And Also With You...May 4, 2026

[SPEAKER_08]: It's political Thank you, radical You think at the far, wherever you are The politics bar John Smith Pearson, Jody Hamilton Jody's home Sorry, I'm a little excited about it [SPEAKER_06]: How was your vacation, my friend? [SPEAKER_12]: It was all right. [SPEAKER_12]: I got to sleep until like 330 in the morning, most days. [SPEAKER_12]: Which is nice. [SPEAKER_06]: It's a late for you. [SPEAKER_12]: Very late for me.

[SPEAKER_12]: That's a nice two hours extra, a little more than two hours extra. [SPEAKER_12]: And I had Eno from Sunday through Friday. [SPEAKER_12]: So he's good. [SPEAKER_12]: It was his 16th birthday on Monday last week. [SPEAKER_01]: And it was your mom's 93rd birthday. [SPEAKER_12]: On Sunday last week. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_12]: And so we spoiled, you know, rotten.

[SPEAKER_12]: His mom wasn't gonna buy him a car even when he turned 16 so I was like, all right, I'll just give you treats Anyway, he was very upset about the whole not getting a car thing. [UNKNOWN]: Um [SPEAKER_12]: I said, it's your mother's fault. [SPEAKER_12]: It's not your auntie mom, it's fault. [SPEAKER_12]: It's your great aunt jodys fault. [SPEAKER_12]: It's your mother's fault. [SPEAKER_12]: Um, but no, it was nice because we, as I, as you know, we sleep in the, our pool house.

[SPEAKER_12]: Right. [SPEAKER_12]: Because of the cats and the boy cat is now coming back slowly to sleep between Lonnie and me. [SPEAKER_06]: in the regular bed. [SPEAKER_12]: After months of not doing that, he's been like getting up behind us and then kind of creeping down and like, yeah, he's almost all the fun stories that Jodie has from when she had a week off, which is good. [SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk, we'll talk about it. [SPEAKER_12]: It's really boring.

[SPEAKER_12]: I just stayed home when I was like, do you want to go anywhere? [SPEAKER_12]: I said, no, I just want to stay home. [SPEAKER_05]: It was a lot more fun. [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, we had a lot of fun last week with Bill. [SPEAKER_05]: I know. [SPEAKER_05]: I know. [SPEAKER_05]: A lot of great feeling hosts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh my god. [SPEAKER_11]: If you guys don't know that, I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_11]: Y'all are over 40, right? [SPEAKER_11]: 30, 20, 10. [SPEAKER_11]: I mean. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm hoping folks know about the Star Wars. [SPEAKER_05]: It is it is fun that it is, you know, May the fourth. [SPEAKER_05]: I saw President Obama and Mark Hamill did a thing about his new center opening in Chicago. [SPEAKER_05]: And, uh, and there was a whole fun little video.

[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, there's always a lot of fun little Star Wars things going on. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, and I'm excited for a Mandalorian and Grogo that should be fun. [SPEAKER_12]: I, I should have opened today. [SPEAKER_12]: I know it's a Monday, but man, it should have opened today. [SPEAKER_12]: We'd have been perfect. [SPEAKER_05]: That wouldn't have made more sense. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: It would have been sensible and I can get behind the star war. [SPEAKER_05]: Hi, Annie.

[SPEAKER_05]: Me, too. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm just saying. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm part of the Rebel Alliance, baby. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: The other wars are not a fan of, especially bringing the Confederates back. [SPEAKER_05]: I can't believe what they did I can believe it. [SPEAKER_05]: I think you can probably believe it. [SPEAKER_05]: It's just like are you effing kidding me. [SPEAKER_05]: They have no idea what they've done by the way.

[SPEAKER_05]: We're talking about obviously the Supreme Court. [SPEAKER_05]: For those of you who are subscribed, remember you can always subscribe to the news on tap for free at the politicsbar.com and we start today with the first round the new uncivil wars. [SPEAKER_05]: So the Confederacy has ridden again, unfortunately. [SPEAKER_05]: Look, the redistricting wars are going on.

[SPEAKER_05]: And if you look at that first piece that we have in the news on tap, under the Confederacy is risen again, you will see. [SPEAKER_05]: The states that are already jumping to gun and trying to push forward on, you know, we got to change the maps before the election. [SPEAKER_05]: They're the old Confederacy. [SPEAKER_05]: Texas, Louisiana. [SPEAKER_12]: I mean, Louisiana doing that to their voters that we're already voting. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: And they're already in being sued by I think now it's like up to half dozen groups, including Mark Elias's group. [SPEAKER_05]: Because they're like, you can't in the middle. [SPEAKER_05]: There are already, they're already sitting out the ballots. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, so I got my ballot, right? [SPEAKER_12]: And so Swallow dropped out. [SPEAKER_05]: But the ballot that you got as a mail in ballot.

[SPEAKER_12]: We'll still have his name and buddy, he's name on it. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: they don't care down there in Louisiana. [SPEAKER_05]: The fun thing it was it was nice to see by the way, congratulations to Calvin Duncan. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes. [SPEAKER_05]: Who I am, look, that's that's exactly the way it's supposed to be done there.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm very glad for that because I just for those of you who missed it, it is a story that we have there in the news on tap third story, actually under the Confederacy as risen again. [SPEAKER_05]: So fighting back does work, Calvin Duncan, he had been in prison in Louisiana for 30 years for crime, he didn't commit, proven that he didn't commit it, basically everybody said he didn't commit it, then he got out.

[SPEAKER_05]: They started to be an advocate in the New Orleans area, and obviously he was advocating for people like him, and working with a lot of Democratic politicians who are, hey, let's not jail innocent, black men because they happen to be black. [SPEAKER_12]: How about let's not jail anybody that's innocent if we cannot do that? [SPEAKER_12]: That's my whole thing, by the way, with the death penalty.

[SPEAKER_12]: I'm against it 100% of the time, [SPEAKER_05]: We talked about that last Thursday with John. [SPEAKER_05]: So as as you knew as you listened in, but here's the thing So this guy, he does this he decides he gets everything in order he decides he's gonna run to be the criminal clerk of the court And there is a civil clerk of the court and a criminal clerk of the court.

[SPEAKER_05]: I mean bigger cities like no owns you're gonna get One that does criminal stuff and one that does still of course because there's a two different types of law [SPEAKER_05]: Well, they just makes it easier for the courts themselves, too. [SPEAKER_05]: That way they don't have to worry about anything be conflated. [SPEAKER_05]: The criminal lawyers go to the one. [SPEAKER_05]: The civil ones go to the other. [SPEAKER_05]: It's just, it's organized.

[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, you know, that's when you want government to work and most of a should what government to work, that is one example of how things should go. [SPEAKER_05]: So he runs for the seat, gets to see the whole time, by the way, there were Republicans down there have been trying to basically recrucify him. [SPEAKER_05]: How dare you get out. [SPEAKER_05]: We know that you were innocent, but how dare you get out and then you go inside with them.

[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, I heard it was some of the prosecutors on the case that we're really against him being and he's exonerated on this major website, which is not like he got out on a tech. [SPEAKER_12]: It's not like Bill Cosby getting off. [SPEAKER_12]: This is [SPEAKER_05]: We, we really, we got it. [SPEAKER_05]: It's on our way. [SPEAKER_05]: In fact, we may have talked about it with BDD, who will be here later. [SPEAKER_05]: But there is, remember, there's not guilty.

[SPEAKER_05]: That means that you were charged, but the evidence was not enough to prosecute. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: Then there's innocent, also the insurgents, some circumstances exonerated, which is when you've been convicted, and then proven that exonerated doesn't just mean, oh, well, we change it from guilty to not guilty. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: it means that we changed it from guilty to there's no way that you could have done this particular crime.

[SPEAKER_12]: So you are completely innocent, you did not have anything to do with prosecutors with hold evidence to his defense attorney and then somebody else did it and they will I will never, by the way, understand any prosecutor's office when say the innocent's

[SPEAKER_05]: DNA proof or whatever proof it is right and the prosecutor's going to know why would you want to keep somebody in prison that is not guilty of the crime i don't know the same for the same reason that republicans don't give a damn what the people want what the majority of the people the truth they want the power they don't give a damn what the people want [SPEAKER_05]: same way as those prosecutors, they want the win.

[SPEAKER_05]: They go, well, yeah, but if I take this actual evidence in and let this person off, we convicted, then I have to get rid of that conviction off my chick sheet. [SPEAKER_05]: And then, well, you know, I'm down one. [SPEAKER_05]: That makes me look bad. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, yeah, I'm not going to get that promotion or a lot of prosecutors get promotions over especially murder convictions and things like that. [SPEAKER_12]: That's a big deal.

[SPEAKER_12]: And I understand that, but it's like if I were [SPEAKER_12]: a prosecutor and I put somebody in prison for 34 years that did not commit a crime. [SPEAKER_12]: I would want them out so quickly. [SPEAKER_05]: And that's one of the ways that we know that you're a good person, Jody, because you have integrity. [SPEAKER_05]: You have integrity and ethics and moral standards, which by the way, means you could never be an elected Republican.

[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, God, no. [SPEAKER_12]: I'm maybe an Eisenhower woman, but about that. [SPEAKER_12]: That's about it. [SPEAKER_12]: But here's the other thing. [SPEAKER_12]: There was a very famous case. [SPEAKER_12]: This white woman identified the wrong man, a black man, who she thought had raped her. [SPEAKER_06]: Right.

[SPEAKER_12]: In a sense, Project takes over his case, turns out he looks similar, but cross-racial eyewitnesses notoriously bad, by the way, if you are black, it's harder to identify a white person, vice versa, Asian, whatever it is, it's more difficult, just visually speaking, we are not very good at that, and that's just how we're, it's just science that has proven that that's just how we're wired, and she was sure that he was in the lineup.

[SPEAKER_12]: So the guy that looked kind of like the guy was the guy. [SPEAKER_12]: He went to prison for over 20 years. [SPEAKER_12]: They now, the two at he's out. [SPEAKER_12]: They now tour. [SPEAKER_12]: with victims of crime that put the wrong guy in prison and the guys or mainly it's all guys. [SPEAKER_12]: And the guys that they put away, you have efforts between the modern age, Jody. [SPEAKER_05]: And this is the thing about the Confederacy.

[SPEAKER_05]: Back in the Confederacy, especially we're talking when Reconstruction fell upon. [SPEAKER_05]: This was the problem that they did, what, [SPEAKER_05]: When reconstruction started, we basically had two periods of reconstruction in the United States. [SPEAKER_05]: We had the initial period of reconstruction after the Civil War. [SPEAKER_05]: And my contention is that we never finished it and we absolutely need to.

[SPEAKER_05]: And while there are people in places that I think are great in the south, emotionally, I would like to Shermanize the entire Confederacy. [SPEAKER_05]: wiped them out to all of them for those of you who are Star Wars. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, I remember I remember Randy talking about we shouldn't have joined them back. [SPEAKER_12]: We should just let him go. [SPEAKER_05]: We should have followed through and made sure because so we had a then reconstruction fell apart.

[SPEAKER_05]: Then we had 100 years basically where it didn't and then we got a second reconstruction. [SPEAKER_05]: That is what the Supreme Court tried to undo last week. [SPEAKER_05]: But people are fighting really hard against this. [SPEAKER_05]: And I'm really, really pleased about the the number of things. [SPEAKER_05]: We have some great stories there that happen to be in the news on tap in that first round. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm a confederacy has risen again.

[SPEAKER_05]: So yes, the gentleman we were just talking about there, Calvin. [SPEAKER_05]: He did get his job because even though the the Louisiana Republicans put in a new law, there's stupid ask governor signed it. [SPEAKER_05]: Um, a federal judge, basically last night, punched them in the mouth and said, uh, this is unconstitutional suck it up so he can be the new clerk of the criminal court for oiling parish, meaning basic city of oiling.

[SPEAKER_05]: So, which is, is, hey, um, here's the thing, um, just by doing his job, he's going to piss them off. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: If he does this job well, that's going to piss off some of the Republicans. [SPEAKER_05]: But that's, that's a very minor way to fight. [SPEAKER_05]: There are a whole lot of ways to fight this, this case from the Supreme Court called Calay.

[SPEAKER_05]: Norm Eisen and his friends put a great piece out that we have in there called 15 ways to fight Calay. [SPEAKER_05]: The illegitimate Supreme Court decision that gutted the Civil Rights Act, we'll talk about that. [SPEAKER_05]: I want to talk about that. [SPEAKER_05]: And I want to talk about the Greg Sgt. [SPEAKER_05]: piece that we've also included in there. [SPEAKER_05]: Free link by the way on that.

[SPEAKER_05]: So if you're not subscribed in the new Republic, don't worry, you can still get to it. [SPEAKER_05]: That's what we do with the news on tap as you know. [SPEAKER_05]: But, [SPEAKER_05]: We are in a new civil war of sorts and folks got to understand the time to play nice is over. [SPEAKER_05]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_05]: It's done. [SPEAKER_05]: So I'm I'm not saying go dark side. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm just saying somebody needs an ass whooping the whole back folks.

[SPEAKER_05]: So, I'm so glad you are here, Jordi. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, I'm so glad he's back. [SPEAKER_12]: And you even saw a little bit of the Daisy. [SPEAKER_12]: She's on my life. [SPEAKER_05]: I love our guest host, but I'm telling ya, I'm glad, Jordi's back. [SPEAKER_05]: We do have Brooklyn Dad to find in tonight. [SPEAKER_05]: And we got some, we got it, somebody tomorrow. [SPEAKER_05]: You guys have it. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, we'll introduce her tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_05]: But tonight, Brooklyn Dad to find Jodie and me, we got more coming up for you, freshen your drink and come right back. [SPEAKER_05]: It's Monday night. [SPEAKER_05]: Here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_09]: We'll be right back after we'd pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_01]: It is a Monday night here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_05]: Joey had fun on her vacation too. [SPEAKER_05]: She'd get a few things, went a few places, and saw a few things, and heard a few things.

[SPEAKER_12]: And I won't be going back to one place, and I'm not going to say it publicly, because hopefully they'll fix it, sir.

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[SPEAKER_12]: It was very quiet and nice. [SPEAKER_05]: Nothing wrong with that. [SPEAKER_05]: Tom, by the way, Tom Schaefer via blue sky.

[SPEAKER_05]: if they made it that the reason why they dropped it now he said is that they dropped it now because if they dropped it later like they usually dropped their big ones at the end it would have been too late to implement before primaries in the twenty twenty six elections and in terms of it's almost as if we for it the republican majority on the Supreme Court coordinated their ruling with the red states i know shocker

[SPEAKER_12]: Well, the other thing with the voting rights act, and I've always said this, as soon as I read about it, I'm like, shouldn't it have applied to all 50 states? [SPEAKER_12]: Because it had it applied to all 50 states. [SPEAKER_05]: You're not gonna let the original pre-clearance issue before they tried to get that out. [SPEAKER_12]: Just do it to all 50 of us, where we all have to file print.

[SPEAKER_12]: And then it's not as, wait, it's just for these states, and that was per the reason section five was thrown out. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: And this is, look, and one of the things that I think that people need to understand and I, I've been pleased to see the, the broad left as we joke and we call it. [SPEAKER_05]: The coalition of the decent, I believe, as Anita called it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Um, then instead of Democrats doing what Democrats have done to God damn often for to God damn long of being curled up in the fetal position for weeks at a time, sucking on their metaphorical thumb. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, me and not now. [SPEAKER_05]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_05]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_05]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_05]: There's a great piece by Nicholas Bowie and Daphne Rien, Rienan. [SPEAKER_05]: It is from the New York Times. [SPEAKER_05]: We have a gift link for you.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes. [SPEAKER_05]: You don't have to be subscribed to that either. [SPEAKER_05]: Just go. [SPEAKER_05]: Click. [SPEAKER_05]: It's in the news on tap there in that first segment. [SPEAKER_05]: We title it. [SPEAKER_05]: The courts are not supreme. [SPEAKER_05]: And history still holds the reforms Congress must use to put scotists in its proper place. [SPEAKER_05]: They go through some of the stuff from the first reconstruction.

[SPEAKER_05]: And they go through the fact that Congress did not submit. [SPEAKER_05]: to the abuses, basically, of the racist Confederates from the South, that our Congress stood up to them and said, ah, we ain't doing this. [SPEAKER_05]: That's how we got different rules. [SPEAKER_05]: That's how we got in the 60s.

[SPEAKER_05]: The civil rights is because Congress stood up and Congress knew what Alito and his Mary-Dandard idiots turned over last week was actually the rules that were changed by Congress

[SPEAKER_05]: well within the lifetime pretty much everybody here in the bar well i mean with president johnson he knew he's going to lose a south exactly that goes back a little bit for the summer youngsters may not have been a life of that but uh... the the whole thing that the peace is well worth looking at because of the fact that [SPEAKER_05]: People need to understand, this is not permanent. [SPEAKER_05]: Things can be changed, and they should be changed.

[SPEAKER_05]: They absolute, absolutely changed. [SPEAKER_05]: So that's the Greg's Argent piece that we have. [SPEAKER_05]: Where Trump has no clue what the Supreme Court has just unleashed. [SPEAKER_05]: Disco decision on gerrymanding really points in one direction. [SPEAKER_05]: The Democrats must declare a take, no prisoners, redistricting war. [SPEAKER_05]: Look, I don't care how nice they are. [SPEAKER_05]: Screw them. [SPEAKER_05]: Screw them.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yep. [SPEAKER_05]: What we're going to have to do is a whole new voting rights act. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, the John Lewis voting rights act is a great place to start, but even more so. [SPEAKER_05]: And it just needs to be, Democrats need to not be afraid and not not apologize anymore about punching these racist and misogynists and bigots. [SPEAKER_05]: Classists screw it. [SPEAKER_05]: Punch them in the face. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't mean literally.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just saying metaphorically speaking, hit them as hard or harder than they've hit us. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, because they're their shock that we're fighting back. [SPEAKER_12]: I mean, I don't want my California legislature to do it, but do it right. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't want. [SPEAKER_05]: We have time to do it, but we're going to do it right. [SPEAKER_05]: Look, it's it's the reason, by the way, that and so many people have said that the governor in Georgia.

[SPEAKER_05]: right away said, no, no, no, I'm not going to do with what a governor kiv is doing now, Bama not now what they're doing Louisiana is because of the fact that that people across the broad left, yes, Democrats, but also independence and also some of the for whatever reason still registered Republicans, even though they're not really Republicans these days, but whatever, that all the folks who said this is wrong,

[SPEAKER_05]: And they got mad at their governor down in Georgia folks on the judge now you guys know they got mad and and he said you know what i'm i'm not going to change it i i could push for but i'm not going to do it he's going to do it for 28 [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, well, a ton of them we're going to try to do over 20 HOD. [SPEAKER_05]: A ton of them. [SPEAKER_05]: This is, but Democrats are going to do over 28, too. [SPEAKER_05]: This is where people haven't 100% looked at this.

[SPEAKER_05]: So if you look at the Greg Sergeant piece, he talks about this. [SPEAKER_05]: In the fact that Republicans have already gained it out, and that they think they can steal about 19 seats in the house by shifting the maps. [SPEAKER_05]: But Democrats have also done the math, and we could get up to 22 seats. [SPEAKER_05]: So you want to play that game? [SPEAKER_05]: Let's go boy, howdy. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, slap you so hard. [SPEAKER_05]: Your grandparents will feel it.

[SPEAKER_12]: Well, as Huckim Druffies has said, the dummy mandering, like if you are so Jerry Mandard, like Texas, Georgia, Florida, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama. [SPEAKER_12]: Um, I love, I just can't not say it like that. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm saying. [SPEAKER_12]: I just can't not say, and all of these states, they are so Jerry Mandard already.

[SPEAKER_12]: And especially in Texas, the Latino vote, [SPEAKER_12]: they tried to make it more latino centric yet what Donald has been doing to their family members, no, no, well, and look, there's, uh, uh, there was the Quentin Wilkes, for her perfect example of of how they're already losing their shirts in Texas. [SPEAKER_05]: Uh, he is the first black mayor ever elected in time to Texas. [SPEAKER_05]: Do you know Pyrl and Texas? [SPEAKER_12]: I've never been down there.

[SPEAKER_12]: It's near Houston, correct? [SPEAKER_05]: I believe I don't know it. [SPEAKER_05]: I just know the history and the history is not great. [SPEAKER_05]: No, it's just call it racist because that's what it is. [SPEAKER_05]: And but Trump's approval numbers are absolutely in the toilet on virtually everything. [SPEAKER_05]: He's got, he's got disapproval numbers around 75% now about things like the economy.

[SPEAKER_05]: Even on immigration, we're talking in the 60s, disapproving of what he's been doing on immigration. [SPEAKER_05]: Many of them are former Trump or his former Matt. [SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_05]: Former Republican voters who are like, we have had enough of this crap. [SPEAKER_05]: And the fact that this, um, he's handsome. [SPEAKER_05]: I'll make it. [SPEAKER_05]: Quentin Wilkes is is a, is a handsome young man, well-spoken.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think he might have been like a quarter back in high school down there tech, which I'm sorry for those of you who are listening in Texas. [SPEAKER_05]: You all know, if you were on the football team and then you go run for politics, it helps it just does. [SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, um, and yet he won in Maryland. [SPEAKER_05]: And that says a lot, it says a lot because Marilyn is very, very red. [SPEAKER_05]: And this is happening in areas all across the country.

[SPEAKER_05]: Because people are so pissed off at how Republicans have been botching, absolutely, every damn fool thing, and I'm, I'm not surprised. [SPEAKER_05]: I wish it hadn't taken this long to get here 40 plus years. [SPEAKER_05]: Look, the cost of this war is on a day-to-day bet that all of that. [SPEAKER_05]: Look, you guys can look. [SPEAKER_05]: We have that too in the news on tap.

[SPEAKER_05]: So if you look in the second round, Trump's field of ran war, there are live updates there that we have, because obviously there's some stuff going on between a ran and U.A.E. [SPEAKER_05]: They may trade back for Trump's sense. [SPEAKER_05]: He's going to have the U.S. military guide, not really escort, but guide. [SPEAKER_05]: What does that mean? [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_05]: He's being a douchebag anyway, but the UAE did report a missile and drone strike incoming from RAND today, even if they're supposed to be a ceasefire. [SPEAKER_05]: Remember, we talked about this. [SPEAKER_05]: That's a diplomatic term. [SPEAKER_05]: It hasn't prevented Israel from killing dozens in Lebanon. [SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, well, it's, they are all still kind of talking back and forth. [SPEAKER_05]: There's something to be said for outside influences right now.

[SPEAKER_05]: Donald has meeting next week with [SPEAKER_05]: And they're pretty sick of all this horse crap because it's really screwing up their economy and it's screwing up the entire southeast Asian corner of the universe economically and there are some reports.

[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't get anything that was out there from a reliable source, but there are some rumors out there that are basically saying she is pretty much going to set Donald down and say, I don't care what you have to do, but do it or we're going to step in and you don't want that. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, and we don't want that. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know how I don't know how they would step in. [SPEAKER_05]: I think more than likely China would not step in militarily.

[SPEAKER_05]: They would step in economically and punch the United States in the gut again. [SPEAKER_12]: The dollars are already going down. [SPEAKER_05]: Long and short, I think there are enough forces around the world. [SPEAKER_05]: The Europeans, we talked about that last week. [SPEAKER_05]: How a lot of European... That's why King Charles was over here last. [SPEAKER_12]: He was brilliant, by the way.

[SPEAKER_12]: I loved him talking to Congress, and making... Making... Making Vance in Johnson's stand-up behind him to applaud Ukraine, and making... You know... [SPEAKER_05]: I love making him do that. [SPEAKER_05]: Making him do that. [SPEAKER_05]: Making him applaud checks and balances. [SPEAKER_05]: I know.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's we like the man because of we like laws and checks and balances on our side The Republicans as we all know nothing fans of that you got a love a king coming in to tell us about checks and balances [SPEAKER_05]: I thought that was pretty funny last week too. [SPEAKER_05]: I was like, are you really, really? [SPEAKER_12]: I mean, they should have been speaking. [SPEAKER_12]: They should have gotten the guy from Hamilton to come and go, you'll be back.

[SPEAKER_12]: Wait and see. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yes. [SPEAKER_05]: Got what is his name? [SPEAKER_05]: Josh. [SPEAKER_05]: He's doing that thing on a musical on Broadway right now. [SPEAKER_12]: He does so many, he's such a great job. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he sees that there's a lot of good stuff. [SPEAKER_05]: Anywho, long and short is that, but this isn't preventing them. [SPEAKER_05]: So back up to the front section, the first round. [SPEAKER_05]: Jonathan Grosff.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, John with his graph is great. [SPEAKER_05]: John with the graph is he's he's he's fun. [SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, in that first segment of the news on tap, there's also the rights war against women. [SPEAKER_05]: Now Friday night, the illegitimate fifth circuit federal appeals court, which they're the ones who are off the chain. [SPEAKER_05]: And I'm sorry, they that's going to be something else that we need to do. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and don't tell me that we can't.

[SPEAKER_05]: We need to go in and clean house with those suckers. [SPEAKER_05]: Get them out and get some decent judges in there, because they're clearly not decent there. [SPEAKER_05]: But they decided to try and restrict abortion access nationwide by blocking the mailing myth pressed down two or three of the companies, the manufacturer, the drug stepped up an S Supreme Court and then this morning the Supreme Court temporarily for at least a week restored full access to it.

[SPEAKER_05]: This is going to be, this is one of those things that the Supreme Court doesn't want to deal with. [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: Because if they decide we're going to go full right wing, that's just going to drive even more of Democratic voters, independent voters who will vote Democratic and even Republican voters who will vote Democratic. [SPEAKER_05]: to get back in so that way we can punch out the court.

[SPEAKER_05]: But that's, and I'm only talking metaphorically, people, I'm not, I'm not talking like that. [SPEAKER_12]: Todd Blanch, so Miffle Pristone and Missoprosdall are the two you drugs that are used for medication abortions. [SPEAKER_12]: You take the Miffle Pristone first, and then you take the Missoprosdall. [SPEAKER_12]: You can take just the Missoprosdall, but if you only take that, it's more painful. [SPEAKER_12]: and worse for the person trying to terminate her pregnancy.

[SPEAKER_12]: And by the way, kids, it's only up to 10 weeks of pregnancy. [SPEAKER_12]: Maybe 12 at the latest, but I think it's only up to 10. [SPEAKER_12]: So you can't take it past that because then it's going to really be bad for you. [SPEAKER_12]: So it's very early in a pregnancy. [SPEAKER_05]: Honestly, abortion is a medical procedure. [SPEAKER_05]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_12]: And a physical abortion, an actual, [SPEAKER_12]: They go up there. [SPEAKER_12]: DNA, DNA, DNA, DNA, excuse me.

[SPEAKER_12]: DNA, yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: When they do that, that's more dangerous to a woman's body. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: And if statements, a medication abortion is the body acting on its own. [SPEAKER_12]: As if it's having a miscarriage. [SPEAKER_12]: And if a prison helps it to not be as painful. [SPEAKER_12]: So they're not outlying the other drug. [SPEAKER_12]: They just want women to go through pain. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, of course, that's Republicans today.

[SPEAKER_05]: This is, this is, I've had this discussion interestingly, a number of times recently on different social media platforms that people keep going. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, well, but, you know, that's not gonna stop rich white Republicans from getting it. [SPEAKER_05]: No, it's not. [SPEAKER_05]: Of course not. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: Never has. [SPEAKER_05]: What is the modern Republican motto? [SPEAKER_05]: Five words, remember, it's so easy.

[SPEAKER_05]: Even MAGA folks can remember it. [SPEAKER_05]: I've got mine FU. [SPEAKER_05]: that's the whole core folks as long as they have access to it they don't give a damn if you do as long as they have their their month they're fine in this economy you have you health care all we got to talk about that today too [SPEAKER_05]: Um, yeah, remember when Charles was in here, Charles was here last fall and he told us what happened. [SPEAKER_05]: It's happening.

[SPEAKER_05]: Just like he said, it's that again, Republican say, I've got mine, F.U. [SPEAKER_05]: This was the world. [SPEAKER_05]: This is what a Jim Crow world looks like. [SPEAKER_05]: The rich, especially, but the rich white heterosexual, especially men, they get theirs. [SPEAKER_05]: And everybody else gets to suck eggs. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, but they're so oppressed right now, Shawn. [SPEAKER_12]: They can't even vote. [SPEAKER_05]: They can vote.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's just their vote only counts one vote. [SPEAKER_05]: That's what they get mad about. [SPEAKER_05]: They're only supposed to, but I'm important. [SPEAKER_05]: My mommy and daddy told me I was important. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's nice. [SPEAKER_05]: I'll tell you what my mom and dad told me when we come back and, and, um, I think it's something that everybody should learn. [SPEAKER_05]: I, I really think it should. [SPEAKER_05]: It'll help you kind of balance out.

[SPEAKER_05]: Especially if you're having a day where you're like, I'm super, you're like, Ehh, thanks for asking. [SPEAKER_05]: Look, we got the drink of the day coming up too, and some of you already, you know, you've used the force, you've susted out, we'll do that coming up too. [SPEAKER_05]: Look, it is a Monday night, Brooklyn Dad, to find coming in a little bit, more with Jonny Hamilton and me Sean Smith, Pierce, and you, hanging out on this Monday night, here at the politics bar.

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[SPEAKER_05]: My folks always said this, and there are some people I knew who thought it was kind of harsh when I was growing up, but I am very glad that my parents taught me this, which is your parents or whoever's in your core family loves you. [SPEAKER_05]: And the rest of the world doesn't care about you. [SPEAKER_05]: Half the world doesn't even know what you exist and they don't care if you die. [SPEAKER_12]: I would say more than half but go on. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, right.

[SPEAKER_05]: But, I mean, so I, you know, what I got older, I was like, okay, and I did the math and, you know, because I like the facts and the details and things, there is still literally millions and millions of people on planet earth who've never heard of Jesus, Muhammad or Abraham. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: Any of the Abrahamic religions? [UNKNOWN]: Right.

[SPEAKER_05]: these are the three biggest religions on the planet they are billions of people follow that right and yet there are still millions and millions who have never heard of them never will and it will not affect their life one bit I agree [SPEAKER_05]: But Obama. [SPEAKER_05]: That's the height of his popularity. [SPEAKER_05]: Somebody did a study. [SPEAKER_05]: It said that half the people are so there was about seven and a half billion people on earth at the time.

[SPEAKER_05]: So you're looking at three and a quarter billion people on earth knew that the president of the United States was a handsome intelligent black man named Barack Obama. [SPEAKER_05]: And the other half. [SPEAKER_05]: Literally, three and a quarter billion people on the planet didn't know who he was, didn't care. [SPEAKER_05]: That lack of knowledge did not affect them one way or the other.

[SPEAKER_05]: So unless your name is Barack Obama, Jesus, Muhammad or Abraham, there's billions of people on this planet right now who do not know who you are and don't care. [SPEAKER_05]: It doesn't matter. [SPEAKER_05]: So, the people who are like, well, but I'm important. [SPEAKER_05]: My vote should count extra. [SPEAKER_05]: Shut up!

[SPEAKER_05]: shout out that that's that's the whole reason that my parents they they didn't do it they they they they just so you understood your your place in the universe no matter how good you are how important you feel about man I think I think it's great and everybody and if you have lots of joy that's and it's something wonderful great please spread that but just know that there are literally billions of people on the planet and we're just talking humans we talked about dogs and cats and things

[SPEAKER_05]: There are billions and billions and billions and billions. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_12]: Oh, first of all. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know who don't know you and don't care. [SPEAKER_05]: So you got to understand where you're at and you got to understand. [SPEAKER_05]: If you're in a situation where you are in a democracy that is functional working properly and you have one vote. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, protect it, but also you only get one.

[SPEAKER_05]: So be aware that is a privilege. [SPEAKER_05]: You shouldn't get more than that. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, I mean, my mom used to love going to Europe because nobody knew who she was. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: Which, I know for, I know that some people, wait a minute, what? [SPEAKER_05]: Not knowing who Carol Burnett is? [SPEAKER_12]: In the 70s and 80s.

[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, what you did Annie, then people... [SPEAKER_12]: started to know who she was I'm sorry if you if you if you like comedy you got to know care about it but I mean honestly it was like she loved because she she pretended to quit smoking when she was 35 and she didn't actually quit until she was 50 and she loved going to Europe without my dad or us because then she could go to a cafe and just smoke out in public because nobody knew who she was. [SPEAKER_12]: That is so funny.

[SPEAKER_12]: It's in her book. [SPEAKER_12]: Not right. [SPEAKER_12]: Right. [SPEAKER_12]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_12]: I'm not talking at a school. [SPEAKER_12]: She wrote about it. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: Here's the thing. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't think anybody on earth. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, I know there are some. [SPEAKER_05]: But I think very few people on earth do not know about Star Wars.

[SPEAKER_05]: it would be a small number like people that don't have access to movies basically or any entertainment of any kind whatsoever 50 years 50 years yeah yeah this year today obviously as we said earlier may the fourth be with you may this kind of also with you [SPEAKER_05]: exactly, thank you. [SPEAKER_05]: And that of course is the inspiration for the drink today, but we have two drinks. [SPEAKER_05]: What are they today?

[SPEAKER_12]: Well, you did the first, technically it's the first one, but I did the second one. [SPEAKER_12]: Skywalker shot tail or the Darth Yager shot tail. [SPEAKER_05]: Which look, I mean, you know, you had the Darth Yager went in there and I was like, well, you got to do one because if you have one for the dark side, you got to do one for the light side. [SPEAKER_12]: I agree. [SPEAKER_12]: I'm not going to, I'm not going to give you any crap.

[SPEAKER_05]: Plus, um, not everybody likes Yager. [UNKNOWN]: I love it. [SPEAKER_05]: No, look, it's great. [SPEAKER_05]: If you love Yager, that's great, but like my wife. [SPEAKER_12]: Hey, I don't love it anymore, but when it was younger, it was like, whew.

[SPEAKER_05]: right and and some people still some people love uh... like fireball and i'm like oh yeah that was good for a minute yet in my choice go go to husk or tailgate you'll see people in their 80s doing fireball shots anyway but [SPEAKER_05]: Obviously, it's a good history of Star Wars and the May the 4th holiday, which really kind of came up because of the fans, which I think is just, it's nice that it wasn't a corporate thing. [SPEAKER_05]: It just kind of came.

[SPEAKER_12]: No, it just, it was natural. [SPEAKER_12]: It was very, yes, it was very much, hey, it's May the 4th, and it's funny because it sounds like you're Lithping. [SPEAKER_12]: Like S.O.S.A.R. [SPEAKER_12]: in on Golubon. [SPEAKER_12]: S.O.S.A.R. [SPEAKER_12]: is her name. [SPEAKER_12]: S.O.S.A.R. [SPEAKER_12]: sounds like I'm listening. [SPEAKER_12]: Katherine Hepburn said that. [SPEAKER_12]: Google it. [SPEAKER_12]: Um, it's brilliant line. [SPEAKER_12]: She's trying to understand.

[SPEAKER_05]: I know there's, I know there's character in Lysps and Star Wars. [SPEAKER_05]: I just don't remember who it is. [SPEAKER_05]: By the way, we do have Jody put the, the new trailer. [SPEAKER_12]: I can't wait to see it. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm excited too. [SPEAKER_05]: Whereas my wife still calls him baby Yoda. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: No, he has a name. [SPEAKER_12]: He's no longer a baby Yoda. [SPEAKER_12]: His girl, goop. [SPEAKER_05]: He does.

[SPEAKER_12]: And he's like a thousand years old. [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, he's young, but yeah, but he's still young and cute and, you know, it's pretty cool. [SPEAKER_12]: And I like their relationship. [SPEAKER_12]: It's just I love the mandolin. [SPEAKER_05]: It's going to be a good movie. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm excited to see that one. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm with you. [SPEAKER_05]: They shouldn't release it today. [SPEAKER_12]: I don't. [SPEAKER_12]: Wouldn't it be perfect? [SPEAKER_12]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_05]: And then previews would have been last night and then we all could have gone and seen it before we came to the bar tonight. [SPEAKER_12]: But anyway, whatever, that's fine. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, on first off, children, if you look at the drink's pictures, you can see the shot glass upside down, and that's important in the drink. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, also, you can see that one is a little bit lighter, and one is a little bit more greenish. [SPEAKER_12]: I see what you did there.

[SPEAKER_05]: Ah, well, you know, you got to do that. [SPEAKER_05]: How do we make these two drinks? [SPEAKER_05]: It's, it's very similar. [SPEAKER_05]: So you can pretty much do the same. [SPEAKER_12]: Okay. [SPEAKER_12]: You need a pre-chilled shot glass, an old fashioned glass. [SPEAKER_12]: Right. [SPEAKER_12]: For the Jedi, which is for [SPEAKER_01]: the light side of the floor.

[SPEAKER_12]: Luke, an ounce of bearing-yager honey lacure, which is it's a honey-based flavored lacure, otherwise there's another option that you link to, so yay, for the dark side, for dark. [SPEAKER_05]: or this is it. [SPEAKER_05]: I've never liked Sithheads. [SPEAKER_05]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_12]: Really, you went there. [SPEAKER_12]: Yes, I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_12]: An ounce of yag or yag or myster. [SPEAKER_12]: We used to call it yag.

[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, the, oh my god, the amount of the yag that I have consumed. [SPEAKER_12]: I'm surprised I'm alive. [SPEAKER_12]: Anyway, or other German yag or myster, it's high in alcohol content kids. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, these, these two, the baron yager in the agromyster are both very high and out of this. [SPEAKER_12]: So this is not a drink for people that want to drive. [SPEAKER_05]: Right, exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: And this, this is why it's only a shot. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_05]: Your two glasses, then you've got your baron yager or your agromyster, an ounce of each. [SPEAKER_12]: And then three ounces of medium dry apple cider. [SPEAKER_12]: It's a very simple drink to make, here's what you do. [SPEAKER_12]: You pour your, either of the eggors into a shot glass. [SPEAKER_12]: Okay. [SPEAKER_12]: You place the old fashioned shot glass, the old fashioned over the shot glass, and turn it down and turn it upside down. [SPEAKER_05]: Got it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, you're wondering, if you're wondering how to do that, you're like, wait a minute, you can put on a plate if you want. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, I would do that. [SPEAKER_05]: That's just a case. [SPEAKER_12]: So basically, you put the old fashioned glass over the shot glass that has the booze. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_12]: And then you flip it. [SPEAKER_12]: Okay. [SPEAKER_12]: Two hands. [SPEAKER_12]: Two hands. [SPEAKER_12]: Much safer.

[SPEAKER_12]: And then you slowly pour the cider into the glass. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_10]: It's a very simple drink. [SPEAKER_10]: You can see, you guys can see how they were made. [SPEAKER_10]: You can see it. [SPEAKER_10]: It looks pretty. [SPEAKER_05]: One's going to be a little more golden. [SPEAKER_05]: One's going to be a little bit more green. [SPEAKER_05]: Because one has the the, the, the, the, the egg or myster and the other has the bear and the egg or so.

[SPEAKER_05]: There you go. [SPEAKER_05]: Look, if you guys missed any part of the drink of the day, you know what to do. [SPEAKER_05]: Go subscribe to the politics bar dot com and may the fourth be with you. [SPEAKER_10]: And also with you.

[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you, I knew that was going to be the first of us in the entertainment section today in the fifth round of the news on tap site after has reached tentative deal with major studios for you deal Yeah, I'm kind of blocks out some of the AI stuff too. [SPEAKER_05]: So I'm glad about that details are in link in the news on tap. [SPEAKER_05]: We can box office devil wears proud of two dazzled 77 million dollar domestic debut 233 million worldwide.

[SPEAKER_05]: A lot of people have said [SPEAKER_05]: it's it's good some people said it's not it's not as good as the first it's a sequel it's still it's still it is somewhat fan service well what's what some people are saying is that uh... mayor of streets character is not as hard as she used to be [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: And she's had experience. [SPEAKER_12]: I know. [SPEAKER_12]: It's like, and her magazine is starting to fail. [SPEAKER_12]: That's part of the story.

[SPEAKER_05]: So she's got a she's got a few years to she's got a little bit of a. [SPEAKER_12]: So don't give a character development crap people. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, exactly for people who are law, I don't, I don't think about the character of Bellman. [SPEAKER_05]: So you've got his right. [SPEAKER_12]: It's 23 years.

[SPEAKER_12]: They would, I mean, I know Andy is so kind of the same, but Andy would be the same around somebody that was her mentor because she's still going to get back in that headspace. [SPEAKER_12]: Like we are with our parents. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: By the way, since it is our worst day, little statistical fact, we linked to in the entertainment section today, fan streamed 33 billion minutes of Star Wars content last year. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, 33. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm one of them.

[SPEAKER_05]: minutes. [SPEAKER_05]: I stream some too. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm not going to lie out. [SPEAKER_05]: Definitely one of them. [SPEAKER_05]: I like that. [SPEAKER_05]: Shakira, by the way, performed over the weekend. [SPEAKER_05]: The folks in Rio have been doing this where they get to, they did Madonna, they had who else. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm trying to move. [SPEAKER_05]: Was it Taylor Swift? [SPEAKER_05]: I think they did. [SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, Shakira performed over the weekend.

[SPEAKER_05]: Two million people on top of Commander Beach. [SPEAKER_05]: Free concert. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: Nice play. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, and then they clean up after themselves because, you know, they're not like, you know, American concert covers just saying. [SPEAKER_05]: Post malone by the way speaking of concerts has canceled the first few weeks of his new concert tour saying his album is not yet ready. [SPEAKER_05]: The wife and. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm with you.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't understand. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, if you're going to schedule it, you best make sure you have everything ready. [SPEAKER_12]: So I usually records done and then you go on tour. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I don't get that either. [SPEAKER_05]: Congratulations, by the way. [SPEAKER_05]: Sherry Devon makes history as the first female trainer to win. [SPEAKER_05]: He can tuck you to her be golden tempo to horse playing 150 seconds.

[SPEAKER_05]: Other golden tempo if you if you guys watched it. [SPEAKER_05]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_12]: Apparently he came up from behind. [SPEAKER_05]: Last place. [SPEAKER_05]: Last to first on the outside. [SPEAKER_05]: That's that that was pretty slick and jockey brothers. [SPEAKER_05]: It was brothers who won like first and second as far as the jockey's. [SPEAKER_05]: So. [SPEAKER_12]: Okay, my question, though, is because I have a friend who trains horses and they do a bit less.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_12]: And there are certain people that she watches in Dressage that she's really upset about. [SPEAKER_12]: So I'm going to email her and ask her about, because I don't know if she watches the derby, because it's a different thing than what she teaches. [SPEAKER_05]: So she's asking Derby raising different. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: That's really different. [SPEAKER_12]: Because she doesn't use spurs.

[SPEAKER_05]: I mean it's all I mean look if you can if you can get the animals to do this stuff, but it's it's uh I don't know I I watched it and honestly I was uh it was kind of fun. [SPEAKER_05]: People were cheering us and watching it. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, cause the horse comes from the outside and you just tell the horses like, no what I'm going WHAAH! [SPEAKER_01]: It was kind of fun. [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of cool. [SPEAKER_12]: He's like, there's your brother.

[SPEAKER_12]: I'm gonna go catch him.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's all there. [SPEAKER_05]: It's the politics bar.com. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, Christopher. [SPEAKER_05]: He said, thank you. [SPEAKER_05]: My pup is here. [SPEAKER_05]: He says, you have to scratch behind my ears right now. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know why. [SPEAKER_05]: That's his. [SPEAKER_12]: That's why the lady is sitting up upon me now. [SPEAKER_12]: She wants some love. [SPEAKER_05]: Cats and dogs live in the other. [SPEAKER_12]: I know we have that.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, we do have a little bit of history out there. [SPEAKER_05]: Things are falling apart in America under Republicans. [SPEAKER_05]: And it's definitely been, look at the gas prices alone. [SPEAKER_05]: We have that in the second round of news on tap under Trump's failed Iran war under the cost of the war this week. [SPEAKER_05]: Triple A national average for gas price today was 445.7. [SPEAKER_05]: That's up from yesterday. [SPEAKER_05]: It's up from a week ago.

[SPEAKER_05]: We could go it was 411, so it's basically like 34 cents up. [SPEAKER_05]: two ninety eight so we're close to two dollars over mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_05]: What was what was it in January of twenty twenty one when we still had Biden and Harris It was two dollars and thirty nine cents, but there was gas prices way too high then Yeah No [SPEAKER_05]: that the people who are telling you those things folks we're not paying attention to the realities of the situation on purpose.

[SPEAKER_05]: Of course they were lying to you they're Republicans that's what they do. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm not saying all Republicans are bad especially the Republicans that are still for whatever reason like Michael steel registered to vote but if you're a Republican and you're listening to the show and you're going some of the things you say I don't agree with but some of the things you say I do. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, that's fine. [SPEAKER_05]: Good. [SPEAKER_05]: We're glad.

[SPEAKER_05]: But understand, we're here, because you listen to the people who lied to you. [SPEAKER_05]: You listen to the people lie to you. [SPEAKER_05]: You didn't listen to us. [SPEAKER_05]: So I got to tell you this. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know if you heard this on Friday when I was, um, so Karen and I need to work in on Friday for the full show, helping my girls. [SPEAKER_05]: They're great. [SPEAKER_05]: I, and I told them, I think it was in the afternoon hours.

[SPEAKER_05]: I told them about one. [SPEAKER_05]: Um, one is a guy he's in my neighborhood. [SPEAKER_05]: He's at the grocery store. [SPEAKER_05]: It's in my neighborhood. [SPEAKER_05]: It's walking distance from my place. [SPEAKER_05]: And, um, I used to really, you know, once and okay guys, uh, immigrated from El Salvador when he was like, I don't know, four or five, you know, as a kid, whatever. [SPEAKER_05]: Become a citizen a long time ago. [SPEAKER_05]: He's fine. [SPEAKER_05]: Whatever.

[SPEAKER_05]: And before the election in 24, I would go down and I'd go there and whatever, and he knew what I did. [SPEAKER_05]: I was working for Randy at the time. [SPEAKER_05]: I'd work for staff before or whatever, and he knew I was all involved.

[SPEAKER_05]: So we'd talk a little bit of politics, we'd have a little fun, but... [SPEAKER_05]: He he listen a little bit and then he didn't you know he's doing the typical machismo thing and blah, blah, blah, blah, and and he he told me that he was voting for Kamla and then afterwards he lied he said, well, I lied I voted for for Trump. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Joe these eyes just went really big right. [SPEAKER_12]: Why? [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_05]: I was really pissed at him.

[SPEAKER_05]: I was really pissed at him. [SPEAKER_05]: And I remember standing in line and he was just, and he was, he was doing it like some of the folks on the right do sometimes where they just, they say things to try to get our goat and piss us off. [SPEAKER_05]: So that's what he was doing. [SPEAKER_05]: And it was, oh, I don't know, it must have been like, it was late in the late night. [SPEAKER_05]: It was almost closing time.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I knew there weren't many people in the store. [SPEAKER_05]: And I just I went off on him. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't I don't normally do this. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't yell at waiters. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't do that. [SPEAKER_05]: But I I went off on him because I felt like he was, you know, kind of a friend. [SPEAKER_05]: Kind of the Queens. [SPEAKER_05]: And and I went off and I just said, dude, I said, you know, back the F off. [SPEAKER_05]: I said, I don't want to talk to you.

[SPEAKER_05]: I said, look, we have to live in the same neighborhood and work in the same neighborhood. [SPEAKER_05]: That's fine. [SPEAKER_05]: But I don't want to talk to you, and I don't want to see if I don't have to get the F out. [SPEAKER_05]: And I didn't, I, I, and I was yellow and he was hot and he was worried and he's like, okay, but I didn't, I didn't ask for his job. [SPEAKER_05]: I just, he doesn't, he just great job. [SPEAKER_05]: He's fine.

[SPEAKER_05]: He's a good worker, whatever. [SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, so for most of the last, I don't know, year and a half or so. [SPEAKER_05]: There's been this kind of thing. [SPEAKER_05]: I go in and I do my shopping and he sees I'm in and he tries to avoid me. [SPEAKER_05]: he's, you know, and I'm like, that's fine, whatever, you know, a couple of times we've been attracted professionally because I can do that, but you know, this was mad.

[SPEAKER_05]: So the other night, that's been Wednesday, Thursday, last week, something like that. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm now the store, I'm getting something, there's a little rain, and he's just out of it, and he's leaving early for the evening. [SPEAKER_05]: And there's two big doors, one on either side, a lot of grocery stores have me, and he can go to one in the other, right? [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, absolutely. [SPEAKER_05]: And I'm going on one in, and he's another, he says, hey, so what?

[SPEAKER_05]: He says, I gotta say this. [SPEAKER_05]: just the tone of his voice, you know. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, yeah, I did. [SPEAKER_05]: Hell, yeah, I did. [SPEAKER_05]: So I came back. [SPEAKER_05]: I walked his direction. [SPEAKER_05]: I said, yeah, so what you need? [SPEAKER_05]: This is, man. [SPEAKER_05]: I ain't saying this, I'm saying what? [SPEAKER_05]: I pretended, you know, acted in a shock.

[SPEAKER_05]: Hmm, yeah, well, I was ten and it was going to be, he says, man, you were effin' right, man. [SPEAKER_05]: I was wrong. [SPEAKER_05]: I was wrong. [SPEAKER_05]: I should've listened to you. [SPEAKER_05]: I was wrong. [SPEAKER_05]: And I was like, well, okay, so what are you going to do about it?

[SPEAKER_05]: And he's like, well, we started talking and there's a few things that he's that he's now doing that he's engaged in, but it hit him personally, it hit his girlfriend hit she works down at the Pentagon and and there's a bunch of people that were in her they all got fired and and it's just when it hit him. [SPEAKER_05]: What have we say is the Republican motto? [SPEAKER_05]: I've got mine.

[SPEAKER_05]: If you want to hit his, then he's like, I didn't play, he says, I didn't plan for the gas prices. [SPEAKER_05]: He said, I didn't vote for that. [SPEAKER_12]: Nobody did. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, except for all the people who voted for Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, I actually kind of did. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, they, well, I mean, the word in Iran, nobody saw we just saw that it would be bad.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, we, I mean, the people in the Biden administration said that that was a possibility that Donald would decide to do that because, among other things, they knew that BB was going to try to convince him and go, hey, he's been trying for what 40 years to convince people to do that. [SPEAKER_10]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, he's been trying to convince people for decades to go, you know, engage in his little war. [SPEAKER_12]: He could even convince Reagan.

[SPEAKER_05]: No. [SPEAKER_05]: No. [SPEAKER_05]: No. [SPEAKER_05]: No, Reagan. [SPEAKER_05]: No, Bush, senior. [SPEAKER_05]: No, Bush, junior. [SPEAKER_12]: I mean, Reagan wasn't there when he was there, but still it's like Reagan wasn't convinced either. [SPEAKER_05]: So the people that backed him, they've been, they've been trying for a long time to get America to go, you know, play their war. [SPEAKER_05]: And most of the time up until Trump, um, we didn't.

[SPEAKER_05]: And it's damaging people in other ways. [SPEAKER_05]: So here's one of the ways, and we actually have this happens to be in the cost of war section and the news on the tap. [SPEAKER_05]: Spirit Airlines shut down, blaming the cost of fuel, due to Trump's Middle East War. [SPEAKER_05]: And it is. [SPEAKER_05]: When you're looking at the cost of jet fuel, so gas in what is it six or seven states is now above six dollars. [SPEAKER_05]: That's for gasoline.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Judi says California is one, she is as usual correct. [SPEAKER_12]: Undecils over seven, it's almost eight. [SPEAKER_05]: Illinois, similar. [SPEAKER_05]: Illinois has, Midwest has similar prices right now because of some issues with refineries and other things like that. [SPEAKER_05]: So that's part of that. [SPEAKER_05]: Um, jet fuel if you just want to kind of a quick math kind of thing.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's not perfect, but a quick math thing is that you're looking at if diesel is eight bucks, jet fuel is probably closer to like 15 or 20. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: And of course, they don't buy, you know, you don't get half a gallon. [SPEAKER_12]: No, you don't feel an entire plane. [SPEAKER_05]: When you're trying to do a discount carrier, and yes, admittedly, spirit was in its second bankruptcy in a year. [SPEAKER_12]: awful airline.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, they weren't, I mean, look, they were, they were cheapo. [SPEAKER_05]: They were definitely not cheapo airlines. [SPEAKER_05]: That's the whole other thing. [SPEAKER_05]: But they were cheap. [SPEAKER_05]: But the fact of the matter is that Jet Blue, one of their competitors, who attempted to find a... [SPEAKER_05]: I'm here. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, the Republicans are blaming it, saying, well, you just want to let JetBlue... Now, OK, JetBlue needs the money now.

[SPEAKER_05]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_05]: Once again, Jodie is right. [SPEAKER_05]: This is not rocket science. [SPEAKER_12]: No, if JetBlue bought their debt, they would be worse off. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: The whole reason for all of this is that it's so... Hey! [SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of blue, [SPEAKER_01]: Brooklyn Dad Defiant coming in the bar joddy is laughing. [SPEAKER_01]: He's got this blue wig on right now.

[SPEAKER_05]: I love it I'm trying to try to think of who the hairstyle looks like. [SPEAKER_05]: Maybe a Joe Scarborough, but in blue [SPEAKER_12]: No, but she is much more attractive than she is. [SPEAKER_05]: You are much more handsome than Joe Scarra. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm just looking at just a hair. [SPEAKER_05]: It's not really a Donald Trump hairdo. [SPEAKER_12]: No, it's something I'm going to figure it out. [SPEAKER_12]: It's a cartoon.

[SPEAKER_05]: You'll figure who it looks, but it's funny. [SPEAKER_05]: He's very, it's blue steel. [SPEAKER_00]: Is it a Cindy from, from, from three's company? [SPEAKER_12]: Hmm, maybe, could be, could be, or you could just be [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, it's very steel. [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_12]: How was your media's hair was spiked, but still? [SPEAKER_00]: My weekend was good. [SPEAKER_05]: Can you see any movies, any TV that you watched? [SPEAKER_00]: I did. [SPEAKER_00]: I did.

[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, we watched, um, did you guys ever see the movie, um, man on fire starring Denzel Washington? [SPEAKER_02]: A long time ago, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: So there's a new one. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's not a movie. [SPEAKER_00]: It's a TV show on Netflix. [SPEAKER_00]: It's like seven episodes. [SPEAKER_00]: We're only at two episode five, but oh, man, [SPEAKER_05]: Okay, based on based on the Denzel movie kind of like Lusley Lusley.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's the same character, you know, and he's down in Brazil and there is like an element of danger. [SPEAKER_00]: There's an element of [SPEAKER_00]: Who do they who do they get to do the the Denzel part because I'm sorry Denzel Okay, he's yeah, he's the guy who plays Wonder Man. [SPEAKER_12]: Oh, I love him so much in Wonder Man. [SPEAKER_12]: Oh my god. [SPEAKER_12]: Have you seen Wonder Man? [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, but it's it's such a it's he is excellent by this really good. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I hate I don't even want to call him an up and coming actor, but he is feeling he's getting more established. [SPEAKER_05]: He's getting more established. [SPEAKER_05]: He's good. [SPEAKER_05]: Did you guys see the cold open for Saturday night live over the weekend? [SPEAKER_05]: I had a season sorry. [SPEAKER_12]: That was brilliant. [SPEAKER_05]: That was literally come on.

[SPEAKER_01]: It comes up comes up to the lectern. [SPEAKER_01]: The first thing he does is bugs his eyes out and you're like [SPEAKER_00]: You know what's funny about that is that like I never considered him perfect for the role until I saw my god You're so perfect Absolutely, yeah, that was that was where you're like [SPEAKER_01]: choice, those all. [SPEAKER_01]: That was perfect casting. [SPEAKER_01]: That was perfect casting. [SPEAKER_05]: It is here. [SPEAKER_05]: It is a Monday night.

[SPEAKER_05]: Jody is here. [SPEAKER_05]: Which weird thing. [SPEAKER_05]: I've been I've been raving about that BDD. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm so glad she's back. [SPEAKER_05]: Not that you and I didn't have fun last week, but I mean it's more fun with Jody here. [SPEAKER_05]: Just saying. [SPEAKER_05]: There's only one Jody. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: We share her amongst you. [SPEAKER_05]: Not like. [SPEAKER_05]: Get your mind out of the gutter.

[SPEAKER_05]: Jesus. [SPEAKER_11]: I think it's past around Emma. [SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [SPEAKER_01]: He is back.

[SPEAKER_01]: We will give him the former introduction as we usually do on this Monday night. [SPEAKER_01]: The one they only missed a machine, Brooklyn, Dad, Defiant, because it is Monday's with machine. [SPEAKER_05]: Notice I didn't break, brother. [SPEAKER_05]: I didn't break. [SPEAKER_00]: That wasn't for you, man. [SPEAKER_00]: That was, that was for Joe. [SPEAKER_00]: That's for us. [SPEAKER_05]: See you back. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, everything's for Jody, which we're glad for because we're glad she's back. [SPEAKER_05]: It is a good thing. [SPEAKER_05]: So before the break, obviously, by the way, thank you to everybody who does reach out to us on all of the different social media platforms. [SPEAKER_05]: You guys know them. [SPEAKER_05]: You know what to do, contact us if you want blue sky threads, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Substack, YouTube. [SPEAKER_05]: We are at it in the politics market.

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, you can also find Brooklyn Dad to find here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_05]: Or on any of his socials, we have that linked in the gas section of the news on tap. [SPEAKER_05]: So we were talking entertainment here before we had to go pay some bills and things and um there was a little thing I have to admit my bias here.

[SPEAKER_05]: I try to ignore things that are in the media that are in the news that are what I want to put it more heat than light more BS and garbage you know it's it's it's

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, the stuff that you look at me, look at me, look at me and I'm like because anytime somebody especially in politics does a hey, look at me 99 out of a hundred times when it's a hey, look at me it's not because there's anything substantive it's because they don't want you to look over there or something else is going on and unfortunately.

[SPEAKER_05]: A lot of the mainstream outlets have gone to somebody who will, will give them clickbait, who will give them which, so CNN, I thought better of Abby Phillips in the past. [SPEAKER_12]: She tries. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, but this is, this is the same. [SPEAKER_05]: This is one of the same reasons why I don't give credence to everybody.

[SPEAKER_05]: There are a lot of people who are like, well, yeah, but you know, the producers are, and these seconds of I said, when you get to be big enough that they give you your own show, I believe they do it. [SPEAKER_05]: What is it like seeing in it with Abby Phillips and it has her name on on the the little love. [SPEAKER_05]: Abby Phillips, yes, absolutely right when they give you something and it's got your name on it.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's when you can turn to the executives and say, hey, a whole, here's how this works. [SPEAKER_05]: And there are things I'm not going to do, and that's one of them. [SPEAKER_05]: And you can take a flying leaper rolling donut, jackstick, have a nice day. [SPEAKER_05]: I'll do something other stuff. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm not doing that. [SPEAKER_05]: They constantly have on Scott Jennings, who, he's some of the people we, we'll look. [SPEAKER_05]: John Fugel sings gone on there.

[SPEAKER_05]: Pot, thanks, Carl's gone on there. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: I could not, I could not. [SPEAKER_05]: I would bring with me a shovel. [SPEAKER_05]: because I would just, bam! [SPEAKER_05]: And then I'd use the shovel to get rid of the evidence because I'm sorry, I'm just saying. [SPEAKER_05]: He is that, he's that strong. [SPEAKER_05]: From the ways. [SPEAKER_05]: I know, but he's that kind of person on the right.

[SPEAKER_05]: They do it on purpose. [SPEAKER_05]: They want to make people mad. [SPEAKER_05]: That's their goal. [SPEAKER_05]: Their goal is to get you so angry that you lose your shizzle. [SPEAKER_05]: So Adam Mockler is for those of you who don't know here in the bar, he's a young man. [SPEAKER_05]: He's what he's 23. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, he's wicked smart. [SPEAKER_05]: We should see if we get him into the bar. [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, he's old enough to come to the bar now.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, thanks. [SPEAKER_12]: So he can he can drive us home. [SPEAKER_05]: Hey, and not a bad idea. [SPEAKER_12]: Ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but we're super smart. [SPEAKER_05]: He really is very smart. [SPEAKER_05]: He's very good at debating the maggots and baking withers is true. [SPEAKER_12]: I love him. [SPEAKER_05]: debating the trolls who were out there, the right-wing trolls.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: And so they Abby Phillip had them on her show and just by stating facts and not allowing himself to be talked over, he pissed off Scott Jennings so bad that Scott Jennings dropped an F bomb on him. [SPEAKER_05]: He did. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he, he told him basically get your effing hand out of my face. [SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't anywhere near his face. [SPEAKER_00]: It was not even true. [SPEAKER_05]: He was just trying like I do. [SPEAKER_05]: Right, exactly.

[SPEAKER_05]: And his hand was like, what? [SPEAKER_05]: Like a foot foot, I have away from from Jennings face. [SPEAKER_12]: It wasn't in his face. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, not in his face, not in his face at all. [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I wouldn't have minded if, you know, hand would have connected. [SPEAKER_10]: I'm just like, don't like John Louise. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't like Scott Jennings. [SPEAKER_12]: I don't either.

[SPEAKER_05]: I cannot watch that show because if he's on, and he's on most nights, I don't watch it because I don't have enough money to replace my TV's. [SPEAKER_00]: So here's where Jennings had an issue. [SPEAKER_00]: First of all, I find him insufferable and he is the primary reason why I will not watch Abby Phillips show despite the fact that I find her.

[SPEAKER_00]: charming and highly intelligent, and she's like, she's very smooth with her delivery, even when she has a, you know, jerk, just the whole table is chaos, you know, and I don't like that either. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like that. [SPEAKER_12]: I agree.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, but whatever, Scott Jennings whole his whole thing is to say something disingenuous, [SPEAKER_00]: And then he'll mug in the camera like I'm the smartest guy here in the room, but actually what you said was ridiculous. [SPEAKER_00]: So at a mockler is very, very sharp, and he was able to cut through the nonsense and. [SPEAKER_00]: and kind of corner him and try to get him to make a concession that Donald Trump has not been able to secure any concessions from Iran.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Scott Jennings was flustered and embarrassed. [SPEAKER_00]: And he himself was attempting to hoist barbs at insulting barbs at Adam, like this is, you know, pasture bed time. [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, all this kind of condescending stuff. [SPEAKER_00]: And so when Adam flipped it back to him, [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't like it. [SPEAKER_00]: And so that's that's the essence of what Maga is right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just this Scott Jennings thing, but I want to much larger sense. [SPEAKER_00]: It's Donald Trump saying horrendous things about everybody. [SPEAKER_00]: And then somebody then what's his face? [SPEAKER_00]: James Call me post 8647 and C-shel suddenly he's a little bit dangerous things since you ran him. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, the thing I like about Adam's last name is Marcus in it. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't agree with that one.

[SPEAKER_05]: But look, some of the young folks are good. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know if you guys are familiar with the Zollin Cano Young's. [SPEAKER_05]: He is a journalist. [SPEAKER_05]: She does some good stuff. [SPEAKER_05]: He's got a piece actually up at the New York Times that we happen to have. [SPEAKER_05]: He's a White House correspondent. [SPEAKER_05]: And the PC road.

[SPEAKER_05]: We've had several pieces over the last week that have said similar, basically Trump faces the complicated reality of literally a costly, unpopular, unsuccessful war in Iran, or walking away with the deal that isn't going to be everything he wants that doesn't give him all of the whatever. [SPEAKER_05]: And this is what anybody who knows the foreign policy, and Iran has been trying to give him a deal. [SPEAKER_05]: This stuff is important, this stuff is serious.

[SPEAKER_05]: Folks like Jennings, not serious, not important, not worth paying any attention to, which is why most of the time, I just don't include it in anything in the news on tap. [SPEAKER_05]: You don't include it either in anything that you spend me, Jody is like, you send to me, I don't send stuff like that to you.

[SPEAKER_05]: We don't send it to the stuff because, [SPEAKER_05]: We both know that there are so many other things that are so much more important than what the hell Scott because he has no Scott Jennings uh he was a what a flag for somebody was he was it was it Mitt Romney or I don't remember he he was a Republican flag of something yeah it sounds right right he was a Republican flag of some kind um minor Republican flag not even major Republican flag

[SPEAKER_05]: And basically he's been willing to say whatever the Trump megaphoax, I'm fairly sure Stephen Miller probably calls him or text him or emails him and says, OK, what you to say this is pissed people off. [SPEAKER_05]: And what could most. [SPEAKER_12]: And as John, it's got a good contract and he's going to run for a Congress or something. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, John, he's done so by the way, he's a well paid commentator on. [SPEAKER_12]: He's well paid. [SPEAKER_12]: I'm sure.

[SPEAKER_00]: But, and that's not the first, it's not the first outburst that he is not on CNN. [SPEAKER_00]: He's been disrespectful to plenty of guests. [SPEAKER_05]: Here's the thing, if CNN is supposed to be news, and it is. [SPEAKER_05]: So it makes me trust them less to have any programming like that on.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's one of the reasons why we don't put crap like that in news on tap is because, you know, we'll, we'll put stuff that sometimes we not always get to, but we're not going to put that piece of junk in there because there's so much more important to talk about in the world. [SPEAKER_05]: It's kind of a joke. [SPEAKER_05]: It's kind of a joke. [SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of a joke. [SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of a joke. [SPEAKER_05]: It's kind of a joke. [SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of a joke.

[SPEAKER_05]: I hit it. [SPEAKER_05]: Your year reach did not reach all the way across the table this time, so I got it for you. [SPEAKER_05]: But it's, it's, it's, [SPEAKER_05]: But there are so many things that this is one of the things that people need to understand is we need to be focusing on the stuff that is important. [SPEAKER_05]: As a matter of fact, in the first section of the news on tap, we'll go back up to that. [SPEAKER_05]: Talking about the Confederacy has risen again.

[SPEAKER_05]: Told you guys that there is the piece there for Norm Eisen and his friends. [SPEAKER_05]: The 15 ways to fight Calay, the illegitimate Supreme Court decision that got of the Civil Rights Act, there's a lot of things. [SPEAKER_05]: that Norman has said, and one of the things about it is, we must speak candidly and truthfully about the ills that we've got, racism, sagini, abalism, classism.

[SPEAKER_05]: We've got to talk about the serious things, the real problems that we have, expose the racism, the corruption, the disdain,

[SPEAKER_05]: for the conditions of the American people that we're seeing throughout all these are all big none of these each each of these could be its own whole night we could do a discussion on racism and discussion on misogyny and sexes yeah there are so many things that we need to fix here in the United States just on a politics not even policy basis so when you look at the when you look at the snow yeah and finish bill when you look at the

[SPEAKER_05]: To me, I'm like, and then you get seen in the supposed to be a news network and says, I'm gonna spend half the night having Scott Jennings go around and take people, some of whom are serious, some of whom are not, and poke them to piss them off. [SPEAKER_05]: And I'm going, you got all this stuff, you're supposed to be a news network.

[SPEAKER_05]: We need to be talking about this stuff, and you decide to waste your precious airtime on this jackass, and then you want me to take you seriously? [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, give me a break. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, go ahead. [SPEAKER_00]: Go ahead. [SPEAKER_05]: You're saying media. [SPEAKER_05]: I apologize. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: No, it's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to say something about racism and because I do think it's an important topic and unfortunately, I think it has been misrepresented when it has been brought up and a lot of people are guilty of both. [SPEAKER_00]: I will say both. [SPEAKER_00]: This is one of the same. [SPEAKER_00]: All sides. [SPEAKER_00]: Both sides, right? [SPEAKER_05]: Well, in the past. [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I've had to deal with racism my entire life. [SPEAKER_00]: Of course you have.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll never forget. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm so grateful for Uber by the way, because back in the day when we had to rely on yellow cabs, you know, I'm Hailing a cab, yeah, with a three-piece suit, Hailing a cab, and then the dude will [SPEAKER_00]: drive right past me and stop 10 yards, 10 or 15 yards behind me to pick up a white person. [SPEAKER_00]: Not surprised.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know what happens, but what I want to say is this verdict handed down by the Supreme Court that which basically fund does or dismantle the meat and potatoes part of the [SPEAKER_00]: is racism. [SPEAKER_00]: So people often confuse, they confuse or conflate racism and bigotry, right? [SPEAKER_00]: Bigotry, that's the thing where people, you know, call you the end word or they, you know, don't stop the cab. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But racism is structural. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_00]: Racism is that stuff that is built into the system to keep you suppressed. [SPEAKER_00]: So when black people couldn't get loans in the beginning could if the red line thing when you couldn't buy a house in a certain neighborhood because of who you were with Donald Trump put the legislation on on people of color on their [SPEAKER_00]: applications, that's structural, that's racism.

[SPEAKER_00]: So this attack on the voting rights act, that's racist. [SPEAKER_00]: And we absolutely stand up and fight against that with our whole chest with our whole being.

[SPEAKER_05]: What's one of the things that this norm says is that literally we need to fight back hard right now the more that we win now the easier it'll be later That's one reason that I was so glad so glad for the fact that Calvin Duncan won I don't know if you heard that BDD Calvin Duncan the gentleman down in and Olin's who was a special election Yeah, he won that he won and he like a huge barter by the way [SPEAKER_05]: No, it was four different. [SPEAKER_12]: But that's in Texas.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's in Texas. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, that's a different. [SPEAKER_05]: Right, but this is the guy who was a running and won the seat to be the criminal clerk of the court in Orland's parish. [SPEAKER_05]: and that they were going to they they literally made a special law to basically get rid of the the office put put both clerks together. [SPEAKER_05]: In a city that's as big as New Orleans, which is are you kidding me?

[SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, so they they the federal judge was like, no, this is unconstitutional. [SPEAKER_05]: And so they allowed him to take his his seat today, which is yay, that's fantastic. [SPEAKER_05]: But that is [SPEAKER_05]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_05]: And that's the kind of thing that they did when reconstruction fell apart. [SPEAKER_05]: That's what they did in the Confederate south. [SPEAKER_05]: That's the kind of thing that they did to prevent black voters from voting.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yep. [SPEAKER_12]: Yep. [SPEAKER_00]: And the poll tax. [SPEAKER_05]: No. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, how many jelly beans are in this jar? [SPEAKER_05]: Yes. [SPEAKER_05]: All we're asking you to do is take a test. [SPEAKER_05]: And of course, that's. [SPEAKER_12]: Can we just take Donald tests like the cognitive ones? [SPEAKER_05]: Look, I said before, I would love it if we could have a test of knowledge of what the subject is that you're voting on.

[SPEAKER_05]: But because of what they did with poll taxes and jellybean jars and bubbles of on a bar of soap We can't and I understand why it is a Belling the cat issue. [SPEAKER_12]: What if we could do it, but we can't as I said earlier the voting rights act should have applied to all 50 states That was the first problem with that act [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's like it's like the the one with the mask law in California, where they're absolutely close to everywhere.

[SPEAKER_05]: They're still going back and putting it on everybody's face. [SPEAKER_12]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_12]: I mean, that's the thing. [SPEAKER_12]: You just have to apply it to all that was the problem with section five, because it only applied to certain states, so they gutted that and then they gutted section two, which is like the only way you can sue anymore.

[SPEAKER_12]: But the way that they got to section two is they got in section five exactly in section five should have never been there It should have just been all 50 states. [SPEAKER_12]: You all have to pass the stuff and we're good [SPEAKER_05]: See, Johnny is billing, which is one of the reasons we're glad that she's back. [SPEAKER_01]: I love how intimately you guys are familiar with this topic, this is... Look, we aim to please, BDD, you know that, brother.

[SPEAKER_01]: Can we have you for at least one more round? [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_01]: A Brooklyn dad, if I hadn't come back on a Monday night, with you and me and Johnny, your father's won't be right back. [SPEAKER_09]: After we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_01]: Last call on a Monday nights you got your Jody Hamilton. [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you You got your Brooklyn dad to find and you got me Sean Smith here.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, sometimes you got to do the business and sometimes you're like, I've done it. [SPEAKER_05]: It's close. [SPEAKER_05]: Everybody knows it's fine. [SPEAKER_05]: It's fine. [SPEAKER_05]: It's fine. [SPEAKER_05]: I like the shirt you got on it. [SPEAKER_05]: I do. [SPEAKER_12]: It's a nice low-hush shirt. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yes. [SPEAKER_00]: I try to start off the week with a nice Melo vibe. [SPEAKER_00]: So something happy.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's understandable. [SPEAKER_05]: Given the stuff that we've gotten in the third round under America under Republicans today Trump Anomics is absolutely failing new polls shows that 76% of voters disapprove of Donald Trump on the cost of living. [SPEAKER_05]: It's a new while watching the post ABC News. [SPEAKER_05]: Episodes poll. [SPEAKER_00]: We can do better. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm just saying, but look, he's doing worse than Nixon. [SPEAKER_01]: He's doing worse than everybody.

[SPEAKER_05]: He's doing absolutely worse. [SPEAKER_05]: I think I've got a hairy ant and clip over here where he's talking about this because he, oh my God, it's just so about here. [SPEAKER_05]: Let me play this. [SPEAKER_05]: We're rating. [SPEAKER_04]: So the people who are dragging down President Trump to prove rating, we are talking about a very important block for the President of the United States. [SPEAKER_04]: That is Republican leaning independence.

[SPEAKER_04]: That is what's going on today. [SPEAKER_04]: He's been voted for. [SPEAKER_04]: Maybe this is the difference. [SPEAKER_04]: Trump's approval rating at this point in terms [SPEAKER_04]: independent to lean Republican versus those who are just Republicans only. [SPEAKER_04]: Look at this among independent to lean Republican. [SPEAKER_04]: Back in term number one, he was at 73% at this point in term.

[SPEAKER_04]: Down he goes, and absolutely 30% of independents who lean Republican now approve of the President United States. [SPEAKER_04]: That's very different from Republicans only. [SPEAKER_04]: It was 83 at this point in term number one. [SPEAKER_04]: It's 83% now, but that's a 20 point decline in his approval rating nearly at the 50% mark with a group that traditionally has very much been in the president's camp. [SPEAKER_05]: So here's the deal.

[SPEAKER_05]: This is in radio terms, what we would call your P3s. [SPEAKER_05]: So your P1s are your primary audience. [SPEAKER_05]: They're the people who will crawl over broken glass for you. [SPEAKER_05]: They're the people who they have their politics bar shirt. [SPEAKER_12]: Hello, little kitty. [SPEAKER_12]: This is Vinny. [SPEAKER_05]: Hi, you know, I see Vinny. [SPEAKER_05]: Vinny's like, that's good. [SPEAKER_05]: Mom put me down, please.

[SPEAKER_05]: But your, your P ones are your audience that will, they will do everything for you. [SPEAKER_05]: They will always find you wherever you at they, they love you. [SPEAKER_05]: Your P choose the people who like to show. [SPEAKER_05]: They come to the bar sometimes, you know, they listen to your podcast, whatever. [SPEAKER_05]: They're like, ah, you know, I got a BDD and JoJo and then sometimes I do and sometimes I don't, as you're, those are your P 2s.

[SPEAKER_05]: Your P 3s are the people who only rarely, but usually don't. [SPEAKER_05]: This is the independent to lean Republican. [SPEAKER_05]: Sometimes they'll come in and vote. [SPEAKER_05]: Sometimes they won't, but they vote, they might vote Republican. [SPEAKER_05]: And even these people, that's where you win a lot of your elections, is the people who would not have shown up otherwise. [SPEAKER_05]: And these people are like these. [SPEAKER_05]: Right.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: And these people are like, hell with this jackass screw him at him. [SPEAKER_12]: Like big time. [SPEAKER_05]: And everybody else who is even closer to him, the closer you get, the more people that he's pissed off. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: And the polls are reflecting it and they're reflecting it for reasons like in the Trumponomics' failing section.

[SPEAKER_05]: So Trump and Republicans big ugly Medicaid cuts are about to get very real and they are starting in my home state of Nebraska. [SPEAKER_05]: They're literally going to be thousands of people who are going to be cut off the rolls for Medicaid, Medicare, because of the big ugly bill. [SPEAKER_05]: And it's not just in Nebraska, Nebraska just decided to roll it out for everybody else.

[SPEAKER_05]: supposed to be rolled out in next January first, but the closer we get the more Charles Gabba who was here last fall, who we talked about, who he said, look, we've actually got a link back to this a republicans are now openly saying they see high risk high deductible insurance plans as the future of health insurance. [SPEAKER_05]: So a deductible of $9,000 for not very much coverage. [SPEAKER_05]: Hey, good luck to you. [SPEAKER_12]: you know what they used to buy.

[SPEAKER_05]: Remember when when Charles was here and he said if they do not get these ACA supports, this is going to happen. [SPEAKER_05]: We literally put the link to his piece from last September, in today's news on tap, just to show you, you were warned. [SPEAKER_05]: You were all warned. [SPEAKER_05]: Everybody was warned on this, but now we're warned. [SPEAKER_05]: We tried to tell you. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: the people who are close and they're all angry.

[SPEAKER_05]: They are all angry at Donald Trump because they said, Hey, man, this wasn't what I would sold. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not it's not only that Sean, it's the fact that he [SPEAKER_00]: he and his ad, his regime are trying to urinate on. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_00]: Tell us that it's raining. [SPEAKER_00]: They're actually, they have the audacity to not only deny what is happening, they're trying to say that prices are going down.

[SPEAKER_00]: When we're all going to the pump ourselves, we hear the ones who tell their Tim Scott, that's what they were talking about. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Senator Tim Scott, who literally was on one of the Sunday shows and was like, oh, no, the price of gas is going down.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, don't you don't do that, man, it's own, you gotta own it, you got, you can't say you can't tell people who are the ones who are pumping their own gas that the price is going down because not where I'm sitting, from where I'm standing, that price is going higher and it's costing me more and more, I never had to pay $85 to fill my car with gas. [SPEAKER_00]: Right, the most I ever had to pay was like 60 bucks.

[SPEAKER_05]: it is and that was full and look it's expensive here in east coast there's no lie but it's it's more expensive on jodies into the bar in a west coast and it's expensive for our friends who are in Illinois and in the Midwest right now too the Midwest and great lakes region and the west coast are the most expensive Alaska Hawaii's [SPEAKER_12]: don't even do good. [SPEAKER_12]: I used to live in Hawaii.

[SPEAKER_12]: Okay, right now there's there's a mobile and a Chevron across the street from each other. [SPEAKER_12]: And they're competing at the low end at the regular. [SPEAKER_12]: This is in California, Hawaii. [SPEAKER_12]: California. [SPEAKER_12]: Okay, they're competing at 659 for just regular. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we've got a picture in the news collage today. [SPEAKER_05]: That was taken somewhere in California. [SPEAKER_12]: And $7.60 is for Diesel here.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: And when I lived in Hawaii in the early 80s, mind you. [SPEAKER_12]: It was a dollar $23. [SPEAKER_12]: because it was in the 80s sense range here. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes. [SPEAKER_05]: It was 80s sense back on the mainland, and Lisa was a buck 23. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Lisa Liz is, we're talking, seven, eight, nine. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, when I moved back from Hawaii, and I had to film my car up here, I'm like, oh my god, it's so cheap.

[SPEAKER_12]: Because it was four cents cheaper. [SPEAKER_12]: So Hawaii and Alaska are having, [SPEAKER_12]: Alas is weird, but Hawaii makes sense. [SPEAKER_05]: Alaska doesn't make because they have oil up there, so it doesn't make a lot of sense, but if you look at this, you've got the ABC News, Washington Post, Ipsis poll, two-thirds of Americans, two-thirds of Americans.

[SPEAKER_05]: Not just voters, two-thirds of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction under Trump or Republicans. [SPEAKER_05]: Trump's disapproval rating has hit an all-time high or low, depending on how you look at it. [SPEAKER_05]: Americans are paying attention. [SPEAKER_05]: And they shouldn't be, by the way, we've got in the election land section today at the news on Tap. [SPEAKER_05]: There are 100 elections to watch this month.

[SPEAKER_05]: Some of them, obviously, the special election that you were mentioning earlier in Paralyne, Texas, VDD, where that young gentleman won, we are very glad about that. [SPEAKER_05]: Quentin Wilkes, I believe it's his name. [SPEAKER_12]: Super red districts, by the way, and he's black. [SPEAKER_05]: So it's like black, black, and that's kind of a, it's got a black Democrat. [SPEAKER_11]: Are you kidding me? [SPEAKER_05]: Right, exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: Um, look, Texas.

[SPEAKER_05]: There are a lot of primary there's there was there was there was a race right now in in uh, they're going to be some races coming up in Georgia. [SPEAKER_05]: I believe tomorrow. [SPEAKER_05]: there's going to be some elections there. [SPEAKER_05]: You can look by the way, I got my ballot. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: Look, California's is coming up. [SPEAKER_05]: Virginia, we just had one and we got another one, obviously, that was a special action.

[SPEAKER_05]: Look, wherever you are, there's a lot of elections coming up. [SPEAKER_05]: You guys need to be paying attention, getting yourself informed, and making sure that you are educated and informed and registered. [SPEAKER_05]: My God, if you're not registered to vote, or if you know somebody that's not registered to vote.

[SPEAKER_05]: especially if you know you're you're talking you're sitting at the at the bus stop or you know you're at your day job or you know you're outside church or whatever and you guys are talking in the your conversation turns to politics you're like yeah yeah yeah and somebody says something to you you know maybe they're like well you know like I trust in Donald and Alan mad but I don't know if I'm going to vote honestly just tell them look [SPEAKER_12]: I've been saying that for years.

[SPEAKER_12]: If you don't vote, you have no right to bitch. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: As my mama said, literally, she literally said that to me when I was a kid. [SPEAKER_05]: She said those who do not vote should not bitch. [SPEAKER_12]: I've been saying that since I can't wait to uncorrect that one. [SPEAKER_12]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you don't vote in life, live and real life. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: No, no. [SPEAKER_05]: It's fun to do to somebody.

[SPEAKER_05]: But like when they go, oh, well, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. [SPEAKER_05]: And then you say, did you vote? [SPEAKER_05]: And they go, well, no. [SPEAKER_05]: And you go to shut up. [SPEAKER_12]: No, I don't want these old roommate. [SPEAKER_12]: I hope he votes now, but he didn't vote for a long time. [SPEAKER_12]: And I'm like, then he has no right to bitch about anything in the city or in the country.

[SPEAKER_12]: Done. [SPEAKER_00]: It's a scary, I bet you, it's a scary number of people who just don't either, they don't vote at all or they don't even pay attention to what's going on. [SPEAKER_00]: And it's, I say, it's scary because, you know, with everything that's going on, you think people would want to know why they're, why they're gases so much. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, there's some people that work three, four jobs. [SPEAKER_12]: Some people work three, four jobs.

[SPEAKER_12]: And they don't have time. [SPEAKER_12]: They get up, go to work. [SPEAKER_12]: go to other work, go to other work, go to other work, and then come home and hopefully get some food and just take care of their children and stuff. [SPEAKER_05]: That's how we reach them. [SPEAKER_00]: That's the question. [SPEAKER_05]: That's the hardest part. [SPEAKER_05]: One of the ways that you can do it, that we've got the news on tap.

[SPEAKER_05]: Literally, you can scroll through it in under two minutes. [SPEAKER_05]: you can, you can do it while you're on the toilet. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm not telling you to, but if that's what you do. [SPEAKER_12]: You don't have to twip that. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: But the idea is, as you can just read the headlines, and you will be more informed even if you don't, if you find a story and you're like, I'm interested just one.

[SPEAKER_05]: What I used to tell people, [SPEAKER_05]: And this goes back to, you know, my getting my journalism degree, my broadcast journalism degrees, is people would say, well, how do I get informed? [SPEAKER_05]: And I would say, how fast do you read? [SPEAKER_05]: Take five or ten minutes and they go, okay, well, what do you do?

[SPEAKER_05]: And I said, take five or ten minutes and take your local newspaper, take a national paper and take something that does entertainment or sports that you like, whatever. [SPEAKER_05]: And they go, okay, and I said, pick one story. [SPEAKER_05]: for each of these. [SPEAKER_05]: Pick a local story that's for where you add, pick a national or international story, and pick a story that's fun. [SPEAKER_05]: And read just those and people go, okay, that's it, that's it.

[SPEAKER_05]: you will probably be more informed and more intelligent than a whole lot of other people who aren't reading anything at all. [SPEAKER_05]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_05]: And please read it. [SPEAKER_05]: Look, we're glad that you're listening to us on your radio speakers, or your podcast speakers, your headphones, whatever, but the fact of the matter is, read it helps it retains and you memory a little bit better. [SPEAKER_05]: And all you got to do is take a couple of minutes.

[SPEAKER_05]: Read a few little things and be like, oh, and now I'm more informed. [SPEAKER_05]: That's where we should start. [SPEAKER_05]: Is making sure that people, because once they know, people go, they did that with what? [SPEAKER_05]: Like, yeah, they did that with your power, with your vote. [SPEAKER_12]: Hey, Marish, Gohargate helped after 16 years to get rape kits now tested. [SPEAKER_05]: You know, 50 states. [SPEAKER_05]: We got that story by the way in the news on Tap Today, too.

[SPEAKER_12]: people could have been over the weekend. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: Wow. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: But look, this is, this is just it. [SPEAKER_05]: It takes people getting a being a little informed, having a little intelligence, and then carrying a little bit. [SPEAKER_05]: That's, that's, and no, anybody asking you to save the world.

[SPEAKER_05]: No, but if you do your part and you do a little bit of it, then I can do a little bit of it, then we can all do a little bit of it, and it will be a little bit better. [SPEAKER_05]: And if you don't do your part, it ain't get [SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_05]: He says as he dances to the music. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yes, but you know what he's he's doing work. [SPEAKER_01]: He's got his fantastic show.

[SPEAKER_01]: He does his own show and he does a show with our friend Jojo from Jers. [SPEAKER_05]: I'll look you guys and get the links to those in the guest section of the news on Tap tomorrow. [SPEAKER_05]: We got somebody you haven't met yet. [SPEAKER_05]: Don't steal [SPEAKER_05]: Radio legend totally in here. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we'll talk with her about a few things. [SPEAKER_05]: Bob will be in Wednesday as well.

[SPEAKER_05]: Look get yourself home safe tonight for those of you coming to the after hours. [SPEAKER_05]: You know where to go. [SPEAKER_05]: Meet us in BDD over at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_05]: That count.