Get On The Bus November 18, 2025

[SPEAKER_03]: It's political. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, radical. [SPEAKER_02]: You think it's a part where we won the politics嗎? [SPEAKER_03]: Shotsmith, Pearson, Jody Hamilton. [SPEAKER_10]: Woo, Jody! [SPEAKER_10]: Woo! [SPEAKER_10]: We're going to get the fly at the weight now. [SPEAKER_08]: We might still get the files. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, there's a long way. [SPEAKER_08]: But the first her first ramp is passed. [SPEAKER_08]: The first gate is passed.

[SPEAKER_08]: However, we're going to say we will definitely talk about some accountability today on those Epstein files. [SPEAKER_08]: Remember, accountability is one of those watchwords. [SPEAKER_08]: We also, we got a little bit more going on with the immigration wars and some of Trump's other wars as well. [SPEAKER_08]: Big thanks to everybody who is joining us from all of our favorite radio stations who happened to host this wonderful show including WCPT AMA20 where Richard Schu is.

[SPEAKER_08]: He's going to be here a little bit later. [SPEAKER_08]: We also have our friends over at Georgia now radio in the ATL and up in Minneapolis Saint Paul at AM950 over in G2 or talk in Tennessee and of course progressive voices radio worldwide wherever you happen to be. [SPEAKER_08]: So I know this is the end of your busy day, Jody. [SPEAKER_08]: This is, you know, where day that you do 3,280 shows.

[SPEAKER_08]: And this is the, come to the bar to rest relax and also serve up news and drinks. [SPEAKER_10]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, it's, look, some, some, some, I can do the bunny dip, you know. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, well, you could, but I mean, you know, the whole thing to me is I said this to a friend of mine. [SPEAKER_08]: I was I was over to friend's house this weekend and her daughter, I can't remember what her daughter said.

[SPEAKER_08]: Her daughter said something and I said, hey, don't ever let any guy tell you that you can't do anything because you're a girl, because that's a bunch of horse crap. [SPEAKER_09]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: and she was like thank you as though you know I mean I know her parents tell her these things but you know it's your parents you norm half the time so you know it was just kind of one of those things where you know she I'm kind of uncle Sean and she was like hey thank you I was like hey you're welcome hey keep kicking ass she's like okay I will I'm like okay

[SPEAKER_08]: So, you know, it was nice to see today the vote pass for those of you who missed the moment at the Epstein files vote was in the house here. [SPEAKER_08]: Let me throw this up on the DVR because you will want to cheer. [SPEAKER_08]: Here it is. [SPEAKER_05]: On this vote, the years are 427, the names are won. [SPEAKER_05]: Two-thirds being in the affirmative. [SPEAKER_05]: The rules are suspended. [SPEAKER_05]: The bill is passed.

[SPEAKER_05]: And without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. [SPEAKER_10]: Man on. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm very, very happy about that. [SPEAKER_10]: Clay Higgins correct. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Clay Higgins former law enforcement officer from Louisiana who is a gigantic barnacle on Trump's ass. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_08]: For whatever values of value that Maga World happens to have, he says his values are such that this bill really, you know, he was worried that somebody would abuse things in the future and he would have rather it go through house oversight, whatever. [SPEAKER_08]: I just think it was more of him kissing Trump's ass. [SPEAKER_08]: But [SPEAKER_08]: Whatever, 427 to 1, 5 abstentions and 2 seats that are still open by the way. [SPEAKER_08]: One of those seats is in Texas.

[SPEAKER_08]: We have that today in the news on tap all the way down in the election land section. [SPEAKER_08]: Texas Governor Abbott has now set the wrong off date as January 31st. [SPEAKER_08]: for that Houston Democratic House seats. [SPEAKER_08]: And the other one is in Tennessee, oh seven, after in Bane. [SPEAKER_08]: Hopefully we'll, that's she got a long row to hold, but on that she might be able to pull that out. [SPEAKER_08]: So we'll see about that, but there you go on those.

[SPEAKER_08]: All right, let's see. [SPEAKER_08]: What else do we have today? [SPEAKER_08]: Hmm, what else would you like to stop me? [SPEAKER_08]: Because obviously there's a lot on the Epstein file stuff, [SPEAKER_08]: but then there's also, you know, the immigration wars and some of the other things, there was a big decision, by the way, big court decision as well, down in Texas. [SPEAKER_08]: So what's on your doctor for that?

[SPEAKER_10]: Let's talk about that Texas ruling, about their maps. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, yeah, we are down in that quarter of the world as well. [SPEAKER_08]: Big Texas ruling today, and I'm pretty pumped about this one. [SPEAKER_08]: Breaking that the news today that a federal court has ruled, [SPEAKER_08]: Texas has to stick to their old maps. [SPEAKER_08]: I love it. [SPEAKER_08]: I love it too.

[SPEAKER_08]: I absolutely have just just so that they have to stick to their old maps and obviously, uh, legal social media was all over this, uh, somebody pulled out a cutting from the ruling. [SPEAKER_08]: And the ruling, uh, let's see it goes like this. [SPEAKER_08]: It says, um, [SPEAKER_08]: Uh, in the letter, uh, Trump's DOJ threatened legal action if Texas didn't immediately dismantle and redraw these districts, a threat based entirely on their racial makeup.

[SPEAKER_08]: Notably, Trump's DOJ letter targeted only majority non-white districts. [SPEAKER_08]: Any mention of majority white democratic districts, which the DOJ presumably would have also targeted if its aims were partisan rather than racial, was conspicuously absent. [SPEAKER_08]: So the court has said that they could they could target it for partisans. [SPEAKER_10]: Right. [SPEAKER_10]: They've said that. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, which is ridiculous, but yeah, it's legal. [SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: But, but Trump's people specifically made it racial, racial, racist. [SPEAKER_08]: And so because they made it racist, the courts like, no, and they made it such that it can't be a field of appeal to the fifth circuit. [SPEAKER_08]: So we'll have to go up to Supreme Court. [SPEAKER_08]: But remember the Supreme Court said, you can't do racially, you can only do partisan and Trump's people screwed up the whole thing.

[SPEAKER_10]: And I mean, Donald is still threatening to sue California, but ours was a ballot measure. [SPEAKER_08]: Right, he can't touch it because it's a state law. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a state ballot measure. [SPEAKER_08]: There is nothing he can do.

[SPEAKER_08]: So now, instead of Republicans getting five extra votes from Texas and potentially as many as two extra votes from Indiana, [SPEAKER_08]: They will get none from Indiana and no extra votes from Texas while Democrats could get as many as five votes from California, and if Virginia keeps going potentially as many as four extra votes, I just don't think this redistricting war is going the way they thought it would and I mean you got to look at

[SPEAKER_10]: the things with the Texas redistricting map, they were thinking that their Latino vote would sustain itself, which is why they were doing it that way. [SPEAKER_10]: And because, I mean, they're so underwater with Latino voters right now. [SPEAKER_02]: Right, hugely, hugely. [SPEAKER_10]: I can't even, I think we're, I think Texas is going to lose some GOP seats in GOP areas. [SPEAKER_08]: from your lips to whatever higher powers there may be holy God.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, that would be fan freaking test. [SPEAKER_10]: I think we're looking at a 2018 kind of election. [SPEAKER_08]: I am hoping I'm hoping it's it's like a 2008 election where you win damn near everything. [SPEAKER_08]: Everything that isn't nailed down in.

[SPEAKER_08]: You know, hell, let's consider the 2025 election redo because you know, like here [SPEAKER_08]: Plus we'll have a democratic governor democratic lieutenant governor democratic attorney general pretty much Democrats across the board Oh darn what a shame that would be it's you know almost almost like living in Illinois [SPEAKER_08]: Which, you know, Illinois, also a very heavy Democratic state. [SPEAKER_08]: You got a great Democratic governor, got a great Democratic mayor, Chicago.

[SPEAKER_08]: You got a lot of great Democratic city council people. [SPEAKER_08]: And of course, you have the one and only wcpty AMA 20 in Chicago. [SPEAKER_08]: There he is. [SPEAKER_08]: He came into the bar, man. [SPEAKER_08]: How are you doing tonight? [SPEAKER_07]: I am doing great and fantastic and happy to be with you guys, Sean, you know, it's good to see you then. [SPEAKER_07]: I haven't seen you in a minute.

[SPEAKER_08]: Joey. [SPEAKER_07]: Joey's like my baby sister now and that's so proclaim, so, you know, Joey will have to push back and say, nah, I'm good. [SPEAKER_10]: No, hey, I couldn't use another brother. [SPEAKER_07]: I've got you, girl, and Sean, you'll be my baby brother because I know I'm looking for the book. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, just a little, just a little. [SPEAKER_08]: You know what, I mean, we are both in our 50s, I believe. [SPEAKER_10]: Close enough.

[SPEAKER_10]: I'm pushing 60. [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you for that, Sean. [SPEAKER_07]: No. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, let's put it this way. [SPEAKER_08]: You're not in your 40s. [SPEAKER_08]: As we stay the Stephanie Miller. [SPEAKER_10]: No, we say she's not in her 50s. [SPEAKER_07]: No, I love telling the truth about my age. [SPEAKER_07]: No, I'm the my early 60s. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I'll be 64 next year. [SPEAKER_08]: Nice, man. [SPEAKER_08]: No, I, I, we know what the phrase is.

[SPEAKER_08]: We all know the phrase is black, don't crack. [SPEAKER_07]: It doesn't, it really doesn't. [SPEAKER_07]: It bends a lot and then today's environment we're bending like a lot, but we do crack. [SPEAKER_07]: Let me, let me, let me clean that up a little bit. [SPEAKER_07]: We do crack. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, how? [SPEAKER_07]: We crack on people. [SPEAKER_07]: back like damn fools cracked that way. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yes, definitely.

[SPEAKER_07]: So anyhow, it's great to see both of you guys and thank you so much to have me on the podcast. [SPEAKER_07]: It's just it's a joy to be here. [SPEAKER_08]: It's great to be on WCPT right now.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm just a fantastic little we normally, you know, I'm walking a dog in the morning and I, you know, flip back and forth a little MS now, I guess they call it seen little CNN little Richard Chu on choose views on WCPT, you know, flipping around while walking the dog, Jody, while she's working or driving somewhere same thing I think so, you know, which is kind of nice, which you know, it's nice to have, although God, you can be tired.

[SPEAKER_07]: because you know, Jodi, Jodi can be quite an inspiration to me because Jodi will every now and again, she'll send me a text like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, that one ad that was airing on your show. [SPEAKER_10]: I was like, I don't think you want this ad on your show.

[SPEAKER_07]: I know, so, but so cool that the Jodi is up early like that because I know, you know, it's two hour a time difference between Chicago and California, but you know, you guys are in inspiration because, you know, I get up, I get up at 430 every morning and unless we get snow like we did on, we could go Sunday night Monday or at 4 o'clock because I was like, you know, let me just just be safe, but you know, for me it's, I have a system

[SPEAKER_07]: Just like as years as three decades as a financial advisor, I built a system to work and serve my clients and now I've built a system to work to serve the audience and serve the folks that listen to the show. [SPEAKER_07]: So it's on regular now. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I had taught a pilot, I know what time I go to bed and barring any, I mean, you know, that's going to change.

[SPEAKER_07]: You know, the going to bedtime isn't always the same, but really time is pretty much the same. [SPEAKER_07]: about 20 minutes. [SPEAKER_07]: I get there and I start and I'm blessed to have great engineers that help us get things going and so I just come in prepared and ready to do the best show that I can and it's exciting. [SPEAKER_08]: So you got a good crew there to see and obviously you know what we are on WCP.

[SPEAKER_08]: We are on some of the other affiliates you share some other affiliates in different places too. [SPEAKER_08]: It is a weird media world these days where we're on radio, we're on podcast. [SPEAKER_08]: I think at Heartland Signal now, if they miss you alive, they can get the podcast there. [SPEAKER_08]: Just like they miss us live and go to the politicsbar.com. [SPEAKER_08]: But I think it's kind of good that way because it makes it such that whatever your neighborhood is.

[SPEAKER_08]: you can, you know, whatever your life is, whatever your schedule is, you still have the people that you want in your audio neighborhood, you have your friends, you have your neighbors, like all of us.

[SPEAKER_07]: So, what's so amazing about it is, you know, each of us had the three of us had the similar experience, irrespective of our chronological age and that is we grew up influenced by 60s and 70s television and shows and all that and obviously [SPEAKER_07]: but Jody's family and lineage and all that, that's particularly so.

[SPEAKER_07]: But you know, we didn't, you know, it was five, it was two, five, seven, and nine, and 32, W. I hope, here in Chicago and some of the other as things went along. [SPEAKER_07]: And so, you know, W. G.n. [SPEAKER_07]: was probably the first real broadcast outlet that if you left Chicago, you could [SPEAKER_07]: catch a WG and show someplace else in the country.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yep. [SPEAKER_07]: Now, it'd be in Paris, and watch a show because of the podcasts that are streaming and all that, so it's kind of cool. [SPEAKER_08]: We have a crazy media world today, but we are glad to share it with you.

[SPEAKER_08]: We want to talk with you, obviously, about the vote that went down this afternoon in the house and of course, Trump's immigration wars where it looks like that snow that happened about a week ago, whooped Greg Bavino's ass, scared him, he was about to come in, he was all the time. [SPEAKER_06]: I said what a weather change is they would go lead.

[SPEAKER_08]: wedges three days later rich it was right just saying all right look we will have more with the rich of two of WCPT It's Jody Hamilton and me shots myth pierced with you hanging out on a Tuesday night here at the politics bar fresh enough You drink and come right back hang on We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar [SPEAKER_08]: Tuesday nights here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_08]: Show these dancing a little bit, Richard's dancing a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_08]: Richard, we are still kind of on a little bit of a high, not necessarily a helium high like that, but we are on a pretty big high because obviously that vote today to move the Epstein files release vote forward, 427 to one Clay Higgins was the one that did not vote five abstentions and two open seats. [SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, what a knucklehead.

[SPEAKER_07]: You know, I mean to be the one and it's sort of funny when I saw that I thought okay, he did that because he really needs some attention [SPEAKER_07]: He's driving for the days of when he was growing up and mom sat in down and gave him a nice, polarized cream on a hot weekend day. [SPEAKER_07]: You know, so he was longing for that attention that his name's going to be in the conversation as he's the one person. [SPEAKER_07]: Everybody's going to be like, what's wrong with Clay?

[SPEAKER_07]: What's up with Clay? [SPEAKER_08]: Somebody's on the way. [SPEAKER_07]: Somebody's on the way. [SPEAKER_07]: Joe, that's what's going to happen, right? [SPEAKER_07]: And so, you know, because principally, [SPEAKER_07]: He would have been, he would have been better for him to say, look, I know this is crazy, let me just get with the program and vote.

[SPEAKER_07]: And then it would have been that complete way of saying, we recognize this is a problem in young girls, children, were taking advantage of, and we need to stand in their corner, not in this knuckleheads corner, I think. [SPEAKER_07]: But here's the thing I don't want us to lose, you know, not lose side of it, but put too much into, right, the Republicans that voted for this, they don't get a medal, no, they don't get any collapse on the back. [SPEAKER_07]: They did their job.

[SPEAKER_07]: See, that's the thing we got to remember. [SPEAKER_07]: This is where we can. [SPEAKER_07]: We got to hold the line on how we have our conversations. [SPEAKER_07]: That's it, nothing more. [SPEAKER_07]: We're in, and what'll happen is, make sure me is going to vote, well, you know, the Republicans are dissonance, said that, no, y'all did your job. [SPEAKER_07]: And I'll go back and do it again.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's what, for us, that's got to be the, I think that's got to be the conversation. [SPEAKER_07]: The Republicans finally in the house did their job. [SPEAKER_08]: They did some work finally after like two months. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_08]: Wow, that's, I think that's why we're also shocked is that we've all been sitting here watching them sit on their ass at home, not doing work, being on vacation for two months while house Democrats were here, Senate Democrats were here, Senate Republicans were here and they weren't getting everything. [SPEAKER_08]: Hell, Marjorie Taylor Greene. [SPEAKER_08]: She was there. [SPEAKER_08]: Was here. [SPEAKER_08]: But, but no, no, no, the mega, oh, by the way.

[SPEAKER_08]: So, so on that Marjorie Taylor green thing. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a funny today. [SPEAKER_08]: They had that, they had that, they a little shindig in front of the, the capital steps today. [SPEAKER_08]: And Rokana, and they had Thomas Massey, and they had MTG there, which look for whatever reason for whatever value of values. [SPEAKER_08]: This is something that has been important that she campaign on with the Epstein files, and she has, has stayed with it.

[SPEAKER_08]: So, somebody asked her today. [SPEAKER_08]: She said, so if this if this vote goes through, the reporter asked her today, it says, do you have confidence that these files will be released? [SPEAKER_08]: Here's what she said. [SPEAKER_00]: I only take people's actions seriously. [SPEAKER_00]: No longer words. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll tell you, because I'm, I wasn't a Johnny come lately to the magetrain.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was day one, 2015, and there's a big difference in those Americans and those that that decided to support President Trump later on. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll tell you right now, this has been one of the most destructive things to maga is watching [SPEAKER_00]: the man that we supported early on, three elections for people that stood hours, slipping their cars to go to rallies.

[SPEAKER_00]: have fought for truth and transparency and and to hold what we consider a corrupt government accountable. [SPEAKER_00]: Watching this actually turn into a fight has ripped maga apart. [SPEAKER_00]: Yay! [SPEAKER_00]: Don't break me with a good time. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_07]: I don't know what you mean. [SPEAKER_07]: No, listen guys. [SPEAKER_07]: You know, I have a I have a I have a different I don't know if it's different but I have my view on how this is playing out.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and no metals right girlfriend was brutal to a number of people that I care about I'm not down with how David Hogg. [SPEAKER_07]: person himself when he came to changes in the Democratic Party. [SPEAKER_07]: But you don't go chasing after a teenager like she did people for the chase and down. [SPEAKER_07]: Don't forget that when the shooting took place in more at Stolenman, you know, she was one of those people that was talking trash. [SPEAKER_07]: She has offended.

[SPEAKER_07]: This is why I know a lot of people including our girl Stephanie is right up with Joe Walsh, but I keep Joe at an arms length. [SPEAKER_07]: I've had him on my [SPEAKER_07]: You did, this is the same dude that made, near about racist statements about the former president Barack Obama. [SPEAKER_07]: So I'm careful to get people all up in my, in my bosom as my mother used to say, Joe, your mom and my mom are both southern gals, you're welcome.

[SPEAKER_07]: Come on past the way, but there's southern gals and there's certain things that people say that only southern gals or southern folks understand But I'm not quick to get them up in my bosom because I know how they treated me the last time Not even they weren't even in that space So Marjorie Taylor Green is doing what she's supposed to do [SPEAKER_07]: Does it get a medal for doing what she's supposed to do and should have been doing a long time ago?

[SPEAKER_07]: And my goal is to do everything I can to get Sean Harris, who's been on my show and is running for that seat. [SPEAKER_07]: I'll let you to do what I see. [SPEAKER_07]: So she's gone. [SPEAKER_07]: If Marsher Taylor Greene really had courage and strength, what she would do is she would completely come out and say I was wrong. [SPEAKER_07]: on all counts. [SPEAKER_07]: I said, we're harmful, that we're painful. [SPEAKER_07]: I should have never said it.

[SPEAKER_07]: I should have known better. [SPEAKER_07]: And I'm going to do my best to correct that by letting people know that I was wrong. [SPEAKER_07]: And she needs to do a little bit of what Liz Cheney did, which is to reach out to some Democrats and say, listen, I messed up you all. [SPEAKER_07]: Um, how can I help? [SPEAKER_07]: What can I do to do better? [SPEAKER_07]: And then go on and lose this election and keep and take her daddy's money from the open contraction company and move on.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's really, really, really wants to be one that can be trusted and believed in. [SPEAKER_07]: That's, hmm, but you choose opinion what I think she should do. [SPEAKER_07]: And until she does that, I can't get her close to me because it's to me, there's a political piece behind this. [SPEAKER_07]: And I'm not sure, I don't trust the motivation. [SPEAKER_07]: Mike Nellis was on my show yesterday, and he said, oh, put it, put it, put it, put it, put the game.

[SPEAKER_07]: I know that, but I'm not willing to play the game. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna call, I'm gonna be a referee. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna play the game because I can see through the BS and, you know, that's kind of where I stand. [SPEAKER_07]: with her, Joe is a little bit different because he's been out of the game and he did change and he did acknowledge. [SPEAKER_07]: But until she does that, guys, I'm not impressed at all. [SPEAKER_10]: I'm with you. [SPEAKER_10]: I don't trust you.

[SPEAKER_07]: And here's what I'd love for her to do is to have a conversation with somebody, not to let me, Sunny Austin try to get after her a little bit when she was on the view. [SPEAKER_07]: But I would love for her to say, I wanna talk to somebody like a role in Martin. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that'd be great. [SPEAKER_07]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: Which is going to be a good conversation with Roland, then he's going to press arc as you guys know how Roland Martin Rolls.

[SPEAKER_07]: He is nobody's fool. [SPEAKER_11]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: Until that kind of stuff happens, whatever. [SPEAKER_08]: But yeah, the whole thing for me is I saw somebody make a list of things, basically saying, you know, ways that you know somebody's actually [SPEAKER_08]: And they've actually, they're sorry for what they did politically speaking as far as I go.

[SPEAKER_08]: And we've said it here a number of times here at the bar that we say, look, you know, we'll let people jump on the bus who, you know, maybe they're riding with Maga before and we'll let them, we ain't gonna let them drive the bus. [SPEAKER_07]: to go back to the bus and be quiet. [SPEAKER_08]: There you go. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, it's to down to down. [SPEAKER_08]: That's fine. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, people go, that's me.

[SPEAKER_08]: And I go, oh, no, no, no, look, look, look, the choices leaving one side of the road and it's hell outside. [SPEAKER_08]: Or you go up on the bus, but there's won't find a seat for you. [SPEAKER_08]: But now, one of the ways that some people that this list was going through said that you know the people are contrite is that they have lost something significant Joe Walsh, he lost his show, he lost a lot of money, he lost a lot of political support, he lost a lot of stuff.

[SPEAKER_08]: I trust him a little bit more because of some of those things, and because he's continued on, that's another way in this person said in this list of things that you know is, [SPEAKER_08]: after they say they're sorry do they change the behavior do they continue in this new direction or do they slip back?

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm not willing to give you know, Marjorie the, you know, I don't want to give her a parade, you know, whatever, you know, maybe given her flowers is, you know, two little daisies, I don't care.

[SPEAKER_08]: But I mean, you know, [SPEAKER_08]: I'll give him a basis in the sense that in the sense that we on those people from every party, every party, you know, especially if you in places like some of our listeners up in New York who, you know, they, they're not, oh, I'm not one of the big parties. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm, you know, I'm with one of the other smaller parties. [SPEAKER_08]: It's fine, whatever party you with.

[SPEAKER_08]: uh... you can't pay no x y and z you get in there and then oh man i just forgot x y and z uh... you know whether whether or not margarity of the green is doing what she's doing because she's pissed off because uh... you know steven miller told her you know go home and take care of your constituents which is what i have heard the actual phrase was told to her well find she decided fine i'm gonna go home and take real good care of my constituents and she's doing the things that she said she was going to do

[SPEAKER_08]: So I'm like, I'll give her the flowers for that because we all know politicians at every level.

[SPEAKER_08]: City Council, mayors, state reps, governors, and members of Congress and presidents who, I wanna do X, and then you get there and you say, hey, you said you's gonna do X and they go, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why

[SPEAKER_07]: No, here's how I look at it. [SPEAKER_07]: And yes, Sean, you're spot on with that. [SPEAKER_07]: Thanks. [SPEAKER_07]: And how I add to that or add some positioning to that is, [SPEAKER_07]: Yes, that's where you are now, but where you've been growing, what took you so long, and you should have known better, as you criticize other people for not doing that same thing.

[SPEAKER_07]: And all of that, where were your constituents then when they needed you and you worked delivering on the goods and services and to the community? [SPEAKER_07]: So this is why I'm really been supportive of Sean because he's been leaning in hard into that space. [SPEAKER_07]: That's what she didn't do and she had more than enough time to do it. [SPEAKER_07]: But you know, listen, this is the other part of the political calculus. [SPEAKER_07]: What are you doing right now?

[SPEAKER_07]: is part of the goal of her being out doing what she's doing. [SPEAKER_07]: It's to be talking about her so that there's a debate about if she's real or if she's not and people, it's pulling up people's heartstrings to say, oh poor Marjorie, she made a mistake. [SPEAKER_07]: Let's give her some, you know, love and flowers. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm just not that guy. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I'm willing to go like here's that's a good example. [SPEAKER_07]: I love the way you put it.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's raining outside and I'm not gonna let her stand in the rain. [SPEAKER_07]: Get back to the bus and sit down and be quiet. [SPEAKER_07]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: Cause we got support to get done. [SPEAKER_07]: That's a great, I like the way you put that. [SPEAKER_08]: Hey, I only put it that way because of a conversation as a Jody and I have had. [SPEAKER_08]: I am only half as good if Jody is not here. [SPEAKER_08]: right off. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, you got it.

[SPEAKER_08]: You got it. [SPEAKER_08]: You got to give props to the women in your life. [SPEAKER_08]: You got to give props to the women in your world. [SPEAKER_08]: That's, I know you do. [SPEAKER_08]: I know you do. [SPEAKER_08]: And, you know, Jody, I mean, you know, I, I am always solicitous of you, Jody. [SPEAKER_08]: I know you're a little quiet today because this is the, this is the, the last show the day Richard that she's done. [SPEAKER_08]: Because this is the day Tuesday.

[SPEAKER_08]: She does like 3,280 shows. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_07]: That's, that's, that's [SPEAKER_07]: I love the studio this morning, and I send a Jodie of Texas so I'm looking forward to our time together today, knowing that my girl's been up is pretty much based on the universal clock, almost as long as I have. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, so I'm just gonna say, y'all are tired. [SPEAKER_08]: I got to admit that.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's, you know, it's, and here's the, I didn't quite get quite that early. [SPEAKER_07]: Here's the other thing, and I'm thrilled about it. [SPEAKER_07]: Today is my wife, Anne's birthday. [SPEAKER_02]: Happy birthday! [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, so, um, [SPEAKER_07]: You know, I, she likes to keep it on the, on the P.C. [SPEAKER_08]: But, um, I would you, what'd you, what'd you do for her today? [SPEAKER_08]: What'd you, what'd you do for her today?

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I always have a little surprise in the morning, and I got that square the way before I left the house, and then I got some stuff going on this evening that, that'll be nice for her to check out. [SPEAKER_07]: Nice. [SPEAKER_07]: And I could throw up from work, so I'm thrilled about that. [SPEAKER_07]: And just a simple dinner. [SPEAKER_07]: She's not, my wife is not all about that.

[SPEAKER_07]: She's like, you know, I'm thankful to have had another birthday, [SPEAKER_07]: And you know, but, you know, I got some special couple things, you know, spread away and that's what you got to do. [SPEAKER_08]: You got to take care of the people in your life. [SPEAKER_08]: It is the difference between those of us, I hope most of us who are on our side of the aisle.

[SPEAKER_08]: And Donald Trump who says things like this quiet quiet, quiet, piggy, piggy to a female [SPEAKER_08]: We got to talk about that and we want to talk a little bit about that immigration stuff because I just can't get enough of Greg Bavino running his ass away from Chicago because he can't handle snow. [SPEAKER_08]: We got Richard here from WCPT here. [SPEAKER_08]: It is Johnny Hamilton, me, Sean Smith Pierce, and you hang with Richard.

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[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, Richard, I have to laugh because you did call it. [SPEAKER_08]: You did say, kind of, I can't remember. [SPEAKER_08]: This was a couple weeks ago and you were saying when the weather changed on your show, you were saying that Greg Vivino was going to run scared, like little child from snow. [SPEAKER_08]: And, Jodi, I think you and I were talking about it here, but we were talking about it on the air off the air when we were when that.

[SPEAKER_07]: You're like, what's all you guys, the way that that position is, I was like, listen, you know, most days I kind of give a little bit of particularly with the weather's gotten weird. [SPEAKER_07]: If it's super hot or if it's going to be rainy and I don't really see what the weather's going to be in the traffic pattern.

[SPEAKER_07]: So, right, the winter time, particularly here in Chicago, it's like, hey guys, listen, if you're driving to work, leave early, it's a little bit funky out there today. [SPEAKER_07]: If you take a bus or the train or whatever, give yourself a little more time. [SPEAKER_07]: Be careful, you know, just a little little things because I've done all that.

[SPEAKER_07]: I was talking about the The thing that I thought was going to be of the task for for ice and that in Gregon is in his married band idiots I said Is what's got really middle lip of the test What's the weather starts to really change in Chicago and in the in the region but certainly in Chicago Metro [SPEAKER_07]: And we start to get a little bit of rain and then freezing in the overnight and then we get some snow or all these things that happen in the wind kicks up really serious.

[SPEAKER_07]: All those Chicago things that make or break you, I say watch. [SPEAKER_07]: They're gonna get up out of here. [SPEAKER_07]: Because [SPEAKER_07]: they are going to be a handle it and and I said honestly the danger of them doing what they're doing right now. [SPEAKER_07]: I said I just can't see eyes. [SPEAKER_07]: Any agent worth this or her soul trying to snap somebody out of the vehicle when there's four inches of snow on the ground and they step back and snap in the killies.

[SPEAKER_07]: They fall and break something. [SPEAKER_07]: I said that's supposed to happen. [SPEAKER_07]: I said so watch. [SPEAKER_07]: Eyes is going to be out of here before I said before. [SPEAKER_07]: I think what I said was before the weather gets really bad. [SPEAKER_07]: But that's the out of here because you know, just somebody else get hurt in a way, and so also Vino was a son of California boy.

[SPEAKER_08]: He's I think I think it wasn't was just isn't the Vino Either from South LA or closer to San Diego, Jody. [SPEAKER_10]: He's for Southern California. [SPEAKER_10]: I'm not sure where But he's from Southern California.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, he is he is not a snow boy by any chance of the [SPEAKER_07]: Well, and then the other thing too is a judge when the judge leaned in and said look you've got to show up every day on my court and then a feels court judge said well Maybe not but that went back and forth and I just hope how much of a greeting he is and then he kind of got I won't use the word on on your show But he basically got B slapped He got what yeah by the system the court system here.

[SPEAKER_07]: Listen you're all Chicago. [SPEAKER_07]: Mayor Johnson says it best [SPEAKER_07]: We Chicagoans are nice, we're Midwest-nice, but we're built differently. [SPEAKER_07]: People forget about how tough we are in Chicago. [SPEAKER_07]: And it's a different tough than New York. [SPEAKER_07]: And other people also talk about New Yorkers of this. [SPEAKER_07]: We're a different tough in Chicago. [SPEAKER_07]: And people, that's why you saw so much pushback. [SPEAKER_12]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_07]: On so many different fronts, it was black folks, it was Hispanic folks, it was white folks, it was everybody. [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_07]: Strathams, I would like. [SPEAKER_07]: Now, you're not going to roll into our city and treat us like this because we don't need to. [SPEAKER_07]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: Governor was the same way in the county initial, the same way. [SPEAKER_07]: We don't need you here.

[SPEAKER_07]: We can navigate this ourselves. [SPEAKER_07]: If you want to help us send that money to us that you're using to pay for the people being here, right? [SPEAKER_07]: That's some stuff. [SPEAKER_07]: But don't roll up in the Chicago thinking you're going to get away with this madness. [SPEAKER_07]: Because we're built differently here. [SPEAKER_07]: We just are. [SPEAKER_07]: This is fine. [SPEAKER_07]: But you know, [SPEAKER_08]: You know, my I'm a Midwest boy.

[SPEAKER_08]: I know I know about him. [SPEAKER_08]: I went to boot camp in Chicago. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, I love Chicago Chicago is a great town. [SPEAKER_08]: My wife basically her family is, you know, Chicago natives. [SPEAKER_08]: So I mean, it's, oh, by the way, we got something in the news on tap today. [SPEAKER_08]: This one came out. [SPEAKER_08]: We mentioned it yesterday in the show. [SPEAKER_08]: Remember, Joe, yes, that I had it and I didn't get it in.

[SPEAKER_08]: I made sure to stick it in today official records. [SPEAKER_08]: This is from Trump's own DOJ confirmed only 16 of over 600 people detained by ice in Chicago area had. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's that's so that right there see the great thing about that And when it's not to get we're not gonna get angry about it.

[SPEAKER_07]: We're already angry about it But that to me is what Governor Pritzker this accountability coalition that he put together This is the kind of stuff that when we get back in power on so many different funds [SPEAKER_07]: That's going to be that kiss of death for them because you know what they said they were here for was a real and they'll be data to back it up, it'll be a database argument which I'm a big believer in.

[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I'm emotional, I'm passionate about a lot and when I've got data then I'm a bad mother swimmer and that's what the governor put in place, that's what the mayor is all about. [SPEAKER_07]: It's not going to help when we start to have cases in the future and I'm excited [SPEAKER_07]: That's that's good stuff. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: Amen. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: So, you know, we just keep rolling guys and I'm really grateful that our people here in Chicago have stood up and I would say that, you know, I, I say this often and we here have been adjusting on my show once a month, if not twice and the one thing that has ended to the government strategy who shout out to her her father passed away. [SPEAKER_07]: I don't know yesterday, so I want to give her a shout-out on your show. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to use a parliament.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to show that tomorrow on my show, but Mayor Johnson has been, you know, unapologetically strong. [SPEAKER_07]: This is not just about Chicago or Illinois or the United States. [SPEAKER_07]: This is about humanity throughout the world, and the people, you know, you guys may or may not have seen some of this, but a lot of the things that are posting on social media about Mayor Johnson and how he's been leading. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, he's been great.

[SPEAKER_07]: We know we get issues. [SPEAKER_07]: We get issues every place in America. [SPEAKER_07]: So to say that Chicago is this, Chicago is that, what do we know that? [SPEAKER_07]: Well, Mayor Johnson has stood in the void and said, no, not on my watch. [SPEAKER_07]: You were not going to come in here and mess with the people of the city of Chicago because if we don't stand up for the people here, then who's going to and what sort of message does that send to the rest of the world?

[SPEAKER_07]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: And he delivered in that space. [SPEAKER_07]: And I'm proud you see. [SPEAKER_08]: Can you see that we had mayor bass on from L.A. here, Joe, he was all geeked up about that. [SPEAKER_08]: I was too good. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm a nerd. [SPEAKER_07]: It's great. [SPEAKER_07]: It's been equally tough. [SPEAKER_07]: I'll tell you what. [SPEAKER_07]: Great. [SPEAKER_07]: I was Mayor Michelle Wu. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes. [SPEAKER_07]: Hell yeah, Boston.

[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, get those three, I'm telling you, listen, we have a bread and Scott in Baltimore. [SPEAKER_07]: Yep. [SPEAKER_07]: We got a great bunch of all. [SPEAKER_07]: And some of the, and our blue cities, you know, whether they be African American, male, female. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, some of our governor's, but a critster, Pritzker's fantastic. [SPEAKER_08]: You got Westmore doing great stuff. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm really happy with your work.

[SPEAKER_07]: You're, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um um, um um, um um, um

[SPEAKER_07]: I don't want to embrace. [SPEAKER_07]: I would love it when Mayor Johnson makes some mistakes. [SPEAKER_07]: You know why? [SPEAKER_07]: Because then it gives us room to say, okay, how can we help them get better? [SPEAKER_07]: Same thing with any of our governors, any of our mayors we want to make mistakes. [SPEAKER_07]: let us help them get better. [SPEAKER_07]: That's where we have power.

[SPEAKER_07]: And so, what people want to trash talk Gavin Newsman for this day to the other, I'm like, yeah, this stuff that he's done that I'm not down with, but at the end of the day, I'm going to support him if he's the one that becomes a front writer and say they would pay me. [SPEAKER_07]: Same thing with Governor Moore, same thing with whom effort it is. [SPEAKER_07]: And that's why the races that we want to weeks ago are super important.

[SPEAKER_07]: Because what it says like I interviewed yesterday, a pre-recorded interview that we're going to air next week, one of the senators that won down in Mississippi, nice. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that was a good week. [SPEAKER_07]: And he is so cool.

[SPEAKER_07]: Just just such a right on man and all school black man from the south and those old school brothers, they don't play I mean they will take you to the hospital, they'll catch you for acting wrong and he was so much fun to talk to, but it reminded me of the bench that we have on a state level, you know. [SPEAKER_07]: regional level local, of course, and then on a national level. [SPEAKER_07]: And we have to just keep repeating that and keep repeating that.

[SPEAKER_07]: And when somebody from the right wants to trash talk and the mainstream media wants to trash talk our people, they're ready to bank them down quickly. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, Peggy Flanagan, the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, we got, we got everybody on our side. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, we have some white men who are good. [SPEAKER_08]: We have some white women who are good.

[SPEAKER_08]: We have black men and black women and Asian men and Asian women and native men and native women and South Asian. [SPEAKER_08]: We got everybody on our side. [SPEAKER_07]: And we have to keep embracing that and stop apologizing for it. [SPEAKER_07]: I like the imperfection. [SPEAKER_07]: I don't want to mess up lyrics from the John Legend song, but I like the curves and imperfections because that's who we are. [SPEAKER_07]: And we want to embrace that and make it stronger.

[SPEAKER_07]: I believe that when we do that, and we truly are representing that rather than the fake garbage from like Marjorie Green and others, embrace us. [SPEAKER_07]: On our family, that's truly what I believe draws more people to our big tent. [SPEAKER_07]: It's not kind of stuff. [SPEAKER_07]: We still have to do what you said Sean, which is, listen, get on the bus and sit your behind down.

[SPEAKER_08]: I've heard of you and we say get on the bus, but I'm going to credit you with that because that is, but it is. [SPEAKER_08]: That is what, look, you invite people into the neighborhood and you come along with us and you have, you do good things, like your neighbors are doing and that's what you should be doing here. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, that's why we invite anybody who wants to come into the barn, hang with us.

[SPEAKER_08]: But. [SPEAKER_08]: uh... you know like we say don't throw chairs and uh... you know if you don't be a chair thrower and and there are the democrats who there are some of them still who make mistakes like you said that some of them the way they got out of this this shut down what exactly the the most brilliant hold in the box

[SPEAKER_08]: It doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to throw them off the bus, we just don't necessarily want them having their hands on the wheel for right now. [SPEAKER_08]: We know they tend to be a little bit shaky with that wheel, we're like, thank you, no mean. [SPEAKER_07]: They're driving, you know, and trying to give a sip of a soda while they're driving around a tanker. [SPEAKER_07]: They're soda in the culp holder, and you still have to make it around the turn.

[SPEAKER_07]: They wouldn't get straight. [SPEAKER_08]: Then you can drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, drive it, [SPEAKER_08]: I've done both, right, true because you used to live in Denver tonight. [SPEAKER_08]: I did. [SPEAKER_10]: I lived in Denver for years.

[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I mean, I've driven through the dollar pass while it was [SPEAKER_08]: Oh yeah, I think that is, that is no, that is no lie. [SPEAKER_08]: Don't know if that's true. [SPEAKER_10]: No, I've had to put chains on my tires. [SPEAKER_08]: So yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, look, but that's a little thing. [SPEAKER_08]: That's the thing I always joke about, especially because it's coming up wintertime for Chicago.

[SPEAKER_08]: You can always, I used to use this, especially when I would do country music radio back in the day. [SPEAKER_08]: And people would be like, well, I got four wheel drive. [SPEAKER_08]: And I said, but you don't have four wheel stop. [SPEAKER_08]: Because this is very, called physics. [SPEAKER_08]: So just because you got four wheel drive, don't mean you have four wheel stop. [SPEAKER_07]: And that's Joey's point about the change in all of that.

[SPEAKER_07]: I remember when I put a mint in there. [SPEAKER_07]: And I grew up driving in the snow here in Chicago in the Upper Midwest, different because of the altitude when people don't take minutes with count. [SPEAKER_07]: And that didn't make this a nerdy conversation about driving. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, now it's a different point. [UNKNOWN]: But [SPEAKER_08]: We love we love having nerdy discussions. [SPEAKER_08]: That's something we do here at the politics bar.

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[SPEAKER_08]: YouTube.com at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_08]: So there you go. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, Jody. [SPEAKER_08]: So obviously great fun with Richard. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: Excited about the the Epstein files accountability because really in the one of the words that we've been talking about the whole time is accountability. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, I am I I'm not a Goldilocks in thinking that, you know, it's one and done, but Who thought that it was going to be a 427 to one vote?

[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, did you could you have envisioned this, you know, five sick months ago? [SPEAKER_10]: Well, Thomas Massey was pretty short and so is Rokana that they were going to get at least a hundred Republicans to vote for it. [SPEAKER_10]: They got everybody, but Clay Higgins and the other five that didn't make it today. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: We heard that it was it was 150, but but once once Trump gave the okay and said, okay, [SPEAKER_08]: You can do it.

[SPEAKER_08]: I say you can because there's no reason not to, oh yeah, although although so I caught this I played this for you earlier and and you were like, yeah, yeah, I kind of see that too. [SPEAKER_08]: So tiny Johnson had his little daily presser that he said every day since they did the beginning of their shutdown and he was talking today about the the vote. [SPEAKER_08]: But there are two things that you should note from this.

[SPEAKER_08]: One of them Jody noticed, and one of them I know is, I'm going to see if everybody here in the bar notices, we'll check on this here. [SPEAKER_08]: Let me play this on the DVR, here it is. [SPEAKER_01]: So what I might do is a leader in a situation like this, I call my counterpart in the Senate, leader Thune, and I talked him through this with him and shared our deep concerns. [SPEAKER_01]: And of course, they [SPEAKER_01]: share those concerns as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm very confident that when this moves forward in the process, if and when it is processed in the Senate, which is a no certainty that that will be, that they will take the time, methodically to do what we have not been allowed to do in a house to amend this discharge petition. [SPEAKER_08]: You catch that there, Jerry. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: And you caught that.

[SPEAKER_10]: And the fact that it's John soon, not Peter soon, or is it Peter Teele he's talking about. [SPEAKER_10]: And John. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, you know, Tiny Johnson, Republicans always focused on Peter, uh, uh, to say and to say and they have a thing, it's their thing, it's not our thing. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, we, we don't have a problem with Richards, do we just know the right place for them? [SPEAKER_08]: I know, I know.

[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, anyway, but the big thing besides his speaking mess up there was the fact that he said to amend the discharge petition, right? [SPEAKER_10]: That means if it's amended in the Senate, which it easily could be the deal that Donald made with Peter Foon or me, because then I can go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: They play ping pong and they keep delaying it. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll see.

[SPEAKER_08]: I have a feeling that they won't amend it, but we will, we'll see. [SPEAKER_08]: But I have, I'm pretty sure that they're going to get more than 63 in the Senate. [SPEAKER_08]: If they get more than 63 in the Senate, then it is veto proof, then no matter what Donald says, that thing goes through. [SPEAKER_08]: So we will. [SPEAKER_10]: We really think that he's going to actually that the DOJ is actually going to release everything?

[SPEAKER_10]: No. [SPEAKER_08]: I didn't, oh, well, not everything. [SPEAKER_08]: And I didn't think they would get to this far. [SPEAKER_08]: So, I mean, but, you know, as Richard was saying, we got to be positive, we got to have some hope. [SPEAKER_08]: One of the things that I like that is hopeful. [SPEAKER_08]: And we're gonna change directions here a little bit because we haven't gotten to the drink of the day yet.

[SPEAKER_08]: And honestly, one of the things that some people are like, oh, you know, it's a rich person thing or whatever, I like Disney. [SPEAKER_08]: You like Disney, Johnny? [SPEAKER_08]: No, no, I like some stuff about Disney because of the fact that I've been friends. [SPEAKER_08]: I've been an adjunct member of the National Cartoon Society for years. [SPEAKER_08]: I helped a number of cartoonists move from paper and pen to digital.

[SPEAKER_08]: They just, friend of mine asked a guy I've been working with for years, Paul Fell, and then friends of his asked, hey, how do you do this? [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, fine, I just ended up helping and they made me an adjunct because I was worked so much with the cartoonists. [SPEAKER_08]: I got to go to this thing they used to have it before the pandemic. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't think they do now. [SPEAKER_08]: It's called the hometown tune fest.

[SPEAKER_08]: Have you ever heard of Marceline Missouri? [SPEAKER_10]: No. [SPEAKER_08]: It's about halfway between St. Louis Kansas City. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: State highway between a lot of it is too lane. [SPEAKER_08]: And halfway between his marshland Missouri, that is where Walt Disney grew up. [SPEAKER_08]: And there is the Mallon's family, Walt and Kay, they own the house, they live in the house. [SPEAKER_08]: I got to party in the house that Walt Disney grew up in.

[SPEAKER_10]: That's pretty cool. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, until like one or two in the morning that night, it was crazy. [SPEAKER_08]: And I have seen, when you go to this place, if they have it open still and you can go and you really get an idea of where Walt Disney got his ideas. [SPEAKER_08]: and obviously all the things that since it became Disney. [SPEAKER_08]: Which, of course, leads me to the drink of the day. [SPEAKER_08]: Which is the drink of the day. [SPEAKER_10]: It's a Florida-Dakery.

[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: And it's inspired by the birthday of Mickey Mouse. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Also, it is Minnie Mouse's birthday because it's considered that she and he were both, quote unquote, born on the same day. [SPEAKER_09]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: Because this is the day that steamboat Willie was released. [SPEAKER_10]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_08]: We got, we got a whole cool history and there we got the stuff in there about Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit, and we've even got the Steamboat Willy Cartoon. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, I know I saw this. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I figured it's kind of nice. [SPEAKER_08]: There is some cheesy stuff with Disney element and yes, it's expensive these days to go to the parks. [SPEAKER_08]: But there is some cool stuff that is still involved historically and in a lot of the stories that they've told.

[SPEAKER_08]: to me, it should be minis birthday first because that's just where I'm at, but you know whatever, it's fine. [SPEAKER_08]: Mickey and minis birthday today. [SPEAKER_08]: And of course, the drink of the day is the Florida Dachery. [SPEAKER_08]: What is in the Florida Dachery, Jody? [SPEAKER_10]: Okay, you're going to need a shaker and some ice, a pre-chilled coupe glass. [SPEAKER_10]: Two ounces of light white rum charcoal filtered one to four years old. [SPEAKER_10]: Very specific.

[SPEAKER_10]: A half ounce of lime juice freshly squeezed, a core ounce of Monum pure cane syrup, which is a two to one rich syrup, and we have a link to that. [SPEAKER_10]: A half ounce of pink grapefruit juice freshly squeezed, a sixth amount of Luxardo and Marachino liquor, and one Marachino cherry for garnish. [SPEAKER_12]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: So what you do is you shake all the ingredients, not the cherry with ice.

[SPEAKER_10]: You find strain it into the glass and then you garnish with the Maricino cherry. [SPEAKER_08]: Are you good? [SPEAKER_08]: Pretty simple. [SPEAKER_08]: Simple to make. [SPEAKER_08]: Easy to drink. [SPEAKER_10]: It sounds yummy. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, there are a lot of, you know, I lived in South Florida for three and a half years. [SPEAKER_08]: A lot of dacqueries down there, um, and, and you look, I, uh, there's, there's Disney land in your area. [SPEAKER_08]: That's our, exactly.

[SPEAKER_08]: Which, they're, they're doing some more additions and things on that, which should be pretty cool. [SPEAKER_08]: I think that's pretty cool. [SPEAKER_08]: There's Disney world down in Florida. [SPEAKER_08]: They're doing more stuff down there too. [SPEAKER_08]: There are some other parks, my wife and I sometimes we will watch on YouTube these, these, uh, bloggers that go to different Disney parks and things.

[SPEAKER_08]: They have some really cool parks around the world, other places. [SPEAKER_10]: I mean, I have friends that live in Jacksonville that are like Disney Freaks. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay, and they go all the time and I mean even before they had children, they were going to Disneyland when they lived here. [SPEAKER_10]: Cool. [SPEAKER_10]: Um, and I, uh, Chris Lavoilex, Disneyland. [SPEAKER_10]: He likes early coasters.

[SPEAKER_10]: Um, but yeah, I mean, people, I, you know, I haven't been there. [SPEAKER_08]: The history of Disney stuff that just the history alone with Oswald the Rabbit, who for most of our lives was actually owned by universal. [SPEAKER_08]: There's a whole story, if you've never actually looked into the life of Walt Disney, you might be like, ah, Disney, it's for the rich people.

[SPEAKER_08]: Disney was not always rich, and there's some very cool stuff and some interesting stuff there, and Walt was in the end a good businessman, but he wasn't always a good businessman. [SPEAKER_10]: And he had a little bit of problem with being a little bit racist. [SPEAKER_08]: little bit, little bit. [SPEAKER_08]: And also he made some almost made some bad decisions.

[SPEAKER_08]: I love that you have in there that in the history for today, that Mickey was almost named Mortimer until Walt's wife, Lily, and was like, yeah, ain't nobody going to like Mortimer Mouse, try, try Mickey, like Mickey Rooney. [SPEAKER_08]: So if you missed any part of the drink of the day, including some of that history stuff, it's really cool. [SPEAKER_08]: It's why we put it there. [SPEAKER_08]: Just go to the politicsbar.com. [SPEAKER_08]: You can subscribe, check that out.

[SPEAKER_08]: uh... something that is in the entertainment corner of the world uh... not exactly making house more like wicked uh... the review yeah you're excited for new eggs cannot wait cannot wait cannot reviews are saying that it's very good sent the revo kicks ass uh... area of grande obviously uh... takes takes more of the lead in this second one of the but it should be good [SPEAKER_08]: If you are a fan at all of share and really who isn't because if you're not, what is wrong with you?

[SPEAKER_09]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: So, share is going to be on SNL. [SPEAKER_09]: With Ariana Grande. [SPEAKER_08]: Ta-da! [SPEAKER_08]: See? [SPEAKER_08]: That's, it's really cool. [SPEAKER_08]: And, you know, I like share and the fact that share told me to call her share. [SPEAKER_09]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: still absolutely freaks out especially you know the the the the gay friends that I have the gay male friends that I have who are like what wait wait wait wait wait you've you've talked to share yes and she told me to call her share yeah when I met her she was still married to her first husband so because even for sunny no that's sunny when she's married to sunny and uh because she's been married since then uh sorry uh but I we called them

[SPEAKER_08]: Well, obviously, I mean, you know, I mean, you know, Carol will work with share on a few things. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, they shot their shows next door each other. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, no, I really, that's really cool. [SPEAKER_08]: That's yeah, I just I I still I still find it funny, you know, typical Midwest guy, you know, I'm my parents raised me right to be polite and so you do serves and moms.

[SPEAKER_08]: We jokingly call each other as as we're in the bar here before we talk to you guys sometimes we're just, you know, [SPEAKER_08]: But, you know, that's a polite thing to do. [SPEAKER_08]: And, you know, I still remember when I maimed Cher, and she was like, no, no, no, no, no, don't do that. [SPEAKER_08]: Just call me Cher. [SPEAKER_08]: So, you know, just trying to be respectful. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, after all, it is freaking Cher. [SPEAKER_10]: Cher, I mean, it's Cher.

[SPEAKER_08]: But she said color Cher, so that's what I do. [SPEAKER_08]: So she got me on SNL. [SPEAKER_08]: Weird Al is going on tour in 2026. [SPEAKER_08]: Ooh, which is pretty cool. [SPEAKER_08]: And if you missed last night's Monday night football, Dallas Cowboys, they really clocked the Raiders 33 to 16. [SPEAKER_10]: hard to me just. [SPEAKER_08]: It's hard to call them the Las Vegas Raiders, isn't it? [SPEAKER_10]: Well, no, I mean, first off, I'm not a Raiders fan, so.

[SPEAKER_10]: I don't like either of those teams, so I'm like, oh, okay, there's that. [SPEAKER_08]: As a 49ers fan, I get it. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, but, but still. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, look, the Cowboys, they had one of their young players, unfortunately, commit suicide, and they gave us flowers and stuff. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: still a lot of stuff going on to their investigating with that, but it was nice they gave his flowers and then you know, went out and won the game.

[SPEAKER_08]: And you're always like, you know, something like that happens. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, do one for the Gipper basically. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Do do one do one for their teammate. [SPEAKER_08]: He's not with him. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Even if you're not a cowboy's fan, I think you can respect that. [SPEAKER_10]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_10]: 100%. [SPEAKER_08]: All right, we got more news on tap.

[SPEAKER_08]: So here's, you know, maybe you missed it the top of the hour. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, you know where it is, left, right, center, down the hall. [SPEAKER_08]: You've got to do what you've got to do. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, we aim to please hear the politics bar, you aim to please. [SPEAKER_08]: Cause, you know, we've got to clean up later and, I don't want to clean that up. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, we will. [SPEAKER_08]: There's, you know, codes about that kind of stuff.

[SPEAKER_08]: But just go take care of yourself, come on back, freshen up your drink. [SPEAKER_08]: We got another round on a Tuesday night here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_04]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar.

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[SPEAKER_08]: We had a couple of comments, uh, the ever we're talking about, uh, Stephen King movies last night. [SPEAKER_08]: Uh, and, uh, great mousers said Pet Cemetery was a brilliant adaptation in his opinion. [SPEAKER_08]: Uh, um, he said, uh, dark tower not so much. [SPEAKER_08]: Which. [SPEAKER_08]: And did you see the Dark Tower movie that the most recent one with Intercellbao? [SPEAKER_08]: It was not as good as the books.

[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, it's always hard to adapt a book properly, like with, say, the Green Mile. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: They could have cut a lot of that movie, but it's such a giant. [SPEAKER_10]: I read that book. [SPEAKER_10]: It's a long book. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a big ass book, yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: Where a Shawshank redemption was a short story. [SPEAKER_10]: Yes, novella, I think, and so it was like, and that was just two and a half hour really well-made movie.

[SPEAKER_10]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_10]: Misery was fantastic. [SPEAKER_10]: I read a bunch of his short stories years ago in college and they haven't made this one into a movie where this guy lives on a college campus and there's these murders happening in the area. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I'm trying to remember the name of that one. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it was good.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, look Steven and Tabitha are both extremely great authors and writers and and but sometimes the people who translates You know author stuff in the movies [SPEAKER_10]: It's hard to adapt and be, because it's like, like I said with the Green Mile, there's a lot of B story lines that the movie didn't necessarily need, because that's a three and a half amount of movie. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, right. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm glad that they actually dealt into it.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm glad that they did so many things well with that movie. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm still saddened by the death. [SPEAKER_08]: What is his name, the actor? [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, the actor that played. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, his name is escaping me. [SPEAKER_08]: The main character, yeah, it's one of, hey, it's late y'all. [SPEAKER_08]: We have that, it happens to all of us.

[SPEAKER_08]: But yeah, I'm believe me, I, it's sad on those kind of things, but I am glad for the adaptation and glad that there's so much screen time with him. [SPEAKER_08]: Obviously time. [SPEAKER_10]: Michael Clark Duncan. [SPEAKER_08]: That's it, yes. [SPEAKER_08]: MCD. [SPEAKER_08]: Michael Clark Duncan was a great actor. [SPEAKER_10]: Hey, Dad and when he 12, it's been gone a while. [SPEAKER_10]: He was young, he was only 10 years older than I am. [SPEAKER_08]: That's crazy.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's crazy. [SPEAKER_08]: Man, by the way, another mention, by the way, somebody else here in the bar, a Tom over in the Facebook corner of the bar said yesterday, what it was a great conversation when we were talking about women leaders. [SPEAKER_08]: And Tom says, Jodi, I know you, you seem a little bit skeptical. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll have in our lifetime.

[SPEAKER_08]: But I think after all the pain and suffering from this orange felon, the people are going to be ready to elect a woman. [SPEAKER_08]: I hope so. [SPEAKER_08]: He says he thinks it's the perfect time for VP Harris to reintroduce herself. [SPEAKER_08]: He says he'd vote for Harris or AOC or even Jasmine Crockett who you got to talk to this morning. [SPEAKER_10]: I got to listen to her. [SPEAKER_10]: She's it first off.

[SPEAKER_10]: Funny, yeah, very funny and wicked smart and really pretty and even though she was a little bit sleepy look to gorgeous But yeah, we were you know, I'm because she signed on a little later than we're more comfortable It was it was it was a it was a really tight morning this morning But for those of you who watch on free speech TV give some kudos to Lonnie he's been kicking ass with [SPEAKER_08]: He's doing a heck. [SPEAKER_08]: He's doing a hell of a job.

[SPEAKER_08]: He isn't just a man who sits there and says, the idea of politics bar. [SPEAKER_08]: There we go. [SPEAKER_08]: You got to press right button, Sean. [SPEAKER_08]: Jesus. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, that was funny with Stephanie kept doing it. [SPEAKER_10]: Did I did? [SPEAKER_08]: She was, she was, she was the politics bar over and over again. [SPEAKER_08]: And I'm like, OK. Well, Lonnie fixed, OK. [SPEAKER_10]: So he gets to work today, about 15 or 20 minutes before I get there.

[SPEAKER_10]: And apparently, one of her smaller trees had fallen in the driveway were Bella Parks.

[SPEAKER_10]: oh okay and so he got some zip ties and fixed that and then Bella came out during one of the breaks and she said the the refergerators broke in the one that is you know downstairs in the bite and Lonnie goes he goes let's check it and so he plugged it in and he's like no it's there's a [SPEAKER_10]: piece on the back of the fridge that was boiling hot and he said, now it's it's toast. [SPEAKER_10]: It's it's a toast.

[SPEAKER_10]: And so he said, do you want me to go pick up a fridge and you just reimburse me and she's like, you'll do that.

[SPEAKER_10]: He's like, yeah, then she tried to move the fridge by herself and we're like, no. [SPEAKER_08]: so Lonnie helped her move to fold for a job he's awesome Lonnie's just he's he's he's really great I'm very glad that he is the voice work for us, which is great, and you know, and of course, you know That he he gets the benefit of hanging out with you Well, I won't say 24 seven because obviously guys are going to every single moment, but you know what I mean yeah, I mean it's

[SPEAKER_08]: you know, you guys, you guys make a good team. [SPEAKER_08]: It's really cool. [SPEAKER_08]: So anyway, thanks to Tom and Greg Masher O'Robsey also in North Carolina says that we are one of Robsey's favorite news sources and we have fantastic guests. [SPEAKER_08]: So thank us. [SPEAKER_10]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you, Robsey, for listening. [SPEAKER_08]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_08]: No matter where you guys are coming from, we really appreciate it.

[SPEAKER_08]: Also, I did catch a comment from Mike Philopaski today. [SPEAKER_08]: You're reminded of his Mike Johnson refused to swear in Adelita Grahalfa for months because she was the 218 signature to force of vote on the Epstein files. [SPEAKER_08]: Republicans always wanted to release them is what Johnson was saying, but yeah, don't believe them for that. [SPEAKER_10]: Don't believe in that.

[SPEAKER_10]: When Donald says, um, waiting for them, it's like, dude, you have complete an utter authority to release them two day, much like when the Republicans were saying the Democrats have to end the shutdown. [SPEAKER_10]: And then you guys can end the shutdown. [SPEAKER_08]: Tony's right again. [SPEAKER_08]: She's right a lot. [SPEAKER_10]: And it's John Thun, Mike Johnson. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, tiny Johnson has got a problem with his Pete. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, sorry.

[SPEAKER_10]: With his Peter. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, he might. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_08]: You'd have to ask his son because the whole there's the whole them. [SPEAKER_09]: There's that whole thing that they do. [SPEAKER_09]: That's just weird and creepy. [SPEAKER_08]: Uh, do we have that in today's or yesterday's? [SPEAKER_08]: I'm trying to remember about that.

[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, whether we actually ended up getting that one in the, uh, the news on tap because I guess, uh, the White House, because of the rumors that come from the Epstein files. [SPEAKER_08]: Mm. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: They were, they posted the pictures of Donald and Melania and their love story.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't think we had room for it in today's, but it was just so funny because they're like, we swear Donald straight and you're like, [SPEAKER_10]: And apparently now they're delaying had a horse named Bubba. [SPEAKER_10]: So that's the new rumor. [SPEAKER_08]: So you're saying that joke that we were saying yesterday was not just a joke, it's a real thing.

[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, it's... [SPEAKER_08]: New morning console poll that's in the news on tap that a 60% of Americans think Trump knew about Epstein's abuse almost 40% think Trump participated in it I know it's a 40% I'm 100% with that 100% You know that you're 100% with that 40% got it and 100% with the 60% so [SPEAKER_08]: you're 100% with a hundred percent. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: There are other things going on. [SPEAKER_08]: The immigration arrests.

[SPEAKER_08]: We mentioned this with Richard Chu. [SPEAKER_08]: The records confirm only 16 of the 600 detained by ICE and Chicago had those had any criminal histories. [SPEAKER_08]: It's pretty clear though the folks in North Carolina have learned from the folks in L.A. and D.C. And say I'm a Tennessee. [SPEAKER_10]: I think this is learned a bit too. [SPEAKER_08]: There's every city. [SPEAKER_08]: It's iterative just like with software programs or with your families.

[SPEAKER_08]: neighborhoods, you learn something, you pass it to your cousin, you pass it to whoever your uncle, your auntie learns something, they teach you and you pass it on, your neighbor finds out something, says, hey, you know, by the way, this particular thing is wrong with a refrigerator and Stephanie's base, and really, well, I got a fridge here, oh, the next time you do this, don't pull it away from the wall, little bit in the fridge last long. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, okay.

[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, you know, everybody learns things and passes these things on. [SPEAKER_08]: is those of us who are in the anti-fascist side, we're getting some wins. [SPEAKER_08]: There are, unfortunately, some stuff from the anti-fascist stuff. [SPEAKER_08]: This one was actually in yesterday's news on tap. [SPEAKER_08]: So Trump has named like four anti-fascist groups in Europe as now terrorists groups.

[SPEAKER_08]: Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't we fight a whole world of fascist laws? [SPEAKER_10]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_10]: Yep, big one. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, okay. [SPEAKER_08]: I'll just make sure I was right on that, because any who. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, Antifa is just anti-fascist. [SPEAKER_10]: It's just a concept. [SPEAKER_10]: It's an ideology, but there's no group. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it's not like we have a clubhouse or anything.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's just all the people who hate fascism. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: I think it shouldn't be everybody. [SPEAKER_08]: I would think so, but you never know. [SPEAKER_08]: So, Donald Trump also losing in the courts again, he didn't just lose on the redistricting today.

[SPEAKER_08]: Federal judge says the Trump DOJ may have committed professional misconduct in the Comi case, which if that's the case with Lindsey Halligan, he has also committed professional misconduct in the case against Tish James. [SPEAKER_08]: And potentially, and several other cases. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, Eric's wall will, you know, if he, they actually do go after Adam Schiff. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_10]: And they're going to get all of the grand jury testimony.

[SPEAKER_10]: So they know what she said to those jurors. [SPEAKER_08]: And from what we can tell, she was telling them things that were wrong. [SPEAKER_08]: For example, saying, well, we have more evidence that you'll see later. [SPEAKER_08]: You don't get to do that when you're presenting. [SPEAKER_08]: You don't get to say, I would prove this to you now. [SPEAKER_08]: I would prove to you now that I have a hamburger, but wait to pay you until next Tuesday.

[SPEAKER_10]: When I remember my Popeye, I mean, there was a thought that she might have even said to the jurors because they kept getting no bills that they were staying until you get me a bill. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: That's against the law. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: You can't do that either. [SPEAKER_08]: You can't say, look, I'm all keep you here until you give me what you want, what I want.

[SPEAKER_08]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no [SPEAKER_08]: You know, if you knew nothing about her, I suppose you might be an objective leash isn't attractive.

[SPEAKER_10]: For some definitions are pretty right, but but somebody who bows to a fascist like that is just not I don't and it's if nobody paid attention to the last time he screws people over, he does it all the time, I mean, yes, constantly constantly, it's going to lose your license, I think.

[SPEAKER_08]: she easily could lose her license to practice law in any state and he's he's already had several of several people that that he's some of his lawyers from the first one the whole trying to steal the 2020 life yeah and now remember even though he's pardon them they still can't get their law licenses back

[SPEAKER_08]: because the law license is given by a private order is it's not given by the state so it doesn't matter it's not given by remember he can only partner to federal level anyway. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: So he's yeah, that why anybody would risk especially at that age. [SPEAKER_08]: She's a what in her 20s late 20s. [SPEAKER_10]: I think like that. [SPEAKER_10]: She looks like she at least she looks in her late 20s.

[SPEAKER_10]: Bill Polti on the other hand is only 37 years old. [SPEAKER_10]: He looks like he's 100. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, he looks like he is so old, but, you know, as we've said before, evil ages, you see Stephen Miller, I mean, he's at you. [SPEAKER_08]: The incompetence of the Trump regime is everywhere. [SPEAKER_08]: We actually have a segment on that in the third round of today's news on tap.

[SPEAKER_08]: So the Trump CDC is finally for the first time, officially linking measles outbreaks that have been happening in multiple states. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you, our FK Junior. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, Canada, by the way, has already lost their status as a country that is immune to measles and we will likely do the same here by the end of the year. [SPEAKER_10]: I mean, I'm glad I got my booster. [SPEAKER_08]: It's just, you should get tested too.

[SPEAKER_10]: You should get your immunity's tested to see if your measles is vaccine. [SPEAKER_08]: I think I'm 50. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I can't remember one. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, you should be okay. [SPEAKER_10]: Because it was people were doing like 67 and 70. [SPEAKER_08]: I knew I was on that side of the cut off. [SPEAKER_08]: So I'm I'm okay. [SPEAKER_10]: Because I, you know, I got my immunity tested and they're like, yeah, you don't have many more and boom, right.

[SPEAKER_08]: You know, can I have to show everybody's for anybody for anybody. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, you can you can go to if you're not sure. [SPEAKER_08]: If you haven't gotten your COVID shot yet, or your flu shot, or whatever, you can go to pharmacies, and they'll look at what you have for your insurance and see if they can cover it.

[SPEAKER_08]: And if they don't, and they're experienced, a lot of pharmacists will tell you, look, I know that this particular health insurance company can get taken care of at that pharmacy. [SPEAKER_08]: feel free to ask around. [SPEAKER_08]: It's, you know, don't don't be afraid to ask questions, you all. [SPEAKER_10]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_08]: Somebody who didn't want to answer any questions, the FEMA chief acting chief was no show during the Texas floods that were so deadly has now officially resigned before the White House could fire him, which was coming because there's some more lawsuits coming from that. [SPEAKER_08]: And of course, he would have to testify and other like, oh, he's not here. [SPEAKER_08]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: He can still be forced to testify. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_08]: They can bring him back, but at that point, they don't have to protect him. [SPEAKER_10]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: And as we all know, when it comes to Donald Trump, he didn't go protect you. [SPEAKER_08]: He didn't go protect you. [SPEAKER_08]: He didn't go protect you. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, he don't care about anybody himself. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: So the Trump administration also has ditched the Biden plan to compensate travelers for airline delays.

[SPEAKER_08]: So another one of those things that the Biden Harris administration did that was extremely helpful and thoughtful and then thinking about [SPEAKER_08]: and of course Donald Trump in his regime. [SPEAKER_08]: Why that away? [SPEAKER_08]: Because who cares? [SPEAKER_10]: He doesn't care about consumers. [SPEAKER_08]: No. [SPEAKER_08]: They don't care about consumers, and they sure say, don't care about you. [SPEAKER_10]: So that's the only care about their themselves.

[SPEAKER_10]: And it's just exactly. [SPEAKER_10]: And he's ugly and boring. [SPEAKER_10]: And I don't like him. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't want to see him. [SPEAKER_10]: He smells bad. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, from what I've heard, absolutely. [SPEAKER_10]: But you know, [SPEAKER_08]: We got to deal with him for a little while longer. [SPEAKER_08]: I still don't think he's going to last the full turn. [SPEAKER_10]: I don't think so either.

[SPEAKER_10]: He's not healthy No, he's talking he keeps talking he was it some wedding in Mara logo talking about death Anemic Donald's thing. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh God that [SPEAKER_08]: We could talk about both of those. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, freshen up your drink. [SPEAKER_08]: It is a Tuesday night. [SPEAKER_08]: We got last call coming up. [SPEAKER_08]: So go, dude, you got a new freshen up your drink. [SPEAKER_08]: Go look for new gear at the politicsbar.com store.

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[SPEAKER_08]: You got to be subscribed to get the recipe, those are checking out. [SPEAKER_08]: It's all there at the Baltic Spark. [SPEAKER_08]: That's all. [SPEAKER_08]: So, I was debating yesterday whether to actually play one of these cuts from Trump over the weekend, Jodie, because he's been, Grand P. Trump has been showing up again. [SPEAKER_08]: And he has just been, he's, he's not a well-made. [SPEAKER_10]: He's not physically well. [SPEAKER_10]: He's not mentally well.

[SPEAKER_10]: He's not fit to be running his own company, let alone the country. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Jody is right on that. [SPEAKER_08]: There's there's this whole thing that he did. [SPEAKER_08]: I think I think we had it in yesterday's news on tap. [SPEAKER_08]: So it was a a franchisey Shindig McDonald's. [SPEAKER_08]: First of all, okay, it's not just him because it's some of the people of the White House.

[SPEAKER_08]: They did this whole graphic on the White House Social media pages where they had the White House with the set of golden arches above the White House. [SPEAKER_08]: Are you kidding me really? [SPEAKER_10]: I hate him so much. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I'm with you, I'm with you. [SPEAKER_08]: But then he did this speech. [SPEAKER_08]: He will, several, I, I didn't know what cut to pull. [SPEAKER_08]: I didn't pull any of it eventually because I, it was such gobbledy-gug.

[SPEAKER_10]: That's per usual. [SPEAKER_08]: Even more than usual though, he was not making any coherent sense. [SPEAKER_10]: This is a franchisee speech. [SPEAKER_08]: these people are not poor. [SPEAKER_08]: They're they they. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, uh, I mean, even if you just don't one McDonald's restaurant, well, we're going to watch McDonald's corporate owners are there, too. [SPEAKER_08]: And those folks are the corporate executives are not not by any search.

[SPEAKER_10]: They don't eat their food. [SPEAKER_10]: Um, but he was talking about the play a fish and it needs more tartar sauce. [SPEAKER_10]: And I'm like, I've never had one, but from what I understand, it's slathered in that stuff. [SPEAKER_08]: It is.

[SPEAKER_08]: Look, I mean, you can, you can always ask for less or more, um, you know, fully efficient as one of those things every once in a while I'll have, but I look at it and go, even if you're the president, you don't ask the company to make all of the sandwiches the way that you want. [SPEAKER_08]: You'd just put it in your order and they'll, you know, they'll, you want more sauce, you want less sauce, whatever, they'll do it that way.

[SPEAKER_08]: And they don't advertise that, but you can ask. [SPEAKER_08]: It's been that way since I was a kid. [SPEAKER_08]: You want a catch-up, you want no catch-up? [SPEAKER_08]: Some people are, you know, they are anti-catch-up, whatever.

[SPEAKER_08]: But to me, the bigger thing was just the fact that him, his speech was just so, [SPEAKER_10]: Well, and why was he talking about going to war with the run at a meeting for McDonald's franchisees and then talking about how bombs are allowed to go boom, and it's like, Did he actually say boom? [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, yeah, he did. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh my god. [SPEAKER_10]: And then he made these weird, he made weird noise when it came to the fly officials like something like that.

[SPEAKER_08]: He didn't do a fun journey noise. [SPEAKER_10]: No, he did not. [SPEAKER_10]: And because the only reason I heard it was because it was on Bob's show today, but it was tiny trumps. [SPEAKER_10]: So it sounded even more than I'd like this. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, I mean, the thing is, I think listening to it at regular speed would sound more deranged.

[SPEAKER_08]: The whole thing, that's why I said, I listen to several of the clips that Ason and Aaron Rupert had on different social media platforms. [SPEAKER_08]: And I couldn't pick a clip because I'm going, how do you introduce this to the people who are hanging out in the bar and say, by the way, is this insane? [SPEAKER_08]: And you don't want to, we try not to buy us things here. [SPEAKER_08]: This is something even when I worked for Laura Ingram.

[SPEAKER_08]: And I would cut out the verbal crutches that we all have. [SPEAKER_08]: She's still appreciated the fact, at least I was told this, that I kept cuts in context. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't think she 100% liked it because I think after I left, they would do cuts in context. [SPEAKER_08]: I knew that much and that loud heard of, you know, do whatever the hell she wanted to do. [SPEAKER_08]: Take things at a context. [SPEAKER_08]: But it's a journalistic thing.

[SPEAKER_08]: Randy, we always big on that stuff. [SPEAKER_08]: I always appreciated it that I, you know, when I did clips, I did clips in context. [SPEAKER_08]: You want to provide context for this. [SPEAKER_08]: You don't want to buy us. [SPEAKER_08]: You don't want to be like, OK, here's this complete turd bucket moron.

[SPEAKER_08]: And this is what they, unless you're joking about it, because you know, like we joke about, you know, we talk about joke about tiny Johnson, which as I've joke with a number of people, we call him tiny Johnson for a lot of reasons, including the fact that Republicans are focused on, well, like tiny Johnson was early today, Peter's. [SPEAKER_08]: And so because of that, [SPEAKER_08]: I didn't pause myself that time. [SPEAKER_08]: I didn't go close enough.

[SPEAKER_08]: But look, which, you know, obviously, I guess if you believe the Epstein files, Trump may have. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, but um, look at that. [SPEAKER_02]: Take you out to the barn. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, if you believe it was a horse, any who. [SPEAKER_08]: So look, when when we're joking about those kinds of things, it's kind of fun. [SPEAKER_08]: But in general, when we play a cut for you off the DVR here, we try to give you some type of perspective.

[SPEAKER_08]: because anybody who does new stuff, whether it is informed news commentary like we do or whether it's straight news, they should give you the ability to hear it as it is. [SPEAKER_08]: In context, so that you're not, because on the right, that's what they do all the time. [SPEAKER_08]: They take clips at a context all the time. [SPEAKER_08]: They were taking clips of stuff on Hannity's show from last week.

[SPEAKER_08]: On their right-wing media, they're still taking clips at a context like that, because that's what they do. [SPEAKER_08]: That's right-wing [SPEAKER_08]: So I was looking for a cut in context of Trump at this McDonald's thing. [SPEAKER_08]: And unless I would have played like a three minute thing, and even then you would have been like, he starts at point A. [SPEAKER_08]: He winds around to point Alpha.

[SPEAKER_08]: He goes to point question mark and he ends up at point X. [SPEAKER_10]: What the hell is that? [SPEAKER_08]: It's context. [SPEAKER_08]: He's, yeah, well, I mean, he's just making a logical sense. [SPEAKER_10]: I miss Sarah Palin at this point, and her word salads.

[SPEAKER_08]: You know, it's it's it I don't understand people still think he's good and I don't understand how his people look Joe Biden Stutter Joe Biden has had a stutter his entire life everybody who knows Joe knows he's had a stutter his whole life [SPEAKER_08]: And in the last few years, his people tried to limit more of his appearances to earlier in the day, or if he hadn't gotten too much sleep, then you may put that off to the next day or whatever.

[SPEAKER_10]: and make sure it's speeches because he's better at that than necessarily off the cuff because then you're thinking and then you're not thinking about your stutter, but if you've rehearsed a speech, you can get through it without having to worry about that because a friend of mine has a stutter and he has to consciously think and pause and do things so that his stutter doesn't come out.

[SPEAKER_08]: For those people who are at least in that in speech, able, as opposed to disabled, for people who have [SPEAKER_08]: My wife has spined a bit for them. [SPEAKER_08]: And sometimes, there are things that go along with it. [SPEAKER_08]: One of them is ADHD, one of them is pain management. [SPEAKER_09]: I bet. [SPEAKER_08]: And so she always has those things in her brain of trying to stay focused on the conversation of not focusing on her pain too much.

[SPEAKER_08]: It is a thing that people perpetually who, [SPEAKER_08]: If, if you're disabled that way, you know what I'm talking about? [SPEAKER_08]: Um, there are people who have speech issues. [SPEAKER_08]: That's their disability. [SPEAKER_08]: Is that like Joe? [SPEAKER_10]: Would James or Jones as apparently had a stutter as a child? [SPEAKER_08]: He did. [SPEAKER_10]: And now, and when he had to play an adult with a stutter, he had to stop thinking. [SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: Because you spend a lot of [SPEAKER_08]: For those people who may maybe have never heard this before. [SPEAKER_08]: And, you know, my wife and I have several friends with disability community, there's a concept called Spoonz. [SPEAKER_08]: Have you ever heard of this? [SPEAKER_08]: No. [UNKNOWN]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: So, your energy can be, I won't go into a whole background of it, but basically the concept is your energy can be measured out by a spoon, like a teaspoon of sugar.

[SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: And a lot of people in the disabled community just say, I don't know how the Spoonz today. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't have the energy because I'm so busy focusing on my pain management for today so that I can do the next thing that I don't have the energy maybe to fix my speech so I don't stutter or whatever the issue may be. [SPEAKER_08]: And that's perfectly fine. [SPEAKER_08]: There's nothing wrong with it.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yesterday I was tired because it wasn't a feeling 100%. [SPEAKER_08]: I was here in the bar though because that's how I do it. [SPEAKER_08]: And I knew you guys wouldn't get sick for me just talking through your speakers there. [SPEAKER_08]: Um, if, if I had thought I would get you sick, I would not have been here because that's I respect you all enough. [SPEAKER_08]: But, um, I was spending some of my spoons on trying to to stay focused and, and that kind of thing.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yesterday, everybody does that. [SPEAKER_08]: That's, that is just a, it's a disabled versus able thing. [SPEAKER_08]: And some days you just don't got enough spoons, some days you just don't. [SPEAKER_08]: But when you're managing somebody like the president of the United States, whoever he or she is, [SPEAKER_08]: And you notice that you're what they call a principal. [SPEAKER_12]: That's principal. [SPEAKER_08]: That's present vice president, a senator, congressperson, whatever.

[SPEAKER_08]: You're managing your principal. [SPEAKER_08]: You're their assistant. [SPEAKER_08]: You're their deputy chief of staff, whatever. [SPEAKER_08]: And if you know that that the principle that you're managing doesn't have my spoons to do the thing that they're supposed to be doing, especially if the big ass public thing like a big old speech in front of hundreds of McDonald's franchisees, you don't let them go out and make a dumb ass speech where you sound like a fool.

[SPEAKER_10]: he made these weird noises. [SPEAKER_10]: I'll have Bob send you. [SPEAKER_10]: Um, okay. [SPEAKER_10]: He made these weird noises. [SPEAKER_08]: Bob, we need to mark by the way. [SPEAKER_10]: He will. [SPEAKER_10]: And um, uh, it's just, I was, I, rolling my eyes, shaking my head saying to myself, and on the show, what is going on?

[SPEAKER_10]: Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, [SPEAKER_08]: because the man doesn't have my spoons. [SPEAKER_08]: He's old.

[SPEAKER_08]: He's ill. And they sent him out there. [SPEAKER_08]: Somebody sent him out there. [SPEAKER_08]: No one in the man did not have enough spoons to do the job. [SPEAKER_08]: But among other things, Trump, like a lot of people in powerful positions, cannot let his ego. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: He's, I got to get it there. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to think and hurt him. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm not. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, he isn't like people to say no to him.

[SPEAKER_08]: And he doesn't like to be considered [SPEAKER_08]: So he's got to get out there and he will y'all have done this before too. [SPEAKER_08]: You've been sick, whatever. [SPEAKER_08]: I bet most of most of the folks here in the bar have. [SPEAKER_08]: You've been sick, but there's something you feel you've got to do. [SPEAKER_08]: So you push through it. [SPEAKER_08]: Instead of doing it the normal way, you push through it.

[SPEAKER_08]: And yeah, I mean, people around you who know you, they know, they know, they know that you are dig into the bottom of your sugar reserves, that you are at a spoon. [SPEAKER_10]: I think he knows he's dying because he was at a, he crashed a wedding at Marolago over the weekend. [SPEAKER_10]: Was that this last weekend? [SPEAKER_10]: I believe it was this last weekend. [SPEAKER_10]: And he was talking about death and heaven again.

[SPEAKER_10]: He keeps talking about it is that I can tell you right now, Donnie, he ain't going to heaven. [SPEAKER_08]: Jody's 100% right on that one. [SPEAKER_08]: He's going to be going somewhere a little bit warmer. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_10]: You know his boyfriend on South Park. [SPEAKER_10]: He's going to go visit that guy.

[SPEAKER_08]: What's I think they may have another new episode as we believe they do, yeah, yeah, we'll have to look at that for the entertainment section for you guys for tomorrow tomorrow. [SPEAKER_08]: By the way, we do have Bob Cesska who's going to be coming here to the bar, which is good Thursday. [SPEAKER_08]: John Fuegel saying we'll be back and we will talk to him all about his tour and about how things are going next week.

[SPEAKER_08]: We're pretty geeked up about this Julie franchise going back here at the politics bar, which I'm [SPEAKER_08]: You know I'm digging now one I we we always love Julie and of course next week is Thanksgiving as well Can you believe it we may have many wrinkles in her husband and man on good that'd be good Many wrinkles that'd be great times. [SPEAKER_10]: They have a lovely podcast out.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's about her dad and the three of them Look we got a lot of good guests so well look it is the enemy evening folks here's what we're gonna do You guys head home get home safe [SPEAKER_08]: We're going to clean things up here and then then we are actually going to go home as well. [SPEAKER_08]: And then we'll all meet back here tomorrow night, more drinks, more news, more politics, go home, be safe, don't do anything I would do and don't do some of the things I would do too.

[SPEAKER_08]: See you tomorrow.