Itchin' For The Weekend May 21, 2026

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[SPEAKER_04]: So you sent me this journey, a former proud voice leader in Riketaro, Tario, he's in the collage today, convicted of sedition by the way, he's buying a $2 to $5 million payout from Trump's insurrectionist reparations fund. [SPEAKER_06]: the problem is, okay, so when we were talking today on Bob show, they were talking about this fund that there is a fund that does exist today, if you were maliciously prosecuted.

[SPEAKER_06]: If there was a problem, there is a federal fund that does exist. [SPEAKER_04]: The problem is with Glenn earlier this week and you have to prove that. [SPEAKER_06]: And so it's like, anybody that pled guilty, first off, they were all indicted by grandjuries, not by specific [SPEAKER_06]: people in the Biden administration or in D.O.J., grandjuries can indicted them, a. [SPEAKER_06]: Two, those who went to trial were convicted again by a different jury.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, and here's three. [SPEAKER_04]: They actually had a case that was adjudicated, which I believe we were talking with, with Bob about last night. [SPEAKER_04]: So, okay, you have a case, you got a result, it was a jutakin. [SPEAKER_04]: There was, there was a rule, then there is that fun for those people for whom there was malicious prosecution. [SPEAKER_06]: Like Jim Komi and Liches James can probably go for.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right, but here's the thing, um, this case that they're trying to base this stuff off for, for Trump.

[SPEAKER_06]: they pulled it before the judge make a ruling so there's been no you legally there's no case because there wasn't a case they didn't which is why what they're trying to do is not a settlement it's just DOJ hand handing and forcing or telling the IRS what to do which is not legal there is no law there is no order the law and order is not around it's really good show anyway but not on this issue there's no order

[SPEAKER_04]: And like, even even the people, this is the thing that this is one of the reasons why Donald Trump has been trying to strangle hold Republicans for so long, strangle hold the mag of folks and strangle hold, well, if you don't do it alone, I'm going to send them the mob, the crazy mob, Tom Tellis, who's already given Trump the finger in a few things this last year. [SPEAKER_04]: So because he decided that he was not going to run again, this was him today to Spectrum News.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's stupid on stills because it will invariably put us in a position where your tax payer dollars and my tax payer dollars could potentially compensate.

[SPEAKER_01]: someone who assaulted a police officer uh... admit it their guilt got convicted got pardon and now we're going to pay on for that uh... that's absurd the american people are going to reject us out of him when you take money from me to give to a purpose that i've been really disagree with that's tyranny and that's what that account now that it's not really it's not tyranny but that the thing is is when he says your tax dollars in my tax dollars and

[SPEAKER_06]: Even if you're pardoned, you would literally have to sign it, admitting that you're guilty. [SPEAKER_06]: So this is twice that the people that were pardoned have admitted their guilty. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: Did already played it. [SPEAKER_06]: Pleaded guilty in the other.

[SPEAKER_04]: Of course, there's all kinds of other law things, including, like we noted, yesterday right here in the bar, the thing that absolutely drives me, absolutely nuts, so many people keep forgetting 14th Amendment Section 4, neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States. [UNKNOWN]: Yep. [SPEAKER_04]: There you go.

[SPEAKER_06]: And there's sedition right there with, in Riketario, in particular, in particular. [SPEAKER_04]: In particular. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, those guys, I mean, that's, was he pardoned or just commuted? [SPEAKER_06]: Because I think most of those guys were commuted. [SPEAKER_04]: I think they were commuted, not pardoned. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: And that's one of the things they're trying to get under the wire, then they could try to wave it off because it doesn't matter.

[SPEAKER_04]: Look, they're guilty of it and we all know it. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: They did it. [SPEAKER_06]: We saw it. [SPEAKER_06]: It was on tape. [SPEAKER_06]: Everybody. [SPEAKER_04]: So it's stupid. [SPEAKER_04]: It's, um, but I'm glad the Democrats are still fighting to shut this thing down. [SPEAKER_04]: I just can't. [SPEAKER_04]: Yes. [SPEAKER_04]: There exactly in the news on tab in the second part of the first round of the news on tab building failures.

[SPEAKER_04]: So Trump's ballroom will not be funded. [SPEAKER_04]: The reconciliation bill Republicans basically put to the floor of the Senate today. [SPEAKER_04]: child then White House had this this beautiful explanation of how they got it done this is like going to a restaurant where you have to talk to the hosts or the matriede and they'll put you on a list and then they see you and people go laws they're just they're just looking for

[SPEAKER_04]: No, when they see chew is when you are assigned to a waiter or if they do like a rotating weight staff, it's assigned to a certain area, it's assigned to a crew, but that's who the host or the matriety, that's part of their job, is they assign this stuff. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: If you just go into a restaurant one of these, and you just, oh, it's an open chair, open table, and you just go sit down, and then you're bitch, and that you're not getting served.

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you see that host? [SPEAKER_04]: OK, so there are little details. [SPEAKER_04]: Here, let's enter White House, tell you what the details were. [SPEAKER_04]: They're so freaking obvious the Republicans missed. [SPEAKER_00]: In order to get the funding through the reconciliation process, the Republicans had to give reconciliation instructions to all the relevant committees. [SPEAKER_04]: And I make sense.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm the top Democrat on the Environment Public Works Committee. [SPEAKER_00]: Martin Heinrich is the top Democrat on the Energy Natural Resources Committee. [SPEAKER_00]: The White House is a public building under the jurisdiction of the Environment Public Works Committee, and it's in a national park under the jurisdiction of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. [SPEAKER_00]: And the Republicans managed not to give reconciliation instructions to either committee.

[SPEAKER_00]: So our lawyers went in, mine arguing for E.P. [SPEAKER_00]: W. Martin's arguing for energy natural resources. [SPEAKER_00]: that the reconciliation was defective. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, could not put money to the ballroom because there was no proper instruction allowing money to go to the ballroom because of the jurisdiction of the E.P.W. [SPEAKER_00]: and ENR.

[SPEAKER_00]: We won that argument, it was well prepared and well delivered and it took only one day for the parliamentary to decide that in fact the ballroom being added to the reconciliation bill was defective and it had to fall. [SPEAKER_04]: Not gonna complicate it, I understand. [SPEAKER_04]: You gotta get the proper permission. [SPEAKER_04]: This is the thing, by the way, they're gonna try with this stupid ass arch. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, what is this, it's over 100 years.

[SPEAKER_06]: You can't expect that to be something that's upheld. [SPEAKER_06]: It's over 100 years. [SPEAKER_04]: 101 years ago, they got the authorization to put two pillars. [SPEAKER_06]: Just pillars right so it was kind of like nothing nothing attaching the pillars just to Yeah, just kind of like a thing that would just honor Arlington.

[SPEAKER_04]: I would imagine right correct And nothing was ever built there right But that authorization was also never closed [SPEAKER_04]: So they're going to try that, except as many people appointed out first, you have to go to Congress regardless because they're going to have to authorize the work being done there because it's on, like Senator Sheldon White House just said, it's a national park. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, the other thing is like, Donald, keep it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's also a new project. [SPEAKER_04]: You're right about that. [SPEAKER_06]: It is. [SPEAKER_06]: And it's a different project. [SPEAKER_06]: So it's not even the same thing. [SPEAKER_06]: And [SPEAKER_06]: Truman gutted the White House. [SPEAKER_06]: You know what, he got permission from Congress to do that. [SPEAKER_04]: Because he wanted to make upgrades and Obama took the tennis court and made it in a basketball court.

[SPEAKER_04]: He got permission from, I mean, and that was super, it was basically just like repainting lines.

[SPEAKER_04]: So, yeah, there's a lot, and we realize that the mainstream media makes a lot of they hype a lot of this, and then they don't talk nearly as much about the multi-million dollar corrupt stock trades, oh, there's a new one, Judd, you see that there was a flurry of suspicious oil trades worth $800 million, that happened just before Trump calls off the attacks and Iran here this last Tuesday.

[SPEAKER_06]: I knew something like that was going to happen when he said, [SPEAKER_04]: You would think the mainstream media would be, but they're like, I will have to explain it. [SPEAKER_06]: It's inside our trading. [SPEAKER_06]: That's just very simple. [SPEAKER_06]: Martha Stewart can help them. [SPEAKER_04]: You ever shoot? [SPEAKER_04]: True. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, also, Wolf of Wall Street. [SPEAKER_04]: Hello. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, Big Movie did really well in theaters.

[SPEAKER_06]: And you have to watch like the Big Short, which was kind of confusing thing. [SPEAKER_06]: This is very simple. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm on a god. [SPEAKER_04]: This is this is not complicated folks. [SPEAKER_04]: No, but the hell they leave. [SPEAKER_04]: They leave those of us hanging out in the bar to do their work, which is fine. [SPEAKER_04]: Whatever. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, we'll do it. [SPEAKER_04]: We'll help you guys understand.

[SPEAKER_04]: So you guys can tell your friends when you're hanging out with them on this memorial day weekend coming up. [SPEAKER_04]: Speaking of friends, we got a couple of friends coming in. [SPEAKER_04]: John Fugelsang is coming in, which you know, it's Thursdays with Fugelsang. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: But then Anita from San Antonio is coming in tonight. [SPEAKER_04]: Karen would have but, you know, she had to go do some, you know, actual day job work.

[SPEAKER_04]: So Anita is coming in and she will talk with us and we'll recap the week. [SPEAKER_04]: So we're glad you're here. [SPEAKER_04]: It's a Thursday night. [SPEAKER_04]: Get your drink fresh and up. [SPEAKER_04]: Come right back. [SPEAKER_04]: Jody and I are here and John Thugosites coming in soon. [SPEAKER_04]: Hang on. [SPEAKER_05]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar.

[SPEAKER_04]: It is Thursday night here at the politics bar, and he is in a little bit early, but we're loving it the one. [SPEAKER_04]: The only... John Figelsang, joining us tonight. [SPEAKER_04]: Here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_04]: Hey Ben, then you've been taking a little time off from Sirius XN this week to get some bookwork done I believe. [SPEAKER_03]: taking a little time off from work so I can get some work done.

[SPEAKER_03]: You got to get a break from work to finally achieve some work in this life. [SPEAKER_03]: That's adulthood kids. [SPEAKER_03]: That's as good as it gets. [SPEAKER_04]: You're going to break your America. [SPEAKER_04]: It's so work. [SPEAKER_03]: Exactly right. [SPEAKER_03]: But it's been interesting. [SPEAKER_03]: Not being reporting on it every day not doing a three-hour live show every night. [SPEAKER_03]: Like you find you find patriots to Like you like oh, what happened?

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Matt Thomas. [SPEAKER_03]: Massey what oh, I mean if the slush fund what I mean like like even somewhere in hell Nixon is watching saying okay, there too much. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm out. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, I mean saying the same it's like Matthew Roy Cohen saying your boys a goddamn amateur at this point. [SPEAKER_03]: No [SPEAKER_03]: So my child comes up to me, right? [SPEAKER_03]: And I don't know if people know this, but in this country, freedom is a double-edged sword.

[SPEAKER_03]: Freedom sometimes means people like me are allowed to have kids, and that's awful. [SPEAKER_03]: And my child comes in, and he's like, hey, Dad, can you explain what is a slush fund? [SPEAKER_03]: Why are the guys who beat up the cops, getting payouts, like who's paying for that? [SPEAKER_03]: I was like, wow, so I had to have the talk with my child, and it's nice.

[SPEAKER_03]: to a child, okay, so I say, so you understand, here's what happens on the people who beat up cops on the capital steps for a lie, because a billionaire lied to them. [SPEAKER_03]: Now, we, the taxpayers, are compensating those terrorists who beat the cops for the billionaires lie. [SPEAKER_03]: You understand? [SPEAKER_03]: And my child said, that sounds like the collapse phase of empire, dad. [SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, whoa, whoa!

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, so he's way ahead of me on these things. [SPEAKER_03]: You know, they do teach critical race theory and eighth grade now. [SPEAKER_03]: So I mean, that is how they should. [SPEAKER_03]: I was trying to heat. [SPEAKER_03]: He went straight to collapse phase of empire. [SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, I guess, who? [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome, Danthropasene, here we go.

[SPEAKER_06]: You know what I find funny, though, is when after the insurrection attempt happened, remember Donald and his ilk were kept saying it was the FBI and Antifa? [SPEAKER_06]: Well, being a proud member of Antifa, should I get some money, [SPEAKER_04]: I would say, yeah, you're looking at you as well. [SPEAKER_03]: You can go applying for it. [SPEAKER_06]: Allison Gil is applying for it.

[SPEAKER_03]: 0.647 million dollars, $8647, you know, I'm applying because I, I, I, I, I. [SPEAKER_03]: I was let go from page 6 tv. [SPEAKER_03]: I indicated by Fox, because when me too began and Trump's first year, because I signed on to do a show I thought was going to be about about culture, and when me too is happening and they fired Kevin Spacey, I said on the air, I'm so proud to live in a country that doesn't allow fictional presidents to get away with sexual assault.

[SPEAKER_03]: I got a thing clear. [SPEAKER_03]: Let me go. [SPEAKER_03]: And I think I'm entitled to compensate. [SPEAKER_03]: I think so too of all of this. [SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_04]: This whole settlement talk. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm so frustrated that it keeps taking the mainstream media a long time. [SPEAKER_04]: I love I keep giving credit to Richard Chu for this because he was the first one I heard talk about it and say, don't call a settlement call it reparations.

[SPEAKER_03]: And and he's is called reparations for fascists. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, yeah, reparations for insurrectionists, reparations for terrorists, reparations for criminals, reparations. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, terrorist event mode paid for by you. [SPEAKER_03]: Yep, which is, thankfully, the voluntary go-fun me for the air so the clan can. [SPEAKER_04]: They have been so stupid as they have, there's a whole big, there's a lot of reasons why we've called them half-ashes.

[SPEAKER_04]: And this was a perfect example. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, this is beautiful. [SPEAKER_03]: They say, normally they don't, normally they don't, like, you know, come to the people and now it's greeting citizens. [SPEAKER_03]: Let us show why we are evil at our plans are bad. [SPEAKER_03]: But in this case, this is not normal corruption anymore. [SPEAKER_03]: Like T.P. [SPEAKER_03]: Dome, Iran Contra, what was I thinking?

[SPEAKER_03]: This is corruption, this is like corruption with stadium lighting. [SPEAKER_03]: You know, this corruption has its own gift shop. [SPEAKER_03]: It's not your evil. [SPEAKER_03]: He controls the DOJ, he controls the treasury, he sues his own government, and the government he runs hands him $2 billion to give to people who he feels like. [SPEAKER_03]: Like, it Vladimir Putin at least loonders the money.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, through real estate, no look marks, but like, and again, this is a guy who ran a casino into bankruptcy taking two billion of our dollars and saying, no, trust me, trust me, really, really. [SPEAKER_03]: So, like, it's the most honest thing he's ever done. [SPEAKER_03]: Like, they stop pretending the government belongs to the public. [SPEAKER_03]: And it's a rewards program for racist and terrorist and fake Christians who attack democracy.

[SPEAKER_03]: And we can tell you I weigh in and this happens the save week is Thomas Massey. [SPEAKER_03]: So the Republican party has officially transitioned to the party of Copa beating and child raping. [SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: They've done it. [SPEAKER_04]: That's it. [SPEAKER_04]: That's it. [SPEAKER_04]: They are now. [SPEAKER_04]: And yet, I still love the fact that there are people like Massey, like Tom Tillis, like, Oh, who lost down Louisiana?

[SPEAKER_06]: Cassidy. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, Cassidy. [SPEAKER_04]: Who now they are in the IDGAF corner of their life. [SPEAKER_04]: They do not give a [SPEAKER_03]: You mean you mean they're in the please let me try to redeem myself in the eyes of history of being fascist bootlicker. [SPEAKER_03]: It's in the last possible.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah so they're actually you know finally being like well okay now we can actually say what we thought which you could have always done anyway you've gotless cowards but anyway and that massive I love it he gets done with it and people are thinking it's going to be a concession speech and he's like drinking was like raw milk and chairing his friends and being like I got seven months let's go!

[SPEAKER_03]: But this is the beauty of this happening at the 250-year anniversary of America. [SPEAKER_03]: It's the perfect symbol to have gone from fighting a revolution for democracy over taxation without representation. [SPEAKER_03]: And now we, on the anniversary, it's like, well, how about we tax you to pay these people who attack democracy? [SPEAKER_06]: The other thing Bob Cesca keeps pointing this out, there is nothing in the DOJ memorandum, especially about the stupid taxes that's.

[SPEAKER_06]: Hi, you can crime all you want. [SPEAKER_06]: But there is no mention of that number specifically. [SPEAKER_04]: That's 1776 number because it's just been floated. [SPEAKER_06]: It's just been said, there's nothing written down, which means if this were to be legal, which it is not, he can ask for a trillion dollars.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah, yeah, you guys for a whole budget yeah, it's it's and they keep getting hung up on these little things This is what this is what is so that they're getting hung up on the fact that it's not a settlement because it didn't it wasn't adjudicated I meant to not last night too. [SPEAKER_04]: Glenn Kirchner mentioned that earlier this week too far from a quid exactly

[SPEAKER_04]: if it's not it you can't have a settlement if there's no education so there's that that the thing with the ballroom they ballroom and their their wonderful reconciliation bills children white house laid it out we played it here uh... last segment on before you came into the bar um... in order for them to put things into a reconciliation bill right they have to give instructions for example that that the committee that happens to be over a national park well

[SPEAKER_04]: on a national park, everything that's there. [SPEAKER_04]: So if you're going to do anything, you have to actually tell the committee. [SPEAKER_04]: If nothing else, you have to tell them, we're going to give you some money, and this is what the money is supposed to go to. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, Republicans didn't do anything.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's like, it's like, it's like the two restaurant where you need to hit the host or the major D stand first and they'll direct you to a table because they're actually assigning waiters and wait staff and whatever. [SPEAKER_04]: And you just blow past it and go in and go sit down in an open space and then you bitch that they haven't came and given you your appetizers.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's like, Jack has literally [SPEAKER_03]: Every one else in the whole world can see the hostess is not that's not the whole Republican party only since 1996 Sean be sure only 1996 is the Republican party been the new new new new new new new new new new [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, they've all been, and they all think they, and that the fact they keep running into these, it's a field of rakes, and I'm just like, oh, this is, if it wasn't happening here, it would be a lot more funny.

[SPEAKER_04]: It would be. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, we have to make it funny. [SPEAKER_03]: We have to. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I had a guy come up to me the other day and say, no, man, no, listen, the first term was one thing, but no, it's not funny, man. [SPEAKER_03]: It's not. [SPEAKER_03]: Now what's happening now, bro? [SPEAKER_03]: It's not funny, okay? [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm like, I agree, it's not funny. [SPEAKER_03]: that's that's why we have to make fun of it. [SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: We have to make fun of it harder than ever. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I mean, look at this week. [SPEAKER_03]: Magistans for make accountability go away. [SPEAKER_03]: These guys are so over the top evil. [SPEAKER_03]: And let's be honest, fate may not always be so generous giving us evil easy material for the rest of time. [SPEAKER_03]: Very true.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is just, I mean, Thomas Massey has gone because he opposed an illegal war and he asked questions that made evil men uncomfortable about child rape. [SPEAKER_03]: Right. [SPEAKER_03]: That's it. [SPEAKER_03]: You're out. [SPEAKER_03]: That's the party now. [SPEAKER_04]: Except he's still around for seven months and so are the polls. [SPEAKER_04]: The polls. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, look, there was a new Fox poll today, Trump's people among Republicans is hitting a record loan.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: And well, again, the oligarchs are done with them. [SPEAKER_03]: The oligarchs don't need this clown anymore. [SPEAKER_03]: Right, which is, I mean, Rupert Murdoch is the one who brushed off that $22 billion lawsuit and released it. [SPEAKER_03]: He was in the Epstein files. [SPEAKER_03]: Like they, the oligarchs don't need him. [SPEAKER_03]: They got everything they want. [SPEAKER_03]: So look at what's going on.

[SPEAKER_03]: But they can find like, they can't find money to protect children's health care, but they just spent $32 million in a Kentucky primary to protect children's rapists. [SPEAKER_03]: Like Thomas Massey survived being this evil right wing Kentucky Republican for years. [SPEAKER_03]: And what finally ended his career was that he believed. [SPEAKER_03]: that law and order applies to billionaires, too. [SPEAKER_03]: And it's literally why his career is done.

[SPEAKER_03]: And like this guy wanted, he wanted Trump to keep his promises about Epstein files and no new wars. [SPEAKER_03]: And now that makes you chaguevarra. [SPEAKER_03]: Hold in the president to what he promised. [SPEAKER_03]: Like demanding the Epstein files be released is now anti-Trump extremism. [SPEAKER_03]: This is where the parties go. [SPEAKER_03]: They are telling Democrats how to message this for that year, child and rape and cop beating.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you've got things like this afternoon, just after we got to the bar, I saw this flash across the social media. [SPEAKER_04]: Abigail Spanberger has officially signed paid sick leave in the law for everyone in the Commonwealth of Virginia. [SPEAKER_04]: You got, you got that going to, you got Mamdeni in New York City, where you are, where the police. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah, well, I mean, he's, he's making all kinds. [SPEAKER_04]: He's making the streets better.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's making things. [SPEAKER_04]: He's taxing the rich. [SPEAKER_04]: And then people go, OK, but, you know, there's even, you know, what's he doing on the little thing? [SPEAKER_04]: OK, here's something little. [SPEAKER_04]: World Cup coming to the US. [SPEAKER_04]: They're going to New York, New Jersey is where they're, they're renaming temporarily the anyway. [SPEAKER_04]: So they're, they're going to have seats. [SPEAKER_04]: Tickets are $1,000 for their stupid expensive.

[SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: This is, um, Mayor, I'm Danny this morning here. [SPEAKER_02]: We are making sure that working people will not be priced out of the game that they helped to create. [SPEAKER_02]: And that is why we stand together today to say that we have partnered with the New York New Jersey Host Committee to secure a thousand affordable tickets for New Yorkers to the World Cup.

[SPEAKER_04]: everything from from health care to the streets trying to lower the cost of where you live trying to to make sure that you're able to make more and then while you're at it when we get you a day off. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, why not spend a little because you got a little bit more and maybe go watch World Cup soccer game. [SPEAKER_03]: This is why this is sort of thing. [SPEAKER_03]: It's not the Republicans worst nightmare. [SPEAKER_03]: It's the do nothing Democrats worst nightmare.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: It's the corporate neoliberal Democrats with that with that. [SPEAKER_03]: I will enthusiastically vote for when the choice is crappy Democratic against, you know, right. [SPEAKER_03]: Frothing, slobbering goober. [SPEAKER_03]: I'll do it. [SPEAKER_03]: But this man just closed a $12 billion deficit at a hundred days without touching.

[SPEAKER_03]: working new yorkers like not even a fair hike right he didn't ask working people to pay a dime of this and he doesn't do it working people are paying too much already what have we been told our entire lives by the entire political establishment there's there's two options in this country he a billionaires get whatever they want and if they don't then as well a climbs out of the sewer is in it nationalizes your family and it's got everything turns gray and this is

[SPEAKER_03]: comes along and he just he blows through a 12 billion dollar budget hole. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean like he does it because he governs competently and now it's zero and we keep getting told you can't fund public services. [SPEAKER_03]: You can't protect working people. [SPEAKER_03]: This guy's doing it and this is the worst nightmare of the bad Democrats. [SPEAKER_04]: But here's the funny thing. [SPEAKER_04]: You got Abigail Spanberger who was very much a centrist Democrat.

[SPEAKER_03]: And she's doing things like, and she's doing things like paid family leave, and have a yellow spanned burger just took the tax, the tax breaks away from Confederate groups. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Only took 160 years. [SPEAKER_03]: They're gone now. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, they're the list. [SPEAKER_04]: She's got like there. [SPEAKER_04]: I think there's a list of like almost 900 bills or something that she's been signing in.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: I have some issues with some of the stuff. [SPEAKER_04]: But overall, she's a pretty damn, when the, when the choice is her, or somebody who's a maga governor, are you kidding me? [SPEAKER_06]: It was like when people thought that Joe Biden wasn't left enough, give him a Senate and a Congress. [SPEAKER_06]: He will sign bills that they pass. [SPEAKER_03]: Exactly right. [SPEAKER_03]: The first two years of Joe Biden is still the best presidency of my life.

[SPEAKER_03]: And again, the strongest thing Democrats can do right now. [SPEAKER_03]: is not run against Trump. [SPEAKER_03]: Trump is going to do the work for you start running for policies go big this is what I beg the Democrats to do in the 2024 campaign go big I don't need to see you with Liz Cheney I need to know what crazy out there [SPEAKER_03]: Bernie Trump swing for the fences. [SPEAKER_03]: How can a politician make such a grandiose promise?

[SPEAKER_03]: I want to hear a lot of that from Democrats because that's what's going to get people excited. [SPEAKER_03]: Not that you're not Donald Trump, but that you want to have paid family leave that you think every American deserves access to healthcare. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, there's huge systemic changes and now is the time to run on them because six months of now Trump's going to be even more unpopular than he is today.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and you don't even have to run against the people like the Liz Cheneys because they will jump there. [SPEAKER_04]: They're on Bill Crystal became a Democrat this week, John. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, you were doing your, you know, I'm going, when you got people like, like, Bill Crystal becoming a Democrat when, you know, Liz Cheney and her dad, back to 24, we're like, no, we like laws because laws protect the crazy people from us.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, we don't we don't we don't what the crazy people coming after us. [SPEAKER_03]: We like having to see Zorin Mamdoni is proving the democratic socialism works inside capitalism It does good for capitalism and that's their worst nightmare Yes, it's best hope of you on that's our best hope Especially folks over on Wall Street they hate that yeah [SPEAKER_03]: I think they know better. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, if everyone does better, everyone does better. [SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: Workforce can afford to buy crap. [SPEAKER_03]: Done. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_04]: God. [SPEAKER_04]: Ford knew that for God's sake. [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, he did. [SPEAKER_04]: It was a awful man. [SPEAKER_04]: So, look, John, can we keep you around for another segment here on this Thursday? [SPEAKER_02]: Sure. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you, sir.

[SPEAKER_04]: John Feekel said, taking a break from his writing, the hangout with you and me and Jodie, here at the politics bar, fresh and your drink and come right back for another round. [SPEAKER_05]: All right. [SPEAKER_05]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I know. [SPEAKER_03]: Drift away. [SPEAKER_04]: Skate. [SPEAKER_04]: Skate. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, he says, I'm at the whole hypocrisy of the mainstream media on the way that they treat Republicans versus Democrats. [SPEAKER_04]: He said, look, if 5% of Republicans were not considered racist, they would say it's unfair to call the party a racist party.

[SPEAKER_04]: But if two Democrats joined all the Republicans for some corporate tax break bill, then they would say that all the Democrats are considered corporatists. [SPEAKER_04]: He ain't wrong. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: He's not wrong. [SPEAKER_04]: The way that they covered, uh, [SPEAKER_04]: The way they cover this, I've been watching it a little bit listening a little bit today. [SPEAKER_04]: This stupid 20, 24 autopsy, which most people said it's ridiculous.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's whatever DNC chair can decide what to hell and he just said, it's unfinished, but whatever I'm going to drop it and put it out today. [SPEAKER_04]: I've surprised that the mainstream media isn't hammering it more because they're like, oh, it lists all the mistakes Democrats made. [SPEAKER_04]: We must spend two weeks hammering this. [SPEAKER_04]: which is what they usually do and yet you know you've got all the mistakes that the Republicans are making.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think dumping it on Memorial Day weekend saved that. [SPEAKER_04]: He's not entirely dumb. [SPEAKER_04]: But yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Save us as the thing. [SPEAKER_03]: It's hard being a progressive. [SPEAKER_06]: Folks. [SPEAKER_03]: It's hard being a liberal or a leftist or a forward thinker or someone who is anti-evil. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm trying to find like all the words. [SPEAKER_03]: If you're anti-evil, it's hard being an anti-evil progressive liberal left person.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're out there fighting for the less fortunate. [SPEAKER_03]: You're fighting for people that might never thank you. [SPEAKER_03]: And you're often having to [SPEAKER_03]: take on the cause of the underdog and fight for unpopular causes, you have to go against your family throughout history. [SPEAKER_03]: It's been hard for for liberals and leftists and progressives to to turn against their family on slavery or to turn against their family on on segregation.

[SPEAKER_03]: Sex is it was all what conservatives always support and and so being a progressive or liberal is so hard it's painful and the only joy, the only joy, I don't know if people know this but the only joy liberals and [SPEAKER_03]: is wrecking alliances with our allies when we don't agree on 100% of things. [SPEAKER_03]: The only pleasure we have is saying screw you for only being with me on 85% of issues and burning bridges with people we should be forming coalitions with.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's the only way we have fun is to sabotage our own movement and let Nazis get elected. [SPEAKER_03]: That's, please, that's all we wanted in 2024. [SPEAKER_03]: Don't take that away from us, please let us hate each other so much. [SPEAKER_03]: looked on. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm having things over at a trade. [SPEAKER_04]: We know you're in New York now. [SPEAKER_04]: We know you're in the New York, but we also know that you're by coastal.

[SPEAKER_04]: And out in LA, where Jody is, that's kind of what you do. [SPEAKER_04]: I've been seeing and hearing like Steph and Chris, I don't get why they're fighting over the whole thing. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm like [SPEAKER_04]: What happened with that mayor's race? [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, just pick a Democrat. [SPEAKER_04]: Any Democrat, it's fine. [SPEAKER_04]: I like Mayor Bass. [SPEAKER_04]: She's great. [SPEAKER_04]: What is it, Nadia? [SPEAKER_04]: Are they? [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, yes.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's not fun for us if we can't ruin it for our own side. [SPEAKER_03]: Sean, I'm trying to explain it to you. [SPEAKER_03]: We can't, it's the only pleasure we can still have. [SPEAKER_03]: We're so empathetic. [SPEAKER_03]: We care so much about the rest of the world that at this point, we're like Uber Catholics. [SPEAKER_03]: We can only feel joy by hurting ourselves. [SPEAKER_03]: And we do that by having stupid fights with our own allies.

[SPEAKER_03]: because we'd rather sabotage things and hand it all over to a random monster. [SPEAKER_04]: And that's fine, pick a demo. [SPEAKER_03]: By the way, I'm not by coast to lump confused. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm like, I mean, are they, I mean, Jody, you vote out there, you know? [SPEAKER_04]: And we've had Mayor Bass here in the barn. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, is there anything any substance at all or is it just a memory? [SPEAKER_06]: Spencer Pratt isn't.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah, he's an idiot, but he's Republicans. [SPEAKER_06]: What I'm ways worse than that. [SPEAKER_03]: He's he's a really special kind of piece worse than that. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's true, too. [SPEAKER_06]: Because we've had Republican mayors here. [SPEAKER_03]: We have We've already failed the Roman Empire spectacle test. [SPEAKER_03]: He's he's just kind of like, you know, the thank you, sir. [SPEAKER_03]: May I have another?

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: No, he's just the worst. [SPEAKER_03]: You thought voting for Arnold Schwarzenegger was too cerebral. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: That's why Spencer is here. [SPEAKER_03]: But in fairness, he's also a horrible person. [SPEAKER_03]: I want to just put on that. [SPEAKER_03]: Just these two, but he's also a black-hearted fiend of selfishness and an average. [SPEAKER_03]: So there's that thing. [SPEAKER_04]: Nothing.

[SPEAKER_06]: There are two Democratic candidates, correct? [SPEAKER_06]: No, there's a bunch I don't even have my- OK, but two of them that are really leading. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_04]: One of them is Mayor Bass. [SPEAKER_06]: The other one is Nathia, I forget her. [SPEAKER_06]: Ramone is her last name, I believe. [SPEAKER_06]: And she's a, she's a, she's very progressive. [SPEAKER_04]: okay, but she's generally pretty good.

[SPEAKER_06]: I know people in my neighborhood because she, I think controls part of my neighborhood and a lot of people are mad at her. [SPEAKER_04]: I would say compared to Spencer Pratt. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh god, yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Leaks and bounds better than he is. [SPEAKER_06]: So, so you got two good Democrats. [SPEAKER_03]: I found a raccoon who'd be a better candidate than Dennis. [SPEAKER_03]: You know what? [SPEAKER_03]: They're much nicer. [SPEAKER_03]: They're much nicer.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're much nicer. [SPEAKER_03]: No, yeah, it's, especially those who want to practice for people who watch the hills and then break up into discussion groups. [SPEAKER_03]: Sam would have said, like, that's, that's what we're talking about. [SPEAKER_04]: But then you guys has California's, okay, so then you take a step up, you go to the governor's race, you go to the primary that's going on. [SPEAKER_00]: Correct me if I'm wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's also a couple of Democrats there. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: We hope we're hoping for the socialist Billionaire right now, Jody, right? [SPEAKER_03]: That's what we're hoping for. [SPEAKER_06]: We're hoping that at the top two will be Bacera and Stire. [SPEAKER_06]: That's what we're hoping for. [SPEAKER_06]: That's what we're hoping for. [SPEAKER_06]: Whoever it is, I don't care. [SPEAKER_03]: That said, I will take it between those two guys.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, it will be a charisma. [SPEAKER_03]: It'll be a test of charisma. [SPEAKER_04]: I just don't think I'm going to me. [SPEAKER_04]: That's not that complicated. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm like, you got a couple of great options. [SPEAKER_04]: Pick one for God's sake. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, they're like 150, it's like it's Schwarzenegger election. [SPEAKER_06]: They're 150,000 people running for governor. [SPEAKER_06]: It's like 15 pages long.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's only a couple that will actually. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, yeah, it's right now. [SPEAKER_06]: It looks like it's Hilton and Bacera. [SPEAKER_06]: But that could change. [SPEAKER_06]: We have another week and a half to go. [SPEAKER_06]: A lot of them was too weak. [SPEAKER_04]: I love Bacera and Steyer. [SPEAKER_04]: And then it would be a little bit more dark. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: So to me, I'm like, I do not understand right now.

[SPEAKER_04]: If we survive this next period of time, while we're still in the Trump regime, there will never be a better time for Democrats to go ham and just absolutely say, you know what, screw it. [SPEAKER_04]: Let's, we were having a dream yesterday. [SPEAKER_04]: We were talking about this here in the barge on. [SPEAKER_04]: Can you imagine?

[SPEAKER_04]: Because right now the polls are, I mean, all of the polls are saying the same things, that even with Republicans trying to steal back some of these seats, [SPEAKER_04]: The Democrats are still looking at 30 or 40 seats in the house. [SPEAKER_04]: The Senate could flip hands and we said, what if what if 70, what do you say, do 70 or 80% or 70% or 70% or 80% or 80% of the people voted? [SPEAKER_06]: There is a possibility.

[SPEAKER_06]: We get 67 senators that are Democratic or 70 potentially and then we get like 300 in the house so we can impeach both both vans and Donald but what we do so how came Jeffrey's becomes the speaker once he seated right? [SPEAKER_06]: He starts the articles of impeachment the Senate then votes to convict but then he goes I'm not going to seek the presidency after we convict.

[SPEAKER_06]: I want to put somebody else in the [SPEAKER_06]: They they elect in the house Kamala Harris to be the next speaker of the house after the conviction and she becomes president and she appoints Governor Walls As planned and then we go on from there and then they say look here's the deal We got two and a half years. [SPEAKER_04]: We're gonna clear the field. [SPEAKER_04]: We're not gonna run again when this happens [SPEAKER_04]: But we do have 67 Democrats in the Senate.

[SPEAKER_04]: We have like 300 in the House, and we are going to go ape crap. [SPEAKER_04]: Universal health care fine. [SPEAKER_04]: Universal child care go for it. [SPEAKER_04]: It's a nice fever. [SPEAKER_06]: Jerry, my like it. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was going to say, and then the talking heads were union happens and Ryan Johnson makes his star worst trilogy. [SPEAKER_03]: It all comes together here.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, if you can dream at John, you know, you may say I'm a dreamer, but not the only one. [SPEAKER_03]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_03]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_03]: That's a good line. [SPEAKER_04]: It is a good line. [SPEAKER_04]: We just, the whole thing is this is more achievable than people think.

[SPEAKER_04]: All I got to do is, [SPEAKER_04]: If you are a Democrat of any variety, if you are an independent who actually has a brain and thinks, if you are for some ungodly reason like Michael Steele and you still have not shaken off the your Republican label for whatever strange reason, but you basically vote for Democrats these days because you know, you know, branding and media, sir.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, you know, I'm looking to be as pretty as I know, you know, you know, [SPEAKER_04]: But I'm going to say, if you're one of those people, all you have to do is show the hell up to the polls vote for a freaking Democrat. [SPEAKER_04]: Get off your ass and go vote. [SPEAKER_04]: This is so simple, holy crap. [SPEAKER_04]: It is that's all you have to do and that dream that we're just talking about.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, we may not get the whole thing, but if more people all they did is get off their ass and went and voted and they were say, holy crap, we could get a lot closer to it, there's a lot of things we could do like like Spanberger here in Virginia with the, you know, I'm sitting going like, I'm Danny and you know, I have to get bad first things have to get worse first.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, they are pretty bad now I'm going, yeah, I know, but the only, you know, Joe Biden got the most votes anybody ever got because we were all stuck at home during a plague. [SPEAKER_03]: and everyone had the time to be outraged, watch a lot of news, and get their mail ballots. [SPEAKER_03]: It took a plague to get people to turn out in the kind of numbers that we should always be turning out in.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I do take a lot of heart from the fact that I think a lot of our right-wing friends are just going to stay home like they did in 2018 and 2022. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, and then the Southern Confederate States, they'll know they don't have to show up, because there's no chance anyone who's not a Republican will be representing anyone. [SPEAKER_04]: they think they think that's that's where I hope even more because some of the turnout numbers in those states.

[SPEAKER_04]: If all of the the black and minority voters actually showed up and turned out and the average number of white racist Republican voters turned out Democrats would win if they just get the S off the couch and go vote. [SPEAKER_04]: So I'm, I'm with you. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm hopeful. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm, I'm, I'm hopeful. [SPEAKER_04]: And, and you know, look, it's, it is, the more than we can, you know, obviously we're, we're, we're taking tomorrow off, we're taking Monday off.

[SPEAKER_04]: We got some new stuff. [SPEAKER_04]: We'll stop into the bar here with a couple of things, and I'll be just investing. [SPEAKER_03]: We've also got to consider that the douchebagosphere will not be as very illently right wing this midterm election as they were in 2024. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: You know what I'm saying? [SPEAKER_03]: That you grow is that are manipulating the minds of young men to horrible things of voting boots.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're not because they're the only suspicious. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Mr. Rogan is not going to be wearing his cute little cheerleader skirt this time. [SPEAKER_04]: I agree. [SPEAKER_04]: Here's the thing. [SPEAKER_04]: With Memorial Day coming up. [SPEAKER_04]: In the fact that we are celebrating all those people who were in the service and who died. [SPEAKER_04]: And it's like, yes, but they died for a better version of the country.

[SPEAKER_04]: They died to support [SPEAKER_04]: a better version of what we're doing. [SPEAKER_04]: And it's like, the better version isn't as far away as we think if we just get off our asses. [SPEAKER_04]: And you know, go vote. [SPEAKER_03]: It's, it seems so freaking simple, so insanely simple because it is. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: And that's, and the fact that so many people now are like, wait, no, I got to do a show up because I hate what's going on.

[SPEAKER_04]: I hate my gas prices being, you know, five bucks a gallon or more. [SPEAKER_04]: Groceries being in so expenses like, well, good. [SPEAKER_04]: Show the hell up, man. [SPEAKER_04]: know. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, just one of the things that's it's we we're trying to pump you up with our dream this week.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's it's been a fun dream and we've talked about it several times, but I'm glad that you Jody started us with this dream because that's a fantastic damn dream. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm I'm all about that. [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I'm glad I showed up for it. [SPEAKER_06]: So nice to read some. [SPEAKER_06]: We know. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, we know you've got a lot of work to do obviously on the book.

[SPEAKER_04]: You've had some good feelings this week over to your next album, but you'll be back there next week. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's someone's listening. [SPEAKER_03]: Good. [SPEAKER_03]: Good. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm happy for my producers. [SPEAKER_03]: My producers love when I take a week off because they get to work with radio professionals. [SPEAKER_04]: You are always a professional, virtually everything you do, including me a good friend John.

[SPEAKER_04]: We appreciate you coming in and hanging out with us. [SPEAKER_04]: Have yourself a great weekend. [SPEAKER_04]: Obviously get all the words edited that you need. [SPEAKER_04]: May that happen and may it be a nice, easy weekend where you get some extra sleep too. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_04]: Brother, thank you. [SPEAKER_04]: We'll see you next week, um, Anita from San Antonio from the True Blue politics podcast. [SPEAKER_04]: She is coming in next.

[SPEAKER_04]: We still have a drink of the day to get to you as well. [SPEAKER_04]: This one is, uh, I like this one. [SPEAKER_04]: It's about national weight staff. [SPEAKER_04]: Your weighters, your servers. [SPEAKER_04]: Look, we can tell a lot more about you by how you treat them. [SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_04]: You will. [SPEAKER_04]: We're going to talk about that coming up. [SPEAKER_04]: So, uh, fresh in your drink. [SPEAKER_04]: Do what you got to do and come on back.

[SPEAKER_04]: It is a Thursday night here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_05]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_04]: It is Thursday night to your politics bar. [SPEAKER_04]: Our number two, we are starting that off. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you very much. [SPEAKER_04]: Everybody's hanging out with this John Fugle saying, just headed out again. [SPEAKER_04]: He's got to go edit more words. [SPEAKER_04]: He's got like a bajillion words.

[SPEAKER_04]: He has to edit. [SPEAKER_04]: So I'm here, Jodie. [SPEAKER_04]: You are here, yes? [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I, so far. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, look, you have a left for vacation yet. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Jodie's like, well, the day depends. [SPEAKER_06]: Senior writers, it's a thing. [SPEAKER_04]: One but cheek off the seat. [SPEAKER_04]: I get that. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you everybody who's coming in and joining us from whatever corner of the world you are.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: So, Joe, he's right. [SPEAKER_04]: Again, check out the details there at the politicsbar.com. [SPEAKER_04]: Jeffery, by the way, one of our future people, I believe. [SPEAKER_04]: He was talking about, remember yesterday we were talking about the news that came out this week with Amadine Shod, with the fact that Dottie and Baby decided that, hey, let's bring Amadine Shod back for her person around.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I said that I thought he was present and Jeffrey, thank you for correcting us. [SPEAKER_04]: He says, no, no, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_04]: And he says, I'm a dinner job was not present of ran at the time the JCPO. [SPEAKER_04]: We was signed. [SPEAKER_05]: Okay. [SPEAKER_04]: And I was like, I had to double check. [SPEAKER_04]: He's right. [SPEAKER_04]: It was present. [SPEAKER_04]: Son, we're honing back. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I remember him. [SPEAKER_04]: Good memory, Jeffrey.

[SPEAKER_04]: He also said, look, being the half-wits that the Trump regime is though. [SPEAKER_04]: The US is really effort to free off a dinner job from the House arrest. [SPEAKER_04]: And came close to killing him instead. [SPEAKER_04]: That's just shifts kiss. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, it's exactly what they do. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, that's why we came up with half-ashism. [SPEAKER_04]: If they were competent, it would be scary fascism and we would all be terrified.

[SPEAKER_04]: But these people cannot count their eyeballs and get the same number of twice. [SPEAKER_04]: Which for those people I literally hit somebody asked me that they were like, what does that mean? [SPEAKER_04]: I said, okay I just seriously asked me that. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, somebody asked me that and I said, okay, I'm gonna ask you a question now. [SPEAKER_04]: How many eyeballs do you have? [SPEAKER_04]: And they said, too, I said, OK, I'm going to ask you a different question.

[SPEAKER_04]: They said, OK, I said, how many eyeballs do you have? [SPEAKER_04]: And they went to see how easy that was. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and then I said, can you imagine somebody who is so stupid? [SPEAKER_04]: They couldn't get that one right. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, I was like, you know, look, sometimes you put the right and fastest in the right syllable. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: Makes a big difference. [SPEAKER_04]: It makes a big difference how you treat people about this.

[SPEAKER_04]: Julie, by the way, via Substack, she's one of our wonderful, uh, future people and our subscribers. [SPEAKER_04]: And she said the drink of the day, she says, today's drink is so nice. [SPEAKER_04]: She says, I think most of us have worked in the service industry at some point. [SPEAKER_04]: And big thank you.

[SPEAKER_04]: So on behalf of Julie and all of us here to the politics bar, [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you to all the servers, waiters, bar staff, wait staff, everywhere, I know it's more than we did, but still. [SPEAKER_06]: Just be nice, these guys are, especially in states that they have to make up their minimum wage job with tips. [SPEAKER_06]: Right, which is literally ridiculous. [SPEAKER_06]: Completely insane to me. [SPEAKER_04]: Why are we giving applause to the wait staff, Jody?

[SPEAKER_04]: What's the reason for that today? [SPEAKER_06]: It is national wait staff day. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: Inspired by National Waste app day, the drink of the day is a pineapple dackery because look if you've worked on you feed all day serving obnoxious people all day You deserve a nice big happy drink hmm. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm kind of pineapple dackery is pretty much a happy drink for whoever it is.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, there you have me too [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, exactly, exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: I love how you got the history behind National Wadesaf Day here, that you found a lot of good stuff here, established in 1988 to encourage restaurant owners, diners, and politicians. [SPEAKER_04]: Keep your mind on that. [SPEAKER_04]: Show appreciation of those people who make going to the million plus restaurants across the United States and enjoyable and memorable experience.

[SPEAKER_04]: Look, wait stuff, I think we all, Julie was right. [SPEAKER_04]: We all, well, I won't say, we all have. [SPEAKER_04]: But a lot of us, we do and I have, I was a bartender for five minutes, but I was a bartender. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, let's see, I did more than that. [SPEAKER_04]: So I bartended, I have waited, I have busped, I've served, I mean, different times, obviously, different jobs.

[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, I mean, I've been different, different positions in the food service industry and that doesn't include the retail stuff where I've done stuff like that, too. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: It's not easy to be a waiter. [SPEAKER_04]: You are trying to do the impossible for the ungrateful and you are constantly getting underpaid and overworked. [SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, we're not having a schedule that you can count on those things.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: especially if you have a crappy boss we've been there and and look i'm i'm glad for the places that that pay their workers and pay their weight staff and treat their weight staff staff well with set schedules and good benefits and decent pay remember when you treat the weight staff like you know human beings not props um it also reflects well on you of course

[SPEAKER_06]: There's one time, we were, my mom and I went to dinner when we were in England 100 years ago, and we went to this restaurant, and our waiter was obviously in a really bad mood. [SPEAKER_06]: And so he was a little rude. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: and especially because tourists notoriously do not tip well. [SPEAKER_06]: It's just we're not for that. [SPEAKER_06]: Now in in Europe, in general, most people don't expect a tip. [SPEAKER_06]: There's a whole different.

[SPEAKER_06]: They get paid better. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: Tipping processes are different in Europe versus Southeast Asia versus the United States. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: And tipping is ridiculous. [SPEAKER_06]: I think that you just pay people [SPEAKER_06]: there's there's several restaurants here in Los Angeles that pay well enough that they don't even have a deadline.

[SPEAKER_04]: They've done studies where they say that tipping does not improve servers ability to serve you. [SPEAKER_04]: It doesn't make them a better server. [SPEAKER_04]: They're not working harder for it. [SPEAKER_04]: They work their asses off sometimes and they still don't get squat. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: So anyway, we finish the meal and my mom left a huge tip like a really big tip.

[SPEAKER_06]: and awesome we walked out of the restaurant and he came running out and he goes you didn't have to do that and mom's like oh it appears you're having a really bad day and he goes thank you and he gave her hug he goes thank you I'm so sorry I was so rude and she doesn't have to explain it's fine that's don't worry about it

[SPEAKER_04]: another another sign that Carol Burnett really kicks ass see this is when when you do the right thing when nobody's watching this is this is kind of cool. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah look it's good and and you should always treat your weight staff really nice. [SPEAKER_04]: So that is why we have that wonderful drink of the day today the pineapple dackery. [SPEAKER_06]: Jodie how do we make such an animal? [SPEAKER_06]: OK, you're going to need a pre-chilled coupe glass, a shaker, some ice.

[SPEAKER_06]: One ounce of light white rum, charcoal filtered one to four years old. [SPEAKER_06]: So it's a specific type of rum. [SPEAKER_04]: It's a good stuff, right? [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Very, yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: One ounce of Caribbean blended rum, preferably aged 6 to 10 years. [SPEAKER_06]: This is very specific, but you know, just decent blended rum. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: A half ounce of pineapple juice, a half ounce of lime juice, freshly squeezed, of course.

[SPEAKER_06]: A half ounce of rich sugar syrup, which is 2 to 1 water. [SPEAKER_02]: Got it. [SPEAKER_06]: If you're making it on your own, and you garnish well obviously with a pineapple wedge. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, and what you do is you add all your ingredients with ice to the shaker. [SPEAKER_06]: You shake it until cold, strain it into your glass and garnish with the pineapple wedge on the rim of the glass. [SPEAKER_04]: Awesome.

[SPEAKER_04]: And again, thanks to all the great weight staff everywhere past, present and future. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you guys very much. [SPEAKER_04]: If you guys miss any part of the drink of the day, y'all know what to do. [SPEAKER_04]: Just go subscribe with the politics bar dot com.

[SPEAKER_04]: We got some entertainment stuff, Anita from San Antonio from the True Blue Politics podcast will be coming in shortly and joining us here in the entertainment section today down of a fifth round, Mandalorian and Grogu on track for the biggest box office opening this year. [SPEAKER_04]: I can't wait. [SPEAKER_06]: I can't wait. [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, Anita. [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, Anita. [SPEAKER_04]: Who was just talking about you, girl? [SPEAKER_06]: I heard you guys.

[SPEAKER_06]: I heard you guys. [SPEAKER_04]: I was listening. [SPEAKER_04]: So look, I want to use to say you've come right in and you're like, okay, fine. [SPEAKER_04]: How's your week? [SPEAKER_04]: How's your week? [SPEAKER_07]: It was, it was okay. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, you know, it's hard to. [SPEAKER_07]: not be depressed lately. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, the corruption. [SPEAKER_04]: We were just talking about that with John Fugosang who was here last hour.

[SPEAKER_04]: He said to say, low by the way. [SPEAKER_04]: Um, oh, and we do him. [SPEAKER_04]: Um, it's, it's, yeah, but it's one of those things where we all try to keep each other laughing and positive. [SPEAKER_04]: And in some ways, it's easy to laugh at the stupidity of some of this stuff. [SPEAKER_04]: It is. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it is. [SPEAKER_07]: I know it. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's that is the saving grace. [SPEAKER_07]: But, um, I'm going [SPEAKER_07]: It is.

[SPEAKER_04]: No. [SPEAKER_04]: Don't talk about it. [SPEAKER_04]: One of the things I'm going to miss as far as being able to laugh, I love Colbert's staff. [SPEAKER_04]: Don't get me wrong. [SPEAKER_04]: Kimmel is great. [SPEAKER_04]: And occasionally, the other Jimmy's not too bad. [SPEAKER_04]: But I like Colbert. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if either of you saw Bruce Springsteen last night. [SPEAKER_04]: I've got a bar and no Jody.

[SPEAKER_07]: I've been meaning to watch that I've watched clips from the show, but I haven't. [SPEAKER_07]: I haven't watched all of it. [SPEAKER_06]: I was like a burn thing this morning and that was fantastic. [SPEAKER_06]: I love it. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, another thing with him and John Stewart when he gave me a fire. [SPEAKER_04]: Yep. [SPEAKER_04]: We got the Bruce Springsteen thing in the news on tap in the fifth round, the entertainment section.

[SPEAKER_04]: So if you missed it, you can click through that and it's not a little bit. [SPEAKER_07]: Great, okay, thanks. [SPEAKER_07]: You know, hey, we aimed a please. [SPEAKER_04]: We make it. [SPEAKER_07]: And sorry. [SPEAKER_04]: Um, if you are a fan of the breakfast club show, um, uh, you know, Charlotte and the guy, I mean, you have some blue Netflix is now going to start live streaming that show.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, oh, yeah, ready to show with video, which a lot of radio shows do these days. [SPEAKER_04]: So that's, uh, that's we're going to do. [SPEAKER_07]: But it's just I have to. [SPEAKER_03]: But there's times when when they're fun, they're pretty good that way. [SPEAKER_04]: Um, sports last night, if you missed it, uh, SGA scored 30 as the Thunder Top San Antonio spurs 1, 2, 1, 13. [SPEAKER_04]: Sorry.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, [SPEAKER_04]: I know when be is when be is really good, and that is it's a great series Charlie Pierce is thrilled because he's like Every game now. [SPEAKER_04]: He's like he doesn't care whether it's the next game or it's first with the Okay, see or you know switches over to NHL and he's like oh, I mean Charlie Pierce is is in All the games are good. [SPEAKER_07]: He's like okay [SPEAKER_04]: This is two new one of the good.

[SPEAKER_04]: By the way, Vegas Golden Knights, they held off the avalanche last night for two to start the NHL's Western Conference final. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, your Dodgers won again last night, Judd.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, show you, Tony. [SPEAKER_04]: First pitch of the freaking game against the pod rays gets up, hits a [SPEAKER_06]: That's a good hitter when he's a pitcher because in general most pitchers can't hit because they don't They're never hitting they're always pitching so they don't practice But my son's a pitcher.

[SPEAKER_07]: My son played college baseball and he was a pitcher and he was actually pretty good hitter He was good like base hitter, you know [SPEAKER_07]: He would always get on at least get on base. [SPEAKER_04]: I love that. [SPEAKER_04]: Look. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm I'm watching the Huskers for baseball this weekend because there are some baseball regional some softball Husker baseball and Husker side are both doing great.

[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't put that in the news on tap because I was like, and not everybody likes the Husker. [SPEAKER_04]: That's my thing. [SPEAKER_04]: But. [SPEAKER_07]: My children's wearing most pictures, most pictures are not pictures and catchers in general. [SPEAKER_06]: They're they're practicing that skill because that's what they do all the time. [SPEAKER_06]: And so they don't get the time to, well, practice. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, in college, she never got to hit.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: So, you know, I mean, he would get to hit, but he wasn't. [SPEAKER_07]: It wasn't something that he practiced, like you said. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: He was always trying to teach him. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: The town he is just, he is one of those once in a lifetime kind of players that is just

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a fun, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, we've got to look.

[SPEAKER_04]: We had a moment of happiness. [SPEAKER_04]: Now we're going to talk about the corruption that you mentioned earlier in the community because, um, oh, wow. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, they're retaking. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: And it's, it's something that people should, you got to look at it. [SPEAKER_04]: So that way, and then you can tell your neighbors. [SPEAKER_04]: So what look, we are, we're heading to break here. [SPEAKER_04]: Folks, freshman drinks, whatever.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's, if you got to do the thing, you know, look down the hall, left right in center. [SPEAKER_04]: We put your room. [SPEAKER_04]: We aim to please [SPEAKER_04]: and then then come back get another round of drinks. [SPEAKER_04]: And we've got a leader from the True Blue politics podcast to you on this Thursday night. [SPEAKER_04]: I know, right? [SPEAKER_04]: I'm missing Karen. [SPEAKER_04]: I know. [SPEAKER_04]: Right, me too.

[SPEAKER_05]: After we get some deals at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_04]: It is Thursday night. [SPEAKER_04]: And I know you're going wait a minute. [SPEAKER_04]: Thursday night, True Blue politics podcasts people. [SPEAKER_04]: None of them come in on Friday. [SPEAKER_04]: Nope. [SPEAKER_04]: I need her from San Antonio because tomorrow night, you know, we do want to special best of what Jody had to stop by the bar. [SPEAKER_04]: Don't worry. [SPEAKER_04]: We'll have some new stuff for you guys.

[SPEAKER_04]: So what's some stuff you have not heard on the air or on the podcast. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: But, you know, we wanted to need it to come by Karen had to be busy. [SPEAKER_04]: She's hanging out with Deborah as I hear everybody. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, Deborah on at my Cioni. [SPEAKER_06]: So yes. [SPEAKER_04]: She's going to carry the kitchen bitches as I wrote it. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes, she wrote that cookbook during COVID. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes, she did. [SPEAKER_07]: Right.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: They gave me a copy of it, too. [SPEAKER_06]: Very silly. [SPEAKER_06]: Really? [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm the only one sitting at the table here with a microphone. [SPEAKER_04]: Who has not hung out with him. [SPEAKER_04]: So, yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm not a podcast. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's it's it's always fun when people come in and visit wherever you are Um, next week obviously we'll be back on Tuesday live with our next show.

[SPEAKER_04]: Frangela will be in. [SPEAKER_04]: Yes. [SPEAKER_04]: Wow. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Fantastic. [SPEAKER_04]: You want to thank you. [SPEAKER_04]: We love that. [SPEAKER_04]: It's hard for us to get scheduled with them because they're scheduled on our sometimes. [SPEAKER_06]: Because they do a lot of stuff and so it's like. [SPEAKER_06]: They do like three shows a week. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they've also been on our pocket. [SPEAKER_07]: See, look at that.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, we, that's a specialist really. [SPEAKER_06]: We all, we all mix our field fluid stretches. [SPEAKER_06]: We all, we all, we're all friends. [SPEAKER_06]: It's all. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, okay. [SPEAKER_04]: But look, next, next week, next Tuesday, when we all get back live, that's going to be the day where it is the special election runoff for Paxton and Coran. [SPEAKER_04]: And that's your corner world down there in Texas. [SPEAKER_04]: I know.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's very interesting and what you thought on it? [SPEAKER_04]: What do you think is going to go? [SPEAKER_07]: I think Paxon's probably going to win. [SPEAKER_07]: I know. [SPEAKER_07]: I hope so. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's definitely good. [SPEAKER_07]: It would be good for Democrats. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: I think, I think, Hillary could definitely be Paxon, but I think it's going to be corn and two.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay. [SPEAKER_04]: Because admittedly, I mean, you are, you are a Democrat, but just so that for those people who don't know, how do you know John Coran? [SPEAKER_07]: You lot of corn and married my husband and I, yes, yeah, okay, I admit it, it's okay, it's there's nothing wrong with it. [SPEAKER_06]: No, it seems like a lovely man. [SPEAKER_07]: It's a time.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, he was a judge running by I guess he was running for the Senate at the time because he asked me if I voted for him. [SPEAKER_07]: I just said, oh, no, I'm already but I said, we vote for me or something like that. [SPEAKER_07]: And I said, oh, no, I've already voted. [SPEAKER_07]: No, I didn't vote for him. [UNKNOWN]: Of course not. [SPEAKER_07]: But I'm going to tell him that. [SPEAKER_07]: But anyway, so no, he seemed like a lovely man.

[SPEAKER_07]: He was the friend of a friend of ours. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: So, I mean, look, there's, I mean, there are plenty of people who's politics. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't necessarily like who if you occasionally run into them and you don't talk politics. [SPEAKER_04]: They're, they're not the worst. [SPEAKER_06]: I met President Reagan. [SPEAKER_06]: He was very pleasant. [SPEAKER_04]: There you go. [SPEAKER_07]: He seems like he would be.

[SPEAKER_06]: And I met Colin Powell, very pleasant. [SPEAKER_07]: Don't get me bush seems like he'd be very pleasant. [SPEAKER_06]: Did not meet him on purpose because they didn't want to say it's an honor to meet you, Mr. President, so I made a point not to meet him, but I met his father, very nice person. [SPEAKER_06]: Very nice. [SPEAKER_04]: There are some of these these magnifokes out there. [SPEAKER_04]: They are a lot more of him these days are disillusioned and I get that.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I saw this bit. [SPEAKER_04]: I think it was on MS now. [SPEAKER_04]: I've seen another one. [SPEAKER_04]: I thought it was on Spectrum although I could be wrong on that. [SPEAKER_04]: And they asked them, um, it was a woman. [SPEAKER_04]: And they're asking, uh, you know, who would you, who would you, they're asking somebody down in Texas? [SPEAKER_04]: And they said, or they said, uh, well, you know, who are you going to vote for between corn and impaxed in?

[SPEAKER_04]: And, like, woman's hemming and hung, they're like, well, you know, why do you like or dislike either one? [SPEAKER_04]: And she's like, well, you know, Paxton sleeps around and he's a criminal and blah, blah, blah.

[SPEAKER_04]: So she's just just raking Paxton over the Coles and then they're like, okay, well, what you're talking about, corn and he's like, well, you know, he stopped Donald Trump on this and he stopped Donald Trump on this and he stopped and the mentions of Trump keep growing and the journalists was pretty smart about this and said, okay, so who you're going to [SPEAKER_04]: And she says, well, Donald Trump said I should vote for uh, uh, Pakistan so that's who I'm going to go with.

[SPEAKER_01]: Jesus. [SPEAKER_04]: Right, and I'm saying they're going to this person has completely removed their brain from their skull and just set over here. [SPEAKER_04]: All the one that were non-tropes. [SPEAKER_04]: Dom Trump says go up to the fifth floor of the parking garage there and throw yourself off. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, okay, he said so. [SPEAKER_06]: I see that. [SPEAKER_06]: No, but I see that. [SPEAKER_06]: But they go ahead. [SPEAKER_07]: No, there aren't.

[SPEAKER_07]: There aren't. [SPEAKER_07]: They're going to be. [SPEAKER_07]: They're going to be people like that. [SPEAKER_07]: But there are also people that are not going to vote for. [SPEAKER_07]: Paxon. [SPEAKER_07]: No matter what. [SPEAKER_07]: Of course. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: a lot of Republicans. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'm going to vote for him. [SPEAKER_04]: Look, we may not agree with these Republicans on a whole lot of things.

[SPEAKER_04]: These are people who are maybe like Marjorie Taylor Green or whatever. [SPEAKER_04]: We don't, but I'll tell you what, in this particular case, if they either go and vote for Tallahoreco or they don't vote at all, either one of those, I'm fine with as long as they're not voting for Paxton, because he is insane. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, I mean, God, if, if Paxon does get the nomination, most likely Talarica will be your new senator. [SPEAKER_06]: If Quatton, I think so too.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I think so too. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, even Lindsey Graham and others are like, what was he thinking? [SPEAKER_06]: We're getting out of here. [SPEAKER_06]: We're casky, John Thun. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, a bunch of people. [SPEAKER_06]: But, you know, a pedophile. [SPEAKER_06]: accused, um, an accused, pedophile and an adjudicated rapist love people like Ken Paxton love and can't stand as a matter of fact, I think he just commuted or he lessen somebody a friend of his sentence.

[SPEAKER_07]: who raped like a 12-year-old boy. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh my god. [SPEAKER_07]: It's like 60 days. [SPEAKER_07]: What's this? [SPEAKER_07]: Yes. [SPEAKER_07]: This is the thing. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes. [SPEAKER_04]: Is that, that Paxton, so people are like, oh yeah, well, you have some people in the Democratic side. [SPEAKER_04]: You know, we can't read of them. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, oh, I know. [SPEAKER_04]: We don't want to put up with that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Or occasionally, like, you know, I'm not necessarily fan of, of Plattener. [SPEAKER_04]: We've talked about that before. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and he did, he did something else stupid. [SPEAKER_04]: And if you want to see it, you can go Google it or whatever. [SPEAKER_04]: But he did something else minor that was dumb because he's Plattener and whatever. [SPEAKER_04]: But he's not making a big deal. [SPEAKER_04]: He's not trying to do stupid stuff. [SPEAKER_04]: It sounds like.

[SPEAKER_04]: And even if he's not trying to do stupid stuff, he's ahead seven points ahead of Collins. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that's a good thing if he's a real Democrat. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: Then you've got down in Texas. [SPEAKER_04]: You're saying that Paxton knowing that he needs to win and be cornered in order to go on to the general election versus Talarico. [SPEAKER_04]: And he's like, yeah, you know what, I'm going to unmute the sentence of a guy who raped a 12 year old boy.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, this is fine. [SPEAKER_07]: was a friend of his, so I guess you know what, these guys, he doesn't care if they don't care. [SPEAKER_07]: It's a latent corruption. [SPEAKER_07]: It doesn't matter anymore. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: It does matter though. [SPEAKER_04]: That's it. [SPEAKER_04]: They don't think it matters. [SPEAKER_04]: They don't think it matters. [SPEAKER_07]: And a lot of times it doesn't. [SPEAKER_07]: But I keep thinking about Roy Moore.

[SPEAKER_07]: to worst one more, remember? [SPEAKER_07]: And Alabama, it does for me and Doug Ford ended up winning that seat. [SPEAKER_07]: Because that was just a little too far, even for Alabama. [SPEAKER_04]: And Doug Jones, by the way, is running for Alabama governor, I believe. [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, yes. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I know. [SPEAKER_04]: He wasn't the primary, the other night. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, the Democratic primary.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: But so, you know, I mean, I think this might end up just being another one of those, just like Alabama. [SPEAKER_07]: I'll go up. [SPEAKER_07]: Roy Moore's I mean that that for that was a special election. [SPEAKER_07]: I think he only got to serve. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, but a couple of years. [SPEAKER_07]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: And then he didn't win again and then to reveal got the job.

[SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: And that's and that's who Joe Jones is running against. [SPEAKER_04]: He is running against to reveal for the the governorship. [SPEAKER_06]: Which is great because to reveal now has a voting record that Alabamaans can look up. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm just just coaching record. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: He's got a voting record now. [SPEAKER_06]: So, right.

[SPEAKER_04]: And that's that's the thing is that you got people like to reveal like Paxton, who are all in for the corruption. [SPEAKER_04]: They're all in for the ballroom, by the way. [SPEAKER_04]: Ballroom case in case the ballroom. [SPEAKER_04]: I love I love Bob Cesska's shirt that he had on last night. [SPEAKER_04]: I had a ballroom on it. [SPEAKER_07]: That's what I call it. [SPEAKER_07]: I just say ballroom, you know, don't copy these. [SPEAKER_07]: I call it ballroom.

[SPEAKER_07]: Bunker, arch. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Just. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, the ballroom, the ballroom got stopped today. [SPEAKER_04]: You need, I don't know if you saw that. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: I heard. [SPEAKER_04]: It got stopped because of the problem tearing, but also the Republicans were all set in the Senate to vote on the reconciliation bill. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I'm so mad.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then they went, you know what, fine, well, we're not getting everything right on this. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, we'll do it after the, we'll do it after the break, damn it, and I just laughed. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm like, yeah, they, but they were mad because they wanted to get that done before June. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, because that was, there was a purpose to be done before June 1st. [SPEAKER_07]: Right, but now because it's his task.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, he's asked for the ball the, no, wasn't the ball room. [SPEAKER_07]: It was the other thing. [SPEAKER_07]: It was a bunker and it was a bunker. [SPEAKER_04]: It was a bunker ball room, but it was also the reparations for insurrectionists. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, then yeah, the such time. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: So, I mean, my Johnson just released a house until June.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: Look, Tiny Johnson cannot do any damn fool thing, including keep his not not plan as foot in his mouth. [SPEAKER_04]: I was, we talked about this week too, how what was the beginning of the week where he was like, oh yeah, members of Congress should totally be able to do insider trading and like your scam on stocks and stuff, because they only make $100,000 for $1,000 in a year. [SPEAKER_06]: nearly enough money.

[SPEAKER_06]: How are they supposed to eat all almost $2,000 a year? [SPEAKER_07]: And speaking of which and corruption, all that insider trading by Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, just again, breathtaking. [SPEAKER_04]: Look, Stephanie Rull has a great piece that we put in the news on tap today about Trump's multi-million dollar stock trades being just the tip of the iceberg. [SPEAKER_04]: And it is. [SPEAKER_04]: The corruption is it is absolutely insane, but it does matter.

[SPEAKER_04]: It absolutely. [SPEAKER_04]: There's another one. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if you guys will. [SPEAKER_04]: I think you might have pointed this one out to me this morning, Joe. [SPEAKER_04]: Don't care. [SPEAKER_04]: I remember if I had this one or you had this one. [SPEAKER_04]: New campaign finance report exposes $5 million donation to Trump's super PAC from Big Tobacco. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I found that this morning.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, just happened to just drop just before the FDA Trump's FDA allowed flavored vapes. [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, and then his head of his FDA was like, this is so corrupt. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm out. [SPEAKER_04]: Peace. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm done. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I mean, come on tobacco. [SPEAKER_06]: They make vapes. [SPEAKER_06]: Jewel and all that. [SPEAKER_06]: They're in line with a company, right? [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they're in line with that.

[SPEAKER_07]: They're doing flavored, which would appeal to young children and I've seen this. [SPEAKER_07]: I've seen teenagers. [SPEAKER_07]: using those type of babes with those, you know, flavorings like bubble gum or whatever. [SPEAKER_07]: Look, when I was very appealing to you, of course. [SPEAKER_06]: Doesn't taste like a cigarette. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it was in the high school. [SPEAKER_04]: I did smoke a little bit. [SPEAKER_04]: Nice month for 17 years.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I, I don't smoke these, my choice was, you know, I only had so much money because I wasn't, you know, I was, I had to go to school and do part-time work and help raise my brothers. [SPEAKER_04]: So that was a little bit, but it was smoke or eat and I chose eat. [SPEAKER_04]: But it came when I did smoke, I would smoke [SPEAKER_04]: They taste better and they smell better.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I was like, oh, yeah, well, that's that's the exact same thing with these flavored bears. [SPEAKER_06]: No, I mean, I have a feeling had I not quit smoking right before I turn 35. [SPEAKER_06]: Three days. [SPEAKER_06]: I literally my quit day was three days before 9.11. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, she is. [SPEAKER_07]: Really? [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, no, I did not a lot of Peter Jennings did and it killed him. [SPEAKER_06]: But, um, he didn't quit. [SPEAKER_07]: Did he try to quit?

[SPEAKER_06]: No, he had quit for years. [SPEAKER_06]: And then that just triggered it. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, but, uh, and that's what killed him because he got one. [SPEAKER_07]: I know he, I heard he was a change smoker. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and I quit for a long time. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I was, I was two and a half to, if I went out at night three packs a day. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, my dad was five. [SPEAKER_06]: My dad was a five pack a day. [SPEAKER_06]: Did he, did he kill him?

[SPEAKER_06]: Eventually. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, he got cancer in his mouth. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm, and then it went to his brain, but, but anyway, had vaping been available then? [SPEAKER_06]: I probably would have moved to vaping because it seemed like esigrats. [SPEAKER_06]: It seemed like that seemed safer, but it isn't children. [SPEAKER_06]: In fact, you're getting more stuff because of the, the metal that's going into your lungs is more than just a regular cigarette. [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's a whole different thing. [SPEAKER_06]: The nicotine's addicted to that. [SPEAKER_04]: That's the thing is their nicotine dealers is what they are. [SPEAKER_04]: They're not really tobacco dealers as much as they were as they are nicotine dealers. [SPEAKER_04]: Speaking of which in the miscellaneous but important section that happens to be under the fourth round in the news on tap. [SPEAKER_04]: Our key junior fired two leaders of a key health task force.

[SPEAKER_04]: Because of course. [SPEAKER_01]: And sure is must cover. [SPEAKER_04]: Look, I'm glad that Cassidy lost his primary this week, but I'll tell you what I I'm also glad that Cassidy voted with us on the War Powers Act, voted with the Democrats on that, but at the same time I'm sorry, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for him because he's the one who gave us RFK junior, so And he knew better. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, he's a doctor. [SPEAKER_07]: He knows better.

[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, seriously. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, just [SPEAKER_07]: I'm sorry, what about the doge cut set. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, for a dollar. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, well, task force gone. [SPEAKER_07]: That was dead. [SPEAKER_07]: That Elon Musk said he would drop back, but he didn't. [SPEAKER_04]: No, well, and not only that, the Trump administration, the second Trump administration told Uganda that, oh, that they were going to build like 50 Ebola clinics.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they're not doing it. [SPEAKER_04]: No, they didn't build it. [SPEAKER_04]: You've got no, this time is like they reached out to, they've been reaching out to everybody going. [SPEAKER_04]: We need to get a handle on this before it gets worse to the rest of the world and obviously some of the countries aren't right.

[SPEAKER_04]: But you've got to reach out to the Trump administration, Trump administration was like, oh, it says in our records that we gave you like 50 of these. [SPEAKER_04]: So, and they go, we didn't.

[SPEAKER_06]: where oh god and by the way this new strain can kill 25 to 50% of the people so it's it's Ebola is is evolving into a disease that will kill less people because remember initially it was like a killed 98% of the people that it got but it's the problem is as nurses and doctors that treat these poor people I mean the the PPE that they have to wear because I know they're reading out of every orifice in their body

[SPEAKER_04]: that the guy, the doctor and his family, they took and the others, they took to Germany. [SPEAKER_04]: You know, and they look like they're in like E.T. [SPEAKER_04]: and the full hazmat. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah, you have to be a houseman too. [SPEAKER_07]: That woman that went to the NIH hospital, remember her? [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, the nurse. [SPEAKER_07]: I heard there was somebody who had Ebola on a plane, or they expected.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, they have a list of them at the virtual age. [SPEAKER_04]: They divert them to Canada. [SPEAKER_04]: They divert them to Newfoundland. [SPEAKER_04]: And then basically, they kind of block off the island. [SPEAKER_04]: And they're like, make sure nobody has that before you leave island. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, luckily, I believe it's not a long incubation period. [SPEAKER_06]: So that's good. [SPEAKER_06]: That is good. [SPEAKER_06]: Let's do it.

[SPEAKER_06]: Let's still have it. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it's your numbers and doctors that are the first responders to each people that are more likely to get sick from dealing with it. [SPEAKER_06]: Yep. [SPEAKER_06]: And 25 to 50% of the people that get it die from it, and it's horrible death. [SPEAKER_04]: Look, we got a little bit of a public cover, like we were saying is on tab, but we got to actually pay the bills here in you know, so hang on, we're back, we're gonna, we have no worries.

[SPEAKER_04]: We've had at least one more round with Anita, Thursday night here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_04]: Hang on guys. [SPEAKER_05]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_04]: Last call here on your Thursday night. [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, it's Thursday night and Anita from San Antone. [SPEAKER_04]: Anita of True Blue Politics podcast through blue. [SPEAKER_04]: It's interesting to you. [SPEAKER_04]: True blue politics.

[SPEAKER_04]: Look, we have the link in the guest section in the news on tap. [SPEAKER_04]: So if you guys are like, wait a minute. [SPEAKER_04]: What's? [SPEAKER_04]: And now remember Anita and Karen do this little video podcast. [SPEAKER_04]: Like, we're 14. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: We do what we do at Monday to Thursday. [SPEAKER_07]: Um, we don't do it on Fridays. [SPEAKER_07]: So I'm running through Thursday.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: You guys get to some of our backs on these girls. [SPEAKER_04]: You can see their racks. [SPEAKER_04]: Everybody have enormous racks. [SPEAKER_04]: For their bread, for their bread. [SPEAKER_04]: They have nice restaurants. [SPEAKER_07]: We have a place to show. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_04]: Did you make do that on Saturday at Live? [SPEAKER_04]: Little baking, Joe. [SPEAKER_04]: Things. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: There was a chocolate salty balls.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's not going to be good. [SPEAKER_04]: Johnny knows. [SPEAKER_04]: That's what I'm saying anyway. [SPEAKER_04]: Look, it is Thursday night. [SPEAKER_04]: We are a little midshipy because obviously, more than we can coming up. [SPEAKER_04]: And we'll recap in the week of news with Anita. [SPEAKER_04]: So obviously looking at some of the polls this week, we have a couple more today in the polls and politics section.

[SPEAKER_04]: New Reader's Ipsis poll shows Trump's approval has dipped to 35% in part because it's his Republican support that's slipping. [SPEAKER_04]: And that was confirmed by new Fox poll, which also says Trump's approval among Republicans has hit a record low. [SPEAKER_07]: And he's going to see that. [SPEAKER_07]: No, what do they have it on Fox? [SPEAKER_07]: 30. [SPEAKER_07]: 30. [SPEAKER_07]: 30. [SPEAKER_07]: 6. [SPEAKER_07]: 37. [SPEAKER_04]: On the on the support from.

[SPEAKER_07]: Republicans. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I believe it's a low of 80 percent now. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, because it's getting down there. [SPEAKER_07]: It is good. [SPEAKER_07]: Get it. [SPEAKER_07]: You know, it was like 95. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah 95. [SPEAKER_04]: 96. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: That's a lot. [SPEAKER_07]: That's a huge loss. [SPEAKER_07]: That is huge for your own party. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: To be that low is not good.

[SPEAKER_04]: No. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, look, you got 70% of Americans disapprove of them on economics alone, which is, and then there was the New York Times. [SPEAKER_04]: I just, we were talking about this in the break. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm, there's, nearer times is a lot of good reporting. [SPEAKER_04]: It's one of the reasons we give you guys free links to some of the stuff from them. [SPEAKER_04]: But they're headline writers suck.

[SPEAKER_04]: And they cover, I was, I was talking with Bruce Bartlett about this here. [SPEAKER_04]: Got a bar and went over and was talking on him a little bit. [SPEAKER_04]: And he posted this thing about the New York Times Seattle poll. [SPEAKER_04]: And I said, you can't, a lot of times, you can't pay much attention to, there's a lot of things that New York Times covers well. [SPEAKER_04]: Democratic politics in the United States is not one of them.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's like they're covering it from an ashamed Democrat who happens to live on the Upper East side is a really nice place looking over Central Park and they're ashamed of their wealth and you're like, I get it. [SPEAKER_04]: But you realize that most people who vote Democratic have nothing to do and they are not like you in 95% of the ways. [SPEAKER_07]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: No. [SPEAKER_04]: So covering Democratic politics from that perspective, please.

[SPEAKER_04]: That makes people believe that everything else you do is bull crab. [SPEAKER_07]: Now, that's why they always have to go to Ohio, or some diner. [SPEAKER_07]: I don't even like to talk to those people. [SPEAKER_07]: They never see those weird, you know, Americans. [SPEAKER_04]: I give it. [SPEAKER_04]: They're in New York City and they don't see, because, you know, now they have Mayor Zorman Danny who has an absolutely fantastic, I mean, he's doing so many good things.

[SPEAKER_04]: We were talking with John earlier about the fact that he's even giving them $50 tickets to the World Cup games. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: They're going to have there. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, he arranged you with FIFA and they're going to release a thousand tickets worth $50 each for native New Yorkers to be able to go see the games. [SPEAKER_06]: So I think that's great.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's great and I think it will it will make the attendance at those games better. [SPEAKER_04]: They're going to be some because tourism's going to be going to say it's going to be good. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, we have a piece of news on tap that's talking about it. [SPEAKER_04]: There are a lot of the hotels and motels are worried about empty rooms and mass cancellations because they're not that the people are not chill.

[SPEAKER_06]: I don't blame anybody that is brown skinned. [SPEAKER_06]: Now coming here, I wouldn't come here even if I was like go Italy or go Mexico or go Right whoever's playing because I don't watch the soccer. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't watch that food ball [SPEAKER_06]: I wouldn't. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, yes, you're way Europeans can make it out here and they're going to be fine. [SPEAKER_06]: What do you plan? [SPEAKER_07]: Mostly, but they like that. [SPEAKER_07]: I was shy.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I got Canadians in that Irish guy that was, uh, the couple. [SPEAKER_07]: It was a couple. [SPEAKER_06]: There was an English couple that tried to go to Canada and they both got stopped and she was here for six weeks and it took months for him to get home. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: So I don't know if anybody saved. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: And that's why I would be like, look, I'm not, I don't care. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm not doing it either.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's I just I wouldn't trust it either. [SPEAKER_07]: And that's what do you think the 250, you know, all those celebrations on the mall, like the UFC fight. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, that's those are going to go from what I'm hearing here in the DC area. [SPEAKER_04]: What couple of people I know, I mean, it's as it gets closer, we'll find out a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_04]: but the general comparison that I'm hearing bandied about is, you remember when Donnie had that ridiculous parade this last year, where there were so few people, you could hear the wheels squeaky on the tanks. [SPEAKER_04]: And yeah, they're like, yeah, look for another one of those. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not going to DC for that. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I remember the bicentennial. [SPEAKER_06]: I was nine years old and it was a big deal. [SPEAKER_06]: But it was a big deal.

[SPEAKER_07]: It had nothing to do with President Carter. [SPEAKER_07]: But nobody even thought about that. [SPEAKER_07]: President Carter didn't insert himself into everything. [SPEAKER_07]: No. [SPEAKER_07]: I was just, oh, yeah, the military don't Trump is getting some, a lot of the militaries forcing them to go and attend some of these UFC fights. [SPEAKER_04]: That's what I'm hearing.

[SPEAKER_06]: And the UFC fighters, I mean, they, they, they're going to get paid a fortune for it so they're fine.

[SPEAKER_04]: right they're looking at it going they'll just go they'll show up they'll go fight they'll do their gig they're not really that concerned but at the same time they're like this is kind of at least for what i've heard some of them were like this is kind of dumb but whatever it's it's like when they're getting paid fortune [SPEAKER_04]: Right, but it's like when an actor shows up to a gig where they're like, if it wasn't for the paycheck, I wouldn't be here.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I'll put on a happy face and I'll do my thing and I'll do what's expected of me, and then I'll go catch the paycheck and go live my life and be like, whatever, it's, yeah, it's just a J-O-B to them. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and it's not, you know, when the Trump and all those people were expecting me, oh, we're expecting to be all this big thing like they did the parade.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I think they are going to be once again like We'll like they did for the stupid prayer thing on Sunday. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh my god, that was such a busto. [SPEAKER_07]: Hardly anybody showed up. [SPEAKER_07]: It was supposed to be the first they were saying like 50,000 people would be there. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: And then eventually a few thousand. [SPEAKER_04]: About 7,000. [SPEAKER_04]: About 7,000. [SPEAKER_04]: About 7,000 is what I learned is at most.

[SPEAKER_04]: Somewhere between maybe 5 and 7,000 and then of course. [SPEAKER_04]: and hold the million. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you compare on the same day down in Alabama with the Selma walk. [SPEAKER_06]: Selma large. [SPEAKER_04]: They had two marches down there and they had about five to ten thousand between the two of them. [SPEAKER_04]: So I'm gone. [SPEAKER_06]: I've had five thousand people just on the corner doing [SPEAKER_07]: No Kings marches just on the corner, it's just a good look.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sorry, but those people came off as crazy Uh-huh, and they were all talking about how God wanted Donald Trump to have this ballroom and it's like it's going like a 20% of You know, you know, but this ballroom is in the bill is in the Bible, and it's partly in the Bible

[SPEAKER_04]: that is it's been it's been so funny and so bad for them this is there are a lot of Republicans who are just so pissed about all of this they're pissed about this this reparations for insurrectionist fund they're pissed about the bottom and the corruption still um there's the the tobacco thing there's the uh inside of trading with the stocks there i don't know if you say this one did you see the the oil trades in needa [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, this is the new story reporting.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, new story. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's in our first round under the even more corruption section. [SPEAKER_04]: Flurry of suspicious oil trades worth $800 million conveniently happened moments before Donald Trump called off the attacks in a ran this week. [SPEAKER_04]: It has triggered a regulatory for a from the CFC CT. [SPEAKER_06]: But God knows what'll happen.

[SPEAKER_07]: I think this kind of stuff just powers on even though if you can't [SPEAKER_07]: you know pay attention all the time, right. [SPEAKER_07]: So it is going to break through. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: And then you just hear corruption corruption corruption and people start to understand. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, and they're they're looking at they're still looking at their gas gases above $4 right now in all 50 states and all seven territories.

[SPEAKER_04]: It is above $4 everywhere in the country. [SPEAKER_04]: There are a lot of places for the first time ever. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: For the first time. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, it's a bus six here. [SPEAKER_06]: In fact, if you don't get a car wash at the [SPEAKER_06]: Chevron down the street from my house, and the cheapest is 689, and then it's over seven for the other two grades, and then diesel is 7.59. [SPEAKER_06]: I think.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm glad we have a plug-in electric. [SPEAKER_06]: I know if I could afford an electric car, it would so get one. [SPEAKER_04]: I know. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm a look. [SPEAKER_07]: I think more people are, you know, they're out there buying a car, they're going to start. [SPEAKER_07]: thinking more about getting it like your car. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the problem that Detroit and the big Detroit automakers have, I mean, they lost their shirts on this, you know, following whatever Donnie wanted, they had just stuck with their electric stuff. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: They would have been a lot smarter. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I mean, Chevy, we had the F-1, the Ford F-150 that was going to be like 40, the Electro-1, and has getting, yes. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, and it can haul like a regular, and it, I know.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's the charges a long time, and Lexus, I know, is trying to build a battery that can go almost 400 miles before you need a new charge. [SPEAKER_07]: And we're just trying to see it in our lunch, okay? [SPEAKER_07]: That's what's gonna happen. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, that's Japan, but still, I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's time to try it with electric car energy. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, God, yeah, are you kidding me?

[SPEAKER_04]: The nice cars that they have, that's, that's what what Detroit is afraid of. [SPEAKER_04]: And I'm like, well, the smart thing for them to do. [SPEAKER_04]: would be to quietly do the thing that we used to do, where we would partner with other companies, other car companies in other countries, our, our being a Ford and Chevy and Dodge would partner with a, and it doesn't like Chrysler.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it would basically be a, like, a Ford except you go over there and it, it has a different mark on it. [SPEAKER_04]: It doesn't have the Ford logo and has, but you know, you go lots of Ford and it goes yeah, but it's, it's their local country. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm saying they should do the same thing with some of the Chinese manufacturers who are making those cars and say, bring it over here, charge a little bit extra, and that'll be our profit, and we'll allow you to do that.

[SPEAKER_04]: There are some losses of again. [SPEAKER_06]: And then make sure that there's no spyware in it. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, that's because they're based on rolling computers now, and that's where it's still Canada is allowing the what is it now like these. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, and I think two or three others. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, which which is fine and they and they have things where they scan those cars randomly to make sure that there's no bugs off where and things in there.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, but I just sit there and say [SPEAKER_07]: the green energy stuff whether anybody likes or not is coming and the stuff coming and he's good or front and we can, you know, we're going to take a hit because China's going to it's already.

[SPEAKER_04]: When Phil Inter was here, our friend who does journalism over in Ukraine and he said, when the war is finally done, they're Ukraine is set to be one of the most technologically advanced countries because they're they're doing all that look, they're bombing in Moscow right now.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then in Cuba, the Chinese, because, you know, we decided we're going to block hate use of the Chinese when hey, you need some help and they're helping them set up these energy solar and wind and stuff I mean they're getting all so they won't need the oil to heat their homes and

[SPEAKER_04]: the fact that power green energy is becoming an economic weapon it shows the power how good it is and it shows that the people who are turning it off are so stupid we're going to be so far behind oh my god we could have been so far ahead how do we know listen to Jimmy Carter well Jimmy Carter but even even Joe Biden yes right get us on the right track he was he started to get [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah, and I look, look, we think I'm climate change.

[SPEAKER_06]: Can we keep you around for at least one more section here for a little bit after all? [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, look, I thank you so much to everybody's been hanging out with us this week. [SPEAKER_04]: Look, we are going to do a little bit of best of and a little bit of new. [SPEAKER_04]: coming up tomorrow Friday and then Monday as well. [SPEAKER_04]: And then we'll be back Tuesday live. [SPEAKER_04]: Franchal will be back with us. [SPEAKER_04]: Bob Cess will be over the break.

[SPEAKER_04]: When we do some of the best day, we're going to throw in some Dana Steele, some Pete Dominick, some Paula Poundstone, and we'll have some new stuff for you too. [SPEAKER_04]: So if you're guys like, oh, I'm working. [SPEAKER_04]: Don't worry, we got you covered. [SPEAKER_04]: And I'll be fun. [SPEAKER_04]: It'll be good. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_04]: By the way, everybody have yourselves a great memorial day weekend.

[SPEAKER_04]: Don't do some of the things that you shouldn't do and don't do some of the other things you should do. [SPEAKER_06]: If you do drink, please Uber, cab, have somebody be a designated driver. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: Be safe. [SPEAKER_04]: Yes. [SPEAKER_04]: And it's back here at the politics law.