Primary Considerations May 12, 2026

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[SPEAKER_02]: See? [SPEAKER_02]: We'll talk about some TV stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously some TV. [SPEAKER_02]: What's going on with late night comedy? [SPEAKER_02]: Is it going to survive? [SPEAKER_02]: We happen to have a veteran of the late night comedy or is Pete Dominick who used to actually warm up over at Cold Air Show. [SPEAKER_02]: No, we'll have him in a little bit later today. [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously there is plenty of news on tap. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, cake breath and cash.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're up on Hill today. [SPEAKER_02]: Donnelly is on his way to China. [SPEAKER_02]: And there are some elections going on today as well unless Virginia and Nebraska. [SPEAKER_02]: what today's election could mean. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you by the way to everybody who is joining us from all of our great radio affiliates.

[SPEAKER_02]: Whether you are coming to us from AM-950 Minneapolis and Paul or Georgia now, Radio and the ATL, maybe you're coming to us from WCPTA, May 20 in Chicago or the D2 or talk in Tennessee, progressive voices radio worldwide, wherever you happen to be, or maybe you are one of those future people. [SPEAKER_02]: We've had a lot of future people lately, Jody. [SPEAKER_02]: who was it here? [SPEAKER_02]: I was trying to see this earlier up on the messages.

[SPEAKER_02]: Beth said she's one of our future people and she said hello. [SPEAKER_02]: She enjoys the show so that's very good. [SPEAKER_02]: Let's see what else. [SPEAKER_02]: Tom and Julie. [SPEAKER_02]: By the way, Julie on the comment from yesterday, she says you about the ball talk. [SPEAKER_04]: Is it just weird? [SPEAKER_02]: It's very bizarre, but it's about as weird as Tucker Carlson and his whole, you know, tanning your dad's thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's just, I don't understand what the, the fascination is on the right with, I mean, it's, it's, it's a thing. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a, it's a bodily thing. [SPEAKER_02]: It's there. [SPEAKER_04]: They're useful. [SPEAKER_04]: They're important, but they're not the most attractive things.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Which I mean, you know, I can't even say useful and important about Tucker Dawson because they'd see neither of those, but I don't know that's that's that's their thing That's their weirdness. [SPEAKER_02]: I just anyway, but Julie said you yeah, just just one should be like, you know, you on the X-ray on all talk bay [SPEAKER_04]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_04]: Sorry Julie. [SPEAKER_02]: No worries. [SPEAKER_02]: Something I would rather not talk about.

[SPEAKER_02]: Something I would like to not have to talk about. [SPEAKER_02]: The stupid ass a ran more. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: I was surprised today with Kegbreath up on the hill that he was relatively reserved. [SPEAKER_04]: He was, but his name is Hexith. [SPEAKER_04]: let's fix it. [SPEAKER_04]: That's what Graham was talking to the general at first and got very angry with him and then he turned and he said secretary hexith. [SPEAKER_02]: Hexith.

[SPEAKER_02]: He almost like shortened it or something. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, something. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's just weird. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a little bit of an odd character and sometimes he gets angry about things and you're not quite sure why I don't. [SPEAKER_02]: Was he actually seeing anything of import today? [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, he was getting on their case about the war and what's going on. [SPEAKER_04]: Why are we winning? [SPEAKER_04]: What's going on?

[SPEAKER_04]: We got it, you know, why are we dragging our feet? [SPEAKER_04]: It's costing too much. [SPEAKER_04]: And he was talking about things that are in the public, like New York Times articles. [SPEAKER_04]: And I believe Kane was going, well, that's classified. [SPEAKER_04]: Now it's not. [SPEAKER_04]: If this were classified meeting, it wouldn't be broadcast.

[SPEAKER_02]: Lindsey, you might want to ask Donald about why we're still at war over there with the red, because the Iranians, the Chinese, the Europeans, the Russians, pretty much everybody is like, dude, take the win. [SPEAKER_02]: So in case you guys missed it, it is today in the first round of the news on tap under Trump's growing foreign failures. [SPEAKER_02]: So Trump says the ceasefire with Iran is, quote, on live support.

[SPEAKER_02]: After he again rejected the peace proposals, basically Iran just keeps coming back every couple of days and being like, okay, so we've adjusted a couple of sliders on what the JCPOA used to be, but they keep coming back with basically the JCPOA.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because that's what they got, that's, that's, that's, it's there to die and Donald just keeps, you know, and then he puts up stupid ass things like, I think I mentioned this yesterday that [SPEAKER_02]: He says no, he wants no nuclear whatsoever that they should have no nuclear, but he doesn't mean right. [SPEAKER_02]: Joe, he says, what does that mean? [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't want any nuclear weapons or nuclear power.

[SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: Now I'm sorry, but even in Iran, they're doing a lot more computing and things. [SPEAKER_02]: They need more power, too. [SPEAKER_02]: So one of the things they're doing is they still generate nuclear power, which way of nuclear a lot of nations have nuclear power. [SPEAKER_02]: Nuclear, the nuclear material for nuclear power is different than nuclear weapons. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: So significantly lower grade. [SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we agreed. [SPEAKER_02]: And basically, Donald is saying, no, not of that for 20 years. [SPEAKER_02]: And the Iranians are like, no, hey, we'll keep nuclear power and be no 20 years. [SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, most of the other stuff [SPEAKER_02]: He just Donald keeps changing what he wants every time. [SPEAKER_02]: And just nope, nope, nope, nope, so I don't know what the hell is. [SPEAKER_02]: And nobody seems to do.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, he started something that he didn't know how to finish. [SPEAKER_04]: Neither did anybody in his cabinet that would be important to that. [SPEAKER_04]: He sending people that have no diplomacy in their background to be diplomatic, that have financial interests and what is going on, and that's it. [SPEAKER_04]: So of course it's not going to work out. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and our partners over there are getting a little fed up with stuff and starting to do stuff on their own.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: The story in the news on TEP. [SPEAKER_02]: So the UAE has been secretly carrying out attacks on Iran. [SPEAKER_02]: Even though the U.S. is like, no, you shouldn't do that. [SPEAKER_02]: And they're like, you know what, if you're going to do this, let's do this the right way. [SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: Which.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Look, that as as another piece that we have in the news on Tap today, it basically risks the UAE being dragged as a primary, that wasn't a wise move on them if they started attacking Iran. [SPEAKER_02]: No, it's I mean, it's it's dumb, but it's also, if you don't have a good leader, any absence of leadership, it creates a vacuum, that's really what's going on right now, though, this Donald is not really paying attention because he's bored. [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's why he wants to start another war with Cuba. [SPEAKER_02]: mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we had some stuff in the news on tap yesterday about that. [SPEAKER_02]: No real developments on that yet today, but they keep rattling their sabers and they're sending drones over to do surveillance over Cuba. [SPEAKER_04]: And didn't he just say he wanted to make Venezuela the 51st date? [SPEAKER_02]: Again, which he said that about Kennedy said that about Greenland.

[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, this is one of the reasons why I don't pay much attention to when somebody says Donald said. [SPEAKER_02]: Donald says a lot of things. [UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: I most of it is garbage and BS, so I really don't care a whole lot what he says. [SPEAKER_02]: It's what he does to me that matters, and unfortunately he also hasn't done a whole lot.

[SPEAKER_02]: What did happen today, though, during the congressional hearings, Pentagon officials admitted the cost of the Iran War according to their estimates, which remember, I can't remember who are we talking to that said that the somebody here like last week that was saying that it's kind of cut off. [SPEAKER_02]: Their estimate now is their estimate last week. [SPEAKER_02]: or two weeks ago I think it was was that it was 20 billion. [SPEAKER_02]: Now it's nearly 29 billion.

[SPEAKER_02]: Remember last week the folks over at popular information actually did the real cost of the war. [SPEAKER_02]: It was $72 billion for the first 60 days. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: We are now up to 70. [SPEAKER_02]: So you're probably looking at somewhere around 85, 80, 85 billion dollars. [SPEAKER_04]: This is why we can't have nice things. [SPEAKER_02]: Judges right. [SPEAKER_02]: just absolutely stupid.

[SPEAKER_02]: JP Morgan, by the way, warning the $5 gallon gas looks far more likely by the end of this month as the Iran War continues pushing fuel prices sky high. [SPEAKER_02]: My, my barber today, she asked me, she says, so how long is this crap going to go on? [SPEAKER_02]: There's no, what? [SPEAKER_02]: She says, when when's gas prices going to get back to normal?

[SPEAKER_02]: And I said, well, if you ask folks like Patrick DeHorn of gas buddy and that kind of thing, let's assume that it does get settled between now and the end of the month. [SPEAKER_02]: It's still going to take into some time next year, 2027, for gas prices. [SPEAKER_02]: And that's assuming that Donald Trump doesn't f something else up along the way to screw up things again. [SPEAKER_02]: We're still not fully climbing down from his yanking levers all over the place with the tariffs.

[SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: So we have no idea. [SPEAKER_02]: This is, [SPEAKER_02]: you know, assuming things are normal, which you know, whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but yeah, 2027 will probably be, and if he doesn't, if he keeps saying, no, I'm not interested. [SPEAKER_02]: No, I don't like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, he wants to do a federal gas tax holiday, which I know Joe Biden thought about that too, but I think that's, I think Joe Biden was wrong, and I think that don't only anybody else thing, and this is wrong, because what happens is, especially Joe Biden should have thought about it, because he was going to be running for reelection because then when you have to raise them back up, people get pissed off, hence, great day of us having an issue when

[SPEAKER_02]: I had to raise our Joe Biden remember saying yesterday that some Democrats need to do a little bit more performative a little bit better. [SPEAKER_02]: I think when Joe Biden and his team floated that they might be looking at the gas tax, it was performative. [SPEAKER_02]: It was at least saying we're looking at it. [SPEAKER_02]: I think Donald is actually looking at it, not thinking about what comes next.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's thinking about, well, get my poll numbers up now and make people happy or now. [SPEAKER_04]: right well it's great but you have to raise the gas tax back up if you cut the gas tax now and it's what 18 cents that's not going to be much of a debt when you're used to paying 250 a gallon and now you're paying five dollars a gallon the 18 cents isn't going to really make much of a difference to most people.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yep, gas prices day triple a average national average of four dollars and fifty cents fifty point four cents yesterday it was four fifty two so ooh down two cents month ago it was four twelve a year ago it was three thirteen and remember it was like what two eighty seven on January of twenty twenty four underbiden so just [SPEAKER_02]: putting it there. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, by the way, speaking of which, Trump andomics is completely blowing crap out its ass again, no surprise there.

[SPEAKER_02]: U.S. inflation jumped to 3.8% in April as the war with Iran continues to drive up prices. [SPEAKER_02]: It was better under Biden, by the way. [SPEAKER_02]: This is the first time since 2023 that inflation has outpaste wage growth. [SPEAKER_02]: Remember, that was when we were coming out of the COVID recovery, I believe, was a January February of then Trump's inflation is basically going wrong the whole time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Biden's inflation numbers since Trump will inevitably compare himself. [SPEAKER_02]: Biden's last inflation number, December of 2024, last number you can completely credit as Biden, 2.9. [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, the high point was June of 2022, which was 9.1, and that was when we were dealing with the effects of the recovery from the COVID pandemic, which Donald made significantly worse. [SPEAKER_04]: And also didn't the Ukraine war start around then, or it is sort of a year or more.

[SPEAKER_02]: We had kind of, I mean, the Ukraine war has been on in Austin, 2014, but yeah, but I think there was that too. [SPEAKER_02]: There was, there was effects of that in there too, but, um, I mean, [SPEAKER_02]: And, of course, as we all know, that Donald is Putin's puppet. [SPEAKER_02]: So, but I'm just saying, you know, when you look at a number and as you do us as Donald Trump inevitably will do and compare himself to Joe Biden, Biden's numbers were better.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was better under Biden and all the people who were bitching and mown in, well, how you like it now? [SPEAKER_02]: Come on, y'all. [SPEAKER_02]: It's just so he can say what he wants, but everybody knows when we go to the grocery store and go to the gas pump, you pay the energy bill, whatever it is. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, they were touting that most regular people were going to get bigger tax refunds this year. [SPEAKER_04]: But that's our gone.

[SPEAKER_04]: If you got a refund, it's gone because of the gas prices, just gas prices. [SPEAKER_04]: Nothing else. [SPEAKER_02]: Just gas prices. [SPEAKER_02]: It's gone. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: But also remember food prices are higher because of the gas prices. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: The diesel prices. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Just off the charts, y'all.

[SPEAKER_02]: And remember, this is Republican government in action, or Republican government in action. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah, I mean. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean. [SPEAKER_04]: When they, when people in red states complain about their state government, dude, you chose it. [SPEAKER_04]: You chose it. [SPEAKER_04]: So stop your bitching or vote for different people. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly, vote for Democrats.

[SPEAKER_02]: which we will talk about the elections going on in a West Virginia and Nebraska voting, as always, the polls are still open, stay in line. [SPEAKER_02]: Pete Dominic is coming in as well. [SPEAKER_02]: We're going to talk to him a little bit about, um, does late night TV still have a life anywhere. [SPEAKER_02]: Hang on. [SPEAKER_02]: Pete's coming in. [SPEAKER_02]: Fresh in your drink and come right back.

[SPEAKER_08]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_02]: it is Tuesday night here at politics bar we told you he was coming you know where he is the one the only paint Dominic he rejoin us here at politics bar yeah well he's love it when you're here Pete this is good this is good you you you have a lot of good guests as well you had David K. Johnston on I saw the other day which I was like yeah [SPEAKER_00]: You know, great one of my all-time favorites.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sean Jody, great to be back. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, thank you for coming back. [SPEAKER_00]: I love it. [SPEAKER_00]: I love it here before myself. [SPEAKER_00]: Nice coffee and I'm ready to go. [SPEAKER_02]: There is we serve everything here, which is good. [SPEAKER_02]: There are some people who are like, wait a minute. [SPEAKER_02]: Do you have to have drinks? [SPEAKER_02]: No, not at a bar. [SPEAKER_02]: You can have the non-alcoholic drinks. [SPEAKER_02]: You can do whatever.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I just say about my relationship with alcohol is good. [SPEAKER_00]: And can I just say that my issue with drinking is it makes me tie tie. [SPEAKER_00]: Like if I have two beers, tie tie. [SPEAKER_00]: A certain, you know, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: If I have a drink in the middle of the day, which I would love to every day, I can't really function very well. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm a pretty high function.

[SPEAKER_00]: Guys, you guys know my brain is always going into my physical, physically, [SPEAKER_02]: off perfection and so I have once a young man there's no there's no just I mean that that's one of the reasons why you know There are times when when I would love to drink when I look at the news that we're covering and I'm like oh my god [SPEAKER_02]: But at the same time, I look at it and say, we've got to be sharp.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's one of the reasons why we do the whole news on tap thing that we put up with the politics bar.com. [SPEAKER_02]: It's why we make it free so that way we go through we read all the stories. [SPEAKER_02]: We make sure that everybody has the facts and the details. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, we have fun. [SPEAKER_02]: We have fun. [SPEAKER_02]: You have fun on your show. [SPEAKER_02]: Stephanie Miller has fun. [SPEAKER_02]: Tom Hartman has fun. [SPEAKER_02]: Bob Cesca has fun.

[SPEAKER_02]: Wow. [SPEAKER_02]: Does Tom have fun? [SPEAKER_02]: sometimes he does it's in it's it's in a Tom Hartman way sometimes he's more fun than others I've interviewed Tom Hartman 40 times I made him laugh once [SPEAKER_02]: He has a little bit more serious than many of the reasons. [SPEAKER_00]: Mark Kato, I love you. [SPEAKER_00]: He has a lot of articles. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Tom Chuckles more than anything else. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know about Belly.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's chocolate. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: It's chocolate. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I've ever heard him belly laughs. [SPEAKER_02]: But the whole thing is that it's important for all of us on our side to have the facts, to understand what's going on, like with inflation, like with the war, like with, you know, Kegbreath and Cash Patel, even though it was funny when they were on Saturday night [SPEAKER_02]: Um, they were on the Hill today.

[SPEAKER_02]: Kag breath was surprisingly reserved. [SPEAKER_02]: Patel went off on Senator Van Holland. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll probably play that a little bit later. [SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, I'm sitting there going, I want more, more light than he. [SPEAKER_02]: I want more facts. [SPEAKER_02]: I want more details. [SPEAKER_00]: Sure, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's, that's what allows us to be able. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you, as a comedian.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, look, you've done this. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you've been a stand-up comedian now. [SPEAKER_02]: 20. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean I'm partially retired. [SPEAKER_00]: I have since since COVID I've barely been doing stand up because and I don't miss it very much But I did stand up for 20 years. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm before 9-11.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, you know in New York City I was Working at all the best clubs with all the best comedians for years until I got hired by the Daily Show and I mean I kept Of course, I kept doing it traveling.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 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_00]: But we need, of course, we need, yeah, we absolutely need humor, but I also think that comedians are good at asking questions and being curious, because we need to find bits, we need to find a humor.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the best humor is truthful, the best humor is based off of facts. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely. [SPEAKER_00]: Wow, the best humor is those scary videos on line, I mean, obviously there's... [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, there isn't anything from there. [SPEAKER_00]: There's this comedy club in New Jersey. [SPEAKER_00]: Still there. [SPEAKER_00]: The stress factory comedy club in New Brunswick.

[SPEAKER_00]: And before the shows, he used to play America's funniest own videos for the audiences when there is being seated. [SPEAKER_00]: And we do all the comedians. [SPEAKER_00]: We're like, don't do that. [SPEAKER_00]: It's impossible to follow someone breaking a diving board. [SPEAKER_00]: It's like there's nothing nothing funnier than that. [SPEAKER_00]: But I digress the point is comedians are curious. [SPEAKER_00]: We ask good questions in my show.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's always been finding the smartest people I can find and asking them good questions. [SPEAKER_00]: see experts and I still have I still feel like experts matter and should be heard and listened to and have tremendous credibility from epidemiologists who can tell you hunt the virus is not something we need to be spending hours covering when we have very precious little time to obviously economics and environmental issues and so much more.

[SPEAKER_02]: The hot device thing for me. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean knowing you got it? [SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_02]: 11 people do have it now and it's my concern with it is it could be mutating that's my concern but what they've already said see and I understand you're concerned but what they've already said the epidemiologist the fact that I know people who work at the Nebraska med center that's important [SPEAKER_02]: I know who actually work there.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is, I mean, this is the same place where they took people with Ebola. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we have one place, one place in the country. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, but I mean, it's, it's absolutely set up. [SPEAKER_02]: The people there absolutely know their stuff hardcore. [SPEAKER_00]: And it's inside the castle of Great Skull. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_00]: Also, when Jody's when Jody's the perfect example, just now. [SPEAKER_00]: She's like, my concern is it's mutating.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, you're an Emmy award winning TV producer and writer and comedian like, I'm not Emmy or winner. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm an Emmy award nominee. [SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm a me. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm excuse me. [SPEAKER_00]: I. [SPEAKER_00]: You are nominated.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not asking you about viruses, but that's what I mean, look, and you shouldn't ask me Like, you know, we get our information from other experts, and that's one of the reasons by you know knowing the folks in Omaha Don't he's like, I was looking at the mitochondria What was it that and how they you know fuse amongst each other, and it's very very scary when you breathe No, I'm kidding [SPEAKER_04]: But they have said that they've never had.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I'm concerned about. [SPEAKER_04]: I have pet rats. [SPEAKER_02]: They've said they've done genetic tests. [SPEAKER_02]: And they've said that it is the same genome that they've had. [SPEAKER_02]: They said the biggest thing is that we haven't had a whole lot of testing on it. [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's only like 900 people totally in the entire time that we've known about it. [SPEAKER_02]: That we've done.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, I mean, normally a scientific testing block of people is considered legitimate when it's a thousand or more. [SPEAKER_02]: In fact, we don't have 1,000 ego, but the folks that know their stop, they say, you don't have to worry, we got that covered. [SPEAKER_02]: Because there are so many other things where you want somebody who knows what the hell is going on. [SPEAKER_02]: And I do see it out there.

[SPEAKER_02]: On the internet with some people we know and some people we don't know that the propaganda and the conspiracies and the ridiculousness. [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, [SPEAKER_02]: go to legitimate sources for God. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and also, you know, there has to be, especially now in this time of AI and being lied to, we have to learn how to discern as best as we can, the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: And there's so many different ways to do that, including relying on each other, being humble to a certain extent. [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, Honda virus is still in that zone where if you do contract it, you're probably deserved it. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'm like, you know, COVID, I got a bunzy on that one. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying, they were taking pictures of rats or birds and dump. [SPEAKER_00]: And the other people that got it were on a cruise.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying, if you go on a cruise, you may expect to get a virus. [SPEAKER_02]: But we need to be able to find and trust credible experts and that is something there is even like yesterday So we we Jody and I we we compile the the the news on tap We do a little news montage little collage at the top of the news on tap each day and and you had a great picture It was it's a funny picture.

[SPEAKER_02]: I knew it was a funny picture You knew it was a funny picture of the gold statue of Trump But it had an extra big stomach and it was and they were bowing in front of it [SPEAKER_02]: But I was like, yeah, should we put it in? [SPEAKER_02]: Because if we put it in in the collage, there's gonna be some people who go, I saw it, I saw it, I saw it over the politics bars. [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, it was a joke. [SPEAKER_02]: So it's, you first laughed and it goes funny.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was still blessed by, [SPEAKER_02]: It's hilarious, but at the same time you sit there and you go, it's funny, but at a context. [SPEAKER_02]: And people take crap out of context all the time. [SPEAKER_02]: So we decided not to use that one, just because that it might have been one of those things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: are commander and thief looking like he's fallen asleep and and some people are saying well he was just blinking but I mean writers has a picture of him as eyes are fully closed and if they're publishing it I'm trusting the journalist and photographer who took that that wouldn't he wouldn't publish a blinking shot. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, let me also, they're putting it on video, too. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it's not like it was just a photograph in mid-blank.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was there's video of him literally nodding off, which I positive maybe he's getting in the RFK juniors old heroin stash and he's just nodding off. [SPEAKER_02]: He's he's nodding off for seconds at a time. [SPEAKER_02]: It's not like he's been there for five minutes. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, he can't stay He will get him because he's he's up all night long posting crazy crap. [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't sleep and so he sleeps [SPEAKER_00]: on and off intermittently.

[SPEAKER_00]: The guy can't sleep. [SPEAKER_00]: I like to believe that he's has a really hard time sleeping because he is so worried about everything that he's involved with. [SPEAKER_02]: Are you hoping that he is internally tortured? [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I try not to do this to anybody.

[SPEAKER_00]: I try not to wish shuffering on anybody at all ever because I feel like he's but I'm saying you're giving him credit that he may have a conscience and a soul that he hasn't completely sold his soul, which I'm like, wow, that's more than I would yes, I don't think I think he's a sociopath. [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have any kind of, that's the hard thing that I think a lot of people struggle with both about him and those who support him.

[SPEAKER_00]: They think that he and others think like us, with a certain sense of morality, principle, consistency, honor, integrity, virtue, and, you know, he doesn't, he's a sociopath, and he only, you know, the other thing is people don't have a hard time realizing this. [SPEAKER_00]: that are good for America's future. [SPEAKER_00]: He's doing things right now that will enrich him. [SPEAKER_00]: And frankly, he lives for the day. [SPEAKER_00]: He's producing the apprentice every day.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so we are selling off huge parts of our country. [SPEAKER_00]: And we are [SPEAKER_00]: destroying our friendships with our friends we are closing up their enemies giving them all kinds of information or looking the other way You know, and starting wars I mean like everything he does in chooses to it's hard for us to believe how bad it is

[SPEAKER_00]: for America is in nobody's interests, like in in big capitalists, it's not in their interests, it's not in the interests of major industrialists, I mean a lot of these companies obviously they're making all the money in the stock market are multinationals, so they're not necessarily concerned with America either, but it's really important that people realize that this guy and you know, by default Republicans don't care about America at all.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's what I've said, Peter, the modern Republican motto is five words. [SPEAKER_02]: It's very simple so that even their manga morons can remember it. [SPEAKER_02]: I've got mine, FU, every single one of them thinks it and believes it. [SPEAKER_02]: And as long as they have whatever it is that's important to him, whether it's a cheese sandwich or the best number of stock market, whatever it is. [SPEAKER_02]: As long as I've got what I want,

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't care what happens to you, and that's the conversive courses is always, and I've said this especially the Milton atheist that I know who tend to vote Democratic really hate this, but the converses, the Democratic motto, which is basically there, but for the grace of God go, I, and people go, all that's so Christian ask, I'm like, it's not meant to be, you know, you know, a lot of a bunch of people sing later on in the week, but the whole idea is just the fact

[SPEAKER_00]: it's about looking at somebody else and saying that could be me so I should probably make sure to fix that so that that's not me and then you'll help them out I mean that's even that self-interested I mean I would rather live in a world and try to be a person who doesn't doesn't do things that are primarily for my benefit or don't I don't have to

[SPEAKER_00]: that you stole a child of ice cream cone, but the other, I think the other important ideology that people need to always keep in mind is that we see most of us in the world see government as a necessary [SPEAKER_00]: player in our world and in a central part of every community. [SPEAKER_00]: And that means certain things in certain social agreements and contracts, Republicans and conservative Americans hate government. [SPEAKER_00]: And they want to take it over.

[SPEAKER_00]: They want to privatize everything that taxpayers spend their money on and they want to spend a bathtub thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I've been in this fight in the public education sector for my entire career and watching the conservative Republicans long before Trump try to charterize and characterize every public school has been something that's been, you know, part of the biggest fight of my life, my career, my mom's a public school teacher, I'm a huge supporter of teachers unions and very active in my local school board fights and so, you know, we want to keep

[SPEAKER_00]: And we believe in the, in good government. [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, that's something that a lot of Americans don't believe. [SPEAKER_00]: And when Republicans get in charge, they perform terribly. [SPEAKER_00]: So the prophecy can, you know, like, oh, look how bad government is. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's because you appointed a guy who was a carpenter, who was a very good carpenter. [SPEAKER_00]: But you know, important to run the nuclear agency.

[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, it's not running well. [SPEAKER_04]: they are they they pick some of the worst like the whole cash betel thing would still I Wow, I've always said since Reagan Why are you running to work in government if you don't like government that like me hiring an electrician that doesn't believe in electricity [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm actually like Trisha because you don't want to because they want to privatize it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Because they run, they get in and then they hand out contracts to their friends. [SPEAKER_02]: And now that things are running so crappy, they're like, you know, I kind of, I can use some good government. [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, well, conveniently, we have some.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we got to talk about that obviously I want to talk about the late night thing for those of you who were up late last night cold there and his fab five friends were on and obviously you used to open for cool Mayor warm up the whole place warm so we got to talk about that in the future of late night comedy and what you think about that you stick around for another round [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_02]: Pete Dominic here on a Tuesday night.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and Donald Trump was, was calling JB Pritzker. [SPEAKER_02]: JB Pritzker is a large man, but he is not a Fat Slob. [SPEAKER_02]: No, he's not. [SPEAKER_02]: He's actually, I think, relatively healthy. [SPEAKER_02]: He is a large man, but he is healthy. [SPEAKER_02]: Healthy, haven't Donald? [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: Final is unhealthy in a whole lot of ways.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even if he wasn't the fact that the president of the United States were born to a governor or any other human being as a fat slob, we should never become numb to it. [SPEAKER_00]: People don't say you're a fat slob out loud in public to anyone unless they didn't get the right order at a fast food restaurant and then I could see it being slum. [SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, people don't say that.

[SPEAKER_00]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: It's a grotesque thing to say when we talk about like body shaming, I mean, everybody does it probably a little bit and where things that we shouldn't. [SPEAKER_00]: the most disgusting, horrible thing. [SPEAKER_00]: Also, he himself is a grotesque specimen and he's running out of it. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, God, he looks like his skin is rotting away. [SPEAKER_02]: So, oh, well, we know that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's just, he, and he's physically and mentally not a well person. [SPEAKER_02]: No, he's not. [SPEAKER_02]: He's, he is definitely, he's, he's not well.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the people who are around him, [SPEAKER_02]: uh... we we were talking here in the break about the yesterday when that doctor house was there and there was some of the the women i think there's one of the women centered in caddy brit was back there uh... for the kitchen yeah exactly the fact that you and i collected getting to that journey that's hilarious yes they letter out of the kitchen but

[SPEAKER_02]: but then they're sitting sitting there titering and laughing and his dumb jokes ignoring the fact that he's very bad. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, dosing off for two and three seconds at a time and you know waking up and I'm waiting for him to start drooling on tape. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, his mouth is all. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, eventually we will see some drool. [SPEAKER_00]: It's coming. [SPEAKER_04]: It's coming. [SPEAKER_00]: Yep. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if he has drool.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think Whatever many of you years he's joking. [SPEAKER_00]: Jody's making assumptions that he has saliva in there [SPEAKER_02]: It's just venom, but I can't imagine like, yeah, I don't even imagine the idea of Malani kissing him. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: You don't have to. [SPEAKER_04]: You don't have to. [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to.

[SPEAKER_00]: Did you just see how many times it happened and Trump won a lot and just happened that day when I think, yeah, the King and Queen of UK was hilarious. [SPEAKER_00]: She, she, he's holding her hand. [SPEAKER_00]: You watch the video. [SPEAKER_00]: She takes her hand. [SPEAKER_00]: Always. [SPEAKER_00]: out of his hand and he kind of reaches back for it. [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like a small little delicate dance, which is, you know, illustrative of how he has always treated women.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: We have today in the in a fifth round or the grabbing on and they pull away. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I think that she never actually ever kissed him even to have barren. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't think there was any kissing involved. [SPEAKER_02]: That's possible. [SPEAKER_02]: In a media entertainment section today, we have we have a piece that I mentioned yesterday from Parker Maloy about that secret hand shake is the political art group.

[SPEAKER_02]: They have arcade games the DC War Memorial. [SPEAKER_02]: Do you know you have to end that game? [SPEAKER_02]: Because you could you could basically play it forever, but the way that you end the game is you're playing as Donald and you talked to Malanya and she asks you have you burned all the Epstein file yet. [SPEAKER_00]: That is amazing that they made that game and that it's available to play. [SPEAKER_04]: There are soldiers. [SPEAKER_04]: I just saw a story.

[SPEAKER_04]: There were soldiers today seen at the War Memorial playing it. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I love. [SPEAKER_00]: I do. [SPEAKER_00]: And I do have to say. [SPEAKER_00]: And I suppose this could segue us into, you know, comedy and co-bear and everything. [SPEAKER_00]: But I do have to say, like, I, [SPEAKER_00]: I take a lot of solace in and comfort in the fact that we are able to ridicule him.

[SPEAKER_00]: The way we are on every stage in the country, you know, I was one of those who was out front and center when they sideline and they kicked Kimmel off and they fired Kimmel for three days or suspended him for three days. [SPEAKER_00]: Because that to me is a threshold that you cannot cross. [SPEAKER_00]: If you got rid of Kimmel with the rest of us, every other comedian had to be concerned and they lost on that.

[SPEAKER_02]: he had Joe Rogan and a podcaster test, not as senator, but as his in his podcaster form Ted Cruz going, going, hey man, you can't do that. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm going when you have podcaster Ted Cruz and Joe Rogan on the same side is everybody else who's decent saying, you know, we've said this before about like Marjorie Taylor Green and a lot of these America first [SPEAKER_02]: And okay, so they joined us on the Epstein thing. [SPEAKER_02]: Great.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's fine. [SPEAKER_02]: Doesn't mean that we accept them for everything. [SPEAKER_02]: They joined us on the, uh, hey, water is bad. [SPEAKER_02]: We should not have more of these great individual ideas. [SPEAKER_02]: So if you want to join us on the idea that the first amendment is a good thing and that we should be able to make fun of Donald Trump whenever, however, [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, great.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then we are, and that video game and what Kimmel does and everybody else does. [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_00]: Every night on TV, on the internet, on stages across the country, the fact that we are still able to make fun of him and do it in the way, and as brutal of a fashion, and as creative as we possibly can, to me, I think we should, you know, claim to that, and, and, and

[SPEAKER_00]: Take optimism and inspiration from from that because that's a sign of where we're at they're not And don't do that in China or Russia in the way and play out in Saudi Arabia and some of the other countries the way that we do and always will So we still have that freedom and we shouldn't be celebrating it. [SPEAKER_00]: So Let's not and by the way if you've seen Ted Cruz lately, I saw him yesterday He called AOC a parasite.

[SPEAKER_00]: He looks like he looks like now I don't know if you've seen like a moldy tree [SPEAKER_00]: He, I'm worried about Senator Cruz. [SPEAKER_02]: Are you saying that he needs another trip to Cancun? [SPEAKER_00]: Just saying, it needs a makeover for sure. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, God. [SPEAKER_02]: No, I just, I haven't seen him recently. [SPEAKER_02]: He's not that funny. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not that entertained by him. [SPEAKER_02]: What is your suggestion?

[SPEAKER_04]: There's a fly or something going around, and it's just bothersome. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, no, no, I wondered if your cat was trying to bat the microphone around. [SPEAKER_04]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: Usually flies, usually flies come around anywhere [SPEAKER_04]: Right, and well, with my pet rat, I'm worried.

[SPEAKER_02]: you guys you guys look it is it is funny to joke about all this type of stuff but I do worry you know seeing the the Colbert thing and you know all the guys on his show last night and the fact that we are what a week and two days from the end of the Colbert show do you honestly think there's a future for late night comedy or do you think it's going to go somewhere else I mean but I mean you better than anybody would probably oh yeah I think I think [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, one of the Kimmel, whose my favorite made the point last night about more people are watching light night that I have. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the point is there's five shows. [SPEAKER_00]: There's to only be two or one. [SPEAKER_00]: And you take those five shows and then you add that the Internet views, YouTube views. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I mean, right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Kemal has like 22 million maybe more subscribers and you know, he goes on at 11 and they post those videos on YouTube by the time I'm up at 4 a.m. with a million, a million views like and so the point is that format is massively profitable and really very entertaining. [SPEAKER_00]: For all of the reasons that always what is, they don't really need to change it or reinvent it too much. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, those monologues, I think we cling to them. [SPEAKER_00]: I know I do.

[SPEAKER_00]: The darkest of times, and the best of times, and obviously all of the rest, they're all very different. [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I don't think they're going anywhere. [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're still very profitable. [SPEAKER_00]: And they might not be as profitable as they used to be because there's a billion channels and a billion things to be entertained by.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the format that they are and, you know, maybe as these guys age, they won't be replaced or something like that. [SPEAKER_00]: There won't be somebody that wants to or can do what they do. [SPEAKER_02]: But do you think somebody will move it to to do internet stuff? [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, because they, yeah, sure a lot of it can be done online. [SPEAKER_04]: And I mean, they did it during COVID.

[SPEAKER_04]: Everybody was at home during COVID, you know, I mean, yes, the networks were. [SPEAKER_04]: of broadcasting it, but still it was like everybody, you know, they all have the set-ups now at home. [SPEAKER_04]: If Colbert wants to do that, and he was very nice to my mom when she had her 50th anniversary special. [SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, he was very, very nice to her, very, very accommodating.

[SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, I think that there is [SPEAKER_04]: definitely if Colbert wants to do after he finishes writing the Lord of the Rings movies or series or whatever he's writing after he's done doing that then I think if you choose as to do that again he'll have that audience right back. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I wonder, I don't know what he's going to do next. [SPEAKER_00]: He was, by the way, very nice to my mom too, but I look like him.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that's the kind of thing when people are nice and they don't have to be. [SPEAKER_02]: When people are honest and they don't have to be. [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody's watching and they take care to do things the right way for people to we care about that always matters to me. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's how you treat your, your waiter and your waitress, it's how you treat your mechanic and your doctor.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the thing about Colbert as you're saying Sean is I was I worked at the Colbert for six years like 1200 shows I love that show also worked at CBS late show for several shows as well. [SPEAKER_00]: The point of making is there still doesn't of people that work with him now that worked with him then so almost 20 years.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a real family, and from the woman Michelle, who's been running this teleprompter forever to some of the camera guys Dante and the stage manager Mark McKinnon and many of the writers have been with him from the very start including Tom Perselle and you know, I mean great people the people I just mentioned and all different jobs I feel for them too.

[SPEAKER_02]: I feel for them too because they all actually have to find oh I don't I don't I don't feel for them [SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you why, I'll tell you why, honestly, I mean, I did do, but when I lost my corporate media gig after 15 years of series XM, I ran into a comedian in front of my Rustman Eve and he's like, why the long face and I was like, I just lost my job because you just lost your job at serious. [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, he goes, man, you were there forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: How long were you there? [SPEAKER_00]: I go 14 years. [SPEAKER_00]: He goes, well, don't be sad about a 14-year gig and the truth is, like, I have one. [SPEAKER_00]: to have one job in television in your team. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's to raise your family on it. [SPEAKER_00]: And rarely does anybody get that kind of longevity. [SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm sure they're all very grateful. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure they all made and saved a lot of money.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because those, the network gig is highly talented. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I wish I'd. [SPEAKER_00]: was still there. [SPEAKER_04]: My next door neighbor works for Kimmel and has been a writer of his for 16 or 17 years now. [SPEAKER_04]: You know, so Kimmel's similar in that is how he keeps people around. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, those shows. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Kimmel is a very much like that. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Kimmel has even probably Kimmel has his actual family.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he does. [SPEAKER_00]: They do. [SPEAKER_04]: I met his by met his sister and a bunch of people when my mom was on a couple of times ago. [SPEAKER_00]: He also, I know a couple of his writers, and he got my number, and texted me during the, when he got, when he got sideline back in September, I went on CNN and then I went off, and it went pretty viral, and he saw it and reached out to me, and I don't know him, but like, what a class I had.

[SPEAKER_00]: He did obviously Steven did, you know, is always been that the same, I mean, all those guys have really good reputations, and I kind of have to keep those jobs, I think, to a certain [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but it's just nice to know that they are as good behind the scenes, which is yeah, I mean in this day and age when, you know, men are not to be trusted and not to be revered and you know, it's a These guys, I don't think there's many, any allegations.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and some of these guys [SPEAKER_02]: So when you get a chance you know when you when you talk to Colbert next to tell me said Hello, hi, he's welcome at the bar anytime as are you, but so we'd love to have my day man We are so good talking to you guys. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for having me. [SPEAKER_02]: It's always a pleasure [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, you guys can go and see stand-up with Pete Dominic.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is linked in our guest section of the news on tap Go look at all of these interviews Listen and watch all of this podcast. [SPEAKER_02]: It is totally worthwhile Pete Dominic. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you very much. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you guys.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, both take cake or steak cake. [SPEAKER_02]: I love that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: I love cake. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't care that it's an old Cosby thing. [SPEAKER_02]: I still find that whole chocolate cake. [SPEAKER_04]: Very funny. [SPEAKER_04]: I used a chocolate cake. [SPEAKER_02]: While I was talking I was talking with one of my neighbors that my dog Christopher is a friend. [SPEAKER_02]: She's just a friend.

[SPEAKER_02]: He tells me of this this dog girl's dog named Gigi [SPEAKER_02]: But they do like each other as friends that they like to play and have fun, whatever, and Gigi's dad, um, role family, a great black family lives in the neighborhood here, and so he's like, his wife, they have like a deck up above there, their place is kind of a vertical stack place, or standing out front, and it's like, hey, kids won't take. [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, okay, you know, get your cake.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm laughing, and I said, you know, he says to me, he says, you know, why you check them? [SPEAKER_02]: I said, minute, she said that it's the first thing popped into my head. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, always was Bill Cosby, dad and chocolate. [SPEAKER_02]: Cause that's what I think, dad, chocolate cake. [SPEAKER_02]: That's, that's what comes up to my mind. [SPEAKER_02]: It's, you know, comedy is something that lasts. [SPEAKER_02]: And really, glad we had Pete Dominic.

[SPEAKER_02]: Me too. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad that he is confident that there's still gonna be more comedy, especially late night comedy, whether it's on TV or online that there's, there's gonna be an outlet for it. [SPEAKER_04]: There is it's a people need that outlet. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, and he's right back in the day, it was, it was the tonight show for the longest time. [SPEAKER_02]: Right, first of all, it was just the night or the, or the, uh, the par show.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, Jack, par and then it turned into the tonight show and then then we finally got Letterman. [SPEAKER_02]: right. [SPEAKER_02]: And then we had two choices. [SPEAKER_04]: And we had two. [SPEAKER_02]: And now we got our city of hall, which I still. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm Fox. [SPEAKER_02]: That was a good show. [SPEAKER_02]: I was a good show. [SPEAKER_02]: Also back in the day. [SPEAKER_04]: We had John Rivers.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I mean, we've had a couple of things, but in general, it was just the two for the longest time until Kimmel. [SPEAKER_04]: with ABC and then all of a sudden, okay, but now we have, and now we've got, and then you had the daily show, it still do, thank God. [SPEAKER_06]: And like, there's a B show. [SPEAKER_04]: Samantha B, which is great, and it's never canceled. [SPEAKER_04]: I know, but I mean, it's, it's, it's something that we crave. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think we all do.

[SPEAKER_02]: We all get around the campfire. [SPEAKER_02]: We want to talk at the end of the day. [SPEAKER_02]: And you know, laugh about the stuff that drives us nuts instead of crying about it because it is, it is immensely frustrating some of the stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, I mean, the economy is, it drives us nuts. [SPEAKER_02]: The ridiculousness of the politics right now drives us nuts. [SPEAKER_02]: It makes you want a drink, Jodie, which of course brings us to the drink at the day.

[SPEAKER_02]: Look, see how I got there. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I didn't tell her I was going there. [SPEAKER_02]: It's just one of those days. [SPEAKER_04]: It's very round about. [SPEAKER_02]: Look, I could have done it in a poem. [SPEAKER_04]: You could have done it in an A-A-B-B-A. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: I could have said that once was a man from Amtucket. [SPEAKER_04]: And we won't say the rest of the thing. [SPEAKER_02]: We've got it linked, though, in the drink of the day.

[SPEAKER_02]: I did link to the actual, you know, you did it. [SPEAKER_02]: And then I went in and I added a couple including the link to the original, you know, man from NanTucket, which if you don't know what you can find it out, it's in the drink of the thing. [SPEAKER_04]: You guys can guess what the other rhyming word was. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: So lots of UCKIT. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: There you go. [UNKNOWN]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: But look, today it's a good day.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's not my birthday, but it is still a good day. [SPEAKER_02]: What is the reason for celebrating the day, Jody, and what is the drink of the day? [SPEAKER_04]: The drink is a cocktail animatale. [SPEAKER_04]: It's called a Limerick cocktail, or a cocktail. [SPEAKER_04]: And it is inspired by who knew it's International Limerick Day. [SPEAKER_02]: What a deal. [SPEAKER_02]: What a deal. [SPEAKER_02]: I had thought about writing.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we kind of did for the social media post. [SPEAKER_02]: That actually is the social media post for the drink of day today. [SPEAKER_02]: If you go out on our social media platforms, you know, we're out there and all of them there. [SPEAKER_02]: Blue sky and threads and Twitter and Instagram, Facebook, whatever you guys can look. [SPEAKER_02]: The social media post for today isn't Limerick.

[SPEAKER_02]: And actually, we did that, but yes, international Limerick Day is today, which is good. [SPEAKER_02]: And we included, you got some great Limericks in here, you got the definitions. [SPEAKER_02]: So if you guys want to write your own, you can check out some of the details on that. [SPEAKER_02]: I did have to add in the mock tale, because I thought it was important, you know, I mean, some people say Limerick, well, you got to be drunk to write those.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_04]: Not if you write them well, you should be sober. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: You look. [SPEAKER_02]: You got to be sharp. [SPEAKER_02]: So to to make a limmer cocktail or a limmer cocktail, what do we do, Jody? [SPEAKER_02]: How do you get it? [SPEAKER_04]: Okay. [SPEAKER_04]: We need to pre-chilled Colin's glass. [SPEAKER_04]: Shaker ice for the cocktail two ounces of Irish whiskey.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, a mocked out two ounces of liars bourbon alternative.

[SPEAKER_04]: That makes sense and ounce of lime juice freshly squeezed of course a half ounce of rich sugar syrup not simple so it's to to one two sugars to one water [SPEAKER_04]: And two ounces of soda water and your garnish with a lime wedge, see you pour whatever you're choosing to make all of your ingredients into your shaker, shake it with ice until it's cold, strain into your Collins glass, while pouring the soda at the same time. [SPEAKER_02]: So you're straining with one hand.

[SPEAKER_02]: Doing four in the soda water with the other hand. [SPEAKER_04]: Like a bartender. [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and then you look cool. [SPEAKER_04]: Totally. [SPEAKER_04]: You can flip them around if you want. [SPEAKER_04]: Um, my, like, the guy that taught me how to bartend it. [SPEAKER_04]: Actually, was that guy. [SPEAKER_04]: He could do all of that. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no way. [SPEAKER_02]: He could do the whole, uh, Tom Cruise talk to the movie. [SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's kind of cool. [SPEAKER_04]: And then you garnish with the lime wedge on the rim. [SPEAKER_02]: There you go. [SPEAKER_02]: And remember, limers aren't funny, but they are not always FCC compliant. [SPEAKER_04]: So like the Nantucket one. [SPEAKER_02]: bucket. [SPEAKER_02]: I suppose work. [SPEAKER_02]: You could. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, but there could be another bucket after the bucket because they perhaps our friends at the AM950 that they they're anyway.

[SPEAKER_02]: We won't go any further. [SPEAKER_02]: We will let you keep your licenses. [SPEAKER_02]: If you guys missed the drink of the day, you don't want to do go subscribe at the politics bar dot com in the entertainment and media section today of the news on tap. [SPEAKER_02]: Rex Reed. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_04]: How did you feel about Rex Reed? [SPEAKER_04]: You know, I mean, I mentioned it to Christopher this morning, not your dog, because I wasn't there.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm the Chris LeBlanc. [SPEAKER_02]: Christopher LeBlanc over at the 70 militia, right? [SPEAKER_04]: We. [SPEAKER_04]: He's, I never liked him. [SPEAKER_04]: He was really mean, and it's like, well, he was still a pioneer when it came to how he, well, and he was a critic. [SPEAKER_02]: And yes, he was critical at times. [SPEAKER_04]: A lot of critics can be mean. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, [SPEAKER_02]: Well, yeah, he died at 87 unfortunately. [SPEAKER_02]: So there you go.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, if you're going to, well, if you're not healthy, I don't think it was maybe that's better, but you know, if you can stay healthy, keep going. [SPEAKER_02]: Trump, the Trump DOJ has subpoenaed the Wall Street Journal in a supposedly investigation. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't trust it.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's the Trump DOJ, but [SPEAKER_02]: Like we were talking with Pete it's first amendment folks and and you know the Wall Street Journal I mean come on it's owned by Murdoch they're they're not going to put crap out there They asked bogus so [SPEAKER_02]: the opinion page might the new side not going to do that. [SPEAKER_02]: Byron Allen who will be taking over with his ridiculous show after Colbert.

[SPEAKER_02]: He is now set to buy Buzzfeed and Jonah Peretti is going to be the Buzzfeed AI guy. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't quite understand that whole thing. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what they're trying to do. [SPEAKER_04]: They're trying to do more live streaming and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't [SPEAKER_02]: I still don't understand and I don't understand all these companies that you remember the yeah I was all burdens the shoe company they changed to do an AI company and closed all their shoe stores why I don't know but I want to lose a lot of money in the coming months I'm sure they lost a lot of money I think it's dumb because I'm like first of all most of what people call AI is an AI it's large language models it's basically madlips on steroids

[SPEAKER_02]: It is a computer that's not nearly as funny as a comedian like Pete, and you give it a query and it fills in the blanks with something that vaguely resembles something that could be a phrase. [SPEAKER_04]: It's like predictive text. [SPEAKER_04]: It's, uh, did you read this, I didn't send it, but there was a story that I saw this morning. [SPEAKER_04]: This woman was speaking in a commencement address.

[SPEAKER_04]: And she apparently works for a big tech company and she was talking about how AI is the new industrial revolution and she got booed by all of the students because the students that are graduating are journalists entertainers artists. [SPEAKER_04]: And one person literally yelled, we hate AI. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, she kept going on and the stupid, it's like you did not read this room young lady.

[SPEAKER_02]: There are so many people, especially in the executive class, who, because their ultimate idea is, you know, let's get rid of, and the thing that, that, yes, we're not going to get rid of all the workers. [SPEAKER_02]: Shut up about that. [SPEAKER_02]: But the thing that pierces them, the thing that stops them, is oftentimes humor, biting humor and comedy.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm very glad, like we mentioned, we do have a piece in the fifth round from Parker Maloy about the arcade game at the DC War Memorial, which is hilarious. [SPEAKER_02]: It's funny, she's got good pictures, you can go check that out. [SPEAKER_02]: But it's just the idea that you wanna laugh at these people.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I, I just don't understand how people think AI can replace everything, like for example, the cat of the con film festival, that is kicked off by the way, Jane Fonda there, James Franco, some Hollywood is staying away, but some of them not, and even if [SPEAKER_02]: some of those films are a little far out for some folks. [SPEAKER_02]: Those films influence other people who make films and somebody sees something, oh, I can take that put that in my film.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that's what art does is that you reference it, but you don't just slightly steal it. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and AI is known for stealing. [SPEAKER_02]: Blankly steals exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, and then using people's likenesses to make videos like with the Tom Cruise Brad Pitt one, like no. [SPEAKER_02]: Right, that was, [SPEAKER_04]: You want to get sued by two very, very wealthy, well, especially Tom Cruise, wealthy men. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of wealthy men, who happens to have, you know, lived a long life. [SPEAKER_02]: Keith Richards confirms Rolling Stones not going to tour in 2026. [SPEAKER_02]: He says maybe next year. [SPEAKER_02]: They are releasing a new album. [SPEAKER_02]: They are. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Singeless coming out Thursday. [SPEAKER_02]: I think they said the single will be out. [SPEAKER_02]: So that should be fun. [SPEAKER_02]: Sports illustrated swimsuit cover models.

[SPEAKER_02]: Alex Earl, Tiffany Haddish, Hillary Duff, and Nicole Williams English are this year's cover models. [SPEAKER_04]: Hi, interesting group. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, I'm interested to see why they picked those particular ones. [SPEAKER_02]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, the OKC Thunder swept the likeers. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_02]: 115 to 110 games or so. [SPEAKER_04]: But the next might take it. [SPEAKER_04]: So again, the next might take it.

[SPEAKER_02]: If it's possible, I can see the next going all the way. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, and you know, look, if I'm doing it not bad, SGA is not bad. [SPEAKER_02]: We got him in the in the collage today too, but that's not too bad. [SPEAKER_02]: Dollar in the Mitchell, by the way, scored 39 to second half last night, Cleveland Cavaliers tied their playoff series with the pistons, and I know you folks in Minnesota, not happy about this last night.

[SPEAKER_02]: Color Advantage bounce back to beat the Minnesota Wild 5 2 and take a 3-1 lead in their NHL playoff series. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_02]: I like the Minnesota wild. [SPEAKER_02]: You guys know my feelings in the AM-950 area. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm fine with that. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm good with them, but I don't know. [SPEAKER_02]: It's got to take a little bit of work. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe they come back and meet the abs. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll find out.

[SPEAKER_02]: We'll figure it out. [SPEAKER_02]: Look, we do have more news on tap. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, we actually have more of the political news because this is the politics bar. [SPEAKER_02]: We will get into some of the more serious subjects after taking a little break, hanging out with Pete and talking about the entertainment stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: People are like, are you going to talk about the politics? [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, we're going to, it is the politics bar.

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[SPEAKER_02]: uh... some more comments by the way here from our friends uh... let's see here scano yeah you know what we're doing restaurant got it okay uh... he says uh... look uh... joty john uh... we don't need a balance news media we need an objective media we do not need to listen to a pedophiles rationale for rape just to provide balance [SPEAKER_04]: I agree. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I. [SPEAKER_02]: Nothing funny about that scandal.

[SPEAKER_02]: You're you're just spot on sitting on that one tonight. [SPEAKER_02]: I got to I got to say that's, uh, you know, and then, uh, let's see. [SPEAKER_02]: Yipsy gal says, uh, via the Twitter corner of the bar, uh, she says that we should get professional baseball players to boycott playing in states. [SPEAKER_02]: I agree. [SPEAKER_04]: You know, you know, [SPEAKER_04]: baseball, basketball, football.

[SPEAKER_02]: It would be always, but I know that they're not going to because of the fact that they will many of them would lose their jobs. [SPEAKER_02]: So I get it. [SPEAKER_02]: But that doesn't mean that there aren't boycott-ish type actions that can be taken. [SPEAKER_04]: I think high school students [SPEAKER_04]: Don't go to Tennessee right now. [SPEAKER_04]: Don't go to Georgia. [SPEAKER_02]: Don't go to Florida. [SPEAKER_02]: College. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_04]: Don't even apply to those schools that don't go to Ohio State. [SPEAKER_04]: Don't go to FSU. [SPEAKER_04]: Don't go to these schools. [SPEAKER_02]: I would agree. [SPEAKER_04]: Especially that. [SPEAKER_02]: That will effectively work. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, good. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, because that will affect everybody, especially near those schools, it's like we can't get these star athletes. [SPEAKER_04]: That means alumni money is going to go away and be able to do it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Because you have these jury-manoring laws, A, and abortion laws and all of those laws. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's just it for me. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, if you're, if you are a young woman, I would not go to any of those schools for your own safety. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: just because of the fact that it may be it's a health issue to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, but uh, speaking of which by the way, uh, there is a health related issue in that in the news on tap today. [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, these Supreme Court, um, did happen to pause till what they still are saying. [SPEAKER_02]: They're not what they're doing Thursday is now. [SPEAKER_02]: So, Mr. Preston still legal. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you got it. [SPEAKER_04]: You got it. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you can afford it, get it now because it can last like seven years. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, just keep it. [SPEAKER_02]: I hate that we have to live this way because of these unrepent Confederates, and that's what they are. [SPEAKER_02]: They're Confederates.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And in the third round of day, in the new Uncivil War, the Supreme Court Greenlit, the 11th Aller racist Alabama redistricting plan, or, remember, at different time periods when it's been shorter until the election, they've said, oh, no, no, we can't do that. [SPEAKER_02]: But since it's, you know, disenfranchising black people in Alabama, they're perfectly fine with it.

[SPEAKER_02]: We have some good pieces in there, but the long and short is I realize it's some people and I'm one of them. [SPEAKER_02]: You get mad about it, but you got to remember that before the voting rights act, this country existed and good people fought to get us to the point where we have the voting. [SPEAKER_02]: We just have to continue getting back and fighting and people like, how do you live every day? [SPEAKER_02]: Have you talked to anybody other for the gauge of 70?

[SPEAKER_02]: have you talked to a black person of age? [SPEAKER_02]: Have you talked to a Native American? [SPEAKER_02]: They have several hundred years, even more than my people. [SPEAKER_02]: They're like, wait a minute, let's see, we had the English, the French, the Spanish, the Portuguese, and all you more on came through and killed a bunch of our people and treated us. [SPEAKER_02]: I like trash.

[SPEAKER_02]: On our land, by the way, and then you took over and people go, how do you survive, I go? [SPEAKER_02]: one day at a time, a lot of it, but you know, we maybe should get Julie back in the bar. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll see. [SPEAKER_02]: Let's say we're in children back here.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: But it's the idea of of, you keep fighting for the good things, because among other things, I mean, it's the good people that you surround yourself with, like the folks here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_02]: That's why you're doing this. [SPEAKER_02]: So, and when we get power again, Democrats, I'm, I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_02]: I, I like my governor for a lot of things. [SPEAKER_02]: She did do something good. [SPEAKER_02]: She did do something good.

[SPEAKER_02]: We have to have that today in the news on tap as well. [SPEAKER_02]: I believe so we have family leave here. [SPEAKER_02]: I love that now we do well because of the the democratic house democratic Senate two big US corporations just cut paid family leave, which is absolutely stupid to delight and toish or you can screw it around.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can change the I've done that for years, you serve a friend's father who used to work for them and I'd say you work for toilet and do [SPEAKER_02]: Invert the sounds anyway, but a delight and zoom are the the employers that they've reduced support for working parents. [SPEAKER_04]: Mainly for women in their workforce. [SPEAKER_02]: In the meantime, Governor Spanberger and the Democrats here in Virginia have added on paid family leave.

[SPEAKER_02]: The details are there actually Governor Spanberger wrote a piece on that. [SPEAKER_02]: And yes, while I am frustrated with Governor Spanberger on the not being as firm against the trying to steal the votes thing, I am extremely glad for all the stuff that she has been able to do when I wish more people would talk about it, which is one of the reasons we're talking about here.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's funny because Dr. Oz said yesterday while Donald was falling asleep about we don't have people aren't having enough babies Which is not not not baby enough baby enough or I don't know as it's a weird phrase. [SPEAKER_04]: It's like and They're fetish with children getting pregnant and and being parents before they're in their 20s [SPEAKER_04]: Our brain isn't fully functional until we're 25. [SPEAKER_04]: So children should never have children if they can avoid it.

[SPEAKER_02]: And while that's more men than women, it's still the same. [SPEAKER_04]: You know, and so it's like the fact that they're like, first off, weirdly knowing about teenage boy's sperm count, like how do I don't need to know what I don't need to know. [SPEAKER_03]: why and also people would have children if they could afford it. [SPEAKER_03]: Hi, that's it. [SPEAKER_03]: Sandburgers helping with that. [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the Democrats in Virginia here, then that is something where Democrats in Virginia are doing a lot of things to help make life more affordable. [SPEAKER_02]: Regardless of what Donald and the idiot Republicans and Congress are doing to make life more expensive by not getting done with the stupid war and by cutting the ACA subsidies.

[SPEAKER_02]: For the people, I mean, I've auto for Spammer, obviously, and she's done, who we talking to and I was saying that I think she has done something like, I think we're talking to Carolyn Fiddler, and I think I think Spammer has done something like 900 or 1000 or 1100 different bills that she signed already. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's summer, dickill is number. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's stuff like this. [SPEAKER_02]: It's stuff like making, you know, a family leave.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: How does it should be? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, which is great. [SPEAKER_04]: Other countries do that. [SPEAKER_02]: Like Germany. [SPEAKER_04]: Denmark. [SPEAKER_04]: I think all of it, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, they all do it. [SPEAKER_02]: Most of, most first world countries do, many second world countries do.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you know, basically it's a modern world thing, because people realize that, [SPEAKER_02]: A rest is something that is good musicians know that a rest is considered basically just a silent note. [SPEAKER_02]: It's still a note. [SPEAKER_02]: It's something that's part of, you need to have a rest in music in order to make your song. [SPEAKER_02]: And people need to have rest as well. [SPEAKER_02]: They need to be able to take a break.

[SPEAKER_02]: They need to be able to stop and think. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, and take care of their family. [SPEAKER_04]: If there's a family medical problem, themselves, if there's a medical problem, their children when they have them men and women need to be able to get time off of work in order to take care of themselves and their families.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm very glad that the Governor Spamberger and the Democratic House, the Democratic Senate, the State Senate, got all that through, that's, yay, that's. [SPEAKER_02]: There you go. [SPEAKER_02]: But a little applause for you on that Spamberger. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, you need to stand up and fight on the boat thing. [SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, like we say, you know, praise one do when criticism too.

[SPEAKER_04]: But remember that this, they're going back to the old map correct if it happens. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: If so. [SPEAKER_04]: Remember, you guys got Democrats in with the old map. [SPEAKER_04]: So do we not despair? [SPEAKER_02]: We did. [SPEAKER_02]: And that is that is something that I keep seeing actually. [SPEAKER_02]: If you go down today in the news on tap, if you go down to the fourth round polls and politics.

[SPEAKER_02]: So there are elections today or there have been. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they're pretty much done by now. [SPEAKER_02]: And Nebraska and West Virginia, polling still shows that Democrats are still favored to win the house. [SPEAKER_02]: There is a little weird thing going on in Nebraska today. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, let's see. [SPEAKER_04]: We don't understand what's going on there. [SPEAKER_04]: OK, if the Democrat wins, yay.

[SPEAKER_04]: But then there's a thing with the presidential election. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so here's how it works. [SPEAKER_02]: The leading Democratic candidate, the Democratic primary today, for to run for the U.S. House from the second, as it first is, the district is around all the way. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: He happens to be a state senator in Nebraska now.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, there are just enough Democrats in the one house legislature that Nebraska has to stop the Republicans from running through whatever damn fool thing they want. [SPEAKER_02]: It's it's basically it's a filibuster proof majority and it's technically not a filibuster proof majority. [SPEAKER_02]: There are people who argue with it, but [SPEAKER_02]: There's one guy, and I know him by his first name, Marv, and I don't remember his last name. [SPEAKER_02]: Rippie, I think it is.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's a Republican, but he's more like an old-fashioned Republican. [SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_02]: He's more like a, like a, like a Michael steel. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: So he doesn't want to do a lot of the ridiculous ass stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: Some of the crazy, you know, some of the stuff that we don't like, [SPEAKER_02]: that is more traditional Republican, he's still fine with.

[SPEAKER_02]: But some of the other stuff like, you know, let's let's make abortion on Capitol offense. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's not that extreme, but it's like, not an interesting. [SPEAKER_02]: So he sides with the dams and because of that, there's this block where they don't get to do things like take away Omaha's dots. [SPEAKER_02]: And what they mean by this is, so I still think the way it should be for everywhere in the country is the way that it is in Nebraska and Maine in that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Every other state has a winter take-all for your residential electoral votes. [SPEAKER_02]: So whoever gets the most votes gets all of the electoral votes in Nebraska and Maine, it works like this. [SPEAKER_02]: So you have districts that are based off of your house district. [SPEAKER_02]: So in Nebraska, there is basically a district around Omaha. [SPEAKER_02]: There is a district around [SPEAKER_02]: most of the rural areas. [SPEAKER_02]: So there's there's your three districts.

[SPEAKER_02]: You could win one of one two or three good any any one of them by themselves and then the other two votes which representative Lee come from senators. [SPEAKER_02]: Your other two electoral votes are a portion by who wins the most votes [SPEAKER_02]: So for example, Barack Obama, uh, and I believe Joe Biden, they both split the state and they [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, they did where they won Omaha.

[SPEAKER_02]: They almost won Lincoln, but there was enough rural vote that they'd drawn the maps. [SPEAKER_02]: So there were more were also it diluted the Lincoln votes. [SPEAKER_02]: And of course, in the third district, as a friend of mine Paul says, he says, you could staple an art or the ass of a dead chicken out there and they'd vote for it. [SPEAKER_02]: So anyway. [SPEAKER_02]: But whatever, but yeah, so it gave Nebraska one electoral vote for the Democrats, which was great.

[SPEAKER_02]: But if his name is John Kavanaugh and if John Kavanaugh does win tonight, he win if he wins the nomination to run for the Democratic seat to to get the Democratic nomination. [SPEAKER_02]: If he wins the Democratic nomination to compete for the U.S. House seat out of Omaha, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: He will have to resign from the legislature, which means that the Republican governor who was a puts [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, he was a hog farmer whose name is Jim Pillan some people call him Pig Pillan. [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, um, Pillan will inevitably put in a toady because Pillan is, um, not. [SPEAKER_02]: You didn't have the greatest ethics. [SPEAKER_02]: Let's just say that. [SPEAKER_04]: Is he Maga too?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's got his head way up Donnie's ass and and so he will appoint somebody then who will let through Republicans do whatever the hell they want Nebraska and the argument during the whole Democratic primary Nebraska is been between the people who say it's it's not like most people dislike most Democrats and even a lot of independence nonpartisans in Nebraska you can be nonpartisan instead of independent means you're completely no party right um they like

[SPEAKER_02]: The argument hasn't been between people who like him and dislike him. [SPEAKER_02]: The argument has been between people who say, but if he wins, then we're going to have to win and enough seats to make sure to stop the filibuster in the legislature. [SPEAKER_02]: And in the meantime, our legislature is at a session right now.

[SPEAKER_02]: And if the governor wanted to appoint somebody and then call a special session just so he could ram through the thing to get rid of Omaha's electoral vote, he could do that and he would have appointed the guy to get rid of it. [SPEAKER_02]: And the elections don't happen until the fall. [SPEAKER_02]: So, conveniently. [SPEAKER_04]: Ha ha.

[SPEAKER_04]: OK, so he doesn't he because like I want to say in California, like with Katie Porter, she did have to resign her seat to run for the Senate. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm against that. [SPEAKER_04]: I think, you know what, I'm running. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to keep my seat if I don't win.

[SPEAKER_02]: Which I mean, you know, I can see that both ways, but I've looked at it and I've gotten in the middle of discussions in with my friends in Nebraska who are like, and I said, I understand and you think he'd be great in the US house and I think he probably would be too, but the question is, are you willing to risk that?

[SPEAKER_02]: the one electoral vote that we've got because you get rid of that they will do things like make abortion illegal They will take away your electoral vote So then Democrats and independence and Nebraska will have no representation now at the president question Uh-huh if that were to happen is the state legislature up for reelection as well This fall But remember are they doing primaries two [SPEAKER_02]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_02]: That's what they're doing.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's the whole thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: So, but like I said, the governor could replace him with a Republican right now and then go, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

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[UNKNOWN]: You know. [SPEAKER_02]: Hey. [SPEAKER_02]: So, we were talking about Nebraska politics. [SPEAKER_02]: So, uh, junk, uh, his, his, his, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh [SPEAKER_02]: for the Omaha seat is owned by Denise, I can't even realize Denise Powell, I think it is.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: And she's okay. [SPEAKER_02]: She's roughly a few feathers in Nebraska Democratic Party. [SPEAKER_02]: She's a fighter, which is not necessarily bad, but when it's a smaller group of people, you can't always ruffle as many feathers as what it is. [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't think anybody dislikes John Christmas. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think anybody's like, oh, he sucks. [SPEAKER_02]: No, well, at least not most of the people that I've talked to in Nebraska.

[SPEAKER_02]: But the concern is, and the attitude, it's been interesting to see this. [SPEAKER_02]: I've had to mediate a couple of fights or try to mediate a couple of fights with my Nebraska friends. [SPEAKER_02]: I try to mediate a couple of fights with my Iowa friends between Josh and Zach, remember we had Zach here? [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Josh, he has his anything, whatever, but for either of them over Ashley Henson. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, God, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: But it's been interesting seeing some of these these in-state democratic fights where they're trying to, you know, get hammer and tongs and go, uh, after each other, and it's like, look, I don't care. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I do in the sense of, you know, I have a preference in, you know, in Nebraska. [SPEAKER_02]: I guess it would be great if we could take John Cushingson and, you know, clone him.

[SPEAKER_02]: Poof, you get one in the state, unicameral, and you get one for the, the Congress, isn't it? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, that doesn't work. [SPEAKER_02]: We live in reality. [SPEAKER_02]: That's a belly and the cat kind of thing. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: The attitude problem though has been is that his supporters, anybody who has brought that up throughout the primary, his supporters were like, I'm just shut up. [SPEAKER_02]: We're going to win.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know we're going to win the seats. [SPEAKER_02]: We're gone to win. [SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_02]: Now you don't. [SPEAKER_02]: Look, I know the polling says that even though Republicans are trying to steal all these seats around the country, the polling still says even with the stealing.

[SPEAKER_02]: But like GLE more, so we're strengthening numbers says Democrats are going to have to win overall with all the votes by around 4% Nate Cohen at the New York Times says the same thing to get a majority a significant majority and that's we're going to have to win by over 4% of the votes total for the House members. [SPEAKER_02]: And I know some people say, oh, well, the polling says and this says, that's right, can you guarantee it?

[SPEAKER_02]: Can you guarantee it to me on your life? [SPEAKER_02]: and people go, no, and I can't, and I'm aware of that. [SPEAKER_02]: And that's the same thing with the Christians in the Nebraska legislature as they go, well, but what if he wins tonight? [SPEAKER_02]: So what if he wins? [SPEAKER_02]: If he wins, then those people who said, well, it's going to be no problem. [SPEAKER_02]: Y'all better God damn well better step the hell up.

[SPEAKER_02]: You better make sure that you are out there, you know, get two hours of sleep and I'd go hair on fire and set yourself up and down the street, but you've got damn well better win that, because if you don't, that bastard who sits in the governor's office in Nebraska, he will make abortion illegal, and he will take away the vote of the people in Omaha. [SPEAKER_02]: So I get it, but let's not be cocky about it. [SPEAKER_02]: Say, we'll do our best.

[SPEAKER_02]: We think we can do it. [SPEAKER_02]: This is the end people say, all that sounds weak. [SPEAKER_02]: It's better sometimes that way because people forget that all the people we've been talking about. [SPEAKER_02]: Just now, Denise and John in Nebraska and Zach and Josh and Iowa, all the Democrats running for governor in California, Katie Porter was on CNN, I guess yesterday and just bashed basera, which. [SPEAKER_04]: It's not a good luck, honey. [SPEAKER_02]: Not a good luck.

[SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_02]: This is one of the reasons why I like ranked choice voting. [SPEAKER_02]: Me too. [SPEAKER_02]: Ranked choice voting tends to engender more comedy, more friendlyness between candidates. [SPEAKER_02]: Because you say, I'd prefer you vote it for me. [SPEAKER_02]: But if you don't vote me, you don't like tomorrow, I would prefer that you subscribe because of Sean Pierce.

[SPEAKER_02]: But if you subscribe because occasionally you have Charlie Pierce in here, that's fine. [SPEAKER_02]: He's another Pierce. [SPEAKER_02]: He spells it wrong. [SPEAKER_02]: But sorry, sorry, I died. [SPEAKER_02]: My thought, anyway, but the fact of the matter is that's how rank choice voting goes. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, Anne, it also makes the vote or more empowered. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, absolutely it does.

[SPEAKER_02]: But the Democrats who are going after other Democrats with hammer and tongs in the primaries, why? [SPEAKER_02]: You need these people and for God's sake, the whole reason why we push the idea about the broad left is because some of our friends who have helped us along the way, like Joe, who we mentioned and we gotta get Joe off the day here. [SPEAKER_02]: is that when you go to the general election, it's not just Democrats who vote.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's Democrats in independence and Republicans and Maga Republicans. [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not asking you to sacrifice and not voters. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, M2, and registered in penits and, you know, yeah, previous numbers, like you said, I'm not asking fat. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't want you to sacrifice your beliefs. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think you do either, Joe. [SPEAKER_02]: No, I don't think you want these to be.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I don't, I understand why people kind of, at least on the Democratic side, move to the middle to get elected. [SPEAKER_02]: I understand that. [SPEAKER_02]: People in the middle, especially in red states, like Nebraska and Iowa, you need. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, that's why when, when, when, when, when, [SPEAKER_04]: Central's Democrats and they primary like that or to the levels. [SPEAKER_02]: Progressively. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, exactly.

[SPEAKER_02]: Donald campaigned in many ways. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: He campaigned like an arrogant douchebag. [SPEAKER_02]: But you remember the first time he had twenty sixteen. [SPEAKER_04]: He was copying Bernie Sanders. [SPEAKER_02]: He campaigned a lot more towards the center that way in 2016. [SPEAKER_02]: And then of course, he'd govern the right wing. [SPEAKER_02]: Not John because he was surrounded by right wing, not James.

[SPEAKER_02]: But. [SPEAKER_02]: So the the people on the further left who say, oh, you you you love the centers I I like pragmatists I can do math and the math tells me that in a state like Nebraska or in a state like Iowa We're in a state like any of the states that are run by Republicans

[SPEAKER_02]: you're going to need some of those Republican votes and you're going to need some of those independent votes and if you go on TV and say, well, not only do I not need any Republicans, and I don't need any independence, uh, also any Democrat who doesn't agree with me can pound sand and suck an egg. [SPEAKER_04]: What? [SPEAKER_04]: You're not going to win anything is a number of votes Randy Rhodes, you should say this all the time.

[SPEAKER_04]: If you want, especially a president or a governor, very important distinctions between senators and everybody else, if you want them to govern to where you like it, give them the votes in the house and in their assembly or their unicameral place, just give them the votes because then they can.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because if they don't write and she always also used to say you fall in love in the primary and you fall in line Exactly, so just Carlos Alisrockie absolutely vote for I know I know I think Carlos got that from us in your Randy, that's my baby, but I mean and they're both right. [SPEAKER_04]: It's like yeah, I voted for for Hillary Clinton in 2008 right in the primary [SPEAKER_04]: voted for Barack Obama, happily. [SPEAKER_04]: And then in 2016, I voted for Bernie in the primary.

[SPEAKER_04]: And happily voted for Hillary. [SPEAKER_04]: And I voted for Elizabeth Warren in 2020. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you know, I voted for Elizabeth Warren in the primary in 2020. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Joe was an even on my top. [SPEAKER_04]: He was, he was even my top three, Joe. [SPEAKER_04]: He was saying, I think way down on the list. [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris. [SPEAKER_02]: That was my boot of judge.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then, and I'm sorry, Corey, no, you weren't my top four in 2020, brother, just saying, now you've got a little more fire. [SPEAKER_02]: That's good. [SPEAKER_02]: But anyway, [SPEAKER_04]: But that was my, that was exactly my order was Warren Harris and Buttigieg. [SPEAKER_04]: Those were my top three and I was like, Joe wasn't even on my radar.

[SPEAKER_02]: Looking at, you know, having worked for Joe and Barack and in Iowa back in the day in O.A., you know, I love that is great. [SPEAKER_02]: But I didn't, I, if you would have told me that he governed as progressively as he did. [SPEAKER_02]: And would have gotten as much as he and common on the Democrats done in very, in two years, basically. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, in 18 months, really. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: I had no idea.

[SPEAKER_02]: I would have been like, are you kidding me? [SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, they hauled ass and they did great. [SPEAKER_02]: But that's the kind of thing the Democrats are going to need to do again. [SPEAKER_02]: As soon as we get an everywhere that Democrats have power, we need to be using it. [SPEAKER_02]: So that is what Governor Spamberger and the Democrats have done here in Virginia. [SPEAKER_02]: In the Commonwealth of Virginia, they've got a lot of things done.

[SPEAKER_02]: Payed family leave, like we were talking about earlier than night. [SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of things that they have done that should have been done a long time ago. [SPEAKER_02]: And they've done them in very short order, which yay, that's fantastic. [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, you're not going to hear much of the mainstream media. [SPEAKER_02]: They have an even local media here in the DC area, a Virginia corner of the DC area.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, they haven't said a whole lot about it. [SPEAKER_02]: But, of course, not. [SPEAKER_02]: They did, and they have gotten a lot done, and that's great, but we're going to need that every single place that Democrats win, and the idea of even if you know that you can't, as we said yesterday, when it comes to this, this fighting back, the Confederates thing, with them trying to steal votes.

[SPEAKER_02]: pretend make the play go out and say we're going to do this and then if you have to file some paperwork file some paperwork and if you know the chance of of actually getting in the small I'm not saying fake it I'm saying do it make the stand yeah

[SPEAKER_02]: if you lose you lose but if you win you win right part of the reason the democrats so often have lost it so many things legislation and of course this stealing the house seats and things is because republicans go out and they say I'm going to win whether they do or not they're always cocky and arrogant as hell they always act like they're going to win [SPEAKER_02]: And they do rally around whoever their candidate is. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, they fall in line like always, you know.

[SPEAKER_04]: And luckily, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer at this point have been whipping the votes for certain things and fighting the Republicans like they have fussed down. [SPEAKER_02]: Doesn't mean that I want Schumer to be. [SPEAKER_02]: No, I don't need that. [SPEAKER_02]: No, I don't need that. [SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't want to. [SPEAKER_04]: We praise folks when they do good stuff. [SPEAKER_04]: But they have been, they have been listening.

[SPEAKER_04]: listening to Nancy Pelosi who knew how to whip boats. [SPEAKER_02]: I understand why Nancy step back and I agree there is a time when for all of us to you know, step forward and it's time to step back. [SPEAKER_04]: But she's she's still there until 20 seven going and she's like, Hey, you know, how came you know what I what I think you should do. [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, you see, you know what I think you should do Chuck. [SPEAKER_04]: You're my listen to me.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm your elder. [SPEAKER_02]: Chuck, Chuck, you're about the same age I think, but still, it's, you know, but, but, you know, I mean, you know, it's, it's, it's like my friend Rubarb up in the cities. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, honestly, I'm sure Nancy Pelosi has a thinking stick, you know, a board of education, if you will, that, you know, should you, should you be wrong? [SPEAKER_04]: She was, she was, and she was such an effective speaker. [SPEAKER_04]: She was, and she's great.

[SPEAKER_04]: Stuff didn't go past the Senate because Republicans were very effective in stopping it. [SPEAKER_02]: And I am hoping that we can find even more effective speakers and leaders down the road. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm hope but whoever you all elected in West Virginia in the primaries today and in Nebraska in the primaries, I'll be elected some good folks because we still got general elections to go and we got a lot more elections to go this year.

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