Making Life Better May 5, 2026

[SPEAKER_05]: It's political. [SPEAKER_00]: I love to the fly. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, ridicule. [SPEAKER_00]: You're thinking the far away, but you are the politics fly. [SPEAKER_05]: Shot Smith, Pearson, Jody Hamilton. [SPEAKER_03]: Jody! [SPEAKER_03]: Sean! [SPEAKER_01]: How you doing? [SPEAKER_03]: Hey! [UNKNOWN]: Ha-ha-ha-ha. [SPEAKER_01]: Look, today was your first busy day back after your vacation. [SPEAKER_01]: You got to hang out this morning over at Staffs' house. [SPEAKER_01]: I did.

[SPEAKER_01]: I got to work. [SPEAKER_03]: She got very close to me. [SPEAKER_01]: Are you saying she got clinging? [SPEAKER_01]: She kind of, you know, growped to you a little bit. [SPEAKER_03]: She was like, you know, so happy you're back. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, [SPEAKER_03]: You know, love you too, Steph. [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, no, it's good. [SPEAKER_01]: It's we do love stuff. [SPEAKER_01]: That's good.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then of course you went and hung out with Bob and gave it to Bob's house, which that's always good. [SPEAKER_01]: A little bit less cussing there. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm guessing just less cussing. [SPEAKER_03]: It's Stephanie's more cussing at Bob's. [SPEAKER_01]: You guys will not because well, maybe you will be depending on, you know, you're feeling the news. [SPEAKER_01]: We will get you the news on. [SPEAKER_03]: I try not to on the show.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have done it only on this show. [SPEAKER_03]: Never on the show. [SPEAKER_01]: I've done it once. [SPEAKER_01]: then it once you've done it. [SPEAKER_03]: Once. [SPEAKER_03]: Once. [SPEAKER_03]: And I've never done it on her show and I've been on her show for like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Look, Margarita is refined and we've got, look, we've got links to be able to get to those Margarita recipes today. [SPEAKER_01]: But we're learning a little bit different because, um, no, it is not Mexican independence day. [SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_01]: It is not. [SPEAKER_01]: When you work, well, when you work at a bar or at anywhere where you, there are people who are going to be drunk.

[SPEAKER_01]: It isn't this kind of like amateur Mexican drunk day, just like St. Patrick's amateur want to be Irish drunk day, and New Year's Eve don't even. [SPEAKER_01]: Right, just that's just amateur drunk day period. [SPEAKER_01]: It's like, look, folks, if you're going to be a professional drinker, you have to know how to handle your stuff, just say it.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, and that means don't act to fool and understand that, you know, for example, psychodemio is non Mexican independence day. [SPEAKER_01]: She's Louis. [SPEAKER_04]: But it is taco Tuesday because it's always taco Tuesday. [SPEAKER_04]: So there is that. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you did, did Donald Trump cut and run on something today? [SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't always, but no, I mean, it's actual taco. [SPEAKER_03]: It's every Tuesday is taco Tuesday.

[SPEAKER_03]: So it's the fact that Cinco de Mayo, which is my friend Gail's birthday, happy birthday Gail. [SPEAKER_03]: It's also, it's Cinco de Mayo, get some tacos, get some margaritas, or what we have on tap. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, look, look, we've got a great drink over the day on tap, and you may need a drink today. [SPEAKER_01]: After looking at the news on tap today, there's good news and bad news. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, let me think of it. [SPEAKER_01]: Let me put it to you this way.

[SPEAKER_01]: You play with the top, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Little spinny top things. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a lot of people, most people they think have, it's been the top, and it's fun. [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of cool to watch. [SPEAKER_04]: Inception, baby. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's what then it starts to get to certain point. [SPEAKER_01]: It starts to wobble, wobble a little bit, and you know, they're pretty soon, that sucker's just moving a little bit.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because it's not a weeble, they don't wobble. [SPEAKER_01]: No, they wobble, but they don't fall down. [SPEAKER_03]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: Here you go, exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: And if you don't know what a weeble is. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, or when they don't wobble, just look it up, children. [SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna get Bella in the bar. [SPEAKER_03]: I know, I'm gonna ask her because she's hilarious. [SPEAKER_01]: They'd be fun, they'd be fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: But here's the thing. [SPEAKER_01]: I really do think that all of this keeping that the Republicans are doing, especially all the desperation that they're doing with the elections is a huge sign that the fall of Trumpism is coming. [SPEAKER_04]: It is. [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not saying it's going to be easy when they're going to make a mask because they always make a mask.

[SPEAKER_01]: But [SPEAKER_01]: These folks, it's, they're, they're time being in charge, they're time being in charge of everything that's in your life, being in your head every day, every moment. [SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember where I saw this. [SPEAKER_01]: I think it was online, on one of the socials, it's like a minute, minute and a half long. [SPEAKER_01]: All this older African American gentleman. [SPEAKER_01]: And he was saying, he's like, I am tired of Trump. [SPEAKER_01]: I saw that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I saw that. [SPEAKER_01]: I saw that. [SPEAKER_01]: He's so cute. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, I am tired of Trump in every single thing about the news and everything and entertainment and everything and everything and every moment. [SPEAKER_01]: And the prices are up and gas prices are up and grocery prices are up. [SPEAKER_01]: And he hasn't got damn thing and it gets us in this war and he goes, yeah, that war gives us another war.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know that the guy was a hundred percent spot on But the thing that you can notice as he's walking through this is he's like every Thing oops, there we go. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry He was mad so I'm on a Well look it's it's clear. [SPEAKER_01]: It's very clear that that the guy older guy who's talking a lot slower than I am [SPEAKER_01]: um, was saying that in every damn full thing that you have out there, that Trump is in everything.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, look, man, go the hell away. [SPEAKER_01]: I am tired of you and I am tired of your [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just tired. [SPEAKER_01]: It's beyond the point of hatred. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm to the point of just go away. [SPEAKER_03]: Americans are tired of him naming things after him too. [SPEAKER_03]: There's a new poll about that. [SPEAKER_03]: And it was like, thank you Americans because we don't do that. [SPEAKER_01]: Right, right.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember what we have that in today's news on tap or whether that's in yesterday's news on it. [SPEAKER_03]: It's around here somewhere. [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, yeah, it's, it's, um, well, there is one today in the polls and politics section in the fourth round of the news on tap. [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, the new Wapo ABC news, if so's poll, shows most Americans say Trump is mentally and physically unfit to serve effectively. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, which we knew.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think the one you were talking about was in yesterday's postman's section. [SPEAKER_01]: But it's just, it's the fact that we're tired of him and we're tired of people doing things that they are not supposed to do. [SPEAKER_01]: Yep. [SPEAKER_01]: So that this was interesting. [SPEAKER_01]: Last night, I saw this. [SPEAKER_01]: The illegitimate US Supreme Court decided to fast track the Louisiana Voting Map decision.

[SPEAKER_01]: Look, normally, it's just take about 30, 31, 32 days, something like that before a scotist decision is certified. [SPEAKER_03]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: A leader just decided, whump, ram it right through. [SPEAKER_01]: And Justice Jackson got really pissed. [SPEAKER_01]: As she should. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: So she put out a note, basically blasting his ass, saying that normally the court usually takes quote, a dim view.

[SPEAKER_01]: of last minute changes to elections, especially one like this that is, quote, unwarranted and unwise. [SPEAKER_01]: And it was undergo, it was going. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: It was actually an ongoing thing at the time. [SPEAKER_01]: There are people whose votes have been invalid throughout. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: Because, well, we want to change the maps. [SPEAKER_01]: We want to cheat. [SPEAKER_01]: Alito had a fit. [SPEAKER_01]: Had an absolute fit.

[SPEAKER_01]: So he decided to rip off his own [SPEAKER_03]: He didn't call her uppity, did he? [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and name is on the way. [SPEAKER_01]: He came pretty close. [SPEAKER_01]: Look, Sam Alito is very much somebody who is a confederate. [SPEAKER_01]: I'll just be honest, he's a confederate. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm with you. [SPEAKER_01]: And if you're a confederate in the United States, congratulations, you're a traitor.

[SPEAKER_01]: because this is the United States and the Confederacy tried to split off and the biggest single difference between the two as everybody here remembers their history was the fact that the Confederacy wanted to enslave black people yeah so sure he's he's fine with Thomas well as as Frances and Angela said he sleeps in this tap shoes [SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm, Francis and Angela are not even here and they're correct. [SPEAKER_01]: We love you for Angela.

[SPEAKER_01]: They'll be back soon, but um By the way tonight. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, somebody I have not met. [SPEAKER_01]: I have met her. [SPEAKER_01]: You've met her. [SPEAKER_01]: She's a radio person and you've met her and I haven't which happens on occasion [SPEAKER_01]: Dana Steele, so she is a Hall of Fame, a radio person, and a several other things. [SPEAKER_03]: All yellow and Texas that are listening. [SPEAKER_03]: Y'all know who she is if you're over a certain age.

[SPEAKER_03]: For sure. [SPEAKER_03]: And then she's, she's still involved in politics, she's still involved in music, and she has a beautiful story about all the beautiful is not the right word, but a story about Alzheimer's with her mom that is important for everybody to read. [SPEAKER_03]: Hi, Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, well, let's talk with her about that a little bit later.

[SPEAKER_01]: But get back to the news that the whole thing is just as Jackson was right and there's a difference between what's legal and what's right. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that this screws up a lot of folks here on the left, especially, is that we're like, well, what should be legal is what should be right and you're not wrong in thinking that. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: What should be legal? [SPEAKER_01]: what is right should be legal and what is wrong should not be legal.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's like the 10 commandments there are a few that make sense and then the others are like what? [SPEAKER_03]: But most of them make sense. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, they made sense certain things for the time. [SPEAKER_01]: There were certain things in, um, uh, God, what is it? [SPEAKER_01]: It's if it's, if it's kosher, if it's Jewish, if it's halal, if it's Islamic, and people say, well, you know, why is this where did this come from?

[SPEAKER_01]: It came from a time before like the USDA and the, the cleanliness stuff that we have. [SPEAKER_01]: So the rules that they had for those kinds of things are, are basically rules to try to keep you from a million years ago. [SPEAKER_01]: Right, and that's fine, and I get that except it's now and not then. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: So whatever. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's not kill. [SPEAKER_01]: That's not kill. [SPEAKER_01]: Please. [SPEAKER_01]: Good one.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right. [SPEAKER_03]: That's a good one. [SPEAKER_01]: We've talked with John Figuosign before about that, you know, the quote-unquote Christians, and then there's the real Christians. [SPEAKER_01]: So when you actually, but, right.

[SPEAKER_01]: but there's also people who believe in the rule of law and justice jackson is one and there are people who don't and i'm sorry but samolito is one who does not we have the stories there in the news on tap today where you can read about the supreme court decision last night and justice jackson and justice alito sparring over it uh... dishanced by the way last night ram through that uh... sign that uh... partisan jerry manner the florida republicans did and then we don't you manner

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: Judd is right. [SPEAKER_01]: He was immediately sued as he should be. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, he is a dummy. [SPEAKER_01]: So. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I mean, it's just dumb. [SPEAKER_03]: There. [SPEAKER_03]: It's already such a journey-mandered state like Texas. [SPEAKER_03]: Like, what are you thinking? [SPEAKER_01]: They're thinking the same thing that a lot of these people are thinking.

[SPEAKER_01]: And these maps, by the way, this is something that that it's important for people to understand. [SPEAKER_01]: A, you're right, that there's the dummy. [SPEAKER_01]: districts are more likely to go. [SPEAKER_01]: But just because it's more likely doesn't mean that so it's going to be 25 points at this point.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it may be, by the time it Republicans keep doing these kinds of things, attacking the right to abortion, attacking, I mean, you know, the harder they keep pushing and their desperation to me says they know their time in power is at an end and the closer they get to the end, the more desperate they get to scramble and to try to, we're going to stay in power. [SPEAKER_03]: I guess what if they had policies? [SPEAKER_03]: people like people with a farm.

[SPEAKER_01]: All you got to do is stop being a racist, a big it, a misogynist, a classist, and an animal. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not that hard. [SPEAKER_01]: No, it's really. [SPEAKER_01]: And we're not talking of just the average boy. [SPEAKER_01]: We're talking the ones who were elected, who are like, but if I don't do that, they want to elect me. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, then maybe it's not worth having the job, if that's what you have to do for it. [SPEAKER_01]: just so.

[SPEAKER_01]: So look, well, we'll talk more about some of the stuff. [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, the election stuff. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Donald wants more money for his ballroom. [SPEAKER_01]: He wants a lot more. [SPEAKER_01]: More than double. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we'll talk about that. [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, the war stuff going on as well. [SPEAKER_01]: Look, we got the news on Tapalpur out a few rounds. [SPEAKER_01]: Dana's deal coming up later tonight. [SPEAKER_01]: You got Jody and me.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a Tuesday night. [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the politics bar. [SPEAKER_01]: Fresh in your drink and come right back. [SPEAKER_01]: All right. [SPEAKER_07]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_01]: It's Tuesday night. [SPEAKER_01]: You're at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you very much coming in and join in us from wherever you are Look, we are very happy that everybody you call in you post up. [SPEAKER_01]: It's very cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, Paul, via Threads. [SPEAKER_01]: He says that when Beaufort and Lorraine go to fill up their F-150 and have to pay about a hundred bucks. [SPEAKER_01]: I hope they enjoy that ballroom that they paid for and of course that they'll never actually be allowed to step foot in. [SPEAKER_03]: Certainly not well Donald is around. [SPEAKER_01]: I do not understand. [SPEAKER_01]: We talked about it a little bit last week when you were off.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what you thought about the, the whole thing with the White House Correspondence Dinner. [SPEAKER_01]: Um. [SPEAKER_03]: It still looks, I mean, okay, I'm not going to say it was stage. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_03]: But there's a video of him that's clearer now, where he went into a, looks like a room and then a cop in a dog walked after him and then all of a sudden comes out of that room.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, there were, I know they were taking down the mags, but why keep them up? [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's, it's not, I mean, it wasn't staged. [SPEAKER_01]: So that's, I mean, that's the thing. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not, but it was poorly, there are lots of, there are lots of reasons for people to think. [SPEAKER_01]: It was staged, the biggest one is the fact that we can't believe a damn thing these people say. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: But here's the thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: And this is what I said last week, when Brooklyn Dad defined, actually, I said it several times last week.

[SPEAKER_01]: Either the attack was a big deal, [SPEAKER_01]: every reason to say sure we we see the ballroom as a security solution and then the rest of us say okay fine well if it's a security solution and we're going to have to spend a whole lot of money on it then we get to audit every last dime in penny that goes into it and he can never leave the way to us or it's not that big of deal at all.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because this is what the right way media was doing after after the initial of all the terrible and alcohol, how could you possibly how could anyone possibly are our Lord God king Donald Trump and whatever fight me, but they then they go, oh well nobody really got hurt so it's not a big deal, but then they say well nobody got hurt and it's not a big deal, but we want to use that to shoe horn in our ballroom. [SPEAKER_03]: for $1 billion. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's the thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that dropped last night. [SPEAKER_01]: Um, Allison Gil, I originally, I saw that last night. [SPEAKER_01]: And, um, ballroom Republicans, I still think that is the perfect label for them. [SPEAKER_03]: It is ballroom Republicans. [SPEAKER_03]: I love it. [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, because look, they don't care about whether gas is six or seven bucks for you. [SPEAKER_01]: They don't care that you can't afford to go to the grocery store.

[SPEAKER_03]: And they don't care if children are getting shot at without their ballroom. [SPEAKER_01]: Right, exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's to be a ballroom for everyone, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, they don't care about none of them. [SPEAKER_01]: They just care about making sure that Donald has his. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, he needs room for his, you know. [SPEAKER_01]: Not according to Stormy Daniels. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I mean, they might be huge.

[SPEAKER_03]: They might be huge and thank you to a genius. [SPEAKER_01]: You have no. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, look, he could have elephant Titus. [SPEAKER_03]: I'll just say it. [SPEAKER_03]: I think they're long and skinny and then the other thing is, I don't do anything. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, now you went way further down to his knees, I swear I got there down to his knees. [SPEAKER_01]: Is that your explanation for why he kind of shuffles now?

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, he a little bit because they're gone gone, actually he's being being, you know. [SPEAKER_01]: The biggest thing, I wrote a piece actually for another project I do, and that happens being the news on Tap today as well, under the first round under Trump's attempted legacy projects. [SPEAKER_01]: So Trump and his ballroom Republicans really don't care about you, and you guys can check this out.

[SPEAKER_01]: But look, lay on Monday night, Chuck Grassley's office, put out the text of the upcoming congressional reconciliation bill, the one that's supposed to fund CBP and ICE. [SPEAKER_01]: Um, according to the text, they want the 38 billion more for ice, remember ice already gets 85 billion. [SPEAKER_03]: More than the Marines correct? [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: They already with that 85 billion.

[SPEAKER_01]: They already have more than any of the other branches of the military. [SPEAKER_01]: Now they want 38 billion on top of that. [SPEAKER_01]: They want 26 billion on top of that for CBP. [SPEAKER_01]: So again, more funding than any, they want a $5 billion slush fund for unspecified deportation purposes. [SPEAKER_03]: What does that mean? [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they need to buy a couple of those luxury jets, like for Christy Nome, for Marquane, Mullen.

[SPEAKER_01]: Marquane. [SPEAKER_01]: Marquane. [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: McQueen the cherry on top of this profit it's spending Sunday is Republicans demand for one billion dollar one million dollars more for the ballroom you can actually go you can click through my people's only supposed to cost 200 million and then three hundred and then four hundred now it was going to be a privately privately funded at first right so it's so now it's one point four billion dollars

[SPEAKER_01]: a room where you dance in and then the doors are bad and the windows are bad and the money that his already been given to him came from but we're not supposed to know that it's in his pocket uh yeah that's the problem exactly um so this I mean I do not understand how Republicans think that this stuff is a good idea it's gonna pass [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe because Republicans can read polls too and the polls are awful.

[SPEAKER_01]: The polls are saying Americans blame Donald Trump, but they also blame Republicans in Congress. [SPEAKER_01]: You know who they don't blame for once? [SPEAKER_01]: Democrats in Congress. [SPEAKER_03]: Finally, final paying attention. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, it's taken them getting their head beat against the ground metaphorically speaking since 1981. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, and especially now the last 10 years, we took everything.

[SPEAKER_01]: We blew it up under Donald Trump, but, uh, oh hell, you know, that Biden guy was old. [SPEAKER_03]: That Biden guy still reads his bike. [SPEAKER_01]: A button guy, uh, gas under Joe Biden in January of 2021 was $2.39 since the AAA gas price today, uh, $4.48.3. [SPEAKER_01]: That is up three cents from yesterday. [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, that is up. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, what is it? [SPEAKER_01]: With four, 17 a week ago.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, a year ago it was 319 and like I said, uh, when it was Joe Biden in January of 2021 it was 239. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, if you're, if you're, if you were a Donald Trump voter, don't you ever tell me that you voted against Biden because of inflation because can you win? [SPEAKER_01]: He's been here. [SPEAKER_01]: Shut up.

[SPEAKER_01]: Seriously, you come to bar to have fun, and that's great, but there are people occasionally who got to be, you know, Talks like that because you got to come on, man. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, come on, man. [SPEAKER_03]: Seriously, it's over $2 more than it was in When Biden took over in 2020 when everybody was saying, oh, gas prices and then it was worse in 24 and it was only 319 and 24 [SPEAKER_01]: And yet, now it's, you know, and it depends on where you're at.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you're out of your West Coast, don't you? [SPEAKER_01]: Don't even know. [SPEAKER_01]: Don't even know. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, our friends was saying on WCPT in Chicago, especially around the great lakes there. [SPEAKER_01]: Their gas prices there, Joe, are about as bad as yours on your end out there. [SPEAKER_03]: I know, mine right now. [SPEAKER_03]: The cheapest is just under $6.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's $5.95 for the regular and then it goes to $6.30 and then $6.50 and then diesel is almost $8. [SPEAKER_03]: And this is a place when it was bad in 2022 when it was really bad. [SPEAKER_03]: Right. [SPEAKER_03]: They never had it that high. [SPEAKER_03]: So I don't even, I haven't walked down to the one station where it was 715 in 2022. [SPEAKER_01]: The one that's the one that's perpetually expensive.

[SPEAKER_03]: Super expensive because people don't want to drive a half a mile, but whatever. [SPEAKER_03]: Um, they think it's more expensive by the freeway. [SPEAKER_03]: No, it isn't. [SPEAKER_03]: There's three gas stations that are all competing with each other. [SPEAKER_03]: So, right.

[SPEAKER_03]: But this one yeah, this one is the only one on that corner and in 2022 I have a pick I sent it to Bob me goes oh my god seven nineteen a gallon in 2022 And it was never that high where I live look this is this is a political gift for Democrats And I am hoping a Democrats do not bobble this because [SPEAKER_01]: Republicans are extremely motivated to try to steal the elections to do everything they can to try because they know how angry people are.

[SPEAKER_01]: They know that people blame them and rightfully so. [SPEAKER_01]: Look, one of the things if you're saying, yeah, but what can we do? [SPEAKER_01]: I know I hear we hear you just because we're other microphones don't mean we don't hear you hear in the bar. [SPEAKER_01]: There are a couple of great pieces that we have that are in that first section of the news on tap under the stealing of vote. [SPEAKER_01]: One from Noah Bralatsky and one from Matt Ford.

[SPEAKER_01]: First of all, the fight is not finished. [SPEAKER_01]: Just because the Supreme Court decided to temporarily screw things up with the VRA, remember [SPEAKER_01]: this has been screwed up before and Congress has fixed it so it can be fixed again and fixed even better obviously. [SPEAKER_03]: I think the VRA should always have all 50 states have to go through it. [SPEAKER_03]: That was the initial problem with that for pre-clearance.

[SPEAKER_01]: The thing that you're talking about there is that you think everybody should have pre and I don't disagree. [SPEAKER_01]: Pre-clearance should be something like that. [SPEAKER_03]: Because that was the initial problem that Roberts court had was it's not [SPEAKER_01]: And I understood it, but it was a problem. [SPEAKER_01]: We could say problem in the sense of quote marks.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was a problem because this was always, oh no, this was, yeah, Robert's goal and a lead-o's goal. [SPEAKER_03]: And, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Drunky McBray person. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, uh, oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: They were both against, yeah, they were both against it way a long time ago. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, look, the thing is, they're, they're goal was knock down section five first. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. [SPEAKER_01]: And then say, well, but you still have section two.

[SPEAKER_01]: So see, it's not that bad. [SPEAKER_01]: And then knock down section two. [SPEAKER_01]: So you go, oh, sorry. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you don't have any any recourse. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, uh, look Democrats have fought back in California in Virginia in other places around country Utah, remember remember we had the Nate blue in here and I have to make sure they got an extra seat there. [SPEAKER_01]: Um, so look.

[SPEAKER_01]: Allison Gil also had that, uh, I can't remember where I mentioned it with you yesterday or at maybe his last week. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think it was last week where she had a post up and she said it's so funny to her. [SPEAKER_01]: that Republicans are scrambling and screaming about three, four, five seats when they're going to get their ass beat by like 40 seats in the house. [SPEAKER_03]: They should. [SPEAKER_03]: Right. [SPEAKER_03]: And then some.

[SPEAKER_01]: Especially people vote. [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, election day today, the polls are already closed in Indiana in Ohio. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, depends on when you probably close by by this time too, depending on when you're listening to this. [SPEAKER_01]: But look, any of these, you got it. [SPEAKER_01]: You guys got to be [SPEAKER_01]: up on stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's why yesterday I believe in the the news on tech we put from Boltzmag the was a hundred elections this month that are going to be important. [SPEAKER_03]: I have one coming up. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean technically it's June 2nd, but I'm going to vote after tonight's debate.

[SPEAKER_01]: right there is there is a debate going on might be right now depending on when you're listening this in California governor's race and then there's another debate tomorrow the one on a tonight is on CNN and then the one tomorrow is I believe on a more local statewide thing and I think it's like this statewide public TV thing for California but I think tonight is the one most people are going to watch because it's on CNN and it's easier to get to you right whatever.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm I right now I'm [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing wrong with that. [SPEAKER_03]: I am not team Porter because I used to like her, but I have learned so much about her. [SPEAKER_01]: Look, but that's the thing is that we're supposed to learn about candidates and policies. [SPEAKER_01]: I know that there are some people, Chris Lovaw, being one of them who says, oh, but Stier says that he wants universal health care. [SPEAKER_03]: And so does Bacera. [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thing is, is that Bacera actually knows how the machinery of government [SPEAKER_01]: Stire is a rich man who's never had to do it like this. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because he's a rich man in companies and that's different. [SPEAKER_01]: A rich man who's headed up companies who's never had to deal with machinery of government. [SPEAKER_03]: How old was that working now, Joni? [SPEAKER_03]: Well, and I like Tom star. [SPEAKER_03]: I think he's great.

[SPEAKER_03]: Then run for the state assembly first or run for city council here in Los Angeles, run for the mayor in Los Angeles. [SPEAKER_03]: It's still too big. [SPEAKER_01]: inside the machine to understand how things work. [SPEAKER_03]: And then Chris was like, yeah, but that gets you all, I'm like, you know what? [SPEAKER_03]: It's the machine. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: And until you change it from within, you can't change it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever had anybody that you've told that you worked on movies or TV or whatever, you're like, oh, that's easy. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, God, yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: And you're like, really have you done it? [SPEAKER_01]: And they haven't. [SPEAKER_03]: Are you kidding me the first time I produced something? [SPEAKER_03]: I was like, now I get what my dad did. [SPEAKER_01]: And you're like, wow, this is a lot harder than I thought it was. [SPEAKER_03]: So, and it's difficult to define.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yes, the best way to define, well, you and I have agreed on this before. [SPEAKER_03]: If you don't do anything wrong, you've done it right. [SPEAKER_03]: If things happen badly, you're not producing right. [SPEAKER_01]: That's like if you're watching in a ward show. [SPEAKER_03]: Yes. [SPEAKER_01]: And the sound is perfect. [SPEAKER_01]: And everyone comes on and goes off when they're supposed to. [SPEAKER_01]: There's no lighting issues.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's no crowd issues. [SPEAKER_03]: And nothing fell down. [SPEAKER_01]: Right, right, and people go, wow, that was a great award show. [SPEAKER_01]: That was because there was an excellent producer and a sister producers under them, and if something screws up, it's because the producer didn't make sure that things were the way it was. [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly, they didn't hire right back. [SPEAKER_01]: It was this year. [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I mean, it's, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: That whole thing with the baptism. [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_03]: I do exactly the same. [SPEAKER_01]: Yep. [SPEAKER_01]: They should have known. [SPEAKER_01]: But if you've never been a producer, you probably don't know that. [SPEAKER_03]: And I said that to my cousin's husband, Peter Casey, who produced Frazier, I have like, I know what you do for a living now. [SPEAKER_01]: See, look at this.

[SPEAKER_01]: When you know, you know, also when you know you've been here at the bar a while, and you know we like to do the trick the day in probably the third section, and well, Well, sometimes if Jared's here, we do it when he's on. [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly, but we will do the drink of the day next. [SPEAKER_01]: Fresh in your drink and come right back. [SPEAKER_01]: It's a Tuesday night here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_06]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is a Tuesday night here at the politics bar, Dana's Field, going to be in in just a little bit. [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, we will get back to doing more of the news on tap, pull a few rounds for this. [SPEAKER_01]: We've got a couple of rounds already. [SPEAKER_01]: It is Tuesday night after all, nothing wrong with that. [SPEAKER_01]: Look, thank you by the way to everybody who is listening to us on all of our great radio affiliates.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Please do something else. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a lot of fun. [SPEAKER_01]: You'll look you'll look you'll look marvelous You knew us as soon as I started to see that and then I started to look on your face and we both knew where that was going Thank you. [SPEAKER_03]: And I need a drink then to you look marvelous [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, we'll conveniently. [SPEAKER_01]: We happen to have a week do. [SPEAKER_01]: We have the drink of the day today. [SPEAKER_01]: Now here's the thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: We mentioned this. [SPEAKER_01]: It is say go to mile or, you know, for for those people, especially younger people, like Bella, you know, some people call it say go to drinko. [SPEAKER_03]: Did they really? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: That's a college thing. [SPEAKER_03]: Say go to drinko. [SPEAKER_03]: Already help us all. [SPEAKER_01]: Um, look, if you want Margaritas, we've got a couple of our great Margarita restaurants that we've done in other parts of the year exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: The first one I think was when your friend that's Kiela guy. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, Ted Genoese. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Who wrote the definitive book on Tequila Wars? [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_01]: I believe that was on May 20th. [SPEAKER_01]: Actually, he was just after that. [SPEAKER_01]: Because remember, we had him, I think, on either opening day the day after that. [SPEAKER_01]: But he was not too far from that.

[SPEAKER_03]: But it's not too far from that. [SPEAKER_01]: Good. [SPEAKER_01]: Good drink. [SPEAKER_01]: uh... single-demyle is a great holiday it's a lot of fun but we've decided to do something a little bit different because everybody is doing margaritas today so johnny what is the drink of the day today and what is unique and special about a different from some of the other drinks called an agua depino

[SPEAKER_03]: see see and well it's not it's not that it's um it's a non alcohol drink it is see I tried no I'm I'm really glad you did it's a very it's a very refreshing drink and look especially if you're gonna have something spicy this would be a perfect drink to go with it [SPEAKER_03]: It would and it's it's lovely green color. [SPEAKER_03]: I love the look of it. [SPEAKER_03]: Um, it looks super refreshing. [SPEAKER_01]: It's very cool. [SPEAKER_01]: But I also like the story.

[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, uh, oh, by the way, um, uh, behind the, the story here, uh, Julie over here in the, uh, a sub-tech corner of bar. [SPEAKER_01]: She said that, uh, she really liked the drink and it's a great history lesson. [SPEAKER_03]: So say, well, we tried. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, if she's a subscriber, she gets, she gets it over her. [SPEAKER_01]: That's the reason she knows. [SPEAKER_01]: So if you guys are wondering, what is the history about Sinko Demiall?

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, first of all, like we said, it's not Mexican independence. [SPEAKER_03]: It is not. [SPEAKER_01]: No, Mexican independence stays, I believe, in the fall. [SPEAKER_01]: We'll get to there with September. [SPEAKER_03]: Something like that. [SPEAKER_03]: Like that. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think it is September 16th. [SPEAKER_01]: There you go. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I had to look that up quick. [SPEAKER_01]: But what Sinko Demiall is, it is a celebration.

[SPEAKER_01]: of a battle, the Battle of Puebla, basically Napoleon was being a jerk back then since six thousand. [SPEAKER_01]: Was it always? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know. [SPEAKER_03]: He liked to touch his left boob a lot. [SPEAKER_01]: Let's just say that small men have a small man complex, and it's called an Napoleon complex. [SPEAKER_01]: For reason. [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: Look in a two-tidy Johnson.

[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, so Napoleon sent about 6,000 French troops to Mexico, and they were going to go attack this town. [SPEAKER_01]: And the Mexicans basically had a rag tag group of people. [SPEAKER_01]: They gathered everybody up and they could. [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody said there's no way the Mexicans are going to win. [SPEAKER_01]: On May 5th, it was at 1862, lasted from daybreak to early evening, and the French finally retreated, losing 500 soldiers, the Mexicans only lost fewer than 100.

[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, it's a big deal. [SPEAKER_01]: And it helps as far as the way that the history of Mexico goes, and obviously the history of France, but it also helps in the sense for the United States, because if the French

[SPEAKER_01]: And think about it this way, um, if you know where, if you know Mexico City, if you know your geography, um, think about it like this, Mexico City put that at the center of an old fashioned analog clock, put, um, probability Los Angeles, which is the name of the town technique, uh, put that at about, um, 430. [SPEAKER_01]: on the edge of the clock. [SPEAKER_01]: So it wasn't, you know, in Mexico, she wasn't in the the suburbs, but it was not too far away.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe like 45 minutes away. [SPEAKER_01]: If they had, if the French had defeated the Mexicans, the Battle of Kuebla, they would have gone through that, gone into Mexico City and taken over. [SPEAKER_01]: And here's the thing, France at the time was allied with the Confederates. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I realize that Samelito probably could be thrilled with that right now. [SPEAKER_01]: Just saying, Samelito, racist bastard.

[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, so, sorry, did I, did I, I thought maybe I was under my breath? [SPEAKER_04]: You're okay. [SPEAKER_04]: It's okay. [SPEAKER_04]: You're as diverse as there, but it's okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, good. [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, so, uh, yeah, so it's, it's to celebrate a great Mexican military victory. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what Sicco DiMio is. [SPEAKER_01]: You can read the full history there. [SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty cool. [SPEAKER_01]: And of course, there's some great dancing.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you know Mexican, they're the way that that works. [SPEAKER_03]: We get down at Alavara Street here right now. [SPEAKER_03]: It's just going to be amazing. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yeah, it's just Look, there's there's there's a lot of fun things to do in a lot of places on say go to my own. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not all about drinking, which is good.

[SPEAKER_01]: But [SPEAKER_01]: But the drink of the day, the Agua Diopopino is also known as a cucumber Agua fresca, maybe you've heard of that before. [SPEAKER_01]: It's just yummy. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, what is in it, Joe? [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to need a greater, a blender, can it? [SPEAKER_01]: Greater. [SPEAKER_01]: Greater. [SPEAKER_01]: You mean, like, as opposed to a lesser? [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean, a blender some ice pre-chilled rocks or stemless wine glass. [SPEAKER_03]: So it's not a glass with a stem. [SPEAKER_03]: You need one cup cucumber. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, this is very. [SPEAKER_01]: I saw this because I know that there are like eight kinds of cucumbers, you know, if you go to the markets or, you know, you go to grocery store and you're like, you know, somebody says, one cup cucumber, what kind of big ones and small ones?

[SPEAKER_03]: Just just great them. [SPEAKER_01]: You're great. [SPEAKER_03]: You're great. [SPEAKER_03]: So approximately one Persian cucumber or two thirds English cucumber. [SPEAKER_03]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: or at the English cucumbers are the ones here in the states those ones that are the seedless you know they're all wrapped in the plastic basically sold individually.

[SPEAKER_01]: Person cucumbers are the short ones they're like four to six inches you get them in like a bunch of like five or six mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_01]: That's there, but those are the two that you want. [SPEAKER_01]: There are other kinds of the seeded ones or whatever, but now you don't want the seeded ones because it's going to just have seeds. [SPEAKER_03]: So there you go. [SPEAKER_03]: OK, so I'll get some of the seedless. [SPEAKER_03]: One cup of cucumber, got it.

[SPEAKER_03]: One cup of cucumber, one cup of water, a cup of ice, [SPEAKER_03]: six to eight cubes, depending on your preference. [SPEAKER_03]: Got it. [SPEAKER_03]: Three tablespoons of lime juice, obviously freshly squeezed, cause you'd do a two tablespoons of sugar or whatever you like. [SPEAKER_01]: If you want a little more sugar, you can do it. [SPEAKER_01]: Or a little sugar on you, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_03]: How deaf, leopard of you.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm two mint leaves, which are optional. [SPEAKER_01]: So if you're not a fan of mint, leave it out. [SPEAKER_03]: Leave it out. [SPEAKER_03]: Because we can come or mint, may not taste too good together, but it could. [SPEAKER_01]: for some people like it, you know, maybe just do one minute leave. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, thank you. [SPEAKER_03]: All right, so you great the skin away from the cucumber and then cut it into thick slices before measuring.

[SPEAKER_03]: So you're gonna... [SPEAKER_03]: Slice off the skin, which sounds painful for the poor cucumber, and then you cut it also you're cutting it, oh my god, that poor cucumber into thick slices before measuring, and then you place the cucumber water, ice lime juice, and sugar, and a torrent, you have to tear the mint leaves, because that's how you get the mint leaves that you're bothering, right? [SPEAKER_03]: And you put them all in a blender. [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: And you blend it until everything is blended and smooth. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: You can also use a hand blender, but I recommend it.

[SPEAKER_03]: stand stand a good one got it and you taste it and add a little more sugar lime whatever to your taste and you can also strain it back into your rocks glass or your stemless wine glass side mesh strainer right so if you want it even smoother right do that too right so I mean it's non alcoholic it sounds very refreshing to me and yes if you want a margarita you scroll up and you'll find them [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we got a tap of the page. [SPEAKER_01]: Look, it's all there.

[SPEAKER_01]: Look, just go to politicspar.com, go to the drink of the day. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: And if you're subscribed, like Julie is, it's already. [SPEAKER_03]: We love Julie. [SPEAKER_03]: She's the best. [SPEAKER_01]: She is fantastic. [SPEAKER_01]: Entertainment stuff today, by the way, down in the fifth round of the news on tap. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, the Met Calo was last night. [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of protests, obviously. [SPEAKER_01]: Boycotts of Jeff Bezos, I guess.

[SPEAKER_01]: His wife was there, but he was not covered. [SPEAKER_01]: exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: Good news for our friends at medium matters by the way. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_01]: Trump's FTC has finally benched. [SPEAKER_01]: They are agreeing to forego future investigations and medium matters for America. [SPEAKER_01]: They said you won. [SPEAKER_01]: We're not going to beat you up again. [SPEAKER_01]: So congrats to those folks over there. [SPEAKER_01]: That's always very good.

[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, Blake Lively and Justin Baldwin, it ends with them. [SPEAKER_03]: Not really it's they're done they're settling finally did and and I don't know who to root for in this because I've heard both sides and if I were on a jury if I want a jury I don't know I mean because well yeah the lawyers obviously won right but it didn't go to trial I think because Justin didn't want it to I was looking at the whole thing out it seems just so petty and stupid well no I mean he did

[SPEAKER_01]: do think he did assault her and well i mean that part that part of it i don't think is is petty and stupid but the the fact that you know you sued me for this i'll get along you sued me for that i mean you see me for this and it's back and forth and i'm like guys this is but it was about the assault originally

[SPEAKER_03]: Right, but that wasn't it looks like it wasn't something that she could bring actual charges on or something I mean, there were certain people that it was just like text messages from others and it was like a whole thing and her husband is Not really involved in this No, that's what whatever. [SPEAKER_01]: It's I just I look at the whole thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like I'm glad it's done because that's that's the kind of messy thing where you're like folks Be adults about it and they work again together [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, do not work in it. [SPEAKER_03]: And she was at the Met Gala last night. [SPEAKER_03]: Again, not the fan of the Gala. [SPEAKER_01]: Somebody that I am a fan of, that absolutely love. [SPEAKER_01]: Dolly part has canceled and lost Vegas residents. [SPEAKER_01]: I know I wanted to go.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but she says, looks, it's just because the medication she's taking makes her a little moody right now. [SPEAKER_03]: So she's to sleepy on her heels, sleepy heels. [SPEAKER_03]: Something like that. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, something like that. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, which, okay, that's, you know. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, she's a little lady and she's a super teeny tiny, but she's top of it. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not heavy. [SPEAKER_01]: And... A jinx.

[SPEAKER_01]: And... Well, I'm going to cook for her. [SPEAKER_01]: No, I have a picture. [SPEAKER_03]: My mom has a picture of her and dolly back to back.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it leans... [SPEAKER_01]: this side yeah cuz dolly right and it literally that she does the frame like that your mom actually tilts the frame so that's funny and people have tried to straighten it she doesn't know that's on purpose thank you Carol and dolly left playoffs going on timelows one last night women yon had a good game but timelows beat the spurs next crushed the 76ers on his 40 points in their first game

[SPEAKER_01]: Hercanes took lead to O against the flyers and the Vegas Golden Knights be the anti-imducks. [SPEAKER_01]: I do not know what the scores are tonight because we're here hanging out with you. [SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of the whole thing. [SPEAKER_01]: People are like, okay, well, those last night, what about tonight? [SPEAKER_01]: Look, this is why we kind of give you a recap and then you get this earlier in the afternoon.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you are subscribed for free to the news on tap, who all were you? [SPEAKER_01]: Would have read that. [SPEAKER_01]: So see, there you go. [SPEAKER_08]: Makes my sense. [SPEAKER_01]: There you go. [SPEAKER_01]: Look, somebody I'm excited to actually meet. [SPEAKER_01]: It's she's got a great backstory. [SPEAKER_01]: She's got a lot of stuff that she's involved in and she is still involved in politics And she wants you to be involved in politics as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: She wants you to be informed and educated and involved So we got to talk with her about that. [SPEAKER_01]: She got a little play project going on as well We'll talk about that too. [SPEAKER_01]: I think so look [SPEAKER_01]: It's top of the hour. [SPEAKER_01]: Fresh in your drink. [SPEAKER_01]: Do what you got to do. [SPEAKER_01]: You know down the hall if you got to take care of yourself left right and center. [SPEAKER_01]: We aim to please here at the politics bar.

[SPEAKER_01]: You aim to please then come on back for another round. [SPEAKER_01]: It's Jody Hamilton, me, Sean Smith Pierce and Dan Steele coming up on a Tuesday night at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_06]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_09]: Let it go. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_00]: Let it go. [SPEAKER_00]: Let it go. [SPEAKER_00]: Let it go. [SPEAKER_00]: Let it go. [SPEAKER_05]: Let it go. [SPEAKER_05]: Shotsmith, Pearson, Jodie Hamilton.

[SPEAKER_03]: Jodie, Jodie. [SPEAKER_03]: Shishoshan, our guest is early. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, looks just coming into the parking lot here, which is very nice and it's Tuesday night by the way. [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you by the way, everybody who is coming into our little bar here from all of your great radio stations.

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[SPEAKER_01]: maybe you are one of those future people listening on your favorite podcast platform or your subscribe to the politics bar dot com remember six dollars a month but the week get you all to go to his check it out listen the gallon gas here [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, actually, that's kind of sad that we can actually measure that as a gal, it's less than a gallon of gas in California. [SPEAKER_03]: It's high, Dana. [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, look at that lady how pretty she is.

[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know you're parking in the, in the morning. [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, I'm literally early. [SPEAKER_02]: I always feel like I need to apologize for that. [SPEAKER_03]: No, I was raised that way too. [SPEAKER_03]: Trust me. [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to look.

[SPEAKER_01]: As somebody who has been in radio and media for about 30 years for me, and obviously you've been in a little bit longer and I have, we know lots of people in radio, who, they're perpetually the other direction. [SPEAKER_01]: They're a bit late. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, see, I can't do that. [SPEAKER_02]: I would just break out into hives. [SPEAKER_02]: Me too. [SPEAKER_02]: I've done radio until a vision since I was 17.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you better be in that chair when they say three, [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I get it. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm with you on that, but that's the funny thing is that we do know plenty of those people who are, hey man, I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_01]: I came in a little bit late. [SPEAKER_01]: I was busy doing some dating. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you know who's always late? [SPEAKER_02]: Who? [SPEAKER_02]: Astronauts.

[SPEAKER_02]: My husband is flown clue for an asset for 30 years, and everybody always had dinner at our house, and we just learned to tell them if dinner was at six, be here at 530, because [SPEAKER_02]: without a hand and flirt, they can't get anywhere untouched. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, my mom, my mom, it was notoriously early for everything and one time at a costume fitting, she showed up on time and they were ready to call the police.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because they thought that was wrong with her. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, people are like that. [SPEAKER_02]: Where's Dana? [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, you know, it's only six. [SPEAKER_02]: It's supposed to be here at six. [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, yeah, but that's, they don't get here at five. [SPEAKER_02]: So that's right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I did, I did AOR, I did rock radio and I was really fortunate.

[SPEAKER_02]: I got into radio on a dare at Texas A&M and then I came home. [SPEAKER_02]: I came home to Houston and I was on the air for almost 25 years in my hometown, so that was great. [SPEAKER_03]: That's where Lonnie heard you. [SPEAKER_03]: He was like, when we met you, he's like, wait, I heard you. [SPEAKER_03]: I know who you are. [SPEAKER_02]: I know who you are. [SPEAKER_02]: And I thought he was just joking. [SPEAKER_02]: No, he was dead serious.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then he was like, I'm from Houston. [SPEAKER_02]: I listened to you. [SPEAKER_02]: So because yeah, we were the rock station. [SPEAKER_02]: We were one of the top five A.R. [SPEAKER_02]: stations in the country. [SPEAKER_02]: So I love that. [SPEAKER_01]: I used to be cool. [SPEAKER_01]: What station was that? [SPEAKER_02]: It was K. L. Well, there you go. [SPEAKER_01]: See, so that no, you, you can hear that when you, when it rolls off your tongue that way, you can't let us.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, I'm just fine until there's rock one on the one, K. L. L. Well, we'll take a steal coming up against the met. [SPEAKER_01]: See, we, we radio people, we do that. [SPEAKER_01]: Look, I, I started at, uh, W. M. T. A. M. Six hundred, ninety six and a half F. M. D. Six and a half. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was the catch that they had. [SPEAKER_01]: Rick Sellers was my first GM back there and did a bunch of stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: Worked actually under Jim Steel as what he went on by the air Jim Lyle. [SPEAKER_01]: He died of ALS back in 2006, unfortunately. [SPEAKER_01]: Jim was fantastic as a mentor. [SPEAKER_01]: He was my all time favorite radio liner was the one that Jim wrote that we got in trouble for, that we'd only play after nine o'clock. [SPEAKER_01]: So this was on the classic rock station. [SPEAKER_03]: Don't swear again because you already said an F bomb today.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I know we've talking about the Trump. [SPEAKER_01]: We'll have to talk with you about some of the political things. [SPEAKER_01]: How to kind of, you know, let things go a little bit. [SPEAKER_01]: Dana, but so I'll fill the finish. [SPEAKER_01]: I'll finish the story for you. [SPEAKER_02]: I did wear my glove on Mexico shirt.

[SPEAKER_01]: I got it, yeah, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, [SPEAKER_01]: So the lineers are the funny things you guys hear between the music and I was working at KTGL 92-9 the eagle I can do that.

[SPEAKER_03]: I never did that, but I could totally do that. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's classic rock 90-9 the eagle insurance myth on your radio dial. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was mine anyway. [SPEAKER_01]: And we had these things called 20 song maximum music marathons where you played 20 songs in the road. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I recorded them. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, see back in the day we did that right it was fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: But we had fun things that went along with it and Jim wrote the one that got us in trouble. [SPEAKER_01]: Even though he was the big boss, he was at that time he was the regional director for the stations. [SPEAKER_01]: It was like, okay. [SPEAKER_01]: So he had like, I don't know, 24 stations or something. [SPEAKER_01]: And the liner went like this, said, a 20 song max with music marathon on the eagle takes longer than the time it takes for me to make love to your wife.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then it had bed springs squeaking and then he goes twice. [SPEAKER_01]: And then it hits the stinger. [SPEAKER_01]: And we occasionally would play that Jody's shock. [SPEAKER_01]: She's got her head over her. [SPEAKER_01]: So we play that occasionally before nine o'clock and inevitably you get somebody calling up. [SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe that. [SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe you played that. [SPEAKER_01]: I wanna talk to your boss. [SPEAKER_01]: He is the boss.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's the one who wrote it. [SPEAKER_01]: So you can talk to him if you want. [SPEAKER_01]: He'll appreciate your whatever. [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, that's. [SPEAKER_02]: He's a chariot. [SPEAKER_02]: We had a morning team like that. [SPEAKER_02]: And I tell people, I just tell people that if I wasn't called into the General Manager's office, at least once a week, I wasn't doing my show correctly. [UNKNOWN]: Ah. [SPEAKER_01]: Look, it is important to know how to blow off steam.

[SPEAKER_01]: And especially in the current environment, all of this ridiculousness going on. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, the sign by my husband goes, you sure the sign a lot over there and like you're reading the next second. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm reading the news. [SPEAKER_02]: Of course I am. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, and that's, and you do have, you do have a thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, we've got a link in the guest section today at the news in the news on tap. [SPEAKER_01]: You have your own substack today's facts. [SPEAKER_01]: It's, you don't look at the links like we do in the news on tap. [SPEAKER_01]: You just do. [SPEAKER_01]: It's just quick facts. [SPEAKER_02]: Just stated plainly, you know, it started when I shared a couple of things and realized that they were not real. [SPEAKER_02]: They were, they were false. [SPEAKER_02]: They were fake.

[SPEAKER_02]: Whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: And I was so happy. [SPEAKER_01]: I began to whatever right. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, at the end of the day, all I have is my reputation and my honesty and my integrity, and it just, I was so horrified that I did it, that I, you know, the first couple of the times, I was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry and deleted them, and then I started going and looking, and then I would, I would share it and say, um, this is fake.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then I started putting together, I started, you know, I'd see friends post stuff and it goes, no, that's fake. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, and [SPEAKER_02]: You know, then I sort of put together a list and then a group or the, anyway, it grew into today's facts, which is actually, it's a free, free on sub stack, it's free Apple app, it's a free Android app, and it's just grown into a monster.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't put my sources or credit which side I found it on because first of all I've been everything. [SPEAKER_02]: I spend hours every morning doing this and I'll spend all day long arguing with people of our rather or not my source is legit rather AP news is really news and it's like I just tell people if you don't believe what I wrote

[SPEAKER_02]: copy and paste it into a search engine and see what comes up and if my blog by god let me know yeah I've got a couple of things wrong on Artemis like I forgot that the next one is not a moon landing into moon it's the it's the rendezvous right that was something that Isaacman the new NASA administrator added so Nicole Scott who is a former NASA astronaut and

[SPEAKER_02]: space walker and everything she loves today's fact so man she keeps me honest on NASA's so every once in a while you'll see I have been corrected by an astronaut I Well, it's good. [SPEAKER_01]: It's good to have something that way we tend to with with what we do for the news on tap We do put the links and and we also kind of change the headlines a little bit because that is one of the problems today [SPEAKER_01]: We know that headlines. [SPEAKER_02]: I can read the same story.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I look at AP. [SPEAKER_02]: I look at CBS. [SPEAKER_02]: I look at the New York Times. [SPEAKER_02]: I look at Newsmax. [SPEAKER_02]: I look at Fox. [SPEAKER_02]: And they'll all have the same story and it'll be five different. [SPEAKER_02]: I look at what is it. [SPEAKER_02]: Smart news or whatever it is on Apple. [SPEAKER_02]: All six of those will have the same top story and all six of them will have a different. [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_02]: especially on some of those later on. [SPEAKER_01]: It'd be like an AP story or a Reuter story and they'll all change the headlines, but the key for a lot of them, the one that drives me up the wall the most, I think, is probably the New York Times because of the fact that the New York Times is the last full service, fully funded, well-funded, [SPEAKER_01]: Journalism organization in the United States so far with real reporters.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean and they've got they've got no questions as far as do you need staff will get your more stuff Do you need this do you need that it's I mean it's the way that journal is right you've got but people don't read that people read Read that's why I do I do sound bites. [SPEAKER_02]: It's just a snippet and then I run it through I run it through AI I run it through Grammarly [SPEAKER_02]: is it non-partisan? [SPEAKER_02]: Is it non-speculative?

[SPEAKER_02]: And then I run it through wonder husband who is also a writer and so it goes, that's the last step it goes through is wonder husband in the morning. [SPEAKER_02]: And I go get another cup of coffee and he goes through it and does his geeky stuff. [SPEAKER_01]: It's nice to have somebody else do something similar to what we're doing on that. [SPEAKER_01]: And it's the fact that they can get yours in the morning and they can get ours in the afternoon.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it's the idea that people do need to be informed. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: It's, you know, I mean, you've, yes, you were on the radio. [SPEAKER_01]: Texas radio Hall of Famer, but you've also been a best-selling author, a motivational speaker, and an expert in... Cannergiving. [SPEAKER_00]: Cannergiving. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Cannergiving. [SPEAKER_01]: And finding joy in basically some of some tough times.

[SPEAKER_02]: ChatGPT says I'm exhausting, so I put that in all my profile. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I love that! [SPEAKER_01]: That's, is that a bad thing? [SPEAKER_02]: No, I was like, I, I asked it to do one of those roasts on, maybe, and it said, after it did this whole long, funny thing, it said, in short, you're exhausting. [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, that's my new profile. [SPEAKER_02]: That's what I'm using in it. [SPEAKER_03]: I needed to do that with me. [SPEAKER_03]: I need to find that out.

[SPEAKER_03]: You do. [SPEAKER_01]: Look, but it's important that we, it's important that people stay informed and whether they spend a minute from a reliable source or two minutes or however, it's better than not being informed at all or better than turning on some station behind them that is, you know, I, I still believe in radio. [SPEAKER_01]: I still believe in it. [SPEAKER_01]: Whether it's streaming or whether it's podcasts, we love that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see, I love radio radio because the thing I missed the most about radio is the immediacy of it. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, especially living down on the Gulf Coast, hurricane season starts in a few weeks. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's why I'm getting my ass back to Palm Springs. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going back to... [SPEAKER_03]: So where we need a new one by the way, we had one in almost 30, over 30 years, so we're going to do.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it's one of those things where regardless of where you're at, it is important to be informed. [SPEAKER_01]: And there is so much. [SPEAKER_01]: Knowledge is power. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: We are losing our power right now. [SPEAKER_02]: People, we are losing our power. [SPEAKER_02]: We're letting it be taken from it. [SPEAKER_02]: And we're letting it be taken because we look at the stock market. [SPEAKER_02]: It's shining. [SPEAKER_03]: It's $50,000.

[SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: I can't, oh my god. [SPEAKER_01]: Pam Bonnie, I'm glad. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I have to talk about her coming up soon because she is going to be before the house oversight committee. [SPEAKER_01]: But for now, we'll put her back on the shelf because we have the one and only Dana steal. [SPEAKER_01]: Hanging out of politics bar with Jody and me and you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, we have a few other things that you were involved in that we want to talk about. [SPEAKER_01]: There is this little project with the Edinburgh, I believe. [SPEAKER_01]: All right, she shakes her head. [SPEAKER_01]: She's like, yeah, so look fresh in your drink. [SPEAKER_01]: Do what you got to do We're coming back more with Dana Steele and Jodie Hamilton and me Sean Smith beers and by the way If you haven't gotten your t-shirt yet go check that out.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's at the politics bar.com back in a minute with more fresh in your drink. [SPEAKER_06]: Come on back We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar [SPEAKER_01]: It is a Tuesday night here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you very much for joining us. [SPEAKER_01]: Coming in from wherever you are. [SPEAKER_01]: We are here, Jody's here. [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, I'm here.

[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, the one, the only Dana Steele, we got to give her the full applause treatments. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we like to do that around here at the bar for our guests, it's just kind of a fun thing that we do. [SPEAKER_01]: So, honestly, you do a whole lot of stuff. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm very glad. [SPEAKER_01]: This is the first time that I get to meet you. [SPEAKER_01]: You've obviously met Jody before. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and I love your show.

[SPEAKER_02]: I, um, when we're in Palm Springs, like, you know, my bike, and we have, like, that 40-mile city link to protect the bike path. [SPEAKER_02]: And, and you're my show. [SPEAKER_02]: I just want to get on there. [SPEAKER_02]: I stop at anyone. [SPEAKER_03]: That's awesome because we went to the Bob Mackey thing for the mayor giving him the key to the city and all that stuff and it was so random and then Lonnie was like, wait, I heard you on Houston and it was like a whole thing.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and I loved it. [SPEAKER_03]: I was like [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, how do you see? [SPEAKER_02]: And then it dawned on me who you were, and I told you about my connection with your mom from a million years ago, and you're, you're wonderful late sister, and we, you know, we lived down the street from each other when she was living with Frank and Debbie.

[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, it's just like so our paths have almost crossed all these years, and it was, it was just that this random Bob Mackie thing, and now I run into Bob Ball the time. [SPEAKER_03]: And he's the lovely human, by the way. [SPEAKER_02]: He has, he's so sweet, he's so impressed. [SPEAKER_02]: I told him there was the best line in that awards ceremony when somebody asked him.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he was answering all these questions and he had all these great stories and then she said, and what was it like to work with Barbara Streiset and he went. [SPEAKER_02]: She was very barbarous to race in. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: I was like, the person I ran into a matter that I was like, that's the best answer. [SPEAKER_02]: When people ask me like, well, let's make Jack or like, I'm going to say, very Mick Jack or like.

[SPEAKER_01]: Look, that is one of the things, I mean, when you work in media, whether it's radio, TV and movies, and you work with people that are famous or infamous, some of them are more real than others, some of them are more down to earth than others. [SPEAKER_02]: I found the bigger the star, the better they are. [SPEAKER_02]: They know they agree. [SPEAKER_02]: They know what they're there to promote, they know what they're there to sell.

[SPEAKER_02]: And they know they keep their homework. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And they're on time. [SPEAKER_02]: They're early. [SPEAKER_02]: They know it's so it used to be the one hit at wonders. [SPEAKER_02]: It was like, oh, right. [SPEAKER_02]: They're the worst. [SPEAKER_01]: Those are the ones that are up and coming and think they're bigger than they are. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, and they'd be late and they would just answer everything.

[SPEAKER_02]: I thought, yeah, no, it's like, do you want to sell a damn concert ticket tonight? [SPEAKER_02]: Or not? [SPEAKER_02]: You know, that's what I'm here for. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm speaking of, you know, concerts and events and things. [SPEAKER_01]: You happen to do a lot of stuff, including you are involved this show. [SPEAKER_01]: You've got a show coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which is at, uh, it's in, and Meriscottland.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is in August, I believe, is that correct? [SPEAKER_02]: It's the home of the entire month of August, 4,000 shows. [SPEAKER_02]: It's where baby reindeer and flea bag, and the musical six, and the musical operation, uh, mince me, so many things have started there. [SPEAKER_01]: Yep. [SPEAKER_01]: So obviously, so the fact that you've got a show called, the woman in the mirror coming. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, very excited, terrified, excited, all of the above.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I really, I was 66 years old. [SPEAKER_02]: I'll turn 67 in Scotland. [SPEAKER_02]: I never a million years expected to be an actress at this age or a playwright. [SPEAKER_02]: The, the short version as my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. [SPEAKER_02]: I ended up chronicling the whole thing on Facebook with a lot of dark comedy because that's just how I am at a girl. [SPEAKER_02]: And you.

[SPEAKER_02]: Turned it into a book called Surviving Alzheimer's with Friends Facebook and a really big glass of wine. [SPEAKER_02]: I gave them with a lot of comedy to try to help. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a whole book of everything I wish I had known. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: But it'll make you laugh and I'll make you cry. [SPEAKER_02]: Turned it into a play. [SPEAKER_02]: The first actress we hired dropped out the first day of rehearsals because her mom was diagnosed with weight for it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Alzheimer's. [SPEAKER_02]: Wow. [SPEAKER_02]: And I had to step in and play myself, which was terrifying and I've done it now for seven years. [SPEAKER_02]: We won best production in Southern California, theatrical awards and best director. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's just been, and every time I think it's almost over, it's going to call, we'd like you to come to Edinburgh and do it for 25 performances in a row every day. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow. [SPEAKER_01]: That's awesome.

[SPEAKER_01]: Our friend Runeart. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, Rune, you know, you know, he's on Steffi, where we're talking about here in the world. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he was there with a show last year. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he was. [SPEAKER_02]: It's like you. [SPEAKER_02]: It's like South by Southwest used to be for bands. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, you know, South by is just bands and stars. [SPEAKER_02]: But it's where bands could used to be discovered. [SPEAKER_03]: Hands in.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_03]: So by the way, when the light fair rebounds is handsome, do not get me crap for that. [SPEAKER_02]: It's okay, I think they're cute and I love their puppy songs. [SPEAKER_03]: They're adorable and they can sing adorable. [SPEAKER_02]: They're adorable. [SPEAKER_03]: And by the way, I have a friend that wrote a song for them and his song was the worst. [SPEAKER_03]: They wrote better songs, so. [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, that's what Festival Fredge is.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's the world's largest theater and comedy festival. [SPEAKER_02]: And you hope a producer from the West End, and you hope a producer from Broadway, and you hope... [SPEAKER_02]: Apple to the the rep from Apple TV or Prime or Hulu or the other 86,000 other things I have to pay for now on streaming. [SPEAKER_02]: You hope somebody walks into your tiny little 13 by 13 stage 70 seat theater and goes, oh my god, this is it.

[SPEAKER_02]: And if not, what an experience and yeah, my friend Enus wrote, I miss communism. [SPEAKER_02]: And that's got a lot of attention there. [SPEAKER_03]: It did and she didn't hit the fourth theater here. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, she did a whole thing. [SPEAKER_03]: And it was like, because she lived in, was it's now Serbia? [SPEAKER_03]: She lived in Yugoslavia, but before I got split up. [SPEAKER_03]: And she's like, and it was amazing because her mother got raped from Soviets.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it was a whole like, is a one woman show. [SPEAKER_02]: And you laugh and you cry. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: And you're just, you walk out of there going. [SPEAKER_02]: Wow. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And that's what the woman in the mirror is. [SPEAKER_02]: It's people say I don't want to see a show about Alzheimer's, you know what it is. [SPEAKER_02]: I love letter to caregivers. [SPEAKER_02]: It is for anyone who's ever had a mother.

[SPEAKER_07]: Good. [SPEAKER_02]: That's our tagline is if it's not one thing it's your mother. [SPEAKER_02]: And we did steal that from pigment droid. [SPEAKER_03]: But I love that. [SPEAKER_01]: The thing is, I think that a lot of times, especially with everything going on these days and the news and things being things are a lot harder than they need to be. [SPEAKER_01]: We didn't need to go to the stupid ass Warren right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: No. [SPEAKER_01]: We don't need to worry about his stupid ballroom. [SPEAKER_03]: I think the duck and ballroom also has Alzheimer's. [SPEAKER_03]: What do you think, young lady? [SPEAKER_03]: Ah, the. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not sure it's Alzheimer's, think of dementia as an umbrella. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, dementia. [SPEAKER_02]: The umbrella is named dementia. [SPEAKER_02]: And on the points of the umbrella are Louis Body, frontal lobe, dementia, Alzheimer's.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're all different, even Parkinson's is a dementia. [SPEAKER_02]: There's something not quite right. [SPEAKER_02]: Is it Alzheimer's? [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_02]: I think it is maybe a form of dementia. [SPEAKER_02]: I always hate to answer this question because I'm not a medical professor. [SPEAKER_02]: No, of course not. [SPEAKER_02]: But I play a caregiver and I've been around it and there are some, it's not so much what he says and does.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's sometimes the look he gets. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: Right, Eddie can't follow a conversation. [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: So he changes the stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: So we've writes the we have and that we have is and it's repeating the same things. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's long-term memories. [SPEAKER_02]: So long-term memories am constantly doing the best, the biggest, the greatest. [SPEAKER_02]: Those are things he remembers. [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: But when it comes to world leaders, he can't remember names, he can't, you know, stories. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: I just don't understand how somebody who can eat so many stakes and hamburgers not die. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, well, we, we've just, I'm trying to eat so healthy. [SPEAKER_01]: You've heard us say then because, you know, you listen, you are to Reese, are to Reese, are to Reese. [SPEAKER_07]: That's always just saying.

[SPEAKER_02]: The only thing is is that being a caregiver advocate. [SPEAKER_02]: If he does, and he keeps going, I've ace the test, you know, man, woman, TV. [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, they're not the words they give you. [SPEAKER_01]: You've been doing that again here these last few days about. [SPEAKER_01]: I know. [SPEAKER_02]: I've ace three tests. [SPEAKER_03]: You don't ace a cognitive test, but you're lucky if you get 15 out of 30, whatever it is.

[SPEAKER_02]: I just think it's like, extremely, I mean, I'm terrified for my country. [SPEAKER_02]: Me too. [SPEAKER_02]: Democracy. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm terrified for the next election, but I'm also as a caregiver advocate. [SPEAKER_02]: and Alzheimer's advocate, I'm terrified and I'm sad that if that is what it is to be getting is of that, that whoever his family, the people closest to him, are using him.

[SPEAKER_02]: They do not care about him or not doing, if it is what it is, then they are not doing what is best for him. [SPEAKER_03]: They could not care less for him if they tried. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_03]: And so we all care more for him than they do. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, I just I care about my country and considering that he happens to have at his fingertips the nuclear codes that's extremely warm.

[SPEAKER_02]: And nobody there is doing anything with checks and balances and to keep him in line and to help him. [SPEAKER_02]: The job of government is to make life better for the people, period, it's not to make a profit, it's not, you know, to be, yay, we're number one, whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: It's about, by the way, we have been number one in education or anything for a long time. [SPEAKER_02]: I ran for Congress twice because of these things.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yep, in the 13th Reddest District in the country, I've been the Congresswoman for the [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean, opposite ends of the spectrum, but in thousands square miles of Texas, that's a, you know, or it raised here. [SPEAKER_02]: I love it. [SPEAKER_01]: And you know that they are, you know, messing around with all the maps and things, but it's just the, the little things like we don't need to be doing the, you know, let's redraw the maps.

[SPEAKER_01]: There are so many things that we don't [SPEAKER_02]: and we're messing around with education and we're messing around with healthcare and we're messing with women and we're messing with equality. [SPEAKER_02]: And I think a lot of the things that he says and does and post are are just they let him do it because it we're all looking at that going. [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see that while the Stephen Miller's of the world?

[SPEAKER_02]: are running the country. [SPEAKER_01]: Yep. [SPEAKER_01]: Dana is correct. [SPEAKER_02]: Amen. [SPEAKER_02]: He even told one of the princess, one of the brothers. [SPEAKER_02]: There's the two brothers in the UAE. [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was someone that's over over Dubai. [SPEAKER_02]: He even said to him in the palace when he introduced him. [SPEAKER_02]: This should have been news that it wasn't. [SPEAKER_02]: He introduced Steven Miller.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he said, he's a lot of actually runs the office. [SPEAKER_01]: Right, I remember hearing that. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because he does. [SPEAKER_03]: Miller Miller Miller. [SPEAKER_01]: No, well, yeah, you had to remember you calling him that. [SPEAKER_01]: That was. [SPEAKER_02]: So that's frightening to see that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the thing I was kind of, you know, head and towards is the fact that people wonder they're like, you know, how do we get through some of this stuff? [SPEAKER_02]: Because you do one thing. [SPEAKER_02]: You do one thing. [SPEAKER_02]: I write facts. [SPEAKER_02]: I hit send and I'm done for the day. [SPEAKER_02]: I go Hi to cheer myself up. [SPEAKER_02]: I go work on Alzheimer's.

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[SPEAKER_02]: decision. [SPEAKER_02]: Do just one thing, even if it's just you hear somebody say something that's an untruth, speak up and say, no, that's not true. [SPEAKER_02]: I read Dana's deals today's facts. [SPEAKER_02]: I know that's [SPEAKER_01]: I do think it's I think it's important that we all that we understand that there are things that we can do.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's that nothing is that's been one of the big things since last week obviously with the Supreme Court and Alito and then going oh yeah we're going to try to take down the VRA.

[SPEAKER_01]: and we've been reminding a lot of people that know there's a lot of things that can be done speaking of which I forgot to mention this one earlier joding we were talking about this uh good pieces in the first round of the news on tap by Matt Ford uh basically says the best way to fix the Supreme Court's attack on voting rights uh it's going through congress which I mean yes that means that we have to win the majority of congress go figure

[SPEAKER_01]: But there's this little thing that we have talked about before here in politics bar, which is called multi-member districts. [SPEAKER_01]: You guys remember that? [SPEAKER_01]: Yep. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's he writes a whole big piece about that. [SPEAKER_01]: There are lots of ways that we can fix stuff. [SPEAKER_01]: But we're not going to fix everything all at once. [SPEAKER_01]: We have to be able to get in, get the things that we need to, like for example, in the elections.

[SPEAKER_01]: And yes, if that means that we're going to have to show up in numbers that are too big to ignore, [SPEAKER_02]: And you know what, if you're thinking about getting another house, and you're a black family, feel like you're one of the nice white neighborhoods. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And by a house, a boy will like it, email for this now. [SPEAKER_02]: But what I'm saying is, you can do things. [SPEAKER_02]: You, okay, are they redistricting?

[SPEAKER_02]: You know how we fix that? [SPEAKER_02]: We move into their districts. [SPEAKER_02]: That's what we do. [SPEAKER_02]: And you vote. [SPEAKER_01]: And you convince your neighbors to vote. [SPEAKER_02]: And you run for office. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't care if it's dog catcher. [SPEAKER_01]: Good for, exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: Run for, officially, SkyM, a rock and roll DJ without a college degree who slept with rock stars and did drums and pose nude.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wait a minute, you know, it's not the end of the world. [SPEAKER_01]: No, it means that things may suck a little bit for a little while, but, you know, as a friend of mine used to say, we get to something that was bad, we just needed to let each other go, this is going to suck! [SPEAKER_01]: Yes! [SPEAKER_01]: And then you just go out and you do, like you said, one thing. [SPEAKER_01]: Can we keep, can we do one more thing, can we keep you for one more segment?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, gosh. [SPEAKER_01]: Twits my life. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. [SPEAKER_01]: Haha. [SPEAKER_01]: Dana's deal here on a Tuesday night with Joni Hamilton and me, Sean Smith Pierce, freshen your drink. [SPEAKER_01]: Come right back. [SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk a little bit more with Dana, because we can talk with her all night. [SPEAKER_01]: We're glad you guys are here with us at the politics bottom. [SPEAKER_06]: Hang on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Seela Dana subscribe. [SPEAKER_01]: You should just do what Dana does. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know about the posted news. [SPEAKER_01]: Some of you don't be posted. [SPEAKER_02]: I'll send you that picture. [SPEAKER_02]: I would like to see that. [SPEAKER_02]: That's it was just to take off on the Demi Moore. [SPEAKER_02]: She had just done it. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we did a couple. [SPEAKER_02]: I was I was seven months pregnant with my son.

[SPEAKER_02]: So of course I don't like game 12 pounds so yeah, but it was the whole boob thing. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I love it. [SPEAKER_02]: That's far out of big hunker diamond from a local jewelry store. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, yeah, we did the whole thing. [SPEAKER_02]: And here's a fun little tidbit. [SPEAKER_02]: My husband flew for NASA for 30 years and he's actually the pilot in the airplane with Bruce Willis when they're taxiing in Armageddon.

[SPEAKER_02]: So he was the one that had to taxi and they were all told don't talk to Bruce don't look it Bruce don't ask Bruce to sign anything just you know and Charlie's thinking he said my damn plane I'll do whatever I want and he had brought the cover with him and you know so when they got out of the plane Bruce was taking his hand and thinking him and Charlie's got I actually had something for you to sign and all Bruce's people are like oh oh it's Charlie pulls out this cover of Houston health and fitness with me and the dimmy more

[SPEAKER_02]: All he said to Bruce was, my wife is a very shy, petite flower like yours, and he opened up this magazine, and Bruce Baldo is news of what somebody get me a pin. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, and Bruce can't even, God, rest him. [SPEAKER_03]: I know. [SPEAKER_03]: He can't even speak right now. [SPEAKER_02]: And what his wife is doing to his ex-wife. [SPEAKER_02]: He need the advocacy. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and his current wife, all of them, the whole family are doing it right.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, she moved, his wife moved, moved him into another house with 247 care. [SPEAKER_02]: And people just went so ballistic on her. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's like, you don't understand. [SPEAKER_02]: What he's going to do? [SPEAKER_02]: you don't want young children around this. [SPEAKER_02]: No, you don't. [SPEAKER_02]: She shouldn't have to be around it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I sometimes look at my beautiful, wonderful, 20-six-year-old youngest son and think, you know, I really missed a lot of his last couple of years of high school because I was so busy dealing with mom stuff. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, and he, you know, he even blurted out one night when he was probably 15, all you do is cry all the time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh. [SPEAKER_02]: So we forget somebody once said to me, you got to remember his, he's losing his mom and his grand mom at the same time. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: So does he? [SPEAKER_03]: It's just having a Bruce and his children and his wife and his ex-wife, but I love their sharing. [SPEAKER_02]: I love that. [SPEAKER_02]: I love that. [SPEAKER_02]: and don't hide it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I get chastised all the time for I was too honest about everything that was happening with mom. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's like really too honest. [SPEAKER_02]: It's like you have to be. [SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody talks about this. [SPEAKER_03]: No, it's like they should not talk about breast cancer. [SPEAKER_03]: They said, can't say. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: I think I think a lot of these kinds of things.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think part of the reason that's the health care description in the United States is because that we haven't talked enough about that. [SPEAKER_01]: That's why we had as you know we had Charles Gabby in here. [SPEAKER_01]: I've known him for years with ACA Signup.net. [SPEAKER_01]: He is probably one of the best data people. [SPEAKER_01]: He's one of the people who forecasted.

[SPEAKER_01]: We had was it yesterday, Jody, that we were talking about that, that he has said that, you know, Republicans are first that they're going to cut off the ACA subsidies and then later they're going to say just do catastrophic plans. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yes, which of course they are going after birth control right now. [SPEAKER_02]: If you don't think they are I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_02]: that's that that's that fifth circuit that's down there Texas and Louisiana which drives him nuts and I mean it's not anything I mean people say why are you so bothered by it you're not going to get pregnant you don't have to worry about it it's right you know why [SPEAKER_02]: I miscarried, and, you know, I could be charged with murder for that now, that's a horrible thing for a woman to go through. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: I miscarried 30 times.

[SPEAKER_01]: Abortion is health care as well. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it is. [SPEAKER_02]: Dealing with all of these things, and I'm sorry, if you don't have a vagina or a uterus, I'm sorry, you don't get to vote on abortion. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I agree that, I mean, but I look at the sense of all of these are medical conditions. [SPEAKER_01]: All of this is medical stuff, but it's all, it's been for way too long in the United States.

[SPEAKER_01]: Something where we don't talk about the secondary and tertiary issues that come from somebody in our family having health issue, from us having a health issue. [SPEAKER_02]: We say the financial, the physical, the mental, the mental, all of eggs. [SPEAKER_02]: caregivers. [SPEAKER_02]: A good example is one of the Texas state reps Dennis Paul came up to me at an event and he goes, are you going to run again? [SPEAKER_02]: And I said, no, and he said, oh, good.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can vote for me. [SPEAKER_02]: And I said, F no, are you crazy? [SPEAKER_02]: I'm still in Democrat honey. [SPEAKER_02]: But he kept trying to win me over the rest of the night. [SPEAKER_02]: And he comes up and he goes, do you know that we voted for $3.5 billion for research and Alzheimer's.

[SPEAKER_02]: I said, [SPEAKER_02]: Dennis that is fabulous and I I still appreciate that Texas is going to you know we have the most incredible medical center and we're going to jump in there and do for Alzheimer's what we've done with cancer, but how much of that money is allocated to caregivers right and he looks at me like. [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, my husband says, like, a dog looks at a ceiling fan. [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know when my sister, my sister carry with cancer. [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Having been a caregiver sort of with her, it was like, I couldn't talk to her on the phone because it's steroids, right? [SPEAKER_03]: Because she went nuts and I'm like, I can't talk to you on the phone anymore. [SPEAKER_03]: I have to talk to you in person. [SPEAKER_03]: because it gets you crazy. [SPEAKER_03]: Students make you crazy. [SPEAKER_02]: We did not face time or anything like that. [SPEAKER_02]: When that was happening.

[SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_03]: And it was like, had to come in in person. [SPEAKER_03]: And it was like, and Danny, her boyfriend at the time and Patrick, her other friend at the time and my niece, Rachel, nobody took care of them. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's that that goes when when we look at putting together legislation when we look at electing people, we need to look at people who have the full picture, who have the full picture.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't want to hear your Republican, your Democrat, you want to put your emotion. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't care. [SPEAKER_02]: Effort. [SPEAKER_02]: What are you doing with education? [SPEAKER_02]: What are you doing with healthcare? [SPEAKER_02]: What are you doing with women's rights? [SPEAKER_02]: What are you doing with equality? [SPEAKER_02]: These are the things I want to know. [SPEAKER_01]: What are you actually doing?

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what you want to hear necessarily what you would like to do. [SPEAKER_01]: We could list all kinds of great things that what we'd like to do. [SPEAKER_01]: I want to know what you're going to do today. [SPEAKER_01]: And next week and next month. [SPEAKER_03]: We're going to legislate for it. [SPEAKER_03]: Just try to do it. [SPEAKER_03]: Even if it doesn't pass, just try it. [SPEAKER_01]: but at least try.

[SPEAKER_01]: Don't just sit there and tell me you're going to do it someday. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: Try. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying. [SPEAKER_02]: I am trying to write the next book and I find it. [SPEAKER_02]: I find that it's very hard to sit down and write it like it was with surviving Alzheimer's, even though it was a comedy, whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: It took me a long time to get it going, and I finally had to bring in a co-writer just because it was, I just couldn't do it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I couldn't relive it. [SPEAKER_02]: And so now I'm trying to write one called the seven stages of caregiver recovery, because what I realize, go through the five stages of grief, yes, sometimes three times before lunch, while they're still alive. [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's called now what? [SPEAKER_02]: Now what?

[SPEAKER_02]: And I said to, I said to my husband one day, I said, [SPEAKER_02]: You know, at least I finally come out of the, I didn't realize what a darkness I was in for so long and this play is really, I was scared to relive this over and over again on a stage. [SPEAKER_02]: Understand. [SPEAKER_02]: Instead it brings my mom back to life and you laugh and you realize what a fun kid.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's like one of my sons when he finally saw it said, oh my God, I forgot how magical me meeting was. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And, and I said, but at least I've come out of the darkness now, and it was interesting. [SPEAKER_02]: This is where the book came from because my husband said, no, you have it. [SPEAKER_02]: You just hide it better. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Interesting. [SPEAKER_02]: Ooh, that's somebody who's slept with you for 36 years.

[SPEAKER_02]: 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_02]: It's hard to enjoy yourself. [SPEAKER_02]: It's hard to come out of that isolation. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm with you on that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, don't cry.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: See, we all. [SPEAKER_02]: We all carry that. [SPEAKER_02]: And, and, and, and, oh, Joey, every time I sit down and try to write the book, it's like, oh, can't do it because I do. [SPEAKER_02]: I start to hear. [SPEAKER_02]: So I have to. [SPEAKER_02]: I've got to make myself do this at some point. [SPEAKER_03]: It's, well, I'll be in a new play when it's done. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, we'll win that ceremony, but it'll be fine.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a trying, trying to help people. [SPEAKER_01]: I think this helps us when we are doing something for somebody. [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's such a big key that you said that everybody should do something. [SPEAKER_01]: Even if it's something small. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and it's like we said earlier, it's not about the immediacy of radio. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, that was my favorite. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the rock stars and the concert tickets, and that was all fun and exciting.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I didn't put I was really 10 years when I worked in music radio. [SPEAKER_02]: When I really thrived, was when we would all come together. [SPEAKER_02]: to support the community because a police officer was down or during my second campaign for Congress, I was running a 24-7 jet ski and boat and pickup truck rescue operation on my Facebook page because people trapped in their homes. [SPEAKER_02]: And all the flood waters.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and and people like you got to come back to camp painting. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, where first of all, I'm surrounded by water, but I'm like, I have a pickup. [SPEAKER_02]: I had a campaign. [SPEAKER_02]: I bought a big giant ass pickup truck wrapped it in the US Constitution and we called it lady Liberty.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so I was literally driving lady liberty around, picking up people's dogs and, you know, picking people up because I could drive through high water and, you know, and I'm five, too. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, too. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's not going to get through that water and get those people. [SPEAKER_01]: We don't know what we can. [SPEAKER_01]: We don't know what we can do sometimes until we do it. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's, it is, it's true for caregivers.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's true for politics. [SPEAKER_01]: It's true for, for just staying informed. [SPEAKER_02]: you got to make a life better for other people not yourself will always make your life better. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh God yeah absolutely and that's it's one of the things we try to do here at politics bars help other people out help people get informed help people not be afraid help people to stand up and to understand complex subjects. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean you have so many great cast.

[SPEAKER_02]: I do I really do I get on my bike and I just listen to you guys and you're so sweet and then sometimes I go really fast Cause you're pissing me off Look you you are welcome back here any time

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