Don't Belabor It... August 29, 2025

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's oh yeah frayay frayay for all my goodness gracious Thank you very much for everybody who is joining us here at the politics bar this evening Especially if you have already started your Labor Day break we have not yet We got we can hang out with you We got to go through the news on tap where we happen to have Karen and Anita or spending some of their precious time with you and I and everybody here in the bar [SPEAKER_02]: Man, this is one of them days.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We've got shirts where Joe, he's been working really, really hard on the the shop. [SPEAKER_02]: I personally, I worked on a shop with another vendor and then blew up. [SPEAKER_02]: So I credit that to me. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what I did. [SPEAKER_08]: But I don't think you did anything wrong. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know why we got. [SPEAKER_08]: And there's no way to remedy it. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't really know why. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, yeah, you know, it's.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was one of those kind of things. [SPEAKER_02]: It has been a Friday Friday actually was on one of the social media. [SPEAKER_02]: It was blue sky earlier and Chris Gardner who we had in here a few weeks ago. [SPEAKER_02]: He was like, Oh, my God, it's a Friday Friday and I'm like, Oh, it is. [SPEAKER_02]: It's been one of those day heard about Bella with a K over. [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, I keep, yeah, because I know she does her kick-care-line thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's so brilliant. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Bella with a Z-head, so many issues this morning. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, baby. [SPEAKER_02]: Before she even got there. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, she, she got locked out of her house, and her six roommates, including her boyfriend. [SPEAKER_02]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_02]: I, I was like, what the hell dude? [SPEAKER_08]: I, nobody, I mean, the boyfriend heard the dog barking and just let the dog out of the bedroom.

[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for the dog was barking at something. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but that's, [SPEAKER_08]: Not paying attention to his phone because she was calling all of them. [SPEAKER_02]: That's where you start banging on the windows. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, she's banging on the door. [SPEAKER_08]: She's ringing the doorbell. [SPEAKER_08]: She's doing all of that. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, my God. [SPEAKER_08]: And so for baby. [SPEAKER_08]: And so she calls me.

[SPEAKER_08]: And I was looking at the clock going, where is Bella? [SPEAKER_08]: And then I get a text from her. [SPEAKER_02]: And she's like, hey, can you set some of these things up for the show? [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my God. [SPEAKER_02]: And then she calls you watching through it. [SPEAKER_08]: And then she calls me because I'm like, [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, I learned how to run the board, but how they get online now is a different way than that.

[SPEAKER_02]: That is actually a, it's a, it's a, it's a hallmark of somebody actually knowing what the hell they're doing. [SPEAKER_02]: That you can remotely tell somebody. [SPEAKER_02]: When this is now twenty, some odd years ago, when I was the Chief Technology Consultant for the Nebraska Press Association, [SPEAKER_02]: And I remember this because I had one of those kind of a brick phone things. [SPEAKER_02]: And I was driving through where I was living at the time, Lincoln Nebraska.

[SPEAKER_02]: And on one line, I had the Omaha World Herald with their gigantic German six color press, the pig machine, whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: And on the other line, I had the publisher of, I believe it was the holderage newspaper where the most innovative machine he had in the building was a fax machine. [SPEAKER_02]: And he was proud of it. [SPEAKER_02]: And he was calling me about his fax machine, actually.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I had to be able to walk through problems because that's, that was my job for both of them. [SPEAKER_02]: As I'm driving, which I don't recommend doing that. [SPEAKER_02]: But people are like, oh my God, if you can, one of the ways that if you know something, if you know somebody knows something is if they can tell it back to you, if they can explain it back to you as if you didn't know it and you understand it.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the fact that [SPEAKER_02]: The fact that Bella is so responsible, the fact that she was able to walk you through that, the fact that she cares so much. [SPEAKER_02]: I like to see that with some of the young folks out there. [SPEAKER_02]: I like to see that with anybody of any age, but I really like to see [SPEAKER_02]: People who know what they're doing in those kinds of things. [SPEAKER_08]: And she really does. [SPEAKER_08]: And she's only two years old.

[SPEAKER_08]: And she really, really knows what she's doing for her stuff. [SPEAKER_08]: Secondly, she's very, she's such a good person and so loyal to the job. [SPEAKER_08]: And was terrified. [SPEAKER_08]: She's like, I'm sitting in an Uber. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm like, OK, it's going to be OK. [SPEAKER_08]: I was like, I was being mommy to her a little bit. [SPEAKER_02]: that's okay. [SPEAKER_02]: You got to take care of your friends that way sometimes it is one of those things though.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, somebody at the beginning of their career who doesn't, you know, who doesn't quite get. [SPEAKER_02]: So I apologize for those of you who are here in the bar, you guys are like, why are you talking yet about the news? [SPEAKER_02]: There's plenty of it. [SPEAKER_02]: There's plenty of it. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll get to it here. [SPEAKER_02]: Here's [SPEAKER_02]: Here's a news item that was in the news. [SPEAKER_02]: It is in the news on tap.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's in the entertainment section today. [SPEAKER_02]: Travis Kelsey a Taylor Swift attended the Nebraska Cincinnati game last night. [SPEAKER_02]: First public thing after their engagement Nebraska wins. [SPEAKER_08]: Twenty seventeen and her ring is beautiful but not too much. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a beautiful engagement ring. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, I'm sure it's worth a fortune.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I guess she was I guess she was really nice to a young girl who was wearing some Husker stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: I heard some some stories about that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, she's her even though Travis is a Cincinnati alone. [SPEAKER_02]: So he was rooting for them. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, me personally, depending on you looking at some of the looks, I think that, you know, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: So Travis and Taylor are friends, obviously, with the mohomes is of course they have to be.

[SPEAKER_02]: Patrick mohomes is kind of the mentor to the Nebraska quarterback. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, there, I'm just not talking mentor. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm talking like, you know, you were big sistering to Bella. [SPEAKER_02]: He's like big brothering to the Nebraska quarterback. [SPEAKER_02]: Dominate, or it's a railroads, it's not, it's a dumb son. [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, and Dylan railroads, that's his name.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so when you watch, and I think the Taylor was cheering for Dylan, because she knows him, because Dylan is Patrick's kind of, you know, boy. [SPEAKER_02]: And she was like, hey, you know, good for him. [SPEAKER_02]: And so it's kind of, I, it was kind of funny that I, but anyway, long and short. [SPEAKER_02]: They're Nebraska cornersters. [SPEAKER_02]: As you know, I used to run the, I was responsible for the Husker Sports Radio Network.

[SPEAKER_02]: There is usually on sports broadcast. [SPEAKER_02]: There is what's called a play by play guy and a colored person. [SPEAKER_02]: So your play by play person is the person who does the main stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: This is what's happening. [SPEAKER_02]: And then after the moment of it happening, the color person comes in and says, well, this happened here and that's happening over there and they go back and forth.

[SPEAKER_02]: The play by play guy for the Nebraska sports for all the major Nebraska sports, but primarily football. [SPEAKER_02]: He died a cancer this past year. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he had been along. [SPEAKER_02]: I'd Sharpie was a good guy, but so they have a new guy in there. [SPEAKER_02]: And the new guy was trying to fit ten pounds of crap in a five pound bag. [SPEAKER_02]: You could tell that he was, he was nervous.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, his first big game as the voice of the Nebraska corner Oscars was at not even at home. [SPEAKER_02]: It was in Arrowhead Stadium, the big NFL stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs. [SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, you couldn't, you couldn't have picked a more, plus Taylor and Travis are there. [SPEAKER_02]: Taylor, Travis are there. [SPEAKER_02]: You're at Arrowhead. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, really big. [SPEAKER_02]: You don't want to screw up.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I could tell that he was nervous because he was trying to talk about cast, trying to get all this information in the middle of the room and write. [SPEAKER_02]: And so I just, I texted one of the other guys that I know who's on the network, who I've known for a long time. [SPEAKER_02]: And I, I used to work with him when I was there. [SPEAKER_02]: And I said, tell him he's doing fine.

[SPEAKER_02]: Tell him stop trying to put ten pounds of crap in a five pound bag, remind him you got the job because the people who made the choice know that you got it. [SPEAKER_02]: So just do it. [SPEAKER_02]: Take a breath. [SPEAKER_02]: You'll be fine.

[SPEAKER_02]: So they come out of the the the first big break and he slows down and he start and he you could you could tell he was getting I know my friend because he was like yeah, but you pass the message on whatever and it's it's nice when you're behind the scenes and you're in media you can do some of these kinds of things sometimes and yes that does mean that I had a little bit of production on that even though I haven't worked there in you know almost twenty years but

[SPEAKER_02]: that's it's what you do when you see somebody who you know is doing good you want to help them out and sometimes you want to do behind the scenes and yes I know I'm telling everybody here in the park but not everybody knows and that's fine and whatever but it's nice so you I mean I'm glad you helped Bella out today and she just and when she got in and sat down and she saw that I did things correctly she was a little more relief but she was crying the poor baby and so I just I just hugged her and like just

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because you look understandable, you mean she wants to feel she wants to do good. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: That's just it most people most people most people most people anywhere want to do good. [SPEAKER_02]: Most people are good people and I'm very glad for all the people who are going to be out and doing some protesting this weekend as well as some relaxing it is after a Labor Day weekend.

[SPEAKER_02]: First big story we put in the news on tap today at the politics bar.com. [SPEAKER_02]: Nearly a thousand workers over billionaire protests are scheduled for Labor Day across the US. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you AFL CIO. [SPEAKER_02]: Anti-Trump Protester planned as well. [SPEAKER_02]: Click the links you can check and you'll get more information there. [SPEAKER_02]: But you said there's a protest near you. [SPEAKER_08]: There is.

[SPEAKER_08]: Every Saturday there is one where I went for the no kings rally. [SPEAKER_08]: It's every Saturday there's one. [SPEAKER_08]: So one of these Saturdays I will walk down there again and cool. [SPEAKER_08]: Join some people because that's every Saturday at eleven from eleven to one. [SPEAKER_08]: But there is one on Monday on the same area and my brother-in-law and my husband's brother and his wife. [SPEAKER_08]: Who's also named Jodi? [SPEAKER_02]: That could be confusing at times.

[SPEAKER_02]: That could be confusing at times. [SPEAKER_02]: Seriously. [SPEAKER_02]: And a conversation, can you imagine? [SPEAKER_02]: Jody said, oh, she did. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I mean well. [SPEAKER_08]: So they're coming in to town. [SPEAKER_08]: And so we're going to see them on Monday before they head back out of town. [SPEAKER_08]: But they're coming to our house at eleven. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, but maybe you want to go to a protest?

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm like, I said to Lonnie, I said, do you think they might want to go to a protest with me? [SPEAKER_02]: And you know what Lonnie said back? [SPEAKER_05]: The politics bar. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: He is the group of this family. [SPEAKER_08]: It's all he ever says now. [SPEAKER_05]: The politics bar. [SPEAKER_08]: That's everything he says now. [SPEAKER_05]: And then sometimes when he says it again, the politics bar.

[SPEAKER_05]: You're like, you know. [SPEAKER_08]: No, I mean, obviously, I'm not going to be able to go to that because they're in town and love. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: But I really, I'm really glad for the people who are getting out there and to be protesting and standing up. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you know, we don't know what happened today. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we know a little bit about what happened at the hearing for Fed Governor Lisa Cook.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think it's going to be very good for Trump, hopefully. [SPEAKER_02]: At least, you know, I mean, I'm sure they will, they will appeal it because that's what Trump always tries to do.

[SPEAKER_02]: But [SPEAKER_02]: the fact is it's pretty it is it's pretty hard and fast and Supreme Court even though they've had some really crap decisions it seemed like they tried to cut the the fed out of their previous decisions where they were like a person can do whatever he wants because they also understand that if the president was allowed to muck about the fed it would destroy well pretty much destabilize the entire world economy in school.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah so [SPEAKER_02]: Anywho, by the way, if you wonder who's responsible for all of this, Bill Pultay, he's a little, yeah, I can't say what he is. [SPEAKER_02]: But there's a really good piece from Mother Jones that we stuck in the news on Tap today that really talks about it and guess what? [SPEAKER_02]: No surprise, like so many Trumpers, they point a finger at somebody else and they got a whole bunch of point back in him, yes.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's made similar issues to what they're trying to go after Fed Governor Lisa Cook about, so I'm like, whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: I am glad for all the people who are fighting. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad for you Utah Democrats and independence and non-Trump Republicans because the Utah Trump Republicans are so pissed off. [SPEAKER_02]: They overreached. [SPEAKER_02]: We mentioned that earlier this week, but there's a good story. [SPEAKER_02]: We've got that one in there as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's a great write-up by David Diane. [SPEAKER_02]: He is over at the prospect prospect.org. [SPEAKER_02]: Eric Frost, they're great. [SPEAKER_02]: We have that in the news on tap as well. [SPEAKER_02]: You've been saying, look, this Jerry Manning Republicans are going to do is not going to benefit them, especially with Latinos. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: He writes up a whole big thing and agrees with you.

[SPEAKER_08]: Well, I mean, that's a thing that's like a lot of Latinos are Republican. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but you know what, uh, you know, they don't have to vote Republican down. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: And I will just say what David says in the whole piece. [SPEAKER_02]: The short version of what David said, Jody is right. [SPEAKER_02]: Just saying. [SPEAKER_02]: You guys can read that is is in the news on tab today at the politics bar dot com.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I know that that's not as often. [SPEAKER_02]: That doesn't happen as often these days. [SPEAKER_02]: People do a lot more remote work than whatever. [SPEAKER_08]: But Darren Stevens always had Larry over. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe you're doing a big party for your friends. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe you're doing a party for your in-laws that you like. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what to say. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, you want to show off? [SPEAKER_02]: It's a cool drink.

[SPEAKER_02]: You guys can check it out. [SPEAKER_02]: It's the drink of the day. [SPEAKER_02]: It is. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll talk about that a little bit later. [SPEAKER_02]: It's been a frustrating day in some ways and I know this because normally on the the day before the day that a holiday starts like a Friday of a holiday weekend. [SPEAKER_02]: The normal pace of media. [SPEAKER_02]: You've done all kinds of media. [SPEAKER_02]: You've done a lot of films and TV and other things.

[SPEAKER_08]: My show, I had a podcast for fifteen years. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's true, too. [SPEAKER_02]: I have done a lot of daily news radio, whether it is being a news person or a sports guy or a news talk, like a lot of it with Randy or staff or Bill Press or Laura Ingraham, whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: And there's always the deadlines. [SPEAKER_02]: And you get, you get used to a rhythm.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the rhythm in the news is when it comes to usually like a Wednesday of a week like this week, things start to slow down Thursdays a little bit slower. [SPEAKER_02]: Friday is really slow. [SPEAKER_02]: Friday was slow. [SPEAKER_08]: Usually usually it is. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Nope. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean, you know, look, there's [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, we talked about, I mean, there's a holiday weekend coming up.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's the Lisa Cook hearing today. [SPEAKER_02]: They're, oh, there's some more election news that came out today. [SPEAKER_02]: I was geeked up about this. [SPEAKER_02]: This one came in late. [SPEAKER_02]: I got it. [SPEAKER_02]: I put it in there for you. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you read and you saw it or not. [SPEAKER_02]: Center, Johnny bread bags on her feet, Ernst. [SPEAKER_02]: It's not got it. [SPEAKER_02]: She's not going to be running in twenty, twenty six.

[SPEAKER_08]: Good. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: It's more like good. [SPEAKER_08]: And she's Iowa, we just want to see Iowa. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: Good. [SPEAKER_02]: Caitlyn Dre won with fifty five percent of the vote. [SPEAKER_02]: Her Republican challenger had forty four percent of the vote. [SPEAKER_02]: It was a swing vote of more than twenty points.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's the, I believe, the second special election in Iowa this year, where it's swung more than twenty points towards the Democrat. [SPEAKER_02]: which is probably a very big reason why Johnny Ernst is way away. [SPEAKER_08]: She's really. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but you still got so many of the national media pundits who are. [SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no, no, I was read. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, you know what? [SPEAKER_02]: I remember.

[SPEAKER_02]: When I worked for Barack and Joe with my brother and I won, in two thousand eight, we literally won every precinct in our district. [SPEAKER_02]: We won everything there. [SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, it's and this is within my memory. [SPEAKER_02]: This is this is two thousand eight. [SPEAKER_02]: It's not that long ago. [SPEAKER_02]: So the idea, well, and it's Republican forever, and it's never going to change. [SPEAKER_08]: Shut up. [SPEAKER_08]: God, especially now.

[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, that's what I love about all of this is it is scaring the crap out of Donald and his ilk. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: Also tells me that they haven't figured out how to fix the election.

[SPEAKER_02]: I like that that is that's a kind of a a thought about it that I hadn't really thought of and they keep they keep you know talking about an acting as though there are going to be elections which you believe before and I tend to agree with that there are going to be elections not only because elections are held at the state level so there's that they're controlled at the state level

[SPEAKER_02]: But also, there are, there's always elections that there are, there are factions within the Republican Party and different factions want to win different elections. [SPEAKER_02]: If you're going to discount a whole election, if you're saying, nope, one of the bigger elections, the every two year elections, the congressional elections. [SPEAKER_02]: Remember, we don't necessarily call them a bit cycle or midterms because it's only a midterm for the president anyway.

[SPEAKER_02]: But the every two year elections, just like the every, well, and because it is every two every four, you've got a whole bunch of other races down the ballad. [SPEAKER_08]: You've got this dog catcher. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you've got elections.

[SPEAKER_02]: You've got elections right now in Virginia and in New Jersey, and they are looking still pretty good for the Democratic candidates here, not just the governors, the lieutenant governors and Secretary of State, but [SPEAKER_02]: by God, nobody should be resting on anything.

[SPEAKER_02]: The reason that we want, one of the reasons that we want so many places, so many elections in two thousand eight on the Obama campaign was there was an internal slogan, an internal way of thinking about it. [SPEAKER_02]: And yes, I know there's something similar that was in the West Wing, but this was a campaign thing. [SPEAKER_02]: And it was every poll you see. [SPEAKER_02]: Imagine that you are [SPEAKER_02]: ten points down and yet you can still win. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, always.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so you just put your foot on the gas and you just keep on going. [SPEAKER_08]: I agree with that. [SPEAKER_08]: I completely agree with that because like last time it's like, okay, Kamala was up. [SPEAKER_08]: Everybody still vote. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: Don't stay home. [SPEAKER_02]: Pretend she's not up. [SPEAKER_02]: And get the good people off the sidelines. [SPEAKER_02]: Get the people off the side.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, by God. [SPEAKER_02]: Get the people that you know that should be voting. [SPEAKER_02]: Get them and make sure that they do. [SPEAKER_02]: But also get people off the reason that we've had so many problems with some of these mega folks. [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes it reminds me of what when people say about about people having kids. [SPEAKER_02]: So they look at somebody who is a fantastic person.

[SPEAKER_02]: And they look at their partner and they say, God, you guys are a great couple. [SPEAKER_02]: And they're like, you guys should have kids. [SPEAKER_02]: Whether it's you a birth or a doctor, you guys should have kids. [SPEAKER_02]: And if that logic was true, I mean, yes, that would be great because you get some great people from some parents who were kind of crap sometimes. [SPEAKER_02]: But you also get crap people from parents who were great.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I understand the logic of looking at it at a couple and saying, y'all should have kids because my god, you people are fantastic people. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, I was I was told that for years because when somebody would hand me a baby, they would cool. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, there was this one baby at a party. [SPEAKER_08]: And I was like, do you need me to hold her so that you can get a load off? [SPEAKER_08]: And the mom was like, yes, thank you.

[SPEAKER_08]: And so I'm holding the baby and all of a sudden her head goes right to my boob. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm like, she's hungry. [SPEAKER_08]: I can't help her. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry we're empty here, but I don't have anything to give to her. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, I had a wet spot on my shirt because she was like, because she was just numbing. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: I love children. [SPEAKER_08]: I think they're fantastic, but I like to hand them back.

[SPEAKER_02]: And sometimes people do and that's fine. [SPEAKER_02]: But I do think that [SPEAKER_02]: You know, in the same kind of way, we need to be, all of this is going to a thought that's in the back of my head about the fact that we need to be pushing things for the next generation. [SPEAKER_02]: We need to be working for the next year, but we also need to take care of what's here and now. [SPEAKER_02]: We need to do both. [SPEAKER_02]: It's not, it's not an either or it's a yes and.

[SPEAKER_02]: uh... people who say uh... well drop media drop drop radio drop TV it's everything's on the internet now like no no it's not there are still one of the most ubiquitous pieces of one of the most ubiquitous types of media that's out there is radios for those of you who are listening on our terrestrial those of you are listening on the radio or even on streaming radio congratulations you are part of a group of people who actually takes in more media than even a lot of people online everybody online gets all the intention

[SPEAKER_02]: But no, this is, uh, although this is another one that happens to be in our news on tap today. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, onto the entertainment and more under media matters. [SPEAKER_02]: The Atlanta Journal Constitution, the big paper there for our friends who are down in America, one radio land. [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, they are going to stop printing. [SPEAKER_08]: I heard that. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, Turkey going only online, which I understand it.

[SPEAKER_02]: There are other papers that have done it and look, those those gigantic presses, those things are expensive as hell. [SPEAKER_02]: They're dangerous as hell. [SPEAKER_02]: They're dirty. [SPEAKER_02]: There. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, you've got to maintain them. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, it's a whole thing. [SPEAKER_02]: The cost is each well. [SPEAKER_02]: And then you've got then you got the cost of delivery.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you've got I understand this and I understand that at some point we're going to be going to all digital. [SPEAKER_02]: All the newspapers eventually will.

[SPEAKER_02]: But [SPEAKER_02]: I, you know, being that I came up in that it's it's still it's depressing because like I have a free little photograph of the day that cover of the New York Times the day was more yeah and I and I think those things are important and I think I think that there are an awful lot of people who are the business folks who discount the nature of that and one of the reasons I mentioned that is the onion is a perfect example [SPEAKER_02]: So I know, Ben, a little bit.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Ben, who runs the onion used to be at NBC. [SPEAKER_02]: The onion is now, I think, what did he say? [SPEAKER_02]: It was just the other day. [SPEAKER_02]: The twelve largest newspaper in the United States. [SPEAKER_02]: Twelve largest print newspaper. [SPEAKER_02]: Wow. [SPEAKER_08]: That's. [SPEAKER_02]: They didn't less than a year. [SPEAKER_08]: Wow. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: People like print. [SPEAKER_02]: I do. [SPEAKER_02]: People.

[SPEAKER_02]: I like to go into a store and physically touch things oftentimes before I buy them. [SPEAKER_02]: And it was, oh, you can buy it online. [SPEAKER_02]: There are things that I know that I can buy online. [SPEAKER_02]: And there are things that I want to go to the store and touch. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, it's like people that have e-readers for both. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm like, no, if I drop my little paper back in the pool, it'll just go. [SPEAKER_02]: Right, it'll dry out.

[SPEAKER_08]: It'll dry out. [SPEAKER_08]: And it'll just be really, really fat. [SPEAKER_02]: Then you have to press it and try it. [SPEAKER_08]: But it won't ruin it. [SPEAKER_02]: But if it's not waterproof. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, if you drop an e-reader, it's going to buy. [SPEAKER_02]: Or it'll shatter or whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: So many things. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, it's like, I buy books.

[SPEAKER_02]: And there are a lot of people who look, that's why book stores still used book stores do so well. [SPEAKER_02]: Book stores in general. [SPEAKER_02]: Barton's a novel is actually found a way to [SPEAKER_02]: to be profitable again. [SPEAKER_08]: Amazon started as a bookseller. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: This is the whole thing is that just because there's new stuff out there doesn't mean you need to get rid of the old. [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that kind of leads into one of the other big stories in the news on Tap today. [SPEAKER_02]: So we have some fascism in action. [SPEAKER_02]: It's called the terminal stupidity edition. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I've told you about terminal stupidity before when you choose, you know, the lack of intelligence, the lack of wisdom and the lack of concern, lack of empathy. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well, that's very clear that RFK Junior has that and that's been part of the whole CDC crisis.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, there's some great writeups that we've got in the news on tap today. [SPEAKER_02]: The guy who is the acting CDC director was his, uh, was RFK's of aid. [SPEAKER_02]: His name is Jim O'Neill. [SPEAKER_02]: He's a nut job. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: He's an anti-vax conspiracist former aide to Peter Teele. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that is not good. [SPEAKER_02]: Guys, no training in medicine or infectious disease of any kind.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nope. [SPEAKER_02]: should not be the head of the CDC shouldn't be with it a million miles of being the head of the CDC guarantee that when he gets to capital hill, he is not going to be confirmed. [SPEAKER_08]: No, he should. [SPEAKER_02]: That's a confirmed position right and he shouldn't be, but because of all this mess, [SPEAKER_02]: CBS and Walgreens. [SPEAKER_02]: I had I had one story. [SPEAKER_02]: You had a better version of this today.

[SPEAKER_02]: CBS and Walgreens are clamping down on the COVID vaccines because the committee ACIP I remember when when we talked about this year a few weeks back when RFK junior got rid of all the experience people who were on the committee and brought in a bunch of idiots and anti-vaxxers that he's filled the committee with. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, ACIP has not given the blessing to the new COVID vaccine. [SPEAKER_02]: So some things did.

[SPEAKER_02]: I believe the FDA gave their blessing, but until ASAP gives their blessing. [SPEAKER_02]: because of the way that the lawyers at CVS and Walgreens work about certain states though. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's sixteenth states are left on the list waiting and they're waiting for ace of the nice of me. [SPEAKER_02]: They may not even give their blessing at all in which case then you have some states that get it in some states that don't.

[SPEAKER_02]: You did find the list who is eligible. [SPEAKER_02]: I guess one of the factors is if you're a former smoker that would be me. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, technically I was two at one time, so I suppose we could in theory do that. [SPEAKER_08]: And somebody tweeted it at Stephanie that this person who lives in California made an appointment online at CVS to get the new vaccine.

[SPEAKER_08]: And all you had to do is say yes, I have a preexisting condition or whatever, you know, I have something on the list. [SPEAKER_08]: And they said okay. [SPEAKER_08]: And they were like he's he's got his appointment. [SPEAKER_08]: They start taking appointments. [SPEAKER_08]: They start on the fourth. [SPEAKER_02]: I had a friend who said he tried to schedule one in New Jersey and he couldn't, but it was there was one that was available in New York.

[SPEAKER_02]: I guess I'll have to go into the city. [SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, I mean, I'm going to do it. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm an ex-moker and it's my medical files with my doctor. [SPEAKER_02]: So it's not like, but it's still, it's just the idea of having to go through all these hoops. [SPEAKER_08]: You shouldn't have to. [SPEAKER_02]: No, no, and what's- Oh, there's, there's, there's something even worse that they've done. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, that they've done to kids, which absolutely is this.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, well, we'll talk about them on the other side of the break here because they've done violence. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, besides gun violence. [SPEAKER_02]: That's, that's something else. [SPEAKER_02]: Cause, you know, RFK Jr doesn't think that, uh, gun violence is an epidemic. [SPEAKER_08]: New. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: There isn't anything else. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, even though he doesn't think it's epidemic. [SPEAKER_02]: Look, we've gotten more news.

[SPEAKER_02]: We've got good news. [SPEAKER_02]: We've got fun news. [SPEAKER_02]: We've got some other stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll cover great all plus we have the drink today coming up. [SPEAKER_02]: Which apparently I need one already. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll get you more drinks. [SPEAKER_02]: We got Karen and Anita coming up. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a Friday night of a Labor Day weekend. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you very much for spending your time with us. [SPEAKER_02]: Get your drink refreshed.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to do the same. [SPEAKER_02]: And you and me and Jody will all be back in a couple minutes. [SPEAKER_02]: All right. [SPEAKER_04]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_02]: Friday nights here at the politics ball. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you very much for joining us for wherever you are. [SPEAKER_02]: It is a big bar.

[SPEAKER_02]: So thank you by the way for those of you who are listening overseas and wherever you happen to be here in the United States. [SPEAKER_02]: Remember you could always get the politics bar podcast on your favorite podcast player or you can get the podcast ad free just sign up at the politics bar dot com. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, more news on tap. [SPEAKER_02]: I said that I was going to talk about this because well, it's, it pissed me off. [SPEAKER_02]: It really did.

[SPEAKER_02]: So one of these stupid things that comes another another stupid thing comes from RFK Jr. [SPEAKER_02]: One of the most respected networks of pediatric brain cancer hospitals and cancer centers in the country is now having to halt enrollment in clinical trials of new drugs and methods to stop cancer because the Trump regime basically at the whim of RFK Jr. [SPEAKER_02]: is stopping government funding for them.

[SPEAKER_08]: Children in the future may not know that there were good Kennedys at this point. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and I wonder where the hell the good Kennedys are because they can only do so much. [SPEAKER_08]: They're not in government. [SPEAKER_08]: So [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're still the candidates, you know, they could, they could be like, Bobby, come to the thing in the compound, then see where's Bobby? [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, he disappeared.

[SPEAKER_08]: No, they're not going to do that. [SPEAKER_08]: They're not going to chop a quitic. [SPEAKER_02]: He went, I was just going to say he went for a drive and he never came back. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to chop a quitic ham. [SPEAKER_02]: But my point is that I am glad that there are people that are standing up. [SPEAKER_02]: Russ Vot is about to get his ass wiped as well. [SPEAKER_02]: Because we're talking about government financing.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we were warning about this earlier this summer. [SPEAKER_02]: And sure enough, this SOB for those of you who've forgotten, Russ Vot is one of the key crafters, if you will, the project, twenty twenty five. [SPEAKER_02]: He's the guy who thinks you can do everything from the executive office that you don't really need Congress. [SPEAKER_08]: No, we know. [SPEAKER_08]: And one of the big. [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, but one of the big things he wants to use is something called a pocket recision. [SPEAKER_02]: Remember when we talked about this? [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, right. [SPEAKER_02]: And remember that the the the GAO, the last time that he talked about it, the GAO put out a thing, we put a link to it in the news on tap today, where the GAO, the government accountability organization says pocket recisions are not legal.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, this morning, you wake up and you find that at the direction of Russ Vaught, [SPEAKER_02]: The Trump White House is declaring they're going to use a pocket decision anyway and try and do it in run-around Congress. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, if you guys have forgotten, a recision works like this.

[SPEAKER_02]: Normally, the Democrats and their Republicans and the independence in the house and the Senate come together for a bill, even if it's on long-term bills, a continuing resolution known as a CR. [SPEAKER_02]: They do that. [SPEAKER_02]: They fund the government. [SPEAKER_02]: By the way, when they start coming back on Tuesday, that's exactly what they're going to have to do when they have fifteen working days. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, there's no new budget.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's just going to be a CR. [SPEAKER_02]: Can we keep doing what we've been doing? [SPEAKER_02]: But here's the thing. [SPEAKER_02]: And we've said this. [SPEAKER_02]: And this is where we need you to stand up. [SPEAKER_02]: And to kick the ass of your member of Congress to be honest, you remember what the house phone number is, Jody, because I do not remember the house phone number. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, you're looking it up. [SPEAKER_02]: Here's the deal.

[SPEAKER_02]: Here's what we need you guys to do because [SPEAKER_02]: Um, so Russ Vaughan has said that he is going to push through with from the White House, a, another resision, another cut. [SPEAKER_02]: She remember, like I said, House and Senate, they agree on a bill or a CR. [SPEAKER_02]: They fund the budget. [SPEAKER_02]: They say, this is how much money that every, uh, department in the government gets. [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: And a resision is when Congress goes in at the direction of the president, because remember, it's a bill has to be signed by the president, cash goes in and goes back to that budget and goes, nah, I want to take that money back. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: So it's like your boss pays you, and then says, nah, you know, you didn't really crap job on that. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna take back two hundred dollars of the of your pay because you did a crap job this week.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you go, but I put in the where I put in the work. [SPEAKER_02]: And he's like, no, no, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_02]: No matter. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna take two hundred dollars back. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so the number is two, two, two, two, four, three, one, two, one for the Congress. [SPEAKER_02]: Can you say that again? [SPEAKER_08]: Two, two, two, two, two, four, three, one, two, one for the House of Representatives.

[SPEAKER_02]: I believe also they can transfer you to the Senate. [SPEAKER_08]: You're going to give them your zip code and they'll get you to whoever you need to talk to. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: You are going to need to call your Congress people again and remember, calling works a lot better than emailing, sending a letter is fine.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can find your address too, but calling works really good because [SPEAKER_02]: Congressional Democrats are now predicting a shutdown because Russ Vaughn is doing this recision. [SPEAKER_02]: And here's the, we talked about this earlier this summer. [SPEAKER_02]: If I made a deal with you, I said, Jody, I will pay you next Tuesday for a hamburger today. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, Winpy. [SPEAKER_02]: Hey. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm all exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: I remember that too.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's why I've referenced it. [SPEAKER_02]: The thing is, I'll pay you, I'll pay you next Tuesday for hamburger day. [SPEAKER_02]: Next Tuesday comes and I don't pay you for that hamburger. [SPEAKER_02]: You could cut me off. [SPEAKER_02]: You could be like, no, it ain't no more burgers for you. [SPEAKER_02]: You ain't getting no more. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: And that is what Democrats are saying to do is Democrats and Republicans have made a deal.

[SPEAKER_02]: We agree that we're going to spend this money on these things in the department's in the government. [SPEAKER_02]: And what Russ Vought says is that he wants to be able to reach his hand up Donald Trump's butt and use Donald Trump's hands to sign something to say, you know what? [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to take in this case four point nine billion dollars in among other things for an eight and I'm going to take that back.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to, but I'm I the executive branch is going to take the money back from Congress. [SPEAKER_02]: Remind me again, what does Congress have that neither of the other two branches has? [SPEAKER_08]: The purse strings. [SPEAKER_02]: You got it. [SPEAKER_02]: Power of the purse. [SPEAKER_02]: So they don't have that. [SPEAKER_02]: And it Democrats, some of the congressional Democrats said this before.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm definitely going to be reaching out to Cory about this more. [SPEAKER_02]: I'd love to see if he'll come on and talk about it because. [SPEAKER_02]: Be great. [SPEAKER_02]: Because look, congressional Democrats, some of them are already now predicting a shutdown because they're saying, why should I make a deal with you? [SPEAKER_02]: If I make a deal with you and you Welch on the deal. [SPEAKER_09]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: No matter what the deal is that I make, you're gonna watch on the deal anyway and you're gonna steal money back. [SPEAKER_02]: Why the hell should I make any deal with you? [SPEAKER_02]: Because no matter what deal I make with you, you're gonna screw me. [SPEAKER_02]: And that's exactly what we're talking about when we're talking about funding the government. [SPEAKER_02]: So Democrats should make it. [SPEAKER_02]: They should say, here's the deal.

[SPEAKER_02]: I will agree with you Republicans to fund the government through February. [SPEAKER_02]: Let's just say February. [SPEAKER_02]: of twenty twenty seven. [SPEAKER_02]: That gets us all the way through the election and the installation of new members of the House and Senate. [SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you all the way through that and in exchange.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is illegal for you to do what it's already illegal for you to do, which is to do a pocket decision and you aren't going to put any more decisions on the table. [SPEAKER_08]: And we aren't going to talk about that at all until like there's treating it like a pocket veto. [SPEAKER_02]: Basically, yeah, and what they're every time that you make a new budget bill, you have potentially two to three resisions.

[SPEAKER_02]: If they break it down, then they usually can't break the two different things. [SPEAKER_02]: Because I remember we talked about this earlier this summer too, but usually it's at least two resisions. [SPEAKER_02]: And so Republicans think, well, if that's the case that we signed this new CR, then we can do two more resisions. [SPEAKER_02]: And Democrats simply say, if you're going to do resisions, then you can justify it to the whole country.

[SPEAKER_02]: because I'm trying to make a deal with you to fund our government that funds for all of us that does things for everybody. [SPEAKER_02]: And you are constantly kicking me in the groin and going, well, you will come back for more? [SPEAKER_02]: Matter of fact, no, I don't. [SPEAKER_02]: You, you want to act that way, boy. [SPEAKER_02]: Do it yourself. [SPEAKER_02]: Do the whole damn thing yourself. [SPEAKER_02]: And guess what?

[SPEAKER_02]: This is not one of those things they can do with fifty votes in the Senate. [SPEAKER_02]: They need democratic votes to get to sixty. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: So this is where you're going to have to hammer on your senators. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, hammer on your house members too, but definitely hammer on your senators and tell them no deal until Republicans agree no decisions. [SPEAKER_02]: I agree no decisions or no deal. [SPEAKER_02]: How works got it.

[SPEAKER_02]: You got to be tough with them. [SPEAKER_02]: You got to be exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, got to be tough with them. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, if for those of you who didn't hear, Trump provoked the Secret Service Protection for former VP Kamala Harris, which is absolute crap. [SPEAKER_02]: President Biden extended a year. [SPEAKER_02]: But, um, normally vice presidents only get it for like six months.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: if there are security concerns which right now there would be probably you know any normal administration would extend it but again this is not an all administration and they want to make things difficult for her and Joe extended it to Donald's children well he was an office right and they don't deserve it after that after he's not a office children don't get it but Joe gave his kids

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, and that's, and that is something that we are going to have to to figure out how to navigate once we regain power, but I absolutely still think that that Zorn mom, Danny, has it right with affordability being one of the biggest keywords. [SPEAKER_02]: We need to make things affordable, whatever we have to do, but we also need to have accountability. [SPEAKER_02]: And I already see some Democrats going, I'm getting uncomfortable. [SPEAKER_02]: Don't you dare get uncomfortable?

[SPEAKER_08]: Don't you dare. [SPEAKER_08]: We need to run on that. [SPEAKER_02]: We need to have accountability at every stinking level. [SPEAKER_02]: And it needs to be, and yes, that does mean that we are metaphorically going to grab Republicans by the face and push their face to the grill. [SPEAKER_02]: It's got to hurt them. [SPEAKER_02]: And you know what, that's fine, because they've hurt the rest of us.

[SPEAKER_02]: They need to be punished in such a way that, you know, I've called it Shermanization before. [SPEAKER_02]: Like Sherman, like Sherman did in Georgia. [SPEAKER_02]: There are people who are, I mean, still, it's more in a century later, and they're like, yeah, we remember that. [SPEAKER_02]: You don't obviously remember it. [SPEAKER_02]: But it is, it's a localized community memory. [SPEAKER_02]: And it was so drastic and so bad that, yes, there is some type of a past memory there.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, very much so, and it needs to be. [SPEAKER_02]: It needs to be passed on because that is not what what Republicans, what Maga Republicans are doing right now. [SPEAKER_02]: And I do try to make that that that distinction. [SPEAKER_02]: I think you do too. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm I'm more verbal about it. [SPEAKER_02]: I think that you you are more gentle, which is, you know, but look, there are Republicans who are they don't support Trump.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why there's some Republicans. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't even do Michael still. [SPEAKER_08]: Hi, Michael Michael. [SPEAKER_02]: It's exactly what I see. [SPEAKER_02]: It's exactly what I was thinking of. [SPEAKER_02]: But, um, [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Republicans, independents, non-Trump Republicans, independents, Democrats, liberals.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you're in, you know, one of the smaller parties, working families party, hey, Sarah, you know, all the different people who are, you know, the greater group of us that is the greater left now. [SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna have to hold everybody else who's been doing these things accountable. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And it needs to be done in such a way that it leaves a mental scar so they don't do it again.

[SPEAKER_08]: like watergate did for a long time, not long enough, but it did for a long time. [SPEAKER_02]: And next time we need we need we need to do what they didn't do during watergate. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we can go back through American history and go through all the different times reconstruction that wasn't done either, which is [SPEAKER_02]: You need to go back and once you've done that, then you need to find the people who are still saying, well, but I believe the South really won.

[SPEAKER_02]: And make sure to do what you got to do to get it out of it. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, I mean, it had President Ford not pardon Richard Nixon. [SPEAKER_08]: I think things would be a lot different. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I do too. [SPEAKER_02]: I still think that that was not a good idea. [SPEAKER_08]: I know what he meant. [SPEAKER_08]: I know he tried. [SPEAKER_08]: I know he I got to meet him once very lovely human. [SPEAKER_08]: But I know what he meant.

[SPEAKER_02]: But as my mother as my mother used to tell me all the time when I was a kid and I would say, oh mom, but I meant well, and she said, dear, the road to hell is paved with [SPEAKER_08]: And that was the problem. [SPEAKER_08]: He was advised incorrectly. [SPEAKER_08]: He should have just let Nixon be prosecuted like Jill Wayne Banks wanted to do. [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: Amen. [SPEAKER_02]: Should have been prosecuted and put his ass in jail as a warning.

[SPEAKER_02]: That was shout, not commit crimes like this. [SPEAKER_02]: And if you think about it, we go on hunt you down and find you. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: And so... Because Roger Ailes may have turned out completely differently, and then there wouldn't have been any fox. [SPEAKER_02]: Then there probably wouldn't have been the same type of right wing propaganda video. [SPEAKER_08]: I want to be on that timeline. [SPEAKER_08]: Can we get on that timeline?

[SPEAKER_02]: God, I wish I was. [SPEAKER_02]: Although, although you and I might not be hanging out in the bar at that point. [SPEAKER_02]: We might be hanging out in a bar in a different way then. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, things could still, you know, should have been singing the scene, Mr. Navy guy. [SPEAKER_02]: There you go. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: It could still happen. [SPEAKER_02]: True, true. [SPEAKER_02]: Lots more to talk about with you guys.

[SPEAKER_02]: Lots more to laugh about as well. [SPEAKER_02]: We got a whole other hour. [SPEAKER_02]: We got Karen and Anita coming in. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, we forgot to do the drink of the day. [SPEAKER_02]: We need to do that. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll do that at the top of the next hour.

[SPEAKER_02]: okay we'll do that uh yes coming up uh look you know dude you gotta do go down a hallway right left you know yeah we aim to please you aim to please all right all right we will sure back again sure it's our coming it's the politics bar in a Friday night thank you very much for hanging out with us we'll be right back after we face the bills of the politics bar [SPEAKER_03]: Well, let it go. [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_00]: Ready, come on.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Whether you are listening on America one radio in Atlanta or am nine fifteen Minneapolis Saint Paul or maybe you're listening to the detour talk in Tennessee or maybe you're on WCP T AM eight twenty or maybe you're listening on progressive voices worldwide wherever you happen to be or maybe you are one of those [SPEAKER_02]: future people, in which case, say, oh, we had, um, kind of trying to remember who was joking with us last night. [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was on, uh, blue sky.

[SPEAKER_02]: And, and he said, uh, well, I listened to the podcast before you're on one of the other stations, because, you know, we have different different stations at wrong. [SPEAKER_08]: Different times, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And some people delay the show. [SPEAKER_02]: They, they, they recorded and they delay, which is fine. [SPEAKER_02]: That's perfectly fine. [SPEAKER_02]: And, uh, so he says, so I listened to the podcast before I listened to you on this station.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, wait a minute, you're listening to us in the past before the view. [SPEAKER_02]: I was like, can we have your door in? [SPEAKER_08]: We're so delorean. [SPEAKER_02]: Dude, can we borrow your delorean, please? [SPEAKER_02]: Please. [SPEAKER_02]: I have things like it fixed. [SPEAKER_02]: I just want to go back and do one thing to what? [SPEAKER_02]: Well, okay, maybe a car. [SPEAKER_02]: I actually have a list.

[SPEAKER_08]: First off, Al Gore, let's just start with that. [SPEAKER_02]: I like him to be present, right? [SPEAKER_02]: Right, but my list goes back before that. [SPEAKER_02]: My list goes back before two thousand. [SPEAKER_02]: My list goes back a little bit further, but. [SPEAKER_08]: Ninety five, maybe, you know, when the DeLorean trip. [SPEAKER_02]: Possible. [SPEAKER_08]: Possible to the future and into the past.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was I was thinking of, well, anyway, we won't discuss that because I don't want to get into much trouble. [SPEAKER_02]: You can't mess with the timeline, Marty. [SPEAKER_08]: Butterfly effect, man. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: It is a Friday night here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you very much for hanging out on your Liberty weekend with us. [SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully you are having some good drinks out there.

[SPEAKER_02]: You got something maybe sitting in front of you. [SPEAKER_02]: I know so you're here in the bar, too. [SPEAKER_02]: We have a very good drink of the day today. [SPEAKER_02]: This one, you had different title. [SPEAKER_02]: I changed the subtitle because [SPEAKER_02]: You know what, look, sometimes people say when they're talking about like, you know, something that's juicy, like a lemonade or something, somebody says, you know, that juice is worth the squeeze.

[SPEAKER_02]: This drink is definitely today's drink of the day is a lemon drop crust.

[SPEAKER_08]: lemon drug and it's inspired by national lemon juice which is the other drink that I drink besides the coaxero oh yeah it's lemon with I'm weird I like diatonic so I just put lemon juice with diatonic I'm a weird person nothing else isn't it just a ton it's just a ton it's only going to go you need more tonic and lemon juice I'm like [SPEAKER_08]: It just reminds me of a drink, but it isn't a drink. [SPEAKER_08]: That makes sense.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, there are a lot of some people say that about mocktails, although we'll have some more good. [SPEAKER_02]: Good luck to go to yesterday. [SPEAKER_02]: If you missed the mocktail from yesterday, it's in the drink of the day. [SPEAKER_02]: Subscribe. [SPEAKER_02]: There you go. [SPEAKER_08]: And that's why I like it because I think I'm drinking and there's no caffeine and lemon juice so that's why it's good for your voice. [SPEAKER_02]: It makes my voice sound like this.

[SPEAKER_05]: The politics bar. [SPEAKER_05]: It makes your voice sound like the politics bar. [SPEAKER_02]: So what is in a lemon drop crust? [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so first off, you got to make the crusta. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so what you need is a flute glass or a flute glass, which is like a champagne flute, right? [SPEAKER_08]: Or a small wine glass, either one works. [SPEAKER_02]: And you don't want the delicate champagne, please.

[SPEAKER_08]: You want me to do more durable with some, yeah, because it's gonna be. [SPEAKER_08]: And you need to shake or some ice, one and a half ounces of kettle one vodka or any vodka you prefer.

[SPEAKER_08]: Got it a half ounce of palini limon cello liqueur or any other lemon liqueur or any limon cello right and two thirds ounce of lemon juice freshly squeezed got it as per usual and a quarter ounce of cane syrup or simple syrup whatever simple syrup whatever you got in two dashes of feed or two dashes of lemon bitters which is good lemon bitters right whatever brand you like right so this is where it gets complicated [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_08]: He's where you're going to look like an awesome human if you bring anybody else over. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: You select and chill the wine or flute glass with a rim diameter that will snugly accommodate a small lemon tightly enough to act as a watertight extension of the glass. [SPEAKER_08]: I know that sounds weird. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, what you're doing, what you're basically doing is you are taking the outside, the rind of the lemon. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you're using it as kind of a ring that you put on top of the glass. [SPEAKER_02]: You kind of tied it into the glass. [SPEAKER_08]: It's the top of the glass. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: You cut off both ends of the fruit and carefully remove the pulp to the bubble. [SPEAKER_08]: You just said that. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: You place it on the outside of the glass.

[SPEAKER_08]: Wet the edges of the glass and the exposed fruit shell with the sugar syrup and dip it in the caster. [SPEAKER_08]: of sugar to frost the edge. [SPEAKER_02]: You're basically kind of visually candying the edge of the glass and the rind that you've added to the glass. [SPEAKER_02]: Remember, the rind is acting kind of like a thick rubber band at the top of the glass. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_08]: And it's kind of like when you do a margarita, if you want to salt the rim, it's similar to that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody do it. [SPEAKER_02]: You're just wearing it with sugar. [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody do it. [SPEAKER_08]: Then you leave it in the fridge for a couple of hours. [SPEAKER_08]: So this is why you can't drink it immediately. [SPEAKER_02]: But it also keeps the glass chilled that way.

[SPEAKER_08]: And keep the chilled and the sugary, lemony thingy will get like a nice hard around the room. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it gets candied basically. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: So then once you have done that and now you're like, I want to drink it. [SPEAKER_08]: You pour all the ingredients with the ice into a shaker and shake. [SPEAKER_02]: The vodka, the lemon cello, the lemon juice, the simple syrup and the bitters. [SPEAKER_02]: And put those in a shaker.

[SPEAKER_08]: Exactly and then you straight or shake you shake it until it's chilled which got it will be great in the glass and then you strain it into the chilled glass with the pre-crested rim and there you go I mean it takes a lot of time I was gonna say that yeah it seems it seems like it'd be you know a little bit extra but it also seems like it would be you know really worth it would be kind of a lot of fun it would be like fun like if you're having a small dinner party you do like six of them yeah and you serve that maybe at the end of the evening

[SPEAKER_02]: It'll be very fast. [SPEAKER_02]: We're only having, you know, a couple more people over your own home personal bar. [SPEAKER_02]: You could do that. [SPEAKER_02]: Look, we are very, very glad that all of you subscribe. [SPEAKER_02]: If you missed any part of the drink of the day, easy thing to do. [SPEAKER_02]: Remember, you can subscribe to the politics bar dot com six dollar cover charge per month. [SPEAKER_02]: It's you that drink of the day recipe.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She's in Chicago, but she's coming to us through with a veteran looks like from Florida. [SPEAKER_08]: From Florida. [SPEAKER_07]: Here, the pulse nightclub. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: I sure we can't hear you Anita, but we love your shirt as well. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, sorry. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, then we make good pair. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, you guys make a good pair anyway.

[SPEAKER_02]: Karen and I'll true blue politics. [SPEAKER_02]: If you are not subscribed to their podcast, you can find that. [SPEAKER_02]: I believe on Apple podcasts, which you should do just type in true blue politics. [SPEAKER_02]: You'll find them there. [SPEAKER_02]: How's your guys week been? [SPEAKER_02]: This has been a flyer hose of. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god. [SPEAKER_07]: I know. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm heavy. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes, I always really.

[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know what it's going to end. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm ready for some good news. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, but this is interesting. [SPEAKER_02]: Jody and I were talking about this earlier in the day, too. [SPEAKER_02]: And we talked about it in an hour one, too. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, because I've, well, Jody's got a lot more of the entertainment side. [SPEAKER_02]: I've done a lot more of the hour to hour news side, the where you got that for years.

[SPEAKER_02]: you get to a rhythm you notice the rhythm where you get to like a Labor Day weekend like we are like we're at the beginning of the Labor weekend usually the news is it's as heavy or heavier Monday Tuesday Wednesday [SPEAKER_02]: And then like when they run three or three p.m. [SPEAKER_02]: five p.m. [SPEAKER_02]: somewhere in there, it starts to slow down. [SPEAKER_02]: It gets slower on Thursday.

[SPEAKER_02]: By the time you get to Friday, sometimes you're sitting there going, okay, crap, I know I had some stories that I missed from earlier in the week. [SPEAKER_02]: And today was just not that kind of it was it was not that kind of a week all week. [SPEAKER_06]: We did have that win in Iowa though. [SPEAKER_02]: We want to tell us that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Caitlyn Dre, who won with fifty five percent of the votes. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, more than twenty points.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you're the good news about Iowa today. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, Ojo de Ornsis. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. [SPEAKER_06]: You have to wait until after that special election. [SPEAKER_06]: So the writing on the wall. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, what you said, Jody, look at that. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, great mindset. [SPEAKER_06]: Like, yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, look, this and and that is I really do think that that's the case is that that's, you know, [SPEAKER_02]: The funny thing is is immediately the pundits. [SPEAKER_02]: So once I saw that, I was like, OK, let's let's see what CNN saying. [SPEAKER_02]: Let's see what you're saying.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see what you know that the streamers, your NBC, your streamers saying, and all the pundits are going, well, you know, Iowa is still blood red and it's all Republican and rub, but I'm just like, [SPEAKER_06]: We just proved it's not true. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it was at eleven point went for Trump in that district and then she won by over ten points. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: It was more than twenty points.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: So I, I, I just, I'm like, folks. [SPEAKER_06]: It's Obama one Iowa. [SPEAKER_02]: We mentioned that, too, because that's where I worked. [SPEAKER_02]: That's where I work for Barack and Joe. [SPEAKER_02]: I work for my my younger brother there. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and we we won every single precinct in the district. [SPEAKER_02]: We want all of them, which is kind of rare for the area around Adventureland theme. [SPEAKER_06]: What was it?

[SPEAKER_06]: Senator from Iowa? [SPEAKER_06]: Really? [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, my God. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, the Brassley the old one. [SPEAKER_06]: No, no, no, no, the Democrat. [SPEAKER_06]: He retired. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, he's broken. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, Tom Harkin. [SPEAKER_06]: That's great. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, my brother knows him. [SPEAKER_06]: Still around. [SPEAKER_06]: He's still alive. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's still alive.

[SPEAKER_02]: They still do their annual dinner. [SPEAKER_02]: They've had some issues with the Iowa Democratic Party, but I hope they're getting things together. [SPEAKER_02]: I hope a lot of the state parties are getting things together. [SPEAKER_02]: I hope that the cities are getting things together. [SPEAKER_02]: I am.

[SPEAKER_02]: I really like J.V. [SPEAKER_02]: Pritzker and I really really really want to see I want to see what what Chicago because there we've got a story the news on tap today about we have yesterday too about how they're trying to move ice people in and maybe they're going to try to threaten Chicago or whatever and I'm just like [SPEAKER_06]: I was like, no, no, I don't think so. [SPEAKER_06]: They're afraid of it. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, they've been planning this for months.

[SPEAKER_06]: We'll point. [SPEAKER_06]: And they just haven't done it because they're afraid. [SPEAKER_07]: It's not going to go well. [SPEAKER_06]: No. [SPEAKER_07]: You don't want JB Pritzker and bring, I mean, Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker are excellent messengers and they are. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, the amazing representatives of Chicago and the state of Illinois. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, and I'm hoping they don't want them out front.

[SPEAKER_02]: So when I'm hoping what what the people who they have around them, the legal people who have around them, I don't know of either of you to heard this. [SPEAKER_02]: Jody, I played this earlier in the week. [SPEAKER_02]: Philly, D.A. [SPEAKER_02]: Larry Crasner. [SPEAKER_02]: He was on my discharge. [SPEAKER_02]: And he had a fantastic thing. [SPEAKER_02]: He actually came out and said what a lot of people in that space have been saying quietly.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm glad he said it publicly and media here. [SPEAKER_02]: When we put it up in the DVR, so you guys can hear it. [SPEAKER_01]: group of ICE agents or you even have the military coming in to Philadelphia and they're committing crimes. [SPEAKER_01]: They're committing assaults that are illegal homicides that are illegal. [SPEAKER_01]: The kidnapping people they're engaging in unlawful restraint, which is a crime in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're obstructing the administration of justice. [SPEAKER_01]: If you have people coming in, military ICE whoever it is acting beyond their legal authority, they can be prosecuted assuming they commit crime. [SPEAKER_01]: And they cannot be pardoned by the president, which bingo. [SPEAKER_06]: I've been waiting for that for somebody to just go and arrest them. [SPEAKER_02]: I have very glad.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's that's the thing is that these national guard members remember they are it's on the weekend. [SPEAKER_02]: It's their weekend gig. [SPEAKER_02]: They have jobs. [SPEAKER_02]: They have lives. [SPEAKER_02]: They don't want to be arrested. [SPEAKER_02]: You know people. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and you got other people who work for ICE who may not be all into it, but they don't want to necessarily get arrested either.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am hoping that every other DA is taking a lesson from Larry Craser and saying you bring that crap here. [SPEAKER_02]: We're going to have some problems. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, we got to pay some bills here. [SPEAKER_02]: We do have Karen and Anita from True Blue Politics Inn. [SPEAKER_02]: It's Friday night. [SPEAKER_02]: You got Jody. [SPEAKER_02]: You got me. [SPEAKER_02]: You got Karen. [SPEAKER_02]: You got Anita. [SPEAKER_02]: And you got you.

[SPEAKER_02]: Which we are very good at. [SPEAKER_02]: You got the part. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: That's a politics bomb. [SPEAKER_07]: We're going to get a cocktail. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, good. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, we're going to get some drinks. [SPEAKER_02]: You guys got some drinks. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Works for me. [SPEAKER_02]: We will be right back hang on. [SPEAKER_04]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We have the wonderful Anita and Karen are Karen and Anita depends on which direction you are in the bar from that side. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking away for this side. [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, from true blue politics, Jody and I are always glad to have you guys here on a Friday night. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a nice way to wind down the week with friends of yours. [SPEAKER_02]: You get a hang with, you have fun with.

[SPEAKER_02]: You don't worry about stuff too much because yeah, I and there's super wicked smart. [SPEAKER_08]: Wicked. [SPEAKER_02]: I have to admit, Karen, they're the background you've got there from the the crosswalk at the Poles and I club. [SPEAKER_02]: I honestly wish that. [SPEAKER_02]: So for those of you who miss. [SPEAKER_08]: Can we put lacquer down? [SPEAKER_06]: Is it hard? [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they're guarding it from what I understand.

[SPEAKER_06]: They've got police officers guarding the crosswalk. [SPEAKER_06]: Make sure. [SPEAKER_07]: that nobody goes in colors. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Florida is so bad in the world. [SPEAKER_02]: Things although we've we've got another another story about bad governing from Florida. [SPEAKER_02]: It is in the news on tap. [SPEAKER_08]: And Randy Randy is to say Florida. [SPEAKER_08]: Florida. [SPEAKER_08]: I live there. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah, I live there.

[SPEAKER_02]: Three and a half years and when when you know I used to it's like why why do you call Florida? [SPEAKER_02]: And then after I live there for a little bit like home. [SPEAKER_02]: No, [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but so the alligator alcatraz you guys know that that we had a strange. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's basically shut down. [SPEAKER_02]: There's there was an email that was discovered.

[SPEAKER_02]: Basically a believe it was a rabbi was contacting him and saying, are you guys still going to need any religious services? [SPEAKER_02]: Because that's what you know, rabbis and pastors and priests and moms. [SPEAKER_02]: They all contact and be like, [SPEAKER_02]: Well, for this for free, we'll come by. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll take care of your prisoners, whatever, because that's, you know, part of international loss.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the email that the person sent back to this rabbi was like, you know, by like Friday, there's going to be nobody there, literally. [SPEAKER_08]: So anyway, so, right, they're still in another concentration camp. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, they've moved them to northern Florida, but at least an alligator alcatraz, which was, you know, the worst, they have the other guys actual facility, but [SPEAKER_02]: Um, how long ago did did they open up that that concentration game?

[SPEAKER_02]: I'll get your Alcatraz. [SPEAKER_02]: You guys remember? [SPEAKER_08]: It has a bit very long. [SPEAKER_08]: Like two months. [SPEAKER_02]: Six weeks ago. [SPEAKER_08]: Six weeks. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah, months. [SPEAKER_02]: You want them with the cost of that was? [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my, I can't imagine. [SPEAKER_02]: I know. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Two million, eight million dollars of Florida taxpayer money. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: Into that and it all is blown out there. [SPEAKER_02]: Waste, fraud, never. [SPEAKER_06]: Are they still trying to? [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, we're just closed. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, they're still trying to open out, could trust the real out, could trust. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, they are. [SPEAKER_02]: And that's the thing. [SPEAKER_02]: I think I think they will try, but among other things, it's going to have to. [SPEAKER_02]: It's similar.

[SPEAKER_02]: I saw a piece, some of you referred it to me in architecture digest. [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't pull that aside. [SPEAKER_02]: It was a little bit weird, but I saw that this week. [SPEAKER_02]: And they're saying because of the everything that would be involved in [SPEAKER_02]: It can be such a massive thing with the White House.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's just like that with Alcatraz, because these are old facilities, they're big facilities, and among other things, they have special designation, special status. [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, you can't just say, well, I'm gonna slap a deck on there. [SPEAKER_02]: So me and my friends can go party up back and have, you know, bears and stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: You can't make any significant adjustments.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can't make any significant changes to the building or to the way that the whole thing works without it going through multiple different committees, especially in California. [SPEAKER_08]: And that's a park. [SPEAKER_08]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_08]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_08]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_08]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_08]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_06]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_06]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_08]: I've been to Elk.

[SPEAKER_08]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_08]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_08]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_08]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_02]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_02]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_02]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_08]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_08]: I've been to Elk. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: Then we're talking about like the White House with the ballroom. [SPEAKER_02]: It's the same thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, it's more so because in order to get the the balcony, the Truman balcony that that is so often used, they had to do all kinds of stuff and they had to wait years for it because it had to clear all these committees. [SPEAKER_02]: There is no way to go. [SPEAKER_06]: And not only that they're just giving him little stupid things to do, they're trying to keep him busy. [SPEAKER_06]: That's what I think. [SPEAKER_06]: It's like theater. [SPEAKER_06]: All he talks about.

[SPEAKER_06]: He's a designer and the last paper now. [SPEAKER_07]: Basically property manager. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_09]: But that's what he's done. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, the gold stuff they bought it. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Hey, deep. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, it's on deeper pain. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: They bought it cheap. [SPEAKER_02]: They painted it with cheap gold paint and they slept in the walls. [SPEAKER_06]: It's gross.

[SPEAKER_06]: And then every job is there's more gold. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, why does he think that looks good? [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, because he's right. [SPEAKER_02]: Because because of you guys remember, okay, put your cells back in nineteen eighty five through eight. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: That's right. [SPEAKER_02]: That's okay. [SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna try this. [SPEAKER_02]: Right in his head, exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: And eighty five through eighty eight.

[SPEAKER_02]: Man, that looked like you were rich. [SPEAKER_02]: And remember what I've said before is that Donald Trump is the stupid man's idea of a sort. [SPEAKER_02]: Yep. [SPEAKER_02]: The poor man's idea of a rich man. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_06]: But all like authoritarian types seem to be attracted to that. [SPEAKER_06]: I know. [SPEAKER_06]: It's so close.

[SPEAKER_08]: There was a house in Beverly Hills years ago, down the street from where we used to live on Sunset Boulevard. [SPEAKER_08]: Beautiful white, it was a gigantic house, by the way. [SPEAKER_08]: Gorgeous columns. [SPEAKER_08]: It looked similar to the White House, actually. [SPEAKER_08]: And these people moved in, and they were marble statues. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm guessing they did some remodeling. [SPEAKER_08]: They painted the house. [SPEAKER_08]: They put a gold roof on it.

[SPEAKER_08]: And then they painted the statues nude. [SPEAKER_06]: They put some flamingos out there. [SPEAKER_08]: No, they didn't do that. [SPEAKER_08]: They painted the statues flesh colored with hair and everything. [SPEAKER_08]: And the house itself was painted green. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: And we didn't have a hoa. [SPEAKER_08]: There was no way to change it because he will hoas on. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Because there was no HOA, there was no way to change it.

[SPEAKER_08]: But it was like the most. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh my God. [SPEAKER_08]: It was gone. [SPEAKER_08]: Right on, Sunset Boulevard and Alpine Drive from like a teen eighty to whenever they sold it. [SPEAKER_08]: Now it's two different homes on the same property because it was a big property. [SPEAKER_08]: But it was just like, oh God. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't get it. [SPEAKER_06]: Some people really like that don't.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't understand, I don't understand the taste or tastelessness of some people. [SPEAKER_02]: For example, the tastelessness of Pete Keggra. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you guys saw this. [SPEAKER_02]: This was in the news on tap. [SPEAKER_02]: So more traces behavior from that, I, so many names I want to call him. [SPEAKER_02]: So he is, he is, he is reinstalled. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, yes, that's you say that like it's a bad thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_06]: If you're in a tech affair with fans, maybe it is. [SPEAKER_02]: It's like the worst people in the world, the stupidest people in the world, the worst people in the world, the [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that goes along with the idiot who is now the acting head of the CDC. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure did you guys. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, no. [SPEAKER_06]: I haven't heard. [SPEAKER_02]: He was, he was, he was an aid RFK junior before.

[SPEAKER_02]: And now he is a, well, he's, he's a nut job. [SPEAKER_02]: He's an anti-vaxxer. [SPEAKER_02]: He's a conspiracist. [SPEAKER_02]: That's true. [SPEAKER_02]: He has no training in medicine or infectious disease. [SPEAKER_02]: It's not so. [SPEAKER_06]: Of course not. [SPEAKER_06]: Why would you have that? [SPEAKER_06]: And he used to work for Peter Teal. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yes.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, this is the prize, man, because he put that kid in charge of national security, the one that was a stock boy at H-B, which is a grocery store. [SPEAKER_06]: It's over here. [SPEAKER_05]: Right, exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, any graduate from UTSA, which is not a good school. [SPEAKER_06]: I know because I went there. [SPEAKER_02]: That's funny. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_02]: Although I I got to be proud of my school last night for a number of reasons, including the fact that Taylor and Travis were watching my school's game. [SPEAKER_02]: There. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was it was actually it was at an era ahead in Kansas City, but it was an Nebraska versus Cincinnati. [SPEAKER_02]: Now Travis is a Cincinnati alum. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, lots. [SPEAKER_02]: Travis is Travis is best friend.

[SPEAKER_02]: Happens to be the quarterback of the Kansas city chief. [SPEAKER_02]: That right. [SPEAKER_02]: And he is well, I mean, you know, that's they're both on the team, but he is the mentor of the quarterback for Nebraska. [SPEAKER_02]: And so, you know, obviously Travis was rooting for his team. [SPEAKER_02]: I honestly kind of think just by watching some of the stuff that Taylor was rooting for the Huskers, or at least I would like to. [SPEAKER_08]: And they won.

[SPEAKER_02]: The Huskers, the Huskers won. [SPEAKER_02]: Twenty to seventeen last night. [SPEAKER_07]: All right. [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, my biggest thing is I like Husker volleyball even more because the football team is up and down. [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes they're good. [SPEAKER_02]: Some is there. [SPEAKER_02]: This is not the nineteen nineties where the Huskers were super dominant in football, but [SPEAKER_02]: And trade to that for other sports where we are good at women's basketball.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're good at volleyball. [SPEAKER_02]: I love Husker volleyball ring being ranked number one and have some matches this weekend, which I will be watching those because [SPEAKER_08]: I have to check on my alma mater, because when I went to U.P., our women's volleyball team was. [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for having me. [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for having me. [SPEAKER_02]: I was very glad to see that, uh, what was it? [SPEAKER_02]: Was it Monday?

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it was, uh, yes, that Penn State played Kansas and Kansas almost beat Penn State. [SPEAKER_02]: And I laughed because Penn State, Penn State won. [SPEAKER_02]: They beat Nebraska last year where they got, but Penn State is only doing so well because three of their best players actually are cast off from Nebraska. [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm just like, you know, whatever you, you can, you can try to win, but we know the only way you're winning is because we're.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's not always. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: It's our women. [SPEAKER_02]: They don't want it. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just saying. [SPEAKER_02]: I was winning. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: I love, I love, I love it. [SPEAKER_02]: I love it. [SPEAKER_02]: I love it. [SPEAKER_08]: So that's no longer has a football team because they's. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, also football is very expensive.

[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of people don't really have expensive college sports are. [SPEAKER_02]: And for a lot of schools, football or men's basketball or baseball, men's basketball, I said that already, but you know, that there are certain sports that each each school has that are what they call their revenue sports. [SPEAKER_02]: That's the one that brings it in and it allows them to have the other sports. [SPEAKER_02]: But what was done in Nebraska?

[SPEAKER_02]: So football's revenue sports, men's basketball's revenue sport, women's is getting close and volleyball is revenue sports. [SPEAKER_02]: So you have like four revenue generating sports, two of which are women sports, a tends to make things a lot better and they're like, how did you do it?

[SPEAKER_02]: And it's like because [SPEAKER_02]: University worked with the city, worked with the state, they were all investing in the infrastructure of the campus and of the city for the benefit of everybody. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, when you invest in things, it makes them better. [SPEAKER_02]: And I, I can understand all these Republicans who think that they're going to cut their way to a better future because that never works.

[SPEAKER_06]: I could be like, we can be like, have, you know, like far by Mississippi. [SPEAKER_06]: I have to build a, well, it's a soccer, um, no, it was a volleyball arena for me. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but yeah, yeah, because his daughter was going there. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, the Niners actually, I don't know if they still do, but they practice at my alma mater's stadium because it's still there. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, really? [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, cheap for them.

[SPEAKER_08]: They just run and then they can and I'm sure. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and I'm sure since it's not too far away and the team has the money and they say, hey, it's it's located decently the team. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure pays a pretty penny to the school so that they can keep the upkeep and keep it nice. [SPEAKER_08]: That's as far as I know from like ten years ago, I don't know anymore. [SPEAKER_02]: But that's, look, there are ways. [SPEAKER_02]: There are ways.

[SPEAKER_08]: In nineteen eighty eight. [SPEAKER_08]: So it's been a while. [SPEAKER_06]: There are probably not fair anymore. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe. [SPEAKER_08]: But we saw a football team when I graduated. [SPEAKER_08]: So there's a lot. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: But I was saying there are ways to do government that make sense. [SPEAKER_02]: There are ways to and and it's been it's been obvious.

[SPEAKER_02]: Have you guys seen some of these town halls that have been going on there? [SPEAKER_02]: There are of course the people are so angry. [SPEAKER_06]: They're angry at Oklahoma. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Congressman tried to bring up a real on the Muslim brotherhood? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that?

[SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that?

[SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that [SPEAKER_02]: He is a house member now. [SPEAKER_02]: He's going to be running for the Senate. [SPEAKER_02]: He was booed out of his own town hall while attempting to defend the big ugly bill.

[SPEAKER_02]: And in fact, he ducked out the back of the building. [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, it has the hours. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: They're cowards. [SPEAKER_02]: They're all of them. [SPEAKER_06]: You're angry about a multiple, a multiple, a multiple. [SPEAKER_06]: Tude of things, you know, multitude. [SPEAKER_06]: I was going to get that out from out. [SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty nice. [SPEAKER_06]: I didn't just have a few. [SPEAKER_06]: It's fun.

[SPEAKER_06]: I've had a few of those shots. [SPEAKER_06]: You guys bring it to the shots. [SPEAKER_06]: They opened the bar, okay? [SPEAKER_08]: That thing with that guy was he is blaming George Soros for paying people. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yes. [SPEAKER_06]: I think I heard that guy. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, my god. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, my god. [SPEAKER_08]: George Soros checks. [SPEAKER_08]: Please. [SPEAKER_07]: I've been doing this for years and I've received not one check.

[SPEAKER_06]: I haven't received it. [SPEAKER_07]: It's now really badly bad at paying. [SPEAKER_07]: He's very bad. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, he would be so poor now after all these protests for twenty thirty years. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, here's the thing, too, is that they're also, they're not just getting hit in money. [SPEAKER_02]: Why so there was the other story. [SPEAKER_02]: We have voters that town hall and Iowa erupted on it, representative Ashley Hinson.

[SPEAKER_02]: She was also falling all over the big bill. [SPEAKER_02]: She has already said that if Johnny Ernst decided not to run, which we now know, as we said earlier, the Johnny Ernst is not running, that she wants to run for Senate. [SPEAKER_02]: And there are, there are. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly Jody. [SPEAKER_02]: That is he, once again, Jody is right. [SPEAKER_02]: Is that the thing?

[SPEAKER_02]: Is that the thing for the action of some people? [SPEAKER_02]: And I want Iowa. [SPEAKER_02]: They're like, bring it. [SPEAKER_06]: They don't seem to like her. [SPEAKER_06]: She does. [SPEAKER_06]: She's like a couple of times. [SPEAKER_06]: She keeps getting booed. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_06]: She's glad for punishment. [SPEAKER_02]: I think she won her race for house by like a couple hundred votes or something. [SPEAKER_08]: She didn't even win a big.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, but she's very ambitious and she's young and she goes, well, I'm young and pretty. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's like [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think that one kick got into the news of that. [SPEAKER_02]: We can also talk about somebody who is young and pretty and who unfortunately is not going to be on SNL. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm sorry, Jody's not going to be on SNL. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a Friday night. [SPEAKER_02]: Can we have you guys back until then? [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, of course.

[SPEAKER_02]: All right. [SPEAKER_02]: Last time we played up here on a Friday night at the politics bar as you can tell. [SPEAKER_02]: We're having a lot of fun. [SPEAKER_02]: It is after all the beginning of a holiday weekend. [SPEAKER_02]: We are very glad you're sharing some of your Friday night with us. [SPEAKER_02]: Get your drink refreshed. [SPEAKER_02]: Do you got to do as we say, you know, we in please. [SPEAKER_02]: You aim to please then come on back.

[SPEAKER_02]: We'll be right here. [SPEAKER_02]: One more round at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_04]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_02]: last call on a Friday night here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_02]: You got your journey Hamilton who is dancing a bit. [SPEAKER_02]: You got your care and you got your Nina. [SPEAKER_02]: You got your many shots of it. [SPEAKER_02]: Here's how you guys doing this evening.

[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you by the way for spending some of your Labor Day weekend with us. [SPEAKER_02]: If you missed any of the show, you know what to do. [SPEAKER_02]: Get on your podcast player type in the politics bar. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll go to the politicsbar.com and you can listen to podcasts there as well. [SPEAKER_02]: So we were talking about elections and people candidates running. [SPEAKER_02]: We were talking about candidate claims, things that they claimed.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then when they get in office, yes, the thing that you and I were joking about a lot, Joe, when Donnie, when Grampie Donnie was saying, you know, I'm going to give, uh, eight hundred, ten hundred, a thousand four, fourteen hundred. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, for drugs and we're like, wait, you're going to pay us to take drugs. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm down with that. [SPEAKER_07]: I am totally down. [SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: So this leads this leads this leads this is a lead in free you and you know because you said that you called your I called your Congress. [SPEAKER_06]: I did chip Roy. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you know, so a pot pot. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: He's he's he's he's he's he's okay. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: So I called up there and I said, you know, I just went to my doctor.

[SPEAKER_06]: I have COVID and he gave me a prescription for pet solid. [SPEAKER_06]: I went to the pharmacy, my CBS, and they charged me four hundred dollars. [SPEAKER_06]: And I sat there waiting because they only, for my calculation, they only twenty three thousand eight hundred dollars. [SPEAKER_06]: And I go, so what happened? [SPEAKER_06]: They told me they know they were going to pay me.

[SPEAKER_06]: I want to know what's going on because Donald Trump, President Trump, said, [SPEAKER_06]: that in our prescriptions were fourteen hundred percent. [SPEAKER_06]: We're going to get a fourteen hundred percent discount and I calculated that and I came up with twenty two thousand eight hundred.

[SPEAKER_06]: You deserve this, I need to, you deserve this, I need to, you deserve this, I need to, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this, you deserve this,

[SPEAKER_06]: If they were a quarter hundred dollars, fourteen hundred percent more. [SPEAKER_02]: If he's going to give me a fourteen per hundred percent discount. [SPEAKER_06]: They should pay me and then he started going, well, that's going to come from your insurance, ma'am. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to, okay, so that be you're saying to you're saying that my insurance is going to pay me the twenty two thousand eight hundred.

[SPEAKER_07]: And he goes, I don't even want to commit to that, right? [SPEAKER_07]: So, but I mean, in all seriousness, the dose, a single dosage, four packs a little bit. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: We got seven, yes, is seventeen hundred dollars. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: Now a friend of ours actually went through this. [SPEAKER_07]: That's how we kind of set up this whole scenario.

[SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: After her insurance picked up her a portion, she had to pay four hundred. [SPEAKER_07]: So even people with good insurance are going to have to pay four hundred dollars out of pocket. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: My brother is on the ACA. [SPEAKER_07]: He is going to be losing his insurance. [SPEAKER_07]: Except cities. [SPEAKER_07]: ACA is subsidy at the end of the end of the year. [SPEAKER_02]: Because of the business.

[SPEAKER_07]: Because of the Americans. [SPEAKER_07]: And so his premium is going from two hundred fifty dollars all the way up to a thousand a month. [SPEAKER_02]: And we can't afford. [SPEAKER_07]: Which can't afford. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, this is going to be just going to hurt so many people. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, no, mine is mine is almost twelve hundred dollars a month. [SPEAKER_08]: I have a gold plan because it's better than a bronze.

[SPEAKER_08]: But still, it's almost fourteen hundred dollars a month. [SPEAKER_02]: The insurance is ridiculous, but it's going to hit Medicare, Medicaid, ACA. [SPEAKER_02]: There are so many things. [SPEAKER_02]: Here's another, since we're talking about efficiency and government or lack thereof. [SPEAKER_02]: So here in the DC area of the bar where you've got these national guards people roaming around the basically the capital mall. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I know.

[SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, Sarah. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: I see it. [SPEAKER_06]: I see it. [SPEAKER_06]: I see that built. [SPEAKER_06]: Damn. [SPEAKER_06]: I see that built. [SPEAKER_06]: So here's the thing. [SPEAKER_02]: They have them picking up trash. [SPEAKER_02]: I know, but the cost, the cost difference. [SPEAKER_02]: So they fired, like almost a thousand, I think it is a ground thing like that. [SPEAKER_06]: So we can have the national guard.

[SPEAKER_06]: We can pay the national guard and do it. [SPEAKER_02]: Right, I think the difference is, and I don't have the article in front of me, I didn't stick in the news today, but I think the difference is for relatively speaking to what they're doing. [SPEAKER_02]: The cost is something like a dollar versus twenty three dollars or something.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that's not what they get paid per hour, but that's [SPEAKER_02]: that that's basically the difference is that it's it's twenty three times more expensive. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, have the national guard purposes. [SPEAKER_06]: So we're going to just have the national guard everywhere. [SPEAKER_06]: So again, we're a shows. [SPEAKER_06]: We're still goes on existed so that even must could get our data and get out of and get out of investigation.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And remember, and remember, the GAO, it's still there. [SPEAKER_02]: It was there before it's there now. [SPEAKER_02]: The general accountability or the government accountability. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Here's the thing. [SPEAKER_02]: The GAO is still doing work. [SPEAKER_02]: We have a story about them, too. [SPEAKER_02]: One of my favorite stories today in the news on tap. [SPEAKER_02]: They are, once again.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we talked about this earlier in the summer. [SPEAKER_02]: I can't remember if we talked about it with you guys. [SPEAKER_02]: Remember pocket decisions that we talked about that? [SPEAKER_02]: How, how, rust votted OMB says he is going to use a pocket recision to take back four point nine billion dollars from four and eight. [SPEAKER_02]: Uh huh, right. [SPEAKER_02]: But the GAO says pocket recisions are illegal. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, good.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I hope everybody is keeping a list because there is going to be accountability. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, they're all over with their has to be. [SPEAKER_02]: You use the exact word that the Jody and I were talking about earlier, every Democrat should be running on at least these. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, they're words. [SPEAKER_02]: They should be running on affordability and accountability. [SPEAKER_06]: We have to have like a church committee, like they did after Watergate.

[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_06]: That type of thing. [SPEAKER_02]: for you to look into all of it because we just couldn't be reconciled with what John Fugle saying is calling it, but yeah, we need something like that. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure whatever. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, because, you know, I'm in need, and I were talking about this earlier. [SPEAKER_07]: We cannot move on for the good of the country.

[SPEAKER_07]: It means letting people who are criminal, cheering, who are criminals and getting criminal activity. [SPEAKER_07]: That is not for the good of the country. [SPEAKER_07]: If you let these people get away with it. [SPEAKER_08]: But President Ford, when he pardon Nixon, he thought he was doing the right thing because of the time period and all of that. [SPEAKER_08]: I think now, if he were still with us, [SPEAKER_08]: he would regret what he did.

[SPEAKER_08]: Because he said a precedent. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: And now I mean, if we don't have, if we don't, there's no accountability, those mistakes are just going to be repeated over and over again. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: And that's, and that's what the four right. [SPEAKER_02]: That's what these maggots have all done is they looked, I mean, you know, that's

[SPEAKER_02]: Look at they they learn less and with Roger Ailes and Fox they went you know what I mean that literally that's the whole generation Fox we talked about that earlier this week too, Jody about how the the whole reason that he created that was that when Nixon was forced out basically almost impeached that literally Ailes and the people who were hanging around him who they were all Nick Sonyans and they said what if we had to move the media [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, right.

[SPEAKER_08]: Exactly because they'll start GOP T GOP TV, which is exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, they don't call it that. [SPEAKER_07]: No, but that's because the failure to do all of those things that should have been done just adds to the cynicism and the app of the American public to say like why bother you on fire tonight, Karen exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's the right.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: That is why people [SPEAKER_02]: people don't have to ask why they don't have faith in the media either. [SPEAKER_02]: That's right. [SPEAKER_02]: The reasons why I've said we need standards and practices in the media for what's allowed to call itself news. [SPEAKER_02]: And I know that there are a lot of people in the media who they cringe when I say that.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're like, oh, but they're doing I'm there are ways to do this and I know that there are ways to do this because they do it. [SPEAKER_02]: It's it is similar to gun safety. [SPEAKER_02]: There are ways to do gun safety better and other nations already do it. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, then it's not news. [SPEAKER_06]: It's entertainment. [SPEAKER_06]: It's propaganda on voice. [SPEAKER_06]: That's what it is. [SPEAKER_06]: So it should not be.

[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, they've been, they had to pay at almost a billion dollars. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: They should not exist, honestly. [SPEAKER_06]: And it's not journalism. [SPEAKER_07]: And it's not journalism if you're not calling it out. [SPEAKER_07]: And if you're paying, they should be doing both sides and network, you know, right, mainstream media. [SPEAKER_06]: The Fox shouldn't be in the White House press corps, okay? [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: It shouldn't. [SPEAKER_02]: But it's ridiculous. [SPEAKER_02]: The White House press corps should be controlled by the press themselves. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you shouldn't get the pick and choose the press members of the White House. [SPEAKER_02]: Jared, who was here last week? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he was great. [SPEAKER_02]: I think we're going to try it. [SPEAKER_02]: I think we're going to try it. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, exactly.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was going to say the other one is Brian Brian. [SPEAKER_08]: I might see him tonight when I see hell sparks. [SPEAKER_02]: If you see, if you see right here, ask him if he can come to the barn next week. [SPEAKER_02]: That'd be fantastic. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because he was great too, and he will say the same thing. [SPEAKER_02]: The press course should be controlled by the press, not by the White House.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I can't believe I didn't know that it was not controlled by the press core because they have the White House correspondence position right it used to be but here's the thing and this is this is one of the reasons it's a perfect example I need to thank you very much because look it's it one of the reasons [SPEAKER_02]: why things people ask how things have gotten so out of control.

[SPEAKER_02]: And one of the ways that things have gotten so out of control is because we've allowed it to be. [SPEAKER_02]: Instead of the White House press corps doing what they should have done, which is when KKK Carolina decided to say, well, we're taking over the White House. [SPEAKER_02]: What the White House press corps should have done on mass. [SPEAKER_02]: All of them is said, if you know, and nobody is going in because you do not control the White House press corps.

[SPEAKER_06]: Do you remember when the bomb administration tried to leave Fox news out of the White House before? [SPEAKER_06]: Remember that news and everybody in all the other media outlets would like, oh, no, you can't do that. [SPEAKER_06]: Fox news will never stand up for anybody else. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: Never. [SPEAKER_02]: And that's that's in part because they know the game. [SPEAKER_02]: They know the game on their side too. [SPEAKER_02]: We're pretending were news.

[SPEAKER_08]: Now the other thing with the news now is it's no longer a loss leader for television. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: It should just be we do the news and now it has to get ratings. [SPEAKER_06]: It was a public service. [SPEAKER_06]: It was almost like a public service. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it needs to be in other in other countries where they have figured out some of these things. [SPEAKER_02]: They figure out ways to I'm not saying completely subsidize it.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not saying they get to control it, but they do figure out ways to somewhat subsidize it and to pull it away from ratings. [SPEAKER_02]: They're, again, different countries have different ways.

[SPEAKER_02]: It should be about what it should be about what there, there is still rules about the fact that for broadcast media, although it should be applied to all the media, including the streaming media, but there are rules about what you are, that you were supposed to serve the public good if you're doing new. [SPEAKER_06]: We need a committee to study that. [SPEAKER_06]: We need a committee to study the, the Supreme Court. [SPEAKER_06]: We need a committee to study the media.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, if Democrats ever, you know, we'll have control. [SPEAKER_08]: The decision to be able to control cable and streaming at this point because that's how people get their news.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think there is enough research out there with committees that we've already there there are there are plenty of experts and there are plenty of studies that will tell us because what they will do with the committee is that they would they would they would put it in committee and put it in in pause forever. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, no, no, no, we can't allow that. [SPEAKER_06]: That's that it's you we need to use it to educate the public because that's that's what I have committee.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't want to get that, but I would say, you know, when Democrats get in, they're going to need to take action. [SPEAKER_02]: And yes, they are. [SPEAKER_02]: That means that Democrats some Democrats are going to be really uncomfortable. [SPEAKER_02]: And guess what, they're going to have to be uncomfortable because we, exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: And the next Democratic president should not allow Fox News in the White House press corps. [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: When they should, they should, they should, they should, they should, the next president should return the power of the press corps back to the press corps. [SPEAKER_07]: And they don't like it. [SPEAKER_07]: It's a short one right there. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: We love having you too in the bar with this. [SPEAKER_02]: I am very glad to be hanging out with you all of you on a Labor Day weekend. [SPEAKER_02]: Look, it is Labor Day weekend.

[SPEAKER_02]: So if you go to protests, that's fine. [SPEAKER_02]: We've got some links in the news on tap to some information about protests. [SPEAKER_02]: You can check that out. [SPEAKER_02]: Find your community this weekend. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Find your family, find your friends. [SPEAKER_02]: Find the people that center you, that give you some energy. [SPEAKER_02]: And remember, Labor Day is about the working people. [SPEAKER_02]: So celebrate your favorite workers.

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