Rip Van Stinkle December 3, 2025

[SPEAKER_04]: I've got up to the bar, it's political I've got up to the bar, thank you, radical You think it's a bar, where we were, the politics bar The shot's meant here, and Jodie Hamilton [SPEAKER_08]: I know, I caught you when you were drinking and I didn't want to make you do a stick today because it is I'm I'm happy I am maybe maybe I shouldn't be but I am because the election we didn't win it last night [SPEAKER_08]: or did we that's awfully close. [SPEAKER_08]: It was awfully close.

[SPEAKER_08]: We'll have to talk about that. [SPEAKER_08]: Of course, Pete Kegbreath has more problems than he can run away from and we are definitely in talking about that. [SPEAKER_08]: Donald's racism is driving his immigration war. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll talk about all that and more in the news on tap today. [SPEAKER_08]: By the way, it is hope that he's right. [SPEAKER_08]: It's Wednesday.

[SPEAKER_08]: So we got a great drink of the day and we have the one and only Bob Cesska coming in a little bit later. [SPEAKER_08]: excited about all of that.

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[SPEAKER_08]: So you can give it to the people you like, or maybe the people who just, you know, in your family, they need to be educated a little bit better, just saying, just, you know, they need to help. [SPEAKER_08]: That's all. [SPEAKER_08]: All right, election time, Jody, what'd you like? [SPEAKER_08]: Did you enjoy the result? [SPEAKER_08]: Well, I mean, mostly enjoy. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, after in vain, did not win.

[SPEAKER_14]: Nope. [SPEAKER_14]: But she came very, very close and really close last night. [SPEAKER_14]: There is a potential. [SPEAKER_14]: Everybody saying she lost by nine points. [SPEAKER_14]: But there's a potential once all the votes are finally counted. [SPEAKER_14]: Because it was at like 90 for 5% in. [SPEAKER_14]: Right. [SPEAKER_14]: That she could have won by between 7 and 9%. [SPEAKER_14]: Like by 7 and 9%. [SPEAKER_08]: By the way, that single digit loss.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, yeah, it also it reminds me even though you won't see it publicly because Republicans are always good about this Even if they get their asses kicked Violently in public and everybody sees it. [SPEAKER_08]: They're always like nope didn't happen everything's fine But you wonder what it sounds like behind the scenes when the doors are closed and it's just Republicans [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: They are terrified.

[SPEAKER_08]: And I can understand why here for for those people who missed it. [SPEAKER_08]: This was afterdains. [SPEAKER_08]: Um, I don't want to call it concession speech. [SPEAKER_08]: It was a post-election speech. [SPEAKER_08]: I will I will play that here on the DVR because it was definitely not a concession speech here. [SPEAKER_11]: And nobody in Washington believed we could get even this close. [SPEAKER_11]: This was a 22 point race.

[SPEAKER_11]: They created these districts to be uncompetitive, but they don't understand Tennessee. [SPEAKER_11]: They don't understand the South. [SPEAKER_11]: They don't understand our stubborn hope of people who have been underestimated for decades. [SPEAKER_11]: But you all understood it. [SPEAKER_11]: You carried hope. [SPEAKER_11]: And because of you, you put them on the run. [SPEAKER_11]: In a district, they thought they could buy easy double digits.

[SPEAKER_11]: And we showed them that is not the case. [SPEAKER_07]: Amen. [SPEAKER_07]: You. [SPEAKER_08]: That is what happens when you run everywhere. [SPEAKER_08]: When you fight every fight that needs to be fought every worthwhile fight. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a good fight. [SPEAKER_08]: Go for it. [SPEAKER_08]: Don't matter if it's rural, don't matter if it's a bourbon, don't matter if it's urban. [SPEAKER_08]: That's what you got to do if you're a Democrat, so I am.

[SPEAKER_14]: And every county in her district, which is a lot of counties, by the way, moved to the left. [SPEAKER_08]: 13 or 14 counties that are in her district exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Jody is 100% right. [SPEAKER_08]: The numbers are astounding out there. [SPEAKER_08]: The shift was a 13 point, that's initial. [SPEAKER_08]: You're right. [SPEAKER_08]: It could be up to 15 points. [SPEAKER_08]: So 13 to 15 points, it was a 22 plus 22 are district.

[SPEAKER_08]: The guy who had the representative green, the guy who quit the Republican who quit to go do some financial stuff or whatever, just last year he won by 21. [SPEAKER_08]: So basically the same amount the Donald Trump did, but as you said, every county, the median average shift of every single one of those 13 or 14 counties was 10.7. [SPEAKER_08]: lot of, it's a lot of shift. [SPEAKER_08]: If you want, oh, and by the way, for for Republicans who are like, oh, it's all about turnout.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's all about turnout. [SPEAKER_08]: And it was just a special election. [SPEAKER_08]: Harriet and has news for your Republicans. [SPEAKER_09]: an excuse time for Republicans is over, because I hear all about these special issues. [SPEAKER_09]: All the turnout so low, it's not representative of what happened in the midterm election. [SPEAKER_09]: The turnout last night in Tennessee's seventh district was equal to the turnout in the 2022 midterm election.

[SPEAKER_09]: So the blue wave, it seems to be building right out of center of Tennessee. [SPEAKER_14]: And that's an off-ear election, which means there's a lot less going on. [SPEAKER_14]: I mean, granted, this is a huge deal. [SPEAKER_08]: It's even a special election. [SPEAKER_08]: This wasn't an election that was held as what some people go off-ear election. [SPEAKER_08]: I know you don't like all of that. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm with you on that.

[SPEAKER_08]: But it wasn't held along with all the other elections that were in Virginia and California, New Jersey, and no, no. [SPEAKER_08]: This was a special election. [SPEAKER_08]: When you're looking at turnout, usually, special elections are some of the lowest. [SPEAKER_08]: This is not a fluke, this was no joke. [SPEAKER_08]: And if you're wondering why Republicans are crapping bricks and just terrified, you guys want to know what the math says.

[SPEAKER_08]: Here's the math, the potential national meaning for this. [SPEAKER_08]: And we have a great piece by the way in the news on tap today from G. Elliot Morris over at strength in numbers, really, really. [SPEAKER_08]: So Republicans basically had better fine life boats, because that's what the numbers say.

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[SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: If all of the data from last night and from all the elections, the Democrats have had this year are applied to 2026, it would be an average plus 17D swing. [SPEAKER_08]: If the data, as you know, is flexible. [SPEAKER_08]: So, but if the data were close to what it is, if 2026 follows it, it would be plus 40 seats for Dems in the House. [SPEAKER_08]: Who's exactly the same as last night?

[SPEAKER_08]: It would be plus 45, 46 seats in the House and Democrats would gain six seats in the Senate. [SPEAKER_08]: So it would flip. [SPEAKER_08]: So we would have 43 and they would have 47. [SPEAKER_08]: Which for Donald Trump and Pete Cagbreath and people like that who might be looking at impeachment [SPEAKER_14]: Well, I would rather as have 68 seats in the Senate. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, hell, yeah, absolutely. [SPEAKER_08]: I would absolutely 68, 68, 69 is a good nummerized set.

[SPEAKER_08]: You know what I mean, just, yeah, I'm with you more than 66. [SPEAKER_14]: And enough to convict him. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, absolutely. [SPEAKER_08]: And that is one of the spare. [SPEAKER_08]: And that's just convict him with one to spare. [SPEAKER_08]: But also, if we had 53 seats, [SPEAKER_08]: in the Senate and we had like 240 some odd seats in the house, basically everything that Donald or you know, maybe he's fallen into a coma.

[SPEAKER_08]: Maybe he's falling asleep like he did at the the cabinet meeting yesterday. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, I believe they allowed that to be broadcast. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll talk about that too. [SPEAKER_08]: But maybe Donnie falls into a coma and JV Vance, you know, Mr. Davenport himself [SPEAKER_08]: we have to talk about that too. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's say he does. [SPEAKER_08]: It doesn't matter which one of them it is.

[SPEAKER_08]: They are basically going to have to go to Congress and ask Mother May I for everything, for everything. [SPEAKER_08]: And that's how you want to hold evil is in a container like that and make it mad and just say, no, you don't get to and then crush it at the next election. [SPEAKER_08]: That's.

[SPEAKER_08]: That that's why I'm getting that's why I am excited because when you have people who are out and out committing war crimes out and out using the power of federal government to be absolutely racist and we're definitely going to be talking about Trump's immigration war and what he's doing to the Somali community up there in the twin sense.

[SPEAKER_08]: That is we know you guys listening up on AM950 and that is [SPEAKER_08]: Unexceptible as to what Trump is doing, but thankfully, it seems like your local officials and local organizations are picking up and seems like the folks in both the Twin Cities and New Orleans have learned from Chicago and DC and LA and Portland and everywhere else.

[SPEAKER_08]: And they are already plus, they got snow up there, there's a lot of, oh, Greg Bavino who doesn't like cold, oh, this is going to be fun. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, can you just imagine? [SPEAKER_08]: People just trying to help the nice ice guys. [SPEAKER_08]: They've just parked their big old vehicle right there. [SPEAKER_08]: All you got to do is come out with a little bit of water hose and just put it everywhere around the vehicle.

[SPEAKER_08]: You know, I'm trying to clean that. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly, it's all you're trying to, it's just a little help. [SPEAKER_08]: That's all you're doing, just a little help.

[SPEAKER_08]: So yeah let me let me let's needless to say oh by the way one last thing on AFT and Bane she ran in as we said a plus twenty one plus twenty two our district a lot of times especially the the villagers in DC in New York they're always like oh well you got to run to the center [SPEAKER_08]: totally wrong to say that. [SPEAKER_08]: Afton Bay is an unapologetic progressive and she will focus on two things. [SPEAKER_08]: Two things of four days.

[SPEAKER_08]: Exactly, affordability and accountability. [SPEAKER_14]: Well, and the thing is, is if you give people democratic positions and you don't say it's a democratic position, what's people are for it? [SPEAKER_08]: Jody's right. [SPEAKER_08]: I still remember I still I have not had the time because it would take a quite a while, but I still do want to track down for future use. [SPEAKER_08]: There was a poll that was taken near the end of the 2024 election.

[SPEAKER_08]: I think it was like a month before. [SPEAKER_08]: And it compared a bunch of policy positions of Kamal Harris and Tim Walsh, two of the Trump fans positions. [SPEAKER_08]: Didn't say who was what just just let people. [SPEAKER_08]: every one of Kamala's positions got at least 50 and most of them above 60% approval. [SPEAKER_08]: None of Donald Trump's got above 50% and most of them were below 40% approval.

[SPEAKER_08]: People like what Democrats do and especially with Democrats are unapologetic. [SPEAKER_08]: There's a difference, and I hate the fact that the folks who are on the further left abused the label of progressive, because they should have just stuck with being called liberal. [SPEAKER_08]: Being liberal is great, and that's fine. [SPEAKER_08]: And I understand that the right says, will you use it as a smear? [SPEAKER_08]: Well, yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: So what?

[SPEAKER_08]: They did, but the key about progressives is that they actually like progress. [SPEAKER_08]: The key about progressives is actually basically pragmatism. [SPEAKER_08]: And that is in fact, you know, she's acting vain, helped out a lot. [SPEAKER_08]: So I'm excited for the elections coming up. [SPEAKER_08]: We did there are some elections. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll talk a little bit more about that.

[SPEAKER_08]: We got to get to Kegbritz war crimes and Donnie's racist immigration wars and some of the other news of the day plus Bob Cesska is coming into the bar and, you know, we have a... [SPEAKER_08]: Maybe a pretty good drink of the day, I think, so, well, look, here's to do. [SPEAKER_08]: Dust yourself off if you're just coming in from the outside, get your drink refreshed, and come on back.

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[SPEAKER_08]: Our friend Darrell over on blue sky was talking about that cabinet meeting. [SPEAKER_08]: We were just talking about where Donna was falling asleep. [SPEAKER_08]: And he said that cabinet meeting should have been shown on porn hub under group sex. [SPEAKER_08]: He says not that I know what that looks like. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_08]: I said too much. [SPEAKER_08]: I'll show myself out. [SPEAKER_14]: Daryl Louise, dude, come on man, Daryl.

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[SPEAKER_08]: I'm not sure what your favorite, you know, sleepy don, I kind of like, you know, because he always did sleepy Joe, I would for ex-president. [SPEAKER_08]: I think that would also. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, I would for, but. [SPEAKER_14]: Uh, inmate number. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I see. [SPEAKER_06]: I would love to have that, too. [SPEAKER_06]: So that's that's fun. [SPEAKER_08]: Uh, by the way, uh, Mike and Sue also had comments.

[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, Mike said, uh, on Trump's napping problem, uh, that he should now be named Rip Van Stinkle. [SPEAKER_08]: And that Sue and Rockville says, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_08]: I went with Dawn Snorling on. [SPEAKER_08]: I do too see everybody here at the bar. [SPEAKER_08]: You guys are great folks here at the bar. [SPEAKER_08]: We we love your guys ability to be creative and and make great nicknames.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, by the way, Tom on Facebook said we had a great conversation on Tuesday show with Frank. [SPEAKER_08]: He really thanked us for that. [SPEAKER_08]: Of course, I told them I said, hey, you know, we aim to please. [SPEAKER_08]: Thanks for joining us here. [SPEAKER_08]: And he says, thank you for the kind words and happy holidays to us. [SPEAKER_08]: Here's to a better new year for everybody. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: We're with you on now on Tom.

[SPEAKER_08]: All right. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, he's not going to have a good new year right now. [SPEAKER_08]: He takes us.

[SPEAKER_08]: he's right he is he's haven't he's haven't probably a very bad week very bad month so correct me if I'm wrong the timeline so far on his war crimes and this is just the most recent ones because we actually have a report that came down from the inspector general today about his signal gate crimes that's a whole another story but then the the timeline on the the the

[SPEAKER_08]: uh... then uh... he said he wasn't made with admiral Bradley made a call uh... then the fox footage of k-breath came out where he said that he watched it all live so then k-breath had to change his story and said all you left the room uh... after the first strike uh... and then he said he couldn't really tell if there were two survivors because of the fog of war okay the fog of war is not just actual fog [SPEAKER_08]: or smoke or any of that.

[SPEAKER_08]: And also, if he's saying that there was smoke and that he couldn't see through it, that means that he didn't just stay for the first strike. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so the first strike, he means he stuck around a little while. [SPEAKER_08]: So, I mean, the list of places that he has lied, I mean, he did work for Fox. [SPEAKER_08]: So, true, understandable, but still.

[SPEAKER_08]: Just the lies that he has been caught in are, [SPEAKER_08]: and it's disgusting I mean what what he did of course actually he's he's not the only disgusting one but um at there there was a guy I don't know well we got some old footage we we dragged it out from from some old old tapes um there's a guy who actually says that anybody who commit war commits war crimes should be penalized I want to play this on the DVR for you just so you guys understand

[SPEAKER_12]: There are some guys at Leavenworth who made really bad choices on the battlefield. [SPEAKER_12]: And I do think there have to be consequences for abject war crimes. [SPEAKER_12]: You're doing something that is completely unlawful and ruthless, then there is a consequence for that. [SPEAKER_12]: That's why the military said it won't follow unlawful orders from their commander-in-chief. [SPEAKER_12]: There's a standard. [SPEAKER_12]: There's an ethos.

[SPEAKER_12]: There's a belief that we are above what so many things our enemies or others would do. [SPEAKER_12]: 2016 P-Hag Seth is correct. [SPEAKER_14]: Hey, that guy should talk to this guy. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, well the the current P-Hag Seth He's more how should I put this? [SPEAKER_08]: There are some women who think the current heat headset is attractive, for example, a Megan Kelly.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I really do kind of not only want to see them killed in the water, whether they're on the border in the water, but I really like to see them suffer. [SPEAKER_00]: I would like Trump and headset to make it last a long time so that they lose a limb and bleed out a little. [SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm really having a difficult time, gining up sympathy for these guys. [SPEAKER_00]: you don't even know what these guys did exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: These guys were on a boat.

[SPEAKER_08]: They could have been killed. [SPEAKER_14]: They couldn't make it to the United States by the way. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: They could have been basically Gilligan. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, you know, they were out for a trip and, you know, got lost. [SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: But no, this is [SPEAKER_08]: The fact that the fact that Megan Kelly is says that and and that there hasn't been a whole big fear about her being like, no, it needs to be more, but that's that's who Magga is if you're a Magga Republican, that's who's representing you right now

[SPEAKER_14]: well what was what's interesting is if we all recall in October they captured if they hit a boat there were two survivors again right they let that they didn't they didn't arrest them and take them in like what if they were potential criminals right even in international waters right so you would have normally [SPEAKER_14]: rescue them and taking them to custody, figured out what they were doing, blah, blah, blah, blah. [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, no, no, they didn't even do that.

[SPEAKER_14]: They let them go back home, which says to me that after the September strike, when they killed these two survivors, lawyers came out and said, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_08]: And not only that, we know the members of the House and Senate Armed Forces Armed Services Committee have access to information before we do. [SPEAKER_08]: Probably month ago or so easily. [SPEAKER_08]: And then conveniently, what about two or three weeks ago, they decided to put out that ad.

[SPEAKER_08]: That says if you're told to do something, if you're ordered to do something illegal, don't follow an illegal order. [SPEAKER_08]: And I would bet you're right, Joody. [SPEAKER_08]: I would bet the not only did they knew that that you know, there are a whole lot of people who know, there are at least seven people that we know of who witnessed what headset was doing on that day of the first at least at least seven people.

[SPEAKER_08]: So the idea that they can run from a plus tomorrow, tomorrow is Thursday, Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley is set to brief both the House and Senate Armed Service committees. [SPEAKER_08]: It will be closed or unfortunately, but because a lot of it will be classified. [SPEAKER_14]: So that does make a little bit of sense.

[SPEAKER_08]: I get that, but speaking of which involving hearings and things, the house, I don't know what you want to call it, clown caucus hearing, run by Jim Grabham, Jordan, yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: They decided to subpoena Jack Smith. [SPEAKER_08]: And so they've been going back and forth in the media today that they released the Republicans on the committee released.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, well, here's our subpoena for Jack Smith and Jack Smith's lawyer was like, well, we offered to do this publicly a month ago. [SPEAKER_08]: But since it's going to be behind closed doors, you know, we'll see you when we'll answer basically lawyeries for, we'll answer some of your questions, but I want all the answers. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: He's gone. [SPEAKER_14]: I want to keep everything under wraps.

[SPEAKER_14]: The report and everything. [SPEAKER_14]: And he's even out of healing can and to keep it under wraps. [SPEAKER_08]: which she's not going to be able to do. [SPEAKER_08]: We all we talked about. [SPEAKER_08]: She shouldn't be able to do it. [SPEAKER_08]: It's on cursor about that when you, oh, by the way, Glen is going to be here tomorrow, right? [SPEAKER_14]: Oh, yes. [SPEAKER_08]: So we can ask Glen about that. [SPEAKER_08]: We can ask him about all of these war crimes.

[SPEAKER_08]: Glen will, Glen is actually the perfect person to ask about the war crimes. [SPEAKER_14]: Yes, he's a veteran too. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, and he used to work here at Main Justice in DC. [SPEAKER_08]: So, between him and Malcolm Nance, we might get Malcolm Nance sometimes, soon. [SPEAKER_14]: Yes, next Tuesday, hopefully. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, we're going to have a lot of fun with this.

[SPEAKER_14]: Well, I think I think what's going to happen, I know that Donald says, you know, that Pete's doing heck of a job there, Petey. [SPEAKER_14]: Um, but. [SPEAKER_14]: I think eventually Donald's going to throw everybody under the because Donald's not he's immune. [SPEAKER_08]: He always well, well, not only is he immune, but it is more and more believable his, oh, I don't know, I didn't remember. [SPEAKER_08]: I let you do it.

[SPEAKER_08]: He's in the cabinet meeting yesterday and somebody they they allowed him, which first of all, why would you allow the media in? [SPEAKER_14]: not when I mean the Stephanie was pausing that out there 25th the men in a mending him. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't think that they're 25th amendmenting him. [SPEAKER_08]: Um uh because of my other things, you're going to have to have a whole bunch of people agree to it they won't.

[SPEAKER_14]: J.D. [SPEAKER_14]: Vance is chomping at the bit for it. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, I'm sure J.D. [SPEAKER_08]: Vance is, but there are a whole bunch of other people. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, people like Caspatel have his job because he was on Fox and Donald saw him and said, Oh, well, you know, I think he'd be good for the area. [SPEAKER_14]: Like the Janky eyes for some reason. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah, that's what's weird as hell. [SPEAKER_08]: Weird as hell. [SPEAKER_14]: But it's invariable.

[SPEAKER_08]: Here's the thing. [SPEAKER_08]: If J.D. [SPEAKER_08]: Vance gets in there, he's not going to keep a lot of these weirdos. [SPEAKER_08]: He'll put in different. [SPEAKER_14]: He'll tell him to get, yeah, he'll do that. [SPEAKER_14]: He's your T.O. [SPEAKER_14]: will control that one. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: But that's so, and these are people, some of whom that they would need 25th Amendment. [SPEAKER_08]: So they know way, that's the, I get the speculation on that.

[SPEAKER_08]: But it is, it's just a little too hard, little, little, [SPEAKER_14]: I can't believe, I mean, he was literally nodding off as Marco Rubio is yelling at him in his ear. [SPEAKER_14]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_14]: And he's nodding off. [SPEAKER_14]: It's like, if I thought he was a heroin addict, I'm like, that's a heroin nod off. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, you know what I mean? [SPEAKER_08]: Well, and, and seriously, I mean, Marco was acting very downward towards thirsty. [SPEAKER_08]: Sorry.

[SPEAKER_08]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm not going to let him live that down ever. [SPEAKER_14]: And nobody should. [SPEAKER_08]: But but that and all the other horrible things that Marco Rubio has done. [SPEAKER_08]: Marco Africa is calling they'd like to have a word with you multiple questions. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, speaking of that and Marco and Donnie's problem, the racist immigration wars are ramping up Trump. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, Jesus, his, his rant.

[SPEAKER_08]: I, I, I, I should have pulled it and I didn't. [SPEAKER_08]: It was just, all right, unreal ripping on Ilhan Omar and the great Somali people. [SPEAKER_08]: Have you, have you, you've [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, okay, because you know our great affiliate am 950 we love you guys there Um, and you know as we were talking with Frank Connor last night Frank says it is a great city filled with lots of great food.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, lots of great food lots of good Somali joints [SPEAKER_08]: Which is great. [SPEAKER_08]: If you hear that the bread gotta can't remember the bread. [SPEAKER_08]: It's not non bread. [SPEAKER_08]: It's that's the spongy bread. [SPEAKER_08]: It's it's so Soaks up stuff. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it that is fantastic anyway. [SPEAKER_08]: It's yeah, right right. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, You can find a lot of good Somali restaurants that have that there.

[SPEAKER_08]: There are a lot of good Somali places in the cities. [SPEAKER_08]: There are a lot of good Somali people there But basically Donald sees brown or black people [SPEAKER_08]: And the older he gets and the more dottering he gets and the more problems he has with everything from, you know, being nice to not falling asleep during a cabinet meeting, the more his racism is exposed. [SPEAKER_08]: and his actions on the immigration wars are just off the charts.

[SPEAKER_08]: Twin cities, by the way, you guys are getting attacked, prepare for that, and also New Orleans. [SPEAKER_08]: So North and South, maybe Bavino will take the southern route because he can't stand the cold. [SPEAKER_08]: So. [SPEAKER_14]: Well, I just want to say because we've had a couple of people tell us that on certain streaming platforms like for the podcast version of the show, that there are ice recruitment ads on our show. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_14]: Just to let everybody know, we have no control over those ads. [SPEAKER_14]: Only things that should we get anything to read that we have control over. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, sir. [SPEAKER_08]: We have we have control of certain ads, but most of the ads we don't have control over. [SPEAKER_08]: And those ice ones.

[SPEAKER_08]: And you and I. [SPEAKER_08]: which is we don't have control over those and we know that you guys hate them and we're in the barreds and we hit them too but here's the thing they are in fact throwing money at us [SPEAKER_08]: Which I'm like, okay, well, you want to throw money at us and have it be completely worthless. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, it would be like putting out a pro Donald Trump at which. [SPEAKER_08]: Please hear me. [SPEAKER_08]: Donnie here in the bus.

[SPEAKER_08]: He literally jodied here in the DC area. [SPEAKER_08]: I have heard there was a pack like back before the fall elections here, where it was a, you know, pro Donald Trump fluff him and, you know, kiss his ass pack, right? [SPEAKER_08]: And I decided to tune in on one of our great stations. [SPEAKER_08]: And it picked up that I was here in DC and went, oh, okay, and literally play that and I'm sitting there going, I know of no one in the bar who will want to hear this.

[SPEAKER_14]: So they're wasting their money on us, and that's fine with me. [SPEAKER_14]: Waste your money, please. [SPEAKER_14]: Waste it, waste it, waste it. [SPEAKER_14]: Yes, or, you know, if you would rather just give us money, you can do that, too. [SPEAKER_08]: Just remember to hand it to the politics bar.com $6 a month, less than about 50 a week. [SPEAKER_08]: It gets you the podcast ad for you. [SPEAKER_08]: It gets you the news on tap, and it gets you the drink of the day.

[SPEAKER_08]: Which, and I think we should do that. [SPEAKER_08]: We, we have big hearts here. [SPEAKER_08]: We absolutely, you know. [SPEAKER_14]: This is a heartfelt cocktail. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, not that way. [SPEAKER_07]: We'll do the trick of the day. [SPEAKER_14]: Our patrons, Louise. [SPEAKER_07]: Ha ha ha ha. [SPEAKER_07]: Exactly, Jody. [SPEAKER_07]: Coming up next, the trick of the day. [SPEAKER_07]: Here's the politics bar, hang on.

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[SPEAKER_08]: I like the fact that they're subscribing and of course like being able to eat and I know you do too. [SPEAKER_14]: Right. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, it's important. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: By the way, we'll we'll talk a little more food. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll talk music a little bit later, but I want to get to the drink today. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, because we have this tendency some days. [SPEAKER_08]: Some days we just get off track really easily.

[SPEAKER_14]: That's not hard. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's go. [SPEAKER_08]: God, who was I talking to? [SPEAKER_08]: I was talking to one of my neighbors, and was saying, it must be just a blast hanging out with Jodie. [SPEAKER_08]: That's like, well, it is. [SPEAKER_08]: And he's like, no, I was kind of like, no, I'm like, I really freaking like hanging out with Jodie. [SPEAKER_08]: She's great. [SPEAKER_08]: He's like, so do you guys have a problem like ever finding things to talk about?

[SPEAKER_14]: And we can talk or not talk about everything all the time. [SPEAKER_08]: exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: I was like, look at him. [SPEAKER_08]: And in my mind, it was going, no, we talked about anything. [SPEAKER_08]: So that's a lot of fun. [SPEAKER_08]: What is the drink of the day? [SPEAKER_08]: And what is the inspiration for the drink of the day? [SPEAKER_14]: Well, the drink of the day is called a love heart cocktail.

[SPEAKER_14]: Okay. [SPEAKER_14]: And it was inspired by the very first human heart transplant performed on December 3rd, 1967, a little a month before my first birthday. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, wow. [SPEAKER_08]: I thought realize it was that far back anytime somebody talks about that. [SPEAKER_08]: I guess I always think of it as the think of the mechanical heart, which was in the 80s. [SPEAKER_14]: I remember that. [SPEAKER_08]: I remember that too.

[SPEAKER_14]: But now this was, I mean, this was a human heart transplant is, you know, those obviously were longer before a mechanical heart or even pigs hearts at this point. [SPEAKER_17]: Right. [SPEAKER_14]: And the person who did it was Dr. Christian. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, Christian Bernard. [SPEAKER_14]: Okay. [SPEAKER_14]: And it was the first human heart heart transplant.

[SPEAKER_14]: the person didn't live chairably long, they didn't, I'm sure they've learned a lot since just doing it the one time for the person to live even 10 seconds would be amazing. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, but he was, Dr. Bernard was born in 1922. [SPEAKER_14]: He went to the University of Cape Town, so this is South Africa.

[SPEAKER_14]: In 1946, he, his surgical training was in South Africa and in the U.S. as well, he established a successful open heart surgery program at the Groot Shores Hospital at the University of Cape Town in America. [SPEAKER_08]: He's a very South African name, yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: He led the team for the first human to human heart transplant today in 1967, 58 years ago. [SPEAKER_14]: Nice. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_14]: So just three weeks after the event, it's one of the most cited articles in Cardio Vascular medicine. [SPEAKER_14]: That doesn't surprise me at all, because it's always the big one. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, and I'm sure they documented the hell out of absolutely everything with that. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, that's, you know, and I like that you put in here that they had others. [SPEAKER_08]: What was it?

[SPEAKER_08]: Several others that they did in the first, I guess, wave of these transplants. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_14]: Well, the first person only survived 18 days. [SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: four of the first ten patients survived more than a year and two live for 13 and 23 years respectively so that's come back considering it was it was early I mean my wife I've told you before she's she's got spine a bit for them um but she was kind of an early guinea pig for something that is uber common now

[SPEAKER_08]: and she she does exactly have Wolverine powers or deadpool powers, but she does have a better than average healing factor, which is great because she's had a lot of surgeries. [SPEAKER_08]: It's also bad because she skewed the insurance actuarial tables because but one of the operations they did is called it's a tethered spinal cord surgery for those of you who have it's [SPEAKER_08]: I won't go into the description of it, but it's very common now.

[SPEAKER_08]: They even do it in utero now. [SPEAKER_08]: So extremely common, but she was a kind of a guinea pig of sorts. [SPEAKER_14]: How old was she when she had that? [SPEAKER_08]: I think it was she was, I think this was like for first few months as an infant or whatever. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, but I mean, she watched with the limp, but other than that, I mean, she wouldn't necessarily know it. [SPEAKER_14]: So that's great, though. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: That's great.

[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, she's yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: So it's good to take my wife. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, from 1966 to 1983, they continue to make more contributions, not the development of the head of road. [SPEAKER_14]: He backed our transplants, how to stop it, how do you type it? [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it's where they put one on top of the other and then basically just do the raiders of the lost arc thing.

[SPEAKER_08]: Only instead of switching bags of sand and gold, you're switching the arc stuff, yeah, exactly exactly. [SPEAKER_14]: So this is this is a lovely thing that happened and people are living longer because of this person and actually did and his team did. [SPEAKER_08]: a heart transplant. [SPEAKER_14]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_08]: So how do you make this a this great to love heart cocktail, Jody? [SPEAKER_14]: Okay. [SPEAKER_14]: You need a champagne flute glass chilled.

[SPEAKER_14]: Of course. [SPEAKER_14]: Yes. [SPEAKER_14]: A half an ounce of vodka from the freezer. [SPEAKER_14]: Make sure it's that cold. [SPEAKER_08]: Ah, okay. [SPEAKER_08]: Heart stoppingly cold. [SPEAKER_08]: You can say. [SPEAKER_14]: Yes, a quarter ounce of Gifford Pras de Bua l'Cure. [SPEAKER_14]: Okay, a quarter ounce of Gifford Parfait, a more L'Cure. [SPEAKER_08]: And if you don't know what those are, Jodie has been linked to them.

[SPEAKER_14]: Four ounces of root champagne or sparkling wine chilled. [SPEAKER_14]: And you garnish with a heart-shaped strawberry slice, because do I? [SPEAKER_15]: Right. [SPEAKER_14]: And see, pour all the ingredients into your chilled flute glass, stir it very briefly, and then you garnish with the slice on the rim of the glass and sounds yummy. [SPEAKER_08]: It does. [SPEAKER_08]: I generally like, you know, when you're talking about champagne and strawberries, I'm kind of down with that.

[SPEAKER_08]: So this sounds like a good drink of the day. [SPEAKER_14]: It does, but don't drink too many because it's bad for your heart, such as. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, right, exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: So, you know, drinking moderation. [SPEAKER_14]: So you don't need the heart transplant that was invented in 1960. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: If you missed any part of the drink today, you guys know what to do. [SPEAKER_08]: Check it out at thepaltxbar.com.

[SPEAKER_08]: All right, back to the news of the day, so our friends who are in lots of places around the country, y'all need to be watching for those ice monsters out there. [SPEAKER_08]: It ain't great, but it is cold out there, so, uh, and be aware, uh, you get on mind. [SPEAKER_08]: You can talk to other people, been in other places and, and find out what's going on that way. [SPEAKER_08]: Uh, Trump, and I'm exposed by the way, is failing, which I'm pretty sure we all knew.

[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, new ADP report came out today, uh, should US private payrolls unexpectedly declined in November by 32,000 jobs. [SPEAKER_14]: And that's just ADP. [SPEAKER_14]: That's not right. [SPEAKER_08]: It's not the official numbers. [SPEAKER_08]: We will, since the government is working again, we will get the official numbers. [SPEAKER_08]: I know that Bob doesn't necessarily trust him. [SPEAKER_08]: Bob, Bob says, by the way, coming in a little bit later.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we love that. [SPEAKER_08]: I know there are several other people. [SPEAKER_08]: I know Matt up at AM-950. [SPEAKER_08]: He's not a big fan of trusting the numbers. [SPEAKER_08]: I think Ron either. [SPEAKER_08]: I look at it and say, you know, Ron of the Ron show on George and now he's not a big fan of me there might might my whole thing right now is the fact that I know and talking to the economists and we'll see if we can get some more economists in here in the bar.

[SPEAKER_08]: That the people who are actually putting it together, the thousands of people who put the numbers together. [SPEAKER_08]: they're still most of them, the same people that they were during Biden Harris. [SPEAKER_08]: They're the same people who were there. [SPEAKER_08]: Some of them during the first Trump regime and the same people who were there during the Obama years. [SPEAKER_08]: So they are most of them trustworthy.

[SPEAKER_08]: There are a few Trumpers that are in there, but I don't think it's enough to completely skew and there's so much data that comes out from the BLS that it's just hard to, it would be hard and that's one of the things they have to do is coordinate all the data before they put up the reports. [SPEAKER_08]: And anytime that somebody notices, somebody raises a flag, oh, this is wrong and one thing's wrong, it sets off a domino effect.

[SPEAKER_08]: So, [SPEAKER_08]: I get it, but you know, I mean, they do go by the numbers on channels like CNBC, Steve Leesman was talking about him this morning. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, a big miss on the ADP payrolls, the private payroll company, saying private payroll said 32,000 workers in November, that's the fourth negative number in the past six months for this. [SPEAKER_10]: series. [SPEAKER_10]: I'll take a look here. [SPEAKER_10]: The estimate was for 40,000.

[SPEAKER_10]: So the street was off on this one. [SPEAKER_10]: And how did you get there? [SPEAKER_10]: Well, good producing shed 19,000 workers service producing, shedding 13,000 workers. [SPEAKER_10]: But the big story here, and I'll show you more detail on this, is what's happening with small business down 120,000. [SPEAKER_08]: Judd, remind me, what's the Republican Party said about itself since the Reagan years?

[SPEAKER_08]: Who, who, what kind of, they're all about small business, aren't they? [SPEAKER_08]: Remember Joe the Fumur? [SPEAKER_08]: Oh yeah, who died by the way of, of cancer? [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, he did. [SPEAKER_08]: I believe he died of cancer a few years back, of course, you know, what might have actually helped him was something that helped care. [SPEAKER_08]: Uh-huh, exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Judd is right. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, well, Republicans can't figure that one out either.

[SPEAKER_08]: They are still scrambling on that. [SPEAKER_08]: They have three weeks to go. [SPEAKER_08]: I saw it as we were just getting in, flipping around on the channels today. [SPEAKER_08]: So there was a hearing up on C-SPAN, y'all know I like C-SPAN, anyway. [SPEAKER_08]: And Bernie Sanders, and I've got, who's the guy who let RFK junior in? [SPEAKER_08]: He was the one. [SPEAKER_08]: He was the one.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: So his bill Cassidy and Bernie Sanders and basically Cassidy was kind of freaking out and saying to the other Republicans in the on the Senate committee he's like look guys I get the children like the ACA [SPEAKER_08]: and that you want some other plan, but we can't come up with another plan in three weeks. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, and then he basically hands the mic to Bernie.

[SPEAKER_08]: And Senator Sanders is like, I get it, and I'm with him, and I've talked with him. [SPEAKER_08]: You want to come up with something different. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm fine with coming up with something different, but we actually have to keep the thing going for right now. [SPEAKER_08]: So why don't we extend the ACM? [SPEAKER_14]: I'm not in the interim. [SPEAKER_14]: We just extend everything, and then we can work out the details and everybody is much happier. [SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: I saw that. [SPEAKER_08]: I saw that on C-SPAN and I was like, once again, Bernie Sanders is right. [SPEAKER_08]: That's actually when it comes to health care. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, him and Elizabeth Warren and, you know, over in the house, you know, see.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah, you've definitely got, but, but also, I mean, you also got people even like Cory Booker who, you know, my friend, you know, congrats again on, you know, his marriage and all that, and [SPEAKER_08]: Look, you've got Democrats across and even some Republicans who are saying, yeah, a few. [SPEAKER_08]: And that's all they would really need if they were allowed to put it out there is, is the extension.

[SPEAKER_08]: But you still got Tiny Johnson who will block it in the house and Thun doesn't want to allow it in the Senate because they know if they allowed the simple just put it forward. [SPEAKER_08]: But Thun still says he's going to allow a vote coming up week, week eight days. [SPEAKER_08]: So, [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, but they don't have anything to put on the floor. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, the Democrats are just going to put forward a simple bill.

[SPEAKER_08]: Let's extend the ACA subsidies for a year or two years or three years and commit to working on something different. [SPEAKER_08]: That's, that's, that's, that's Medicare for all. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I love that. [SPEAKER_08]: Um, but Republicans, as you said, they don't think I don't have a thing on anything at all. [SPEAKER_08]: We have, uh, we still have, uh, we have some more articles in the news on tap and you guys can, can look at that.

[SPEAKER_08]: There are a whole lot of lies, Republicans are telling themselves about to, to try and make themselves feel better about not actually getting anything done on healthcare. [SPEAKER_08]: And I'm sorry, but that is a metaphorical bandade, which makes sense when you're talking about healthcare.

[SPEAKER_08]: But still, it's a bandade on the problem, and that bandade is not going to take care of the healthcare needs of 20 million Americans who want the first to January aren't going to be able to afford their healthcare. [SPEAKER_14]: So, friend of mine just found out that his healthcare is going to go up three times. [SPEAKER_14]: I think that's all right. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll deal with that. [SPEAKER_08]: It's common folks.

[SPEAKER_08]: We'll be talking about that over the next few weeks. [SPEAKER_08]: Uh, right now we got to clean few things up around here and then we'll be talking with Bob Cesca who will be coming in. [SPEAKER_08]: We have more news on tap for you as well. [SPEAKER_08]: Reminder if you're listening on WC PT and you're like, oh wait, wait, wait, wait. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm not going to hear all of it. [SPEAKER_08]: You will hear all of it. [SPEAKER_08]: Starting next Monday night. [SPEAKER_08]: Yay!

[SPEAKER_08]: So, uh, check it out. [SPEAKER_08]: I got some details there on Heartland Signal WCP. [SPEAKER_08]: So. [SPEAKER_04]: All right, for everybody listening across the wonderful radio waves, we'll be back, first on your drink hang on. [SPEAKER_08]: Hey, hey, hey, Jodie. [SPEAKER_08]: No, you're not getting the camera to do those things. [SPEAKER_08]: It's not no balloons, no flags, no stars. [SPEAKER_08]: No, no, no. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, it's a good fettie.

[SPEAKER_08]: She got confetti. [SPEAKER_08]: There you go. [SPEAKER_08]: We will be putting more stuff up on the camera stuff on the YouTube channel. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you by the way. [SPEAKER_08]: If you are happening to listen to us on all of our great radio affiliates, yes, radio is still a thing and it's a good thing. [SPEAKER_08]: We are very thankful to everybody who was listening on all of our great stations like AM950 in Minneapolis, St. Paul or Georgia now, radio in Atlanta.

[SPEAKER_08]: Maybe you are listening on AMA 20 Chicago WCPT or the D2 we're talking Tennessee or progressive voices radio worldwide, wherever you happen to be. [SPEAKER_08]: Maybe you've got, you know, you put us in your podcast player, I still think you should take Joe these advice. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, you're sitting on the bus or the train. [SPEAKER_08]: Just, you know, some of you're talking with them, you end up talking, and of course this actually can be a good thing.

[SPEAKER_08]: If you're talking, you guys agree about some political stuff, maybe not on everything, but you're like, you know what, I think you should listen to the politics bar. [SPEAKER_08]: You should join us at the bar, and then have them do that. [SPEAKER_08]: Put it in the podcast player or have them join at the politics bar.com. [SPEAKER_08]: Just. [SPEAKER_08]: you know, it's a nice thing. [SPEAKER_08]: Bring people into the bar.

[SPEAKER_08]: Great thing about this particular bar is that unlike every other bar I've ever been in, we do not have a seat maximum. [SPEAKER_08]: We are one ever you want to be. [SPEAKER_08]: Uh-huh. [SPEAKER_08]: Biggest damn bar in the world. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, the fire marshal does not bother us at all. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Jody is correct. [SPEAKER_08]: So okay, we've got a few things to talk about.

[SPEAKER_08]: Obviously today, you know, we've been talking about the election recap. [SPEAKER_08]: We talked about that. [SPEAKER_08]: Talk to about Kegbress War crimes and Donnie's racist immigration war. [SPEAKER_08]: We should talk a little bit more about the, especially he's attacking the semallies. [SPEAKER_08]: And of course, the Trumponomics, which is awful. [SPEAKER_08]: But there is other news on tap as well that we can talk about, including.

[SPEAKER_08]: There's some, there's some good entertainment news, I think today. [SPEAKER_14]: Interesting. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, well, you know, we were talking about music earlier and the Spotify wrapped 2025 is here. [SPEAKER_08]: Do you do Spotify, Jody? [SPEAKER_08]: Do you use Spotify? [SPEAKER_08]: No, because they don't pay artists so I don't. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, here's my thing. [SPEAKER_08]: I have never been a big fan of streaming music.

[SPEAKER_08]: I am the person that Steve Jobs used to say he would be like, kind of hell would want to rent their music. [SPEAKER_08]: And I'm like, not me. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't want to rent it. [SPEAKER_08]: I had a friend who she joined. [SPEAKER_08]: I can't remember which streaming service it was. [SPEAKER_08]: And she had all these different playlists and things. [SPEAKER_08]: And then all of a sudden disappeared. [SPEAKER_08]: Like 10, 12 years of playlists and things.

[SPEAKER_08]: She contacts some screams and cries and they're like, oh, sorry, not our problem. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: I do not like to rent my music. [SPEAKER_08]: That's why I happen to have. [SPEAKER_14]: And with Spotify, I mean, my friend Desmond Child, [SPEAKER_14]: an enormous catalog of very, very, very big hits. [SPEAKER_14]: Right. [SPEAKER_14]: He made in one year only $4,000 on Spotify. [SPEAKER_14]: And that's with slippery win wet, which he wrote most of that record.

[SPEAKER_14]: That's with LeBee DeLoka. [SPEAKER_14]: That's with, I mean, I can keep going on and on and on. [SPEAKER_08]: It hits upon hits upon hits over the last 30 plus years. [SPEAKER_14]: 30 plus years and $4,000. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, that's not right. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: But some people still like it. [SPEAKER_08]: By the way, the Spotify artist of the year, [SPEAKER_08]: No, I wish I wish a bad bunny actually he dethroned Taylor Swift. [SPEAKER_08]: She was number two.

[SPEAKER_08]: Let me see who the the full list here. [SPEAKER_08]: Let me take a quick look here because I had forgotten to actually grab who it was. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's see it was a bad bunny Taylor Swift Drake Morgan Wallen and Kendrick Lamar. [SPEAKER_14]: So Taylor must have made a deal with Spotify because they remember she took her catalog off at one point. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, but that's just it. [SPEAKER_08]: Artists can do this and I absolutely, I, I, I advocated for it.

[SPEAKER_08]: Look, that's that's the little they should have the power to do that. [SPEAKER_08]: They should have power to say what their music is used with and what it's not. [SPEAKER_14]: Well, and the thing is, it's like with radio, BMI and ASCAP and C-SAC, they are the ones to collect the money's to send to their songwriters. [SPEAKER_14]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: And the artists and right. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: Well, the artists really don't make money.

[SPEAKER_14]: They're just a list of writers. [SPEAKER_14]: Right. [SPEAKER_14]: There's a whole thing with that. [SPEAKER_14]: Right. [SPEAKER_14]: So they collect your money and then you get your nice mailbox money. [SPEAKER_14]: Spotify doesn't license with those probably because it's a broadcast issue and they're not broadcast.

[SPEAKER_08]: There's some of that from from the radio days stuff that I know there's some of that and there's also the fear that if they if they act like a broadcast company Then they might be declared a broadcast company. [SPEAKER_08]: It's the whole it's the whole internet thing of I want to be on both sides of the aisle I want to wear it for the law.

[SPEAKER_08]: I want to be on whatever side that benefits me [SPEAKER_14]: Well, that's like with with actors and the unions and writers and directors with the unions for for television and film with streaming services. [SPEAKER_14]: They have separate contracts with streaming services. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: They're different than television or different than film.

[SPEAKER_14]: So that's why when it's first started to become popular actors were like, wait, I'm not making any money and this is back out on Netflix or this is back out on this and I'm getting my residuals. [SPEAKER_14]: What are you [SPEAKER_14]: I think that's what ASCAP and BMI need to start doing is going to these streaming services and making contract deals with them as a different deal. [SPEAKER_08]: I would love to see it.

[SPEAKER_08]: I would absolutely love, look, I love the artists to get paid. [SPEAKER_08]: I absolutely do. [SPEAKER_08]: And I think that the artists, whether they are the musicians themselves or whether they happen to be the people who wrote the music or produced it or whatever, I think all those people should be making more money than the executives. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm not a big fan of executives of virtually any kind. [SPEAKER_08]: I am.

[SPEAKER_14]: That's why a lot of artists now get credited for songwriting, even if they say didn't write the song because that's where the money is. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, they write two words of it. [SPEAKER_08]: They're considered it and then they can get picked up. [SPEAKER_14]: Well, even if they don't, it doesn't matter. [SPEAKER_14]: They just, you want me to sing your song. [SPEAKER_14]: I'm getting a piece of them. [SPEAKER_14]: I mean, Frank's not treated that.

[SPEAKER_08]: And I still understand the musicians wanting control for purposes for reasons like this Which also happens to be in the news on tap in the entertainment section pop star Sabrina Carpenter Can damn the White House's use or abuse of one of her songs in one of their ice videos She said it was evil and disgusting and was basically do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda that was her

[SPEAKER_08]: social media post to them and they basically tried to to treat it like they were dunking on her ha ha used like a little bit of her lyric and basically we can do whatever we want which no they can't that's against the law it's copyright infringement and she hopefully has her lawyers on them and she's showing us taxpayers unfortunately for that hey i'm fine with paying her for it no it'd be like me too you know

[SPEAKER_08]: And the people who are what it should happen is the people who are responsible for it at Isher who ever happened to be, you know, working in the government did that. [SPEAKER_08]: They should be fired with cause So that they cannot be rehired by the government and then of course if they are you know in the production business Then they wouldn't be rehired by anybody else because they'd look at their record and go wait a minute Why do you lose this job with the government?

[SPEAKER_08]: You used to produce a videos for them? [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, oh, you broke the law. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I see [SPEAKER_14]: What the thing is is like, you can say, you do the video, it gets out, then the artist, songwriter, record company, who never comes at you with a season to assist. [SPEAKER_14]: If you do not take it down, that's when the money starts flowing to the artist. [SPEAKER_14]: Because you have no permission to use this only even better, fair use.

[SPEAKER_14]: Because she's not getting paid for it, because it's an ad. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_14]: So there's a lot of reasons, you know, for her to be upset and I'm glad the site doesn't get for her. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm glad that I'm glad that she stood up because that is exactly what artists should do. [SPEAKER_08]: So there we go.

[SPEAKER_08]: By the way, we were talking about Stranger Things earlier this week, Jody looks like Netflix has had a record breaking premiere week with Stranger Things season 5. [SPEAKER_08]: It's really good. [SPEAKER_08]: I know. [SPEAKER_08]: I'll get to it. [SPEAKER_08]: I'll get to it. [SPEAKER_08]: I'll get to it. [SPEAKER_08]: How they break is coming up. [SPEAKER_08]: By the way, the Riley Cyrus. [SPEAKER_08]: Did you see that? [SPEAKER_14]: I heard. [SPEAKER_08]: No, I did not.

[SPEAKER_08]: She has announced that she is engaged to Max Miranda. [SPEAKER_08]: They've been dating for four years. [SPEAKER_08]: So which? [SPEAKER_08]: That would be tough because she is just powerhouse as a person. [SPEAKER_08]: I, you know, there are people who have, you know, said similar to my wife and they've been like, your, your husband is hard to, I'm like, no, I'm not, I'm not hard to control. [SPEAKER_08]: I, I neither one of us control each other. [SPEAKER_08]: That's the thing.

[SPEAKER_08]: We, you know, we do our things and we have this place where we're together in our lives and then she does her thing and I do mine and that's fine and it's great. [SPEAKER_08]: got it got to give it to Max to be like, you know, you're dating her and now you're going marry her. [SPEAKER_08]: See, you know, she's she going to kick some Ashley going get some fights. [SPEAKER_08]: She gets some bar fights. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, Miley Cyrus could.

[SPEAKER_08]: She has gotten in some bar fights. [SPEAKER_08]: She, you don't mess with Miley Cyrus. [SPEAKER_08]: She's. [SPEAKER_14]: he's amazing. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it's pretty cool. [SPEAKER_08]: By the way, Michael Jordan, not just basketball. [SPEAKER_08]: He's as you know, he's he's back, he's doing commentating, but he's also a NASCAR owner. [SPEAKER_08]: There's a whole big case involved anti trust stuff. [SPEAKER_08]: And there's some racial overtones as well.

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't want to get into an explainer too much, but you can read the read the piece that is in the news on tap. [SPEAKER_08]: And I think [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, holy cow Bunga, there's a lot going on there, but I do think that Mr. Jordan will probably be a winner on that as well, because I mean, it's Michael Jordan and he's in the right, it's far and I'm concerned. [SPEAKER_08]: So there you go. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, hey, look who happens to be showing up now.

[SPEAKER_08]: It is Wednesday night. [SPEAKER_08]: And you know what that means? [SPEAKER_08]: The one, the only Mr. Bob seske is coming in, yet it's a little bit cold. [SPEAKER_08]: He's getting his coat. [SPEAKER_08]: There it is. [SPEAKER_05]: Hey, you know how to do [SPEAKER_08]: Well, look, I mean, yeah, you have to look at it this way. [SPEAKER_08]: At least you're not Pete Kegbruth. [SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, at the end of the day, we can all take comfort in the fact that we're not Pete Hegseth. [SPEAKER_05]: It's not a gallon of healing depressed. [SPEAKER_05]: You're not Pete Hegseth. [SPEAKER_08]: Look, it's very simple. [SPEAKER_08]: Be like, look, if you're looking around and you're going, God, I got this wrong with my life. [SPEAKER_08]: And that's wrong. [SPEAKER_08]: And that sucks. [SPEAKER_08]: And then you're like, yeah, but I'm not Hegseth.

[SPEAKER_08]: I have a committed multiple war crimes. [SPEAKER_08]: So at work, that's just the crime. [SPEAKER_08]: He's correct. [SPEAKER_08]: That is what he does. [SPEAKER_08]: He's personal life crimes. [SPEAKER_05]: So wait, you know, this is the way the timing, oh yeah, the way the timing could work out on this is there won't be Donald around to pardon him once he's in prison. [SPEAKER_05]: Are you trying to get me a holiday gift?

[SPEAKER_08]: Are you giving me the gift of a holiday thought there, Bob, is that it? [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you know what? [SPEAKER_05]: I think Donald Trump gave us all a gift, which is that he very, obviously is on the down slope. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yes. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, tragedy. [SPEAKER_08]: We're definitely going to have to talk about more about the Donnie's Donnie's sleeping. [SPEAKER_08]: We had several people here in the bar. [SPEAKER_08]: They have nicknames for them.

[SPEAKER_08]: You may enjoy these and you may obviously use them elsewhere. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's see here Mike and the Blue Sky corner of the bar. [SPEAKER_08]: In fact, I think they're all in the Blue Sky. [SPEAKER_08]: They're all over that table, I believe. [SPEAKER_08]: Just see here. [SPEAKER_08]: Mike says that Donnie's new nickname should be Rip Van Stinkle.

[SPEAKER_08]: uh... scanosa shoot should you drowsy don or dozy don and of course to a rockville who actually don't live too far from you uh... she said she goes she says she should be don't snorling on so and that's also very good i'm i'm gonna find out i'd like to be there's a uh... meme going around of dotled with a really long beard and sort of a whimsical red hat like for penwinkle [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, that was Mike Suggestion.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm like, you know, I could do my favorite nickname for him, though, would be former president. [SPEAKER_08]: I would. [SPEAKER_14]: I would. [SPEAKER_14]: I would. [SPEAKER_08]: I would also also an excellent name for him. [SPEAKER_08]: I would. [SPEAKER_08]: For either of those, just don't call him president because he sure is held on deserve it. [SPEAKER_05]: That's for damn sure. [SPEAKER_05]: Look, this is all fun and games, but this is pretty serious stuff for Donald.

[SPEAKER_05]: If you're a member of that entire mega entertainment complex, the people who surround Donald Trump, this is really bad news. [SPEAKER_05]: The mega, the fuck say a Fox cinematic universe. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, in front of TV cameras, in front of the entire White House press corps, in front of his entire cabinet. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's day awake. [SPEAKER_07]: Yep, even with Marco Rubio is yelling at his ear. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, which Okay, it was bad here.

[SPEAKER_05]: It was the right ear. [SPEAKER_08]: So that was also you could tell Marko was really weird if it hurt his Also as as I told Jody earlier, you know, Marco was yelling not because he was trying to be heard because he's thirsty [SPEAKER_07]: Sorry about that. [SPEAKER_07]: Look, we will come back bar. [SPEAKER_07]: We will come back at his Wednesday night. [SPEAKER_08]: Bob says get us here more news on tap.

[SPEAKER_08]: And of course, obviously, we will talk a little bit about track politics. [SPEAKER_08]: Because Bob's doing that as well. [SPEAKER_08]: Get your drinks refreshed. [SPEAKER_08]: Do what you got to do and come on back. [SPEAKER_08]: Wednesday night, here at the politics bar. [SPEAKER_08]: Hang on. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll be right back after we pay some bills at the politics bar.

[SPEAKER_08]: It is Wednesday and I hear the politics bar y'all know what that means the idea of a pop-up Like whoa, and the only Bob SESCA in the house hanging out with us us riff-ramp [SPEAKER_08]: But we are always glad to have you here. [SPEAKER_08]: Although honestly, I got to say, you know, we all love playing with sounds. [SPEAKER_08]: I know you do tiny Trump sometimes on the Bob SESC show, which is hilarious, but I have fun with this one.

[SPEAKER_08]: My most recent one that I've really been enjoying is Donald Trump doing his version of Brownie heck of a job thing. [SPEAKER_13]: He's still in a great chat. [SPEAKER_08]: Pete is doing a great job. [SPEAKER_08]: Really don't eat so I just saw Pete with your wife. [SPEAKER_08]: What do you think? [SPEAKER_13]: Pete's doing a great job. [SPEAKER_13]: Okay, that's fine. [SPEAKER_08]: I need to get that. [SPEAKER_08]: I want to get a bar here. [SPEAKER_06]: I had that.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, look. [SPEAKER_08]: When I when I make it when I clean it up because I'm going to get that and clean it up and then I'll send it I'll send it to you because, you know, I was great. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_08]: You could you could be in the middle of doing almost anything and then all of a sudden Pete's doing a great job. [SPEAKER_05]: Hey, you know, along those lines, I talk to Cliff Shector on my show today. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, hey, how's this doing?

[SPEAKER_05]: And his team are about to break a big scoop about Pete Higgs-F and Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_05]: Probably has something to do with the follow-on murders. [SPEAKER_05]: So, I guess I don't know, Cliff didn't say, but in the next couple of days he's that he's going to have a big scoop at bluewap.co, which is his sub-stack. [SPEAKER_08]: We're definitely going to have to check that out. [SPEAKER_08]: We'll maybe see if we can get Cliff back here in the bar.

[SPEAKER_08]: I do know what Donald will say about that, though. [SPEAKER_08]: Pete's still on a great chat. [SPEAKER_05]: That is a winner, my friend. [SPEAKER_05]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: You got a credit to Error Park for that one because that's just a great job. [SPEAKER_05]: Man, it's, you know, look, a year ago, I don't know that I would have guessed that we'd be sitting here today. [SPEAKER_05]: watching the crash and burn happen.

[SPEAKER_05]: And it's, I'm not, I'm not saying it's actually happening, but I'm cautiously optimistic that we're on a trajectory in which not only is Donald crashing and burning, but everything around him. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, God, you as well, he's taking the whole thing down. [SPEAKER_05]: And that election, because we're also seeing that. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you saw that. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, did you run the numbers yet?

[SPEAKER_08]: Did you before you were talking with the with clip today? [SPEAKER_08]: Did you run the numbers after that? [SPEAKER_08]: Because because we did earlier. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, as far as AFT and BANG those were not just a vein, but the way I mean, a first of all, I think it's a 13 or 14 counties in her in in the Tennessee 07. [SPEAKER_08]: And I broke it down off the New York Times chart every county shifted left by a median average of 10.7. [SPEAKER_08]: It's almost 11 points.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Which is insane. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: And then G. Elliot Morris. [SPEAKER_08]: We have his piece in the news on tap today, the politicsbar.com. [SPEAKER_08]: So he obviously, I mean, he's a polling guy. [SPEAKER_08]: He does math. [SPEAKER_08]: But the long and short of it is, so if we kept the date if we did the 2018 midterm elections, that was a D plus 11 election. [SPEAKER_08]: It was a great blue wave election.

[SPEAKER_08]: It was. [SPEAKER_08]: Nancy Pelosi got the gavl again. [SPEAKER_08]: It was great. [SPEAKER_08]: If the data is the same for 2026 as it has been for 2025, Democrats stand again upwards of 40 seats [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's a big deal. [SPEAKER_05]: In fact, I saw similar numbers that if Democrats perform nationwide, as well as Afton Bane did in the Tennessee 7th yesterday, they'll win 259 house seats. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, I think it's the album.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, they would drop to 175. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, wow. [SPEAKER_05]: It's gigantic disparity. [SPEAKER_05]: And one that makes me smile and smile and smile. [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I got to be clear, I don't want us to celebrate too quickly, because there's still a year to go. [SPEAKER_05]: Right.

[SPEAKER_05]: Lots of crazy things can happen, but right now, as it stands by the numbers, if that over performance happens once again, it is utter tragedy for the Republican party, and I'm so here for it. [SPEAKER_08]: So am I, just because of the fact of then, you know, then we can just turn to Donnie and be like, so we can do this the easy way or the hard way. [SPEAKER_08]: And you too, Vince. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, and Tony Johnson. [SPEAKER_07]: Take a minute.

[SPEAKER_07]: Cole. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, so I'm I am excited, but it's also because I think Democrats have have finally started to. [SPEAKER_08]: figure it out. [SPEAKER_08]: First of all, we don't need the green lanternism.

[SPEAKER_08]: You guys, I think both of you know, I'm not sure if everybody here in the bar does, but the green lanternism that is so endemic among, not just Democrats, but Democrats, independents, a lot of people around the country, where they're looking for some magic hero. [SPEAKER_08]: And I can't remember who came up with the phrase green lanternism.

[SPEAKER_08]: I think I first heard it from Greg Sargent, but, um, [SPEAKER_08]: It's the idea that some magical superhero can come in and save everyone, save everything, kind of like kind of like the version of God who was it. [SPEAKER_08]: There's a cartoon by Tom tomorrow back in the day during the Obama administration. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I know Dan Perkins and he's great, but Dan is Tom for those of you don't know.

[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, and he did this cartoon and it was the [SPEAKER_08]: And the people would be like, Oh, Obama's going to do everything and save us and make us all millionaires and, you know, we won't need guns and no, no war and everything will be perfect. [SPEAKER_08]: And then the reality, which is damn it, he just couldn't get everything done that I wanted. [SPEAKER_08]: He sucks. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: And it's like, yep.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's that's the green lanternism of one person will come in and save it all. [SPEAKER_08]: And when you turn green lantern and listen green lanternism in the the opposite of the dark side, what you get. [SPEAKER_08]: is fascism.

[SPEAKER_08]: You get Donald Trump, and you get, well, Trump has half fascism because it's half-assed in fascism, but, but still, I mean, that's, that's, that is the whole idea that one person come and save us, and it's really nice to see Democrats at so many levels, rural and suburban. [SPEAKER_08]: an urban and everywhere around the country. [SPEAKER_08]: And yes, we'll welcome in if you're an independent great. [SPEAKER_08]: If you didn't vote, well, it sucks, but you can vote this next time.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, you're a Republican who now hates Trump because you learned. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, great. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, we're not going to let you drive the bus, but you can ride the bus. [SPEAKER_08]: Get on. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's go. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's get that hell out of this place.

[SPEAKER_08]: And [SPEAKER_08]: people seem to be everywhere go in great and you're getting all these leaders in in neighborhoods and in from the hood of the holler is they say in Tennessee and and it's it was really great to see the way that the people there came together to help after vain and I'm just [SPEAKER_08]: I'm, I'm really jazzed by it. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm like, hell yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: So, right, right, I think it would have been a nice if we had the win in that election.

[SPEAKER_05]: But I think it came so close in terms of forecasting what's going to happen next year. [SPEAKER_05]: I think it was a win. [SPEAKER_05]: In fact, it's just going to read this quote. [SPEAKER_05]: This is Donald writing on truth through central. [SPEAKER_05]: Congratulations to Matt Van Apps on his big in all caps, congressional win in all caps, in the great state of Tennessee, the radical left Democrats through everything at him, including millions of dollars.

[SPEAKER_05]: Another great night for the Republican Party, President D.J.T, indicating that Donald Trump wrote that particular truth. [SPEAKER_05]: Whenever he says President D.J.T, that's usually him. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: And so talk about [SPEAKER_05]: other delusion about what that election represented, another indication that Donald is in serious declogative decline. [SPEAKER_05]: He doesn't understand what that election meant for Republican prospects.

[SPEAKER_14]: Well, didn't the Republican spend more money than the Democrats in this fight?

[SPEAKER_08]: Yep, last time I checked they did it and they can't afford to be if if they are they're going to be defending more seats in the Senate they they look it was already can from the the DNC last night was out doing doing media stuff and he was already saying with the results that they had even last night you were saying earlier tonight, Jody that that when all things are said and counted she may have only lost by seven points instead of nine. [SPEAKER_14]: seven to eight.

[SPEAKER_14]: I mean, it might be even a closer margin by the time every vote gets counted. [SPEAKER_08]: But even last night, Ken at the DNC, was saying, just these instant results alone, tell us that a whole bunch of seats that we can go after.

[SPEAKER_08]: Basically anything that was the the the the the floor of what the the democratic party and a lot of state democratic parties were thinking was the floor of seats that they could go after was a plus 10 R. [SPEAKER_08]: now they're looking at plus 15, some of them close to plus 20 are democrats who's which means that republicans, they have nothing that they they're going to be playing constant defense.

[SPEAKER_08]: They won't be able to really reach anywhere because they'll be going crap we're going to die. [SPEAKER_08]: I have I have I shown you this one before have I shown you this before Bob this this button. [SPEAKER_05]: Uh, I can't quite see it, but yeah, let's just say, no, I haven't seen that. [SPEAKER_05]: This is this is a panic button. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a hoops and yo-yo panic button.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: Some of the people on the, uh, the campaign, the Obama Biden campaign back in 2008 gave this to me. [SPEAKER_08]: And we would do this fun thing where every time that something happened that we knew, no matter what kind of face the Republicans were putting on publicly. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, we're doing fine. [SPEAKER_08]: Everything's great. [SPEAKER_08]: We're going to kick your butt, bro, whatever they say. [SPEAKER_08]: We knew privately.

[SPEAKER_08]: This is what they sounded like.

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[SPEAKER_08]: and I'm hoping we could get there even before the midterms. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: How many Republicans are actually leaving in January? [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Tiny Johnson's going to be shrinking even more than, which is just, you know, look, we don't have a problem with Shreaky on our side. [SPEAKER_08]: That is a Republican problem.

[SPEAKER_05]: How many Republicans need to resign in order for Democrats to get the majority in the House of the mid-Germs? [SPEAKER_08]: Let's see Lisa Desjardins did this over at PBS. [SPEAKER_08]: We listed it a while back. [SPEAKER_08]: So we didn't win the Tennessee one, but there is the election between two Democrats in Houston. [SPEAKER_08]: That's coming up in January. [SPEAKER_08]: There is another seat.

[SPEAKER_08]: I think it's going to be filled by another Democrat, Mikey Cheryl likely. [SPEAKER_08]: It's going to be within two or three seats real close, I mean, that's an almost certainty by like spring that it's going to be even closer than it is now. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: So I mean, the margin is way for thin right now. [SPEAKER_05]: And so I don't imagine. [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I really like to think that Republicans will be so self-destructive.

[SPEAKER_05]: And so pissed at both Mike Johnson and Donald Trump, that they'll just go, all right, you know what? [SPEAKER_05]: I don't care. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm leaving. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to step away from this bloodbath before it happens, like, totally speaking.

[SPEAKER_05]: And [SPEAKER_05]: I still say I still say I don't know I don't know that they would be willing to just hand the majority over to the Democrats before there's even an election, but on the end of the boss that they actually do. [SPEAKER_14]: Some might say, isn't it? [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: It's possible. [SPEAKER_08]: And look, I still say the Marjorie Taylor Greene, I know you and I don't necessarily agree in this one, Joe.

[SPEAKER_08]: But I still think that Marjorie Taylor Greene, I don't know if she's going to do anything necessarily in office again. [SPEAKER_08]: But I think she is the type of maga who, um, I mentioned this, uh, I think it was last week before before the Thanksgiving break.

[SPEAKER_08]: that there are people who are kind of high-level amateurs in politics and then there are people who are pros, people who have been involved in politics, talking about politics, we're all kind of pros because we've been doing this for a while. [SPEAKER_08]: There are people who are even more pro than we are. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, people like Barack Obama. [SPEAKER_08]: I get it. [SPEAKER_08]: Right, big time, you know, Michael Jordan, Barack Obama.

[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, I kind of think, Steph Curry, you get it. [SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, but Marjorie Taylor Green, I think, is a really excellent amateur. [SPEAKER_08]: And she finally, especially when the maggots started turning on her with all of her, you know, fighting with Donnie, she finally is like, you know what? [SPEAKER_08]: I'm not into this anymore. [SPEAKER_08]: This was a fun hobby. [SPEAKER_08]: And I could make a bunch of it.

[SPEAKER_14]: She's got her lifetime pension now, so she's fine. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: She is set. [SPEAKER_08]: Jody's right. [SPEAKER_08]: She's got a lifetime pension. [SPEAKER_08]: She's got everything that she needs that way. [SPEAKER_08]: I think that she is just going, you know what piece out. [SPEAKER_08]: And if she does piece out, that will be a huge signal to a bunch of the other megaphocus. [SPEAKER_14]: She is piecing out. [SPEAKER_14]: She's leaving in January.

[SPEAKER_08]: She's gone. [SPEAKER_08]: But I'm saying even more than that, if she just goes and then she goes away, you know, like that old song, girl don't go away, mad, girl just go away. [SPEAKER_08]: If she does, in fact, just go away. [SPEAKER_08]: I think a whole lot of maga people will be like, wait, we can quit this. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't want to defend his old-daughtering fool.

[SPEAKER_08]: Don't mess his fallen asleep in his cabinet meetings, and he's babbling ridiculous crap about his VP, and he doesn't seem to know what planet he's on, and he's letting Putin rule everything you know what? [SPEAKER_08]: F-this. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't need this guy. [SPEAKER_08]: Because at some point, they're going to. [SPEAKER_08]: They need a signal. [SPEAKER_08]: And I think Madge going, you know what? [SPEAKER_08]: I'm done.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm out and they're like, oh, you're going to go on Fox. [SPEAKER_08]: And she's like, no, I'm I'm good. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to go garden do do a little jet skiing and and because I got a crossfit. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: I got the time. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to go do Crossfit and then some of the guys who are at Crossfit, she might do that food, but whatever. [SPEAKER_08]: Right.

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't judge whatever you want to do that magic that's up to you, but drive her car with her feet and everything All three toes exactly But that's just it if she if there's a signal to them that they no longer have to play this game Then I think there are a number of little go you know what I'm not interested because if they're going to be in that kind of a minority And be expected to defend Donald Trump and know that they're not going to get any of the things that he promised them

[SPEAKER_08]: How much fun is that, really? [SPEAKER_14]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Which is why people like Magic Lake, you know what? [SPEAKER_08]: I laid a piece about, thanks, have a nice day.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: And also bear in mind, I just, I don't want to be too much of a Debbie downer on this, but I imagine it's probably safe to say that the Republicans who end up resigning between now and election day 2026 will be Republicans that can be easily replaced by another Republican. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, that's why she's doing it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, depending on what the special election situation is and who the governor is of that particular state right there's going to be a Republican stepping in but as I said don't count this possibility out [SPEAKER_05]: There's their rats leaving the ship is exactly right other disaster from the Epstein files on down the include heat headset in the mix and there too.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh We got to talk about something that we got to talk about some of the the Kegbreath Warcrime stuff and a little bit of Grampi Donny really showing up yesterday at that cabinet meeting Mr. Napping Donny. [SPEAKER_08]: Hey Donny. [SPEAKER_08]: How you doing man? [SPEAKER_13]: Thanks Donny [SPEAKER_08]: One more round of Bob says go on a Wednesday night. [SPEAKER_08]: It's me and Jodie and you hanging with Bob get your drink refresh.

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[SPEAKER_08]: It's all there. [SPEAKER_08]: That's the politics block. [SPEAKER_08]: That count. [SPEAKER_08]: Alright in the break we were joking around and talking about Donnie because as you know Donnie just keeps having problems but you know he's only got one thing to say right now. [SPEAKER_08]: Good to see you on a great chat. [SPEAKER_08]: Thanks Donnie.

[SPEAKER_05]: He's barely articulating the words now just like oh, yeah, he's kind of slurring there Let me look Pete's doing a great job. [SPEAKER_05]: Pete's doing a great job. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, thank you [SPEAKER_05]: We got crappy. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god, a slice of cake here for you. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god. [SPEAKER_14]: There was a beautiful chocolate cake. [SPEAKER_08]: There was one thing that you pointed out earlier and you pointed it out.

[SPEAKER_08]: I think was it yesterday that we were talking off air. [SPEAKER_08]: Jodie about the that he slammed that Donnie slammed JD. [SPEAKER_14]: No, he did it at the meeting Bob just read it to us. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_14]: No, he slammed JD. [SPEAKER_14]: He totally did. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. [SPEAKER_14]: But the content, yeah, go read it Bob. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you, okay, let me, let me bring it up here.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, he said he was talking about Tim Walls. [SPEAKER_05]: And he said, I think the man is a grossly incompetent man. [SPEAKER_05]: I thought that from the day I watched JD destroy him in the debate. [SPEAKER_05]: I was saying, who's more incompetent? [SPEAKER_05]: That man or my man? [SPEAKER_05]: I had a man and he had a man. [SPEAKER_05]: They were both incompetent. [SPEAKER_05]: who he said he had a man, I had a man and he had a man. [SPEAKER_01]: Who's the he?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, I do. [SPEAKER_05]: But and it goes on. [SPEAKER_05]: This is just, well, he's a fan of a video that Rupert posted on Blue Sky. [SPEAKER_05]: There's more to it and it gets less and less comprehensible as the car. [SPEAKER_05]: He goes on. [SPEAKER_08]: But he basically, he's a calling JD incompetent. [SPEAKER_08]: Which? [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, my God. [SPEAKER_08]: Right, we're getting blocked, right? [SPEAKER_05]: But then he was getting confused as to who he was talking about.

[SPEAKER_05]: There are so many things here. [SPEAKER_05]: They're hiding in plain sight and were disguised. [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I don't want to play the distraction game. [SPEAKER_05]: But by the fact that he was falling asleep so often, we're missing some other key elements of this cabinet meeting. [SPEAKER_05]: There was the one point where Donald was talking about the cognitive test. [SPEAKER_05]: Right.

[SPEAKER_05]: And he was saying as though, [SPEAKER_05]: he had never taken a cognitive test before that the most recent one was the first one that he ever took. [SPEAKER_05]: And then he was saying there was something like, and which is worse false. [SPEAKER_05]: And there was saying there was something like 30 questions half or no, right. [SPEAKER_05]: There's not 30 questions on the entire cognitive exam.

[SPEAKER_08]: Most of the time when he's been asked the similar things before he makes the same mistake of, you know, it's acting like it's the first time. [SPEAKER_08]: But I mean, the, [SPEAKER_08]: You know, Jody point, you pointed it out too, and well, maybe you guys, with both of you noticing and maybe it's something I missed, God knows it's entirely possible. [SPEAKER_05]: But I just, you know, he's just, he's very clearly forgotten that he's taken other cognitive tests.

[SPEAKER_14]: It sounds like with this kid and what he's saying, yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: And then he said later on in the captivating, he said, I want to wish everybody a very happy holiday week. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, take the fact that he said, happy holidays in there. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: I think that out of the right. [SPEAKER_05]: But the fact is exactly. [SPEAKER_05]: That was the holiday was last week. [SPEAKER_05]: It's not this week.

[SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: So there is something seriously wrong with him. [SPEAKER_05]: And then on top of all of that, there's another thing that's been mostly missed is his right hand, that rotting right hand with the, it was very, very clearly photographed.

[SPEAKER_05]: In fact, for some time now, and I'm just so ridiculous, the way I stick my face up against my computer screen and look [SPEAKER_05]: But I was noticing in recent weeks that you couldn't really tell what was going on with the back of his hand.

[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe he got better, make up or whatever, but man, there were photos coming out of the cabinet meeting yesterday in which not only is there makeup still on the back of his right head, but there's also two band-aids on there now, and then what appears to be something [SPEAKER_05]: under the band. [SPEAKER_05]: He is looking. [SPEAKER_05]: What is that? [SPEAKER_05]: What is what the hell is going on?

[SPEAKER_05]: And very clearly, Dr. Barbabella isn't going to give us any sort of worry. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, he could know. [SPEAKER_08]: He could be bleeding under it. [SPEAKER_05]: I could you could be bleeding. [SPEAKER_05]: There could be some for a visa. [SPEAKER_05]: Hunt or yeah, they could be a permanent thing under the skin. [SPEAKER_05]: They do that. [SPEAKER_05]: They do that for cancer patients.

[SPEAKER_14]: They do that for all certifications so that they don't have to keep a port hitting. [SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, a port. [SPEAKER_05]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_14]: They keep hitting the same vein or moving hand to hand. [SPEAKER_14]: They just the ports there and they just give you whatever they need to when they need to. [SPEAKER_08]: It's entirely possible and the thing is there are lots of ways that you can tell that these people are falling apart.

[SPEAKER_08]: There's obviously Donnie's falling asleep, there's his miss speaking, but Caroline also dropped one. [SPEAKER_08]: We played this yesterday. [SPEAKER_08]: I want to bring this up for you in the DVR. [SPEAKER_08]: It's funny. [SPEAKER_08]: She actually tells the truth. [SPEAKER_01]: overwhelmingly the fake news that we see pumped out of this building on a day-to-day basis. [SPEAKER_01]: It's it's honestly overwhelming to keep up with it all.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, yes, it's my all the time. [SPEAKER_08]: Kick-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k- [SPEAKER_08]: all of the war crime stuff. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh my god. [SPEAKER_08]: So of course, I don't know if you saw because you were probably doing probably talking to Cliff before you came over here to the bar and then you're in production stuff.

[SPEAKER_08]: But so they have released or they've leaked, I guess you could say some of it. [SPEAKER_08]: We've got it in the news on tap today. [SPEAKER_08]: The Inspector General is done. [SPEAKER_08]: with the estimate of what's going on as far as a signal gate, and says that yes, headset endangered troops to war crime. [SPEAKER_08]: So he, this isn't, this stuff with the boats blowing up the boats, this isn't even his most recent war crime.

[SPEAKER_08]: Pete Kegbreath has multiple war crimes and it's documented and this is the inspector general this is the person inside the house that any legitimate organization has that always tries to sus out if you're doing something wrong that's their job and putting out their pork on yeah yeah Pete screwed up big time that's another crime [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, place your bets on how long Pete eggs have lasts in this job.

[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, I think Donald's going to throw him out because he Donald won't get hurt by it because it's Donald, but he excess, unless Donald gives him a pardon on his way out the door, it's for Admiral Bailey tomorrow is going before the House and Senate Armed Services Committee is unfortunately closed or secret, as you said, Joe, and I get that, but still.

[SPEAKER_08]: Well, when you want to bet, we were talking about this earlier, Bob, and we know that House Armed Services and Center Armed Services, no stuff before we do, when you want to bet that many of those people knew some of this stuff like two, three weeks ago, when they put out, when the Democrats put out that video of saying, if you've been ordered to do something illegal, you don't have to take illegal orders, and that makes logical sense

[SPEAKER_08]: because if they knew that somebody else knew, and look, there's at least seven people, at least seven witnesses to heggsess whatever he was doing on the day of that first one, let it load. [SPEAKER_08]: Then the thing that you mentioned here, Jodi was at last hour, was it earlier this hour? [SPEAKER_08]: About the other, one of the other shootings in October?

[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, there was another boat that they shot at, and it sank, but there were two survivors, and they released them, remember? [SPEAKER_14]: rescue them and take them back to the United States because they're bad drug traffickers no, no, no, no, no. [SPEAKER_14]: They released them back to their own country. [SPEAKER_14]: So why did you bomb their boat if they're so safe to release back to their own countries?

[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, I mean, so I think what happened between September 2nd and the October incident was lawyers came in and said, you cannot kill survivors, guys, you cannot do that.

[SPEAKER_13]: And still Donald says he's still a great chair or D.O.D. [SPEAKER_14]: counsel D.O.D. [SPEAKER_14]: lawyers, you know, Jack lawyers, you know, they'll come out and [SPEAKER_05]: It is, uh, uh, I'm just, uh, you know, a, uh, Pete Higgs that is going to find out and he's probably finding out right now as we spit.

[SPEAKER_05]: Probably this thing that we've been talking about for many, many years now, which is that the people who get close to Donald Trump always end up getting thrown under the bus, they don't know, always end up getting screwed in and this is going to be the rest of Pete's life, Pete Higgs that's life now.

[SPEAKER_05]: is going to be entirely wrapped up in civil lawsuits and in and out of courtrooms and you know things like that because he was stupid enough thinking that oh well he he's going to be the guy who's not negatively affected by getting close to Donald Trump like he'll be the lucky one even though everyone else has in some way been damaged by getting too close to Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_05]: You're right. [SPEAKER_06]: They all think that too. [SPEAKER_06]: They all think that.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh I can I can control [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know why they keep doing it. [SPEAKER_05]: The evidence is clear. [SPEAKER_05]: He's got a long history of it. [SPEAKER_05]: But even Steve Bannon, who for some reason continues to defend Donald Trump even after Donald Trump fired him and then referred to him after the fact as sloppy Steve. [UNKNOWN]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: because I'm not the same band as out there still defending Donald. [SPEAKER_05]: It's the amazing thing.

[SPEAKER_05]: What is it about Donald said? [SPEAKER_05]: Very right. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: That's kind of my thought when it comes to Bannon is the reason that Bannon still kisses up is I'm pretty sure that Donald has, I'm almost certain that Donald has more dirt on Bannon and basically, you know, he does this every once in a while to assure Donald that I'm still on your side because if Donald [SPEAKER_08]: he's gone.

[SPEAKER_08]: So, but, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's

[SPEAKER_14]: And his family doesn't care about him or they, you know, with come and take him exactly a place for mom or something. [SPEAKER_08]: I did see Joe Biden over the holiday weekend. [SPEAKER_08]: Fantastic. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: Anybody seen Jake Tapper? [SPEAKER_05]: Amazingly, I think Jake Tapper did a whole hour on the cabinet meeting and Donald falling asleep, but it was really just bad. [SPEAKER_05]: Good. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm glad.

[SPEAKER_14]: Out time. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: And probably part of it was Jake going damn it. [SPEAKER_08]: All those people making funny about this and I'll show them. [SPEAKER_05]: I'll show them how you were on Donald falling asleep. [SPEAKER_14]: A whole hour.

[SPEAKER_05]: one hour one stinking hour not at not a book not a book tour which didn't do well not the book which didn't do well either but you know whatever he got the advance so many honest questions about his health this is driving me bananas the fact that it's very obvious that he has been covering up something about his health going back ten years and then everybody else is too yeah but yeah and only recently is the New York Times starting to say

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, something going on with Donald's health. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, they don't know. [SPEAKER_08]: Because they like everybody else is starting to see the writing on the wall and they all are starting to realize that at some point, Donald will be gone regardless of, you know, I don't want anybody to kill him, but he's an old man. [SPEAKER_14]: I want him to live a long, long, long, long, long life at Levinworth. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_08]: But the fact is at some point he's going to be there is going to be life after that. [SPEAKER_08]: and there are a whole lot of people who have put all of their chips on the Donald Trump spot. [SPEAKER_08]: And now they're going, crap crap, I gotta figure out what to do. [SPEAKER_08]: And thankfully, there are a whole bunch of us who are going, uh, uh, don't touch that. [SPEAKER_08]: You're going down with that one. [SPEAKER_17]: So we'll do.

[SPEAKER_08]: What's have to sit there and make sure that they don't move their chips and be like, oh, okay, spin the wheel. [SPEAKER_05]: Just remember what we want when it comes to the Democratic candidates who started lining up a year from now. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: If you can remember no word that they have an agenda of the two words that every Democrat needs to be needs to know and needs to know well affordability and accountability.

[SPEAKER_08]: If you know both of those congratulations, you're on our team on that. [SPEAKER_08]: We didn't even talk much about track politics. [SPEAKER_08]: Obviously, people should go and check out track politics at trackpolitics.com. [SPEAKER_08]: And of course, listen to Bob Ceskyshow. [SPEAKER_08]: Wherever you get your podcast, and of course, go check him out on Patreon because Bob likes to eat too. [SPEAKER_08]: So there you go. [SPEAKER_05]: I do.

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