SPEAKER_08]: I've had a couple people say, God, you guys give away the good part.
[SPEAKER_08]: Like, what do you mean?
[SPEAKER_08]: The history.
[SPEAKER_08]: We are the history, the stories, and the fun stuff, or what are, sure.
[SPEAKER_08]: We want people to be, that's really neat.
[SPEAKER_08]: Ooh, that drink would be good.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then they can't have the recipe unless they're subscribed.
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[SPEAKER_08]: So I don't know if it's the good part.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's a fun part.
[SPEAKER_08]: it's a neat part.
[SPEAKER_08]: What is today's meat and some of you, by the way, will get the joke that I told here a few minutes ago and some of you will be like, oh man, so don't groan too loudly.
[SPEAKER_08]: What is the drink of the day and what is the the reason for the drink of the day?
[SPEAKER_09]: The drink of the day is a gargoyle cocktail or mocktail and it's inspired by the day that the Chrysler building opened its door to the public on this day in 1930.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, May 27, 1930, which one's bigger, the Chrysler building or the ancient pyramid of Cheyops, I do not remember which comedian used to use that as a comparison.
[SPEAKER_08]: But I do know that there was a comedian that did that, but for the record, by the way, Chrysler building much taller, the great pyramid of Giza, also known as the ancient pyramid of Cheyops, significantly bigger square footage wise.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's gigantic.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, good.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's cool.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's cool.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's the Chrysler.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, you know, I have loved the capital, uh, and I don't mean the US government.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean that the top of the building, the top of the property, I love those old art deco buildings.
[SPEAKER_08]: I feel to work.
[SPEAKER_08]: the inlay, the inside, the the work that's on, we got a video that's part of it.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's in the drink of the day.
[SPEAKER_08]: The in archetype breaks down some of the secrets of the building, and we've got a close-up of a couple of the gargoyles and also.
[SPEAKER_08]: So there's something that a lot of people don't know exactly how to describe it.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I'm like, it's the helmet of the God Mercury's one is.
[SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's exactly what it is.
[SPEAKER_08]: Also happens to be literally a reproduction of the radiator cap in a Chrysler that was just that like a 1930s Chrysler.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: So people, oh, really, yeah, they reproduce that on was this 61st floor, something like that.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, it's just, I mean, I love, I love that building.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's it's such a beautiful building to be hold.
[SPEAKER_09]: And there are so many movies that have used the men in black, um, Batman Batman, I mean, it's just, it's just, it's just so good.
[SPEAKER_08]: Everyone, I think Spider-Man actually, Spider-Man, obviously.
[SPEAKER_08]: But Batman did like a mock-up, Spider-Man did like, you know, this is the real thing kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: We can actually do it there.
[SPEAKER_09]: Men in black, he went out there.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, it's fun.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's, we've got some great pictures and some great history in there as well.
[SPEAKER_08]: What, by the way, Jodi happens to be in a Gargoyo cocktail or mocked out.
[SPEAKER_08]: How do we make these little drinky drinks?
[SPEAKER_09]: All right, children.
[SPEAKER_09]: What do we need?
[SPEAKER_09]: It's pre-chilled.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a coupe glass.
[SPEAKER_09]: Shaker, some ice for the cocktail union in the ounce of gin and an ounce of vodka.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, seriously, children just have one.
[SPEAKER_09]: If you're driving, especially, and then wait an hour and some change before you leave.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: The mock tail is an ounce of liars gen alternative or one ounce of non-alcoholic vodka clean coes clean v or RK 0 proof vodka or the two that we're choosing right so you got to have an ounce of the non-alcoholic and an ounce of the non-alcoholic Gen or an ounce of gin and an ounce of alcohol
[SPEAKER_09]: Is that okay?
[SPEAKER_09]: Make sure.
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, an ounce of passion fruit puree, yummy, um, a love passion fruit, uh, one lemon will, and you garnish with lemon twist.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you're going to add all the ingredients for either one, including the lemon will.
[SPEAKER_08]: Really interesting.
[SPEAKER_08]: Add eyes.
[SPEAKER_08]: It gets more the lemon flavoring out of it that way.
[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's just going to shake it up.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's you're not blending it.
[SPEAKER_09]: You're just shaking up the wheel.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, you're just kind of like kind of shaking it.
[SPEAKER_09]: To get a little bit of the juice out.
[SPEAKER_09]: Not too much.
[SPEAKER_09]: Just a little.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then of course the juice will get in it and then later on when the drink is done.
[SPEAKER_08]: You can suck the wheel.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's some of us do that in our drinks, just saying with me.
[SPEAKER_09]: So you add the ice and you shake until cold, you strain it into your coop glass and you aren't garnished with the lemon twist, which you already have the lemon wheel, so it's easy to garnish.
[SPEAKER_08]: Nothing wrong with that.
[SPEAKER_08]: And remember, let your dreams climb like skyscrapers, but always keep the beauty of the classics.
[SPEAKER_08]: Like the Chrysler Building, which, by the way, Julie via Substack, she absolutely says, I love this.
[SPEAKER_08]: Our deco gargoyles are awesome.
[SPEAKER_08]: It says sounds like two of these cocktails, though, would make the gargoyles come to life, which, as we noted, yeah, you don't wanna drink.
[SPEAKER_08]: Ghostbusters?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: Look, if you guys missed any part of the drink of the day, you know what to do.
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[SPEAKER_08]: head and down to our fifth round, which is what we usually do after our drink of the day.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's just it's kind of fun.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, little break from the politics for a moment in the media matter section.
[SPEAKER_08]: We had this here a couple weeks ago and it's confirmed 60 minutes journalists sharing off on sea who exposed the political meddling at CBS's Loster contract as expected.
[SPEAKER_08]: Park on the Y has a really good write up about how the elephants are keeping the CBS brand, but basically removing any legitimate journalism.
[SPEAKER_08]: They are going to be really sorry because there are people who have there are a lot of people who have canceled their paramount plus subscriptions They're all we got to have Bob that too is is how how do how do how do some of the Star Trek fans deal with that because you know I mean paramount owners Star Trek.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know and it's it's tough.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean because I like else best.
[SPEAKER_09]: I love that show Because I love Carrie Preston.
[SPEAKER_09]: She's so she's great good
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, and I like madlock and they're both CBS shows and I love everybody on it And I don't want people because everybody's going oh boycott and like, okay, you want everybody to lose their gigs So, you know, I understand getting rid of paramount because that's a paid service.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I get that
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's my suggestion.
[SPEAKER_08]: There are a lot of bootlegs out there, especially if it's a popular show.
[SPEAKER_08]: So go find a bootleg on YouTube or somewhere else that you can find a bootleg and watch the show that way.
[SPEAKER_08]: People go, oh, that's me.
[SPEAKER_08]: I go, no, and you and talk about it on social media and stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: But yes, for the most part, Sean, CBS, and Paramount.
[SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, they hurt.
[SPEAKER_08]: They are just the... Why did your neighbor still have his gig from Jimmy Kimmel?
[SPEAKER_08]: because we boycott it because we said to Disney, here's the deal, you exist because we watch your stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: If you're going to bow to Donald Trump, then we're not going to watch any of your stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, let's suck it.
[SPEAKER_09]: The problem is is first off Colbert's gone now, unfortunately.
[SPEAKER_09]: Secondly, 60 minutes as popular as it is, is for our age and older.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, and it's for anybody who likes or it used to be for anybody who likes news that Parker Parker notes that in her whole piece where she says, they're keeping the brand and for people who have watched 60 minutes for a long time, they may still it will be a nice.
[SPEAKER_08]: It would be a nice equation to put it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it'll be a knockoff version of 60 minutes.
[SPEAKER_08]: But they'll notice that 60 minutes is no longer driving the national news conversation.
[SPEAKER_08]: And it's because legitimate journalists no longer trust it.
[SPEAKER_09]: So hopefully she doesn't have a non-compete in her contract.
[SPEAKER_09]: And if she does, give it six months and then she'll be back.
[SPEAKER_09]: Like Joy, Joy, and others, it probably had a non-compete, and then all of a sudden they're back.
[SPEAKER_09]: So whatever their non-compete's are, hopefully some 18 months, you know, put it in the entertainment section.
[SPEAKER_08]: But Cole there, that little thing in Montenegro is a YouTube channel and everything.
[SPEAKER_08]: He already has this new YouTube channel, so that's, I mean, people are, you know, and CBS, the folks of Paramount are going to learn in a hard way that, you know, the whole thing about being in a business that happens to be...
[SPEAKER_08]: and the people who say capitalism sucks what we have right now is not it's corporatism it is a fast step half step below fascism it is um but it still has enough of the elements of capitalism that unless the state is going to come in and completely save your ass which trump is not going to do and congress is not going to do they're not going to come in and save paramounts ass
[SPEAKER_08]: it's going to hurt their business and at some point they will have to decide do we continue going with this failed strategy of trying to tell everybody else that everyone else is indoctrinating while we're trying to indoctrinate or are we actually going to do our business of entertaining and providing news either we do the business or we're a propaganda outlet but we're not both and that's fine but that's the choice that we've got to make for them well ABC's having to make that choice with the view being sued
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, but they made that choice clearly.
[SPEAKER_08]: They made that choice with good morning.
[SPEAKER_08]: I can watch good morning, American today show.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I'll tell you what, good morning America is significantly better.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I can tell that's Stefan Opa was influencing.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know what, that's we should not have settled that was stupid.
[SPEAKER_08]: Don't anybody do that anymore.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I'm like, I'm glad.
[SPEAKER_08]: So that's my morning choices.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Very good, by the way, 79 years old was okay though, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: He has perfectly fine.
[SPEAKER_08]: There was just an online hoax.
[SPEAKER_08]: He had more propaganda, weird ass stuff, that he was dead.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's like, no, I'm perfectly alive.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, they've been doing that to my mom.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's why I put it in there today because I'm like, this is this is not the first Star that we've seen that it's like, oh somebody's or you know, they I or some of the other crap that they were putting out there about your mom and it's like folks Just go to the source It's like it's it's first of it's bad AI stuff right and secondly
[SPEAKER_09]: no right just and so i mean face book will not take it down there a i moderators because that's all they have now right well listen to people i mean i saw something in the other day about somebody else who i don't know but i'm like that's a lie boom report right all you can do and and it sucks for now and it at some point it's probably in the moping court and then they'll get their butt spanked and then i want to my mom to sue zuck
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, that would have been fun.
[SPEAKER_08]: But your mom was probably like, whatever.
[SPEAKER_09]: She said she and Brian were like, it's not worth it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm like, yeah, he's worth a lot of money.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, somebody who actually has a lot of Donald's money, E.G.
[SPEAKER_08]: and Carol is sharing her life in a new channel.
[SPEAKER_09]: I can't wait to see that.
[SPEAKER_08]: It'll be interesting.
[SPEAKER_08]: She has been unfortunately abused by a lot of the same people with a ridiculous propaganda crap.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, and it's also not just in your mind, there's a new study confirming the weight between TV seasons is now about 21 months on average, and they're shorter.
[SPEAKER_08]: They're like, you used to be like 18.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, you used to start in, like, when kids started school.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then you would get maybe a week with Thanksgiving off and then two weeks during holidays, holidays.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then maybe another week around spring and then those were the weeks you didn't, you saw reruns and stuff and then you would finish this season in May.
[SPEAKER_09]: So you start in September, finish in May as far as the viewing audience.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's how that worked.
[SPEAKER_09]: per season.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Because they're going with the streaming stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know, which is to, by the way, the Peros.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_09]: I just finished it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, I've talked about that.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, KC Thunder, Top San Antonio last night, 127-14 in Game 5.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's going back to San Antonio, but Thunder may take it.
[SPEAKER_08]: We'll see.
[SPEAKER_08]: Vegas Golden Knights didn't take it.
[SPEAKER_08]: They swept the Colorado Abelanch and have advanced to their third Stanley Cup final in nine seasons.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, you know, I'm sorry for those of you who like Colorado Abelanch, but for those of you who are Minnesota Wild Pants who are pissed that Colorado beat you, yes, I know you're applauding right now.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, thank you very much.
[SPEAKER_08]: on the way Bob Ceska is coming in there is a lot more news on tap and we will get to that coming up look it's a top of the hour You got to do what you got to do.
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[SPEAKER_08]: We were talking about the economy and how absolutely awful it is.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I started hitting on that while back here, the strengthened numbers
[SPEAKER_08]: We've got some good folks who do polling and we, you know, we keep looking to them.
[SPEAKER_08]: But G. L. E. Morris and his gang over at strength and numbers are actually, I like the way that they are presenting things these days.
[SPEAKER_08]: And this, this poll, we've got the good piece.
[SPEAKER_08]: It happens to be in the economy and Christ section in the third round of news on tap.
[SPEAKER_08]: So under economy and Christ, as you'll find it there, there's a whole graph that he goes through talks about in here.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I'm just going to read this because this is from the survey.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: From the strength and number survey, what policy solutions
[SPEAKER_08]: to the economy, to the economic problems, do Americans favor.
[SPEAKER_08]: The survey says the poll points to a fairly clear agenda, voters overwhelmingly want lower grocery prices, lower rent, lower health insurance premiums, and higher wages.
[SPEAKER_08]: When forced to pick policies rather than outcomes, they gravitate towards tax cuts for middle and working class households, 35% of people like that.
[SPEAKER_08]: higher taxes on high earners and corporations rich people rich corporations that one is 29% and strict regulation of corporate price gouging 23% also in there is reducing the federal deficit people are worried that our no national credit card is high most importantly they want to feel like somebody is listening hmm
[SPEAKER_08]: This isn't that hard to me.
[SPEAKER_08]: I want to get to say, how can you not be?
[SPEAKER_08]: Somebody in Congress and follow the, this is a simple recipe here.
[SPEAKER_08]: and it's not like the rich don't have plenty to give as far as they are we used to tax them 90% people and corporations will over a certain amount don't say it's 90% from dollar one everybody we have a progressive tax rate right so the fact is we used to tax uh... corporations we used to tax
[SPEAKER_08]: A lot more people and a lot more big businesses, a lot harder than we do now.
[SPEAKER_08]: Way harder.
[SPEAKER_09]: Like it's, it's done.
[SPEAKER_09]: Kennedy brought it from 90% to 75 over a certain amount.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then Reagan slashed it to 32 or something and then tried to slash it like to 20, 28 something.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, it's, it's absolutely ass and I'm ridiculous.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's how you know this.
[SPEAKER_08]: So Mike Flood, the douchebag Republican in the, and this bothered me today.
[SPEAKER_08]: What the hell is her name on MS now?
[SPEAKER_08]: She's going to be going.
[SPEAKER_08]: They'll put her back on the streets here pretty soon.
[SPEAKER_08]: She's after noon.
[SPEAKER_09]: Not Katie Turr.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, it's before Katie.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, what's your face?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, she's short hair.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, drives me nuts sometimes.
[SPEAKER_08]: Because I heard a little piece from her today, and she was like, oh, yeah, that's a deep red district.
[SPEAKER_08]: first district of Nebraska is where I'm from.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's Lincoln Nebraska and it's the counties around it.
[SPEAKER_08]: It is not a deep red district.
[SPEAKER_08]: Lincoln and the area directly around it is actually pretty blue and a little purple.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, they they specifically did do.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's even in states like Nebraska.
[SPEAKER_08]: You can do Jerry Mendering and they did.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it is enough rural Nebraska to they think outwash.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well to delute.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: But that that's where
[SPEAKER_08]: And have to give him credit, go to the mic.
[SPEAKER_08]: He went and he did the town hall in Nebraska.
[SPEAKER_08]: And now you and I were talking about this earlier and we came into the bar.
[SPEAKER_08]: The name of the town is on the north fork of the Platte River.
[SPEAKER_08]: It is spelled NOR FOLK.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, everybody in the bar got that?
[SPEAKER_08]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_08]: How would you pronounce it, folks?
[SPEAKER_08]: Judd he knows, cause I told you earlier.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: And that would be when they initially submitted the name to the US government, they said, we're on the North fork of the river.
[SPEAKER_08]: We want to call it Nor fork.
[SPEAKER_08]: And it was submitted to somebody who was back here in the DC Metro area who was from Virginia right there is a Norfolk Norfolk and so they just went, oh, and I'll aren't F.O.L.K.
[SPEAKER_08]: there you go And they went So then braskins did a typical kind of a Passive aggressive thing and and everybody who is local passes at Norfolk
[SPEAKER_08]: I still spells it nor folk.
[SPEAKER_08]: So if you come into town or you're in the area and you say, oh, you must be that town hall was at Norfolk, Nebraska, which greats on me like, you know, fingernails on the chalkboard.
[SPEAKER_08]: And of course, I was hearing in the national media today, where they're like, well, you know, Mike Flood had this town hall in Norfolk.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's Norfolk.
[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway.
[SPEAKER_08]: So we have the town hall and the people there were pissed.
[SPEAKER_08]: They basically said the same thing that we just heard from the strength in number survey.
[SPEAKER_08]: What people want is lower grocery prices, lower rent, lower health insurance premiums, and higher wages, and then they knocked him on his butt verbally, not physically.
[SPEAKER_08]: And they said to him, dude, you're in Congress.
[SPEAKER_08]: What the hell are you doing?
[SPEAKER_08]: what are you doing to help us you work for us you don't work for the fat orange man the bastard who's putting up the the UFC thing on the lawn and my god that obscenity hey look there are reasons for H. O.A.s.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't like an H. O.A.
[SPEAKER_08]: like most people don't but the reason that you have H. O.A.s.
[SPEAKER_08]: is if your neighbor puts up like a big ass UFC thing in their yard and they know get the cops and take that second down yeah unfortunately that's
[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, but um, but the people at Mike Flood's Town Home were pissed and they're going, you're not just there to kiss Donald Trump's ass.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're there to represent for us.
[SPEAKER_08]: Why are you not taxing the rich people and the corporations more?
[SPEAKER_08]: And why are you not helping us with our healthcare?
[SPEAKER_08]: Why are you, in fact, letting Donnie and the jackass Republicans hurt us more
[SPEAKER_08]: He better than some Republicans he tried to address it and he did address outright notice corruption.
[SPEAKER_08]: He said the word crimes on like okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I'm not a fan of his.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't like flood, but you know, credit where credit is due as we say, you know, well, it's his votes that matter more than what he says at a town hall.
[SPEAKER_08]: actions versus words.
[SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: And his actions have not been great, but people are pissed and rightfully so because of the fact that the Republicans and Congress have been dancing to whatever tune that the mega extremists.
[SPEAKER_08]: And now they're going to have more problems Republicans.
[SPEAKER_08]: Every single Republican is going to have to answer for Ken Paxton.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Remind us all what is Attorney General Paxton accused of doing?
[SPEAKER_08]: The list is really long, bribery, their election of duty, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy.
[SPEAKER_04]: A majority of Texas House Republicans voted to impeach one of their own 60 Republicans voting in favor.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alligations he abused his office to benefit himself and a major donor who allegedly paid for his home renovations and even helped him cover up an affair.
[SPEAKER_03]: They claim the AG used secret email accounts, burner phones, and a fake Uber account to see his mistress.
[SPEAKER_08]: Paxon is a Republican character.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's always been on the edge of sort of criminal activity.
[SPEAKER_07]: Three felony fraud charges would have lingered 49 a long years in between it all.
[SPEAKER_07]: The state's top attorney had a mugshot.
[SPEAKER_09]: There are calls for contacts into stuff down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Paxon is extremely fraud candidate and I sense the worse he's yet to come about his background.
[SPEAKER_08]: That is going to be hung around the neck of every single Republican.
[SPEAKER_08]: Remember when when what's his name up in Maine, I'm not saying his name purposely.
[SPEAKER_08]: But remember that.
[SPEAKER_08]: And we were saying all the bad things, Nazi tattoo, the whole stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: And and that was going to hang around the neck of Democrats.
[SPEAKER_08]: And it still will round some.
[SPEAKER_08]: But Ken Paxton is going to be around the neck of every single Republican and be like,
[SPEAKER_08]: You, of course, he's, you know, smaller when compared to being hung around the neck that they also have to deal with Donald Trump and all of his massive corruption.
[SPEAKER_08]: And the two things that we have said that every Democrat needs to run on, affordability and accountability.
[SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's right there.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now, Talarico is quite the politician.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, he's a preacher.
[SPEAKER_09]: He knows how to preaching his politics, by the way.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, actually you have to convince people to follow you true true and you have to convince them to do things they may not necessarily you know like you know with don't
[SPEAKER_08]: trace somebody down and actually solve them.
[SPEAKER_08]: That is a bad idea.
[SPEAKER_08]: Don't do that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Don't don't.
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, preaching is is political because it's like, look at the Pope.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's you have to convince people of your side of whatever argument it is.
[SPEAKER_09]: And preaching is about depending on where you're preaching from.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is what I think about what my God tells me to do.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I want to convince you that my God and how I'm telling you what
[SPEAKER_08]: And if you, if you want to speak to more than just a choir, then you have to be willing to speak in such a way that you're not insulting other people and say, well, God sucks.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're God has a tiny penis.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: You can't do that.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's a fine line that preach and he's a hell of a preacher.
[SPEAKER_09]: He does a baby too.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's so young.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's he's very young but which great whatever you know I'm fine with that yeah and and and and like I said When friends was in I said there's a number of time.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, I want to see when James Telleriko is campaigning with Jasmine Crocker I cannot wait to see that because that's going to be bring in the house town man and then
[SPEAKER_08]: If they do James Telerico and Jasmine Crockett and Barack Obama, or Kamala Harris, or Hillary Clinton, kidding me, I'd go to the I'd fly to Texas for that.
[SPEAKER_08]: are you kidding me that's that's going to that's going to be the one of those where you're like you know uh... wheel of morality turn turn turn tell us the democrat who should campaign with these folks and it'll be just fantastic now because if we if if telly who can win unlike i mean i like better
[SPEAKER_09]: But he was never tied or a head of crews.
[SPEAKER_09]: He was always within the margin, but Talrico is tied or a head of Paxon at the moment, and this has just been 24 hours.
[SPEAKER_08]: There was, he's like eight up, I think it is.
[SPEAKER_09]: Depending on the polling.
[SPEAKER_08]: Did I put that in there?
[SPEAKER_08]: I think I put it in there.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know he's high, but the polling's going to go back and forth.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh yeah, it's holding him in his heart, basically.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, but I think he's already up like eight.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think I saw it one more time.
[SPEAKER_08]: As he should be.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's going to be a lot of fun.
[SPEAKER_08]: So yeah, it's, um, y'all get ready.
[SPEAKER_08]: Campaign season is here, folks.
[SPEAKER_08]: No joke, no lie.
[SPEAKER_08]: And what Republicans want is insane.
[SPEAKER_08]: Candace freaking owns.
[SPEAKER_08]: Are you kidding me, really?
[SPEAKER_08]: Really?
[SPEAKER_08]: I know, I put that one.
[SPEAKER_08]: You had this story.
[SPEAKER_08]: I put that in there under the polls.
[SPEAKER_09]: I read that going.
[SPEAKER_09]: What?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I am too.
[SPEAKER_08]: You guys can read it.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's their Bob Sesska is coming in next week.
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[SPEAKER_08]: So, how's your week been?
[SPEAKER_07]: How's that thing's been going for you since it's a weird week?
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, yeah, like always technical problems have technical problems.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was supposed to talk to Nicole Sandler who's legendary We go back a long long way.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, yeah
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I, since blogosphere 1.0 was on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so I was going to talk to her today and we had technical problems so we couldn't do that.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I have my, yeah, I got to replay of my talk with Stephanie Miller out there now.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I've been coming, um, artists.
[SPEAKER_08]: I.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, one of these days, she's going to be very, very popular in radio.
[SPEAKER_09]: She is younger than I am and doing very well.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, for someone who's in her early 20s, I mean, she's doing 40s, she doesn't fit to her actual age.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't want to go to the 40s.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just figured, yeah, about 23, 24, somewhere in that range.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, to some, I'm not debating either of those.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm just, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hey, when I go to the show on the oldest person in the room, I am completely the oldest person in the room.
[SPEAKER_08]: Amazing to me.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, what you do?
[SPEAKER_08]: This is, there's no one there.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's no one there.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, there's no one.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, so in case you missed my talk with Stephanie Miller back in December, it's up there again right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Obviously, you've got track politics.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Obviously, what are, what are you and Mary?
[SPEAKER_08]: Would you guys have come up for this next time?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, this coming up episode is going to be meery.
[SPEAKER_07]: which is the bonk bonk on the head episode.
[SPEAKER_07]: I love that one.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: We were talking about that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Remember you mentioned that when you were in the bar last week?
[SPEAKER_08]: We thought about you a couple of times this week.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Even though it's been a short week because, oh, thank you.
[SPEAKER_08]: So the Pope released his first encyclical.
[SPEAKER_08]: Pope Bob, the other Pope Bob releases first encyclical.
[SPEAKER_08]: Which for those people who don't know and in cyclical is kind of a it's a official white paper This is what the church officially thinks my favorite flavor of in cyclical is great I'm not I'm not sure I like the purple and it's a couple That's funny.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's not must have been with the girl on the AP news was trying to say the other name She she put her the word in cyclical.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm like she it was it was literally it was it was on Memorial Day and And she put it in cyclical
[SPEAKER_08]: something like that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I'm like, I get it.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're like the fifth string.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're like the absolute last person in the building.
[SPEAKER_08]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're on a moral day.
[SPEAKER_07]: But anyway, that's right on a hot summer day.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nothing's better than an ice cold and cyclical.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, this one actually was pretty straight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like it on a stick.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I didn't realize this.
[SPEAKER_08]: He got as he got his was a bachelor's in in mathematics, a bachelor of science.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Bachelor of science.
[SPEAKER_08]: And in from Villanova.
[SPEAKER_08]: So he actually gets this stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: And he got one of the co-founders of anthropic.
[SPEAKER_08]: One of them who understands and is worried about some of the dangers of AI and these kinds of things.
[SPEAKER_08]: So his encyclical hero down, and basically the super short version is first AI must serve humans humans should not be serving AI.
[SPEAKER_08]: And the reason why we thought about Star Trek is that basically he was saying all AI needs to have an ethical subroutine like data.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I'm like,
[SPEAKER_08]: Holy crap, he's the Pope and he totally gets this, I mean, you know, he's obviously he's a little bit older than than all of us than than Stephanie than that and and yet he gets AI and he's just like, look, if you're going to have a machine that acts like a human, then do like data and have an ethical subroutine and don't do like lore and don't have a subroutine that keeps your ethics in line.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, that is the super short version of his encyclical.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I'm going, I think a lot of people can get that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I wonder if he watches Star Trek because in the original series, so many episodes where Kirk goes up against a megalmonical supercomputer, you know, software, megalmonical supercomputer, and always ends up talking
[SPEAKER_07]: He's able to confuse the computer so much that the computer melts down.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: But yeah, that's, I mean, Star Trek was always warning about the overreach of AI.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they were really talking about AI for 60 years ago.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Really amazing.
[SPEAKER_08]: I, and that's, that's one of the reasons why we, we knew you'd have a take on it.
[SPEAKER_08]: I just, I thought it was funny that, you know, the Pope is releasing this and immediately it's been interesting because there, there've been, uh, some of the business, uh, CNBC, they've been talking about it.
[SPEAKER_08]: And it's dividing the, uh, the Silicon Valley folks already.
[SPEAKER_08]: And it goes to the folks who were
[SPEAKER_08]: by the AI is great and everything is AI and it's, you know, we need to AI everything and and you shut up about needing to worry about ethics and crap.
[SPEAKER_08]: They're now like, dude, God happens to be on our side.
[SPEAKER_08]: The Pope said so.
[SPEAKER_08]: So maybe you should watch out for this and they seem to be coming out now on the other folks are like, shut up about that.
[SPEAKER_08]: We want to make more money.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm going, it's nice to see that there's actually division now between, oh, people get it and
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, people, it's almost like with the tech bros who are pushing AI right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: And once again, I got to be clear about this before I say this.
[SPEAKER_07]: I am kind of ambivalent about AI.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can see the vast benefits, but I can also see the vast downsides as well.
[SPEAKER_07]: But what's weird is we're seeing a lot of tech bros pushing AI with language that you typically hear from rapists.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, like just settle in.
[SPEAKER_07]: Don't worry about it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just going to let it happen.
[SPEAKER_07]: It'll hurt for a little while, but then you're like, you know, it's like, that's maybe you need to go to some kind of media training to not sound like rapists when you're pushing this technology on everybody.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, it's inevitable.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you might as well just accept it.
[SPEAKER_07]: So here.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's a scene in the second and last or the last episode of Hacks.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're Hannah M. Biner's character talks to this guy who's going to invest in something and she's like, why am I always hearing that AI is inevitable just from the guy that they're creating it?
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's a great speech.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it was a really great speech.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now some of the tech people are starting to to even back down themselves and be like, it's not inevitable and I can't remember who was it was at Jensen Wang who actually came out and just said the other day that he said, um, tech CEOs.
[SPEAKER_08]: And other big business CEOs who are blaming their job firing on AI now are basically lazy puds because he's like, AI, there will be a point at which it will take a lot of jobs.
[SPEAKER_08]: But it's not there now.
[SPEAKER_08]: They're just looking for a big boogey man to go, yeah, that's the reason, not all this money that I'm stuffing into my pockets and yeah, it's like, when so many people Aaron Brockovich is on the case, by the way, trying to get rid of data centers.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, I'm so she's she's involved, which is amazing because she gets the press and she's Aaron Brackovich, but I mean, there's rural counties in places where they need jobs going No, yeah, right there plenty of places and what's
[SPEAKER_07]: super red places that are really it's really a shame I don't mean to interrupt it's really it's really a shame because there's so much promise to this technology and I think I speak for all three of us when I say yeah I think we've all been wowed by it at some point or another I mean you know almost every time I use it I'm like wow that's pretty amazing but uh crap what is this gonna do and
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, well, where is this going to lead and I just I feel like and this goes back to my central thesis about the internet, which is that I still feel as though the internet came along to soon to soon in human evolution.
[SPEAKER_09]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we cannot handle the glut of information from a psychological point of view certainly from an emotional point of view.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just it's a lot for I think a lot of people to digest and I think AI is the next step.
[SPEAKER_07]: where it's coming along once again too soon to where we don't have the ethical grounding to be able to deal with it as a thing that is is upon us.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so I feel like I don't know what you do about that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know how you handle that and how you get people to
[SPEAKER_07]: deal with this kind of technology in a way that's not destructive.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's what I just keep thinking in those terms.
[SPEAKER_07]: And once again, I got to say I've made my career on the internet for the last 30 years I've been doing this, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Has been on the internet and using technology.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm not saying everyone's incapable of handling it, but I go back to my metaphor, which is that
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, 100, 200 years ago, the worst thing that happened throughout the course of someone's life or throughout a typical year is the family member gets sick or one of our cattle strays out of the herd or something we got to chase him down now we face thousands and thousands of
[SPEAKER_07]: problems every day, you know, issues every day in our pockets for God's sake.
[SPEAKER_07]: How do we go from two problems a day to a thousand problems a day?
[SPEAKER_08]: And things like, like, oh, hey, you know, it could be nuclear war.
[SPEAKER_08]: And oh, there's famine in this country in that country.
[SPEAKER_08]: And yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: There was a class that I had in South Dakota.
[SPEAKER_08]: I wish I still had the book.
[SPEAKER_08]: I have not been able to find the textbook from the class.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was called the name of the class with called Technology in Society.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was the one year it was a South Dakota state.
[SPEAKER_08]: And by the way, never, ever again, will I survive be a live in a South Dakota winner?
[SPEAKER_08]: That would hell, that was no fun, anyway.
[SPEAKER_08]: But the class was great.
[SPEAKER_08]: One of the things that it taught me is that there are two basic types of technology.
[SPEAKER_08]: There is physical technology, like our stupid phones and these computers and the internet and all of that.
[SPEAKER_08]: But there's also social technology.
[SPEAKER_08]: And the problem, the biggest single problem that we have in the modern age is that we have not invested in our social technology, especially in the United States, the way that
[SPEAKER_08]: other people have, and there are still, I mean, just because, you know, like, northern Europe, they've invested a lot in their social technology.
[SPEAKER_09]: They sure have.
[SPEAKER_08]: I still don't think that they are as ready for the internet for much, you know, taking your position on that mob, as maybe it would be, be good, but their leaps and bounds ahead of where we are.
[SPEAKER_08]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_08]: Comparatively speaking, we are the, you know, ignorant, in-bread hay seed.
[SPEAKER_08]: Who, hey, I just found this shiny thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: What the hell does this do?
[SPEAKER_08]: It's have, you know, and compared to them, where they can kind of understand it and manage it, because they'll have the social technology.
[SPEAKER_08]: They started in at the age of three in critical thinking.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, well, media.
[SPEAKER_08]: They start media literacy training at the age of three in their preschools.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: So that way that they can recognize when somebody is trying to feed a bull crap.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: me a train, hell, we don't have a new savings.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well right, we can look at one of the biggest technological or two of the biggest technological investments of the 20th century or I think cars were around prior to the 20th century, but you know, in that general range, right, what's required in order to operate a car is a driver's license, what's required to operate and airplane another technological advancement of the 20th century is a license you need to have a certain number of
[SPEAKER_07]: and a license to fly an airplane take a rate but there's nothing like that for internet or AI and I think maybe that I mean for god's sake I had to go 25 years ago I bought a jet ski in order to operate that jet ski I had to go and take a class and pass a test in order to be licensed
[SPEAKER_07]: And, but you don't need a license to operate the internet, you don't need a license to use a license to have children.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, right.
[SPEAKER_08]: And that went a little bit harder because some people who are, they had awful parents turn out to be great parents themselves.
[SPEAKER_08]: I've made that, that comment before here.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's happened within that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: But I've always thought the internet needs to be a little bit like a carnival ride.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, you must be at least this intelligent to ride.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I'm sorry, Johnny.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're too stupid to get on the internet today.
[SPEAKER_09]: At least pass the cognitive test that Donald keeps thinking is an IQ test.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, speaking of that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_07]: His cabinet meeting today.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's one of his butt-smooching sessions.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's one of six minutes somebody goes, you're the best sir.
[SPEAKER_09]: You're the greatest sir.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's person ever to have lived in the evidence of ever.
[SPEAKER_07]: The amazing thing was, is that every time Marco Rubio or Pete Higgseth were speaking, Donald fell asleep.
[SPEAKER_07]: But when J.D.
[SPEAKER_07]: Vance was speaking, Donald was wide awake.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because J.D.
[SPEAKER_07]: Vance was across the table from him.
[SPEAKER_07]: So he had to say.
[SPEAKER_07]: Rubio and Higgseth were right next to Donald.
[SPEAKER_07]: And maybe he thought that, because they're next to him and his periphery, that they're not going to notice that he's sleeping while on camera.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then the hammer shot which will include him and them if they're sitting close enough.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's right.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then he confused Venezuela and Iran He was doing his typical Iran rant about how we took out their missiles and we took out lots of their people and all that But he said Venezuela instead of Iran before the rad and then he said the
[SPEAKER_07]: He said, because, oh my god, the section about the reflecting pool seemed to go on for like five hours.
[SPEAKER_07]: He couldn't shut the F up.
[SPEAKER_07]: I have one.
[SPEAKER_08]: I have one cut that I did pull from it, because there was one key thing that he said, which we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll get back here because
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm sitting there he is politically as far as what he's been saying things like you know I don't care about other people.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't care about it that the the effort will write But most politicians even if they don't care don't actually come out and say yeah I don't care about you F you and Donald's like yeah, whatever And I'm like here and he said something like that today.
[SPEAKER_08]: I've got the clip we'll play it.
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[SPEAKER_08]: All right, Bob's here with us, and we were talking before the break about Donald and his ridiculous ass cabinet meeting slash ass kissing fest today.
[SPEAKER_08]: I was somewhat surprised that he said this today, here, let me just play this on DVR.
[SPEAKER_02]: They thought they were going to outweight me, you know, well outweight him, he's got the midterms.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't care about the midterms.
[SPEAKER_02]: What happened last night?
[SPEAKER_02]: That was the prelude to the midterms.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's the premium.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're talking to you.
[SPEAKER_07]: What did you not understand?
[SPEAKER_07]: He doesn't understand how the difference.
[SPEAKER_07]: He doesn't understand the difference between primaries and general actions.
[SPEAKER_07]: He does not.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's like, look, how amazing it was Republicans versus Republicans.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look at how amazing it was.
[SPEAKER_06]: Only 8% of people in Texas showed up.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's about 2.4 million people out of 30 million people.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good job, Donnie.
[SPEAKER_07]: Later, he said he was, once again, he was talking about the reflecting pool.
[SPEAKER_07]: And he said the link of a memorial was built a little bit after the Lincoln Memorial.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you know what, here's the crazy thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is as good as it's going to get for Donald.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right, because it's all downhill from here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Every day he's going to be smart and as together as he was today, because tomorrow he's going to be just a little bit worse.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then the day after a little bit worse.
[SPEAKER_08]: Was it was it, Doc?
[SPEAKER_08]: Who said, who we had in the bar, Joe, he who said that he likely does have some form of dementia.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, he definitely does.
[SPEAKER_08]: it's going to get a little bit worse it's a little bit worse.
[SPEAKER_08]: So it's not it's not just your perspective Bob it's not just your perspective or minor jodies or you know the folks here in the bar it is scientific that he is getting worse every single day and that's where you just there and you go oh man I'm glad I'm not you I'm not I'm not you especially because he doesn't have families that cares about him nobody in his family gives
[SPEAKER_08]: But anything, Melania is like, she's waiting.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: To have a tap in her wrist.
[SPEAKER_07]: Pretty, pretty.
[SPEAKER_07]: I got, I will, you know what, look, I remember on Saturday night live, maybe 40 years ago.
[SPEAKER_07]: Lauren Michaels did this thing where he's like, okay, I'm gonna pay the Beatles to reform.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will pay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I hope I don't regret it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will give a hundred dollars to the first member of the White House press corps who asked Donald Trump to name all of his current grandchildren.
[SPEAKER_07]: I bet you I will bet a hundred dollars that Donald Trump cannot name all of his current grandchildren.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't even think his children will forget Tiffany he'll be like no because I think you're remembers Tiffany because she's she's a woman and she's you're pretty and so he's probably one.
[SPEAKER_08]: He doesn't think she's pretty he thinks Ivanka is pretty well right but he's always like you know Don Jr and the other one and so I you know I you don't want to be Eric but
[SPEAKER_09]: And there and he does he didn't call it Melania's son.
[SPEAKER_09]: He called Baron Melania's trial.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think I think it's a safe bet Bob.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think you just made a safe bet.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, God.
[SPEAKER_09]: He can probably name a scranchil and I have no idea what their names are.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: I just give me a list and I'll memorize it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: But.
[SPEAKER_08]: it's sad that nobody cares about him.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's also one of those things where you just you shake your head at all of it and go, I don't understand how the mainstream media is still trying to cover him like he is anybody legitimate, like he doesn't have and they're still ignoring so much of the people in our polls and politics section today.
[SPEAKER_08]: And the news on TAF, 50 plus one polling.
[SPEAKER_08]: The Democratic League in the House
[SPEAKER_08]: And people are making clear, there's an ABC news washing and post-ipses poll.
[SPEAKER_08]: Most Americans think Democrats do not stand up to Republicans enough, and they think Republicans kiss Trump's ass too much.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: That sounds right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, yeah, but this is pretty simple.
[SPEAKER_08]: We had the stuff from strength and numbers polling.
[SPEAKER_08]: We had that earlier, Bob.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's in the news on tap as well.
[SPEAKER_08]: And this stuff, again, extremely simple makes it very, very clear what do people want in their economic policy solutions, the strength of the number survey lines it out very simply, voters want overwhelmingly lower grocery prices, lower rent, lower health insurance premiums, and higher wages, and they want government to tax the rich.
[SPEAKER_08]: lower the taxes for the middle class and the poor tax the big corporations and in a strict regulation of corporate price gouging.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is not.
[SPEAKER_08]: Literally right there like what 30 seconds.
[SPEAKER_08]: I have now outlined everything that every politician who wants to win should be paying attention to.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, I don't understand why they're not making it easy for themselves as far as how they're campaigning, how they're, I mean, am I wrong in saying that, you know, this whole list of things, it took 30 seconds.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's not a long list, it's not a complicated list.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's not difficult.
[SPEAKER_07]: That doesn't.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is what people want.
[SPEAKER_08]: So why do we have to sit here and scream in
[SPEAKER_08]: Why is it difficult?
[SPEAKER_07]: Good, really good question.
[SPEAKER_07]: There are so many things.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, add this to the list of all the things.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, in order to solve what's happening with the economy right now, there are a million working parts to add.
[SPEAKER_07]: So there is no.
[SPEAKER_07]: And this is one of the things I think that needs to be made clear.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's not necessarily something that should come from either elected or elected politicians or politicians running for office.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think there's something more along the lines of the messaging that comes from people like us, which is that there is no one lever to throw.
[SPEAKER_07]: to improve the state of the economy.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is no one thing a president or a member of Congress or a member of a state legislature can do to solve what's ailing the economy.
[SPEAKER_07]: So what you got to do is you have to start a whole menu of different things all happening simultaneously.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: And one of the best things that can happen is
[SPEAKER_07]: Rear quaint ourselves with the idea of regulation of business.
[SPEAKER_07]: First of all, hey, second of all, you got to start taxing millionaires and billionaires and making them pay their fair share.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so then therefore you can lower the tax rate for middle and working class Americans.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can make health care more affordable.
[SPEAKER_07]: Once there's more money,
[SPEAKER_07]: Possessed by people like us and like the people listening right now, right then we can spend more in the economy and that lifts all boats right so it's just it's it's it seems relatively basically way to describe it There's a lot of moving parts to it
[SPEAKER_07]: But that's, I think, generally the direction that we need to head in, since the Reagan Revolution, since 1981, the whole idea of government regulation and making the wealthy pay their fair share has become taboo and politics.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we need to, we need to roll that back or continue the process of rolling that back.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, Barack Obama, during his eight years as president, over saw the largest or the most consistent growth and employment in modern history.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, I don't know what it says.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, 52 weeks of cons, or 52 months of consecutive.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I think the most of the next job was Joe Biden.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it's, it's things like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we just have to stop prioritizing this kind of influencers, social media, game show host kind of thing, politicians we want to have a beer with and start elevating people who have expertise, who are exceptional.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then once we get to that place where it's, we're not electing politicians who are just simply entertaining for the purposes of our social media feeds.
[SPEAKER_07]: Then we can get down to the hard work of actually passing policy that makes sense and which, as I said, lifts all boats, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's what MAM Danny is trying to do in New York right now.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: He has a city council that's helping him and that's the important thing is like we have to remember that whomever becomes our president in 28, please be a Democrat.
[SPEAKER_09]: We have to give that person enough people in the house and enough people in the Senate to get their agenda if we agree to it, done.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, among other things, what it means is that we all have to get involved and get things working.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now, we have to be consistently working and making sure that, yeah, I'm sorry, that fired off.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was not, it's not time yet and cheese computer cheese anymore about three minutes.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we got a few more minutes, but look, technology, anyway.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, but the fact of the matter is, um, I am, I am hurtened by more people being involved.
[SPEAKER_08]: But all of the, the protests that we've had this year have been great.
[SPEAKER_08]: But I want to see more people involved in there.
[SPEAKER_08]: their local stuff and in your school board meetings and your department meetings and I want to see more people campaigning for their state representatives like they do for their congressional US congressional representatives.
[SPEAKER_08]: I want people out there and their t-shirts and whatever and I want them invested in government at every level.
[SPEAKER_08]: Because that's how we're going to get more people that, you know, if you give a damn about it, if you care about it, if we all care about it, then we're going to get better government.
[SPEAKER_07]: If we don't care, yeah, I mean, yeah, we need to start to compartmentalize these things.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're like, if you want to be entertained, watch a streaming show or let's do a podcast to follow a YouTube channel.
[SPEAKER_07]: Go to music if you want to solve a policy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, support people who may not be the most exciting people in the world, but they have expertise and they have an agenda that makes sense and that fits within the Constitution and they're not overreaching and they're willing to do the hard work of passing solid policy and establishing some of the things that legitimately made America great.
[SPEAKER_07]: that overwhelmingly helped all kinds of Americans and lifted up everybody and created this atmosphere of prosperity that, well, at least back then, for white people, but I mean, now for everyone.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, and that needs to be the key here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that needs to be our priority, I think.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've got to focus on everybody.
[SPEAKER_08]: Bring it everybody to the table.
[SPEAKER_08]: And yeah, that means that there are going to be some people in our coalition that frustrated us a little bit here and there.
[SPEAKER_08]: But I've also been watching the mainstream, they're finally figuring out.
[SPEAKER_08]: that the average voter doesn't look at it and go, well, this is what the Republicans believe policy wise are what they claim to believe and this is what the Democrats claim to believe and where this is where now they are, what's the word I'm looking for heterodox?
[SPEAKER_08]: They, uh, um, uh, like going to the salad bar, you know, I like a little of this and a little of that and a little of this and a little of that and then they their policies don't necessarily make logical sense at all as far as has but that's what they believe and by God they believe it.
[SPEAKER_08]: They were least, but okay, if you believe it, then get out there and let's, you know, fight for and talk about it, do something about it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: don't just plan on government by AI so that's right that's a good way to put it I'm gonna steal that okay we do we steal great ideas from our friends and we borrow them which is good and of course then you know if you happen to be somebody really brilliant and you know you're doing things like you know listening to Bob Cesska show or track politics you know which I absolutely highly recommend that people should do
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