One , two , three , four . Hey , this is D9 .
This is Carol , this is Ty .
And you're listening to the Bar in the Interaction Podcast . So former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin , also defense against the dark arts teacher from a previous era .
Huh .
Do either one of y'all get that Harry Potter joke ?
Yeah , but which I tuned out for a second . Who are we talking about ? I know Harry Potter , another dark arts professor .
Alyssa Farah . She was former communications director . You know that the thing .
Now it makes perfect sense Now that I'm looking at the notes .
Okay , the comms that was one of them positions during the Trump administration where it was like a different person every fucking six months is .
Yeah , harry Potter joke .
All right , yeah , I'm a fucking dork . So she revealed the other day that Trump wanted to wanted a staffer executed for leaking that he had hid in the bunker under the White House during George , the George Floyd protest in 2020 . Very dictator ish behavior .
Only day one .
That's going to be the longest fucking day ever .
Yeah , it will last for the rest of our lives .
Well , I mean George Bush to change time . So what , when he moved daylight savings time , like he's like , two weeks later ?
Yeah , yeah , he moved it further into the winter , I remember .
I was suddenly , suddenly . I didn't get an extra hour out for Halloween party .
Yeah , and then it happened .
He probably did it despite his teenage daughters .
No , it happened . It was just later , in November , is what ended up happening ?
And my dad said it was bullshit , because if the clocks don't reset till 2am and my curfew was one , so I , coming back at the new one , didn't count because I was already an hour late- that's what I did here .
Anyway , look this this story is not important . I just wanted to point out that , like , if Trump does somehow win reelection , I think Republicans are under the impression that he's only going to come after Democrats that are , quote unquote .
That's crazy . They think that because all he does is seek revenge constantly and like they're not all that stupid to know he's able to see that .
He's going to kill them too , like he's going to do some insane shit and if they don't sign up for it , you know he's going to purge the party , like Hitler did . Yeah , you know , look again , we make the . I'm making these references to Hitler and like you automatically tune out . You're like , oh no , there he goes . Apparently Trump to Hitler .
I'm out , it's fucking absurd . No , but like , seriously , you know we're not going to get that , hopefully not going to get a Holocaust in the Trump second term .
I don't want to jinx it because I guess anything is possible , but like the first thing Hitler did when he was elected chancellor was he went , he didn't go after his political enemies outside the party . No , no , no , no , no , no . What he the first thing he did ? He just murdered everyone in the party who was in opposition .
From within his crater from the threat from without . Isn't that what he said two weeks ago ? Something like that ?
It's so difficult to remember exactly what he said any given time because it's all been so fucking crazy . You know , any of these statements in a normal political landscape would be totally disqualifying and would be headlines for weeks . This should barely even registers , for like it doesn't even make most a blocks on television shows .
It's an A block .
What's an A block ?
Is it a block of time or a block of time ? Is it a ?
block of time or a block of tax . A block to me is in jenpaw , but that's do you know what an A block ?
no , that's not , not prison . What are you talking about ? Okay , first of all , and do you care ?
I was talking about news . I'm asking if it's a block of time or like if you met , like a block of text on the screen where you see it is closer .
It's not exactly a block of time . Okay , when was the last time you watched Rachel Maddow show For a while ? You know how she does her like opening monologue for 20 minutes or whatever .
I don't think I've ever fucking 20 minute monologue .
Yeah , well , she's a unique show , all right . You know how , like the number one topic of a new show , when they open on the hour , like the story of the day or whatever , and they devote eight , nine minutes to it , that's an . That's an , a block Got it Okay yeah . I can't really watch a lot of news . No , I just was , I just didn't know you .
It's okay , like you can listen to like even talk radio a blah anyway . So , yeah , you know , hitler's gonna in what is it called the night of long knives ? Is that what it was when he went around Rounding up members of the Nazi Party who weren't totally loyal to him and hand them .
All right , we're gonna have to get like a pre-World War two Germany historian on the podcast to talk to us about all the ways in in which that period of time is Running in parallel to what we're experiencing here in America . Because I'm not an expert . I mean I've read a couple books and watch the .
I mean , look , anyway , we've all seen like documentaries and all kinds of fucking movies . But yeah , hitler was like Now that I'm in power , I got to eliminate all the people who could possibly remove . They're an obstacle to me staying chancellor . So not a long nice .
He had his loyalists Round up his competition and execute him , and Then he went fucking buck wild from there . So that's what Trump is going to do , anyway , continuing on and I like the transition from there is fucking horrific like Trump's gonna round up all the Republicans , killed them .
That's one thing . I just just killing me about the report it . I mean I guess you said they were mentioning positive polls this week , but just how much I've seen it as an inevitability , like huh .
Okay , well , I'm not under the impression in , nor am I trying to influence anyone to believe it .
I'm not you .
I'm not talking about you and I feel like I don't say this enough , though , but , like I , my point has always been that Biden kicked Trump's at . Well , first of all , hillary got more votes than Trump in 2016 . Everyone pretends like that didn't happen , including Republicans .
And then Biden got even more votes than Trump in 2020 and so , in all likelihood , like , given that Trump hasn't done anything to try and went over the people who didn't vote for him , you , if we turn out the vote in 2024 , is going to lose .
But , like , just in case you didn't understand what the stakes for , we're trying to make it clear for you and that's where I'm coming from , but like that's where you're coming from , but I still I saw headline was like is a Trump dictatorship inevitable ? If he wins , yeah , welcome back Ty .
All right , but yes , if he wins , I totally ray .
Oversharing . No one knows you went to pee .
Well , now they do .
All right .
Man , that chicken spaghetti was good . I'm actually feel like I'm gonna eat some more .
All right , man , don't make me hungry .
Okay , look at my face . Do I look slimmer ? People in two weeks say You've lost weight .
It's hard to tell on zoom , really I .
Mean , because I .
Down a little bit and we'll tell you if you look slimmer or not . Like you do look slimmer . Yeah yeah you look , your boobs don't look any slimmer , but like the rest of you looks kind of it looks pretty small . Yeah , if you've been on a diet or something , no , that's impossible .
Every time I see your Instagram it's some fucking gigantic meal where I'm like , damn , she ate enough for three people . Where did it all go ?
I don't eat all of that . That's plating . It usually is going to my kids , Okay but enough . But no , I've , I had . I ran to my friend , been one , I hadn't seen him in ages . And then he goes Damn , you lost weight , you look really skinny , you look great . I'm like thanks , ben . And Then the first five times were great , but time six through 29 .
Then it's like okay , I get it . I'm like I'm fucking whale before , like what the fuck ? No , you know .
You were , you are and you've never been big .
Well then Adolfo said it when we went to Emily's for our friends giving , and then Liz said it at third hole where I walk in . She goes girl , if you lost weight like you can see it .
And then my friend at the gym , margaret , my gym friends and I saw her when Dave and I were working out and she was leaving and she goes wow , you've lost weight , you look great . I .
Mean society to like Lawn weight loss as an accomplishment , as like as some it is . I mean , it is an accomplishment when you're trying to lose weight .
But or to say you look great after they say you lost weight , because that implies so you thought I didn't look great before .
I know I like curves . Like you ain't got no butt , so you know I'm gonna need you to like , I'm gonna need you to eat more sandwiches . So , like , whatever you've been doing , you need to do the opposite . We're all going to lose weight here . Trump becomes a dictator and throws us an internment camp , so we're gonna join you .
Be skinny enough for Steve to mommy a boob job .
Okay , so we're moving on .
Yeah , chop that out .
Gonna give us some context , so at least made sense .
Never mind , we'll just .
All right , so Jack Smith ? So Jack Smith submitted a government a filing in court that the government's plan is to introduce evidence to outline actions taken by Trump and his supporters to violently undermine the 2020 election in Detroit Once the trial found out that he was losing , you know , by starting riot .
As well as evidence from as early as 2012 or Trump claimed that the election was rigged against Mitt Romney by Machines flipping votes . That sounds very familiar , doesn't not ?
Voting against was what's going against Romney .
Yeah , when all Obama was was kicking Mitt Romney's ass , trump was like oh , the election was rigged . The Democrats are flipping votes on the voting machines . You know the same shit that he tried to pull in 2020 .
However , how many magas said I voted for Obama , like like there's just no man . They can't even remember the shit they said like five minutes ago , like to be fair , the Obama , the Obama Trump voter .
That is a real thing , like it did .
So he's saying that , oh , he won . But it's like how many magas have said that they had voted for him . So I'm like , well , I guess it's the same how the January 6 people are political prisoners , prisoners , prisoners , but also in Tifa , it's that same logic .
If there is none . Yeah , they're not really doing the math on . This is also like a couple of weeks no , I think it was last week where Trump's lawyers interviewed introduce him Court filing , saying that they needed the classified documents about Russia's election interference in 2016 because that's why people didn't believe the 2020 election was legitimate .
That's insane . Yes , I know , we just just Sick of this dude man .
You and me both . I was like I don't understand . And then was it that he . Recently , Even though they ruled against him , he's just gonna move forward like they didn't rule against him .
Yeah he's like well , like what the fuck is that ? Well , I'm filing an appeal , so I'm just gonna pretend like everything having to do with this court trial has stayed until after the appeal , like he's the judge or something else . Fucking bananas .
Like I don't think His lawyers are gonna get sanctioned before he even makes it to trial If they try and pull some shit like this . I guess one thing for Trump to do it , but like for his lawyers to put it in a fucking court filing . Are you taking a selfie ?
I know , Not anymore .
Tom Tom , in place Audio , only medium . Nobody , nobody could see you taking a selfie .
We don't go to video cuz .
Yeah , well , yes , that's . That is why this is an audio only podcast , Cuz . If only you can see our nonsense .
But yeah , so for one , jack Smith referred to an unindicted co-conspirator who , in November of 2020 , during the counting of the votes , when Trump saw that he was about to lose the lead , this individual tried to inside a mob to show up at the polling places and disrupt the voting count . Much like , yeah , rodgerstone Brooks brother .
Florida shit in 2000 .
It's more evidence that points to the idea that what happened on January 6th Was playing in advance , because they use a similar tactic in Detroit After the election as well . As you know , trump , pointing back to as early as 2012 Just already planning to announce ahead of time , before it even lost , the election was rigged , cuz he had done it before now .
Again , I don't know whether this evidence will be admitted into the trial Because of some where are you doing ? No one could see you Trying to . I'm trying to . I'm working on like this is the the audition for my house , all right .
Anyway , long story short , there's some rules of evidence to prevent prosecutors from introducing prior bad acts .
Just to show that the defendant is like a you know , a terrible person who commits crimes like there has to be some process showing that , like , the information that they're trying to admit is relevant to the charges . So someone is on trial for robbing a bank . He can't introduce evidence to the judge To the charges . So someone is on trial for robbing a bank .
He can't introduce evidence of this person having previously robbed a bank , showing the jury that , hey , this is the type of person that robs banks .
But what you can do is , if there's some specific hallmark say , perhaps they leave a playing card at every bank robbery and then in this particular instance , the bank robbery that they're being charged for , there was a playing card left the scene of the crime you could then introduce it as evidencing hey , this is like a pattern of , or playing .
Yeah , yeah .
Anyway . So I think we're just only seeing the tip of the iceberg of the evidence .
Jack Smith is going to present a trial and I don't think we talked about this on the podcast , but he's made it clear in filings that , like in in South Florida , that he's going to show in court that he knows or will be able to prove exactly why Trump took the classified documents .
And he's also presented in court filings in DC that he's going to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump's motivation for the attack on the Capitol on January 6 . And like to just like blatantly come out and say that man , dude , who's got a house of cars up his sleeve .
Oh for sure . I mean , the guy was the prosecutor at the Hague . He's no fucking slouch and he knows what he's doing , like zero doubt . He knows what treason is , he knows what espionage is and he knows full well .
But he also knows I think , that he is deliberately not pushing , because he's just letting Judge Cannon , you know , release the rope for her own hanging , like I think he's just you know , but I wish he had been brought in earlier , like I do , and had more time . I don't know what the fuck Garland was , but whatever , we'll talk about that another day .
It's not that Garland wasn't doing anything , but it's it's the fact that Trump announced his candidacy for the you know , the presidency , in November . Yeah , he waited until immediately after the midterms announced he was running for president .
And just because of the special counsel regulations the , I mean , you know , supposedly to prevent an appearance of a conflict of interest , of having Biden potentially prosecute or even investigate his political opponent . That's , that's why Garland brought in Jack Smith .
But it's not that he wasn't doing anything , it's just that the investigation was going on behind the scenes . And then another thing like people think , jack Smith came in and the media was like all right , let's prosecute Trump .
But actually what happened was is there was an extra delay of a couple of months because Jack Smith wanted to go over every bit of evidence that was collected in the investigation before moving forward with any kind of prosecutorial decisions .
So I mean , you know we might go to shave the shaved a month off these fucking indictments if Trump hadn't announced super fucking early . But anyway , that's , we'll say that conversation for another time .
All right , it's time for our shithole of the week award or patented award every week , where we nominate a person in politics and even though there are so many men and mostly men who deserve it , we can't repeat . There's women to oh .
I got .
I got one , and there was that bitch from bitches for bigotry , heifers for Hitler .
Oh heiress for Hitler .
Moms for Liberty , the Ziggler wife .
Watts for three ways .
Yeah .
Moms for Menages . I like that one .
I came on down myself , pat myself on the back here . But yeah , so one individual in politics or news in general that we feel like has done an exceptional job of being a shithole . And if you're not familiar with where we got their terms when Trump referred to a number of countries in Africa , in poor taste , but this week I nominate Philip Grillo .
You may not know who that is , but that is a Republican who's running for the seat that was vacated by George Santos here recently . You know , once he was removed from Congress last week and it's such a it has such an implication that it was voluntary . Yeah , it was a very passive choice of words there .
Just to be clear , he was expelled . Yeah , that was the third vote .
But now he can live his ass queen life like because he has been , he has been extra bitchy .
Well , since he doesn't have anything to do , we might offer him the opportunity to become the fourth co-host on the podcast , but no , Grillo is running for the seat that's now available once now that Santos has been expelled . But Philip Grillo was just convicted on charges of obstructing obstructing an official proceeding on January 6 and 11 years .
I feel like it goes without saying that , hey , you tried to overthrow the fucking government and now you're running for Congress . You , sir , are hereby awarded the shithole of the week war . All right close up .
I didn't make my recommendation of Ken Paxton like .
Yeah , we'll have to get him next week Because he's doing some shit every day .
Yeah , of course I was going to get his buddy , Greg Abbott , but he's already seen their toys by the . Lifetime Achievement Award .
Yeah , he's , he's yes .
You know what it's almost into the year D . We were we're we're , we have our ship full of the year award .
We're going to get to it . I know , I'm aware , but yes , greg Abbott , he's , he's , we're retiring his jersey . He's won the award too many times .
But yes , that he's just that next to Kinky Boots in the in the hall of shame .
Man , ken Paxton , is such a terrible person and , like I don't know , understand why . Anyway , we don't have time . He's definitely going to get it because , I mean , this shit was like trying to go after this girl , this woman's doctors , for providing her on a portion out of the Supreme Court sided with it Know what .
All right , ty closing thoughts Ken Paxton go .
This motherfucker is a goal for the last not 10 years , but almost because Greg Abbott was attorney general before . Ken Paxton has spent more than eleven million dollars of taxpayers' money to fight a federal judge's ruling to bring the foster care system up to code . Who fights that ? Who does that ?
Because the judge said the kids come out worse than when they go in Him being under federal indictment for the last seven , eight years for securities fraud , what he was doing with it . And he's just a fucking monster like on every level . And how Texans chose him over Dwarfsky .
Like I will never understand that that man should be nowhere near like another human being , let alone being in a position of the kind of power that an attorney general of a state wields . Every time I think about him , every time I see something it just it might , I throw up in my mouth Like retching uncontrollably , because he is just that disgusting .
And not only is he just that disgusting , but he is proud of it , he is smug about it and that's the fucking rub . He is one of the worst human beings on this planet . The only reason he's not worse than that orange makeup guy that used to sit in the Oval Office is because he's at the state level , but his influence still Affects all of us .
It's affecting women , it's affecting people of color , it is hurting America on every level and I cannot wait to see him . I don't know why it's taken seven years for him to be held accountable when they have all the evidence , like under the investigation that he's been under he's been in like I don't , I don't get it . I don't know why it's taken so long .
Like he needs to be removed from office immediately and put in a very a cell as small as Trump's hands .
As far as off a get mouth .
Now the same time from the sand is back down there , because he's all about the torture and shit . So I don't know , maybe he'll take one of those kinky boots and do some shit , but whatever . But fucking Ken Paxton he's even worse than Greg Abbott in my opinion , because he pushes a lot of what Abbott does . He's that he does need someone to push him .
Yeah , that , okay , I'm done , carol . We're going to end on that note , carol .
Closing thoughts Go .
You know , empathy and compassion especially . All right , all right , I guess it's getting to be the end of 2023 . And I'm thinking about how to align my goals , aside from you know , all that boring personal and family and career , I mean , politically , we're entering an election year , so let's not . You know we've had a break .
It's time to get , get make a plan , even if it's just fucking writing postcards , let's , let's get serious for the year and you enjoy your certification , and then let's get back to it , and maybe I'll even hop back on Twitter and start bossing you around again telling you which causes the support , or you can catch my latest segment Carol reads ballot Opedia .
It's a good segment . Everyone should check that out . After my closing thoughts , I just wanted to take a second to note the idea of a liberal , the quote unquote liberal billionaire , and I have a perfect example of the . Well , you'll get it in just the moment , so it's also . This also doubles as a sports ball minute of the week .
So the Dallas Mavericks owner , mark Cuban you may or not be familiar with him from his ownership- of the only person I could think of that fit your description . Anyway , owner of the Mavericks , also prominently featured on Shark Tank for a number of years .
He's resigning from his position on Shark Tank , quitting the show , and he's also selling his NBA franchise , the Dallas Mavericks . There are rumors again reckless speculation that he may or may not be running for president . That's neither here nor there , but again , this will feed into my next point .
So noted liberal , at least publicly , he is selling his franchise and the NBA for $3.5 billion , which seems like a lot , but given that the Phoenix Suns just went for like four or something , it seems as though he's underselling .
And also the family that he's selling it to is the Adelson family , and you may yes , right , you may or may not know them from their dealings in Vegas , owning and operating a casino , but one of the other things that they're most prominently known for again , you have to Google these people because , like we just again close the doors , don't have time but the
other thing they are most prominently known for is being the biggest donors to Trump . Yeah , so you would think that Mark Cuban would want , being an openly liberal individual , would want to place his franchise in the hands of someone who shares a similar level of political views as he does .
That appears to not be the case , and like why you would want to take something you spent 20 years of your time in life on and invested hundreds of millions of dollars into , and give it to Trump's most prominent donor is beyond me .
Unless if you take a political stance and you're aware of the current political stakes , like bro , all money and good money and you were billionaire , you didn't need this . Why are you selling this team to these people ?
You couldn't wait until someone who's more aligned with your political views showed up and wanted to purchase the team , unless this family just happens to align with its political views , which is possibly the case , because , as we know , like the liberal billionaires the fucking unicorn I mean you know there's Republican boogeyman George Soros , and I dare you to name
another one . And that concludes this episode of part of the interaction .