Speaker 1: Hello, everybody. Happy Sunday. We're back with you once again
Speaker 1: and glad to be so. As always, our technical skill
Speaker 1: is unrivaled. No one can touch it. Starting out today,
Speaker 1: just so we're all clear, the Sunday cocktail for the show,
Speaker 1: normally a Saturday cocktail, is in fact a banana daiquiri.
Speaker 1: We went old school. I went like 1950s Fountain Blue
Speaker 1: Hotel banana daiquiri, and they are delicious. They're dangerously delicious. Yes. Yes.
Speaker 1: You know, in the great words of Dorothy Parker, she
Speaker 1: once said, I'm good for three cocktails. The first one,
Speaker 1: I'm under the influence. The second one, I'm under the table.
Speaker 1: And the third one, I'm under the host. So we'll
Speaker 1: have three.
Speaker 2: He's spicy.
Speaker 1: I'm spicy. It's been a spicy day. It's been a
Speaker 1: spicy day. Well, we're so glad to be back with
Speaker 1: you guys because Renee last weekend was not. She was
Speaker 1: down for the count.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Something.
Speaker 3: Nabbed all of my coworkers too. There was a bunch
Speaker 3: of us who were under the weather last weekend. So
Speaker 3: we're not sure what that was all about, but I did,
Speaker 3: we all collectively did a COVID test on Monday and.
Speaker 4: We didn't have it. So I'm not sure what it was.
Speaker 3: It just could have been some sort of bug, but
Speaker 3: I slept literally 16 to 18 hours on Friday and
Speaker 3: then again on Saturday.
Speaker 1: She woke up Friday morning. Well, she was awake all
Speaker 1: night Thursday night. Woke up Friday morning and was like,
Speaker 1: I can't come in. And she's never. I mean, she
Speaker 1: is like.
Speaker 3: I got up. It was like 3 o'clock.
Speaker 1: She plays her all the time. And man, when she
Speaker 1: says that she's sick, she's down.
Speaker 3: I always play her. I play hurt, not injured. There's
Speaker 3: a difference for those of you. It's a football weekend.
Speaker 3: We're kicking it off. Started Thursday.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to FSU on winning at least one game this year.
Speaker 3: So FSU won yesterday against New Mexico State.
Speaker 2: Go Knolls.
Speaker 3: My Catamounts won. Go Western Carolina.
Speaker 2: We also won. So two wins.
Speaker 1: Good evening, football and Sammy Carter. We are eager to
Speaker 1: be back soon. We are streaming, by the way, on
Speaker 1: the stack. It's working. We are? Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm bringing it up.
Speaker 1: It's a Christmas miracle.
Speaker 3: So that I can look at comments as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Make sure that there's no sound. Because I don't like
Speaker 3: to mess us up.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know. You know, you guys, this is actually
Speaker 1: so fun for us because we get so many questions.
Speaker 1: We do look through all the e-mails online. And some
Speaker 1: of them are always going to be like, what do
Speaker 1: you think about this thing that's happening this week? Which
Speaker 1: is great and fun. We love that. But there's also
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff. Mike Madrid's points about Texas. He
Speaker 1: is absolutely right about Texas. He was down there this
Speaker 1: last week going through with Bobby Polito in Cala Rico
Speaker 1: and the change in the Rio Grande Valley, not just
Speaker 1: the Hispanic voters, but But with Anglo voters as well,
Speaker 1: it's remarkable. There's a massive, massive shift going on in
Speaker 1: Texas right now.
Speaker 5: And Mike is the definitive analyst for Hispanic voting behavior
Speaker 5: in America, but also more broadly, he's very good at
Speaker 5: American voter behavior in general. And he was on the
Speaker 5: ground there, and I think he was picking up this
Speaker 5: rising shift in Texas, not only among Hispanic voters who
Speaker 5: got really screwed by Trump economically.
Speaker 1: But also with the change in Anglo and white rural
Speaker 1: voters as well, who've just been screwed by the terrorists,
Speaker 1: by the Capitol thing, all of it is just a
Speaker 1: constant pain for them.
Speaker 4: So We have a lot on the list.
Speaker 1: Oh, my God. We have so much on the list. Okay.
Speaker 3: So we have so much on the list. We hope
Speaker 3: we can cover all.
Speaker 2: Of this today.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What do you want to start with?
Speaker 1: Well, let's.
Speaker 2: What do y'all want to start with?
Speaker 1: Of the dumbest freaking idea of the week, Lake America.
Speaker 2: Lake America.
Speaker 4: Let's start with Lake America.
Speaker 1: Don't fall for it, guys. It's just trolling. It's all
Speaker 1: going to get changed back.
Speaker 3: I know that a couple people have asked me because
Speaker 3: they've already started the rebranding on the.
Speaker 2: Map sites.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Some of them.
Speaker 1: Google in America. Here's the funny part. Only in the U.S.,
Speaker 1: only for U.S. users does Google call it like America.
Speaker 3: Okay, great. I see you.
Speaker 1: But let me say this. Sundar Pichai, you are not
Speaker 1: a dumb man. No. And Sundar Pichai, I know people,
Speaker 1: I don't know him personally, but I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people who are close to him. He is not
Speaker 1: an evil man. He's, you know, Silicon Valley, but he's
Speaker 1: not in the pantheon of Silicon Valley. She did. He'll
Speaker 1: listen to Karis. All of this was to play to Trump,
Speaker 1: and only the MAGA fools are getting it and seeing
Speaker 1: it like America. Everywhere else in the world, it's still
Speaker 1: Lake Ontario. And everywhere else in the world, by the way,
Speaker 1: it's probably still Gulf of Mexico. Apple, to their credit,
Speaker 1: we're like, go fuck yourself. No, we're not playing.
Speaker 3: And those of you who use Google Maps and want
Speaker 3: something different, MapQuest.
Speaker 1: They're still around.
Speaker 3: MapQuest is an app. I saw Kara was pointing people
Speaker 3: to it. Take off your Google, put on DuckDuckGo, do
Speaker 3: something different. Just Google. I think everybody should just do
Speaker 3: it as a shout out.
Speaker 1: The small defiances that we can engage in still matter.
Speaker 1: They still matter a lot. But I do want to
Speaker 1: say that more broadly. It's not working anymore for Trump
Speaker 1: to do this stuff. This used to be a big deal.
Speaker 1: People would have been like, we all know it's going
Speaker 1: to get switched back. We all know it's going to
Speaker 1: get changed.
Speaker 4: It's an executive order.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. And yes, he can tell the Department
Speaker 1: of Interior, the GIS people, rename it, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1: But you know what? The minute another president is in office,
Speaker 1: they're going to say, fix this shit. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if the minute the Democrats want to pass a CR,
Speaker 1: that says, and no funds will be appropriated for the
Speaker 1: White House of any kind until and unless the GIS
Speaker 1: people are instructed to rename the Gulf of Mexico to
Speaker 1: its proper name and the Lake Ontario to its proper name,
Speaker 1: and just slide the thing in the appropriations bill. And
Speaker 1: at some point, they'll just change it because they have to. So,
Speaker 1: you know, the cherry trees Trump is cutting down, do
Speaker 1: not start her on that.
Speaker 3: 60 of them are gone. I saw the nubs. I
Speaker 3: did see this. So, there was somebody who outed and
Speaker 3: said it was our tech. Out of, I believe it's
Speaker 3: North Carolina that did the trees. They came out and said,
Speaker 3: absolutely not. It was not them.
Speaker 1: It's had.
Speaker 3: That question twice now, but here's the thing. They said
Speaker 3: it wasn't them. They said it was a different company.
Speaker 3: They do have a contract for removing trees. decaying trees
Speaker 3: or trees that are a problem like we all do
Speaker 3: in our yards here.
Speaker 1: We've got about a 50-foot tree that fell off while
Speaker 1: we were gone.
Speaker 3: But they do have a contract to do some of
Speaker 3: that work, but they did not cut down trees.
Speaker 4: The healthy trees. Now, I don't know if that's true
Speaker 4: or not.
Speaker 3: I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 1: I've been looking into it. They clearly wanted the word
Speaker 1: out that they didn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they clearly made all these posts. So I've got
Speaker 3: a big problem with the trees. There's a couple hundred
Speaker 3: of them, yes. But they have started the cutting. And
Speaker 3: I'm worried. I will say this. The fact that they
Speaker 3: went in and started clear-cutting those things, and it's about...
Speaker 3: The nubs that I saw, the stumps are about maybe
Speaker 3: not even a foot from the ground. I'm worried about that.
Speaker 3: But I'm also worried about them coming in and doing
Speaker 3: that just, you know, without permission. Those are historical. Those
Speaker 3: are gifts from the Japanese government to us.
Speaker 1: From the emperor. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Those came, I grew up outside of DC. I grew
Speaker 3: up inside of Gaithersburg. My dad worked for IBM. He
Speaker 3: also works for Goddard Space Flight Center. But I grew
Speaker 3: up going into DC as a child, seeing the trees.
Speaker 4: Every year my mom would go in and.
Speaker 3: We'd have a big family thing. And I just, it's heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: And on that kind of same note, because he threatened
Speaker 3: to do it, I am really, really worried about him
Speaker 3: taking a bulldozer to the Kennedy Center also, just like
Speaker 3: he did to the East Wing without.
Speaker 4: Notification, permission, all of that, because.
Speaker 3: He's just doing, excuse my language, whatever the hell he pleases.
Speaker 3: And it's heartbreaking. It's ruining our history. It's ruining our country.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but that's how I feel.
Speaker 1: Hey, Wine Stand Lens, hello, my friend. Good to see you.
Speaker 1: I've never been on the ground at Bears Ears or
Speaker 1: Grand Escalante, but when I was out in Park City
Speaker 1: in 2020, I rented DA40 Diamond I flew in one
Speaker 1: day and flew out over Bears Ears. Oh, my God,
Speaker 1: just stunning, absolutely. And 95% of my flying is, of course,
Speaker 1: 99% of my flying is from east of the Mississippians.
Speaker 1: And so that was a really amazing experience. And I
Speaker 1: hope you're doing well. I love you. We miss you. So, Todd,
Speaker 1: you've asked a couple questions about why aren't we streaming
Speaker 1: on the Lincoln Project channel. This is just our little
Speaker 1: weekend project. And we don't want to make the producers
Speaker 1: get up and have to burn their weekends out.
Speaker 4: And I'm not part of LP. So this is kind of.
Speaker 2: It's our personal thing.
Speaker 3: We just decided to do it, and we put it
Speaker 3: under Rick's because, you know, he's got a following. I don't.
Speaker 1: Well, you do have a following.
Speaker 2: You're an influencer.
Speaker 3: Not on.
Speaker 1: I'm getting followers. But, Todd, the reason is that Our producers,
Speaker 1: they do four other shows for me every week, and
Speaker 1: they bust their asses, and they work really, really hard.
Speaker 1: And this is just us on the weekends having some fun.
Speaker 3: And we just did this as kind of a one-off
Speaker 3: the first time we did it.
Speaker 4: And it was sort of a let's go live and
Speaker 4: just talk to people.
Speaker 1: And then people were like, do more.
Speaker 3: People were like, do this every weekend. And we're like, okay.
Speaker 4: So this is just our little fun show.
Speaker 1: You're looking radiant.
Speaker 3: I'm looking radiant. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Just a little.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're getting to the Santas, don't you? We're getting there. Oh,
Speaker 1: have faith.
Speaker 2: Have faith.
Speaker 3: Oh, I got a lot to say. But as we
Speaker 3: look going forward to all the people that are in D.C.
Speaker 3: and surrounding communities, please, y'all, know it's not eggnog.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: I like the nog.
Speaker 1: It's a banana daiquiri.
Speaker 4: It's a banana daiquiri with fresh banana.
Speaker 1: We had a bunch of fresh organic bananas. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm making something.
Speaker 3: I bought some bananas. And because I like a banana
Speaker 3: and they're safe.
Speaker 1: For now.
Speaker 4: Because they have skin on them that you.
Speaker 3: Don't eat the skin. So it's.
Speaker 1: Oh, Patrick, we're going to cover you. Milo Yiannopoulos, who
Speaker 1: is such a little prick and a troll and was
Speaker 1: part of the harassment of my children. during Steve Bannon's
Speaker 1: time when Milo was at Breitbart. He's been deported. He
Speaker 1: is a UK resident or citizen. He was a resident here.
Speaker 3: He did not come to his hearings.
Speaker 1: He did not go to his hearings. And he got
Speaker 1: in a spat with Laura Loomer, who is an individual
Speaker 1: who I wish to be deported to whatever universe she
Speaker 1: came from initially.
Speaker 3: She's in the metaverse somewhere.
Speaker 2: Right, right.
Speaker 3: I don't know which timeline, but.
Speaker 1: But Milo's tweets for months were like, I wish ICE
Speaker 1: would deport more of them every day. These illegals. So
Speaker 1: Milo's out. Goodbye. Goodbye. What else? We've got toxic beef.
Speaker 1: And we got loomered. We've got toxic beef. We've got
Speaker 1: poop lettuce. Trump's trade war with Canada is going to
Speaker 1: cut off our toilet paper supply and increase the cost
Speaker 1: of toilet paper. So poop lettuce. Toilet paper shortage.
Speaker 2: It's not a good look.
Speaker 1: A heck of a job, don't you think? Annie Andrews
Speaker 1: is doing better. It's still South Carolina. I love her
Speaker 1: to death, by the way. I love her to death.
Speaker 1: It is a tough seat. It's a very, very, very, very, very, very,
Speaker 1: very tough seat.
Speaker 3: I was wondering if all of the.
Speaker 4: Guy who ran for governor who ran against.
Speaker 2: Ralph Norman. Graham.
Speaker 3: Graham. formerly known as something else because she changed her
Speaker 3: name days before the election. Anyway, if he is going
Speaker 3: to just gracefully go back or if he's going to
Speaker 3: throw his support to a Democrat, because if he threw
Speaker 3: his supporters, because he came close, if he were to
Speaker 3: throw his support to her and join with the Democrats.
Speaker 1: Because he is bitter about Trump doing this.
Speaker 3: He's bitter. So he could.
Speaker 1: Listen, guys, we're having a very big year. How high
Speaker 1: the tide rises is the question. In Iowa, Sand is
Speaker 1: doing great. Turek is doing great. Three of the House
Speaker 1: seats are Lincoln Project. Well, actually, three of the House
Speaker 1: seats plus Sand plus Turek are all Lincoln Project targets
Speaker 1: this year. We're hitting all those really hard. I think
Speaker 1: we're going to take all three of those congressional seats
Speaker 1: that we're targeting.
Speaker 2: I hope so.
Speaker 1: Because it's nuts. It is now. Okay, what do we got?
Speaker 3: We can talk about the beef. People are talking about
Speaker 3: the beef in the chat, and we need to talk
Speaker 3: about the beef.
Speaker 1: I want to say something about the beef situation broadly.
Speaker 1: There are local producers everywhere in this country. Local. We just,
Speaker 1: in the last few days... got an actual new local
Speaker 1: butcher shop in our neighborhood.
Speaker 3: I don't know where they're pulling meat from.
Speaker 1: They're in Monticello. They're in Monticello. And we have Grady
Speaker 1: Farms in South Georgia near here. They provide beef, lamb, hogs,
Speaker 1: all this stuff. And when you go there, you think
Speaker 1: for a second, like, oh, this is expensive. But it's
Speaker 1: no more expensive than Publix is these days.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what, local... If you're doing anything,
Speaker 3: try and buy local. We need to support our local farmers,
Speaker 3: our local ag, our local businesses. Our small businesses are struggling,
Speaker 3: and we need to try and support small business. We
Speaker 3: got the Grady Farms at the farmer's market two.
Speaker 2: Weeks ago when we voted.
Speaker 1: We've got lamb, and we've got a bunch of lamb
Speaker 1: from them. I've got leg of lamb. I've got lamb
Speaker 1: bones for stew. I've got all sorts of ground. What?
Speaker 3: In georgia that we that white oak farm white oak
Speaker 3: is great also they.
Speaker 1: Will do white oak guys they seem to have had
Speaker 1: a journey when they realized about a year ago that
Speaker 1: um you know what and you know who we're not
Speaker 1: the way to we're not the way.
Speaker 2: To get clients anymore no so.
Speaker 1: But yeah we have a local butcher we have a
Speaker 1: we have a tremendous local seafood market here yeah that
Speaker 1: is that is and they get stuff out of the Gulf,
Speaker 1: out of the Atlantic, and around the world every day. Man,
Speaker 1: I made a good tuna tataki from Southern a couple
Speaker 1: weeks ago.
Speaker 3: It was delicious for World Cup.
Speaker 2: Good night. It was good.
Speaker 3: Fresh fish, amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So support your local businesses. Support your local. If you
Speaker 3: eat meat, I'm not saying, you know, turn to meat
Speaker 3: if you're not a meat eater, but there's meat, local,
Speaker 3: If you can get fish local, most of us can
Speaker 3: get it local. We're on the coast.
Speaker 4: Some of you guys can get it shipped in, fresh shipped.
Speaker 3: From Atlantic or close from the Gulf as well. So
Speaker 3: think about that. Also, you're getting your omega-3s, which is
Speaker 3: good for you. I can't take them.
Speaker 2: They kill me.
Speaker 3: I can take krill oil, but I can't take omega-3s.
Speaker 3: I will burp fish all day. So I try and
Speaker 3: eat the fresh stuff or the fresh frozen. If you can't,
Speaker 3: get it at Costco. Costco has fresh, the little fresh fillets,
Speaker 3: which are even nicer because they're about, you know, about
Speaker 3: what you need, about three, four ounces, five ounces. And
Speaker 3: you can pop one of those out. I used to
Speaker 3: cook them frozen in the thing, coat them with some mayonnaise.
Speaker 3: I know it sounds weird, but that frozen fish, roll
Speaker 3: it in mayonnaise. If it doesn't have a coating on it,
Speaker 3: And bake it in the oven. I'm telling you, it
Speaker 3: will come out very, very.
Speaker 1: Crazy.
Speaker 3: The M word. I don't say the M word.
Speaker 2: But it's delicious.
Speaker 3: And put a little dill on it or lemon dill.
Speaker 4: Delicious also.
Speaker 1: Patty, we will talk about the oil deal. We'll get
Speaker 1: on to that. We'll get there. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: and we have a great organic farm called Orchard Pond
Speaker 1: right up the road from us. Oh, cool.
Speaker 3: I will tell you, and they do boxes of food
Speaker 3: to you that you can pick up or ship. I'm
Speaker 3: pulling my favorite thing in the whole world. If you
Speaker 3: know me, if we are not eating his sister's honey.
Speaker 1: My sisters make great honey.
Speaker 3: They make great honey. And local, their bees and all
Speaker 3: of that. If I don't have their honey... It's different.
Speaker 1: We still have a lot of their honey, too.
Speaker 4: I still, I buy this, which is the Orchard Pond,
Speaker 4: and it is gallberry.
Speaker 1: Again, we are not sponsored by anybody.
Speaker 2: I am not.
Speaker 1: We're just telling you stuff we like.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you stuff I like. I have no sponsors,
Speaker 3: except for him. He's my sponsor.
Speaker 1: Is that another word for sugar daddy?
Speaker 3: But gallberry honey, if you haven't had this, it's the
Speaker 3: purple stripe. You can't get it all year. So when
Speaker 3: I do, I try and get a big one. I
Speaker 3: did also get this at the farmer's market. They also
Speaker 3: do a farmer's market booth up at Cary Forest on top.
Speaker 3: So try and buy the local stuff. And it's supposed
Speaker 3: to be good also for allergies.
Speaker 2: Spoon of it every.
Speaker 3: Morning to get that local... pollen situation and it's supposed
Speaker 3: to help you too.
Speaker 2: Yeah just this little thing so um so.
Speaker 3: Also wait talk about the beef one more time so
Speaker 3: people are cutting into beef and finding the beef measles
Speaker 3: i don't know if you've seen that have you seen
Speaker 3: that it is um that's terrible i've seen the pictures
Speaker 3: and if those are real pictures i'm sort of grossed
Speaker 3: out Like, you cut it, and it looks like... I.
Speaker 1: Don't want to... Can we stop this now? I'm already getting.
Speaker 2: It scares me.
Speaker 4: So, the toxic beef situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And they're importing all of this stuff, and it doesn't have.
Speaker 1: And it's got hormones. It's got hormones.
Speaker 3: And it's not checked.
Speaker 1: And chemicals.
Speaker 4: The last step is just terrible.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 1: All right. Short-stacked artist got the beef. You got the
Speaker 1: Jesus margaritas.
Speaker 3: Oh, Jesus margaritas. These are our banana daffodils.
Speaker 1: I wanted to give a shout out to a candidate
Speaker 1: you should pay attention to in the Florida 13th. That's
Speaker 1: the Annapolina Luna seat right now. Check out Leela Gray.
Speaker 1: She's amazing. Former Army Brigadier General running against the craziest
Speaker 1: Russian shill, Annapolina Luna, in that district. And People are
Speaker 1: starting to pay attention to that seat. That seat's going
Speaker 1: to be in play because Luna is so freaking nuts.
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Fat.
Speaker 1: Yes, Roberta, that Dorothy Parker quote is on the napkins
Speaker 1: at the Algonquin, which is a great place to go
Speaker 1: have a cocktail because can you imagine her Bentley, I mean,
Speaker 1: oh my God. Anyway, I could go down that rabbit
Speaker 1: hole for way too long.
Speaker 3: JW, yes, you're coming to the United States, and he said,
Speaker 3: should I just pack suitcases of snacks? Oh, we got
Speaker 3: snacks in this country.
Speaker 2: Snacks are not our problem.
Speaker 1: We're good for snacks.
Speaker 3: We're good for snacks.
Speaker 1: Listen, Kyle, Hakeem, I went after Hakeem on that thing
Speaker 1: now a week ago, and I got some feedback from
Speaker 1: people in Washington. I can't believe you did that. Fuck you.
Speaker 1: Fuck you. Fuck you. You never take a meeting with
Speaker 1: the devil. He will lie to you. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like everything, everything you hear out of, out of the
Speaker 1: mouth of Jared Kushner is going to be a lie.
Speaker 3: Can we, we, that's a segue.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: So here's the thing.
Speaker 3: Everybody says, I understand the whole like FHK for taking
Speaker 3: the meeting. I understand that. I also understand that we're
Speaker 3: also in a place that we also need to be,
Speaker 3: figure out how to talk to the other side. And
Speaker 3: I know the other side is the devil and we
Speaker 3: still have conversations with the devil. They may not be
Speaker 3: what he wants to hear, but we still have them. I, I,
Speaker 3: And watching everything, and we'll talk about Dolly coming soon, too.
Speaker 3: But I worry there's so much.
Speaker 2: Hate right now.
Speaker 4: And hate for the other side. And nobody's talking to anybody.
Speaker 3: And maybe, maybe he attempted it. Was it the right way?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know what was said. I don't know what
Speaker 3: the conditions were. I don't know about the meeting or
Speaker 3: how it happened or any of that. I am not,
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about that per se. But we also
Speaker 3: need to figure out how we're all going to be adults.
Speaker 3: I know what she's going to say.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: We're not talking about that. I'm saying this. We have
Speaker 3: all got to figure out who the adults are in
Speaker 3: the room, and how people are going to attempt to
Speaker 3: even talk to one another.
Speaker 1: Okay, so then what should have happened was Mike Johnson
Speaker 1: should have gone to Hakeem and said, I'm negotiating with
Speaker 1: you now for the surrender of our bullshit.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 3: And that should have been how it is, because here's
Speaker 3: my other thing, too. The only thing Jared Kushner is
Speaker 3: is Donald's son-in-law. That's it to me. He is not elected.
Speaker 3: He is not in the cabinet. He doesn't have a
Speaker 3: position there. He doesn't have clearances because he has no position.
Speaker 1: Well, actually he has been issued clearances for the highest
Speaker 1: levels of American intelligence by the president with no background check.
Speaker 1: So that should all, that should all make you feel
Speaker 1: really good that he has TSSCI SAP clearances. Um, and
Speaker 1: those of you who know, you know, um, And he's
Speaker 1: been briefed on the most sensitive American intelligence compartments that exist,
Speaker 1: including human intelligence. So you might as well just give
Speaker 1: it all a fucking poop. I. OK. But look, we've
Speaker 1: got to be able to take their surrender.
Speaker 3: We it's not even surrender. OK, I'm not asking about
Speaker 3: taking surrender. I'm talking about we've got a lot of
Speaker 3: problems in this country. And we need some damn adults
Speaker 3: who are not just being petty. And we need to
Speaker 3: start figuring out how we're all going to come together.
Speaker 4: We've got collapsing Social Security.
Speaker 3: We've got these Medicare problems, Medicaid problems.
Speaker 4: We have got so many problems.
Speaker 3: We've got to figure out a way that we're all
Speaker 3: going to come together. And I don't know how that's
Speaker 3: going to happen. And I'm not giving Hakeem a pass either.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying in the future, we've got to figure
Speaker 3: it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: Maybe we need to depict.
Speaker 4: Better people and people with clearance.
Speaker 3: I know not with this administration.
Speaker 4: I get that. But we've got to start.
Speaker 2: I know. Maybe. I know.
Speaker 1: I just. She's taking the responsible adult.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to.
Speaker 1: I want to wheel up the guillotine. Somebody asked me
Speaker 1: what should happen to Steve Bannon. I'm like, he needs
Speaker 1: a choice of a blindfold, a cigarette, and last words.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm done.
Speaker 4: My hoodie, also my pants match too.
Speaker 2: It's like a waffle weave. It's that Haven.
Speaker 3: They sell it at Talbot's, but they have their own.
Speaker 3: It's like a muted pink dusty rose color. I got
Speaker 3: it from Clarence.
Speaker 2: Like, Last year, was it?
Speaker 3: Or earlier this year. And I love it because it's
Speaker 3: super snuggly and nice.
Speaker 2: And I'm just.
Speaker 1: Just like you.
Speaker 3: Sunday, I just want to be calm.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Leela Gray.
Speaker 4: Let's... What else are we going to talk about right
Speaker 4: now at this moment?
Speaker 1: Okay, we can take a brief break to show you
Speaker 1: my one aviation segment of the week.
Speaker 3: Oh! This one scared me.
Speaker 1: This is a flyover at a soccer game in South Africa.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Yes, Rick has pants on.
Speaker 1: I do have pants on. Well, they're shorts, but I
Speaker 1: have pants. But I wasn't wearing pants earlier. It was
Speaker 1: a bet.
Speaker 3: It was a bet.
Speaker 2: Not lying.
Speaker 1: It's true. All right. This shit, as a pilot, drives
Speaker 1: me back.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I'm not afraid of anything. Hold on.
Speaker 3: We're figuring out how to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to do it. Do we know?
Speaker 3: Did you hit.
Speaker 2: The play button?
Speaker 1: I'm going to find out.
Speaker 3: No, the one on the left at the bottom.
Speaker 1: No, that's not that.
Speaker 2: It's not?
Speaker 1: Okay. Never mind.
Speaker 3: Maybe not.
Speaker 1: I'm breaking something here.
Speaker 3: We'll get to it in a second. Let's talk about
Speaker 3: it for a quick second. I'll talk about it while
Speaker 3: he's doing this. So in case you guys haven't seen it,
Speaker 3: I know I reposted it. There we go. Oh, he
Speaker 3: did find the one that I told him about of
Speaker 3: the person on the top of the dome. Two commercial planes.
Speaker 3: These are commercial flights. Went across this dome. Look how close.
Speaker 3: This is feet, y'all.
Speaker 1: 500 foot clearance is the minimum safe altitude over any obstacle.
Speaker 1: That's about 50. And that plane flew into fireworks going off.
Speaker 4: And if you look at this from all the angles,
Speaker 4: you will freak out.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: If I was on that flight, I would have.
Speaker 1: You would have kicked my ass.
Speaker 3: I would have.
Speaker 2: I'm going to turn the air.
Speaker 1: All right. So, yeah, that's my one aviation segment of
Speaker 1: the week. Sorry. you know you're going to get one
Speaker 1: every week so i'm going to go back to i
Speaker 1: had a note here the darling graham thing somebody else
Speaker 1: asked about in the comments darling graham the drop off
Speaker 1: with darling graham from where she thought she would be
Speaker 1: um and what she got that's the only race that
Speaker 1: trump people have spent any money on this year They
Speaker 1: spent a few million dollars to support her.
Speaker 3: And he's already said he's not spending any money on her.
Speaker 1: In a small state that voted for Trump three times,
Speaker 1: I think it went for Trump by 23 points last time.
Speaker 1: And his endorsement barely got Darlene Graham over the line.
Speaker 1: It's insane. Anne-Marie, it does look like AI, but it
Speaker 1: sure isn't.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 1: It's real.
Speaker 3: And it's been filmed from all the different angles.
Speaker 1: And it's also on FlightAware. Hey, Jules, don't think that
Speaker 1: there might not be an aviation subset of my personal
Speaker 1: broadcasting at some point because we get the plane back
Speaker 1: this week. We hope. We get the plane back this week.
Speaker 1: We get the plane back this week. It's got new seatbelts.
Speaker 3: It's got new seatbelts.
Speaker 1: It's got new engine stuff. It's very good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: We've moved into.
Speaker 3: The 70s and into the four-point harness.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Safer rather than just the.
Speaker 1: Just the old lap belt.
Speaker 3: Little lap belt. Not great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Marine One is going to hit a plane someday
Speaker 1: because they're sloppy.
Speaker 3: Well, they're all.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Oh, let's... Can we.
Speaker 1: Talk about Florida for a minute? Oh, God.
Speaker 3: We have a lot of Florida.
Speaker 1: So a lot of people were asking the email about
Speaker 1: the whole Florida scandal this week. We have been beating
Speaker 1: on hope Florida for a year and a half.
Speaker 3: About it on threads all the time. It's been how
Speaker 3: many days we haven't heard nothing.
Speaker 1: So there was a grand jury that was in, that
Speaker 1: was it. That was for almost a year in 2025. Well, no. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because the report was issued in January of this year.
Speaker 3: I know, but the grand jury actually started in like August,
Speaker 3: September of last year.
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought it was earlier than that.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Long story short, there was a grand jury investigation of
Speaker 1: the fact that Ron DeSantis, and I'm going to put
Speaker 1: up a slide and walk you through it. So Florida
Speaker 1: got $ 10 million from a company called Centene. They had
Speaker 1: ripped off Florida. They had stolen money from Florida. So
Speaker 1: they got convicted of it. They said, we'll settle for
Speaker 1: $ 10 million. For some, well, they $ 60 million, but 10
Speaker 1: of it went to Hope Florida, which is a charity
Speaker 1: run by Casey DeSantis. Okay. It sat in their bank
Speaker 1: account for about a day. And then 5 million of
Speaker 1: it went to a PAC called Secure Florida's Future. And
Speaker 1: 5 million went to Save Our Society from Drugs.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now those both kept a little bit of a cut.
Speaker 1: Each one of them kept a cut. But then they
Speaker 1: went to a group called Keep Florida Clean, which was
Speaker 1: run by the chief of staff to the governor, who
Speaker 1: is now the attorney general, James Utmeyer. They spent $ 7
Speaker 1: million on TV ads to kill a medical marijuana amendment.
Speaker 1: They spent some to the Florida Freedom Fund, which is
Speaker 1: another DeSantis-Utmeyer jam. And they sent $ 2 million of it
Speaker 1: to the Republican Party of Florida. This was as clear
Speaker 1: a goddamn Rico-style criminal conspiracy as you could get. They
Speaker 1: took money meant to be paid to the state of
Speaker 1: Florida to make up for health care money stolen from kids,
Speaker 1: gave it to Casey DeSantis. She flipped all that money
Speaker 1: into political action committees and the Republican Party of Florida.
Speaker 1: And Ron DeSantis, Casey DeSantis, the whole fucking gang of them,
Speaker 1: Not one of them would tell the truth. Not one
Speaker 1: of them would testify to the grand jury.
Speaker 3: None of them were even asked to testify to the
Speaker 3: grand jury.
Speaker 2: And Ashley Moody. Oh, oh, oh, yes!
Speaker 1: Now we get to the good part. The attorney general
Speaker 1: at the time who approved all of this was Ashley Moody.
Speaker 1: And people were wondering, why did Ashley Moody get named
Speaker 1: to the U.S. Senate when the seat opened up? Well,
Speaker 1: it's because when Marco took secretary of state, It's because
Speaker 1: that was her payoff from Ron DeSantis. So she got,
Speaker 1: she took that $ 10 million, clearly a crime. She was
Speaker 1: clearly aware of it. She approved it as AG. Utmeyer
Speaker 1: was the bag man, ran the money around to the
Speaker 1: different groups. Casey and Ron knew it because it was
Speaker 1: their charity. None of them would admit, no one would
Speaker 1: agree to testify on Who ordered the transfer from Centene
Speaker 1: to Hope, Florida? That just happened out of the blue somehow.
Speaker 1: And it's gotten to the point where these people are
Speaker 1: so fucking brazen. I'm going to play Pluttmeyer for you
Speaker 1: this week. They're so brazen now they think they've gotten
Speaker 1: away with it. I want to play this clip for
Speaker 1: you because it's ballsy.
Speaker 6: You know, I was working to defeat these amendments. You
Speaker 6: had Amendment 3 and Amendment 4 that were on the ballot.
Speaker 6: We believed as a state that we needed to fight
Speaker 6: back against this amendment. I worked in committees on the outside.
Speaker 6: Government officials certainly have a right, maybe even a duty,
Speaker 6: to protect the state against things like this. There's nothing
Speaker 6: that stops outside entities from working with other C4s and
Speaker 6: nonprofits to fight in an issue campaign. The rules, you know,
Speaker 6: you You can't use some of those funds for a
Speaker 6: candidate campaign. But we weren't out there promoting a candidate.
Speaker 6: We were fighting against a harmful ideology. And thanks be
Speaker 6: to God, we beat them both.
Speaker 1: They still care. They do not. They literally do not care.
Speaker 1: They think they've gotten away with it.
Speaker 3: Okay, so here's the other part of this. We were
Speaker 3: all asking, so many of us, like, where's the grand
Speaker 3: jury report? Where's the grand jury report? Get this.
Speaker 2: And this is all.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about facts.
Speaker 3: This is not speculation at this point. Right? The grand
Speaker 3: jury report should have come out in February of this year.
Speaker 2: It did not. In Chambers.
Speaker 3: People named in the suit.
Speaker 1: Squashed it.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: Over and over again, apparently.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: And we should have known about this before primary season.
Speaker 3: We'll just talk about that.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: Funny how that happens. So they deliberately squashed it all.
Speaker 3: They deliberately came out, all of them, and said, there's nothing,
Speaker 3: there's no there there. There's no there there. It was
Speaker 3: just people saying we did a lot of wrong stuff.
Speaker 3: It was people like lying. It was people this.
Speaker 1: They call it a hoax, because that's what they always say.
Speaker 2: It's a hoax.
Speaker 3: That's what they're calling it, it's a hoax. They went
Speaker 3: on and on about how it was no there, there,
Speaker 3: and it was all a lie. This whole report was
Speaker 3: all a lie, blah, blah, blah. And when it popped
Speaker 3: up the other night, and when I got the pop-up,
Speaker 3: CBS News Miami.
Speaker 1: Jim DeFede.
Speaker 2: Chef's kiss, baby.
Speaker 1: Jim DeFede, baby.
Speaker 2: Our Miami people just.
Speaker 4: They're doing the Lord's work.
Speaker 1: Jim DeFede is one of the best reporters in the state.
Speaker 1: And some reporters who shall remain nameless, including some very
Speaker 1: influential reporters in the state who shall remain nameless, they
Speaker 1: just can't find a way to, they just somehow can't
Speaker 1: cover the story. It's amazing.
Speaker 3: The next morning, I get the politics emails that lists
Speaker 3: all of the things that are going on and clips
Speaker 3: from all of the news organizations over the state. From everywhere,
Speaker 3: not just whatever. And not a mention, not a word,
Speaker 3: not a squeak, nothing. And I was sitting there like, oh, Lord.
Speaker 1: She knew what I was going to do, too.
Speaker 2: Oh, I ran in there.
Speaker 4: When the thing broke, I ran in there.
Speaker 3: Rick was in his study.
Speaker 2: I said, look at this.
Speaker 1: They hid it. It was wrong.
Speaker 2: It's a 19-page jury.
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: But we have.
Speaker 4: OK, so it's all bad.
Speaker 3: We know it's bad. They lied. All of these things.
Speaker 4: The only I'm going to I'm going to be a
Speaker 4: positive kitty.
Speaker 3: The only positive thing that came out of it was.
Speaker 3: And you've got to look at it this way. There
Speaker 3: were no indictments yet. And the reason why I say
Speaker 3: it's positive that there were no indictments is because there
Speaker 3: were no indictments. Guess what? we can have a full
Speaker 3: circle moment and do it all again.
Speaker 1: And I will say this, I want to, and we're
Speaker 1: going to, we're going to, we're going to bridge to
Speaker 1: a Florida and a national challenge ahead, but I'll play
Speaker 1: this from David Jolly real quick for you so that
Speaker 1: you can be our attorney general.
Speaker 7: One was the attorney general of the state of Florida
Speaker 7: whose office had to sign off on this later appointed
Speaker 7: to the United States Senate, fully insulating the governor and
Speaker 7: the first lady's charity. I just think where you smell corruption,
Speaker 7: you pursue it. I don't trust our sitting attorney general
Speaker 7: to do that. Clearly, he's a subject of this investigation.
Speaker 7: I think the office of the governor should reopen a
Speaker 7: fact-finding investigation into exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: So that is what accountability sounds like. Properly delivered. Not
Speaker 1: over-the-top partisanship. That should scare these bastards more than, I'm
Speaker 1: going to put you all in jail tomorrow. Because that's
Speaker 1: the kind of shit they say. Revisiting it is possible, Cynthia.
Speaker 1: Here's the funny thing. Over the course of a long time,
Speaker 1: since the Constitutional Revision Commission in 1998, Florida's governor has
Speaker 1: received significantly more power than they initially had under the
Speaker 1: Constitution before that. We used to have a strong cabinet
Speaker 1: position in the state. where the governor is basically equal
Speaker 1: to every other member of the cap. Now the governor
Speaker 1: is much stronger because Republicans wanted to have more power.
Speaker 1: And you know, who was on that staff for the
Speaker 1: cost of provision.
Speaker 3: But you know what's funny thing, a knife cuts both ways.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does.
Speaker 1: And so David's going to have, David's going to have
Speaker 1: some opportunities here to, you know, and look, I think
Speaker 1: his chance of becoming governor is better by the day.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: He's going to have a chance and a challenge to,
Speaker 1: And Florida, the reason it's going to be a true
Speaker 1: challenge is that Florida has been under Republican control for
Speaker 1: 35 years. And I will tell you all, honestly, I
Speaker 1: was one of the engineers of that takeover. So I
Speaker 1: understand it better than most people. But David's going to
Speaker 1: have a challenge. And it's a good challenge to have
Speaker 1: because it's going to show that for Democrats and independents
Speaker 1: and sensible people. who aren't really partisan, aren't really political,
Speaker 1: that the things that have been hurting them in Florida
Speaker 1: for so long are going to be addressed and faced
Speaker 1: up to, and that accountability is real. That challenge that was,
Speaker 1: you were talking about this earlier.
Speaker 3: We had a full conversation about this, and this also
Speaker 3: leads into another discussion that we'll have in a moment,
Speaker 3: but we as a state are going to have to also.
Speaker 4: Have a thought when, hopefully, honestly, when David wins.
Speaker 3: Because we are going to be one of the first
Speaker 3: states in the nation who has been under Republican control
Speaker 3: for so long, decades and decades, that is going to
Speaker 3: flip back to blue. And we are going to be
Speaker 3: put on a platform and a pedestal Of every single thing.
Speaker 3: Every single thing. Every action that is taken. Every decision
Speaker 3: that is made. The scrutiny.
Speaker 4: It's going to be something, y'all.
Speaker 1: And the counterattack is going to be. It's going to
Speaker 1: be ugly. Insane.
Speaker 3: It's going to be ugly.
Speaker 2: And we need to.
Speaker 4: Keep in mind that we do, as citizens, need to.
Speaker 3: Keep our government accountable.
Speaker 2: It's our job.
Speaker 3: We have barely any media in this town anymore.
Speaker 4: There used to be so much of a media presence.
Speaker 1: So when I got here in 94, there were 65
Speaker 1: full-time reporters who lived in this town for... You know,
Speaker 1: the Fort Lauderdale Sunset had three reporters here, and the
Speaker 1: Miami Herald had a dozen, and the Tampa Tribune had
Speaker 1: eight or nine, and St. Pete Times had nine or ten.
Speaker 1: They're gone.
Speaker 3: But as it's moved right and right and right and right.
Speaker 1: We live in Tallahassee, Florida.
Speaker 3: We live in Tallahassee. As it's moved right and right
Speaker 3: and right and right, the accountability, the scrutiny.
Speaker 2: all.
Speaker 3: Of that had disappeared. And some of it, I would assume,
Speaker 3: because there's so much pay to play in the state,
Speaker 3: some of the media outlets, you know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: But there's so much of that here that moving forward,
Speaker 3: you know, before you could talk to them, because there
Speaker 3: was always media down at the Capitol. There was Always media.
Speaker 1: Ten years ago. Ten years ago.
Speaker 3: You go out on a Friday night and you can
Speaker 3: see everybody. But now that Florida is worse than Chicago.
Speaker 3: And now that, you know, it's right. There's a cone
Speaker 3: of silence around everything. Nobody talks. You know, the money
Speaker 3: is exchanged under the table. Nobody sees it. And there's
Speaker 3: nothing to report on anymore because it's all.
Speaker 2: It's a.
Speaker 1: Pain in the butt.
Speaker 2: Pay to play.
Speaker 1: And you know what?
Speaker 3: Everybody's in on the Joe.
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing too. In Florida, you've had right
Speaker 1: wing billionaires and multimillionaires investing in media platforms and podcasts
Speaker 1: and blogs and independent news, social media. And they, they
Speaker 1: run them in a way that looks local. It's like, um,
Speaker 1: you go to Tampa and there's something like, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the, what the one in Tampa, it'll be
Speaker 1: called like the Tampa news banner. And it sounds sort
Speaker 1: of like, you know, okay. And the problem is it's
Speaker 1: all owned by one of these weird right-wing billionaires. And they're,
Speaker 1: and they're like, I'm going to help this guy and
Speaker 1: that guy. And this guy, the Florida system is, is,
Speaker 1: is so corrupt. And it's now got a backstop of
Speaker 1: a lot of these, especially on the right, these very
Speaker 1: corrupt outlets that, You know, if you look at, have
Speaker 1: you ever seen Florida Voice?
Speaker 4: Oh, it is not the voice of Florida.
Speaker 1: Oh, no, it is not. It is like.
Speaker 2: It is a propaganda machine.
Speaker 1: It is like, the godlike entity Ron DeSantis today blessed
Speaker 1: us with his wisdom and presence and his beautiful wife, Casey,
Speaker 1: the galactic wonder of her beauty. Oh, for fuck's sake, people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's that Florida Voice nonsense.
Speaker 1: Oh, it is wackadoodle.
Speaker 4: And you're like, you're like, Florida Voice.
Speaker 3: And once again, they look like legitimate media outlets.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: And they're propped up like that. And then you open
Speaker 3: it up and you're like, what? Vaccination is bad.
Speaker 1: Oh, and Patrick, they do pump out shit with AI. Oh,
Speaker 1: they do. All the time.
Speaker 3: It's terrible.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Well... We.
Speaker 3: And this is a segue for... Anyway.
Speaker 4: So the nation is watching. David's also got a challenge.
Speaker 2: He's... Florida.
Speaker 3: A former Republican.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: So that's another strike in some people's views. But here's
Speaker 3: the system. And we have got to talk about this. And,
Speaker 3: you know, as we all preach, you know, everybody can
Speaker 3: have their favorites during the primary.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: I get it. We all back different people for different reasons. Okay.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Name calling now aside and all that nonsense. We'll get
Speaker 3: to that in a minute too. But now that we
Speaker 3: have a front runner, we have a person. We all
Speaker 3: have to get behind that person. Y'all, we are, we're
Speaker 3: not going to do the, they're not.
Speaker 1: The best is not the enemy of the good.
Speaker 3: And we're not going to play that game. We all
Speaker 3: need to, and if you need to hold your nose
Speaker 3: and vote, hold your nose and vote. I will come
Speaker 3: with you and pinch. Because here's the thing. We will
Speaker 3: not change anything if we don't all show up strong
Speaker 3: and unified. That's it.
Speaker 2: Yep. That's it.
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 3: That person may be not your favorite person. Maybe they
Speaker 3: don't look a certain way or act a certain way
Speaker 3: or have a certain presence or may not be whatever
Speaker 3: you think a politician in your mind should look like,
Speaker 3: act like, do like, work like, whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 3: You need to meet that person where they are. Understand
Speaker 3: that their heart is in the right place. Their foundation
Speaker 3: is strong. And we all need to get on the
Speaker 3: same page. We will preach this till election day. Don't say,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to vote because my person didn't.
Speaker 2: No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Listen, listen. The example we're all walking around here is
Speaker 1: there are still some people that are like, I don't
Speaker 1: like Angie Nixon because she's a blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 3: She's a whatever.
Speaker 1: Listen, guys.
Speaker 3: Fill in the blank.
Speaker 1: If you're not comfortable with how far to the left
Speaker 1: Angie Nixon is, Alex Vindman has come out the day
Speaker 1: of the election and said, I'm going to fully support her.
Speaker 1: I'm financially supporting.
Speaker 3: He's financially supporting everybody.
Speaker 1: And so that's the right thing to do here. I
Speaker 1: don't have to agree with Angie Nixon on every single
Speaker 1: policy issue, and I sure as fuck don't. But you
Speaker 1: know what? Ashley Moody is a corrupt sycophant of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Yep. She's a corrupt human.
Speaker 1: And that is utterly disqualifying.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's true. She stole $ 10 million from Florida children to
Speaker 1: give to Ron DeSantis' goddamn super PAC scam. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I don't care. Level in. Get to work. That's it.
Speaker 1: Florida is a high mountain decline.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: And the more everybody's doing well... There is a synthesis
Speaker 1: of these different factors. Angie Nixon turns out progressives and
Speaker 1: African-American voters, and she proved it in the primary. David
Speaker 1: Jolly turns out centrists and independents. And 18% of Republicans
Speaker 1: are voting for David Jolly. Everybody moving in the same direction.
Speaker 1: Everybody pushing in the same valence. We can have a
Speaker 1: gigantic election day.
Speaker 2: We could.
Speaker 1: And believe me, guys, since Brene brought this up about
Speaker 1: how Florida's going to have to.
Speaker 3: Leave the country, We're going to have to leave the country.
Speaker 1: Because this is how my brain works.
Speaker 4: We need a hard reset.
Speaker 1: You're right. I have been making a list of things
Speaker 1: that have to happen. And they will be painful. And
Speaker 1: they will be shitty. And they will make people very angry.
Speaker 1: But this is a state that is so corrupt. Guys,
Speaker 1: I have been in the room. When a now departed
Speaker 1: state senator left. He's dead. I can say that. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to go too far into it.
Speaker 3: Don't go too far into it.
Speaker 1: Literally held out a greasy bag of money and asked
Speaker 1: me to take it on behalf of him.
Speaker 3: This is a very long time ago.
Speaker 1: Long time ago. Statute of limitations has passed. And I
Speaker 1: had just come from Washington and the White House and
Speaker 1: the Pentagon where I thought, this has to be a
Speaker 1: fucking FBI sting. It has to be. So I folded
Speaker 1: my arms. I was like, no, thank you, sir. I
Speaker 1: can't take that. And I'm sure he thought I was
Speaker 1: some sort of naive rude. But this state is so
Speaker 1: fucking crooked. And I can't even express to you, you
Speaker 1: would be stunned how fucking disgustingly corrupt it is. You
Speaker 1: would be stunned at the guys who fly legislators down
Speaker 1: to the Dominican Republic for whores at their whore compound.
Speaker 1: You know who I am. You know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: And there was a lot of... I just go back
Speaker 3: to we all need.
Speaker 2: You guys.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: It's hard sometimes to get behind a different candidate who you,
Speaker 3: for whatever reason, don't like.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: Alice Bidman was a friend of mine. Yeah. They're friends
Speaker 1: of ours. And a good man.
Speaker 4: He's a good man. And here's the thing.
Speaker 3: He's doing the right thing. He is showing support, showing unified.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 6: And....
Speaker 2: Yes, that is true.
Speaker 1: Drew on paper just mentioned Jasmine Kroc has been a
Speaker 1: disappointment in not actively campaigning for Tallarico.
Speaker 3: I find that.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: You know what? She's better than that. She should be
Speaker 1: smarter than that. If anybody's advising her to not campaign
Speaker 1: for Tallarico, that's a mistake on their part.
Speaker 3: And this is the year that you can... It's going
Speaker 3: to sound weird when I say it, but I'm going
Speaker 3: to say it anyway.
Speaker 4: This is one of those years... that.
Speaker 3: Everybody has even put in the chat, vote blue no
Speaker 3: matter who. And this is one of those years that
Speaker 3: you can vote blue no matter who, and nobody is
Speaker 3: going to think unkindly of you.
Speaker 2: And I wish.
Speaker 3: Jasmine would come out for Talrico because it's a free
Speaker 3: year to vote. Straight down blue lot. It is a
Speaker 3: free year because nobody's going to say anything because we
Speaker 3: all know we need change.
Speaker 4: And the only way to do it is to vote
Speaker 4: bloat and moving on.
Speaker 3: I kind of love your passion.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 3: But it's true. It's a freebie. Like, nobody's going to
Speaker 3: split hairs after the election.
Speaker 1: Why'd you vote for JJR for AG?
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
Speaker 1: Everybody needs to vote. We got a lot to vote.
Speaker 3: It's blue and vote blue.
Speaker 2: Moving on.
Speaker 3: We all need to come together.
Speaker 1: All right. Moving on to Byron Donalds in Florida, just
Speaker 1: because I know this is not supposed to be a
Speaker 1: Florida show, but we... Byron Donalds, his name for his attorney,
Speaker 1: or his running mate, his lieutenant governor, a guy named
Speaker 1: Avila from Miami. As a Republican friend of mine said, oh, fuck,
Speaker 1: we've got a DEI ticket now. Avila is a Cuban.
Speaker 1: He's 5'2. He is pro-gun control.
Speaker 4: Bro, gun control, y'all.
Speaker 2: He voted for all the.
Speaker 1: Parkland stuff in Florida. This is not about gun control,
Speaker 1: qua gun control. This is about Florida, where more Democrats
Speaker 1: own guns than you would think. Where 38.5% of the
Speaker 1: people with a concealed carry permit in Florida are Democratic voters.
Speaker 1: So he picked a guy who also was the sponsor
Speaker 1: of the bill to give tax breaks and and legal
Speaker 1: liability coverage to the data centers. I'm like, why don't
Speaker 1: you nominate Dr. Atheist Von Gay, the celebrity abortionist for
Speaker 1: the Republican Party? That's great, Donald.
Speaker 3: So we are still in shock of that pick. Thank
Speaker 3: you for the gift. It wasn't even Christmas. It is
Speaker 3: the worst pick because really he's not very good. I
Speaker 3: watched him all like, oh, that's not good. I would
Speaker 3: have thought he would have picked somebody from North Florida
Speaker 3: because he already got the South Florida situation locked up.
Speaker 3: That's not a problem. Republicans in South Florida, not a problem, kids.
Speaker 3: They just, whatever. But North Florida, if you look at
Speaker 3: what happened in those counties, he did not win those counties.
Speaker 1: 17 counties did not vote for Byron Donalds in North Florida.
Speaker 1: They voted for Collins, Renner, or Fishback.
Speaker 3: So he should have picked Someone.
Speaker 1: North of I-4.
Speaker 3: North of I-4. Even Pasco would have been fine.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 3: Because Imperial Pasco County. But had he picked somebody either
Speaker 3: center of the state or somewhere, Eglin, Pensacola, somewhere over
Speaker 3: Panama City way, it would have helped unite the bottom
Speaker 3: of the state with the top of the state and
Speaker 3: help strengthen his access.
Speaker 4: But he did not.
Speaker 1: He chose unwisely.
Speaker 2: He chose very unwisely.
Speaker 1: Byron has also said something in Florida that if you
Speaker 1: want to set off the Wilson family, that motherfucker is
Speaker 1: out talking about, well, we need to really let parents
Speaker 1: decide if their kids are going to get the polio vaccine.
Speaker 1: And Dr. Latipo is doing such a good job. We
Speaker 1: might keep him.
Speaker 4: He wants to keep Latipo, y'all.
Speaker 1: If you don't know who Joseph Latipo is, he is
Speaker 1: the State Attorney General of Florida. He's a rampant... What's
Speaker 1: an attorney general? A Surgeon General. Surgeon General of Florida.
Speaker 1: He is paid like a million dollars a year through
Speaker 1: a flim flam.
Speaker 3: He lives in St.
Speaker 1: Pete. Yep.
Speaker 2: He has a.
Speaker 3: Faculty appointment at University of Florida. In addition to... Which
Speaker 3: he's never.
Speaker 1: Which makes $ 400 a year or something like that.
Speaker 3: Something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he has medical hospital privileges there
Speaker 3: or not.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: But, yeah, it's a thought. He's never taught a class
Speaker 3: up there. I think he's only been to the campus
Speaker 3: once or twice, I think, to sign his paperwork. He's
Speaker 3: also supposed to be the Surgeon General.
Speaker 2: Running the Department of Health.
Speaker 1: Doesn't live in Tallahassee.
Speaker 3: Doesn't live here.
Speaker 4: Doesn't come here, nothing.
Speaker 3: He only shows up when DeSantis calls him to do
Speaker 3: some sort of PR stunt in the middle of the state.
Speaker 3: So he's making a salary at....
Speaker 1: Surgeon General. Surgeon General.
Speaker 3: He's also making a full salary at Department of Health
Speaker 3: as the Surgeon General.
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3: And faculty at UF. So let's have that discussion. And
Speaker 3: here's the other part of all of this too.
Speaker 1: The UF board, Patrick, is very much in DeSantis' pocket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, 100%.
Speaker 4: If you haven't been following, y'all, we don't have time.
Speaker 1: That's a whole show in itself.
Speaker 3: We don't have time to talk about the situation for
Speaker 3: the presidential searches over the years at UF.
Speaker 4: We're not going to talk about Ben Sasse today.
Speaker 1: RIP. Well, he's not dead yet.
Speaker 4: He's not dead yet.
Speaker 3: We're not going to talk about that or any of
Speaker 3: the other things. Y'all do some homework and read. If
Speaker 3: y'all want to know the shenaniganery that's out there.
Speaker 1: But Donald's embracing the anti-vax position in Florida.
Speaker 3: And we're at like an 88% herd immunity in Florida.
Speaker 1: We're dropping fast. And at 85, shit gets bad. Also,
Speaker 1: leprosy is making a comeback in Florida. We have 26
Speaker 1: leprosy cases right now. And I'm sure they're going to
Speaker 1: blame immigrants instead of armadillos.
Speaker 3: They're armadillos.
Speaker 2: Yes, Rufo is still- Rufo is still.
Speaker 3: Here's one other thing.
Speaker 2: So it didn't come out.
Speaker 1: Speaking of corruption.
Speaker 3: Speaking of corruption, Corcoran, who is the president of New College,
Speaker 3: who has run New College in the ground. Yes, it
Speaker 3: is leprosy. He has paid a million dollars for PR
Speaker 3: contract for the university, even though they have a full
Speaker 3: PR staff.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: I don't know if those people are PR, but I'm
Speaker 3: not seeing anything for new college. Anyway, he has paid.
Speaker 3: It was like 400,000 for one 400,000 for the other.
Speaker 3: And it was the former chief of staff, this, and
Speaker 3: it was former this of that, whatever. And they're, they're
Speaker 3: just sweetheart deals kind of thing. And also once again,
Speaker 3: I'm in the state system. So I know what the
Speaker 3: procurement process is. These are no big contracts and, Oh,
Speaker 3: they're hard to get through, but let's have that moment. Um,
Speaker 3: but he is running a Griff school and running down
Speaker 3: a school. That is a preeminent school was in the
Speaker 3: country that has produced more, um, You name what kind
Speaker 3: of scholar.
Speaker 5: Out of there.
Speaker 3: And amazing, amazing, amazing faculty was amazing because many of
Speaker 3: them have left amazing school. He's bringing like baseball team
Speaker 3: or some nonsense to that.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to tell you what all he did.
Speaker 3: Killing that school. But, yeah, he does need PR because
Speaker 3: he did kill the school.
Speaker 1: And he is one of the singularly corrupt people in
Speaker 1: the Florida system. While he was in the legislature, his
Speaker 1: brother was a lobbyist. The depth of the corruption of
Speaker 1: the Corcoran enterprise is Trumpian in its extremity.
Speaker 3: I did meet with him personally when I worked for. Don't.
Speaker 3: a different entity for the state about teaching and testing
Speaker 3: and those kinds of things.
Speaker 4: So I got some firsthand knowledge.
Speaker 1: So let's jump on. If you're also wondering about the
Speaker 1: presidential primary in 2028, don't. But we have a new runner,
Speaker 1: Peter Hexen. The Secretary.
Speaker 3: Of War, baby.
Speaker 1: It needs like a hard guitar riff. That motherfucker went
Speaker 1: to Iowa.
Speaker 3: I cannot even.
Speaker 1: To campaign.
Speaker 3: All these people that are campaigning should be campaigning. It's
Speaker 3: a problem.
Speaker 1: And now his people are floating today in the Washington
Speaker 1: Post that he's going to run for president. Please, dear God,
Speaker 1: run for president. Please, Pete. I want you to run
Speaker 1: for president because you know what? The families, the military
Speaker 1: families that you fucked over are going to be there
Speaker 1: in those rooms when you're speaking. The military families who
Speaker 1: have been injured and killed and who are being denied
Speaker 1: benefits because, oh, they were in a ceasefire the day
Speaker 1: they got shot down by an Iraqi or Iranian missile. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's just an accident.
Speaker 4: We're not really at war, so.
Speaker 4: You die, your loved ones don't get benefits.
Speaker 1: He will place 11th out of a field of 10
Speaker 1: in Iowa. He's going to get beat down so hard.
Speaker 1: I could not love it better. I could not love
Speaker 1: it anymore if I tried. And yes, he is actively
Speaker 1: engaged in putting American lives in danger, not just because
Speaker 1: of this war, But because of the warfighter bullshit, like,
Speaker 1: we can kill anybody however we want. Fuck them. We'll
Speaker 1: just rape them too. Why not? That's the warrior bullshit
Speaker 1: that does not make you a warfighter. That makes you
Speaker 1: a war criminal. The warfighters I have known, and I
Speaker 1: have known a lot of guys from the operator community
Speaker 1: and a lot of people who are professionals at this,
Speaker 1: at every level, from four stars on down, and the
Speaker 1: best of them are smart. and thoughtful, and educated, and well-read,
Speaker 1: and restrained, and mentally disciplined. Mr. fucking testosterone ain't it.
Speaker 1: Pete Hex said, like, I got more and more testosterone.
Speaker 1: Let me follow your balls and see if they're big enough.
Speaker 1: That shit, it's been terrible for this country. It is
Speaker 1: a losing proposition. There's a piece today in the Washington
Speaker 1: Post about what's called the Commander's Order book. And this
Speaker 1: is a, I walked Renee through the whole history. I'm
Speaker 1: going to spare you the whole history, but they routinely
Speaker 1: ask the combatant commanders, South Com, Cent Com, North Com,
Speaker 1: PAC Com, and the service chiefs, are we ready to
Speaker 1: fight X or Y war? Can we do X or
Speaker 1: Y operation? Are we prepared to face X or Y scenario?
Speaker 1: And right now they're all saying we do not concur.
Speaker 1: Pete Hex's position is we can fight anything we have
Speaker 1: to do. Everything's great. We've got plenty of weapons. People
Speaker 1: are happy. None of it's happy. We don't have plenty
Speaker 1: of weapons. We've burned through them. And this do not
Speaker 1: concur thing, that is a very quiet, subtle way of
Speaker 1: walking up to somebody and punching them in the fucking
Speaker 1: face over and over again and saying, I do not
Speaker 1: concur with you. This is This guy is so dangerous
Speaker 1: and so unbelievably indisciplined that the idea that he would
Speaker 1: run for president as the heir to MAGA and get
Speaker 1: his ass kicked could not appeal to me more. And
Speaker 1: I will take a special fucking interest in Pete Hegseth
Speaker 1: if he does run for president.
Speaker 3: And I don't even know how to segue to it.
Speaker 3: with everything else that's going on and ice and you know,
Speaker 3: it's kids are going back to school right now and
Speaker 3: parents are going back to school and parents are sending
Speaker 3: their children away to college. And, um, I am, my
Speaker 3: heart breaks for what's happening in Connecticut right now. It's
Speaker 3: happening everywhere. Y'all don't think it's one state. Please don't.
Speaker 3: ICE is waiting for these little people, little people, we're
Speaker 3: talking littles, like kindergarten, first grade, second grade, for these
Speaker 3: littles to get on the school bus. And when those
Speaker 3: doors shut and those buses pull away, they're going to
Speaker 3: those homes and ripping out the parents. And those littles
Speaker 3: are getting off the bus, not knowing where their family is.
Speaker 4: The door's locked. They don't know what to do.
Speaker 2: It's heartbreaking.
Speaker 3: And I am concerned also because I watch the ed
Speaker 3: stuff and the ed numbers around the state of Florida
Speaker 3: are not looking good. So we have first aid counts
Speaker 3: for those of you guys who don't know what happens
Speaker 3: in education. They do counts in K-12. first day, and
Speaker 3: then there's different counts going through the year so that
Speaker 3: they can look at staffing, moving classrooms around, you know,
Speaker 3: teaching levels and all these different things. And the counts,
Speaker 3: the first day counts from last year to this year,
Speaker 3: Miami-Dade County Public Schools, MDCPS, 19,000 less students this year.
Speaker 3: Broward also took a dive. I think it was about eight,
Speaker 3: but it's like that all over the state. The counts
Speaker 3: are going down, but the counts are going down, especially
Speaker 3: where we have populations, um, people that have come to
Speaker 3: this country. And that's why I'm like, don't think it's
Speaker 3: not happening in your state. Don't think it's not happening
Speaker 3: in your county. or your city, it may not just
Speaker 3: be as broad and- Visible. Very visible. But y'all check
Speaker 3: in with your friends, you check in with your families,
Speaker 3: check in with the people in your neighborhood so that
Speaker 3: there's a lot of people worried. There's people holding their
Speaker 3: kids back. There's people not going to school.
Speaker 2: There's people not going.
Speaker 3: To work, y'all. check on your neighbors and friends. Cause
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, it's a constitutional care state.
Speaker 1: It is a cop.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: You can carry, you can carry openly or concealed in
Speaker 1: the state of Florida.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, I'd be more than happy to walk
Speaker 3: somebody to the bus, but I just, I, I'm worried about.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 3: If kids are worried when they go to school, I mean,
Speaker 3: first of all, we're not feeding children and they're cut.
Speaker 3: away all the benefits for schools. If kids can't even
Speaker 3: get a hot meal at school and they're worried about
Speaker 3: their parents being snatched up, our learning rates are not
Speaker 3: going to be looking.
Speaker 1: Good, y'all. Yeah, we've already killed higher education in Florida.
Speaker 1: We might as well go in and burn it all down.
Speaker 1: I will say this also. This week in Florida, the
Speaker 1: administration gleefully canceled all TPS for all Haitians in Florida. Now,
Speaker 1: there are only about 110,000 Haitians on TPS in Florida,
Speaker 1: but there are a million and a half Haitians in Florida.
Speaker 2: We took a.
Speaker 4: Lot of Haitians in when stuff happened in Haiti.
Speaker 1: Yep. Who are citizens now.
Speaker 3: They are citizens now. They came to this country. Most
Speaker 3: of them came to Orlando area is when they came.
Speaker 1: Like some of them.
Speaker 3: Seminole County, a lot of them came in and our
Speaker 3: numbers exploded in population. Esau people were having a fit
Speaker 3: because all of a sudden the numbers went through the roof.
Speaker 3: But we opened our arms to another place that was
Speaker 3: having a horrible time. And they evacuated all those people
Speaker 3: from Haiti. Florida took them in. And now we're just saying...
Speaker 3: Goodbye since that. Get out.
Speaker 1: And DHS put out a laughing post about it.
Speaker 3: And here's the other thing. One other thing about our
Speaker 3: Haitian population that we have to talk about seriously. The
Speaker 3: state of Florida. We have a lot of advanced people.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to call them old people.
Speaker 1: They're old.
Speaker 4: But they're advanced in the ages.
Speaker 3: And we need, we have in this state a lot
Speaker 3: of home health care aides. We have a lot of
Speaker 3: nursing homes, assisted living facilities. We have all of those
Speaker 3: communities here.
Speaker 2: They're big.
Speaker 3: And when you move those communities, God love those patients
Speaker 3: because I'm telling you what, they do an incredible job
Speaker 3: taking care of our aging population in nursing homes, in
Speaker 3: home health care, all of that. And those old people
Speaker 3: trust those people. They come in every day. They feed them,
Speaker 3: change bed linens, change all the surgical things that they
Speaker 3: need done. Catholic, whatnot, you name it. Those people have
Speaker 3: been a godsend to families, to the communities, to so
Speaker 3: many different groups of people. And to think that they're
Speaker 3: kicking out the Haitian community after they have done, honest
Speaker 3: to God, the Lord's work.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you think, oh, well, then
Speaker 1: other people will take those jobs. I have news for you.
Speaker 1: Anglos will not do those jobs. It's like in Florida.
Speaker 1: Anglos will not pick citrus. Nope. And believe me, we
Speaker 1: know this was something in our family where we're playing
Speaker 1: by the rules.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Where they used to pay 10 bucks or 12 bucks
Speaker 1: an hour. They're advertising for Anglos to do the same
Speaker 1: job for $ 22 an hour. And they won't get, and
Speaker 1: they don't get a single person. And if you think
Speaker 1: home healthcare is some easy gig, that a million Floridians
Speaker 1: are going to jump into, I have news for you. Nope. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the Haitians did, a lot of Haitians voted for
Speaker 1: Trump in 24. And while I do not want to
Speaker 1: say have the day you voted for, they're having the
Speaker 1: day they voted for. Yeah. So. How's the sound now?
Speaker 3: Sorry, folks.
Speaker 1: Renee was saying those people are boots on the ground.
Speaker 1: They're caring for people. And if you don't want Haitians
Speaker 1: in the country and you want to deport all of them,
Speaker 1: show me how you fill the hole in the economy first.
Speaker 1: California's entire... We still have no sound, folks? Check on there.
Speaker 1: Turn your volume up.
Speaker 3: Hang on.
Speaker 1: One, two, one, two. Yeah, we got it. We're back.
Speaker 1: We're back. We're back. So yeah, we're good. Okay. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, these people for the amusement of Stephen Miller sadism,
Speaker 1: we're going to round up. And by the way, patient
Speaker 1: TPS is not the end of it. Cuban TPS is next.
Speaker 1: And that's going to cause a blow up in South Florida.
Speaker 1: bigger than the Haitian blow up. Okay. It is going
Speaker 1: to cause a, a Dade County meltdown. Okay. So it is,
Speaker 1: it's fascinating to me. It's one more thing that Trump
Speaker 1: is doing without thinking about it. That's hurting his own
Speaker 1: chances of having people that are friendly to him.
Speaker 3: And it's the same thing.
Speaker 2: Cause we've talked about.
Speaker 1: Real quick.
Speaker 4: And here's the thing.
Speaker 3: The Haitians, the immigrant community, it's all fun and games
Speaker 3: until those peoples aren't getting their lawns cut.
Speaker 1: That's the most superficial thing.
Speaker 2: It is so superficial.
Speaker 3: But when there's no groundskeepers for his golf course, I'm
Speaker 3: sure he'll get special exception to do whatever. But our
Speaker 3: communities in health care, hospitality and construction. But you look
Speaker 3: at Orlando and you think who's changing the sheets and
Speaker 3: who's cleaning the bathrooms and all those hotels over there,
Speaker 3: the million hotels in Orlando.
Speaker 1: You're going to hear a lot more about these things
Speaker 1: because there are about 400,000 people they want to deport
Speaker 1: by the end of the year in Florida. Like I said,
Speaker 1: it starts with the Haitians, moves to the Venezuelans, moves
Speaker 1: to the Cubans.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: We're going to move on now. We're going to move on.
Speaker 4: Because I can't.
Speaker 1: So we had some cat news. We have some cat-related news.
Speaker 4: We have some cats.
Speaker 1: Where is that cat?
Speaker 3: It's over there. Go get it. So our, my angel.
Speaker 1: This is Zurich. He is, he had some surgery last week,
Speaker 1: and he is a different cat. They did, I think they, like,
Speaker 1: did a personality transplant on him at the same time,
Speaker 1: because this is not the stoic, isolated cat that would
Speaker 1: sit upstairs looking down the balcony and judging everything else
Speaker 1: around him. He's suddenly gotten very cuddly. And, oh, here's Zerk.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 1: Hello, Zerk. How handsome you are.
Speaker 3: He's still, he doesn't like the spotlight, though. He's still like.
Speaker 1: A loony cat.
Speaker 2: Hang on, buddy, wait.
Speaker 3: Let me show you. He still got his little gang sign.
Speaker 1: He had dental work. Yep. We can repair it if
Speaker 1: we have the technology.
Speaker 3: He had four teeth out. He had three molars in
Speaker 3: his front canine out. But as you can see, he's
Speaker 3: even letting me hold him, which is, this is a
Speaker 3: wild thing. He was a rescue and He was always
Speaker 3: sort of a loomer, like a lurker. He really just
Speaker 3: liked to look at the birdies outside, and we always
Speaker 3: let him just do that.
Speaker 1: But suddenly?
Speaker 3: But suddenly he is. He was romping and playing with
Speaker 3: Alton today, and it made my heart good.
Speaker 1: And he's much more affectionate. I mean, whatever the pain
Speaker 1: got rid of him, or whatever the pain that was
Speaker 1: gotten rid of has made him a much more happy cat.
Speaker 1: So we've got good cat news.
Speaker 2: He's good.
Speaker 4: He's doing well.
Speaker 3: He goes back for his checkup tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yep. All right. So Florida's trying to kill you?
Speaker 3: Oh, we got another Florida's trying to kill you. Somebody
Speaker 3: did try to kill Rick.
Speaker 1: Those are my two water moccasins from this week.
Speaker 2: Those are big.
Speaker 1: That is a Birkenstock for context. I was putting some
Speaker 1: lights out by one of the trees, and that big
Speaker 1: boy right there went, And I would love to tell
Speaker 1: you I did a graceful backward roll. No, I fell
Speaker 1: over backwards like a fucking idiot, busted my ass, scrambled up,
Speaker 1: and then we went inside.
Speaker 4: But I have to say this.
Speaker 3: I was not here. And I will tell you this.
Speaker 3: Having water moccasins in the front yard is weird. Like
Speaker 3: normally they're in the backyard. They're normally water moccasins or
Speaker 3: by water. They'd be back by the pond.
Speaker 1: And we haven't seen any this year.
Speaker 4: And we haven't seen any this year.
Speaker 3: And to have two that are big boys in the
Speaker 3: front yard, terrible.
Speaker 1: Everything in Florida is trying to kill you or fuck you. Patrick,
Speaker 1: true or worse, have never been spoken.
Speaker 2: It is the truth.
Speaker 1: He took a bite at me. He popped at me.
Speaker 1: And then Rick popped. Then I went back in the
Speaker 1: house and I.
Speaker 4: Got something and he pop-popped back.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I did use a suppressor. It
Speaker 1: was courtesy to the neighbors. I don't want them to
Speaker 1: hear big bang influences.
Speaker 4: We're in the county, not in the city.
Speaker 1: We're allowed to shoot things.
Speaker 2: We're allowed to shoot things.
Speaker 3: So in other news too, Dolly Parton passed away this week.
Speaker 1: RIP Dolly.
Speaker 3: We have to think about that. What an icon she was.
Speaker 3: I posted a ton.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 3: She did so much for the country and the world
Speaker 3: that is completely understated. Like she didn't promote any of
Speaker 3: that stuff, but she helped kids graduate high school by
Speaker 3: challenging them. Pick a buddy. You guys both graduate. You're
Speaker 3: going to get some cash. Gave them checks. People posted
Speaker 3: on my timeline. I had a brother or a cousin
Speaker 3: or whatever, and he still has the picture of him
Speaker 3: graduating because of Dolly Parton. She did so much. And
Speaker 3: she is the only thing, as people are saying, that
Speaker 3: really unifies this country. That everybody is sad.
Speaker 2: Look at that.
Speaker 1: See? Yeah, I mean, he... I.
Speaker 3: Tried to do it for a friend, and it was
Speaker 3: out of service area.
Speaker 4: There's only places, certain services. Oh, yeah, I'm going to
Speaker 4: get on to this.
Speaker 3: Broken all is broken. And we just all have to
Speaker 3: take a minute and thank Dolly and WWDD.
Speaker 4: What would Dolly do?
Speaker 3: And we all need.
Speaker 2: To remember that.
Speaker 1: To....
Speaker 2: Be positive, man.
Speaker 3: She was a force and her laugh was.
Speaker 2: The best thing ever. It made you smile.
Speaker 1: She didn't care about her celebrity in the way that
Speaker 1: a lot of celebrities care about celebrities. She cared about
Speaker 1: it and how it empowered other people. And that really
Speaker 1: was a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3: And she did so, so much good. I'm not even
Speaker 3: going to talk about that picture, that fake picture, because
Speaker 3: I'm not even given, like, in the same sentence. It
Speaker 3: doesn't even deserve to be there with her.
Speaker 1: I saw that thing about the guy in West Virginia
Speaker 1: talking shit about Dolly.
Speaker 3: Oh, that, let me just tell you.
Speaker 1: That ad writes itself.
Speaker 3: That's not going to end the way he thinks it is.
Speaker 3: She should be saying it. I think maybe she was
Speaker 3: a saint on earth.
Speaker 4: And that's what I said.
Speaker 3: Like, in my post, you know, we lost an angel,
Speaker 3: an earth angel.
Speaker 4: She was an angel on this planet.
Speaker 3: And we lost her. And we all need to think
Speaker 3: about being kind and what can you do. And it's
Speaker 3: not about, it's do it. I do stuff for people.
Speaker 3: Rick does stuff. You don't do it for the clicks.
Speaker 3: You do it because it's the right thing to do.
Speaker 3: And if you guys can, do something.
Speaker 1: Do something. Just follow that rule.
Speaker 2: Follow that example.
Speaker 1: Just think about something.
Speaker 2: You can do.
Speaker 4: It doesn't have to be money.
Speaker 3: I always talk about that. It's not about money. It's
Speaker 3: about thoughtfulness.
Speaker 2: Be kind.
Speaker 3: Be considerate. Think about something you can do.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to put out this check.
Speaker 3: Think about something you can do for someone or something
Speaker 3: that will make your heart feel good. Don't tell anybody
Speaker 3: about it, y'all.
Speaker 2: Just do it.
Speaker 3: It'll make you right here. Just right here. It will
Speaker 3: make you feel good and you can hold on to
Speaker 3: that good feeling. And it's worth it, especially on the
Speaker 3: bad days, y'all.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Just think about something y'all can do for someone else.
Speaker 3: We also lost... Tim Curry.
Speaker 1: Amazing voice. Amazing entertainer.
Speaker 2: I miss him.
Speaker 4: From so many different things.
Speaker 3: From Three Musketeers. He was a cardinal.
Speaker 1: Cardinal Richelieu.
Speaker 4: You know, we all talk about let's do the time
Speaker 4: warp again.
Speaker 2: Frank Inverter.
Speaker 3: But he was also in the movie Kill Him With
Speaker 3: a Candlestick and the Clue. He was the butler in Clue.
Speaker 3: He played such iconic characters.
Speaker 1: Pennywise.
Speaker 3: He was Pennywise. And people are doing tributes, even though
Speaker 3: it's Halloween.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 3: People are doing Pennywise things in some of his towns
Speaker 3: where they're putting the red balloon in the storm drains
Speaker 3: for him. We need to think about what a person,
Speaker 3: an amazing, amazing human being he was, too. And it
Speaker 3: was only a couple of weeks ago where they did.
Speaker 3: It was either it was either CBS Sunday morning or
Speaker 3: it was 60 minutes or it was one of the
Speaker 3: shows where they profiled Tim Curry because he had a
Speaker 3: horrible stroke a decade ago. He couldn't speak, couldn't walk.
Speaker 3: And he was getting back to speaking and. getting it
Speaker 3: back together and, and we lost another great soul. Um,
Speaker 3: and the last one I'll talk about real quick is, um,
Speaker 3: for those of you who don't know, we lost Peter Cullen.
Speaker 3: It was, um, a little more quiet, um, than the
Speaker 3: other two, but Peter Cullen, um, most known for the
Speaker 3: voice of optimal optimist prime, um, He was amazing, but
Speaker 3: it wasn't just Optimus Prime, which we mourn for. One
Speaker 3: of my coworkers is the biggest Transformer fan you've ever
Speaker 3: met in your whole life. But he was also the
Speaker 3: voice of Eeyore. I'm so sad. He was the voice
Speaker 3: of Eeyore. He was also, for those of you in
Speaker 3: my generation, a Gen Xer who watched Knight Rider, he
Speaker 3: was the voice of Karr, K-A-R-R, which was.
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
Speaker 3: Karr was the arch nemesis of Kit.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: So just so you.
Speaker 3: He was also the voice of Venger from Dungeons and Dragons.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: He was also Murky Dismal from Rainbow Breath.
Speaker 2: So he was.
Speaker 3: His book of talent was just amazing. But we also.
Speaker 4: He was not Kit. He was Karr.
Speaker 3: K-A-R-R, which was the Karr against Kit. So... Amazing.
Speaker 1: See, that's the kind of TV knowledge I do not have.
Speaker 2: He was a.
Speaker 3: Force, but he was one of those voiceover guys that
Speaker 3: you go, oh, my Lord.
Speaker 4: He did what? And he was who?
Speaker 3: And it just went on and on and on. So
Speaker 3: we lost.
Speaker 1: Three good ones. Also. The King of Norway died. No
Speaker 1: one's saying, like, oh, about the King of Norway.
Speaker 2: But King Harald.
Speaker 1: Died in 89, and the response of the people of
Speaker 1: Norway telling stories about his ordinariness, about, you know, he
Speaker 1: was a guy who would go and greet fishermen on
Speaker 1: a fishing boat and talk to them and learn all
Speaker 1: about what they did and then act on it. He
Speaker 1: was in a highly democratic country where the monarchy is
Speaker 1: purely symbolic. He lived it It sounded like a real one.
Speaker 1: He did. And it just reminded me that when the
Speaker 1: orange menace goes, no one will mourn him in that
Speaker 1: kind of way.
Speaker 3: They're not going to mourn him. But as we said,
Speaker 3: somebody mentioned, I won't say where, we will have the
Speaker 3: largest public year in the nation.
Speaker 1: Yes, we will.
Speaker 3: But we lost some really amazing contributing people um, to
Speaker 3: your whole story of your life. Um, and that.
Speaker 1: Put wired into the culture.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That put, you know, sound to thoughts and feelings that
Speaker 3: we had, you know, nine to five. So I, I
Speaker 3: did post, they are going to rename, um, the airport.
Speaker 3: They're renaming.
Speaker 1: It's going to become Dolly part.
Speaker 3: Um, and we don't know what the call sign is,
Speaker 3: but don't say it.
Speaker 2: Um, um, we are going to.
Speaker 4: Um, think about that.
Speaker 3: They're also looking at, um, there's a nationwide sort of
Speaker 3: movement to, um, have, um, September 25th, nine to five
Speaker 3: as national holiday. Um, and that's, that's a big one
Speaker 3: that people are trying to move forward to.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. So what else?
Speaker 3: We need to talk about, oh, we need to talk about,
Speaker 3: you want to talk about where we were on Friday?
Speaker 2: Why we didn't do the show.
Speaker 1: So we went over to Jacksonville for Winnie's second birthday.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And to visit the grandson. So here we go. There's Winnie.
Speaker 1: She's opening up her cockpit, her airplane cockpit, because, of course,
Speaker 1: I have to make sure the aviation obsession is spread
Speaker 1: through the family quickly and effectively. There we are. Hold on.
Speaker 1: Let me turn the banner off. There we are with Indy.
Speaker 1: He's got blue eyes and red hair, and he is
Speaker 1: so stinking cute. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: He's a funny little monkey.
Speaker 1: He is a funny monkey.
Speaker 4: He's just a monkey.
Speaker 1: He's smiling. Nora got Winnie a Fiat 500. It's hilarious.
Speaker 1: It plays music. If you hit the horn, it plays music.
Speaker 1: She was.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have an engine or anything.
Speaker 1: No, it doesn't. Right. It doesn't have an engine.
Speaker 2: It's got a stick.
Speaker 3: You can't see it. It's behind Winnie that they can
Speaker 3: push her because they walk her to school. And so
Speaker 3: they can push her.
Speaker 2: But the floor also comes out.
Speaker 3: When she gets a little bit bigger. And she can
Speaker 3: have a Fred Flintstone cushion.
Speaker 1: She loved that thing like crazy.
Speaker 3: It's great. And it's got a seatbelt. Yes, it does.
Speaker 1: Yes, it does have a seatbelt. And the doors lock weirdly.
Speaker 2: The doors lock.
Speaker 3: You have to push in the handle to open the door.
Speaker 3: So the doors lock.
Speaker 1: There she is investigating things. There are no pictures of it,
Speaker 1: but we also got a piano for them, which is
Speaker 1: going to be great. Because my daughter previously got them
Speaker 1: a drum set for her, and now we got them
Speaker 1: a piano. Next, for Christmas, DJ Kit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, DJ.
Speaker 1: There she is flying her little simulator.
Speaker 4: It does and it talks to you.
Speaker 1: It talks to you and you push the throttle up,
Speaker 1: it goes faster. Pull it back, it goes slower. She's
Speaker 1: wearing the headset already. I mean, I feel like we've
Speaker 1: already started to achieve our mission.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And as I jokingly said to my son, oh, you
Speaker 1: thought ponies were expensive. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's super cute.
Speaker 2: We had a great visit.
Speaker 1: We had a great time.
Speaker 3: Party um all the family was there it was so
Speaker 3: fun um and we enjoyed uh being invited and.
Speaker 1: Being um big big.
Speaker 4: Included in all the festivities.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was great we all.
Speaker 3: Sat around and saw everybody and vex parents were there
Speaker 3: yeah we uh we talk in sports and fsu too
Speaker 3: and all that yeah It was super fun.
Speaker 1: And then on Friday night, because this is how my
Speaker 1: life works.
Speaker 3: We stayed in a hotel downtown.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: That was the closest one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Their home is a historic home, a hundred and
Speaker 1: something years old.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Very, very petite.
Speaker 3: So we bunkered in downtown.
Speaker 1: Yep. So we walk in the hotel. We throw our
Speaker 1: bags in the room. We're like, let's go down to Morton's.
Speaker 1: We'll get a drink. We'll get a snack. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: it was getting, you know, eight o'clock or so. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We walked down there at Of course, there's David Jolly's
Speaker 1: security detail. He goes, oh, David's in the back. So
Speaker 1: we hung out with David for a while. It was
Speaker 1: very nice. We caught up. It was a nice scene.
Speaker 1: Talked some business. Talked about what's going on.
Speaker 3: Where he was and what he was doing.
Speaker 1: And he had been, this week, David has been in
Speaker 1: the Panhandle. He was in Pensacola. Had amazing crowds over there. Yep.
Speaker 1: He had.
Speaker 4: He was here Friday morning.
Speaker 1: Friday morning, he was in Tallahassee.
Speaker 4: He was at Early's Kitchen. If you've never been to
Speaker 4: Early's Kitchen.
Speaker 1: You've got to go to Early's Kitchen. Yeah. That is
Speaker 1: some soul food breakfast, y'all. And I mean it. It is.
Speaker 3: Pancakes the size of your head.
Speaker 1: Bacon. The best bacon you've ever eaten. I don't know
Speaker 1: where or how. The best bacon you've ever had in
Speaker 1: your life. So good. Anyway, he had a huge day
Speaker 1: here in Tallahassee for both events and fundraising. Came over
Speaker 1: to talk to FAM at HBCU.
Speaker 3: Convocation Day.
Speaker 1: Convocation Day.
Speaker 3: He was here.
Speaker 1: Went to Jacksonville. So we ran into him in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: And we caught up with all the things he was
Speaker 1: up to this week. I will tell you one thing
Speaker 1: about campaigns that I know from doing it now for
Speaker 1: 40 fucking years. Hustle is gold. You can have all
Speaker 1: the money in the world. If you don't have hustle,
Speaker 1: you got nothing.
Speaker 3: Ads aren't the same thing as being present.
Speaker 1: And David, he is showing up everywhere to every damn
Speaker 1: community in this state. And that hustle, it counts forever.
Speaker 1: Byron Donalds was out in California doing Bill Maher this weekend. Smug, embarrassing, whatever.
Speaker 1: He doesn't get it. I will say the one thing
Speaker 1: about David. He's skinny, man. He looks thin. I know
Speaker 1: this happens on campaigns because I've had it happen to me.
Speaker 4: It either goes one way or the other.
Speaker 1: Either you get big or you get small.
Speaker 3: He looks.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get David a hamburger because he'll get thin.
Speaker 2: He needed a hamburger.
Speaker 1: But he's working his ass off. And interestingly enough, after
Speaker 1: they pushed out, because they had an early morning, we
Speaker 1: went to the bar and sat there for a little while. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Of course, the bartender recognized Rick. And then he was like,
Speaker 3: but I don't want to interrupt you.
Speaker 4: And he's like, but I have some questions. And I
Speaker 4: was like, let's talk.
Speaker 1: Let's do it.
Speaker 4: Let's just have the conversation. Because I love to talk
Speaker 4: to people.
Speaker 3: Especially like people that you don't know and you don't
Speaker 3: know exactly what they're thinking or what they're feeling. And he,
Speaker 3: he had some very, very, very good questions.
Speaker 1: And then that of course, he sent his MAGA dad
Speaker 1: a picture of us and he said, his dad wrote back,
Speaker 1: why do you hate me?
Speaker 2: It was phenomenal.
Speaker 3: And then I had a lady sitting next to me
Speaker 3: and her husband. And we struck up a conversation and,
Speaker 3: And then there was a lady and her husband on
Speaker 3: the other side.
Speaker 2: And they started a conversation.
Speaker 3: And then we all had a conversation because my, and
Speaker 3: they were part of the Jacksonville community, which I love.
Speaker 3: And we asked them like what they did and who
Speaker 3: are you pulling for? And why are you pulling for
Speaker 3: that person? And how are you voting? And what, What
Speaker 3: are your issues? And I'll tell you what, y'all, there
Speaker 3: is more concern that unites us.
Speaker 1: Especially on the economy.
Speaker 3: Especially on the economy. And I'll tell you, she made
Speaker 3: some points about some things that were said to her
Speaker 3: in her community. She works hard. full time and all
Speaker 3: of that, but she also volunteers a lot in her community.
Speaker 3: And we, we had a thick conversation. I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 3: We had a, a conversation about, about race, honest to God.
Speaker 3: We were having a woman conversation about women in general
Speaker 3: and voting and And she was former military. She's out
Speaker 3: of the military now and she has a regular civilian job.
Speaker 3: But we had just a fascinating conversation about what everybody's feeling.
Speaker 3: We also talk sports and football and all that, too.
Speaker 1: Which is not my strong suit, but she covers.
Speaker 3: I cover all that. We talked about sports because we
Speaker 3: had between all of that. We talked about.
Speaker 1: They were there for the Jags.
Speaker 3: The Jags game. We talked about the Jaguars. The people
Speaker 3: next to him. I talked to the guy because he
Speaker 3: had a huge shirt on and she had a George Bulldog.
Speaker 3: George Bulldogs because I'm a big Ugga fan. That's the
Speaker 3: little Bulldog that I love.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 3: But we were talking sports. We were talking seminars. We
Speaker 3: were talking about HBCUs. We were talking about the state.
Speaker 3: We were talking about Jacksonville. We were talking about just
Speaker 3: really kind of everything.
Speaker 1: But interestingly enough, and I don't make a conversation in
Speaker 1: a bar about politics. If somebody knows me and they'll
Speaker 1: ask me questions, I'm happy to talk. But if you
Speaker 1: strike up a conversation with me in a bar, and
Speaker 1: you're not political, we will talk about whatever else it is.
Speaker 8: But everything about that, they were also super alert to
Speaker 8: the politics and how closely tied economics and politics are
Speaker 8: right now.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, this was a validation of the
Speaker 1: path of affordability as a key message. And That's why
Speaker 1: David and Angie are both hitting notes in Florida that
Speaker 1: people are really happy about.
Speaker 3: And we went back to the whole thing. It's going
Speaker 3: to take all of us. It's going to take Democrats
Speaker 3: and Democrats winning over MPA people, non-party affiliation.
Speaker 1: The largest political group in Florida.
Speaker 3: Yeah, MPA is huge. They are the swing. So we
Speaker 3: talked about, you know, what their concerns were. And we
Speaker 3: talked about, you know, it is.
Speaker 3: Blue, no matter what. It's like the thought of another
Speaker 3: Republican governor coming in.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I just nightmare.
Speaker 3: It is nightmare fuel. It truly is at this point.
Speaker 3: With everything that's going on, it's nightmare fuel.
Speaker 1: Hey, Rora the Dragon mentioned that Pete Hexup would be
Speaker 1: fragged if it was Vietnam. 100%.
Speaker 3: 100%.
Speaker 1: He's the Niedermeyer. Niedermeyer.
Speaker 2: Oh, my.
Speaker 1: God. There's a reference.
Speaker 2: I'm looking through.
Speaker 1: I couldn't see anything. Any more big questions for the day?
Speaker 3: Big, big questions. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1: Listen, guys. Whatever's happening in Russia... Keep your eye on it.
Speaker 1: Something very bad is afoot right now. People are trying
Speaker 1: to pull every bit of money out of their banks
Speaker 1: right now. And the same thing happened in 1991, just
Speaker 1: before Yeltsin went.
Speaker 4: We need to talk about the plane landing in Russia.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So John Ratcliffe flew to Russia on a C-17. Now,
Speaker 1: I will tell you, from experience. Normally, when senior government
Speaker 1: officials want to make a quiet trip to a country
Speaker 1: like Russia, they come in on one of the many
Speaker 1: unmarked jets that is in possession of the 89th Military
Speaker 1: Airlift Wing or other government agencies or contractors, and they
Speaker 1: do it quietly. Radcliffe did this deliberately. This was a signal.
Speaker 1: They wanted it public.
Speaker 3: And it was funny because Rick said that in the morning.
Speaker 3: When he woke up, I was like, C-17 landed in Moscow.
Speaker 1: It was ours.
Speaker 2: What's up? And Rick was like, look, look, look, look.
Speaker 1: He's obviously going to beard the Russians in their den.
Speaker 4: And then it was publicly made available.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yes. I'm a man of service.
Speaker 1: I have a particular set of skills. But yeah, we're
Speaker 1: going to end up watching something. So Russia is saying
Speaker 1: they're going to have a meat wave of 300,000 troops
Speaker 1: charged across the border and take Kiev. Russia is going
Speaker 1: to kill 300,000 more boys. They're casually ready to 1.4
Speaker 1: to 1.7 million. It's unsustainable. Russia is a dying country already.
Speaker 1: They don't have a sustainable birth rate. This is blowing
Speaker 1: a demographic hole in Russia. Like France and Britain had
Speaker 1: a demographic hole blown in them in World War I.
Speaker 1: And they didn't recover from that demographic hole for 60 years.
Speaker 1: Putin is on a clock. He cannot post a win.
Speaker 1: He's thinking about nukes. About 50,000 of them are North Korean.
Speaker 1: He's thinking about nukes. He's thinking about using a tactical
Speaker 1: nuclear weapon somewhere in Ukraine. My bet, as I wrote
Speaker 1: in the Friday Brief, would be that it would be
Speaker 1: over a logistics hub or a remote area just to
Speaker 1: try to scare the Ukrainians into... Just try to scare
Speaker 1: the Ukrainians into capitulation. It won't work. If you get
Speaker 1: to know the Ukrainians as I do, these motherfuckers will
Speaker 1: never surrender. You can burn Kiev to the ground and
Speaker 1: they will still crawl through the dirt, radiation burns and
Speaker 1: all to kill Russians. They will never fucking quit. Ever.
Speaker 1: I think Putin's clock is very short. And now that
Speaker 1: the British, God bless Andy Burnham doing the right thing,
Speaker 1: He's now given the Ukrainians the storm shadow missile system,
Speaker 1: not just given them units, but given them the blueprints,
Speaker 1: because the Ukrainians can build shit faster than anybody else
Speaker 1: in the world right now. They have the most advanced
Speaker 1: military research and development process in the world. By the way,
Speaker 1: I'd just like to also point out, this is the
Speaker 1: benefit of higher education. The Ukrainians produce some of those
Speaker 1: brilliant engineers, scientists, and mathematicians in the world, and all
Speaker 1: of them said when Russia invaded, well, we're just going
Speaker 1: to fight back then. We'll do what we do and
Speaker 1: think harder than they do.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: And I had a guy, I knew me from online stuff,
Speaker 1: a little bit from some pro-democracy stuff. He's a teacher
Speaker 1: in Kiev. And I was texting with him or signaling
Speaker 1: with him right as the invasion started. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: are you going to do? What are you going to do?
Speaker 1: He goes, I got my wife and daughters. They're my
Speaker 1: family's in Poland. I got them out on the last
Speaker 1: train out. And I said, what are you going to do?
Speaker 1: They'll kill you. And he said, I'm going to teach
Speaker 1: my students how to make IEDs. Yeah. And this is
Speaker 1: not a guy you think of like a Rambo. He's
Speaker 1: a fucking academic, right? Smart guy, nice guy. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to teach my students how to make IEDs. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They will never quit. You cannot, you can kill every
Speaker 1: one of them and the last one will still crawl
Speaker 1: to Moscow to kill Putin. Slowly. Slava Ukraina. And by
Speaker 1: the way, there's a story you might be missing. The
Speaker 1: Russians have been, Russian military officers have been dying inside Russia.
Speaker 1: They're getting their cars blown up. They're getting a bullet
Speaker 1: through the back of the head. The Ukrainians obviously have
Speaker 1: some teams working inside Russia now, and they have the
Speaker 1: identities of who these people are that have been running
Speaker 1: the civilian bombing campaign. So it's a blessing.
Speaker 3: So I have a friend, too, who is Ukrainian. And
Speaker 3: they could not have these in their home for obvious reasons.
Speaker 3: They were concerned. So I was gifted these because they
Speaker 3: know I'm a freak about Chernobyl.
Speaker 1: Oh, God. Oh, God. Sheets are a walking encyclopedia of
Speaker 1: all things Chernobyl.
Speaker 3: Weird like that.
Speaker 4: And so I got one of these. I'll kind of
Speaker 4: bring it close so you can see it. If you
Speaker 4: remember the story. about this.
Speaker 3: And it's made out of wood.
Speaker 4: It's beautifully done. It's all handcrafted. It's so gorgeous. And
Speaker 4: it's all in Ukrainian.
Speaker 3: And then he also, he had never been, like, he
Speaker 3: had never been to Chernobyl. And I was like, you're
Speaker 3: from Ukraine.
Speaker 1: She's like, you have to go to Chernobyl for me.
Speaker 3: He's like, Renee, I'll go to Chernobyl for you. And
Speaker 3: I was like, will you?
Speaker 2: And he's like, yes, I will.
Speaker 4: So he brought me back these from Chernobyl.
Speaker 3: And that's exactly real how to spell it over there
Speaker 3: in Ukraine. And he brought me those back.
Speaker 1: By the way, I ran the Geiger counter over that.
Speaker 1: It's safe. We have a Geiger counter. She's got one
Speaker 1: at work. We have one at home and work.
Speaker 3: But I'm a huge Chernobyl fan and there's... There's been
Speaker 3: a bunch of papers published and stuff, but Russia did,
Speaker 3: and I haven't seen any updates, but in some of
Speaker 3: the Russian bombardments, they did crack the sarcophagus of Chernobyl, and.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen anything.
Speaker 4: Y'all, that was a global effort to.
Speaker 3: Cover that anyway for the sarcophagus installation and fabrication, and
Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything even recent about how the sarcophagus
Speaker 3: is doing. That is what covers Chernobyl to keep all
Speaker 3: the radiation.
Speaker 1: They built essentially something the size of like a stadium
Speaker 1: out of stainless steel.
Speaker 3: Yes, of course.
Speaker 2: I've watched the TV series.
Speaker 1: And Craig Mason is a friend of mine.
Speaker 2: I have the book.
Speaker 1: He's brilliant.
Speaker 3: The podcast, the book.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: So if you watch the series on HBO... There is
Speaker 3: a book, and I will tell you this. Stay up
Speaker 3: at night. You will read about two or three pages,
Speaker 3: bawl your eyes out, shut it, and then try and
Speaker 3: come back to it. It will take you a long
Speaker 3: time to get through because it's brutal. But when my
Speaker 3: friend toured Chernobyl for me, there's two buses when you
Speaker 3: go into Chernobyl, Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian. If you are non-Ukrainian,
Speaker 3: you can get off the bus and stay in there.
Speaker 3: And there's a, a square basically. And you get to
Speaker 3: just look, turn around and look is basically, if you
Speaker 3: are Ukrainian, they say go. And Mike went into buildings. He, um,
Speaker 3: took pictures of things. Um, it was wild because the
Speaker 3: whole story about Chernobyl was, it was like a hot
Speaker 3: place to work. You made the money you, um, It
Speaker 3: was lavish, the apartments, the lifestyle, the shopping, everything at Chernobyl.
Speaker 2: And that- For Russia.
Speaker 1: Wow. Because it was still Russian at the time.
Speaker 3: It was very much, you could- Yes, Bob, I do
Speaker 3: remember Girl with Speed, the motorcycle girl.
Speaker 2: And you could.
Speaker 3: Go anywhere in there. And so he did take a
Speaker 3: lot of pictures for me and it was amazing just
Speaker 3: to see it firsthand. Because he went up on the
Speaker 3: roofs and took pictures with her circle.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: Like, amazing. And far, you know, far away. But wild
Speaker 3: because it's all untouched. It's still kind of exactly how
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 1: And you know what?
Speaker 3: It's wild.
Speaker 1: The the, the book is terrifying.
Speaker 4: The book is so sad.
Speaker 1: Right. But, but the amazing part of that, the amazing
Speaker 1: part of it is that was really the precipitating incident
Speaker 1: that killed the Soviet union more than just all the
Speaker 1: pressure we had brought on it. It, it, woke up
Speaker 1: the Russian people like, this shit is fucked up. The
Speaker 1: Soviet Union is fucked up.
Speaker 3: They did not listen to the people.
Speaker 1: Nope.
Speaker 3: But we did have one more question, and it was
Speaker 3: about the Venezuelan oil.
Speaker 1: So Trump is like, Joe Biden drained the National Petroleum Reserve,
Speaker 1: which he did not.
Speaker 4: He did not.
Speaker 1: It was nearly full when Trump was elected, so he
Speaker 1: can fuck off, as always. Look, Venezuelan oil, here's the problem.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem. It's super high sulfur. We have to
Speaker 1: have it refined somewhere. We have light sweet crude.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute. I have a thought now.
Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Yeah. No. Is it for later?
Speaker 3: It's work thought.
Speaker 1: Work thought. Work related. Oh, I know what you're doing.
Speaker 2: Stop.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know what you're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway.
Speaker 1: So I think we have some refineries that can process
Speaker 1: heavier crude like that. It is not Texas light sweet, y'all.
Speaker 3: It's not light, sweet, crude. And I have pictures. I
Speaker 3: could probably post them of what light, sweet, crude looks like,
Speaker 3: what heavy.
Speaker 4: Because in the lab, we used to, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know if we still do.
Speaker 1: Yes, you did, Brian. You were correct, sir. Good to
Speaker 1: see you, my friend.
Speaker 3: It's very, because oil is a biological, people don't think
Speaker 3: of it as a biological entity, but it is because
Speaker 3: it's made from dead animals and dead plants. It's biologic.
Speaker 3: And so you can, because of the signature of the
Speaker 3: oil and what's in it, you can look at it
Speaker 3: and tell who it belongs to and where it's from.
Speaker 3: It's one of those weird things. And we have done
Speaker 3: a lot of petroleum work at the lab. Anyway, we
Speaker 3: can tell you if we can process it, if you
Speaker 3: can process it or how expensive it would be to process. So, um,
Speaker 3: our friends in the ICR because it's one of the
Speaker 3: the Guinness Book of World Records ICR mapping things that
Speaker 3: we have. But it's very interesting. Oil is a very
Speaker 3: interesting thing.
Speaker 1: But this is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, tar sands.
Speaker 1: It's like tar sands. It's like bunker diesel. It's that sludgy, thick,
Speaker 1: heavyweight stuff. It is... Look, the other part of this
Speaker 1: is What they announced about the deal today was that
Speaker 1: the U.S. military is going to become a shareholder in
Speaker 1: the Venezuelan national oil. What the communist fuck is this about?
Speaker 1: State of the means of production. Yeah, state of the
Speaker 1: means of production.
Speaker 2: What is that called again? Communism.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what? We're going to let you get
Speaker 1: on with your Sunday because it's getting late.
Speaker 2: We did this.
Speaker 2: We're going to do this.
Speaker 1: We're going to do this. We'll see you again next weekend.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys for jumping on and being with us.
Speaker 4: We apologize. We didn't, we got in late yesterday and
Speaker 4: we were talking.
Speaker 1: Between all the, between all the kids stuff and the
Speaker 1: partying and the drive back and forth.
Speaker 2: In the bed.
Speaker 1: Oh, the bed at the hotel. It would not.
Speaker 3: And it was hot. Okay. So it was one of
Speaker 3: those things, ladies, you will understand what I mean. The
Speaker 3: hotel are using those duvets. And me in a duvet
Speaker 3: and the time of my life that I'm in right now.
Speaker 1: And your incredibly thermally hot husband.
Speaker 2: Is just like, oh, God, no.
Speaker 4: Kill me now. And it was cold in the room.
Speaker 3: And then we get under this duvet. And I sleep
Speaker 3: in a bar.
Speaker 1: He's a little furry.
Speaker 3: And between the heat that I am radiating at this
Speaker 3: point in my life, oh, my God, the sleeping did
Speaker 3: not happen because you can't turn the air down in
Speaker 3: hotels anymore or fans or.
Speaker 4: Any of that stuff. And it was not a restful sleep,
Speaker 4: if you will.
Speaker 1: We have a cold bedroom. We have fans. We have
Speaker 1: bowling seats.
Speaker 3: We have fans. The Bowling Branch.
Speaker 1: They are a sponsor of the podcast. But we were
Speaker 1: customers before.
Speaker 3: I thought like after the umpteenth night when we couldn't sleep,
Speaker 3: I had seen all, all of the.
Speaker 4: Commercials about the Bowling Branch sheets.
Speaker 3: And I was like, you know what?
Speaker 4: I'll do anything at this point to sleep. I don't
Speaker 4: care how much it costs.
Speaker 1: I need sleep.
Speaker 3: And I'm on it, y'all. I feel it. But we're
Speaker 3: working through stuff.
Speaker 2: Anyway, so.
Speaker 1: I bought the sheets.
Speaker 3: And it was the morning, actually, that I took you
Speaker 3: for surgery. Yeah, on my wrist. And we were in
Speaker 3: the waiting room.
Speaker 4: It was like 5 o'clock in the morning. And I
Speaker 4: was like, Rick, I'm buying the sheets and I don't care.
Speaker 1: And he's like, okay.
Speaker 3: I was like, he's not going to tell me no.
Speaker 3: Not for sleep situation. And I was like, I'm getting
Speaker 3: on there. And I ordered a set and I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my God. Like when I tell you they breathe,
Speaker 3: like all of these people that say they have cooling sheets.
Speaker 3: If you look at the tag, If there's any polyester
Speaker 3: in them, they're not cooling.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: I can't wear polyester jammies anymore. If they have an
Speaker 3: ounce of polyester in them, I'm a modal like the bamboo.
Speaker 3: You have to have things that breathe. But those sheets
Speaker 3: are game changer.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And that's the worst part about it when you love
Speaker 3: sheets so much and then you travel and you.
Speaker 4: Don't have those sheets. It's also sort of a sad
Speaker 4: day too, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we got home yesterday around four, and it
Speaker 1: was just like, I was cooked, she was cooked, napped.
Speaker 1: And I don't really nap that much.
Speaker 3: I took care of the cats. Oh, this is the
Speaker 3: other thing about the cats. I've got to talk about
Speaker 3: Vicky and her situation.
Speaker 2: So, Lady, the Dowager Countess Kitty.
Speaker 3: She has a thyroid issue. So, Lady Beakworth is on
Speaker 3: now thyroid food.
Speaker 2: Thankful.
Speaker 3: She loves it. The problem is we have two other cats.
Speaker 3: So I could either put all the cats on thyroid food,
Speaker 3: all cats on thyroid food, which is not to say cheap, um,
Speaker 3: or put cream in her ears twice a day. Ladies,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm talking about if y'all HRT like situation, but, um,
Speaker 3: So I got the request of a lady at my
Speaker 3: vet said I got a cat with three. She's got
Speaker 3: three cats, each with its own problem eating. So she's
Speaker 3: got three of them. I bought these automatic feeders that
Speaker 3: actually work with a microchip that's already embedded in their shoulders.
Speaker 4: So when they walk up.
Speaker 3: To them, the feeder opens and they can eat. We're
Speaker 3: still learning. Still a challenge, I'm not saying, but Lady Beakworth,
Speaker 3: the Dowager Countess, her food is underneath here and the
Speaker 3: other two cats.
Speaker 2: Z is on it.
Speaker 3: Z's like, he walks up there, it opens, he chows down.
Speaker 1: Walks away, lid closes. It's like a food garage.
Speaker 2: It's a food garage.
Speaker 4: But so, This has been the other.
Speaker 3: So yesterday when I got home, I prepared all of
Speaker 3: these lining things and you have to train them for
Speaker 3: their collar and all of that. I did that and
Speaker 3: started laundry. So that was like a process.
Speaker 1: It was something.
Speaker 3: And I had to give Zee love because he still got,
Speaker 3: when we're.
Speaker 2: Not watching him, he can't wear.
Speaker 3: The collar of shame until tomorrow when I take him
Speaker 3: back to the vet.
Speaker 4: So I had to let his collar be free. My
Speaker 4: son came over Friday night.
Speaker 1: Renee, did you chip Rick?
Speaker 3: Why, to track him?
Speaker 4: I know where he is.
Speaker 3: I can just hear him. Oh, your cow is allergic
Speaker 3: to the ear ointment. Radioactive iodine.
Speaker 2: Okay, Jules. Jules. Jules.
Speaker 1: Jules. 1,006. Where's Mitch McConnell?
Speaker 5: Talk.
Speaker 4: Mitch McConnell, he's chatting.
Speaker 3: With the Lord God.
Speaker 1: Rigor tortoise, as people say.
Speaker 3: Rigor tortoise.
Speaker 4: You know, they're going to roll him out at some point.
Speaker 3: And I think they'll have a string attached to his
Speaker 3: arm like Weekend at Bernie's so he can wave. But
Speaker 3: I think he is with the dearly departed myself because
Speaker 3: nobody has come.
Speaker 2: To see him at all either.
Speaker 1: No, nobody has. Weirdly, all those long conversations he was having.
Speaker 3: If he's that sick, you would think home health would
Speaker 3: be in there. Once again, our home health care workers
Speaker 3: would be in there once a day.
Speaker 1: To help.
Speaker 4: Change him and move him.
Speaker 3: Because I'm telling you, it's heavy to pick someone up
Speaker 3: and move them from place. to place and help feed
Speaker 3: them and all that.
Speaker 1: Cause it's very Soviet.
Speaker 3: She hasn't seen them. Um, so I don't, we haven't
Speaker 3: seen her. So I know she's not in there doping
Speaker 3: on him. We'll just talk about that.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: All right, folks.
Speaker 1: Well, it is, uh, We're up on two hours.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's four o'clock. Anything else for the good of
Speaker 3: the order?
Speaker 1: As always, folks, you can email us at TheWeekendR &
Speaker 1: R at gmail.com and we will have your questions. And
Speaker 1: I hope we lightened your day a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll have a new press secretary soon. Oh, say
Speaker 3: where Caroline Leavitt is going.
Speaker 1: Oh, The View. That's the rumor in D.C. The View.
Speaker 3: Y'all.
Speaker 1: No one has to watch The View at this point.
Speaker 3: I don't know how that's.
Speaker 1: All going to work. The grandbabies were excellent. We had
Speaker 1: a really good time. So nice to go over there
Speaker 1: and visit with. The Littles.
Speaker 2: It was good to be The Littles.
Speaker 1: There's Winnie again.
Speaker 4: Playing with The Littles.
Speaker 1: And there's Indy.
Speaker 3: He looks all frustrated, but He actually, when his eyes open,
Speaker 3: it's really cute.
Speaker 1: He smiles at you. And he's two weeks old?
Speaker 3: He was getting ready to go to bed at that point.
Speaker 1: And he's got the Wilson side eye.
Speaker 3: Oh, he does. I think he has the Wilson ears.
Speaker 1: He does also have the Wilson ears.
Speaker 2: But, yeah.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, no, we had a great time. And once again,
Speaker 1: there's Winnie flying her simulator. We got her.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we got her a simulator.
Speaker 2: And a piano.
Speaker 1: And a piano.
Speaker 4: I got her Little People. Little People, of course.
Speaker 1: Oh, and we brought her books from London.
Speaker 3: Oh, we brought books from London. And we brought a
Speaker 3: little onesie from the British Museum that has London and
Speaker 3: cute little stuff on it.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 3: I'm.
Speaker 1: Glad we got the larger size because he's already a hoss.
Speaker 4: He's already big. And we also got.
Speaker 3: I brought them... It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, because.
Speaker 2: Every child should have that.
Speaker 1: And it's the season. Manifest the season.
Speaker 4: Oh, and just another book, too. Books are always good.
Speaker 1: One more thing about Florida, because I saw something move
Speaker 1: by there a minute ago. The buzzard that was trying
Speaker 1: to get the snakes yesterday. I told Renee, I was
Speaker 1: walking to the driveway on Friday before we left, and
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I wish I had my phone
Speaker 1: with me, because the buzzard out there was the size
Speaker 1: of a Cessna. We were talking about yesterday, and there
Speaker 1: he was. Have a little snake sushi. All right, folks.
Speaker 1: We love doing this with y'all every weekend.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: We love talking to you guys. We appreciate you as always.
Speaker 1: We'll see you again next weekend, but probably not the
Speaker 1: weekend after because we're going.
Speaker 2: To Hong Kong.
Speaker 3: We'll see, but we don't leave until Sunday.
Speaker 1: We might. We might do. We might check in. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going to Hong Kong after that. I got a
Speaker 1: speech over there. We're coming straight back for a few days.
Speaker 1: I keep telling Renee we're going to Shenzhen, but we're
Speaker 1: probably not. We're going to Hong Kong, though.
Speaker 3: We're not going to mainland.
Speaker 1: We're not going to mainland. No.
Speaker 3: We're not doing that.
Speaker 1: But we're excited about it. All right, everybody. Thanks for watching,
Speaker 1: as always. We appreciate you. You can always follow Renee
Speaker 1: on the platforms at ReneeStangHey. You can follow me at TheRickWilson.
Speaker 1: You can catch us on this show on Saturdays or Sundays.
Speaker 1: You can catch me on the.
Speaker 1: Tuesday nights, generally speaking on strategy session on Thursdays or
Speaker 1: Tuesdays with the Lincoln project podcast Thursdays with the breakdown
Speaker 1: Fridays with Lincoln project podcast. And what's that other show
Speaker 1: we do?
Speaker 2: You do elephant elephant.
Speaker 3: In the room.
Speaker 1: That's the, that's the Friday show. And we're going to
Speaker 1: be bringing back the behind the numbers show. We're rebooting
Speaker 1: and reformatting that with Andrew as he comes off attorney leave.
Speaker 1: We're super excited. And on Sundays, you can catch me
Speaker 1: with Molly John Fast on Fast Politics.
Speaker 3: You can catch him, y'all.
Speaker 1: I got too many shows.
Speaker 3: He got a lot of shows, but they're all different, though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Broken Molly, the show, Molly and I taped this
Speaker 1: morning at 11, so you'll see that anytime.
Speaker 2: Does it come out today?
Speaker 3: Oh, because you know what we're doing? We also have
Speaker 3: to go, because the new episode.
Speaker 2: Of Lioness is coming out today. It's Sundays.
Speaker 3: So we have got to.
Speaker 1: Sunday's our television day.
Speaker 4: Sundays we have to watch Linus.
Speaker 3: I don't know if y'all are watching it, but I
Speaker 3: would suggest it.
Speaker 1: Yep. Definitely. Yep.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do get around Mona Dog. I am everywhere
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 1: All right, everybody. We appreciate you. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 1: Thanks for watching. See you soon. Oh, oh, oh. If
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Speaker 1: to me about Nicole Kidman.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's on this list.
Speaker 1: It's on my list. Sorry. And weirdly, never mind. What?
Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything about that plot, please. I'm totally
Speaker 1: fucking with you.
Speaker 3: No. Never in my world.
Speaker 1: Bye guys.
Speaker 3: Bye y'all.
Speaker 1: See you soon.