Friday, January 17th, 2025 Today, President Biden’s farewell speech included a stark warning about oligarchy; Speaker Johnson has ousted House intelligence chair Mike Turner; Rudy Giuliani was a no-show to his bench trial today but Reuters reports that he and Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss have reached a settlement; Minnesota state House Republicans are attempting a political coup; Mark Cuban is willing to fund a TikTok alternative piggybacking off Bluesky’s AT protocol; Trump is attempting to dismantle personnel protections at the State Department; Obama the Clintons and Bush have declined to attend the inaugural lunch; Ron DeSantis has appointed Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Today, President Biden’s farewell speech included a stark warning about oligarchy; Speaker Johnson has ousted House intelligence chair Mike Turner; Rudy Giuliani was a no-show to his bench trial today but Reuters reports that he and Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss have reached a settlement; Minnesota state House Republicans are attempting a political coup; Mark Cuban is willing to fund a TikTok alternative piggybacking off Bluesky’s AT protocol; Trump is attempting to dismantle personnel protections at the State Department; Obama the Clintons and Bush have declined to attend the inaugural lunch; Ron DeSantis has appointed Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Friday, January 17, 2025. Today, President Biden's farewell speech included a stark warning about oligarchies. Speaker Johnson has ousted the House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner. Rudy Giuliani was a no show to his bench trial today, but Reuters reports that he and Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss have reached a settlement. Minnesota State House Republicans are attempting a political coup. Mark Cuban is willing to fund a TikTok alternative piggybacking off of blue skies at protocol. Trump is attempting to dismantle the personnel protections at the State Department. Obama and The Clintons and G.W. bush have declined to attend the inaugural lunch. And Ron DeSantis has appointed Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to fill Marco Rubio's Senate seat. I'm Alison Gill.
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
Dana, Happy Friday. We made it.
We did, but there's been so much fuckery this week.
It's a good song. I like that. Um, not the fuckery, the song. Uh, so thank you for singing it today. This afternoon, if you're around and you're a patron of this program or the cleanup on aisle 45 podcast, Harry Dunn and I are hosting a Zoom Q and A happy hour party tonight at 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific. Look forward to that. We will not be covering the inauguration here, uh, at all. And since it's, uh, Fugal Sang Friday here on the Daily Beans, I'll be speaking with him about his counter programming. He's doing a big special on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and we'll love it later in the show. I'm so thankful for him doing that. So that farewell speech, Dana, did you watch any part of that?
I did see some of the clips. I did not watch the. In its entirety, but it was alarming. Um, he did a really good job there was. You know, you're allowed to be a little braggadocious. You had one of the best presidencies in our lifetime. You're leaving an incredible economy to a thief. Um, but there was that stark warning that we're going into an oligarchy if we're not already there.
Yeah. And most of his speech, he didn't spend really, uh, a lot of time at all touting him, his. His, you know, accomplishments.
Yeah, just a bit.
Harris's, uh, accomplishments. Uh, but, man, he sure did have a lot of warnings for, uh, us and Harry Dunn. And I go over it a little more in detail on the bonus episode of Cleanup this weekend. But I. My jaw was on the floor. I never thought I'd Hear a sitting president warn against a potential oligarchy on the rise in America. I was like, wow. He said the. He said it tw. Um, and then warned about misinformation and disinformation on social media. Um, and, uh, it was. It was pretty st. And then I teared up at the end. Um, you know, when he started, when he said, you know, you have the watch, or, yeah, you're on the guard now? Or. I was like, oh, I'm gonna visit.
Over to the American people. Yeah, yeah, I'm, uh. God, I just. You know, we want to be positive on the show and give you some hope. That's what we do. And some levity, but. But we're also not going to sugarcoat it. This is going to be a hard four years. Um, and hopefully it's only four years, but we're in for an interesting time in our history. And, um, we've got a lot of work to do, a lot of work to do, a lot of fighting back to do, a lot of calling out to do, and a lot of supporting each other.
Yeah. And rest when you need to. A lot of us thought we would be able to rest a little bit m. These next four years, and that has surreptitiously been taken away. But I think it's a lesson that we never really do get to rest. There's always work to do. I know Kamala Harris reiterated that multiple times during her campaign. You know, we win, we fight, we win. But this is just the beginning of the work. It's just a different kind of work. Um, and, um, we. I think if we maintain our. Our joyful warrior posture, but make sure to take breaks when we need to. Um, we have each other, and that's what I think is important. So.
Absolutely. Well said, my friend.
Oh, thank you so much. Um, I've. I'm at the end of a very long day today. I recorded 96 podcasts today. Yes.
107, 140.
And, uh, you know, um, today, Friday, there'll be a new episode of. Of the Jack Smith audio version. Uh, you can get that in the free Jack podcast feed. Um, so we're putting that out. We're the only. We're the only ones doing it. Um, Dana, this was so funny. I. I stayed up till, like, midnight the night that Jack Smith Volume one report dropped. Like, I'm gonna record the first episode. We're gonna be first out. We're gonna be the first ones to get an audio thing. I gotta beat everybody. All of our producers and editors and Network director put this thing out the door and we did it. And I'm like, yes, we're first. And then nobody fucking else is doing it.
With the only your reputation precedes you. And they knew that this was going to happen. Or people are not doing their fucking due diligence in their jobs. And that is informing the American people.
Yes. And, uh, this weekend's Jack episode is the last episode of it, known as the Jack Podcast. We're changing the name of it and we'll be back the very following Sunday. We're not going to miss any shows, but, uh, Andy McCabe and I are starting a new project project called Unjustified. And we are going to be keeping an eye on Donald Trump's Justice Department, as we should, given Pam Bondi's up. Jesus. I. I don't even want to call them responses to some of the questions that she, she was handed. But anyway, I just want to thank President Biden, uh, for that farewell speech. And we do have a lot of news to get to today, so we're going to have some quick hits. And to make a long story short.
All right, here we go. Obama, Bush, and the Clintons won't be attending the inaugural lunch, having formally turned down the invitation, but going to be at the swearing in. I have feelings about that. I understand it's tradition, but when you. We just heard the President of the United States say we are heading into an oligarchy and a warning. It's so hard to watch them sit and, uh, watch this person be sworn in to do just that.
Yeah. Take an oath that they have no intention of holding of upholding. Michelle, uh, Obama's not going. She said nah.
Yeah.
So I love it. We'll see. Um, we're not going to be covering it, and, uh, I'm not going to be watching it. I encourage everybody to keep your TVs off that day. Don't watch online, don't watch on YouTube. Just don't give it any oxygen if you can, if you can help it. Next, uh, up, Rudy was a no show at his bench trial over his Palm beach condo and whether he'll have to hand it over and his World Series rings, uh, to Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss. Harry Dunn and I are going to cover that on the next week's Clinical 45. But after about two hours of no showing and then coming back after lunch and still nothing happening, apparently Ruby Freeman, Shamos and Rudy have reached a settlement agreement. And we don't know too much about it other than Rudy will get to retain his properties. And an undisclosed amount of money is being given to Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss, along with the promise that he's not going to talk about them at all anymore, ever. We'll see if that holds up. Um, but, um, we'll go into detail on clean up on aisle 45 next week.
All right, thanks, Ag. And last in this section, entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban. He's ready to fund a TikTok alternative that is built on blue skies at Protocol. He shared that in a TikTok video posted on Wednesday in anticipation of the coming US TikTok ban, which we'll go through on Sunday unless paused by the Supreme Court. But I think there's a bit of an extension that from M. The president right now. Um, I've been watching, uh, under the desk news. I don't think the ban is going into effect on Sunday, but users have been fleeing to other platforms because of this threat, including Chinese app RedNote. But investors like Cuban see the potential for a more open social web that includes an ecosystem of apps powered by the same technology that today underpins Bluesky's social networks. So I, I really and have been enjoying Mark Cuban a lot and what he's been saying and doing publicly to try and save the democracy in this country as well.
Yeah, especially our social media platforms. You know, Twitter, we all went to Blue Sky. Um, Instagram, we could all go to, uh, Flashes, which is going to be built on blue, which is like a photo app built on blue skies at Protocol. And now Mark Cuban wants to fund a Tick Tock style app. So we'll see how that all works out, uh, for good old Fuckerberg and Elon Musk. In the end, it's just going to end up being like a 4chan 8chan Truth social getter platform. Uh, these places, um, hopefully they go bankrupt. All right, we have more news to get to. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. And I just want to clarify before we get into the hot notes that I wasn't grouping TikTok in with the Zuckerberg and Twitter sitch. Although the head of TikTok will also be on the deus at the inauguration. All right, first up, from Reuters, aides to President elect Donald Trump have asked three senior career diplomats who oversee the US State Department's workforce and internal coordination to step down from their roles. According to two officials familiar. Um, this is a possible signal of deeper changes ahead for the diplomatic corps. The team overseeing the State Department's transition to the new administration. The agency review team has requested that Derek Hogan, Marsha Burnicat, and Elena Teplitz leave their posts. While political appointees typically submit their resignations when a new president takes office, most career Foreign Service officers continue from one administration to the next. All three officials have worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations throughout the years, including as ambassadors. Trump, who will be inaugurated on Monday, pledged during his presidential campaign to clean out the deep state by firing bureaucrats that he deems disloyal. Quote, there's a little bit of concern that this might be setting the stage for something worse. That's what One of the U.S. officials familiar with the matter said. In response to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Trump's transition team said it is entirely appropriate for the transition to seek officials who share President Trump's vision for putting our nation. And, um, you know what? I'm not going to read the rest of this statement. It is not appropriate. Okay? And these three State Department officials, I happen to know some folks who are very concerned about this personally, because these are the three people who, if the administration wants to do something fucked up or untoward to one of the people or people, uh, multiple people who work at the State Department, these are the folks who would advise against it. So they're going after the teams of people who would protect our federal civil servants and career federal, ah, employees. A State Department spokesman said the department has no personnel announcements to make. Hogan Bernicat Teplitz did not respond to requests for comment. Trump is likely to adopt more confrontational foreign policy and has vowed to bring peace between Ukraine and Russia and give more support to Israel. He has also pushed for unorthodox policies, such as trying to make Greenland part of the United States and pushing NATO allies for higher defense spending. A diplomatic workforce that dutifully implements rather than pushes back will be key to achieving his goals. The decision to ask the three to step aside is reminiscent of staff shakeups at the State Department during the first Trump administration, when several key officials and leadership positions were removed from their jobs. According to two separate sources familiar with Trump's plans for the State Department, the administration plans to appoint more political appointees to positions such as assistant secretary, which are typically filled by a mix of career and political bureaucrats. These sources said Trump's team wants to get more politically appointed officials deeper into the State Department, as there was a pervasive feeling among his aides that his agenda was derailed by career diplomats in his first term. His illegal shit was derailed by career diplomats, and not just targeting political appointees who are experts at State Department stuff. But specifically targeting the people in the State Department who protect everyone else in the State Department is what's frightening. They know what they're doing this time. The agency review team is already interviewing candidates for such positions, according to the State Department's website. Hogan is the State Department's executive secretary, the official that manages the flow of information between department bureaus and the White House. Berna Cat is the director general of the US Foreign Service and director of global Talent, leading the recruitment, assignment and career development of the department's workforce. Assistant Secretary Teplitz has been with the department over three decades, serving overseas as well as in Washington, and most recently she has been implementing the duties under secretary for Management, which oversees more than a dozen bureaus responsible for issues from the budget to recruitment, procurement and human resources across the workforce. Quote, these are not policy positions. This is all the mechanics of the bureaucracy. That's what Dennis Jett, a professor at Penn State School of International affairs who spent 28 years in the Foreign Service, said. But if you want to control the bureaucracy, that's the way you do it. Choosing who fills these roles would allow Trump's team to divert resources to and from parts of the State Department, control the information gathered by the numerous bureaus and embassies, and manage personnel decisions. The request for officials to step down came as Marco Rubio, Trump's nominee for secretary of state, was testifying on Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In his confirmation hearing on his campaign website, Trump laid out how, in 10 steps he would, quote, shatter deep state and fire rogue bureaucrats and career politicians. The first of those steps is to reissue a 2020 executive order that would have removed employment protections for certain civil servants, making it easier to fire them. Opponents of the plan, called Schedule F after the new class of civil servants it would create, say stripping employment protections from government workers, would be an effort by Trump to politicize the federal bureaucracy and carry out his policy agenda. Normally, presidents get to choose several thousand of their own political appointees, but the career civil service, around 2 million workers, is left alone. Schedule F would give Trump the power to fire up to 50,000 of those and replace them with like minded loyalists. Taking charge of the state's personnel would, quote, expedite the process of appointing loyal officials. Unions and government watchdogs have said they plan to sue Trump if he carries out his promise to reintroduce a Schedule.
F. Thanks so much, Alison. This one is from Scott Wong at NBC. Speaker Mike Johnson has informed Rep. Mike Turner. He's a Republican from Ohio that he will no longer be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. And that's according to a GOP leadership source with a Republican lawmaker familiar with the matter. The lawmaker said Turner told him Wednesday that he would not be staying on as head of the critical panel that conducts oversight of the US Intelligence community. The House Intelligence Committee chair is also a member of the so called quote, gang of Eight congressional leaders who received some of the most sensitive classified briefings from the intelligence community. Johnson confirmed the news later Wednesday, but he downplayed the change as he offered praise for Turner. The top post of the Intelligence Committee is one of the few positions directly chosen by the speaker of the House at uh, the start of a new Congress. Johnson said he would make an announcement about Turner's replacement on Thursday. In a statement Wednesday night, Turner, who's a staunch NATO supporter and who aggressively pushed for US Aid for Ukraine, said he was proud of his time serving on and leading the committee. His office said Turner would only be serving on the Armed Services and Oversight and Government Reform committees in the new Congress, meaning he's no longer going to have a seat on the Intelligence panel. The decision to replace Turner stunned lawmakers in both parties, given that Turner, who's a defense hawk is what they're calling him, is well respected on both sides of the aisle. A former mayor of Dayton, Turner belongs to the GOP's Main street caucus, which describes its members as, quote, pragmatic. Other lawmakers in the caucus said that they were frustrated by Johnson's decision to oust one of their own. One member said the move erodes trust and could complicate Republicans ability to pass Trump's 2025 agenda, giving their paper thin majority. I hope that's true. Democrats on the Intelligence Committee said that they did not get any warning that Turner was being removed. And this is a quote, I'm enormously concerned because I think you'd be hard pressed to find somebody as fair minded, said Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut. And he's the top Democrat on the intelligence panel. That quote right there is probably the one reason why they took him off. They don't want fair minded people right now leading any committee. He added that Turner quote, and I had our disagreements, but you know, I had confidence in him. Again, this is from Jim Himes. With Trump days away from returning to the White House, Democrats have been sounding the alarm that top intelligence and national security posts, they're being influenced by presidential politics and they are.
It's going to be so much worse than people thought. Yep, we've been talking about this for a while. And from Steve Karnowski at the Associated Press. Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and House Democrats have asked the state's highest court to intervene in a, uh, partisan power struggle that is roiled at the start of the 2025 legislative session. As the standoff extended into a second day on Wednesday, Simon, a Democrat, petitioned the Minnesota Supreme Court late Tuesday to declare that he legally remains the presiding officer in the Minnesota House for now and that Tuesday's election of a GOP leader, Lisa DeMuth, as speaker, was invalid. He asked the court to back his position that 68 members are needed for a quorum to conduct any official business in the chamber, quote, because the members of the House lacked this constitutionally required quorum on January 14, Representative DeMuth has not properly been elected speaker and the House cannot transact business. That's what Simon's lawyers wrote. Until a quorum is present and a speaker is properly elected, the secretary remains the House's presiding officer, and his role may not be usurped. House Democrats boycotted the opening day of the session in an effort to deny Republicans that quorum and blocked them from exploiting a temporary one vote majority. Temporary to unseat one Democrat and advance the GOP agenda. This is a power grab. Is, is what this is. They also petitioned the Supreme Court late Tuesday, asking the high court to prohibit Republican lawmakers from conducting any business until a quorum of at least 68 members is reached and to declare any actions taken in the meantime, quote, without lawful authority null and void. The Supreme Court put the two challenges on a fast track, consolidating them and scheduling oral arguments for January 23rd. The official House GOP response is due by Tuesday. The number two House GOP leader, Harry Niska of Ramsey, told reporters they will comply with the court's ultimate ruling, quote, but we think that just like the executive branch can't stop the legislature from functioning, we don't think the courts are going to try to stop the legislature from functioning either. Now, the main task of the legislative session is to pass a balanced two year budget in time for it to take effect on July 1st. And that will eventually require bipartisan cooperation. Both sides agree they can't pass actual bills without 68 votes under their rules. Democratic Governor Tim Walz is scheduled to roll out his budget proposal Thursday. All seats on the Democrats side of the chamber were empty when the House Republicans convened the floor session Wednesday to conduct what normally would be routine matters, such as the election of the chief clerk, the November election resulted in a house tied at 67 to 67, and top leaders from both parties started to work out power sharing agreements on the assumption they would be evenly split this year. But a judge last month declared that a newly elected Democrat, Curtis Johnson, didn't live in his district. That gave Republicans a temporary, temporary 67, 66 majority until a special election can take place January 28th. Since the district, which includes Roseville, is heavily Democratic, the election is expected to restore the tie. Democrats are especially worried because Republicans have threatened to use their two week majority to refuse to seat another Democrat, uh, Rep. Brad Tabke of Shakopee, who won his race by 14 votes. A court declared Tabke the legal winner and rejected the GOP effort to force a special election in his swing district. Efforts to revive a power sharing deal in the House failed. The chamber's top Democrat, Melissa Hortman of Brooklyn park, said Tuesday that DeMuth refused to commit to letting Tabke keep his seat, even though she offered a deal that would have allowed DeMuth to serve as speaker. All session lawyers for the state GOP and an allied group on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to invalidate Tim Walls's order setting a Jan. 28 date for the Roseville special election. They argued that he set the date earlier than the state law allows because the seat wasn't officially vacant until the legislature convened on Tuesday. Man, they're just trying everything in the book. Assistant MHM Attorney General Nathan Hartshorn countered that the seat became vacant Dec. 27 after Johnson lost in court and notified the governor he would not contest the judge's ruling. Hartshorn said the governor acted lawfully to fill the seat as soon as possible. The justices said they were mindful that the disputes are intertwined and that they'll rule quickly. I'm going to keep an eye on this for you, but uh, that's some going on from Republicans in the Minnesota State House.
Not surprised. Thanks so much, Allison. This one's from Matt Dixon at NBC. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed state Attorney General Ashley Moody to the U.S. senate, setting her up to fill the seat of Senator Marco Rubio, whom unfortunately, President Elect Donald Trump. He tapped him to be Secretary of State. Little Rubio apparently is in his good graces. Rubio was selected to serve in Trump's administration shortly after Trump won the 2024 presidential race, handing DeSantis a Senate appointment that is likely to have ripple effects across Florida's government and politics. It has widely been expected in recent weeks that Moody would be the pick, while others, including Reps Kamek and Corey Mills did talk to DeSantis about the position. DeSantis said publicly he had reservations about appointing a member of the House because of the GOP slim majority in that chamber. Now, State Senator Jay Collins, who serves as a Green Beret, also got considerable support from conservatives who wanted DeSantis to pick a military veteran. But ultimately the seat is going to go to Moody. She's 49. She won easily by the way, her first election in 2018 to become Attorney General and her re election bid in 2022. She was unable to run again due to term limits. She will have to run in 2026, a special election to keep the seat for the final two years of Rubio's term. Now Mills has already said he's running For Senate in 2026, as first reported by Politico. And Kamek is mulling um, a uh, run as well, meaning Moody's likely to face a Republican primary challenger, if not more than one. DeSantis has not previously signaled publicly who he would pick to fill Rubio's seat, but he said the person will be a hardliner on immigration, including pushing reforms to the so called H1B visa program, which has been the subject of intense internal post election fights among Trump's own supporters. Now Trump backers like billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk have said the program offers low cost international talent for many companies, while the populist wing of the MAGA movement, led by people like conservative pundit Steve Bannon, White supremacist Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer have said the program should be abolished. Trump said in late December that he believes the program is great. Moody's pick is also likely to reshuffle DeSantis own political orbit. It's widely believed that longtime DeSantis chief staff James Uthmeyer will now be appointed to fill Moody's post, requiring that DeSantis select a new top staffer. Uthmeyer served as the campaign manager for DeSantis failed 2024 presidential bid and he's considered one of his closest confidants.
Man, remember that 2024 presidential run by, remember Elon Musk? Tried to launch it on Twitter and it just didn't work.
Yeah, all a mess, all a mess.
All a huge mess. And of course Elon is like Trump, I'll give you the presidency but you have to make sure I can have all my H, ah, 1B visa employees that uh, I brought in after firing thousands of uh, uh, folks here from Twitter and Tesla and SpaceX or whatever. Yeah, so, yeah, it's going to be a real interesting big bag of rats, as Stephanie Miller likes to call it. Uh, and we'll keep an eye on it for you. All right, it's time for some good trouble.
What are you guys doing?
All right, pretty simple today. Keep writing those letters to urge Merrick Garland to dismiss the charges against Trump's co defendants in the Florida documents case, Walt Nada, and Carlos de Oliveira, so that he can release volume two of the report. Today, Democrats on the House Judiciary wrote him a letter urging the same. I was a little bit, uh, honored by that since I told everybody to write these letters last week. And now the House Judiciary Committee is like, yeah, you know, do this, drop these two cases and, and release volume two other. Otherwise it's going to end up in the, literally the shreddy dustbin of history after January 20th. So I wonder if, uh, I wonder if the House Judiciary listens to our podcast. All right, you can find the reasons.
That some of them do and the.
Instructions on how to do this, how to write this letter and what to say. You can find it on my sub stack@melisserote.com which is always free to subscribe. Um, and it's, you know, if you want to kick in some, some money to support us, that's real cool. But, uh, it's, it's free. Otherwise, I don't, like, lock up any content for paid subscribers. So thank you so much, everybody, and, uh, I appreciate you subscribing. Dana. We just passed, uh, 600,000 views on our sub stack, so, uh, amazing.
Well done. Well done.
Really, really proud of that. 600, 000 views this month. All right, everybody, stick around. We'll be right back with John Fugle saying after. Hey, everybody, welcome back. It's Friday on the Daily Beans, which means it's Fugal Sang Fridays. That's right. We're talking to my friend, host of Tell Me everything on Sirius XM progress channel 127 weeknights, 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific. And of course, if you don't have Sirius, you can always listen to the John Fugal Sang show podcast. But, uh, you definitely don't want to miss this show if you can help it. Independent media is growing. It's important. Yes, we're taking over from corporate media, and, um, it was just a matter of time. Please welcome my friend, John Fugelsang.
All the facts with none of the groveling. Welcome. It's great to see you, Ms. Gill. And let me congratulate you for not joining the, uh, Capitulation weasel train to mar a lago, to kiss the ring and lick the boot and uh, bend the knee for these stooges.
It was a pretty easy decision. In fact, I didn't even think I needed to tell anybody that I wasn't covering the inauguration. And until I saw, huh, other friends of mine saying that they weren't going to cover the inauguration. And then I was like, I better just let everybody know, uh, that I'm not covering it.
I had to let, uh, our listeners at Sirius XM and uh, the heads of my channel know that come this Monday we are going to have a fantastic special on the life and activism of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, focusing not just on the civil rights work, which is all anyone ever talks about. They don't talk about how he was at the end of his life as anti war and anti militarism and as pro labor as he was pro civil rights and voting rights. He died in a, uh, garbage, uh, worker strike. So I'm really excited to have a fantastic special on Monday the 20th acknowledging MLK, the man who fought racism and not the racist who is getting inaugurated. We're not going to talk about it. If he signs an executive order, I'll talk about it that day. But I am not talking about this little fascist pageant. Not interested. I think God is weighing in by making it 30 degrees colder than it normally is on that day in January. And um, you know, there's not going to be anything there that I, um, don't need to know what Stephen Miller wrote. That bad, right?
No. Or Scavino or whoever the fuck. Um, and uh, you know, you talk about, um. Go back to MLK for a minute. His uh, anti military industrial complex.
Yeah.
Was echoed by President Biden in his farewell speech. And the anti tech industrial complex warning of an oligarchy in America on the rise. I think it's here, but I, well I was, my jaw was on the floor to hear President Biden say that. Wish he said it two years ago.
That's exactly what I was going to say. If only he had given this speech the day after the midterms in 2022. That's when we needed it. And then to build on the campaign from there, he said a lot of things and laid out a lot of terrific policies that uh, I think we could have heard about years and years ago.
Yeah, let's talk about the Supreme Court stuff because, you know, in his speech he called and he has been calling just uh, you know, I guess either the corporate media hasn't been picking it up or it got buried in a commission subcommittee for study, but that we need 18 year term limits on the Supreme Court. We need an amendment to turn over the immunity, the horrible anti forefathers immunity decision, anti reason America exists immunity decision handed down by the Supreme Court, which Jack Smith, by the way, outlined in his report spending about God, more than 25% of his report talking about the delay caused by the Supreme Court that pushed these trials or ended these trials, at least pushed them past the election. Not that it would have made it through a second round of Supreme Court immunity briefs, but very fascinating. Um, again, I wish these, I wish these concepts had been raised earlier. I think that the Democrat. You know, regardless of the message, though, John, I think a lot of the problem, which is kind of being addressed by Ben Wickler, who's running to be the DNC chair, the elections are February 1st. Going onto podcasts and saying, here's the problem. We weren't in enough ears. We didn't reach enough people.
Yes, the facts didn't reach enough people.
Exactly. And so whatever the message is, uh, I don't think we can sit and say, at least I don't feel comfortable sitting and saying that the messaging that the Democrats decided to go with during the Kamala Harris campaign was the wrong messaging. Because the message. I don't know that we can pick that apart. Because the message didn't get to the people.
That's correct. When this many people believe that violence is worse in 2024 than it was under Trump, when this many people think that America has worse inflation than our capitalist allies. I mean, when this many people think that the unemployment rate is somehow higher now than it was under Donald Trump. I mean, it's lies are what won this election. Lies. And 49% of the people who showed up to vote.
Yeah. And you know, we've got people Googling tariff. The day after the election, we've got people googling if they can change their votes enough people thought they could change their votes that, uh, they decided to vote for Donald Trump. And now after President Biden's farewell speech, everyone's Googling what an oligarchy is. And we've been sitting here talking about it forever. And meanwhile, that message isn't getting through. So I'm really looking forward to more information and insight from Ben Wickler, who has done incredible things for Wisconsin. But to sit there and say this is a, uh, shortcoming and this is how we fix it. I was very, very. Because, you know, I've been asking like, is anybody gonna do a, uh, come out and say what the mistakes were, or are we just gonna kind of COVID our ears and say we did everything perfectly and keep going with what didn't work? So I was happy to hear that.
Well, I mean, I think, I think, I think, you know, you're, you're making the best case I've heard yet, which, I mean, look, the two stains on the president's record. Cuz again, people have already forgotten he pardoned his kid. That's gonna seem so innocent by Valentine's Day. But the two stains will be that they didn't do enough to stop this fascist thug from achieving power again after. I mean, like, you'd think that cops brutally, violently beaten on the Capitol steps for a goddamn lie would be enough to see some action, and it wasn't. So that's going to be a stain on him. And of course, allowing, um, the deliberate, uh, starvation of Palestinian, uh, civilians are going to be the two things. But I do think that Biden's presidency will be a lot like Jimmy Carter's in that after all the abuse and taunting, historians will actually measure all the good that really happened, uh, under what may have been the most decent man to hold the job since Jimmy Carter.
Yeah, and I wanted to talk about something else, um, because I thought of you this morning when I was listening, uh, to, uh, the opening of, uh, the gaveling in of, uh, confirmation hearing. I think it was a Doug Burgum who's trying to.
Exciting. Oh, I missed that.
Yeah, boy, it's like, as George Carlin said, it's like watching flies fuck. And I was kind of taken aback, not shocked, but, uh, just like, oh, really? Um, because the irony, it just doesn't exist anymore because less than 24 hours after Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen went on, you know, it said publicly in a congressional hearing, oh, come on, we're all cheaters and drunks. We've all cheated on our wives. Uh, if not for, uh, our wives, I'd be in prison. And then the next morning, they open with a prayer.
Yeah. And first of all, what's your question, miss?
So first of all, I mean, the long question, why are we fucking praying in the well of the, of the Senate? But aside from, you know, we'll get to that. We'll read all about it in your new book coming out, the Separation of Church and Hate. But just the, I don't know, do we need to talk about the hypocrisy here? Because it's my favorite subject. But you know, I tell you what, it's like your mission here is to wield their own bullshit hypocrisy as a cudgel against them. So what are your thoughts on this?
I mean, look, Jesus, uh, shows us the way. Um, my favorite thing Jesus does next to the universal love for all people, including the most despised. Uh, and the magic tricks. Great Jesus, first great Jew magician as far as I'm concerned. You want to talk Houdini, you want to talk Amazing Randy, uh, you want to talk Kreskin, all the great Jewish magicians, even David Blaine. Yes, I say great Jewish magician. But even more than that, what I love the most about Jesus is how he called out conservative religious hypocrisy time and time again. It sort of helped him get killed. But, uh, consistently in the book, he calls out the religious authorities for their hypocrisy. And you don't need to believe in the Bible as absolute literal fact to point out that these greedy bastards don't follow the character of Jesus. They claim to fetishize He's a prop they wave over their heads. There is no Christ based justification for Donald Trump support. Again, these are people who are, who find racist lies about black presidents or innocent Haitian migrants acceptable. These are people who find executions and assassinations acceptable. These are people, these are people who find beating cops up for a lie to be acceptable. So you don't need to believe in Jesus's literal fact to point out that they don't follow him. And the question you should always ask is tell me the exact teaching of Jesus. Chapter and verse one that Trump MAGA or the GOP follow chapter and verse, please. And that's how you'll find out that these people have never read that book and they have no idea what's in it.
Yeah. And the people who have can't find a chapter or a verse.
That's right. They always quote St. Paul or they'll quote Leviticus. And I have to say, that's not Jesus. You know the books Jesus is in. And they'll say, well, Jesus is in the Old Testament because of the Trinity and he's always there. So everything in the Old Testament is true. And that's when I say, oh, so then I guess A, you don't believe in the New Covenant, uh, and B, if you believe everything in the Old Testament, I guess, um, thanks to Leviticus 20:10 commanding you to stone adulterers to death, I, I guess you're heading over to Mar a Lago to settle in with Mr. Trump, right? These people hide. They Use the Bible as camouflage. And it's up to all of us to take their goddamn camouflage away.
Their goddamn biblical camouflage. Well done.
They want to fight for anything Jesus talked about. I mean, we've talked about this. I've bored your listeners so many times with the crap Jesus actually commands, but he, Matthew 25, he gives four things that a society will be judged by and individuals. How they took care of the poor, how they took care of the sick, how they took care of those in prison, and how they welcomed the stranger. Jesus says these four things determine whether you go to hell or not. Not how you fought for fetuses, not how you were mean to migrants, not how much money you gave to your church, not how much you went to school board meetings and persecuted people because your religion deserves power. The sick, the poor, the immigrant, the prisoner. That's all Jesus cares about. And you again, we have to throw this in their face every day. Don't let them pretend that they have any kind of piety in this situation.
Yeah, and speaking of other teachings of, of Christ, when he, you know, I'm pretty sure he doesn't really like people who hoard wealth. Something about the needle and the camel. I mean, many, many things, uh, we could, we could touch on. Oh, yeah, that, um, you know, when Biden talked about the tech industrial complex and lies being drowned out by the truth, we've got that in all one big giant package. We've got Jeff Bezos killed the Washington Post, Zuckerberg killing Meta, uh, Musk killing Twitter, and this quote, uh, unquote, holy triumvirate of adulterers are going to be sitting on the dais. Yeah, maybe on Trump's lap, maybe on each other's laps. I don't know. Uh, but I, um, think that that's.
It's what they'll be, and it's what they'll be remembered for. And let's not forget Donald Trump threatened and tried to hurt two of those men. So I don't even think it's fair to call them fascists. I don't think it's fair to call them, uh, Trump a fascist either. Trump's agenda is fascist, but clear that they're oligarchs. That's it. That's their ideology. They belong in Russia. That's what Russia is now. It's just a bunch of rich, evil rat bastards. The Hutts control Tatooine, and so they have no ideology. I mean, Donald Trump was calling Zuckerberg Zuckerbucks, which, uh, you don't really do. To our Jewish friends. And he tried literally to use government to hurt a private business. Amazon to hurt. I mean he literally tried to hurt these two men. They hate him. And I'm sure Musk doesn't respect him at all. Musk knows what an ID is. They're all using each other. And to what end? Uh, what do we say about a society that allows billionaires and poverty to coexist at the same time? Every single person who's lost a home in northern. In California, Elon Musk could buy them all a new mansion and he would still have over $200 billion to his name. Like, these people will be remembered for exactly what they are. I don't see hospitals with Jeff Bezos's name on them. I don't see free clinics or summer camps for poor kids with Zuckerberg's name on them. These guys are addicts. They are addicted to power and wealth. They are not good men. And it's interesting, I saw you're, you're backing away from uh, from Threads over there now that Mark Zuckerberg is licking the boot.
Oh yeah, I'm actually creating, uh, working real hard with my bestie to create our own social media platform for all of our Daily beans patrons to come and other discussions on. Because currently our private Facebook group is a Facebook group. It's on Meta. And so uh, we're, we're going to start peeling away from that and give everybody a place to go so that they don't have to remain there if they don't. If they don't want to.
That's great. I mean, but again, you know, like Jesus says to pay your taxes in, in Matthew 22. Like, um, you know, Jesus's brother James. You want to see someone really hating the rich? Read the book of James sometime. God has a totally woke take on poverty. If you believe the Bible. In Deuteronomy, God demands consistent help for the poor. In Leviticus 19, God commands landowners to always leave a portion of their harvest for the. The poor. Proverbs leaves no wiggle room. Uh, and, and this is Jesus's favorite issue. Talking about poverty is like Jesus is Leila. In all of his live gigs. He, he specifically blesses the poor, the Beatitudes. He commands his followers to care for the poor in Matthew. So again, you don't have to do any of these things. But none of these rat bastards get to pretend they're Christian.
He's a Lea. If, if he was a one hit wonder, that was it.
That was lea. Oh, he's doing the Poor again. I know that. I can go get my T shirt. I know this one.
What did, uh. I think it was David Spade a long time ago, said, God, what if, uh. What if they opened with Freebird?
I mean, you know, I mean, Jesus drove the capitalists out of the temple, and. And he never healed the blind and asked him to play a. Pay a monthly premium. I'm not against wealth. I'm against wealth with no appreciation of its own privilege. You know what I mean? Bobby Kennedy Sr. Was a millionaire at birth who got a huge jolt of empathy in his life and devoted himself to the less fortunate. That sort of thing is really interesting to me. Billionaires who use their money, I mean, go to Mars. Go to fucking Mars. Like, that's what he cares about. It's all about himself. Uh, it's all about power. They don't care about helping those who are here right now, which is how, you know, they don't give a shit about America any more than Trump does.
Oh, no, but they'll always say that those who aren't from here that are coming in or taking our resources, but when we try to give those resources to the poor here, they tell us to go ourselves.
Exactly right.
It's not. It's. It's clearly not about that. Um, and you and I could probably talk for hours on this, and we're preaching to the choir, but.
I know, I know agreeing with each other is entertainment death. I know.
I wanted to talk. I wanted to talk about that mlk, um, special that you're going to do Monday. Some great counter programming. I hope everybody keeps their televisions off. And if, you know, if you. If you get a chance, you have to listen to Tell Me everything on Sirius XM. It's 9pm Eastern, 6pm Pacific on channel 127. Progress or the John Fugelsang Show Podcast. Any final thoughts?
Yes, if I may, uh, whore myself just a little bit here. And. And by the way, I want to apologize to all sex workers for the amount of times I'll be using the word whores to describe this cabinet for the next couple of years. Um, you know, this cabinet is, uh, really linked, Alison, by, uh, by three things uh, they all have in common. Deviancy, uh, extremism, and inexperience. Or as I call it, uh, dei. That's the Cabinet. But, um, we are doing one last sexy liberal show on the Save the World Tour, which we were so lucky to have you join us and class up our stage. We're doing one final show this weekend, Saturday night. At the Warner theater in Washington, D.C. and it's going to be a riot. Uh, our special guests include Congressman Jamie Raskin, who will be joining us on stage, as well as George, uh, Conway, uh, Olivia [Troye Troy. Officer Harry Dunn is going to be with there with us as well. It's going to be a real party, and if you can't make it, you can see it on the pay per view. We're going to live stream it. It's going to be the first great comedy party of whatever the new resistance is. And that's at Meathook, uh, Live M E E T Hook Live. Or go to sexy liberal.com for all the information. Let's have some laughs this weekend. Let's get ready to be the same people in the room. We're all going to have to be the hot chick at the bar, ignoring the racist douchebags at the other end of the bar for the next few years and, uh, doing our own thing, resisting. And we'll be fighting for the same things we'd be fighting for if there was a Democratic president, but we're not going to do it with our hair on fire.
All right, well, I appreciate it. Right. Don't let them see you sweat, as.
You said you are.
Thank you, my friend. Appreciate you.
And can I say one more thing? I just want to say what a relief it is that Donald Trump thinks it's totally cool for all of us to fly our flags at full mast when he dies. So I'm going to be selling extra high masts, uh, when Donald Trump passes away. So look, for that, I got a really good deal for you. Nixon lowered the flag for his inaugural because Harry Truman had died. Nixon is classier and has more grace and confidence than Donald Trump.
If I attach a mast to the top of my mast and fly, I love full mast. If I possibly can.
Yes. Extra high flags for sale.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, my friend. Everybody, stick around. We'll be right back for the good news. Everybody, welcome back. It's time for the good news, everyone. Then good news, everyone. Good news. And if you have any good news confessions, corrections. You want to play what the mutt? Find the cat opine on the bovine. What the heck? Wine. What the hell's in that shell? What's the model of your axolotl? Any animal guessing game or just, you know, hand in a picture of your pet? Uh, that works, too. If you don't have any of that, you can send an adoptable pet in your area to pay your tax. And if you don't have that. We're doing bird watching right now. So if you have a photo of you or your loved ones or family members flipping off Trump properties, send in your bird watching photos as well. Also, you can send in a shout out whether it's a to your loved one, um, spouse, kid, family member, somebody. M doing great activism in your community. Maybe a community group you want everybody to be aware of because we're really going to need to support ourselves in our local communities in the next four years. Send that in. Also small businesses or your small business and government programs that have helped you Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act, SNAP, WIC, Head Start, Section 8, anything great VA health care that you've received, we, um, would love to hear about that. And including student debt forgiveness. We know President, uh, Biden just signed off on another 150,000 people, uh, erasing their student debt forever. So send that all to us@dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. First up from Jay in West Virginia. Pronouns he and him Danang thank you for reminding people not to be too judgy about those who use Twitter for different purposes. It reminds me of a situation I encountered a couple years ago. An elderly gay man was buying yarn at Hobby Lobby because he could not drive and the only craft store in his town was Hobby Lobby. The bus took him there every few weeks. Oh, uh, he asked in a local Facebook group if anybody knew whether a certain brand of Hobby Lobby yarn had been discontinued because he couldn't find it anymore. And instead of answering the question about the yarn, multiple people started yelling at him in all caps, telling them he supported anti gay bigots and should be ashamed to shop at Hobby Lobby. I happen to know this man from a local painting class and I know that it was a miracle he could even figure out how to post on Facebook at the age of 84, much less whether he could parse all the intricacies of online shopping. Literally. Imagine Joe Biden posting that kind of question he had. All of these strangers were yelling and telling him what a bad person he was. I went to another Hobby Lobby and bought him $74 worth of yarn. Oh, because that's all they had in the store that day. When I took it to him, he said the replies made him feel terrible. People do need to use perspective and remember that we're all human beings and you never really know the full situation that others are dealing with. So I appreciate you all mentioning this so clearly. Thank you.
Absolutely. You know, Ag and the reason I brought this Up. And I really love the submission. I had posted something on Blue sky, joking about, you know, posting something on Twitter and then having a shower. And I think it was one of our beans listeners that was like, do better, Dana. And I'm like, I still have 95,000 followers on Twitter that didn't go somewhere else. If they're listening to what I have to say, I'm still going to talk to them there. Like, it was just one of those things that it was the way they. The, uh, way I felt attacked. Is this. The submission is such a good example of, like, you don't understand a lot of the increases of, like, what Allison and I do, where we reach our people, how effective it is that we are still on there instead of just them having an echo chamber of fascism and hate. But Jay, this is such a great submission because it's actually makes me even reflect because I probably have said to someone, I don't think I've said, that they're a hateful bigot for shopping at Hobby Lobby. But you know, when my friends are like, we're going to Chick Fil A, I'm like, don't do it. You know, that sort of thing. But you know what? People have reasons and I trust their judgment. And I love what you did for this stranger. I love what you did for this stranger, Jay. Actually a friend of yours. Uh, uh, you probably weren't strangers you.
Met in a painting class. Yeah. And you, you know, you remind me of something too, when I get a lot of that. Do better. Yeah, um, that. Stop it. Um, please. You know, if you want someone to do better, first of all, you don't do it in a public forum with a condescending command like that. Um, I know I have been guilty of this on social media, and I put a big mea culpa thread together saying, I'm going to try to do better, but to just tell someone they have to do better kind of assumes that they're awful. And, you know, I think we need to bring a little nuance back. The reason, if you're new to the beans, the reason that, um, on the corrections piece of our website, if you need to submit a correction, there are three fields. You have to have a compliment and then the correction and then another compliment. The reason that that's there is because that's how we should talk to people if we're trying to encourage them to actually do better instead of performatively publicly trying to win signaling points by.
And it's so disrespectful. To people that they supposedly support. Allison, you were a veteran. You've gone through hell in your life. You have tried your best to save democracy. You've literally written a letter that implemented abortion access in the military. I stand on stage. I raised over $60 million for nonprofits around the country. I try and do good things in this world. And because one of us posted on Twitter, suddenly we're gonna get do better.
Right? Like you do better.
What did you do today?
Anyway? Uh, and that's one reason that I love this community so much, is, first of all, there. You guys are so constructive in your feedback. Second of all, you have posts like Jay here. Um, and third of all, you actually all are just truly incredible, amazing people who don't need to do better. You're already doing so much. So thank you.
If you woke up and you're listening to this and you voted, you're doing. You're doing. You're doing pretty damn good. Jesus. All right. This one's from Isaac. Pronouns, he and him. Good news. My parents are in their late 50s and have been going through some medical. Medical issues. My father changed careers. He's making less than he used to, and my mother's currently unemployed. They're both on Medicaid and have been able to access their medications and make medically necessary doctor's appointments. I don't know how they'd be able to afford medical care without having access to free insurance. I hope this wonderful program stays in place and doesn't get cut from the budget. Pet pictures. My cat Mary is sitting with her tongue out in front of a bag of caramel corn. Enjoy. Oh, my God, that's a fantastic picture. And I would probably look the same with less fur.
How much corn did she eat? Isaac, I love this. And thank you for that. Yeah, uh, my mom gets free rides to her medical appointments using that program, so appreciate you writing in. Thank you. Good shout out to a government program. Next up, Jeffrey V. He and him. I started listening to the Daily Beans In August of 2022, when Pete struck was guest hosting. I was recently let go from a contract gig and trying to find employment. The previous November, I'd been let go from a job with a large media company that I loved for eight years. The last two. Unfortunately, in a toxic work environment, I was not in a good place, uh, at that point. But after seeing many of your posts on Twitter, I finally tuned into the Daily Beans, and boy, was it like a warm blast of cleansing fucking clarity.
Nice.
That was sorely lacking from my normal newsfeed. I love the honesty and swearing. Uh, to be frank, it's what really sold me and it helped realize, uh, I wasn't crazy and that I could rebound from a dark spot. I went on to secure a new contract gig within a month and got a full time job in my field by Thanksgiving that year. After changing my perspective and stepping into the light, I like to think that finding your podcast was one positive piece of that turnaround and why I became a member by October 2022. The daily beans and eventually clean up on L45. I listen to your podcast first thing in my morning and applaud everything you do. Sharing my 11 year old pal, Kipper. Let me know if you can guess his breeds a Jeffrey.
Oh, he looks like a mong poodle.
I know. He looks like a dachshund Maltese poodle.
Oh, my God, he's cute.
He's adorable. Let's, uh, see what we got. Havanese with a little poodle. How do you get so long?
I don't know.
He's a long boy. Uh, anyway, Jeffrey, thank you so much for all those kind words. I love the way you put that. And if it's okay with you, I would love to steal some of these phrases, like a warm blast of cleansing clarity. Uh, if I can steal those and put them out on social media, please let me know. Um, by the way, everybody, if you love this show, you know, you can rate it over on, uh, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcast. Give us a rating if you have a minute. It super helps.
Love that. All right, this next one's from Susie Pronoun. She and her I want to shout out. Okay, this is awkward. Let me tell you how wonderful I am, people. I wanted to shout out Dana for being an amazing human. Yes, you, Dana Goldberg. Allison, are you sure you don't want to take this?
Nope. You're reading it.
All right. I guess it's good for people to read good things about themselves.
It's a self shout out. But you, Dana Goldberg, from Susie.
There are so many reasons to shout you out. Your kindness, your fundraising, your humor. Go on. But selfishly, I'm making it all about me. Okay, good. Let me explain. I send sporadic and random messages to Dana on Instagram, and she always responds, which is so incredibly kind.
That's why this is to you and not me, because I don't get to always respond.
I don't always either. It's just that, uh, Susie, for some reason, and I. I do believe this is my friend across the pond In Scotland. She's just been so kind. She was checking on me during the fires and I don't get, uh. I don't always get to see the messages because when you message on Instagram, it goes into a bulk folder that's almost spammy. And so I have to sift through all of these made up 18 year old accounts of people with their tits. And we want you to join our threesome. And I'm like, okay, just trying to find the good people here. So Susie happened to catch my eye and she's just been very kind and so I try and respond to people as much as I can. So if you've ever written me on Instagram and I haven't responded, it's because I haven't seen it. Probably. Okay, back to me. I never assume I'll get a response as you are very busy. So when I do, it really makes me feel great. Good. My work here is done. I appreciate it so much. Although, no pressure. Good. Thank you for taking that off me. And I wasn't. I wanted to acknowledge it publicly as possible. I love you both amazing ladies. Susie, thank you so much for the shout out. It makes me feel good. It makes me feel like I'm not screaming into a void. Oh, and a quick misheard song lyric. This is from the Bee Gees, Night Fever. Susie hears I got hair in my mouth and I'm higher in the morning.
I love that our producer put a note in here that says, I can't figure out which lyric she's talking about.
Right now and I don't know this song. Ag, you're a wealth of this information and any, any guess.
I've got hair in my mouth and I'm higher in the morning. Uh, uh, uh. Is that it? Is that what you're talking about? I'm just doing that off the top of my head.
Okay. If you're right, and I don't think those are the right lyrics, but if you're right, I'm impressed.
Well, I'm singing her lyrics.
Yeah. Uh, well, you did. I mean, if you got the tune right. All right, we're going to keep on moving because this podcast needs to be less than 3 hours. Also, I highly recommend Peter K. UK comedian who has hilarious misheard lyrics. Podpet tax is Willow aged around 15, sleeping on her pod bed. The roof isn't attached. I heat up wheat packs and put them in her bed for her. She's toasty. The other picks are Locke. Okay. Loch Lobnay. I know this is, uh, from someone from Scotland. So Loch Lanaig on my paddleboard. I'm gonna go with that. AKA my happy place. In fact, I'm getting a tattoo of one on Thursday. First tattoo at 49 and a half years old and with my friend's dog, Loki, who is one of my many neff dogs. Now, Susie, let me tell you, I actually got my first tattoo of 47, and it took me a long time to figure out what I wanted, and it's the best decision I've ever made on my body. So I'm glad you found something that moves you. Thank you so much again for the shout out. This paddle board looks amazing. And the dog, a little picture of you and your dog at the end.
Nice to meet you, Susie. Uh, and yeah, I'm sorry if I don't respond to.
Oh, trust me, I know. There's people that I haven't responded to either. But I'm telling you, a lot of the times, AG and I can't see them and we don't even know they're there. No.
And every once in a while, a message will boil up to the top that says, I'm unfollowing you for ignoring me. And I'm like, oh, my God.
Okay, yeah, we get that too. And again, people, perspective. Maybe a little perspective.
Next up from Paul. S he him. Hi, Beans. Ladies. My chemical engineering dissertation at UC Berkeley was entitled. Okay, so. Okay, if you're a new listener. I haven't been saying this at the beginning of the top, but I used to ask for dissertation titles because they're fascinating and ridiculous.
Very much so.
Uh, hello, Beans. Ladies. My chemical engineering dissertation, UC Berkeley, was entitled Cyclic Voltammetry at a Rotating Disk, Electro Reduction of Nitrate in Acidic Nickel Solutions and Frequency Response Analysis of Porous Electrodes. I retired from engineering and now I paint.
Nice.
What would your painting dissertation be called, Paul?
Seriously?
I'm sharing a copy of a recent piece, When Flags Cry, in honor of the release of Jack Smith's report.
Oh, wow.
The painting hung in Watercolor Art Society Houston's gallery for a month. It didn't sell, but I'm told it pissed someone off. Excellent. A photo of this piece is pinned to my Blue sky. Feed will link to Paul's Blue sky, which is Paul 77006 Bisky Social. I'm also sharing a photo of one of the twins, Carly, or Hope to satisfy the pet tax requirement. Paul, you. You said that pod pet tax statement like an engineer.
Thank you.
That's a hell of a dissertation. Cyclic voltammetry. A rotating disc electron nitrate Something about a solution and discs. Something, uh, about the volts on a rotating disc in a solution. Uh, yeah, you got me. Um, sounds fascinating though. But that, look at that, um, painting is incredible.
It's very cool. Yeah. Beautiful picture of that kitty.
Okay, and then we have a link to Night Fever in case you're trying to figure out what lyric.
Yeah, I guess we, if we look through that, we could have listened to.
It and maybe Susie can send, uh, you a DM about which lyric she's talking about.
Susie, just record a little, uh, audio. We'll send it into the podcast.
Thank you so much everybody.
Seemed like you got a good sense of humor. Let's roll.
Absolutely. Everybody in Scotland does. Most people, I'm sure I say that because I'm sure people in Scotland know somebody who doesn't have a good sense of humor. And I didn't want to, like, belittle that. Anyway, man, I'm so, I'm so used to like, trying to avoid emails. What do you mean everybody's got a good sense of humor? We have this one Nazi who lives down the street. How dare you. You know, I inevitably expect those emails and replies. But thank you all so much for your, uh, for your good news submissions. Please send them to us dailybeanspod.com click on Contact. If you've been thinking about becoming a patron, we're about to launch a new social media platform. We could really use your help.
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Oh, no, don't say it like that. I guess I do. Everyone, take care of yourself on Monday. I know that you'll have a, uh, Daily Beans in your ears, but, but you're not going to hear anything about the, the inauguration, so I'll tell you and remind you this again, but do something really enjoyable that day. Plan it this weekend. Make sure you can execute it, even if it's something little. Read a book, make a bath, have a glass of wine or some juice if you're juicing cookies. You know what I'm talking about, people. Um, and just take care of yourself. Just take care of yourself.
Yeah, pick up your hobby on Monday. And that's right. Spend some time, Take care of each other. Send a nice note to your friends. Check in on your people. Yeah. On your peeps.
Plan dinner with everybody. Just put little, little, little thing, little things, little.
Send me a happy birthday message. We can do that. And tag Mark Hamill so that he'll make sure to send me a cake, um, on, you know, a virtual cake on social media. All right, everybody, um, thank you so much. And we'll be back in your ears on Monday, January 20th, my birthday. Please listen, that, uh, day, I know everyone's doing a media blackout, but again, like Dana said, we're not going to talk about the inauguration. We're just going to give you the important news, good news and some good trouble. So we appreciate you. Uh, and until then, please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health, and take care of your family. I've been AG and I've been dg and them's the Beans. The Daily Beans is written and executive produced by Allison Gill with additional research and reporting by Dana Goldberg. Sound design and editing is by Desiree McFarlane with art and web design by Joelle Reader with Moxie Design Studios. Music for the Daily Beans is written and performed by they Might Be Giants and the show is a proud member of the MSW Media Media Network, a collection of creator owned podcasts dedicated to news, politics and justice. For more information, Please visit msw media.com msw media.