Proximity To Power May 14, 2026

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[SPEAKER_06]: I probably stayed up a little later than I should have. [SPEAKER_06]: I did have cake and some ice cream, which is birthday, you know? [SPEAKER_06]: We did not do a candle thing because, among other things, we did not want to call the fire department. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm kidding, I'm only 50, something like that. [SPEAKER_06]: No, we 52. [SPEAKER_06]: He made that old. [SPEAKER_06]: I ain't that old, but whatever. [SPEAKER_10]: I'm just refiving the two. [SPEAKER_06]: This is true.

[SPEAKER_06]: You could do that. [SPEAKER_06]: You know, kids and you're actually when kids to healthy, you do a five and a two, though, and they're like, you're seven. [SPEAKER_06]: You're holding up five fingers on one hand and two on the other side. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: I always, that's that's my word. [SPEAKER_06]: That's, that's one of those jokes that I always like to tell actually. [SPEAKER_06]: It's it's a clean joke. [SPEAKER_06]: It's a dad joke kind of a thing.

[SPEAKER_06]: So, uh, uh, guy escapes from prison. [SPEAKER_06]: And, you know, he runs through somebody's backyard, finds some clothes, pulls them off the line, changes into clothes. [SPEAKER_06]: But he still knows the cops are still coming, so he runs a little while later, he finds himself standing in front of school, right?

[SPEAKER_06]: It's all the little kids who get out, but the guy can't help, but he's just so excited, and he stands there, just hands in the air going, I'm free, I'm free, I'm a little kid goes by and goes, I'm full, so what? [SPEAKER_06]: It's a clean joke. [SPEAKER_06]: It's fine. [SPEAKER_09]: It is. [SPEAKER_06]: You know, it's not like, um, Don Jr. That is an unclean joke. [SPEAKER_06]: Eric Trump also unclean joke. [SPEAKER_06]: Not funny either, not funny.

[SPEAKER_06]: They, um, this trip to China, but the hell. [SPEAKER_06]: It's just, I mean, okay, Brett Rattener alone is just, yeah, okay, we didn't even put that in there because that's a little, that's a little, for something you might be triggered. [SPEAKER_06]: So Brett Rattener of Me Too fame and bad movies, among other things. [SPEAKER_10]: And Epstein files fame indeed.

[SPEAKER_06]: He was writing on Air Force One, yes, the Air Force One that we pay for, the one that still actually looks nice as opposed to the gody one that Trump is going to get, [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, writing on Air Force 1, uh, two China, two scout locations for rush hour four. [SPEAKER_06]: which I look, I'm not against a silly funny movie that makes you laugh. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it's kind of a doorky. [SPEAKER_06]: Jackie Chan has always been, you know? [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, I love that.

[SPEAKER_06]: And Chris Tucker is, I mean, Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan in those movies, they were okay. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, they're not gonna win and it can't have me worn in any of those movies. [SPEAKER_06]: As a matter. [SPEAKER_06]: Right, that's not why you watch those movies. [SPEAKER_06]: It's like, you know, popcorn. [SPEAKER_06]: You don't, you know, when you're really hungry and you want something substantive, you don't go get yourself some popcorn.

[SPEAKER_06]: You don't go make popcorn. [SPEAKER_10]: Because it gets stuck in your ear, I hear. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, also, yeah, but it's also not filling. [SPEAKER_06]: It's also, it doesn't, it doesn't do the job. [SPEAKER_06]: It's not effective. [UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_06]: So yeah, that's that that movie not effective for that kind of thing, but they Brett Ratter's writing with him and and Donald Jr's over there. [SPEAKER_06]: I guess Eric Eric is over.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not sure if Don Jr's. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_06]: Eric is with Lara and they're they're safe. [SPEAKER_06]: They're not saying they're making deals, but anybody who is of course they are. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: The corruption. [SPEAKER_10]: Why would they be there? [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: Johnny's right. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, the corruption is ridiculous. [SPEAKER_06]: And I get that that's a story.

[SPEAKER_06]: But mostly we don't really know what's going on because most of the stuff has been behind closed doors. [SPEAKER_06]: We have it in the second round of the news on tap today, Trump in China. [SPEAKER_06]: So Trump and she obviously discussed the Iran war. [SPEAKER_06]: Trump's people are saying, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, she is right with us that their Iran needs to give up the straight on her moves and not have any toll fees or anything.

[SPEAKER_06]: We haven't heard at least when we're just, you know, sitting down and we like stuff off about mid afternoon and if something comes up, we see it on CNN or MS now or one of the things we got on TV's in here. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, what will let you guys know? [SPEAKER_06]: If we, you know, actually can figure out the what they're doing, what the Kiaraan says on the bottom of the team.

[SPEAKER_06]: But for the most part, um, mid afternoon, we're like, okay, that's, you know, because not a whole lot of stuff. [SPEAKER_06]: And that's especially because they're in China. [SPEAKER_06]: So they are 12 hours ahead of us right now. [SPEAKER_06]: It is literally, uh, in the early early hours there. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, and the other thing is, um, [SPEAKER_10]: Okay, brain fart. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, she, she didn't meet him at the airport, right?

[SPEAKER_10]: Which is a major major snub. [SPEAKER_06]: Normally, yeah, normally that is a major news. [SPEAKER_10]: If a head of state comes to your country, you greet them as the head of state of your country. [SPEAKER_10]: That's normally you do. [SPEAKER_10]: That's the etiquette. [SPEAKER_10]: So, G put him in his place the minute they land it.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, that, I mean, you know, look, here's the thing to me is a lot of this stuff is probably goes over Trump's head and he probably doesn't necessarily care. [SPEAKER_06]: He's, he's not back here dealing with his crappy economy. [SPEAKER_06]: Sure. [SPEAKER_10]: It's great. [SPEAKER_10]: It's going really well. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, according to him.

[SPEAKER_06]: According to the actualities here, let me play this from your boyfriend because my other boyfriend don't tell Charlie or Lonnie I've seen look at that. [SPEAKER_06]: Look at you Man, I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not a who I'm a who I [SPEAKER_00]: here in the, this is from Periaten. [SPEAKER_00]: These are the ugliest numbers I have ever seen on a collection. [SPEAKER_00]: And it's not just one ball Johnny Burman, it's many people just take a one here.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's that approval on a collection. [SPEAKER_00]: The five worst polls ever. [SPEAKER_00]: For any president, they all belong to Donald John Trump, and they have all occurred in the last month, the CNN poll, one of them 48, 48 points below water on the net of proof rating. [SPEAKER_00]: So what we're talking about here is the worst numbers ever in multiple polls now belong to the president of the United States Donald Trump.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is a record simply put you do not want to have. [SPEAKER_10]: We're not in one, he's not in one. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah, absolutely, that way too. [SPEAKER_06]: I agree with you, Joe, he deserves one finger. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, he is. [SPEAKER_10]: Because there's a story about the woman that sometimes writes some of his troughs. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, OK, yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: And apparently, we talked about it on Bob's show today.

[SPEAKER_10]: And apparently, [SPEAKER_10]: She walks around. [SPEAKER_10]: She's been working with him for him for years. [SPEAKER_10]: She's like an old school Trump person. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: And so he's known her for years. [SPEAKER_10]: And she credits him with his healthcare for saving her life, which makes no sense. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, because he didn't do anything with healthcare.

[SPEAKER_10]: Unless they had a good health, unless they had good health insurance at the company, other than that, no, he didn't help her at all. [SPEAKER_10]: Right. [SPEAKER_10]: So anyway, so she walks around the White House [SPEAKER_10]: Constantly, and if she sees something that is beneficial to him, she'll print it out for him to see, yeah, whether it's opposed.

[SPEAKER_10]: It's usually probably postings and not news articles, because obviously news articles are not good about him right now. [SPEAKER_10]: But that's how it. [SPEAKER_10]: She's forming his little bubble. [SPEAKER_10]: Right. [SPEAKER_10]: She's the delusion whisperer. [SPEAKER_06]: When I was, this is 26 years ago, I was the Chief Technology Consultant from the Nebraska Press Association back when they had more than 200 newspapers in the state, anyway. [SPEAKER_06]: Right.

[SPEAKER_06]: Status of media. [SPEAKER_06]: We'll talk about that today too. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: So the guy who was the in charge there, the guy who ran the place, his name was Alan Beerman. [SPEAKER_06]: And yeah, he's a Republican, but he was kind of old school. [SPEAKER_06]: And Alan had kind of a knack to get into places and meet people that he, for example, when he went to the Sistine Chapel, you are not supposed to take pictures.

[SPEAKER_06]: No. [SPEAKER_06]: And yet, because Alan knew a guy who knew one of the bishops who happened to be there and whatever, and he got in there and he took pictures inside the system because this is Alan, Beerman, that's just, that's who he was, but Alan,

[SPEAKER_06]: uh... didn't know how to check his email the way that he would check his email is uh... he would ask the front desk secretary then brask a press association he would say um... can you get me my email and then she would print out his email and if he had anything to reply he would write it out on the print out and then give it back to her and then she would type it in and reply [SPEAKER_06]: How old was this man?

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, Alan was his hair gone white early, but I mean, he was, he was older. [SPEAKER_06]: He wasn't old. [SPEAKER_10]: A mom's 93 and understands texting emojis and email. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, like I said, this was like 20 secures ago, and I was the chief technology. [SPEAKER_06]: He was doing, oh, I'm, I'm sure your mom was because your mom's smart and I'm not saying Ellen's dumb, but Alan was just dealt with technology shows not to do that.

[SPEAKER_06]: kind of yeah and because people accommodate him and one of the things that they literally had me come in to is to teach him how to use his email which was a little bit of a task that was that was a little little difficult as far as that goes but i mean i've literally seen this kind of thing in operation before this is this is not a surprise to me at all um and and like i said you know guys guys brilliant in some ways brilliant with people just

[SPEAKER_06]: Really, and the funny thing was is that he was in charge of newspaper men and newspaper publishers across the state Some of whom thought, you know, for example, well, the one of the big things they thought So you're 2000 and I'm telling them okay all the tech people are saying there's going to be these things [SPEAKER_06]: They're going to look like maybe an eight and a half by eleven or like a eight and a half by fourteen like a legal size or a letter size piece of paper.

[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe a little bit thicker and you're going to be able to do all kinds of going on websites and you'll be able to to print stuff from them and you'll be able to. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm about tablet, correct? [SPEAKER_06]: And I was saying, I said, y'all better get on board with this, because I said within, say, five to 10 years, this crap is going to completely change the way that newspapers deal with publishing and deal with everything else. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, absolutely.

[SPEAKER_06]: And their idea, and the idea, among many people at the time, was basically you would punch a button and it would bring up today's paper, pink, you know, like a PDF, and you can still get some newspapers that way. [SPEAKER_06]: That's fine. [SPEAKER_06]: They give you the printed version of it that way. [SPEAKER_06]: But I, there were some of the publishers who insisted, oh, it's never going to be that way, it's not, we're going to do things the same way we've always done them.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: That's within the lifetime of pretty much everybody listening here. [SPEAKER_06]: So this tells you that the media in many ways hasn't changed. [SPEAKER_06]: And it's part of the reason why you are not seeing some of the most important stories. [SPEAKER_06]: One of the biggest stories that rise to the Neo Confederacy and the attack on our democracy, you're not really seeing it anywhere near as importantly as you should be.

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[SPEAKER_06]: So Tom, by the way, Jody, he says, you know, the New York Times soccer [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: On the other hand, the Trump family practically banks on pipelineing access to their patriarchy. [SPEAKER_06]: And the time shrugs, they're metaphorical. [SPEAKER_06]: There's no good thing. [SPEAKER_10]: I know the corruption in that family compared to Barisma was it half a million dollars to the might have made.

[SPEAKER_06]: May or may not have, and I don't think there was any real crime. [SPEAKER_10]: There was no crime there. [SPEAKER_06]: No, they did all kinds of investigations. [SPEAKER_06]: There was no crime there. [UNKNOWN]: No. [SPEAKER_06]: And the IRS thing was BS, and I mean, some of the stuff that goes on in media, um, yes, there is still the the it is way old school, but the phrase if it bleeds, it leads. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, this is true. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, but it's not leading now.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, and this is the thing. [SPEAKER_06]: So in the first round of the news on tap today, the thing that, and I hope it doesn't get to a bleeding point, the uncivil war over democracy. [SPEAKER_06]: This is really serious, this is when we first got into the new, into the bar today, and we were talking about, you know, what we're gonna talk about.

[SPEAKER_06]: And we're saying, hey, you know, it's like, you realize, if we don't have democracy, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, [SPEAKER_06]: CBS even crappy as it is Fox crappy as it is these people don't won't necessarily exist [SPEAKER_06]: We see stories about occasionally some Russian broadcaster accidentally were on purpose. [SPEAKER_06]: Following on some knives, well, they they tell the truth and then they get chased out of the country.

[SPEAKER_06]: We're too lucky enough. [SPEAKER_10]: We're, oh, sorry, a lot of window. [SPEAKER_10]: That window was so difficult. [SPEAKER_10]: It was a sealed like Vegas window, but somehow. [SPEAKER_06]: through the window. [SPEAKER_10]: Throughout. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, look, this is, I don't understand, and I'm sure you guys don't understand. [SPEAKER_06]: We don't understand here. [SPEAKER_06]: Why they're not focusing on this.

[SPEAKER_06]: And at first round, in the uncivil war over democracy, in the cowards of the new Confederacy, haven't checked yet, Louisiana redistricting fight, is in the full Senate today. [SPEAKER_06]: They were supposed to have the vote earlier. [SPEAKER_06]: I didn't see if it got finished, but it's pretty much a done deal. [SPEAKER_06]: They're going to be doing a new map, new map part of it. [SPEAKER_06]: a new math to. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, we're in in Louisiana's electoral math.

[SPEAKER_06]: Black people don't count. [SPEAKER_10]: No. [SPEAKER_10]: And that's, you know, it's been going around a lot of people myself included have been posting. [SPEAKER_10]: There's a specific person that said black athletes don't go to these states. [SPEAKER_10]: You said yesterday, I mean, a lot of athletes that are former athletes or current athletes are like, yep, do not apply to colleges in these states. [SPEAKER_10]: Now, Georgia is going to do it. [SPEAKER_10]: Florida did it.

[SPEAKER_10]: Well, he's in us. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, this tells you how much of how much of the cowards we are. [SPEAKER_06]: So we've got the stories. [SPEAKER_06]: So a governor McMaster down South Carolina originally said he wasn't going to do it. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: But obviously somebody in the Trump regime called him and applied pressure probably Steven Miller.

[SPEAKER_06]: And now governor McMaster is set to call South Carolina's understand how he thinks he's going to call a special session of a legislature.

[SPEAKER_06]: But if you remember, [SPEAKER_06]: the Senate president the guy we were talking about yesterday's speech is got some good things but it's just a little long for it to play with here it's literally like you put it on my social media my blue sky count yesterday it's like a forty nine minute that's a little long for us otherwise we thought we could get up and [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, go with everybody here at the bar while he was saying he said this is stupid.

[SPEAKER_06]: He said if we do this, we're going to get our asses handed to us. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: And that's why he and I think four other Republicans there said no. [SPEAKER_10]: There are a cherry mander to enough. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: That's that's just it. [SPEAKER_06]: But he said no. [SPEAKER_06]: So now the gutless government master in South Carolina says, Oh, well, okay. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, we'll try it.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, Governor Camp. [SPEAKER_06]: Remember he wasn't going to do it now. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he was going to do it now. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he was going to do it now. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he was going to do it now. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he was going to do it now. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he was going to do it now. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he was going to do it now. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he was going to do it now. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he was going to do it now. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he was going to do it now.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he was going to do it now. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he was going to do it now. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he [SPEAKER_06]: and can affect change more directly now is the time now is the time to this weekend if not the end of this week won't tomorrow i mean tomorrow's Friday it's the end of the week but i would say Friday said it's very soon going protest literally outside or if the if you know that the governor is going to event protest

[SPEAKER_06]: peacefully but loud and clear make it well known that you are not in favor of these Republican traders these Confederate traders stealing our democracy in the United States that this is not acceptable because camp originally remember he just did that little I'm going to adjust it around Atlanta. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, apparently somebody got to him and now he's like, well, now he's going to call for a special session.

[SPEAKER_06]: I was surprised to see Tator though, Mississippi governor, Tate Reed, Tater, Tater said, yeah, he's going to cancel the special legislative session. [SPEAKER_10]: Because if you look at their maps, they're already so jerry-mandered that if you read jerry-mandered it, you may lose seats that you think you're going to gain. [SPEAKER_06]: The dummy-mander.

[SPEAKER_10]: And the dummy-mander, and the thing is is because people are now aware of what jerry-mandering is that maybe weren't before. [SPEAKER_10]: Now they're pissed. [SPEAKER_10]: If they're in a new redrawn district, they might be like, even Republicans and certainly independence let alone the Democrats that are gerrymandered away. [SPEAKER_10]: But regardless, it's like, wait, what? [SPEAKER_06]: There's a certain level of, and especially in the South.

[SPEAKER_06]: Look, [SPEAKER_06]: conferences are dirtier than others and the SEC is probably the dirtiest and has been for a long time. [SPEAKER_06]: There's all kinds of things and I'm not saying anything. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, there's plenty places in the South we like, but it's also, if you hear the conversation behind the scenes, [SPEAKER_06]: at least ones that I would trust. [SPEAKER_09]: I'll just say that way. [SPEAKER_09]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, and their politics is that way too.

[SPEAKER_06]: We all know it. [SPEAKER_06]: Everybody does. [SPEAKER_06]: They know it there too. [SPEAKER_06]: The people who live there know it and get furious by it. [SPEAKER_06]: But there's a certain amount of it. [SPEAKER_06]: Like the tilts that we've been talking about with playing pinball. [SPEAKER_06]: There's a certain amount of cheating where you go with a sucks, but whatever. [SPEAKER_06]: It's, it's not worth me fighting over. [UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_06]: kind of like the little scanner things in your grocery stores or your retail store, you know, the little little things at the front door, where all of somebody steals and the kind of sensor, then it's right. [SPEAKER_06]: But if you notice, they don't have those on the back doors bringing stuff in. [SPEAKER_06]: That's actually, in retail terms, that's known as shrink. [SPEAKER_06]: That's where most of the product is actually lost is at the back door.

[SPEAKER_06]: Of course, because it's [SPEAKER_06]: But it's because, among other things, it's too expensive for the retailers to try to get every single door. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, that's why we self-checkout, which I loath by the way. [SPEAKER_06]: It's also a very high, high rate of theft under self-checkout. [SPEAKER_10]: And it's just a friend of mine posted about it the other day. [SPEAKER_10]: And she was what you're problem with it, and we don't have a problem with self-serve.

[SPEAKER_10]: Ah, but with full serve, you got extra. [SPEAKER_10]: That's why you paid for it. [SPEAKER_10]: So if I'm going to self-checkout, then I do want to discount. [SPEAKER_10]: Or extra when I go to the... [SPEAKER_06]: And they're on share like the jersey where you can't do so. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, you can't if the Jojo from church was terrified when she left the state.

[SPEAKER_10]: Whereas my wife was like, damn it, why can't I turn left in her friend's there when she was training there said it's new jersey no left turns allowed that's so weird it's weird but it's See like right on on a red I always have to ask when I get to a state can you turn right on a red because here in California in Hawaii and Colorado I think you can If I remember call right a lot but like Massachusetts you can certain other places is like you can certain cities even within states right right differences always ask

[SPEAKER_06]: We don't mind, and we're not calling everybody who is in the South and Confederate because God knows there's no great folks that listen to us in the South and we like people from the South. [SPEAKER_06]: Jeff talked to him today. [SPEAKER_06]: He's down there. [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, Jeff, it's great. [SPEAKER_06]: There's nothing wrong with with it's not where you live.

[SPEAKER_06]: But it's the fact that there are some of these traders there that want to steal the elections, and of course, then there's always the further left people that say that Democrats can do no right. [SPEAKER_06]: No matter what, they're like a cumjet free sucks, and Chuck Schumer sucks, Nancy Pelosi sucked before that, and Joe Biden sucked in common with Harris sucked, and then of course, when Democrats that they support lose, they go, well, how come nobody votes for a Democrat?

[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, like Carlisle's Rocky says and like Randy used to say except for in California because we have a super primary system, but fall love at the primaries and fall in line in the general and I don't I did the same like I said I voted for Bernie because I thought his ideas were good and that's why Donald Trump stole them in 2016 by the way and so I voted for him in the primary and when he didn't win [SPEAKER_10]: He really didn't win children. [SPEAKER_10]: She got more votes.

[SPEAKER_10]: It wasn't the super delegates that voted her in. [SPEAKER_10]: It was the delegates. [SPEAKER_10]: Because even though the Democrats have the super delegate policy, they have yet to utilize it. [UNKNOWN]: Right. [SPEAKER_10]: And I put it in after my government. [SPEAKER_10]: That's why they put it in. [SPEAKER_06]: It's been there so long. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and look, it's it's so well, we can jump down.

[SPEAKER_06]: We want to go back up to what, uh, a Keem Jeffries is doing as far as this goes. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, but we will jump down a little bit later, uh, to some of the election stuff, because there is some, some fences that need to be mended in my home state. [SPEAKER_06]: So we've got that. [SPEAKER_06]: But, [SPEAKER_06]: And continuing to talk about the uncivil war over democracy. [SPEAKER_06]: So Democrats in general, I think are finally doing the right thing.

[SPEAKER_06]: We pointed out how Cory Booker's getting a little bit angry that had came Jeffries is getting the final. [SPEAKER_06]: It is great to see Democrats finally ditching the niceties. [SPEAKER_06]: We've got a piece on that that's in the news on tap on Democratic Patriots returning fire. [SPEAKER_06]: In fact, Jeffries has a plan for Democrats to regain 12 seats. [SPEAKER_06]: with the pre 2028 redistricting.

[SPEAKER_06]: And look, I've said I'm not satisfied with Governor Spanberger on this issue. [SPEAKER_06]: I think she needs still can step up on that, even though our attorney general here, Jay Jones is stepping up on that. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, yeah, which is great.

[SPEAKER_06]: But anyway, [SPEAKER_06]: we are getting to the point close to the point if not at the point beyond which you have to say like we said earlier when we set a time sometime in the mid afternoon three four five o'clock whatever where we're like beyond that point we don't really [SPEAKER_06]: whatever it is comes into the show and if something changes, I mean occasionally we'll admit it like, you know, when what's his name was shot and we know Charlie Kirk.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, right, but I mean if it's not that level of important because a lot of times we can't double check somebody will put some interesting thing on a caron and say, oh, this is this particular claim and you go. [SPEAKER_06]: We can't check it. [SPEAKER_06]: We're talking to you guys on the mic. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, yeah, I mean, when Kirk was shot, Bob told us and we were like, okay, he was shot. [SPEAKER_10]: Is he okay? [SPEAKER_10]: That was our first, like, I hope so.

[SPEAKER_06]: And for the inkling they had was he was injured, right? [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, he was the first and then, right. [SPEAKER_06]: But, you know, I mean, so there's a certain point at which you have to, uh, as the old phrase goes, Fisher Cup bait. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: And there is that way with elections as well. [SPEAKER_06]: And we are there with a lot of primary elections.

[SPEAKER_06]: A lot of these elections that these Confederate trade or Republicans have been jerking around, they've canceled out thousands of votes. [SPEAKER_06]: They've screwed things up royally. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you, Scott, as people. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, well, six people on Scotus. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: Judges right on that. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: The dirty six, I believe. [SPEAKER_06]: I think John is the only coin that. [SPEAKER_06]: What's going to be the same?

[SPEAKER_06]: We'll be here a little bit later. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: It is the dirty six on Scotus. [SPEAKER_06]: But Jeffrey's is fighting back. [SPEAKER_06]: He's calling on New York, New Jersey, Washington State, Colorado, Oregon, Maryland, and Illinois to act aggressively. [SPEAKER_06]: I agree. [SPEAKER_06]: You can get one or two seats fine, but we can get 12 back. [SPEAKER_06]: at least because it's about you will exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: That's the other thing.

[SPEAKER_06]: As we've talked to people, one of the things that you need you guys need to be doing to be fighting about this stuff is working at the state in a local level. [SPEAKER_06]: We've got another piece on that on the news on tap that Democrats are turning to state legislative races. [SPEAKER_06]: and you're seeing people who used to disagree with some of these ideas, stepping forward. [SPEAKER_06]: Like one vice president, Kamala Harris.

[SPEAKER_10]: I love that she's being aggressive about it. [SPEAKER_06]: I love this. [SPEAKER_06]: She, uh, we got a piece from, uh, it's, uh, who's at Huff Post. [SPEAKER_06]: That's who it is. [SPEAKER_06]: Yesterday, um, she, she gave, actually gave a call with, uh, a non-profit group emerge. [SPEAKER_06]: And she said, look, she is, she used to be against the idea of expanding the spring court. [SPEAKER_06]: Now she's for it. [SPEAKER_06]: She's like, let's go all the way, which great.

[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, hell yeah, that's exactly what we want to hear from people like Kamala Harris. [SPEAKER_06]: We want to hear that from anybody who is a democratic leader. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, yes, it is important to stand up and do these things, and it's also important at the state levels to be working their your asses off folks. [SPEAKER_06]: This is this is not going to be a sprint. [SPEAKER_06]: This is going to be a marathon. [SPEAKER_06]: This is going to take a while.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: So, and if we know that we've got leaders, maybe they weren't great in the past at certain times. [SPEAKER_06]: But maybe they've changed and they're not saying, you know, what Katy bar the door, let's go. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Great, that's exactly what we need. [SPEAKER_06]: Instead of just ruling them out, going, you know what? [SPEAKER_06]: Fine, let's go. [SPEAKER_06]: Push them. [SPEAKER_06]: Push them and make them follow through with it.

[SPEAKER_10]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_10]: Sure. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, um, I am pushing things a little bit. [SPEAKER_06]: I need a drink. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, so, plus I like the history on this one. [SPEAKER_06]: It's kind of cool and it kind of goes with the whole truck going to China for the second time thing. [SPEAKER_06]: So, uh, we will do the drink of the day next. [SPEAKER_06]: More news on tap coming up. [SPEAKER_06]: John Fugle sang as well. [SPEAKER_06]: You got Jody Hamilton.

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[SPEAKER_06]: So, speaking of the drink of the day, I was not expecting this one. [SPEAKER_06]: When I opened this one up the other day. [SPEAKER_06]: I was like, this was, this is interesting. [SPEAKER_06]: I was not expecting this little piece of history. [SPEAKER_10]: things I find. [SPEAKER_06]: It's kind of cool. [SPEAKER_06]: It's kind of neat. [SPEAKER_06]: And I mean, there are some pictures. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, the the late 1800s, mid 1800s are not that far in the past.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's surprisingly. [SPEAKER_06]: Johnny, what is the inspiration for the drink of the day and what is the drink of the day today? [SPEAKER_10]: The drink of the day is a Japanese cocktail, which is inspired by the first Japanese diplomatic [SPEAKER_06]: There you go, see, look at that. [SPEAKER_06]: And they've got a picture, I love that you got the picture right there. [SPEAKER_10]: No, they've got everybody just doesn't look happy because it took forever to take a picture then.

[SPEAKER_06]: Also, by the way, back then, you were told not to smile. [SPEAKER_06]: There is one guy in the center who is smiling. [SPEAKER_06]: A little bit. [SPEAKER_06]: Everybody else is, well, on there's one, there's one of the union guys in the back. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I see. [SPEAKER_10]: He's kind of smiling, too. [SPEAKER_10]: It's, yeah, they were told not to smile because smiling, because it was to, took like two or three minutes to take a picture.

[SPEAKER_06]: Also, people not exactly having the greatest dental work back then, too. [SPEAKER_10]: You don't need to show your teeth, but it's just like, it was basically because it takes energy to smile no matter what, so it's easier for you, if it's going to take three minutes to take this picture, then we don't want you moving. [SPEAKER_06]: Right, resting bastard face, you're grumpy, whatever you have. [SPEAKER_10]: You just look like a supermodel because they always look pissed off.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, except for Melania, and then, you know, they would. [SPEAKER_10]: She's good. [SPEAKER_10]: She always look pissed up. [SPEAKER_06]: Even, she's making pictures. [SPEAKER_06]: I was just saying they wanted them to keep their clothes on back. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, I mean, look, if I had her body, I would totally walk around naked all the time. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, you know, although I'm Ben, she's not doing that. [SPEAKER_06]: And why that?

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, she's not staying. [SPEAKER_10]: I think she's only been with him the one time to have the Bubba. [SPEAKER_06]: And that was probably for an extra pump up because of her prenatal, but just anyway. [SPEAKER_10]: Didn't they redo their prenatal in the first administration? [SPEAKER_06]: I think they did, if I remember right, but look, agreements are important to have, especially if you're really interested.

[SPEAKER_06]: And the Japanese, um, [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, they had some issues, obviously. [SPEAKER_06]: I like the history that you got in here. [SPEAKER_06]: For those of you who didn't know, they basically had closed themselves off for about 200 years just before this. [SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_06]: A lot of problems with foreigners attacking China and the drug trade, and they just close the country off. [SPEAKER_06]: Nope, anybody coming in.

[SPEAKER_06]: But about 1850 years, so they started to open up and shortly thereafter, they came over here. [SPEAKER_06]: And then they signed a treaty of Amity and Commerce, also known as the Harris Treaty. [SPEAKER_06]: Yep. [SPEAKER_06]: And these treaties were not exactly great. [SPEAKER_06]: You can look at the full details, like we said, legal documents. [SPEAKER_06]: You can check out the details. [SPEAKER_06]: It isn't in legalese.

[SPEAKER_06]: But it describes exactly why they, yeah, why they weren't happy and then what they came over here and what they started to learn. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, you know, the Japanese picked up a lot of American stuff. [SPEAKER_06]: Kind of like after World War II and they picked up American stuff and then they made it better and that's why a lot of stuff has made. [SPEAKER_10]: Like cars, televisions. [SPEAKER_06]: Electronics. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_06]: But it is, it's an interesting history and we definitely can now it's a nice little drink. [SPEAKER_06]: It is, isn't it? [UNKNOWN]: It is. [SPEAKER_06]: I think you can see the creating well it's pretty and I think it's the kind of thing that would probably go well with well you can't just say because there's there's a broad variety of different foods from Japan. [SPEAKER_06]: What I'm trying to think to have a little bit of an almond-detaste [SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_06]: You do Wagyu beef with this? [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: I would go with beef. [SPEAKER_06]: I could do some good seafood. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: Some salmon. [SPEAKER_10]: Something like that. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: It was more heft to it. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: And that is the name of cocktail, by the way. [SPEAKER_06]: It's not Japanese. [SPEAKER_06]: Something that we didn't include.

[SPEAKER_06]: No. [SPEAKER_06]: It's just called the Japanese cocktail. [SPEAKER_06]: That is what it is called. [SPEAKER_06]: How do we make one? [SPEAKER_10]: We help. [SPEAKER_10]: We pre-chill. [SPEAKER_10]: children, a neck and nora or coop glass, so you pick your little teeny little glasses, a shaker, some ice, two ounces of cognac, a half ounce of modern almond, syrup or orgiat, syrup, so that's the almond flavor. [SPEAKER_06]: Somebody, if somebody says orgiat syrup, it's almond.

[SPEAKER_10]: two dashes of Angus Sora bitters and a garnish with lemon twist. [SPEAKER_10]: You add all your ingredients with ice to your shaker Shake it until it's cold strain it into your glass and express the lemon twist over the drink and perch it There you go on the rim. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, I think thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: Kind of like a little Japanese origami [SPEAKER_10]: Yes, if you do that, my old podcast co-host Nick used to do origami.

[SPEAKER_10]: I used to have a little bird that he made one day. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, that's kind of cool. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: Let me take that. [SPEAKER_10]: And it was just made a bird. [SPEAKER_10]: I'm like, that's cool. [SPEAKER_06]: Look, diplomacy never comes easy. [SPEAKER_06]: None of this stuff does. [SPEAKER_06]: And sometimes drinks are more complicated than others, but if you have the recipe, that always helps.

[SPEAKER_06]: And of course, if you are subscribed at the politicsbar.com, you get the drink of the day with the recipe. [SPEAKER_06]: That's what we recommend. [SPEAKER_06]: You do. [SPEAKER_06]: All righty here, uh, in the entertainment section in the fifth round today of the news on tap, uh, rest in peace to, uh, Memphis, grizzly. [SPEAKER_06]: So young. [SPEAKER_09]: What happened? [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they don't know what happened. [SPEAKER_06]: They, at least they haven't released it yet.

[SPEAKER_06]: Um, seven NDA seasons died at the age of 29. [SPEAKER_10]: He's a baby. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm sure whatever it is is going to be something that's kind of surprising. [SPEAKER_10]: My granny's is older than he is. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it's kind of sad that way. [SPEAKER_06]: In your movie's TV and music entertainment section, the Batman Part Two movie confirms the cast Robert Pattinson coming back by the way his birthday was yesterday as well. [SPEAKER_10]: Happy birthday to him.

[SPEAKER_06]: There you go, uh, belated, uh, Scarlett Johansson coming in some other DC veterans, they're doing okay with it. [SPEAKER_10]: Scarlett Johansson is not a DC veteran, and neither is Sebastian's stand. [SPEAKER_10]: Those guys are, um, Marvel people. [SPEAKER_06]: But there is a number of people who are doing kind of crossovers. [SPEAKER_10]: So it's, well, stands supposed to play two face. [SPEAKER_10]: You'd be great. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he's very talented.

[SPEAKER_06]: He's very talented. [SPEAKER_06]: He played, um, uh, Motley crew. [SPEAKER_10]: I'm thinking, [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, which he's he's a better actor than I think people give him credit. [SPEAKER_10]: He's an amazing actor. [SPEAKER_10]: He really is. [SPEAKER_10]: I mean, he when he we watch the time in the panel of thing and. [SPEAKER_10]: It was, she was great too, by the way, playing with him, she was amazing.

[SPEAKER_10]: She's English also, but his, he looked like him and he's not as tall because Tommy's tall, I've met Tommy, he's tall, like a really tall guy. [SPEAKER_10]: But he just had his everything down this guy. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, this man, she's such a good actor, such a good actor. [SPEAKER_06]: On then, the show Rooster, by the way, over at HBO, shot at my school. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I was gonna mention that shot at shot where you went to college.

[SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: It's HBO's best comedy debut in 15 years if you happen to have Was it in the call it HBO Max again? [SPEAKER_06]: I can't remember. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, it's back to HBO Max It's not just back, any more, which is the dumbest brand change. [SPEAKER_06]: I know. [SPEAKER_06]: I know that was look especially because of the fact that it used to be HBO and skin a max Oh, thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, sorry.

[SPEAKER_10]: It's not even still around [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, they they on both of the notes, you know, whatever, Dr. Who has moved their library. [SPEAKER_06]: They are now streaming at AMC Plus. [SPEAKER_06]: So if you are a doctor who fan, there you go. [SPEAKER_06]: Now you can cancel whatever your previous subscription was. [SPEAKER_06]: Some of you just are in that way.

[SPEAKER_06]: The National Recording Registry has announced more songs and records they are putting in Taylor Swift's 1989, Beyonce Singal Ladies, some stuff from Ray Charles, the Go Go's, the Birds, Weezer, or even McIntyre, we've got the full list there. [SPEAKER_06]: You can check that out. [SPEAKER_10]: So my first husband, Ray Charles, he's in there. [SPEAKER_06]: There you go. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, look, Ray was a classic. [SPEAKER_06]: Damn, I love that.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, Billy, I'd love by the way, I'm going to receive a lifetime achievement award at the American Music Awards. [SPEAKER_06]: So I like that. [SPEAKER_06]: I like that. [SPEAKER_06]: I like that. [SPEAKER_06]: Shakira, Madonna, and BTS are going to headline the World Cup finals first, ever halftime show.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, they've never had a halftime show, but they're coming to the United States and Mexico in Canada, for the World Cup, so Americans expect a halftime show, so they're actually going to do a halftime show. [SPEAKER_10]: Are they going to do it here in these United States, because the stands ain't going to be that full apparently because people aren't coming here.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, and and the ticket prices are way too expensive way too expensive and yeah, and some of the some of the it apparently it seems like now some of the teams Advocated lobby that if you will To get their matches moved to the Canadian or the Mexican location. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't blame them. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't blame them either, but it's like yeah, so we'll [SPEAKER_06]: That's the whether whether we like it or not, whether that our blind likes it or not.

[SPEAKER_06]: And I'll be a show of attorney through seven scoreless innings last night. [SPEAKER_06]: Dodgers beat the Giants for nothing in their four game losing streak. [SPEAKER_06]: I threw it in because I knew you would be happy in Jody's smiling. [SPEAKER_06]: So there we go. [SPEAKER_06]: NBA playoffs. [SPEAKER_06]: Detroit pistons blew a nine point lead late in regulation, went to overtime, Cleveland Cavaliers beat them 117 to 113.

[SPEAKER_06]: on the break of elimination now so you gotta get it going there pistons if you want to stay yeah um uh don't get mad at me miss out a while people not my fault uh Brett Koolock scored three hours four minutes and overtime last night Colorado Avalanche advanced the next round and the Minnesota wild season is over sorry I'm you know I like to miss out and they got to the playoffs this year hey that's good [SPEAKER_06]: You know, it's not saying anything.

[SPEAKER_06]: So also, WMBA Board of Governors has approved the sale and relocation of the Connecticut sun to Houston and the Houston rocket's group is buying them. [SPEAKER_06]: I still don't quite get that because I'm like, Yukon, the University of Connecticut. [SPEAKER_06]: It's a great basketball school. [SPEAKER_06]: And they just basically were like, hey, we'll take, we'll take some of these players and pick you can just go play the professional WNA.

[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, people have lives outside of this stuff. [SPEAKER_06]: So they've already been building a life as they're going through college. [SPEAKER_06]: Then they instead of just going to college, they just go down the road and they're playing professional. [SPEAKER_06]: And now they're going to have to go somewhere else. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know, I think of things like that.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think of people's lives outside of the stuff that they're focused on, whether they're entertaining, or whether they're in sports, or whether they're in politics. [SPEAKER_06]: People have lives outside of this stuff. [SPEAKER_06]: But the media always acts in the way that so much of the mainstream media acts, they act as though whatever the thing that they want to talk about is the thing. [SPEAKER_06]: And that person is, that's what they are forever.

[SPEAKER_06]: This is their role and that they have a private life. [SPEAKER_06]: No, we take them out of the closet. [SPEAKER_06]: We plug them in here and then we just stick them back in the cupboard. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, slammer. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, and then people wonder why they go, well, how come people don't treat famous people with some of the respect they go? [SPEAKER_06]: Because they're treated like objects. [SPEAKER_06]: Take the box out of the cabinet.

[SPEAKER_06]: When you want to use it, you pour the pasta in and then put it back. [SPEAKER_06]: And that's, look, we've got to talk about how the media is missing the big story today and why they're missing it because I think this is something that Everybody here in the bar is is it's not just [SPEAKER_06]: It's not just because they don't want to talk about it. [SPEAKER_06]: It's not because they're on Donald Trump side or the Republican side.

[SPEAKER_06]: They're not that biased and they're not that complex. [SPEAKER_06]: Really, you're not, it's not, it's not as complex as you think. [SPEAKER_06]: But look, well, we'll talk about that next hour. [SPEAKER_06]: John, if you go saying coming in, which is great, I think he's kind of playing the catch after the show. [SPEAKER_06]: He does. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, well, well, well, make sure that we get everything in with him as well.

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[SPEAKER_06]: All right, Jody. [SPEAKER_06]: So we've been kind of billboarding this, telling people. [SPEAKER_06]: Here's the thing. [SPEAKER_06]: The story about democracy, it is something that I think Americans do care about. [SPEAKER_06]: It is very important. [SPEAKER_06]: It is I'm glad to see that Democrats are getting angry and fighting back and saying that they're going to throw out some of the rules and screw it. [SPEAKER_06]: We are going to expand the court.

[SPEAKER_06]: And we are going to work even in the rural areas to get more Democrats in the local areas. [SPEAKER_06]: We're going to do all these things. [SPEAKER_06]: Great. [SPEAKER_06]: And you would think, if all things were equal, that the media would want to cover. [SPEAKER_06]: You think, well, yeah, considering that if there's no democracy, they don't have a business model and the many of them may end up being in jail or dead.

[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, you think, I would imagine the, um, some of the producers and the anchors are aware of this, but they're overlords think they're going to be okay Jeff Bezos all those guys think they're going to be okay, but no [SPEAKER_06]: Right, exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: Judges right. [SPEAKER_06]: And history tells us this, especially World War II. [SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_06]: Everybody think, you know, Porsche, who isn't that great?

[SPEAKER_06]: And Ferdinand Porsche, well, he made the VW. [SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he made the VW at the threat of the furer. [SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, it was the people's car, because that's what they wanted it called. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: It's not like Ferdinand Porsche said, I got it. [SPEAKER_06]: I agree, yeah, I'm going to make a car for the people.

[SPEAKER_06]: it was you will make a car for the people who will send you where we sent the other people. [SPEAKER_06]: And they went, you know what, I am thrilled to make a car for the people, it's a great you go do that. [SPEAKER_10]: You know, I'm halfway through the most recent episode of the boys, which I told you on Monday, home lander who is the worst. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, he's not a hero. [SPEAKER_06]: He's not even anti-hero. [SPEAKER_10]: No, he's like just awful.

[SPEAKER_10]: So now that he can live forever, according to the lore of the story, now it's the end of this show. [SPEAKER_10]: So hopefully he will also die. [SPEAKER_10]: There's another person supposed to die on the show that I haven't seen yet. [SPEAKER_10]: So don't tell me. [SPEAKER_10]: Anyway, um, [SPEAKER_10]: But basically, you got this shot so that he can say alive like his father and for the rest for eternity.

[SPEAKER_10]: So now they literally did a commercial promo for him where Jesus comes down. [SPEAKER_10]: Now the commercial hilarious, because you can see the guys think VFX cut the, you know, get rid of Jesus's wires and harness, you know, get rid of all, you know, cut this out. [SPEAKER_10]: You know, it's very funny. [SPEAKER_10]: That was funny, by the way. [SPEAKER_10]: It was very funny.

[SPEAKER_10]: but he's you've got home lander in this wheat field and then Jesus comes down and says, I no longer believe that borders should, you need to be nice to the stranger and all this stuff and you know, God was wrong first and you're going to take any takes the crown of thorns and puts it on home lander and David digs who plays this who's fantastic and they got him just saying,

[SPEAKER_10]: But anyway, he's loving this and then he's looking around at the focus group, and they're all like But that's something Donald would do. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh He has done technically. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, he did he did do the, you know, Trump as Jesus thing and that was was Roundly I mean even by the people who have been his market disciples. [SPEAKER_06]: They're like that's too far So we know if given the opportunity him specially Steven Miller [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, God.

[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Um, uh, keg breath. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, all these people, they, they go too far because that's their thing. [SPEAKER_06]: So these folks who are in the media, who are running the media, who own the national media, who are the big executives, who don't actually do a whole lot of work. [SPEAKER_06]: They just, you know, give the notes.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, as Jonny rolls her eyes anytime you say the word notes to somebody who has worked especially in Hollywood and TV movies, it is very frustrating because notes are inevitably from some executive who's detached, doesn't know they're asked from a home the ground and yet is making decisions about how the actual performance is supposed to get out there. [SPEAKER_06]: And those hate say it, but those happen in national news as well from your mainstream stuff.

[SPEAKER_06]: And it happens in [SPEAKER_06]: print quote-unquote which includes your digital stuff to you know your new your times and whatever so we all know this stuff so people are saying why aren't they talking about this this war in democracy why are they there there's a peace god i'm going to have to go back and look um somebody didn't evaluation fanat that yes the new year times is in fact many times in many ways biased [SPEAKER_06]: by the language they use.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah, head of the paper of Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Because they always softpedle anything bad that he's done. [SPEAKER_06]: And anything otherwise, oh, they try to make him sound tough. [SPEAKER_06]: And a lot of, it's not just the New York Times. [SPEAKER_06]: A lot of the mainstream outlets do it. [SPEAKER_06]: And we understand why you guys don't always trust, you know, as a whole. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't think either of us do already.

[SPEAKER_06]: Trust any single outlet completely. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh no. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, and that's why in the news on tap we put the best of what we can find from this one and that one and you know, like I think we have a piece from Lamond today and there because they did it better so you put that in there and that's fine. [SPEAKER_06]: The reason that they're not covering this.

[SPEAKER_06]: If I say to you that I want to talk about the story about Donald Trump in China, the image comes to you kind of like that we put today in the in the collage, right. [SPEAKER_06]: Trump and Xi staying in a front of Chinese-American flags. [SPEAKER_06]: Sure. [SPEAKER_06]: If I say, let's talk about war. [SPEAKER_06]: What kind of image would you... Several.

[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, I'm just going off, rubble, people injured, frying people, and all of these are things that we've used in our collages. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: OK, that's fine. [SPEAKER_06]: If I say to you, Republicans are trying to illegitimately [SPEAKER_06]: How do you put that in a single picture? [SPEAKER_10]: Voting? [SPEAKER_06]: There are ways that we can do it that kind of ship around the edges, but there's no real easy image.

[SPEAKER_06]: So that's one of the reasons why you're not going to see it as much on TV. [SPEAKER_06]: Because they look and they go, well, I need an image that punches. [SPEAKER_06]: There's a one. [SPEAKER_06]: This is a hugely important story. [SPEAKER_10]: It's like climate change, although you can't get pictures now with the poor little polar bearers just floating. [SPEAKER_10]: Those are all wrong. [SPEAKER_06]: Those are all wrong. [SPEAKER_06]: A big ass storm or whatever.

[SPEAKER_10]: Well, you know, you can't have solar energy because the sun sets, you know, that's what Burgams said. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, my God. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, you heard that, too. [SPEAKER_06]: We didn't even even have room for that. [SPEAKER_06]: Doug Bergen, former governor of North Dakota, I believe. [SPEAKER_06]: Tooshbag, in good with his friends and the big oil companies. [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, didn't understand the technology about a battery. [SPEAKER_06]: I have one.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think it actually was James Walkinshal, my congressman, who put it in the record. [SPEAKER_10]: It's wonderful technology called batteries. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, because Bergman was saying, you know, what happens when the the sun goes down to the wind stops blowing, and then he, and Bergman gets done with his thing and walking shots says he can take a minute, and he just like pulls out a battery.

[SPEAKER_06]: But they, which they have those for their microphones and other things scattered up on up on their desk. [SPEAKER_06]: He's pulled out and he says, there's this amazing technology. [SPEAKER_06]: And I had it right here in my hand. [SPEAKER_06]: It's called a battery. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I have one. [SPEAKER_06]: They've known about it for a couple of thousand years. [SPEAKER_10]: And you know what, even if, even if you didn't have battery backup, if you just do solar all day long.

[SPEAKER_10]: You're still saving money. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_10]: And the burning is many fossil fuels. [SPEAKER_06]: But of course, batteries are the thing and conveniently, battery technology is massively advanced and it's getting better and better every day. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: And the rest of the world has been heavily involved in this, because we've been doing this to the core of the map.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: But the reason why you're not seeing it, the media folks, the mainstream media, is among other things, A. [SPEAKER_06]: they would have to look like they're taking a side, which they should. [SPEAKER_06]: They should be citing with democracy and saying that we stand for democracy and without democracy, you can't have legitimate news media. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: You can't.

[SPEAKER_06]: It is not guaranteed in any of the systems that's out there other than legitimate democracy. [SPEAKER_06]: So congratulations democracy and journalism go hand in hand.

[SPEAKER_06]: just changed i think god and god the she the guy that was dancing when they they and so when you got you're right he was all right why don't went through a wiped out all of their old propaganda things and it's like if you're propaganda all of that's fine you could go do something else but uh... you can't uh... you know

[SPEAKER_06]: Can't stay here and doing that and and that's exactly it because you can't have in order for democracy to exist Jefferson said you have to have two things You have to have a well-informed and a well-educated populous.

[SPEAKER_06]: You have to both yes, and if your if the majority of your information systems are poisoned with [SPEAKER_06]: fake information, bad information, information that is purposely wrong, you're not going to have people be well-informed and they aren't going to be well-educated. [SPEAKER_09]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: So, totally understandable. [SPEAKER_06]: But the reason that the mainstream media doesn't is it's not easy topic to cover.

[SPEAKER_06]: They have to look like they're taking a stand with Democrats who are supporting democracy. [SPEAKER_06]: Versus Republicans right now who are supporting authoritarianism. [SPEAKER_06]: And they go, well, but don't, don't call me that. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, you know, it's kind of like Donald coming out and saying, you know, I'm not a rapist. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know him. [SPEAKER_09]: I don't know him. [SPEAKER_09]: I don't know him. [SPEAKER_06]: Right.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, look, the whole thing to me is we do know that you know Epstein. [SPEAKER_06]: And yes, we can call him. [SPEAKER_06]: Maybe not a rapist, but you can call him a convicted sexual assault. [SPEAKER_06]: He's an educated rapist. [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: There we go. [SPEAKER_06]: That works. [SPEAKER_06]: Hey. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, he's never sued anybody for calling him a rapist, by the way. [SPEAKER_04]: That's true.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is true, nor child molester, interestingly enough, do you remember at the at the car plant in Michigan when the Trump is visiting and some guy yells out a pedophile protector and Trump turns around and the president of the US gives him the finger. [SPEAKER_04]: Now, question quiz for you and all of your all of your audience. [SPEAKER_04]: What's the difference between Donald Trump and all the rest of us? [SPEAKER_04]: You ready?

[SPEAKER_04]: If someone, if someone screams out pedophile protector, all the rest of us won't immediately assume they're talking about us. [SPEAKER_04]: That's the difference. [SPEAKER_01]: If Trump, if Trump had been like pedophile protector, where? [SPEAKER_01]: Let me add him. [SPEAKER_01]: I'll destroy the guy. [SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't, but no, he's like, how dare you insult my guy? [SPEAKER_04]: Give the finger. [SPEAKER_04]: And there you go, folks. [SPEAKER_04]: Hello and welcome.

[SPEAKER_06]: Hello, hi, John, you're a little spicy today. [SPEAKER_06]: You're in a good mood. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I just how you caught me mid mid mid of what I show up And there's a man talking about rape. [SPEAKER_04]: I know it's time to be funny. [SPEAKER_04]: Sean, I say that seems to be the Well, we're talking about the other things. [SPEAKER_06]: Why the media really is not covering one of the biggest stories.

[SPEAKER_06]: This war over democracy and a cowards of the new Confederacy Trying to steal democracy from the rest of us. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, the mainstream media goes [SPEAKER_05]: story is boring and it's hard to cover and you'd make a side with the Democrats and that's no fun. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, journalists are covering it. [SPEAKER_04]: The media needs clicks. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that is you you we've talked about that before.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's something that Derek should highlight that again when we get back because it's it's a it's important that people understand when they go willy. [SPEAKER_06]: This is an important story the bar with the people that hang out with and it's important to me. [SPEAKER_06]: Why the hell is in the mainstream media covering it? [SPEAKER_06]: So that way they know. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't even know what it means. [SPEAKER_04]: I just stole that line from the Kevin Hart roast.

[SPEAKER_06]: I heard it and I just thought I'd repeat it So I don't really know what I'm saying No, you do know what you're saying John Cuba's saying knows a lot about a lot of things and we're glad to have you here in the barn tonight Oh, dear you do you do. [SPEAKER_06]: I look. [SPEAKER_06]: I tell people trust John you read his books listen to shows. [SPEAKER_04]: He knows what's going on Oh dear I trust and have some of this cool ladies in the tub. [SPEAKER_04]: Try it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's good trust me [SPEAKER_06]: John's gonna let your lights and you coming back on Thursday night.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's the politics bar hang on We'll be right back after we'd pay some bills at the politics bar [SPEAKER_06]: It is Thursday night here at the politics bar and you know him you love him the one and only John Feele say sit down sit down Look there are a couple of young ladies in here who happen to have this thing you come in you know They do the whole grab their shirt like they're gonna put it up and it's like come on. [SPEAKER_06]: We're public place.

[SPEAKER_06]: I mean I'm already I wouldn't mind necessarily but Say Look can't be doing that in public place. [SPEAKER_06]: There are children around potentially listening and [SPEAKER_04]: Radio used to be safe. [SPEAKER_06]: Well look there there is. [SPEAKER_06]: You know finishing up our discussion earlier about the mainstream media is it's not like there aren't good people doing some good stories. [SPEAKER_06]: Everything to me is it's cherry picked. [SPEAKER_06]: It's all Swiss cheese.

[SPEAKER_06]: You have to go in and find the best stories. [SPEAKER_06]: You have to find good writers. [SPEAKER_06]: Good journalists. [SPEAKER_06]: Good producers.

[SPEAKER_06]: and you're not going it's not going to be where it used to be like you could trust just the New York Times or just the Washington Post to just you know CBS or whatever it's like no you you know CBS sucks in many ways now Fox I don't call I still don't call Fox News because most of the time it's not doesn't mean that there is an occasionally a good piece from them

[SPEAKER_04]: We're in the golden age of niche news now, two thirds of us get news that speaks directly to our biases and the other third of us doesn't care and the two thirds of us spend a billion dollars a piece every election trying to get the apathetic one third to care about something and that's how the system is new. [SPEAKER_04]: Let's spend a billion dollars to get the least informed people to get on the fence and care about our side.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's where the Republicans, especially, that's why they still cling to Maga. [SPEAKER_06]: Because Maga was the one big group having, having worked on the campaign side of all of this. [SPEAKER_06]: That was the one win that they, the one big win they had in last 25 years. [SPEAKER_06]: When you're doing campaign stuff, the big wins that you can have. [SPEAKER_06]: are getting a big group of people who was non-voters, who didn't take polls, who didn't show up in the polls.

[SPEAKER_06]: So your opponent is never going to see him coming. [SPEAKER_04]: And these people finally come out, you're talking about stupid people who watch too much reality TV is what you're talking about, right? [SPEAKER_06]: That's how much love I lent. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, whatever, whatever group that you can get to climb out of work, these are the same revoltingly fake Christians that attacked us for not supporting a war against Iraq.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like they've, you know, they were able to get power twice this century after the majority of voters said no. [SPEAKER_04]: And I mean, you look at the dirty six on the Supreme Court, five of them appointed by presidents who got the White House even though the majority of Americans didn't want them.

[SPEAKER_06]: run the sixth was appointed by a president who opposed the 1964 civil rights that's the sixth that took away abortion rights and that have now handed the union back to the confederacy becomes to voting time yeah and this is the thing is this is why democrats need to be saying you know what screw it we're not going to play by the old fashion rules i was i was cheered we put it in the news on tap john um i don't know if you're remembered but common here is she used to be

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, good. [SPEAKER_06]: You should do it. [SPEAKER_06]: Do it. [SPEAKER_06]: Very, very clearly. [SPEAKER_06]: Very, you know, script goal. [SPEAKER_04]: Yep. [SPEAKER_04]: Great. [SPEAKER_04]: Great. [SPEAKER_04]: They should fight for it. [SPEAKER_04]: Even if they aren't going to do it. [SPEAKER_04]: Just say you're going to do it. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, Frank, the Roosevelt threatened to do it.

[SPEAKER_04]: He had three justices on the Supreme Court that we're trying to undo the new deal. [SPEAKER_10]: I remember. [SPEAKER_04]: Roosevelt, yeah, you were there, Joe. [SPEAKER_04]: I was trying to Roosevelt. [SPEAKER_04]: He just, all he did was just say, okay, I'm going to appoint three more justices of the court and they backed down. [SPEAKER_04]: They always say, oh, Roosevelt tried to pack the court. [SPEAKER_04]: No, he didn't.

[SPEAKER_04]: I kept scraping this at the Biden administration. [SPEAKER_04]: Roosevelt didn't threaten to pack the court. [SPEAKER_04]: He just said he was going to try it. [SPEAKER_04]: He just talked about it and that was enough. [SPEAKER_04]: And that saved the new deal. [SPEAKER_04]: His tough talk, I'm packing the court. [SPEAKER_04]: So I say there's 13 circuit courts by all means. [SPEAKER_04]: Please do it right now.

[SPEAKER_10]: Well, it's not packing the court packing the court is what is happened correct. [SPEAKER_10]: This will be expanding the court exactly and yeah, that's still wise to I guess Still go with rule of 18. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like screw it. [SPEAKER_06]: You do it once like that and expand it. [SPEAKER_06]: You're going to have to expand it for another hundred years So I'm I'm fine with that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, they Mitch McConnell decided we could change the number from nine to eight for a whole year Oh, yes, did I the black guy in upper down vote so I mean it's not exactly like we're urinating on an altar over here True [SPEAKER_04]: And that's that's that's that's for nine hour federally blessed revival meetings for you're dating on an altar that's [SPEAKER_04]: That's the great big nine hour prayer festival. [SPEAKER_04]: You guys excited for the nine nine hour blast FEMA thorn.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know why it takes nine hours? [SPEAKER_04]: Because that's how long it takes to convince people Jesus would support tax cuts for hedge funds. [SPEAKER_04]: And I stracking children at a church back next. [SPEAKER_04]: That takes nine hours. [SPEAKER_10]: You need to see the most recent the boys because there's a whole Jesus thing that's hilarious. [SPEAKER_04]: That hurt. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I love that they keep saying, this isn't theocracy.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, as they have their nine hour prayer meetings and I've failed these giant goals. [SPEAKER_04]: No, it's not theocracy. [SPEAKER_04]: It's like, it's like, open a casino called, no, definitely not a gambling place, no! [SPEAKER_06]: There is no gambling behind these doors. [SPEAKER_04]: We never notice though.

[SPEAKER_04]: Like the people who say that America is a Christian nation, it's always the people who think the actual Christian teachings are like an optional software update. [SPEAKER_04]: You know, like they just, [SPEAKER_04]: They click the terms and conditions. [SPEAKER_04]: They don't read it. [SPEAKER_04]: They just fight for it. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, and they, and they, they make everything. [SPEAKER_06]: It is Orwellian.

[SPEAKER_06]: The whole thing with, uh, J.V. [SPEAKER_06]: Vance saying, oh, yeah, we're going to withhold billions of dollars from California, because you guys were involved in quote unquote fraud. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's actually, I mean, I guess that's Orwellian. [SPEAKER_04]: I thought it was just murdering poor and disabled people, but maybe it is Orwellian. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, they tried it Minnesota too. [SPEAKER_06]: They went there's fraud there.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's like, yeah, they've already been convicting the people who did the fraud. [SPEAKER_06]: Thanks. [SPEAKER_06]: They were actually led by white woman. [SPEAKER_06]: So they know they know they know there's fraud and they've been on it. [SPEAKER_06]: Thanks for playing along. [SPEAKER_04]: You know, that's why I love seeing, you know, the giant unveiling of the statue of the golden cancels. [SPEAKER_11]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, the statue guy has yet to be paid first off, Doi. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, wow. [SPEAKER_04]: So it's on grand, you're saying. [SPEAKER_10]: Wow. [SPEAKER_10]: And he said it was the worst people to work with because they had no plan. [SPEAKER_10]: And so he made this the ideal of the statue looking like Donald and they said, no, make him thinner. [SPEAKER_04]: Can I, can I just say, um, you're, are you asking me to have sympathy for a guy who went into business with these folks?

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, like, no, I'm supposed to feel bad, dude, you're like one of his wives, you signed up for the public abuse, you, you signed up for the humiliation, this altar, it looks like Moses came down from Mount Sinai and found the Israelites worshiping a rapist casino manager from Queens.

[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, like, you know, yeah, the only wife, by the way, the only wife that has, [SPEAKER_10]: plausible deniability would be if Ivana cuz she was first well cuz she married him when he was younger She didn't really know as much as we all know now so everybody since Ivana knows better [SPEAKER_04]: You know, I hear what you're saying, but knowing what Ivana knew by the time she left and the fact that she's still helped prop up this campaign, you know what I'm saying?

[SPEAKER_04]: Like Western peace lady, but you know, like look how he rewarded her. [SPEAKER_04]: She's buried in a an unmarked grave in a grassy Nolan golf course. [SPEAKER_04]: It's like, this is what obedience to this guy gets you. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: The cabinet are too dumb to realize it. [SPEAKER_04]: Blime obedience to this man gets you one, one way to get to Cristina, myland. [SPEAKER_04]: And that's it. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and at least, go ahead.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, these pastors that were all there say, oh, it's not a religious thing, but it's all religious figures cutting a ribbon. [SPEAKER_04]: The same people who've been telling us for years that America turned away from God because Target is showing rainbow cheese shirts.

[SPEAKER_04]: And now they're, they want the 10 commandments in schools while hosting this ribbon cutting ceremony for a golden idol of a billionaire who cheated on all his wives and sells these really gay porn shirtless NFTs [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, all of these frauds have lined up to personally wipe Trump's behind with pages of the new testament. [SPEAKER_04]: And the thing is, this is how you know, this is fake Christianity.

[SPEAKER_04]: Folks, when Jesus enters Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, he does it on a donkey. [SPEAKER_04]: He does. [SPEAKER_04]: Deliberately, to mock the pomp and the spectacle of empire and Trump rides into rallies like Liberace in gold, La May arriving at a police raid, except he wears more makeup in Liberace. [SPEAKER_04]: Like the symbolism of this thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: They didn't put up a statue of him at a hospital or a shelter or a food bank It's not a monument to helping the poor or the sick or being a peacemaker This is a gold plated douchebag statue with a golf resort for a guy who tear gas the church for a photo Upholding a bookie never read I mean if Rome could see Rome and Empire would be like dudes calm down.

[SPEAKER_04]: You're ketone it down You're making colligula uncomfortable really too much too much guys [SPEAKER_10]: And when he held that Bible, it was upside down. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's right. [SPEAKER_06]: And the more recent version of that, the thing that I hear from a number of people, people who, there's a guy I think I mentioned before, one who's who, uh, vote for Trump. [SPEAKER_06]: He has now, I guess you could say, come clean to me. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, really?

[SPEAKER_04]: A guy named Juan voted for Trump and realized he made a mistake, shocking. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, no. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, next you'll tell me that Akbar regrets his vote, too. [SPEAKER_06]: The thing is, is that he's, you know, I saw him again when I went to the grocery store the other day and and he said he's like, the thing I can't understand about this whole war thing. [SPEAKER_06]: So, okay, what? [SPEAKER_06]: Just, you know, I'm listening.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm, you know, we're friends. [SPEAKER_06]: And he says, he says, when it started out on the first day when they killed that school full of girls, how to help does anybody support it on that? [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, [SPEAKER_04]: I'm just doing it for Jesus. [SPEAKER_04]: That's how they do everything. [SPEAKER_04]: They're doing the opposite of Jesus for Jesus. [SPEAKER_04]: Pete Higgs, that's a better Christian. [SPEAKER_04]: Donald Trump, I mean, Robert Jefferson at this week.

[SPEAKER_04]: The Donald Trump understands the Bible better than Pope Leo, because Pope Leo doesn't want a bomb civilian infrastructure and killed children. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, like, they're Bible is anything but Jesus. [SPEAKER_04]: They're so twisted. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: But it's the fact that they don't think [SPEAKER_06]: that these people, they don't think that the common people can see, they go, well, it's just a gold statue. [SPEAKER_06]: It's not what you think it is.

[SPEAKER_04]: The common people haven't, the common people have been suckered for 1700 years by this. [SPEAKER_04]: Ever since Rome had the hostile takeover of the startup. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: This has been the racket. [SPEAKER_04]: They bring in these clergy used to be guys and dresses and funny hats to say nomadists nomadists and bless their evil wars.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now they bring in these pastors and bad suits to come and do the same kind of ritual and all it is is just conferring some kind of sanctity, somehow getting some puppet. [SPEAKER_04]: who's willing to trade the teachings of Jesus for access and proximity to power to come in here and say that somehow this war is sacred and sacred is a completely made up garbage word we invented to say God approves of this crap we're doing right now.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, funny thing is, it's almost everything you just said there could also be applied to a lot of the mainstream media folks. [SPEAKER_06]: who sell everything for their access, and they think their coverage is sacred. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah, but that's all for ratings, and the name of journalism. [SPEAKER_04]: This is all for power in the name of Christ. [SPEAKER_04]: It's just sheer philosophy. [SPEAKER_06]: It's slightly different.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and you don't need to believe it any of the Bible is literal fact to call these frauds out because they're a camouflage and until we get really good at stripping away their camouflage, these godless douche bags are going to continue wrapping up their violence and church talk and getting away with it.

[SPEAKER_06]: I still think I've been saying this a lot lately because the image has just been coming to my brain of, you know, I used to play video games in pinball a lot when I was younger and pinball games. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, you played it, John, you know, you can't tell them. [SPEAKER_06]: You can maybe put a little English on it, you know, move the machine a little bit. [SPEAKER_06]: But you do it too much, it tells, game over, you're done.

[SPEAKER_06]: And these idiot maga Trump disciples still think that they can tip the damn thing completely over and oh, I'll still get all the free games I want to always have they that I mean that's Charlemagne that's constantly that's Hitler right that's Franco that's Mussolini they always and that's why I'm saying they don't they don't they go oh they won't know that this gold statue is like no you know what it is [SPEAKER_04]: I'm tipping the ping-pong, I'm sorry, I can't even talk.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm tilting it, tilting it, but I'm tilting it for Jesus. [SPEAKER_04]: So I'm killing a lot of people with bombs, but I'm doing it for Jesus. [SPEAKER_04]: I wrote a prayer for these folks. [SPEAKER_04]: Can I share it with y'all? [SPEAKER_04]: I wrote a prayer when I saw the statue of the Golden Kankels revealed and I called us the Lard Sprayer. [SPEAKER_04]: It's for Trump's supporters.

[SPEAKER_04]: It goes like this, our ruler, who arch in Florida, branded be thy name, thy kingdom, dumb, thy cabinet, scum, thy girth, size 57. [SPEAKER_04]: Give us this day our big leap red and give us our guest passes as we trespass against those who look more defenseless And lead us now to more inflation But deliver us from feminists yay men. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: I love that That was excellence That was excellent. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's the last steamer's creed. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: Pracepace That I'm I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: You're you're editor may kill me, but you should put that in your new book [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, thank you. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm gonna pay for it. [SPEAKER_06]: It's fine, you know, we know you're working on it, and I'm just going, that's really good. [SPEAKER_10]: You know, it's a prologue.

[UNKNOWN]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: My book's all about Blake Lively and Justin Bell Donnie, guys. [SPEAKER_04]: That's all my media keeps reporting about. [SPEAKER_04]: That's the only thing I read about. [SPEAKER_04]: That's all I say, yeah, two people I don't care about at all, that my media keeps telling me are very important. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I mean, meanwhile, there was one thing that I've been surprised to see.

[SPEAKER_06]: I have seen it across a lot of the mainstream that even they are going, what the hell is, I mean, he doesn't like Eric. [SPEAKER_06]: Why is Eric there? [SPEAKER_06]: Why is Eric with you, man? [SPEAKER_07]: Eric. [SPEAKER_06]: You're right, exactly. [SPEAKER_06]: It's, and they're like, well, it's Brett Ratner and Eric. [SPEAKER_06]: Brett Ratner of all. [SPEAKER_05]: And Eric and and even the mainstream people were like, I don't know what how do you how do you justify this?

[SPEAKER_04]: How how do I what the hell do I say are you joking Eric just pulled off a heist of 59,000 59 million in a scam for Trump phones. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, well, I mean this point. [SPEAKER_06]: Eric's probably more pot [SPEAKER_06]: The mainstream don't want to say that. [SPEAKER_04]: Eric's more popular than Fred O. Jr., my friend this week. [SPEAKER_04]: Remember a year ago we heard about, it was a year ago we heard about the Trump mobile.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I was like, oh really, so the guy who can't operate an umbrella is launching a smartphone. [SPEAKER_04]: But Eric was the point guy on it and I'd love to talk about it when we come back because it is the perfect metaphor for this entire family.

[SPEAKER_06]: I do I absolutely want to talk about it because I just went when I heard it at first I first first read it and then I was like, okay, no really and I had to go out and do research And I'm like, are you freaking kidding me and no no, it's real we had the story here a few days back in the news on tap We've we've got to talk about that [SPEAKER_06]: Look, it is Thursday night, John Fucosangs with us for at least one more round. [SPEAKER_06]: Fresh in your drinks.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I've been, I mean, when the announced it last year was like. [SPEAKER_04]: Free porn. [SPEAKER_04]: truth social for your hand crypto for your pocket uh and droid for your lowest IQ relative I I think it's viewed at the most perfect metaphor for the Trump experience ever the the whole thing was a licensing scam from the beginning right like Trump Trump didn't design the phone. [SPEAKER_04]: He didn't build a phone. [SPEAKER_04]: He didn't code the operating system.

[SPEAKER_04]: He slapped his name on it like like a vodka or a marriage [SPEAKER_04]: And all these people lined up to pay 500 bucks for a phone, and $47 a month, get it $47 for what's essentially rerouted AT&T service, because Trump phone doesn't have its own towers. [SPEAKER_04]: So these people, these are the people who are too dumb for burn or phones. [SPEAKER_04]: That's the core audience, okay?

[SPEAKER_04]: And now, you know, people who thought the Trump university or the airline or the stakes or the crypto scam or the sneakers of the ballroom or the Phantom cell phone,

[SPEAKER_04]: and and like the whole thing was a complete scam and this week as Jodie pointed out they put it out in the fine print oh yeah you you might never ever actually get a phone that's not coming uh LOL and now these people are angry the Donald Trump treated them like a contractor or a wife and this is everything he's ever [SPEAKER_04]: done. [SPEAKER_04]: And right wing media are not going to cover the story.

[SPEAKER_04]: Most Magofoke are not going to know that thousands of Magofoke got ripped off just like they did by Trump University and by the Trump Foundation. [SPEAKER_04]: And this thing was the most honest product Trump has ever sold. [SPEAKER_04]: A gold plated bait and switch that takes your money up front, delivers absolutely nothing, then changes the rules and then dares you to complain about it afterwards. [SPEAKER_04]: The perfect symbol for the last 10 years.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, here's the weird-ass thing, you know, I helped Walmart back in the day when I, you know, whatever I needed the money and roll out their connections at a concept. [SPEAKER_06]: What it was was an MVNO mobile vehicle network operator. [SPEAKER_04]: I thought you worked there as a greater. [SPEAKER_04]: I thought that's how you helped Walmart. [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't realize. [SPEAKER_06]: No, they actually wanted my skills.

[SPEAKER_06]: MVNO things like virgin mobile for a long time. [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Virgin operated off of, I believe, either Verizon or Sprint. [SPEAKER_06]: I can't remember which, but they piggyback. [SPEAKER_06]: There are a lot of these NVNOs that are actually, you know, companies that they just did. [SPEAKER_04]: It also has net work for the flag on it. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's, it is so easy. [SPEAKER_06]: It would have been so easy.

[SPEAKER_06]: for them to contract with a company. [SPEAKER_06]: They got tons of people they know in China who make these cheap Android phones, slap some gold paint on it, put a cheap version of the Android system and a great big, and here's the kicker to me. [SPEAKER_06]: This tells me that not only are they common, but they're too lazy, even to follow through with something super easy. [SPEAKER_04]: Why should they have to? [SPEAKER_04]: They know the robs they're dealing with.

[SPEAKER_04]: They know these people voted for them after they had cops beaten on the capital steps for a lie. [SPEAKER_06]: American flags. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, they don't care it's not gonna it's not gonna hurt them Trump's never running for election again It's not enough Americans that will make anybody angry and if I ever got to hot Donald Trump would just fire his son That's what he does Yeah, I'm sorry Eric we're going a different direction.

[SPEAKER_10]: I'm sorry daddy I didn't make it good. [SPEAKER_04]: Well you're you're you're assuming that he knows who Eric is I know I know I'm assuming Lara knows who Eric is [SPEAKER_01]: Eric, did you pick up my dry cleaning or not? [SPEAKER_04]: Never mind, go finish your puzzle, Eric. [SPEAKER_10]: I have a music video to do. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, oh, Joe. [SPEAKER_01]: It's, oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: We can go back to that, too. [SPEAKER_01]: I have to profane the name of Tom Petty, Eric.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do something you stop. [SPEAKER_05]: It is, it is. [SPEAKER_06]: It is sad the number of people who are so Alien form and and always been that way. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I don't think it's ever been as bad as this. [SPEAKER_04]: It's worse now at least here in the United They had slaves and called it Christian. [SPEAKER_04]: What are you talking about? [SPEAKER_10]: Well, I mean it was true. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, but in the media age [SPEAKER_10]: It's worse now.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're 20 years away from the Christian supporting a war on Iraq, guys, don't let the Andesia getcha. [SPEAKER_04]: It's been this way for a long time. [SPEAKER_04]: The people who impeached Bill Clinton for adultery, lick the loafers of this guy. [SPEAKER_04]: There's nothing new here. [SPEAKER_04]: The only difference is the Republican Party used to be a conservative party with a white nationalist racist fringe.

[SPEAKER_04]: And now it's a white nationalist racist party with a conservative fringe. [SPEAKER_06]: And that's really the only change you're exactly right John's 100% right.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: I wow [SPEAKER_06]: And it's it's there does more to pray for the Nixon Nixon by the way would never Nixon would never have to leave office now no God well That was that was the whole point of creating be right-wing media Well, they were trying to do it during Nixon GOP T GOP T He was Roger was Roger else that has been their 50-year project is to make sure that the next Nixon could do whatever illegal garbage He wanted and never have to leave

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and the media just keeps them all angry at brown people and Joe Biden's ghost and that way they never notice that their own pockets Thank you, Mr. Trump, for lying about the donors paying for the ballroom Yeah, now it's me Thank you for lying to us about Mexico paying for the wall Thank you for lying about no new wars in the Middle East And thank you for lying about releasing all the Epstein files Oh, and we love these gas prices by the way Thank you, sir Sir, with tears of my eyes Thank you

[SPEAKER_06]: the funny thing is that the local TV stations, even some of the national media, they are finding it hard to find the Trump sport. [SPEAKER_06]: They don't get one or two, but there are a lot more of the compilations of them, talking about who I voted for Trump three times. [SPEAKER_06]: I sacrificed my first born to Donald Trump, I, you know, blah, blah, blah.

[SPEAKER_04]: And now you know how lucky CNN is to have to have Scott what's his name always debate with it I mean like you know how hard it is to find intelligent conservatives will come on TV and defend this guy It's not easy.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean I still I still debate you're defining him as intelligent Scott Jennings I mean like he doesn't he doesn't rule on the console man I mean it's like he he might be going to hell in a head basket, but he's next [SPEAKER_01]: You're still saying the more step up. [SPEAKER_04]: He's a step up from Jeffrey Lord sir.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's a step up from Jeffrey Lord And that's all they had in the first her was him and Rick Santorum Pranson about like trust me you guys know how you want to book conservatives to come on and talk about Donald Trump It's really hard to find them even in a state like you I mean maybe you can get like right wing Yahoo But conservatives to come defend this guy.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you got to go to the lip in chanted libertarian forest [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and here's the thing is that they the things that they keep thinking they can get away with and the fact that I've been shared among other things You know, I always try to look at little bit on the the positive side.

[SPEAKER_06]: So my home stayed in Nebraska this week had primaries on Tuesday Pete Ricketts or sometimes he's known prickets P Ricketts or sometimes just the disease formally known as the Senator Ricketts. [SPEAKER_04]: I can make fun of anybody's last name, bro You know me on the first time my last name begins with FU. [SPEAKER_04]: I can't cross that line [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, but Rick gets us a really bad. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, yeah, but there's a lot of people who start.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, Rick is a hilarious. [SPEAKER_04]: I make jokes about Rick. [SPEAKER_04]: It's all the time. [SPEAKER_04]: But he's comedy gold. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm just saying I can't make fun of a brother's last name. [SPEAKER_06]: He decided he decided that he was going to try to put in a guy who was a thrice voter for Trump, right wing pastor, anti-abortion, get him to register as a Democrat and then run to the Democratic primary. [SPEAKER_04]: And thankfully, what a smart evil person does.

[SPEAKER_06]: vaguely a smart democratic woman decided to run and then say if she won, she would step out so that the independent Dan Osborne could, which I'm like that, that was good. [SPEAKER_06]: There was also, and this has been happening a lot with good Democrats, your California governor's race.

[SPEAKER_06]: You're Iowa Senate primary that's going on, Democratic Center, and in Nebraska, the problem was they had a guy by the name of John Christensen, who is in the state unicamo, remember one house legislature, very good guy, he is basically the last vote to prevent the filibuster, to hold the filibuster, to prevent their Republicans from doing whatever the hell they want, and the governor there has said, well, one of the things he wants to do is grab Omaha's electoral vote, but they call the coup d'automatically.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: He was running against somebody who she's been a party fundraiser for the Democrats in Nebraska. [SPEAKER_06]: She's done a lot of stuff to get a lot of other people elected and she ran and she's pretty good. [SPEAKER_06]: And the argument and these people, these Democrats were going hammer and tongs at each other because they're like, Why, like, Christians in it? [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, John Christensen's great.

[SPEAKER_06]: But Denise Powell, who, by the way, did win, she's also pretty good. [SPEAKER_06]: And yet you would see these groups of Democrats just go and fire at each other. [SPEAKER_06]: And it's like, okay, the election is over. [SPEAKER_06]: Now you need to come back together and some of the things they said to each other online and in person made it real hard. [SPEAKER_06]: And yet I saw somebody that I know and I will leave him be on this.

[SPEAKER_06]: But on social media, who's one of those people who's going hammer and tongs? [SPEAKER_06]: And I saw him post this morning. [SPEAKER_06]: And he says, you know what?

[SPEAKER_06]: We need to gather behind the the person you want and uh, and I'm behind her and that's how it's going to be and everybody else who, you know, and don't give me any crap, because this we need to put what's best for the country above everything and I went, I was like, wow, I was not expecting that given the fire that he was throwing and I was like, you know,

[SPEAKER_06]: Nebraska might be okay, Nebraska has a chance to end if if Nebraska you're saying they're not going to get to do their part in cheating and remove one electoral vote from the state you're saying that they're Yeah, I'm saying I'm saying that Nebraska independence and Democrats and the people who are normally Republicans, but don't vote for Republican party anymore You may actually be able to in my look in the pattern.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I know, but I'm going but when you see a success like that, you're like holy crap [SPEAKER_04]: No, no, but I mean that that's the look at Memphis. [SPEAKER_04]: The pattern is always go after the cities and try to break up those votes.

[SPEAKER_04]: So those people have no power anymore when it's the cities and the labor of the people in the cities, particularly the African-American tax bank citizens of the city that are the economic engine keeping most of these goddamn states afloat. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: To me, I'm like the fact that as folks in that broad left, as we call it, a term by the way coined by Bruce Bartlett.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, we call it woman left now, Sean, I keep telling you this, it's just, Jody's right here, bro. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm just saying, I'm glad to see, I'm like, yes, we can fight with each other, but we need to be fighting with people, the rise of the old confederates, these neoconfederates, [SPEAKER_04]: I don't understand what you were saying about California. [SPEAKER_04]: I was confused by that. [SPEAKER_04]: What's good in California?

[SPEAKER_04]: I guess what the Tom Steyer is going to be able to buy it all by himself. [SPEAKER_04]: What's the good thing about that? [SPEAKER_06]: I don't think so. [SPEAKER_06]: We have it in the news on Tap, actually. [SPEAKER_06]: Bacera looks like in the most recent poll, Bacera is out in front of his in front. [SPEAKER_06]: It's between Hilton and Steyer right now. [SPEAKER_06]: It's between Hilton and Steyer. [SPEAKER_10]: It's between Hilton and Steyer.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's between Hilton and Steyer. [SPEAKER_06]: It's between Hilton and Steyer. [SPEAKER_06]: It's between Hilton and Steyer. [SPEAKER_10]: It's between Hilton and Steyer. [SPEAKER_10]: It's between Hilton or Bacera and Steyer. [SPEAKER_10]: I don't, if Sire gets it, I'm voting for him. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, me too. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: And that's where I'm like, this is yay. [SPEAKER_06]: Yay. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, stop killing each other.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not a Republican. [SPEAKER_04]: I've waited my entire life to vote for a multi-Kazilian air with no public service experience. [SPEAKER_04]: It's going to be a whole new adventure for me. [SPEAKER_10]: I think he's amazing, but I don't think he's, I voted for Bacera, y'all. [SPEAKER_04]: Right now. [SPEAKER_10]: And because he has governing experience, and he's very good.

[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, the stuff that Kaye Porter said I love her, but no, I just, I think it's time now that that all the other Democrats wrongs were in the single list. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I guess my old mayor, everybody just drop out. [SPEAKER_06]: I love you all, but it's all about there's still on the ballot kids.

[SPEAKER_06]: you're all young enough to run again great about do the right thing and yeah make it easy yeah so you're saying i can't just write in comola harris until everyone else to do that which is what we should have had the first point it would have been nice but you know whatever whatever it she had run i was in

[SPEAKER_06]: Exactly, that's a discussion for a whole other day John by the way of so run mom Donnie had had a cell phone scan He could have balanced the budget and half the time Helly didn't five months damn love Brother, all right, look, I never got places to go right here. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you so much for coming and hanging out with us Thank you sir. [SPEAKER_06]: See you at the bar. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you travels home [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you so much. [SPEAKER_06]: Take care, brother.

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