Demon Pass July 18, 2025

[SPEAKER_03]: There you go. [SPEAKER_03]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: Everybody loves the weekend. [SPEAKER_08]: And really, you know, why shouldn't you? [SPEAKER_08]: He's a good music. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you, Ian's for that. [SPEAKER_08]: Amen to that. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, we do have your news on tap. [SPEAKER_08]: We do have some really good news. [SPEAKER_08]: Some ways that you can strike back and you know, help your friends strike back and all of this.

[SPEAKER_08]: There were some great stuff that happened, including last night with a good trouble marches. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll talk about that. [SPEAKER_08]: Obviously, there's some of the other news that everybody else has been talking about the Epstein news and the Colbert news. [SPEAKER_08]: We will get to all of that. [SPEAKER_08]: and more.

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[SPEAKER_08]: OK, Jody, so we go with the good news and the fun news because I know we're going to hit it a little bit later with Karen and Anita when they come into the bar from true politics, but, you know, we could do that or we could do all of the list of things that Republicans have done that are stupid and ridiculous and, you know, I mean, and look, one list is longer than the other.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to go with let's do the bad news first so that we end the show with a nice [SPEAKER_02]: way to end the show. [SPEAKER_08]: OK, OK, we can do that. [SPEAKER_08]: I will just note the good trouble lives on protests were very successful. [SPEAKER_08]: And we'll talk about the tens of thousands of people who are there. [SPEAKER_08]: So we'll do that a little bit later.

[SPEAKER_08]: All right, starting with the bad news, as you noted, Jody, the Republican House did ram through the decision cuts to NPR PBS and foreign aid that includes UNICEF. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, if you like to give to the little kids who bring around their boxes on Halloween, yeah, not anymore. [SPEAKER_08]: Thanks to Republicans. [SPEAKER_08]: Um, they sent that bill to Trump. [SPEAKER_08]: I believe he signed it earlier today. [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, if he didn't sign it by now, he's.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah, I'm pretty sure he did already. [SPEAKER_08]: Um, but, um, those cuts are going to be brutal all across the country. [SPEAKER_08]: There are going to be, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty stations. [SPEAKER_08]: And it's worse than this because some of the right wing propaganda religious theocratic fascist stations that are out there. [SPEAKER_08]: They are basically like vultures hovering.

[SPEAKER_08]: They want to buy up these local stations and then put their propaganda on it, which is absolutely disgusting. [SPEAKER_02]: And the weird thing about this is it's only nine billion dollars in our entire budget, which nine billion dollars in dollar amounts to you and I and to anybody look. [SPEAKER_08]: Somebody gave me nine billion dollars. [SPEAKER_08]: Somebody came up here to the bar. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, personally, yeah, that's a lot of money.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, they pull up a rank strike and say, look, we won't give you and Jody, nine billion dollars. [SPEAKER_02]: Retiring. [SPEAKER_02]: Hello. [SPEAKER_02]: Hello. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you very much. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I mean, but personally, yeah, that's a lot of money. [SPEAKER_08]: But as a nation, this nation, in particular, of the largest nations on earth and the nation that has the largest economy in the world and the most dynamic economy in the world.

[SPEAKER_08]: nine billion dollars really doesn't that much no it's nothing but spread it so for over so many things and it's a billion dollars was just for like NPR PBS I forget which one for two years right right it is absolutely off the chains ridiculous and Republicans here's the thing I was mad last night I put out a post on blue sky and I was pissed off at attack him and I apologize later Jeffries I apologize to him in some of the Democrats in the house because

[SPEAKER_08]: found out that Republicans were going to ram this sucker through no matter what Democrats did. [SPEAKER_08]: First, they were going to try and ram it through with a procedure known as demon pass. [SPEAKER_08]: Now, I know you know what demon pass is, Jody. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know everybody here does.

[SPEAKER_08]: Demon pass is so they passed a rule in the House Rules Committee that said, yes, we are going to agree to the decisions package that the Senate did without any changes. [SPEAKER_08]: then the House Rules Committee forwarded to that to the House floor. [SPEAKER_08]: The procedure known as demon pass says, well, the rules committee says it's going to be so. [SPEAKER_08]: And we know we have the votes. [SPEAKER_08]: So we'll just demon as passed.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it's it's skipping to the end without reading it through. [SPEAKER_08]: It's it's that also would have cut off a King Jeffrey's magic minute. [SPEAKER_08]: It wouldn't have allowed it. [SPEAKER_08]: And even if Democrats were able to stop the decision bill [SPEAKER_08]: today. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's say they had let's say they had stopped it and pushed it past midnight. [SPEAKER_08]: The resisions bill could have been passed tomorrow or Sunday or Monday or Tuesday.

[SPEAKER_08]: And then the government would have had to do this bookkeeping to step where they say, well, for these three or four days or one or two days, however much it was, they had the money, but then they didn't, then we took it back. [SPEAKER_08]: So it's, yeah, it's just a back and forth to step, but it's ridiculous, but don't think the Democrats weren't fighting last night. [SPEAKER_08]: There there was so Melanie stands Barry who we we've mentioned before.

[SPEAKER_08]: A lot of a lot of good Democrats are mentioning her because she has some fire and she was throwing fire in her minute last night here. [SPEAKER_08]: I got it on the DVR here. [SPEAKER_01]: Have you even read this bill? [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, really, because this bill resins nine billion dollars for international aid public health and public media, it will make America less safe.

[SPEAKER_01]: It will undermine our national security, and it will threaten lives across the world and kill children. [SPEAKER_01]: But on top of that, it undermines our constitution, the power, the people, the power of the purse, and the separation of the power, [SPEAKER_01]: of our Constitution as Russell Vote OMB in the Architects of Project, twenty twenty five are trying to use this decision bill to undermine the power of Congress.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that is why we will vote no, a hell no, to the blatant power grab that it represents in the face of a chaotic and corrupt administration. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm as expired. [SPEAKER_01]: That is stealing from. [SPEAKER_00]: Generally he's no longer [SPEAKER_02]: the general lady is no longer recognized. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, you know what, she don't need to be recognized. [SPEAKER_08]: She was so blown fire and dammit. [SPEAKER_02]: She's amazing. [SPEAKER_02]: She's amazing.

[SPEAKER_02]: She's from New Mexico, correct? [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, she is. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, she is. [SPEAKER_08]: New Mexico has some good Democrats out there. [SPEAKER_08]: They do. [SPEAKER_08]: We got good Democrats across the country. [SPEAKER_08]: In fact, we have one of you out there. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know whether you're a Democratic or independent, but we will tell you who the wonderful person is here in the bar, who actually suggested the drink of the data.

[SPEAKER_08]: We'll do that a little bit. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, so there are wonderful people out there. [SPEAKER_08]: Good things still happening even the midst of the fight, but this fight, and the, yes, the Democrats lost it and so did America, unfortunately. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, but the way that Republicans did this, oh my God, Jody. [SPEAKER_08]: This is just so, so self-defeating and so stupid. [SPEAKER_02]: If only the Democrats jump on it.

[SPEAKER_08]: Well, yeah, but it's not so much jump on it as not jump on it. [SPEAKER_02]: Does that make sense? [SPEAKER_02]: I understand what you're saying. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, okay. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: Some of you are looking here quizzically at me here in the bar. [SPEAKER_08]: Here's the deal. [SPEAKER_08]: Between now and the end of September, we'll maybe middle of September. [SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: They have to pass more bills to fund the government government government funding runs out, um, as is middle of September, in December, somewhere in September, fifteenth or the thirty if it's. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, what we're talking, we're talking, we're talking government funding is less than two months, less than two months from the government having to shut down because they can't pay the bills again because Republicans are in charge.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, but they did raise the debt limit, so there's that. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, they raise the debt limit, but that still doesn't mean that they can't close the doors because they have to have the money to pay the bills to pay the people to open the doors. [SPEAKER_08]: And open the gates to the parks and open all the other wonderful things that the government funds.

[SPEAKER_08]: that they don't want to fund right because their republicans and they think no government would be best except that would be anarchy so if they want that you know I'm sure we could do that but they ain't gonna like how that turns out so oh hell yeah [SPEAKER_08]: But anyway, so here's the deal. [SPEAKER_08]: Republicans desperately need Democrats because in order to pass the bills to fund the government, they need sixty votes.

[SPEAKER_08]: But by ramming through this massive and awful resisions bill, what Republicans said to Democrats is basically, you know what? [SPEAKER_08]: We don't need you. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: Now, why on earth would any Democrat [SPEAKER_08]: What, why would they, these recessions, they're going to affect the politics as well. [SPEAKER_08]: Then also of indivisible, by the way, who did those great protests, he was on MSNBC last night.

[SPEAKER_08]: And he had the same point I was thinking of. [SPEAKER_08]: And he's talking about how Republicans have screwed themselves. [SPEAKER_08]: So badly by how they just rammed this decision bill through, how they've rammed these bills through and said, we don't need you, Democrats. [SPEAKER_08]: F you. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, think about this. [SPEAKER_08]: Sure. [SPEAKER_00]: We are about to run out of funding. [SPEAKER_00]: It runs out in September.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Democratic votes are going to be necessary to pass additional funding for the federal government. [SPEAKER_00]: And if Donald Trump and his administration is turning around after deals or cut and saying, ah, actually we're going to not spend the money that we agreed to spend. [SPEAKER_00]: Why on earth would any member of the Democratic caucus in Congress hand over votes? [SPEAKER_00]: So there were Republicans can pass a budget that they then don't follow.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen. [SPEAKER_02]: Amen. [SPEAKER_02]: Amen. [SPEAKER_08]: Amen. [SPEAKER_08]: He's right. [SPEAKER_08]: Ezra Levine is a hundred percent correct because of the fact that look, this is just how this goes. [SPEAKER_08]: And so right now, any Democrat who is in Congress, especially those in the Senate should be just looking at the Republicans and saying, Hey, you feeling froggy? [SPEAKER_08]: Let's jump. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's go.

[SPEAKER_08]: You can tell I'm stumbling over my words because I'm just like, I want to go. [SPEAKER_08]: I am. [SPEAKER_08]: I am so ready. [SPEAKER_08]: I want to find me one of them and just [SPEAKER_08]: But I won't. [SPEAKER_08]: We're in the bar. [SPEAKER_08]: We don't throw chairs in the bar. [SPEAKER_08]: We know that. [SPEAKER_02]: But still bad idea. [SPEAKER_08]: I know. [SPEAKER_08]: Also bad idea to actually strike them. [SPEAKER_08]: That would not be good.

[SPEAKER_02]: I totally a bad idea. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: But they're going to end up hitting themselves in the face. [SPEAKER_02]: I think there are there's rakes that they're walking on. [SPEAKER_08]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_08]: Field of rake. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to start. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Don't. [SPEAKER_02]: Don't. [SPEAKER_08]: Don't. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: But look, I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_08]: I guess I I feel bad for saying go ahead and expect the government to close because Democrats should Democrats should say to Republicans you want to fund the government I want you [SPEAKER_08]: In fact, you are going to need to pass a resolution that says you cannot pass a recision bill on this temporary budget or CR or whatever it is for the entire time that it is in effect. [SPEAKER_08]: Suck it. [SPEAKER_08]: And if you don't like it, suck it. [SPEAKER_08]: Have a nice day.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's the cost of your arrogance. [SPEAKER_08]: Bite me. [SPEAKER_08]: See? [SPEAKER_08]: He knows exactly even the dogs in the cats know the way the Republicans have been acting is completely and totally inappropriate and unacceptable and folks there's going to be some cost to pay on that kind of thing [SPEAKER_08]: All right, that particular rant is done. [SPEAKER_08]: It is a Friday night here. [SPEAKER_08]: It's been a night already. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, I'm ready.

[SPEAKER_08]: You know, look, you, you go to a bar sometimes you're ready to drink and other times you're ready to laugh and other times you're ready to fight in tonight. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm a little bit of all three, but I don't want to fight with anybody in here. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't want to fight with you, Jody, because you know what, I would lose, because Jody is right, just saying. [SPEAKER_08]: You don't want to see me when I'm angry. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_08]: Look, we do have more news on tap. [SPEAKER_08]: We have that great drink that they will tell you which one of you here in the bar suggested it. [SPEAKER_08]: And we do have Karen and Anita coming up a little bit later. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a Friday night's back relax. [SPEAKER_08]: We've got some good news for you as well as some of the stuff you know is coming. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a Friday night the politics bar hang on get yourself a fresh drink.

[SPEAKER_04]: We'll be right back after we'd pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_08]: Ah, Friday nights, here at the politics bar, I hope you have had an okay week. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, I know there have been some just ugly things and there have been some really funny things too. [SPEAKER_08]: This whole thing with Trump and Epstein, you know, I can say is denial is not a river. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just going to put that out there.

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[SPEAKER_08]: We have a lot of good interaction lately. [SPEAKER_02]: We have. [SPEAKER_08]: We have. [SPEAKER_08]: I still, I'm teasing a little bit, but I'm still not going to tell you who it is who put out our recipe for the drink of the day yet. [SPEAKER_08]: If you got the drink of the day, email by the way, you already know it's right at the top of the email. [SPEAKER_08]: So, but if you didn't, well, maybe you should subscribe. [SPEAKER_08]: It's super old school man.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it's kind of old school. [SPEAKER_08]: It's kind of fun though. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, it's good. [SPEAKER_08]: And as a sailor, you know, I tend to, you know, because it's got a Navy history. [SPEAKER_08]: I know all these teases. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we're almost like, yeah, no, what, Pam Bondi? [SPEAKER_08]: No, I'm kidding. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm kidding.

[SPEAKER_08]: She actually was out at Alcatraz near your end of the bar yesterday, which I almost wish it still was a prison, so they could have locked her. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, I'm just saying. [SPEAKER_02]: No, the thing is is that that particular park, which is what it is now. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, brings in sixty million dollars a year to the national parks.

[SPEAKER_02]: San Francisco, California, and to the nationals, and it's going to cost what quarter of a billion dollars. [SPEAKER_08]: Nancy Pelosi has has mentioned this on multiple different media outlets saying the entire reason that Alcatraz, the biggest single reason that Alcatraz was decertified as a prison. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, there was that, but the biggest reason, it was not financially viable. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_08]: All of the things that they needed to do to repair it and then all the things that you have to do to maintain it. [SPEAKER_08]: because there's nothing itself on the island, everything has to be brought in. [SPEAKER_08]: It was extremely, extremely cost prohibitive. [SPEAKER_08]: So they decided to stop using it as a prison. [SPEAKER_08]: Now as a park, the number of things that they have to do are significantly less. [SPEAKER_02]: They don't have to have the toilets running.

[SPEAKER_02]: They don't. [SPEAKER_08]: For most of the, for most of the building, right, there are, there are a whole other, whole parts of it that they don't have to worry about, serious maintenance on it, because people don't with their sports. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, by the way, just the salt damage. [SPEAKER_02]: Anything on that island is amazingly hard to just not do. [SPEAKER_08]: Have you ever lived on the coast exactly? [SPEAKER_08]: No, go ahead.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you've ever lived near the beach and have had a car or I used to have a motorcycle and I bought it from a guy that [SPEAKER_02]: had it in Venice, California. [SPEAKER_02]: So there's a lot of salt damage because even though he covered it and he took care of it, there was still, like if you live in the Midwest and it snows, you have salt damage on your cards. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's a thing. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: And you can't, you can't stop it.

[SPEAKER_08]: No. [SPEAKER_08]: Change it, you can't. [SPEAKER_08]: It's just the way that it is. [SPEAKER_08]: If you live in a rural area, you are going to get chips and dings from the roads because they all got the gravel on them. [SPEAKER_08]: That's just how it is. [SPEAKER_08]: This is the same thing except it's a building. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Go anywhere. [SPEAKER_08]: Nope. [SPEAKER_08]: It's it's on island direction.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's what now almost a hundred-year-old construction. [SPEAKER_02]: At least yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: So they didn't exactly know how to handle it as far as for weather and climate change then. [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's close down in what the sixties. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I think. [SPEAKER_08]: I can't remember exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: But yeah, it's I mean, it's it's been closed for a long time. [SPEAKER_07]: As a prison.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: rightfully so right because just even even if it hadn't been a horrible prison the building itself there are parts of it that constantly because of as you mentioned the salt spray and that the rot that comes from it [SPEAKER_08]: And yet these dumbasses want to go ahead and try to. [SPEAKER_08]: It's so performative. [SPEAKER_08]: It's more than far. [SPEAKER_08]: Trump's mad dream of revamping Alcatraz would cost more than two billion. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it's in the news on tap today. [SPEAKER_08]: Other places that they're also doing stupid things with prisons, alligator, Auschwitz, Alcatraz, whatever you want to call it. [SPEAKER_02]: Donnie, stop how? [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, Florida's concentration camp. [SPEAKER_08]: It's not legally supposed to hold minors and they had a fifteen year old. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, and then they're like, oops. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, no, oops about it.

[SPEAKER_08]: Remember, we're Mesa Oster, the tough students who they abducted for a while. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: She's got a new piece out as well. [SPEAKER_08]: And we included it in today's news on tap. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a piece that she did at Vanity Fair. [SPEAKER_08]: And she's talking about the horrors that she witnessed at the women's ice prison. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, it's horrid what she had to go through. [SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: But that's what's going on at the concentration camp in Florida to do. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, here in Los Angeles with the American citizen that they [SPEAKER_08]: Yep. [SPEAKER_08]: Got for three days. [SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: And if you're out there, if you know somebody out there, who maybe, you know, you're listening to it in a neighbor's, you know, giving you the, the stank face while you're, you know, this is on your, uh, speakers in your garage or on your, uh, porch or whatever. [SPEAKER_08]: It'd be like, get, get, give your neighbor the Raspberry because this type of crap Republican quote unquote governance, which is just awful. [SPEAKER_08]: It's not just about prisons and cutting off NPR.

[SPEAKER_08]: We have a whole list of how wonderfully poorly Republicans govern today. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's see, Jody. [SPEAKER_08]: First, the cost of health insurance in the US is expected to soar after Republicans gutted the ACA subsidies and insurers will hike premiums for everybody. [SPEAKER_02]: And by the way, I'm not on the marketplace. [SPEAKER_02]: I buy my insurance privately.

[SPEAKER_08]: Which means it's going to go Yeah, that's already it's already almost three times my mortgage So private insurance definitely gonna be going up and not the only thing going up average long-term US mortgage rates have now risen to six point seven five percent it's the second straight up tick Wow, isn't that great, Donnie good job, Donnie

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's only taken them forty five years. [SPEAKER_08]: It's like the rabbit turd joked and I told you about the other day. [SPEAKER_08]: Remember where the guy came through and he's yelling at the sheet, the chef in the mess. [SPEAKER_08]: I can't believe you saw me these things. [SPEAKER_08]: You told me they would make me smarter. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, you're smarter now, ain't you? [SPEAKER_08]: Just saying. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, the fact that Reagan started this.

[SPEAKER_02]: And we're finally learning. [SPEAKER_08]: Took him what? [SPEAKER_08]: Forty years to what? [SPEAKER_02]: They were rabbit turd. [SPEAKER_02]: Forty two forty three years. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, that they were rabbit turds. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, guess what, folks, they were rabbit turds. [SPEAKER_08]: You were always eating rabbit turds. [SPEAKER_08]: Congratulations. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: If you were buying what Republicans were selling, you were eating rabbit turds.

[SPEAKER_08]: There you go. [SPEAKER_08]: Something else that's kind of crappy. [SPEAKER_08]: The Trump DOJ is only seeking one day in prison for a former officer who was involved in the Brianna Taylor murder case. [SPEAKER_08]: Now, supposedly this officer, when he shot, he didn't hit anybody. [SPEAKER_02]: still. [SPEAKER_02]: Why was he shooting? [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Long and short. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm like, whatever.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's what I mean when I tell people, you know, you can get accountability, but you can't get justice. [SPEAKER_08]: Justice would be Breonna Taylor being alive. [SPEAKER_02]: No kidding.

[SPEAKER_08]: So maybe they can get a small amount of accountability, but they're never actually going to get real accountability because you know that's the whole thing was handled wrong locally and obviously Trump DOJ has no intention of being decent on that One more thing by the way, and this is this is it's tied to the Epstein thing [SPEAKER_08]: The Trump regime has gutted the office that combats human trafficking in the state department. [SPEAKER_08]: Because of course.

[SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: So in case you were worried that maybe the Trump regime, the Trump administration pardon me for some of you giving me this tank face is was actually worried about making sure that pedophiles didn't have access [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, literally the office in the State Department that combats human trafficking. [SPEAKER_08]: They got to them.

[SPEAKER_08]: They basically took away all their money like they did with NPR and PBS because, you know, which to me, that goes back to the old Biden thing where Joe Biden said, don't tell me what you think is important to you, show me in your budget.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, they just showed the whole world if they think that, well, on you, I want to fight [SPEAKER_08]: trial pornography and I want to fight pedophilia well you want to fight it you probably would fund that office you'd think you would think but you and I do think they don't and that's oh that's why the magas are mad at him [SPEAKER_08]: Well, supposedly. [SPEAKER_02]: No, I think they are. [SPEAKER_02]: We got Nick went to his upset.

[SPEAKER_02]: You got Laura Loomer upset. [SPEAKER_08]: The biggest reason they're mad at him isn't because of the pedophilia. [SPEAKER_08]: It isn't. [SPEAKER_08]: And I vehemently disagree with that. [SPEAKER_08]: The reason that they're mad at him is because they've been exposed. [SPEAKER_08]: as frauds, they're all frauds, because they knew they always knew. [SPEAKER_08]: It wasn't like they didn't know that he was a friend of Jeffrey.

[SPEAKER_08]: We have this in the news on tap today as well. [SPEAKER_08]: There's a great piece of the Guardian. [SPEAKER_08]: Fifteen years at least the Trump and Epstein were close friends. [SPEAKER_08]: We saw that there was that drawings and well, yeah, the drawing from the the Wall Street Journal.

[SPEAKER_08]: We've got a we've got a link a gift link where that you can go if you don't if you're not subscribed to the Wall Street Journal, you can check the link that's in our news on tap today about the story that they dropped last night. [SPEAKER_08]: You realize that he was trying to stop them. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah, the whole Trump team was [SPEAKER_02]: because it's true if they if it weren't true he'd be like whatever post it also.

[SPEAKER_08]: Right and he just he tried to stop it and then he said well fine if you do it all suit anyway. [SPEAKER_08]: He's threatened everyone to sue he probably threatened his own mother to sue when he was a child. [SPEAKER_02]: Well I mean. [SPEAKER_02]: Glenn Kirchner said it on Stephanie show this morning. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah he might fight the lawsuit but as soon as it gets to discovery. [SPEAKER_08]: We all know that is the key. [SPEAKER_08]: Donnie hates discovery.

[SPEAKER_08]: because he always wants to, he wants to throw the rocks and then run away and hide. [SPEAKER_08]: He's a coward. [SPEAKER_02]: This is why he lost to E. Jean. [SPEAKER_08]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: So, yeah, we look, anybody who wanted to know, including all the people who followed him, especially in the right wing, hate entertainment complex, they always knew that Epstein and Trump were friends. [SPEAKER_08]: They knew that they were close.

[SPEAKER_08]: And, oh, this whole [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know what you want to call it charade about we're going to release the Epstein grand jury testimony a place. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we've got listen there, too. [SPEAKER_08]: Tell me tell me, Joe, did you think that there's anything that's in the grand jury testimony that would actually impune anybody significantly?

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it couldn't because it's a grand jury testimony and most of it is supposed to not be it's supposed to be sealed. [SPEAKER_02]: And secondly, we already know about gelane, gizlane, whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_08]: First time you get beeped on. [SPEAKER_02]: I believe my own show beep me. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, that's fine. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, it's it's it's understandable. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't like her either. [SPEAKER_08]: And I didn't like what Epstein did either.

[SPEAKER_08]: But I also know for the fact of the matter is that this there is there are a couple people on there. [SPEAKER_08]: Ellie Honey actually went through a whole big thing. [SPEAKER_08]: We had to went to that. [SPEAKER_08]: You sent me that link actually. [SPEAKER_08]: But he highlighted the biggest hole. [SPEAKER_08]: So Trump telling Bondi to release the Epstein testimony. [SPEAKER_08]: It's just the testimony. [SPEAKER_08]: We're the incriminating stuff.

[SPEAKER_08]: This is going to be in the other documents. [SPEAKER_08]: It conveniently, God, earn it. [SPEAKER_08]: Those just wouldn't be released. [SPEAKER_02]: Why don't you turn it? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, now I know how to be FTC compliant. [SPEAKER_02]: No, seriously. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, she can say anything. [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's been posited that she's holding it over Donald. [SPEAKER_02]: Like, hey, man, you want to get me out of prison.

[SPEAKER_02]: I won't say a word, but if you don't. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know how much leverage she actually has. [SPEAKER_02]: She has the goods though. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, but she's still in prison. [SPEAKER_02]: She was convicted and she could be interviewed by us. [SPEAKER_08]: If they allow the interview, she's in a federal prison, which means they can deny allowing anybody but a lawyer and a lawyer has the lawyer client.

[SPEAKER_08]: They have all kinds of privileges where they can do that. [SPEAKER_02]: I would just be like, lawyer, hi. [SPEAKER_02]: Let's interview me. [SPEAKER_08]: There are ways that she could get around it, but there are also ways where they could make life even more complicated for her. [SPEAKER_02]: I know, I just hope that she's going to be okay as much as she's an awful human being. [SPEAKER_02]: And again, I said it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think yesterday or the day before, I know she was also trafficked. [SPEAKER_02]: There's no done in my mind she was. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't, I wouldn't surprise me at all. [SPEAKER_02]: But she was groomed to be that person that trafficked other people, which makes her awful. [SPEAKER_02]: It's not what happened to her when she was hurt, but she chose to continue. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so she was awful, even though I do believe that somebody else trafficked her before she did, we can't be as awful to them as they are to us. [SPEAKER_08]: And I do still think that we should keep that Florida concentration camp after we good people come back. [SPEAKER_08]: Because even if it was, you know, had enough water and enough facilities, it's still going to be a really crappy, lousy way to be imprisoned.

[SPEAKER_08]: And I would just like to see Stephen Miller suck it up there during a whole long summer having it very, very uncomfortable. [SPEAKER_02]: August in Florida. [SPEAKER_08]: without air conditioning. [SPEAKER_02]: And that's what's going on there. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: So I'm saying it's not inhumane. [SPEAKER_08]: We could make it barely humane. [SPEAKER_08]: And that's what I think we should be doing for when we come back.

[SPEAKER_08]: But we can't be as bad as they are. [SPEAKER_08]: We can't just say screw, drilling, and put her in horrible conditions. [SPEAKER_08]: already in not great conditions. [SPEAKER_02]: No, she's in prison. [SPEAKER_08]: Right, but she should be for what she did. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, she should. [SPEAKER_08]: We can't be as bad as the Trump people. [SPEAKER_08]: Just, you know, better than them, which isn't hard considering how bad they are.

[SPEAKER_08]: Look, we have more bad things that they did, but we have some good news as well. [SPEAKER_08]: So, well, look, we will get you the good news. [SPEAKER_08]: We will get you the drink of the day. [SPEAKER_08]: We will finally stop teasing you on that. [SPEAKER_08]: We will tell you which one of you here in the bar suggested the drink of the day. [SPEAKER_08]: Unless, of course, like I said, you already subscribed, but then you already know who it is.

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[SPEAKER_08]: Blue sky and Instagram, Facebook, Threads, uh, Twitter, or Substack, you can just go to our Substack messages there too. [SPEAKER_08]: We got, we get messages all over the place. [SPEAKER_08]: And, uh, one particular person had a message, uh, here earlier this week, Victor Orlando. [SPEAKER_11]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you very much. [SPEAKER_08]: Um, he, uh, he said, look, once you guys do like a Trader Vicks grog. [SPEAKER_08]: Now, I know you know where Trader Vix is.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the Trader Vix that I've gone to was at and still is in a different place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, because there are multiple ones. [SPEAKER_08]: Trader Vicks for those of you who were in a different area of the bar of the thin california. [SPEAKER_08]: It is a Polynesian themed restaurant and it's originally start to believe in Oakland california technically.

[SPEAKER_08]: But it's we got a link if you want to see the history that is also part of the drink of the day, but it's a good drink and it's a grog, which grog is an avid drink, grog is basically rum and other things. [SPEAKER_08]: There are lots of versions of [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, lots of versions of grog. [SPEAKER_08]: This is the one that is closest to the the Trader Vicks restaurant chain. [SPEAKER_08]: And so Victor wanted this one. [SPEAKER_08]: So Victor, this one's for you.

[SPEAKER_02]: This one is for you, sir. [SPEAKER_02]: The so what you need. [SPEAKER_02]: are two ounces of dark Jamaican rum, so it's kind of a coconutty thing. [SPEAKER_02]: A shaker obviously, because we always use those. [SPEAKER_02]: Crushed ice, a rock's glass, an ounce of lemon juice, an ounce of pineapple juice, and now it's a passion fruit syrup. [SPEAKER_11]: All right. [SPEAKER_02]: Two dashes of angustora. [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's bitters. [SPEAKER_02]: I think I did that.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then for garnish, mince sprig, marishina cherries, and a dehydrated lime wheel because those are easy. [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway. [SPEAKER_08]: If you don't have a dehydrated lime wheel, you can just use a regular lime wheel, just cut a slice of lime. [SPEAKER_02]: You'll be fine. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a drink for sailors. [SPEAKER_08]: We're okay with almost anything. [SPEAKER_08]: It's wearing included. [SPEAKER_02]: like I did earlier. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a bar.

[SPEAKER_02]: Here's how you make this frog in a shaker combine all the ingredients except the garnish. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: And with most of the crushed ice, shake the mixture and strain it into the rocks glass and fill the rest of it with the ice. [SPEAKER_02]: And then garnish it with the minced sprig in the cherries and the lime wheel. [SPEAKER_02]: All three of them right now. [SPEAKER_02]: All three of them just you see the picture it has it's very complicated.

[SPEAKER_02]: It looks more complicated. [SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of easy. [SPEAKER_08]: It looks more complicated than it is because it's the kind of drink that a sailor would buy and then give to the girl that he's hitting on. [SPEAKER_02]: Because he thinks she's going to get hammered.

[SPEAKER_08]: right exactly and also he wants it to look pretty and you know he's he's a sailor he's you know eighteen not exactly experienced with the world and and if you're wondering if I have been that particular sailor the answer is yes so there you go no that was me once upon a time but I am a little bit more wise now a little bit more educated these days

[SPEAKER_08]: I still like the grog though, so if you like the grog by the way, you can get the recipe for Trader Vix grog at the thepaltixbar.com at the drink of the day, just to look. [SPEAKER_08]: It's the easiest thing to do, sign up, subscribe. [SPEAKER_08]: You get the drink of the day in your email. [SPEAKER_02]: It does sound yummy, by the way. [SPEAKER_08]: It is.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, grog is a good, that particular, I've had one similar to that before, and it's, yeah, it's really, it's, it's nice, it's like, especially if you like, you know, the kind of the, the rum kind of sweet, a little bit of coconut. [SPEAKER_08]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_08]: All right, back to the news at hand. [SPEAKER_08]: Um, so I'm sure you guys have heard. [SPEAKER_08]: Um, the CBS Paramount group has acts the entire late show franchise.

[SPEAKER_08]: Look, it's a, it's a plainly political move. [SPEAKER_08]: Colbert is going to be there through May of twenty twenty six, but it was obviously, they, they called it, uh, what was it financial. [SPEAKER_08]: Do you know who's actually not just got the best ratings in broadcast late night right now, but actually earns the most from his commercial breaks. [SPEAKER_02]: Stephen Colbert. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, first CBS did this before in the late sixties to the smother's brothers.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, I was wondering if you remember that. [SPEAKER_02]: Of course I do. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, the the the the smothers brothers they had a great show and they were canceled because of Nixon. [SPEAKER_08]: This this is not the first time by the way folks that that the big media folks have bowed to people in political power in the United States and you know tucked their tail between their legs and been really stupid.

[SPEAKER_08]: This is absolutely not the first time. [SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm with Stephen. [SPEAKER_02]: I know he's going to be fine. [SPEAKER_08]: he is he is in case you missed it. [SPEAKER_08]: This this is basically the thing that Elizabeth Warren of all people love her posted this on all of her different social media. [SPEAKER_08]: This is the clip from I believe it was Wednesday's show when Colbert came back from vacation.

[SPEAKER_08]: And this is the clip that really really pissed off the the the mega folks the Trump folks made the CBS paramount folks all worried here it is here it is. [SPEAKER_06]: in my parent corporation, Paramount paid Donald Trump a sixteen million dollar settlement over his sixteen minutes lawsuit. [SPEAKER_06]: As someone who has always been a proud employee of this network, I am offended. [SPEAKER_06]: And I don't know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company.

[SPEAKER_06]: But just taking a stab at it, I'd say sixteen million dollars would help. [UNKNOWN]: This settlement. [SPEAKER_06]: This settlement. [SPEAKER_06]: This settlement is for a nuisance lawsuit, Trump filed claiming that it's sixty minutes deceptively edited their interview with then candidate Kamala Harris last fall. [SPEAKER_06]: Paramount knows they could have easily fought it, because in their own words, the lawsuit was completely without merit.

[SPEAKER_06]: And keep in mind, Paramount produced transformers, rise of the beast. [SPEAKER_06]: They know completely without merit. [SPEAKER_06]: Now, unlike... Unlike... [SPEAKER_07]: Doesn't dance, is here? [SPEAKER_06]: Unlike the payoffs from ABC and Twitter, Paramount settlement did not include an apology. [SPEAKER_06]: Instead, that's good. [SPEAKER_06]: Instead, the corporation released a statement where they said, you may take our money, but you will never take our dignity.

[SPEAKER_06]: You may, however, purchase our dignity for the low-low price of sixteen million dollars, we need the cash. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: No, he... [SPEAKER_02]: He poked the beast and the beast is upset. [SPEAKER_02]: And for them, it's interesting because it's through May twenty-six. [SPEAKER_02]: It's because I think his contract was up. [SPEAKER_08]: His contract was up then. [SPEAKER_08]: He would have gone through contract reading.

[SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: So I think that's where they're like, oh, pay to play? [SPEAKER_02]: Or, you know, what are we going to? [SPEAKER_02]: We can't fire him now because we owe him money for the next year.

[SPEAKER_08]: right but depending on how he's contract is set up and I'm betting I know how his contract is set up which is when oftentimes when talents are in a position like this and the organization says well we're going to to fire you at the end of your contract and they publicly announce it unless he would do something like you know absolutely horrendous live on air or something that was completely out of bounds

[SPEAKER_08]: They basically don't have any grounds to touch him with a ten thousand foot pull until his contract exactly right which means he can absolutely break them over the coal and he will destroy them.

[SPEAKER_08]: I am very much hoping that he did if you remember when Conan O'Brien when NBC screwed him yeah and they did the same thing and they announced oh well we're not going to be renewing his contract we're going to bring back Jay Leno [SPEAKER_08]: And it was in that same thing, and Conan O'Brien just went absolutely ape and just tore NBC. [SPEAKER_08]: He tore up NBC so bad.

[SPEAKER_08]: There are still little references that you find from people who are associated with NBC or whatever, or even MSNBC. [SPEAKER_08]: And that was what? [SPEAKER_08]: That was fifteen years ago. [SPEAKER_02]: At least.

[SPEAKER_02]: And do you remember, I mean, it's not the same vein mind you, but when you're a carry, [SPEAKER_02]: They wanted to cancel his show on ABC right, but they had a contract for a good year He's like hey me or just let me do my show cuz if you let me do my show you make some money And so he had no network notes for a year [SPEAKER_08]: and just ripped them to you. [SPEAKER_02]: And watch the last season of the Drew Carey show because they were just having the best time.

[SPEAKER_08]: And look, and and the funny thing is folks, especially because of the fact that traditional media is dying. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't understand from from a purely business point of view, this was the dumbest thing they could have done. [SPEAKER_02]: It's so politically [SPEAKER_02]: and charged. [SPEAKER_02]: It's just dumb.

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[SPEAKER_02]: two F with them as long as he's not. [SPEAKER_02]: Violet in his contract, which I'm sure his agent lawyers are like. [SPEAKER_02]: We're good. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I'm sure everybody on his side, but I'm sure that he's he's going to spend the next year making sure that every one of his two hundred plus employees has a place to go. [SPEAKER_08]: Like Conan, yes, actually, exactly and he's going to make sure that he has a place to go and I can I am.

[SPEAKER_08]: I will say this, and I won't let any information out, but I will one hundred percent bet that's Google's parent company, alphabet. [SPEAKER_08]: They also own YouTube. [SPEAKER_08]: You bet your ass that YouTube is already in discussion with his production company. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, and Jim Kimmel, and everybody else. [SPEAKER_08]: And basically saying, why did you come over here?

[SPEAKER_08]: I can bet you any money that the people who are now running MSNBC [SPEAKER_08]: have thought about it.

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know if they're doing it, but have thought about it because we know the Lawrence O'Donnell is at some point going to need to retire and Stephanie could move her show Stephanie rule, could move her show forward and then they could have, you know, go go from, um, whoever is doing the, the, the, the, what is, I won't say time, but, you know, because it goes Chris Hayes, I'm going to go some some nights at Rachel and some nights at Jen's hockey. [SPEAKER_08]: Right, exactly.

[SPEAKER_08]: And then at Lawrence, well, you know, you could move Stephanie rule up in Lawrence a spot and then put Cole Bear on after. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll see. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm, I'm almost certain that they have thought. [SPEAKER_02]: No, Mr. Colbert will do fine because he's a really good comedian and talk to host. [SPEAKER_02]: He is, I remember when he first started doing late night.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, oh, I miss because he, the Colbert rapport on Comedy Central was a whole different person. [SPEAKER_02]: He had a portrait and I watched the first several episodes of his new show and I thought he doesn't know who to be. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, a kind of member. [SPEAKER_08]: If he wants the first several episodes, he was like, we remember. [SPEAKER_02]: Trying to be himself, but he knew he had this thing and it was all, and he finally found his group.

[SPEAKER_08]: He was fighting to be himself, right? [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, he found his group because it was hard because he came from something that peep, that's why he got the show. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, he was, he was a, he was a caricature. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: On the Colbert report. [SPEAKER_08]: And then when he does his show, he's actually himself. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: caricature is, it's not quite him, but it has some of the same.

[SPEAKER_08]: So I get it with you. [SPEAKER_02]: No, it was hard for him. [SPEAKER_02]: I remember watching. [SPEAKER_02]: It was like the first week or two. [SPEAKER_02]: I was watching every night because I still could stay up late. [SPEAKER_02]: And so I was watching going because I loved him on. [SPEAKER_02]: On comedy. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he was, he was the culprit. [SPEAKER_02]: The report was amazing. [SPEAKER_02]: But I knew that that wasn't him.

[SPEAKER_02]: I knew he was playing a role. [SPEAKER_08]: Right, exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: So no, he's, it looked. [SPEAKER_08]: He's gonna be fine. [SPEAKER_08]: But I do think that media itself has got, especially the corporate media has got some real problems because independent media used to be small and goofy and dumb. [SPEAKER_08]: And well, as you can see around the corner here, not in the mirror. [SPEAKER_02]: We're still goofy and dumb, but we're getting stuff.

[SPEAKER_08]: But we're doing better at it. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, we do have Karen in a need of coming in. [SPEAKER_08]: We've got some great guests next week, but first, Karen need to come in. [SPEAKER_08]: They're going to talk about some of those protests that happened. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Karen, when I don't know if you needed it, but Karen sir. [SPEAKER_08]: Karen, Karen, definitely with us. [SPEAKER_08]: I saw some posts. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll talk about that.

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[SPEAKER_08]: Richard Chu is going to be with us. [SPEAKER_08]: That is to see. [SPEAKER_08]: I knew, I, I, last hour, I asked you, I said, you know, hey, you know, tell me who's coming and I know we're going to have Richard, so that is going to be good. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll have, we'll have a few of the regulars as well, Bob and BDD and John will be back as well. [SPEAKER_08]: So, and Karen and Anita, they will be coming in sometime this hour whenever they both get here from, from whatever.

[SPEAKER_08]: Look, they're, they're coming from two different places. [SPEAKER_08]: Once from Chicago, once we're Austin. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a, it's a drive. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, it's different for different corners of the bar, but it's a large bar. [SPEAKER_08]: What can we say? [SPEAKER_08]: We cover the whole nation in really the whole world. [SPEAKER_08]: We do have listeners elsewhere. [SPEAKER_02]: So I know like in Germany and Ukraine. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: And Puerto Rico.

[SPEAKER_08]: So. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's the country. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, I know, but I'm saying, you know, just different corners of the world. [SPEAKER_08]: So yes, Puerto Rico is part of the US. [SPEAKER_08]: It is. [SPEAKER_08]: Canada is not and it will not be. [SPEAKER_08]: A. [SPEAKER_08]: Hey, and amen. [SPEAKER_08]: That's for sure. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you for joining us from wherever you happen to be.

[SPEAKER_08]: Jody. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll talk about this more with Karen Anita, but the good trouble rallies. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: We talked a lot about the bad news earlier. [SPEAKER_08]: We want to talk a little bit more about the good news because good news. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Looks like tens of thousands in the US joined the good trouble rallies. [SPEAKER_02]: So, and that's tough on a Thursday evening.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, I started, I think at four, thirty most places locally. [SPEAKER_08]: So four, thirty locally. [SPEAKER_08]: It was only for like three, four hours. [SPEAKER_08]: Um, some of them went a bit longer. [SPEAKER_08]: But I mean, considering everything. [SPEAKER_08]: And look, it was a great salute to John Lewis who, I mean, you know, I think it'd be proud. [SPEAKER_08]: I think you'd be what I wouldn't bet. [SPEAKER_02]: I wish it were a weekend because I would have gone.

[SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, the no kings rallys were fantastic plenty of planning. [SPEAKER_08]: Those things went on all day. [SPEAKER_08]: They were placed that had morning, midday and afternoon and evening events. [SPEAKER_08]: So obviously the numbers were going to be up a little bit higher. [SPEAKER_08]: But the fact that tens of thousands did that was great. [SPEAKER_08]: Speaking of no kings, by the way, there is a new playbook out.

[SPEAKER_08]: It is from the indivisible folks and some of the other folks who are surrounding that as well. [SPEAKER_08]: To confront the authoritarian breakthrough, they actually have it's a training course to the part training course. [SPEAKER_08]: First port has first part has been released. [SPEAKER_08]: We've got a link to it in our news on tap today.

[SPEAKER_08]: They're saying that millions of people, they had they had a zoom where they had so many people that they maxed out the number of people on the first training session. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, wow. [SPEAKER_02]: That's a lot of people that you can do on the zooms when you have that kind of money. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it's thousands and they maxed it out.

[SPEAKER_08]: So they have the video so that anybody can go watch the video or listen to it and can get training to help you understand how you can stand up to the fascists, which is pretty cool. [SPEAKER_08]: By the way, we had a good win in court this week, a federal judge ruled the Trump that his firing of the Democratic member of the federal trade commission was illegal.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yep. [SPEAKER_08]: plenty of those it's uh... we have wins on our side and in fact we're gonna have more of them here uh... california democrats have a plan to fight back against the republican attempts to steal the twenty twenty five congressional elections they took gavin to some thing and there are democrats within the california legislator who are saying you know what we can do this uh... hey if it's legal i'm in [SPEAKER_08]: They, that's just it.

[SPEAKER_08]: We've got a piece for Matt Ford. [SPEAKER_08]: It's titled Gavin Newsom's retaliatory redistricting plan is good actually and could work. [SPEAKER_08]: It's from the New Republic. [SPEAKER_08]: It's linked in the news on tap at the politicsbar.com. [SPEAKER_08]: It talks about it. [SPEAKER_08]: But yes, it is possible. [SPEAKER_08]: So it basically says anytime Texas is feeling froggy, let's go. [SPEAKER_08]: I am all about that. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm in. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm in.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know that Democrats want to be fair, but Republicans don't. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, it's, you can't play to the rules that you wish you had. [SPEAKER_08]: You have to play with the rules that you have. [SPEAKER_08]: And, but that doesn't mean that we can't set it up so that we can't say, well, look, when they end up playing fair, [SPEAKER_08]: We'll play fair, but until then, if they want to play Chicago style rules, then we'll play Chicago style rules.

[SPEAKER_02]: Our Texas rules. [SPEAKER_08]: Hmm, exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Jody is right. [SPEAKER_08]: Which we all know that. [SPEAKER_08]: That's, you know, look, that's, that's one of the memos. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a Friday night. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I look, it's been tired too.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, it is, there is, there's all kinds of stuff that is going on this week, both in front of and behind the microphones, but we are very glad the show is good, you and I are good, but man, it's, it's just been a long week. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: I am, I know that's exactly what the, Steve Bannon told us this years ago that this, this is, this was the Maga plan was to tire all of us out.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: was to wear us out so that we can't do the things that we need to do. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: And unfortunately, sometimes that is look, I get it. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, everybody wears out a little bit now and again. [SPEAKER_02]: And that's okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Just take take some rest and then come back out. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, take it's and it's okay. [SPEAKER_08]: In fact, this weekend.

[SPEAKER_08]: If you don't look at the news, it's okay, because unless you're making news, unless you're doing something, it's making news, in which case I'm worried about you. [SPEAKER_08]: But unless you're making news, the news will go on without you. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: You will go on without us. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm planning on taking most of a day if I can, if I can convince myself to stop scrolling and try to keep away from all of it tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've analyzed coming in in the next couple of hours. [SPEAKER_08]: So, oh, see, look at that. [SPEAKER_08]: So, you're going to have a full house of people there. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, that's not so bad. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, you know, it's, it's, it's family you like. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: Good. [SPEAKER_08]: See, that's, that's fun. [SPEAKER_08]: If it's family, you don't necessarily like that makes it a little bit harder. [SPEAKER_08]: But what is family you like?

[SPEAKER_08]: Although you're going to have two cats, a dog, a bunch of people. [SPEAKER_08]: Yep. [SPEAKER_08]: It's, um, [SPEAKER_08]: All I can say is good luck. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: I'll let you know in Monday. [SPEAKER_08]: And I and I hope the plumbing holds up because that's well, that should be fine. [SPEAKER_08]: There was a back back and back in Lincoln back in my hometown friend of mine who works down in the hay market district.

[SPEAKER_08]: They say it's the old district, the old train station and what have you. [SPEAKER_08]: There's a bar and they've been told to take care of their plumbing and they had and they've been told to take care of it because it's old. [SPEAKER_08]: It's brick and they hadn't taken care of their plumbing, but they don't have a basement, but the business next door does have a basement. [SPEAKER_08]: So when they have problems, it leaks into the other business.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: No, I had clay pipes up until fifteen years ago. [SPEAKER_02]: I had clay pipes. [SPEAKER_08]: That could be a problem too. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it was huge. [SPEAKER_08]: Sure, it's yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't really tell me that. [SPEAKER_08]: Huge. [SPEAKER_08]: Ten thousand dollar problem. [UNKNOWN]: Yikes. [SPEAKER_08]: Something else that's yikes, obviously.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm sorry that this I do have to to go back to the fstein thing because it is so obvious to so many people there there are so many people now who are saying maybe I didn't think that there was anything really there with the fstein thing before [SPEAKER_08]: But now, the way that Donald Trump and all the people around him are acting, it makes us think that there's something there.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, look, if I were not like Kevin Spacey of all people, release them, because people thought I was on the plan, like dude nobody ever thought you were a deadly little girl, but cool. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, diddling, diddling little boys, maybe, but that's Kevin Spacey. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but he's like released, released the Kraken. [SPEAKER_08]: If he's even sick, I mean, you know, and I'm, you know, I'm not a big spacey fan these days.

[SPEAKER_08]: I used to like his acting, say, I, you know, you know, I got to meet him. [SPEAKER_02]: He was very nice, but that was before all the problems, for those people who knew about handling some of those kind of things. [SPEAKER_08]: Bill Cosby's the perfect example of that. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: I love Bill Cosby's old comedy. [SPEAKER_08]: I occasionally will catch the Cosby show on great television. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't think that's a problem.

[SPEAKER_08]: because I already have the albums or I'll watch it and it's on a channel. [SPEAKER_08]: It's out there. [SPEAKER_08]: It's not anything that I'm going to get. [SPEAKER_08]: If I see it, it's like cool. [SPEAKER_08]: That's kind of neat. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't necessarily go and get it, but whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: I worry that though people that worked with him are not getting their residuals. [SPEAKER_02]: because the show is not on reruns like it could still be.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's on Cosby and not on anybody that worked with him. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: And that's technically kind of a different problem. [SPEAKER_08]: But that's the whole thing of some people are like, oh, well, you know, someone's always found to be awful. [SPEAKER_08]: We can never again watch or listen to anything or read anything they had anything with. [SPEAKER_08]: It's like kind of like some of the people with Harry Potter and the JK Rowling.

[SPEAKER_13]: Well, she is a turf. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, she's awful. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, she's, um, she's the first. [SPEAKER_08]: For those people who don't necessarily know what a turf is, can you define it? [SPEAKER_13]: Straight women that don't like trans women is how I'm going to go with that. [SPEAKER_08]: That's the only thing I can say. [SPEAKER_08]: That's a pretty, that's a pretty solid, simple definition.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: They, they may, they may or may not be okay with gay people, but they are not okay with trans people. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't get it. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't either. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm like trans people are great. [SPEAKER_08]: We had Parker Maloyan, and she's fantastic, as you know. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I've had so many, I have a grand niece. [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was trans, and then let alone before she was even born, I had friends that are in war trans when I met them. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: women and men. [SPEAKER_02]: So I have a combo plate of the trans people in my life. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's just like seriously J. K. You were fine on F. She rapport. [SPEAKER_02]: She made herself a billion dollars to writing these amazing books. [SPEAKER_02]: And then the one thing.

[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, one of the key characters in Harry Potter. [SPEAKER_08]: She is admitted. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: But gay is not her issue. [SPEAKER_02]: It's transient. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, not understand. [SPEAKER_02]: What is your problem? [SPEAKER_08]: I'm like that doesn't make any damn sense to me at all. [SPEAKER_08]: And there are great trans people. [SPEAKER_08]: We love trans people here at the bar and if you are trans, we're glad you're here.

[SPEAKER_08]: And, uh, if you know somebody. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Karen's son. [SPEAKER_08]: And recommend us to them. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, Karen from Chicago, her son is trans. [SPEAKER_02]: Cool. [SPEAKER_02]: Liam is his name. [SPEAKER_08]: And I hope Liam comes to the Martian time. [SPEAKER_02]: I would love to talk to him. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I'm worried about his safety because of Donald, but well, but this is this is the thing.

[SPEAKER_08]: I just, um, I'm like, you know, I can still enjoy Harry Potter because all the actors, as you said, all the people who are involved with the residuals and all the other stuff, [SPEAKER_08]: Now, if she was involved with other stuff, then I would have an issue with it. [SPEAKER_13]: Well, she has produced it. [SPEAKER_08]: And there is some of the stuff. [SPEAKER_08]: It seems like that they are taking where they have kind of taken away from her as far as that goes.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's like Rosanne with the Conners. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a whole thing. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: There's a whole legal whatever. [SPEAKER_08]: And I just, I'm like, you know, what? [SPEAKER_02]: She's still going to profit off of Harry Potter as she should. [SPEAKER_08]: She is in whatever way. [SPEAKER_08]: She's she's going to do that if you don't want to buy new copies of those fine.

[SPEAKER_08]: I a hundred percent guarantee you there are some fantastic use bookstores where you can find fantastic copies of Harry Potter and guess what she's going to get it from the you've started been sold. [SPEAKER_08]: That's right. [SPEAKER_08]: You want to buy used copies of the videos. [SPEAKER_08]: You can get them on DVD and put them in your computer if you want. [SPEAKER_08]: Guess what? [SPEAKER_08]: She don't get nothing to that either.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's one way to stick it to the lady. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, you can still like stuff, but if somebody sucks, you know, you can find a way to, you know, kind of out. [SPEAKER_08]: We will find a way to actually cut in. [SPEAKER_08]: Bring in, I should say, Karen and Anita, who are coming into us here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_08]: Of course, they host the true blue politics podcast.

[SPEAKER_08]: And you got a link to that on our news of the day page in the guest section. [SPEAKER_08]: So you can subscribe to that as well. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll talk to them, especially because I want to hear what Karen's experience was like. [SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_08]: It lives on rally. [SPEAKER_08]: That should be fun. [SPEAKER_08]: Get your drink refreshed. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a Friday night you are hanging out with the one and only Jody Hamilton and me.

[SPEAKER_08]: Sean Smith appears. [SPEAKER_08]: Remember there are no duplicates of me so you don't have to worry worried about that. [SPEAKER_08]: Just don't worry. [SPEAKER_08]: So far. [SPEAKER_08]: So. [SPEAKER_08]: And this is true. [SPEAKER_08]: Technology. [SPEAKER_08]: Get yourself a fresh drink. [SPEAKER_08]: Come on back hang on. [SPEAKER_04]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_08]: Friday nights here at the politics bar.

[SPEAKER_08]: You know what that means? [SPEAKER_08]: We got some more regulars in the house. [SPEAKER_08]: Karen and Anita from true blue politics. [SPEAKER_08]: How are you two ladies doing? [SPEAKER_09]: We're actually having a lot of fun with Nancy Pelosi and we'll see. [SPEAKER_09]: I know Karen is. [SPEAKER_02]: For those of you, you wish you could see this. [SPEAKER_02]: So if when we do video, you will see this and it'll be when we say. [SPEAKER_02]: We're waking up to the next.

[SPEAKER_08]: We are working up to this, but we can see each other on video here. [SPEAKER_08]: And Karen has in the background of the bar here. [SPEAKER_08]: She has placed four of the fantastic Democratic women who are on our side these days. [SPEAKER_08]: Would you introduce us to the people who you have brought with you to the bar this evening, Karen? [SPEAKER_12]: I would love to.

[SPEAKER_12]: So, of course, we have Madame Speaker, Meredith Nancy Pelosi, then we have AOC, and then we have the fierce Jasmine Crockett, and then we have Sarah McBride. [SPEAKER_02]: Excellent. [SPEAKER_08]: Excellent. [SPEAKER_08]: We like all of that. [SPEAKER_08]: Also, you know, they're somewhere else here in the bar, maybe as Melanie stands, [SPEAKER_08]: Did you guys see that piece? [SPEAKER_08]: Did you see her? [SPEAKER_08]: Her one minute thing was amazing. [SPEAKER_09]: Amazing.

[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my gosh. [SPEAKER_08]: She gave him, she gave him hell last night when the Republicans ran through that stupid ass recisions package. [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, she's tough. [SPEAKER_09]: She's the one who's been like, Marjorie, uh, Trader Green when she's in that committee that over, I mean, that, uh, ghost committee. [SPEAKER_09]: And she's like, and, and, and, and Marjorie's like banging on that gavel. [SPEAKER_09]: And she just keep talking over it, you know, it's hilarious.

[SPEAKER_09]: You think that gavel all you want? [SPEAKER_09]: But I'm gonna keep talking. [SPEAKER_08]: Yep, stands very devastating. [SPEAKER_08]: The same thing last night on the floor. [SPEAKER_08]: It was great. [SPEAKER_08]: It was, you know, I, I am glad for any of the reps who are fighting for us. [SPEAKER_08]: I, I have to admit, you know, I told Jody is in first hour. [SPEAKER_08]: I was a little bit frustrated last night. [SPEAKER_08]: So I put out a post on blue sky.

[SPEAKER_08]: I was a little bit mad to, you know, leader Jeffries and some of the house dams. [SPEAKER_08]: But Republicans, I don't know if did either of you to, well, obviously it was late last night. [SPEAKER_08]: Did you know how they were going to push through the stupid resisions package? [SPEAKER_09]: No. [SPEAKER_09]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: You guys heard about demon paths. [SPEAKER_08]: You guys know what demon passes? [SPEAKER_08]: I don't. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't.

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't go ahead. [SPEAKER_08]: I'll remind you guys to get demon passes when they, so in order for things to get passed in the house, first they go through committee, they pass through the committee and then they go to the floor. [SPEAKER_08]: So they basically in one of the Republican led, because they're all Republican led Republicans have the control of the House.

[SPEAKER_08]: They passed the thing that said, well, we'll agree to the decisions package that the Senate passed without any amendments. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, we stopped this church petition. [SPEAKER_09]: Is that what that was? [SPEAKER_08]: Well, there would demon passes is is so then once it goes in the committee, it goes to the floor. [SPEAKER_08]: And the speaker can say, well, since it passed in the committee, and we know we have the votes on the floor, we can just demon as passed.

[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, D, man. [SPEAKER_09]: I thought you said like demon, D, E, M, O, N. Yes, yes.

[SPEAKER_08]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no [SPEAKER_08]: because they were trying to put through this stupid bill.

[SPEAKER_08]: They didn't even have any teeth in it that said, Oh, well, wait, we insist that more of the Epstein things come out and you're like, Oh, give me a freaking break. [SPEAKER_08]: And because they were juggling that, they couldn't do the demon pass. [SPEAKER_08]: But if they had done demon pass, then he came, Jeffrey's wouldn't have gotten his magic minute and Democrats couldn't have gotten it anyway.

[SPEAKER_08]: All they would have done is take it from committee, take it to the floor and go, well, it's going to pass anyway. [SPEAKER_08]: So to consider it passed. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: And then there's the other part of it, which is even if Democrats had stopped the bill after midnight, if Republicans had passed the bill on Saturday or Sunday or Monday or Tuesday.

[SPEAKER_08]: Then it would have meant a federal budgetary to step like the dance where they said, well, you had the money, but now you don't, but Republicans could have passed it next Tuesday or Wednesday, and it still would have cut the money from NPR. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm PBS. [SPEAKER_09]: That's what it was about. [SPEAKER_09]: I was I was wondering what Billy were talking about. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: That's that's a that's a resistance bill.

[SPEAKER_09]: Yep. [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: That is so unpopular to, you know, NPR and PBS are very popular and they are hurting so many people that live in their districts or areas because they rely on PBS. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_09]: And just for them, so they have just for notifications of weather.

[SPEAKER_09]: I know for weather notifications and just because for entertainment, sometimes a lot of these, I know my daughter taught her to school that had underprivileged kids and they don't even have, you know, they don't have Wi-Fi, okay? [SPEAKER_09]: That is a luxury. [SPEAKER_09]: So they don't have cable, but don't have cable. [SPEAKER_08]: There's a Louisiana, a streaming channel that they have had their PBS has had of basically twenty four hour all kid shows.

[SPEAKER_08]: You know, like, Kyu and whatever, you know, you can be annoying, but it's still. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a good kid show. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, that's how you remember. [SPEAKER_12]: I carried it like Kyu, but okay. [SPEAKER_12]: We call them cry you. [SPEAKER_12]: He was a little whiny. [SPEAKER_09]: That's a streaming channel.

[SPEAKER_08]: This is a streaming channel that poor kids and we're always gonna [SPEAKER_08]: they have basic internet because thankfully there are still the the federal internet thing that got you know blocked and so the courts have said that they have to do that so but they'll still have it they just won't have these channels which it's like you know it's it's taking away Sesame Street from kids it's taking away Sesame Street teaches them too much decency okay [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_09]: It is how to share. [SPEAKER_09]: It's interesting set up in the way that they have it. [SPEAKER_09]: So they have a public private so that they put out the new ones on whatever they're. [SPEAKER_08]: HBO or Netflix, whichever is because I think the HBO contract is ending and Netflix is starting up. [SPEAKER_08]: But they will still keep the reruns going on PBS. [SPEAKER_08]: It's just the fact is it's PBS. [SPEAKER_08]: And so now with all these cuts.

[SPEAKER_08]: You're not going to have access to as nearly as much of that type of content. [SPEAKER_08]: It was a lot of extra. [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I'll meet you. [SPEAKER_09]: I, you know, we're as Mr. Rogers when you need him because remember when he tests like before. [SPEAKER_09]: All right. [SPEAKER_12]: No man's going viral again that that testimony is going viral. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, sure. [SPEAKER_12]: Not happy. [SPEAKER_12]: People are happy and it's not popular.

[SPEAKER_12]: It's no. [SPEAKER_08]: Everybody, one of the stories we got on Tap today talks about why Lisa Murkowski voted against it's a perfect example in that. [SPEAKER_08]: Um, so I had a friend who used to work up at, uh, he worked at one of these rural NPR stations in Alaska. [SPEAKER_08]: And I used to joke because he's he's a tall black man. [SPEAKER_08]: God love him. [SPEAKER_08]: He loves the St. [SPEAKER_08]: Louis Cardinals. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know why, but whatever.

[SPEAKER_08]: But anyway, [SPEAKER_08]: And, and he, you know, we used to give him grief and we'd be like, you're one of like five black men in Alaska. [SPEAKER_08]: He's like, shut up, but very small town. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, and yet that NPR station is the lifeblood of and when they had when they had a tsunami warning up there recently just first thing that we just got everybody right exactly everybody connected with the NPR station up there.

[SPEAKER_09]: I know because yeah, so this is just such a it they are they don't care that it's not popular. [SPEAKER_09]: What they're doing. [SPEAKER_09]: No, they just don't care. [SPEAKER_09]: It's like they won't do gun reform all that you know what is it ninety percent of Americans won't gun reform? [SPEAKER_09]: Right. [SPEAKER_09]: But they refuse to do anything about about good. [SPEAKER_08]: They don't want, they don't want gun safety reform because they're afraid.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's, that's the key. [SPEAKER_08]: Republicans are always afraid. [SPEAKER_08]: They aren't. [SPEAKER_08]: Hours of their votes and their votes. [SPEAKER_09]: Well, their voters are crazy. [SPEAKER_09]: Okay. [SPEAKER_09]: There's some of them. [SPEAKER_09]: No, they're crazy and they're afraid. [SPEAKER_09]: They're paranoid. [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, the Republican like politicians, you're right. [SPEAKER_09]: They're just a bunch of cowards.

[SPEAKER_09]: They're so easily, you know, frightened, but but the voters. [SPEAKER_09]: You know, they know that there's certain percentage of them that this is their, this is their issue. [SPEAKER_09]: Guns or whatever. [SPEAKER_09]: And that's all they care about. [SPEAKER_08]: They don't care what else it's, you know, uh... We are in two complex of a world to have single issue unless your issue is democracy.

[SPEAKER_08]: And quite frankly, if your issue is democracy or not going to be voting for Republicans anyway. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, Speaker Emeritus Pelosi did say that a lot of the people that she works with in Congress are afraid of not of Donald Trump, but his people. [SPEAKER_02]: because of what they get to her husband. [SPEAKER_09]: Right. [SPEAKER_09]: And they're right. [SPEAKER_09]: And I think the threats, too. [SPEAKER_09]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_09]: Massey Thomas Massey.

[SPEAKER_09]: You know me, Barrett got some. [SPEAKER_12]: I just, you know how, but you know how Eric Swallwell, when he got received a threat, he. [SPEAKER_12]: He actually posted, he left people here. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_12]: The person. [SPEAKER_12]: So the way when they talk about getting threats, they always kind of imply that they're getting threats from the left, right? [SPEAKER_08]: The right is, yeah, they, they claim that.

[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, they always kind of make it seem like, oh, the left is just too bad. [SPEAKER_12]: but we never hear any of the threats against them and so yeah I mean is it is it actually are they receiving threats or they you know afraid that they're going to receive threats or that somebody's going to show up and and I mean I I just know that for me the Republicans generally speaking they come into the [SPEAKER_12]: into Congress with money.

[SPEAKER_12]: They've got a lot of money, a lot of money behind them. [SPEAKER_12]: And so for me, it's like so higher security, you know, AOC doesn't have that. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, kind of protection. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, I, you know, I have an interesting position in that. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, I've worked in left right in center, I've worked sports, I've worked me a music as far as, as that kind of thing goes.

[SPEAKER_08]: So [SPEAKER_08]: virtually every left-leaning show, the host and some if not all the producers. [SPEAKER_08]: have had to deal with. [SPEAKER_08]: What I think of as legitimate death threats threats that you have to be concerned about. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, to report them. [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, yeah, radio that radio guide was murdered by those likes of promises in the case. [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I don't remember what that was saying.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I don't remember the body of exactly what's talking about it. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: No, that's nothing, but yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: But here's the thing. [SPEAKER_08]: So every this is this is and you give you guys know me. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, you know, I know Steph and Chris. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, I know Tom Spokes and Tom's producer Sean, who, that's that's always fun.

[SPEAKER_08]: By the way, when you have both me and her on because we both spell Sean correctly and so on, you know, we're in a voice call and so on. [SPEAKER_08]: We both go, what?

[SPEAKER_08]: But, you know, I know Tom's people, you know, I know I know virtually everybody that you would listen to on Series XM, I know a lot of the people, I know more of them now on some of the, they feel it's like WCPT and AM-Nine-Fifty, virtually every single host and producer that you know in left-leaning audio has had legitimate death threats. [SPEAKER_08]: And I know this because I know these people and I've talked to them and we have these discussions.

[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: When I worked for Laura Ingram, [SPEAKER_08]: as I worked for her. [SPEAKER_08]: I worked for EWTN. [SPEAKER_08]: And this was admittedly, this was, you know, like, ten years ago. [SPEAKER_08]: But still, I would say that to them, and they would look at me like, oh, you got to be kidding me. [SPEAKER_08]: We've never had anything like this. [SPEAKER_08]: I worked on Laura Ingram show, Laura Ingram, who behind the scenes, a lot of the right wingers hate.

[SPEAKER_08]: They don't like her because she's a very nasty person, just as a person. [SPEAKER_08]: And yet, [SPEAKER_08]: They haven't had those. [SPEAKER_08]: They hadn't until, well, basically, the, the, the, yeah, until Trump. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't have it because, well, it's a second coming of Trump. [SPEAKER_09]: Even with Trump's, no, even the first, anybody this damn deadline. [SPEAKER_09]: This is what fascists do. [SPEAKER_09]: Yes, they say violence.

[SPEAKER_08]: But I'm saying the lift, the lefties weren't doing until the, until the most recent iteration of Trump being in the White House. [SPEAKER_08]: They didn't have that many threats. [SPEAKER_08]: They are now getting those threats, but they're getting those threats because left-leaning people basically took it for most of the last twenty-five years, thirty years.

[SPEAKER_08]: Took the hatred and the vitriol from the right from the Fox News, from the Rush Limbaugh, from the Sean Hannity, from the Laura Ingram, from some, you know, all kinds of nasty folks on that side. [SPEAKER_08]: And we blew it off. [SPEAKER_08]: We said, whatever, if we got something like this, we'd contact somebody and we would, you know, remain quiet about it.

[SPEAKER_08]: And now, finally, twenty to twenty five, thirty years later, depending on where you're at, the left to say, you know what, we've had enough. [SPEAKER_08]: Now, I don't think that left this should be thrown out. [SPEAKER_08]: That's back. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't agree with that. [SPEAKER_08]: you know, like I said, I can hear it because I know because I know some of these people and they're not going to put that. [SPEAKER_08]: They are never on the right.

[SPEAKER_08]: They will never put that stuff out because they think it makes them look weak. [SPEAKER_08]: They think what Swallwell did made him look weak. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't think it may look weak. [SPEAKER_08]: But they think it makes them think they think. [SPEAKER_12]: I'm going to be yes. [SPEAKER_12]: I'm calling BS. [SPEAKER_12]: I mean, yeah, I really am. [SPEAKER_08]: They're starting. [SPEAKER_08]: I am seeing it. [SPEAKER_08]: They are starting too.

[SPEAKER_08]: But I think it's I think it's because people have said they've had enough. [SPEAKER_02]: No, I think that what's happening on is that the the right that are going after Donald are now being threatened by the right. [SPEAKER_09]: I don't think, and I also think that some of the people are peeling off of Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_09]: Yes, and they're getting pissed off. [SPEAKER_09]: They're getting pissed off.

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't think I don't know that I haven't heard of that yet, but I am agreeing with both of you in that I think that is, if it hasn't already started, it is coming. [SPEAKER_08]: And it will be the the I don't know what you want to call the mega mega die hards versus the Trump lovers. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know what you. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, it's going to be it's civil war. [SPEAKER_09]: That's sure. [SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: I do think I do think they are going to go after their own because that's who they are. [SPEAKER_08]: They've been going after us on the left for you know, twenty five thirty years. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, right, and I mean, Anita talks about this all the time. [SPEAKER_12]: You know, they, they love being lied to, but then, you know, when you had the, uh, buschini regime, you know, and they, they lied constantly to the base, and then they got tired of it.

[SPEAKER_12]: And that's where we are right now with the Epstein thing. [SPEAKER_12]: Yep. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: It's very similar to the WMD line. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm surrounded by women who are brilliant and right because that's just how it is here to politics bar this evening. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, we are glad you are here with us. [SPEAKER_08]: We are all going to close out the bar this evening.

[SPEAKER_08]: So look, Karen, Anita, Jody, get your drinks fresh and up. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to do the same. [SPEAKER_08]: You here who are hanging out with us in the bar. [SPEAKER_08]: We are hoping you will do more of the same. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, we'll talk about a little bit more of the news. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll talk about the Colbert thing. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a good topic. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a good topic. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, get your drinks fresh enough.

[SPEAKER_08]: Use a rest room if you need to come on back for the final round of the evening here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_04]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_07]: It is Friday nights here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_08]: We are, uh, in a good mood. [SPEAKER_08]: We are having good discussions as we're paying off the bills and collecting the glasses. [SPEAKER_08]: Look and making sure I got late. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yes.

[SPEAKER_08]: Well, you know, we, we have to, we, we will have to tell you guys about that here. [SPEAKER_08]: Karen Anita Jodi had to believe herself tonight. [SPEAKER_09]: Uh-oh. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you, Jody. [SPEAKER_08]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_08]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_08]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_12]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_08]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_08]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_08]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_08]: She's a party mouth.

[SPEAKER_08]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_08]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_08]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_08]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_08]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_08]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_02]: She's a party mouth. [SPEAKER_09]: I think you want to make a change from that shirt. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, you just gave us an idea. [SPEAKER_08]: We definitely. [SPEAKER_08]: We had look for the drink of the day. [SPEAKER_08]: We have one of our list.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yes, Travis will definitely go with a spicy Jody. [SPEAKER_08]: But for the drink of the day, Anita and Karen, it is the Trader Vick's grog and one of our bar patrons here, Victor Orlando suggested it. [SPEAKER_08]: So [SPEAKER_02]: It's like old school. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: It's real good. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, if you guys want to suggest any of the drinks like that, you got comments to make.

[SPEAKER_08]: You can always get into the social media, blue sky or threads, Instagram, Facebook, even Twitter. [SPEAKER_08]: Just look for us at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: So the cold bear thing. [SPEAKER_08]: Obviously big news. [SPEAKER_08]: So depressing. [SPEAKER_08]: It is and it isn't. [SPEAKER_09]: Well, it's so CBS.

[SPEAKER_09]: And it's so depressing because you know, whatever these people just kind of go, you know, go longer or just, you know, around Trump to get his way get bullied by him. [SPEAKER_09]: Then we all lose. [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, [SPEAKER_09]: what's and now he's going to go after him. [SPEAKER_09]: He even said that. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah, but there are silver linings to all of this. [SPEAKER_08]: They're silver.

[SPEAKER_08]: First of all, I want you to to go back and mention this journey because you mentioned this on the first hour and Karen Anita weren't in yet. [SPEAKER_08]: Why is it so CBS? [SPEAKER_02]: Because they fired the smugglers brothers in nineteen sixty eight. [SPEAKER_02]: That's right. [SPEAKER_09]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: I knew you guys would remember. [SPEAKER_09]: My mother was mad about that. [SPEAKER_09]: I remember.

[SPEAKER_09]: I was a little kid and I was like, yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: But here's here's the silver lining part of it. [SPEAKER_08]: So when they demanded this this obviously behind the scenes, because look, it is quite frankly obviously plainly political that they demanded this of Colbert and Colbert's contract was going to be ending in twenty six anyway.

[SPEAKER_08]: So he's going to have to renegotiate it first things first is that they demanded that CBS news specifically sixty minutes, but also they wanted all of CBS news to apologize to them. [SPEAKER_02]: And that didn't happen. [SPEAKER_08]: Which we talked about either last week or the week before the folks at sixty minutes literally the entire team. [SPEAKER_08]: We had we had an article it's like I said back here week or two in in the.

[SPEAKER_08]: They said, if you make us apologize, the entire team will walk. [SPEAKER_09]: And that's Leslie Stahl. [SPEAKER_09]: These are amazing. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_09]: They have been amazing. [SPEAKER_09]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: And all the producers that the people don't necessarily know by name, it wasn't just the lead talents. [SPEAKER_08]: It was the producers too. [SPEAKER_08]: It was the whole freaking staff and the staff said, let us apologize. [SPEAKER_08]: We will walk.

[SPEAKER_08]: So the suits the as in media we call them this the suits there's the two sides of the house there's the money side of the house the sales and the the commercial trafficking and then there's the people who actually do this stuff the on air talent of the producers I've worked in radio a long time we always divide the house as we call it among those lines and there are awful lot of suits who get really big for their bridges and they think that they can do whatever the hell they want

[SPEAKER_08]: And they always hated me as a producer. [SPEAKER_08]: Because I would say, if you can come over to this side of the house and do what we do, I want you to get from the microphone right now, right now. [SPEAKER_08]: And they would always back off and go, no, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_08]: And I go then shut your mouth and get out. [SPEAKER_08]: And they would get mad and I go, where are the ones that make you the money sweet chicks?

[SPEAKER_08]: You go get us the money, where are the ones that do the product? [SPEAKER_08]: Get out. [SPEAKER_08]: And they did not. [SPEAKER_08]: They all the money side always hates that. [SPEAKER_08]: They was really hate me for that. [SPEAKER_09]: But they had this co-bearers team would have done that. [SPEAKER_02]: He was, I know that his, I just brain goes. [SPEAKER_02]: His contract was going to be up in May of twenty six.

[SPEAKER_02]: So they decided to either pay him and make money off of him for the next year or just pay him because that's the only two options they had. [SPEAKER_02]: So he's on the air until May of next year. [SPEAKER_02]: You have good. [SPEAKER_02]: You don't have enough. [SPEAKER_09]: a lot of, I'm sorry, Epstein stories to go. [SPEAKER_09]: I know. [SPEAKER_02]: And he has nothing to worry about now. [SPEAKER_02]: No, exactly right. [SPEAKER_08]: He is, there is almost, he's freed.

[SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: He's almost, he's closed. [SPEAKER_08]: You're right.

[SPEAKER_08]: He's actually a clause in his contract, which basically says, once they allow out in the public that they are going to end the agreement at the end of the contract, unless he does something crazy, like shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue, like Donald Trump said, unless he does something that crazy, [SPEAKER_08]: Him and his team can go absolutely ape and there's not one goddamn thing that the CBS suits that those executives can do.

[SPEAKER_08]: They're going to sit there and step and you know you know that he and his writing team are going to sit there and you know what they're not going to be exact. [SPEAKER_09]: They haven't been holding back as it is. [SPEAKER_09]: No, I can't even imagine. [SPEAKER_08]: But they're going to specifically do. [SPEAKER_08]: They're going to do like Conan O'Brien did. [SPEAKER_08]: They're going to target the suits.

[SPEAKER_08]: And they're going to target them to make their heads explode. [SPEAKER_08]: And those jackasses are going to sit there. [SPEAKER_08]: Steam roll it out of their ears. [SPEAKER_02]: And they can't fire him. [SPEAKER_02]: They cannot because his team is going to be on it. [SPEAKER_02]: Wow. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I'm sure if they tried if he does something like that that is not explicitly in the contract and they try it anyway.

[SPEAKER_08]: He will take whatever money they have left there at CBS. [SPEAKER_08]: And he will go take all of his people and do his own thing and they will have a smoking pile of rubble. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you very much. [SPEAKER_08]: So I love somebody else. [SPEAKER_08]: It's him up. [SPEAKER_12]: I hope somebody. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, go ahead, Karen. [SPEAKER_12]: Right, or, you know, what might as touch is already saying, like, come over here, you know, that would be fantastic.

[SPEAKER_02]: Francis and Angela have said so, because apparently, Mr. Colbert directed Francis. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, we've got to talk to Francis. [SPEAKER_08]: When we, when we get frangely in, maybe. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, that's right. [SPEAKER_08]: I heard that story. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: So here's something. [SPEAKER_12]: And I told Angela about this on us. [SPEAKER_12]: Paul D'Nelo is Stephen Colbert's best friend.

[SPEAKER_12]: Paul D'Nelo grew up about a mile away from me and I was best friends with his little brother and his sisters were my camp counselors. [SPEAKER_12]: So I know that you're now a family very well. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: It's very much that six degrees of Stephen Colbert. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: I believe I believe this morning, Fred's was saying that he is his nice and real life. [SPEAKER_09]: And that doesn't surprise me.

[SPEAKER_09]: He can tell he just genuinely nice. [SPEAKER_02]: No, he helped my mom out. [SPEAKER_09]: He helped my mom out. [SPEAKER_09]: So did he? [SPEAKER_02]: He did. [SPEAKER_02]: And my mom had to reshoot some stuff for her. [SPEAKER_02]: on CBS years ago. [SPEAKER_02]: We had to cut out somebody who was, also his name, it's anyway. [SPEAKER_02]: He had to be cut out. [SPEAKER_02]: And Mr. Colbert was so nice.

[SPEAKER_02]: And they, my mom and Mr. Colbert, and he just opened up his theater and himself and was so lovely to her. [SPEAKER_02]: And she just called. [SPEAKER_02]: She personally called and she goes, whatever you need. [SPEAKER_08]: That's great. [SPEAKER_08]: Wow. [SPEAKER_08]: One of the ways, one of the ways I think that you can tell that he is that kind of guy, is that his comedy is, his comedy has always been really biting, really sharp, really good. [SPEAKER_08]: That's true.

[SPEAKER_08]: He delivers, but it's true. [SPEAKER_08]: He writes. [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, pictures up. [SPEAKER_09]: He gets them punched down. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, I think, but the key about that is not only punching up, it's the fact that comedy is funny only when it's true. [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_08]: And the more true and the more honest you are, [SPEAKER_08]: oftentimes the more biting the comedy is.

[SPEAKER_08]: And that's why, you know, I'm like, you know, I think he's going to be doing great. [SPEAKER_08]: I think his team's going to be doing great. [SPEAKER_08]: They've got ten months to figure out what they're going to do. [SPEAKER_08]: And he has other people. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, he'll help other people if they want to go do other things. [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, yeah, it doesn't matter. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah, I love that.

[SPEAKER_09]: Remember how they had to like, they were right wingers that thought it was for real. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: It was like a right [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, and asked him, you know, please, you know, don't be careful with it. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: It's like, um, it's a character. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: They just. [SPEAKER_09]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_08]: It was so good. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't care.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was perfect. [SPEAKER_02]: Really, it was perfect. [SPEAKER_02]: Really, it was perfect. [SPEAKER_09]: But we knew, I mean, it was obvious to us, like when he was throwing, when they were all, he had that group of people and he was making mocking the, the [SPEAKER_09]: The cuts in some sort of food program, right? [SPEAKER_09]: Republicans are doing and then he would just have to add some people just standard open their mouths and he would throw food in them.

[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, just like he would do such brilliant things. [SPEAKER_09]: And then he would, but he would always act like, you know, [SPEAKER_09]: You know, he was like, you know, they had the fake Patriots. [SPEAKER_09]: He'd have that little flag up all the time. [SPEAKER_09]: You just had it down. [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: He is a brilliant comedic sketch comedy actor.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And so when like I was saying earlier, when he got to the late show, he was still doing Colbert. [SPEAKER_02]: But knew that wasn't the same audience. [SPEAKER_02]: So he was a little wonky. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, three weeks. [SPEAKER_02]: It was like what I said to Lonnie. [SPEAKER_02]: Years ago, it was ten years ago now. [SPEAKER_02]: I said, honey, he hasn't found his footing. [SPEAKER_02]: And then finally, he realized, no, I'm just going to be me.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: It's a bigger audience too. [SPEAKER_02]: It's an added birthday. [SPEAKER_02]: Way bigger. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a bigger everything because it's CBS not comedy central. [SPEAKER_02]: It's huge. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, I mean, you know, obviously it's the Ed Sullivan theater, but I I am looking at a lot of the the older media and saying these the folks who control it. [SPEAKER_08]: They don't get it. [SPEAKER_08]: They don't get.

[SPEAKER_12]: Um, they're not meeting the moment. [SPEAKER_08]: They're not meeting the moment. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, no. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, my God. [SPEAKER_08]: I know exactly. [SPEAKER_09]: You think they're going to go up to John Stuart next to. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: I think they're well his is contract is also up. [SPEAKER_08]: But here's the thing is that. [SPEAKER_08]: they're burning. [SPEAKER_08]: Steven cool there.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's it's definitely not about money because Colbert had not only the best ratings for the last nine years I believe of of all the late night shows, but he also this this is one of those things when you know good people who are on the money side the sale side, which thankfully I do know a few good people and they said

[SPEAKER_08]: They're making the most money from their, um, what's known as a veil's availability's, their commercial availability's, they're making, they're making more money for their commercial availability's because of his ratings, then his competition, then Kimmel, um, then Fallen, and it's like, okay, well, that's, it's great that they're doing that, but [SPEAKER_08]: What else to CBS have? [SPEAKER_08]: I think that I can name one show they have right now tracker.

[SPEAKER_08]: Um, I think that's about it. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, uh, CBS. [SPEAKER_09]: I don't watch that. [SPEAKER_09]: We're TV. [SPEAKER_08]: But that's what I'm talking about. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: We had a story earlier this week. [SPEAKER_08]: What was it, Jody? [SPEAKER_08]: Twenty percent in my right. [SPEAKER_08]: I think that's what it was that they said that twenty percent of Americans now. [SPEAKER_08]: or standard even cable television.

[SPEAKER_08]: I remember what the eighty percent have, you know, either they're all streaming or they don't even watch, you know, any kind of TV. [SPEAKER_08]: They're like, whatever. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: I remember remember when your mother was, you know, when they had the Carol Burnett show, remember that. [SPEAKER_09]: Remember that joke? [SPEAKER_09]: Do you remember that joke? [SPEAKER_09]: Do you remember that joke? [SPEAKER_09]: And everybody watched it.

[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, my God. [SPEAKER_09]: Rolling to people turned on their television and watched the Carol Burnett show together. [SPEAKER_08]: you know, that's just three every Saturday. [SPEAKER_08]: But they're what what they're doing with the the old fashion media. [SPEAKER_08]: They are doing things so stupidly. [SPEAKER_08]: They're taking their their crown jewels and they're throwing them out or they're burning them. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, even Kim will got mad at CBS.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: And they should. [SPEAKER_08]: So they found surprisingly. [SPEAKER_08]: They were born with a little kid. [SPEAKER_02]: No, they're all friends. [SPEAKER_08]: These people are all friends. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, no, that's true. [SPEAKER_12]: It's total calculation. [SPEAKER_12]: I mean, look at what, you know, some of the institution, the like Harvard and, you know, the higher, you know, when they band together, they're stronger together.

[SPEAKER_12]: And so if that's all they have to do, you know, these law firms. [SPEAKER_12]: You know, just getting together and stand up against the tyranny. [SPEAKER_12]: And the same goes for the corporate media. [SPEAKER_12]: You know, it's like stand up against the tyranny. [SPEAKER_12]: This is tyranny pure and simple. [SPEAKER_12]: And so for me, it's not so much, you know, Stephen Colbert is going to be fine.

[SPEAKER_12]: He is going to land on his feet and he's going to be better than ever. [SPEAKER_12]: Like you guys were saying. [SPEAKER_12]: But the thing of it is, it's the psychological impact that it has on us. [SPEAKER_08]: It hasn't all of us. [SPEAKER_08]: It does. [SPEAKER_08]: Karen, Anita, thank you guys so very cute. [SPEAKER_08]: We're gonna have to talk more about the rallies. [SPEAKER_08]: And I don't think we got a whole lot on that, but look, there's so much more to talk about.

[SPEAKER_08]: You can talk about more if you want here in the bar. [SPEAKER_08]: We will keep the chats and the social media open for you guys to talk, but we will be back next week. [SPEAKER_08]: We got Richard Chu from WCPT. [SPEAKER_08]: I know that. [SPEAKER_08]: We have a couple of our regulars next week as well. [SPEAKER_08]: I know other things in the works. [SPEAKER_08]: So look, it's the weekend. [SPEAKER_08]: Get yourself a drink. [SPEAKER_08]: Take care of yourself.

[SPEAKER_09]: We care and ask you out. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, no. [SPEAKER_09]: We want to do that. [SPEAKER_08]: Make sure you get some rest this weekend. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll be back Monday night with you here on a bar. [SPEAKER_09]: Good night, guys. [SPEAKER_09]: Good night. [SPEAKER_09]: Thank you.