Friday, May 1st, 2026 Today, Republicans cave and pass a bill funding DHS without ICE and CBP; Louisiana has suspended its House primary elections saying the Supreme Court said their map isn’t racist enough; Kegseth got caught lying to Congress - but don’t worry i’m sure nothing will happen; an appeals court has refused to re-hear the $83.3M E. Jean Carroll verdict; Trump’s illegal war of choice in Iran turns 60 days old today and we’ll talk about why that’s important; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Today, Republicans cave and pass a bill funding DHS without ICE and CBP; Louisiana has suspended its House primary elections saying the Supreme Court said their map isn’t racist enough; Kegseth got caught lying to Congress - but don’t worry i’m sure nothing will happen; an appeals court has refused to re-hear the $83.3M E. Jean Carroll verdict; Trump’s illegal war of choice in Iran turns 60 days old today and we’ll talk about why that’s important; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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msw media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Friday, May 1, 2026. Today, Republicans cave in and they pass a bill to fund DHS without ice and Customs and Border Protection. Louisiana has suspended its House primary elections, saying the Supreme Court said they have to because their map isn't racist enough. I guess Peg Seth got caught lying to Congress. But don't worry, I'm sure nothing will happen. An appeals court has refused to rehear the $83.3 million E. Jean Carol verdict. And Trump's illegal war of choice In Iran turns 60 days old today. And we'll talk about why that's important. I'm Alison Gill.
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
Rabbit. Rabbit. Happy May Day, my friend.
Happy M. May Day to you. Economic blackout day.
It is. And it's gonna be May.
It's gonna be May.
It's good. Economic blackout day. So you'll be getting this episode ad free, everybody. That's the way we are participating. We're not gonna make a dime, we're not gonna spend a dime. We're not gonna do anything today. That's us doing our part. And thanks to all of y' all who are doing your part, whatever it is you. No work, no school, no shopping. Economic blackout today. So thank you for all of the stuff that you have gotten creative about and that you're doing.
I know. And so many people. I mean, we've had people write in and say even their law firms are like, no, we will not be in today. And this is why.
Yeah, it's very cool. some of the very creative out of office messages folks I know turned on as well. Also, it's, you know, Friday on the Daily Beans, which means John Fugelsang will be here later for Fuglsang Fridays. And get this, Dana. Republicans had to hoodwink other Republicans in the House so that they could cave and lose the DHS funding battle to the Democrats.
Gotta love it.
The Democrats said, we will not fund ICE and Customs and Border Protection, and they didn't back down.
It's true. That's exactly what happened. It was a dispute among Republicans that has kept the department shuttered for nearly a month. And the GOP had to bypass its own right flank to. To push through the bill. Conservatives actually refused to vote for it, keeping the DHS shut down. Now, Johnson was forced. I love when Johnson gets forced to resort to a maneuver that sped it to the floor, limiting debate and requiring a 2/3 super majority for passage.
So the Democrats, he needed to get like they had to hoodwink the Freedom Caucus. I think it's fantastic. I think that's so fantastic.
It's the Freedom Caucus. Who belongs to that now? Is it just Bobert and. And by herself?
No, it's a bunch of. There's a bunch of conservative warhawks there.
Got it. Oh, okay.
You know, hockey dudes over there that love, ice. Yeah, Love cbp. Chip Roy, for example, was really mad about this. He. He wanted to refuse. He wanted to not pay TSA workers unless they could fully fund ICE to kill Americans, I guess.
Yeah, it's exactly probably what it was.
And to kidnap our neighbors and deport them to third party countries.
Yeah.
So, yeah, that's. It's the, it's that group of Republicans. So them. I'm super proud of the Democrats for not caving.
Me, too. Hold your ground.
Credit where credit is due. All right, everybody, we got a lot of news to get to. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from cbs, Trump faces a key deadline kind of in the war with Iran today under a decades old law that limits the use of force without authorization from Congress. It's called the War Powers resolution Act of 1973. It lays out a timeline for when lawmakers must be notified of hostilities and when a president's required to withdraw American forces from a conflict in the absence of congressional authorization under the law, the President is required to give formal notification to Congress within 48 hours of introducing American forces into hostilities, which officially begins a 60 day clock for the president to terminate the use of force unless Congress has declared war or authorized the use of military force. The Iran war began February 28th. Mr. Trump formally informed congressional leaders of the hostilities in a March 2 letter starting the 60 day clock that expires today. The law allows the President to extend the period for an additional 30 days to safely withdraw the forces from hostilities, but it does not grant him authority to continue an offensive campaign. Quote, it's not a 30 day blank check for the President to continue whatever hostilities he sees fit. That's David Janofsky, who leads the Constitution Project and the Project on Government Oversight. Friday's deadline could set up a clash between Republicans in Congress who've largely been reluctant to break with Trump on the war, which, has extended beyond the four to five weeks he initially predicted without a firm resolution. The fighting has been mostly paused since the US and Iran agreed to a ceasefire on April 8 to allow for talks on a broader settlement. I'm going to say that I don't think that the US and Iran agreed. I think Iran and Pakistan agreed and
the US and then US Butted in. Yeah, us too. We're in, on this.
We, as a ceasefire. Ceasefire. Our idea. Our idea.
No take backs. No take backs.
Oh, man. Since the start of the war, Republicans in the House and the Senate have blocked more than half a dozen Democratic war powers resolutions that would limit Trump's ability to further strike Iran. Some Republican members have indicated that their stance could change. They've been using the 60 day thing as a, as an excuse of why they've been blocking the War Powers resolution. So while I don't think that this 60 day thing is going to do anything, it might hold some Republicans in Congress accountable to their excuse that they don't want to sign or, you know, vote on a war powers resolution until after the 60 day deadline. So it does kind of put them on the hook. John Curtis of Utah said he wouldn't support ongoing military action beyond 60 day window without Congressional approval. We'll see if John Curtis chickens out. Josh Hawley says the statute does need to be followed and he hoped that the war would conclude by the 60 day deadline. Majority Leader John Th said the administration needs a plan for how to wind this down. Yeah, you think you're the fucking Senate Majority leader? Grow a goddamn spine. Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is drafting a formal authorization for the use of military force in Iran, but has yet to introduce the legislation because she tries to get elected again.
Oh, man.
Whether there's enough support to pass such a measure is uncertain. Now, Democrats in both chambers have introduced a slew of war powers resolutions in recent weeks as well. They plan to keep forcing votes on the issue, putting Republicans on the spot and putting them on the record. Pete Hegseth in his testimony in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday, expressed doubts that the 60 day window was actually closing today. He said, we're in a ceasefire right now, which in our understanding means the 60 day clock pauses or stops during a ceasefire. That's not in the War Powers Resolution Act. But a lot of presidents have used this in the past.
Okay.
And it's also kind of like, you know, the speedy trial clock, you know, when you, that whole time that Donald Trump, you know, was indicted for, you know, hoarding classified documents and lying about it and trying to cover it up and trying to flood a server room to destroy video evidence. Jack Smith wanted a speedy trial. He said, right to speedy trial isn't just the right of the defendant, it's the right of the Public to get speedy justice. And so every time Eileen Cannon paused the speedy trial clock, this is kind of what this reminds me of. Pete Hegsth's like, well, we have a ceasefire right now. Do you. Do you really? No.
Just because you say it doesn't mean it's true.
Well, we, we said we had one. Okay. And then that just pauses the clock. But they're thinking about bombing again. Does that start the clock again? Or did you say cease fire? So it doesn't count. But here's the thing. The war Powers resolution has been really ineffective since it was enacted in 1973. In 2011, Obama extended it in the campaign in Libya. 1999, Bill Clinton extended it. And it's really easy for. It was so easy for the Trump administration to get their office of legal counsel to whip up a memo saying ceasefire time doesn't count. But none of it matters. Trump is an expert at breaking the law and getting away with it. So I think it's just interesting that anyone's. I mean, really the only consideration here in my mind is that you're gonna have to hold some people who can have to be elected again, meaning people in Congress, Republicans in Congress. You're gonna have to hold em to their word that they wouldn't let this go past 60 days.
Absolutely. And, speaking of this war, Hegseth lied to Congress yesterday. We know he did, but the headline, of course, from the New York Times says, and I quote, hegseth cites falsehood. Just say he lied.
Cites falsehood. How hard, how hard are you trying to not have to say the word?
You would literally save ink if you said Hegseth lied. Literally. You would have more words to play with in your story. Secretary of Defense Pete Kegseth on Wednesday defended his decision to fire or Sideline nearly 30 Generals and Admirals over the past year with little explanation. By falsely comparing, which is also lying about his record to that of President Barack Obama, he said, I would also note that under Barack Obama, 197 general officers were removed. That's what Kegseth said in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee and said. So this is not something specific to this administration. The number that Kegseth gave has no basis in fact. It originated in an unsigned 2018 editorial in Investors Business Daily, which cites the right wing news site Breitbarts.com Facebook page as the fucking source. Breitbarts Facebook page Yeah, my best friend's girlfriend, Saul Ferris pass out at 31 flavors. So I guess it's pretty serious.
I guess it's pretty. Thank you, Simone.
Mr. Hegg says actions to buyers senior military leaders are without precedent in recent decades and have come with little explanation. On Wednesday, lawmakers pressed him to justify his decisions, including his move this month to remove general Randy George, which is the army chief of staff.
That's the dude who went to army school with. Yes. The lead singer of tool, Maynard Keenan.
He said, secretary Kegseth, I respect you. I'm sorry, I should probably use his name. If this is a direct quote from someone. Secretary Hegseth, I respect you. This is from representative Austin Scott, Republican of Georgia. Oh, I said someone we respect. I'm sorry. I do want you to know I disagree with the firing of General George. A clock is right twice if it's broken. Okay? Representative Chrissy Hallahan, an air Force veteran and Pennsylvania Democrat, described General George as a patriot and someone whom Republicans and Democrats have huge admiration for. She asked, why did he get fired? And I quote, and this is Mr. Pete, out of respect for these officers, we never talk about the nature of their removal. However, I will note it's very difficult to change the culture of a department that has been destroyed by the wrong perspectives with the same officers that were there.
You do a really good Colin Jost doing Hegzet.
Thank you very much.
I like. I do a very good Will Ferrell doing Harry Carey, but like, not actually
in November. Sean Parnell, the Pentagon's chief spokesman, cited that 197 figure in to the New York Times related to an earlier firing by Mr. Hegseth. The news outlets, and I quote, pedal Democrat talking points have clearly forgotten that 197 officers, including Flag officers, were fired during the Obama administration. That's what the statement said. Now, when challenged, on the figures of origins, Kingsley Wilson, who is the press secretary for the Pentagon, asked the Times not to publish the statement. Ms. Wilson then sent a new statement which did not include that 197 figure.
Kingsley, that sounds like an admission.
I believe so. Kingsley, was that an admission? The Pentagon did not reply to request on Wednesday for comments regarding Kegseth use of the false numbers.
The lie. Come on. Kegseth. Hegseth cites falsehoods. News at 11. that's why you listen to the daily beans though, right? Because you, kind of.
That's right. Give you a little comedy with all the.
All right, next up from NBC, Louisiana is this is bonkers. It's delaying its House primaries that were scheduled for May 16 and early voting actually starts tomorrow. Or yeah, it does tomorrow to give state lawmakers time to redraw congressional maps after the Supreme Court struck down the current district lines in a decision with far reaching consequences for control of Congress in 2026. And Bey, Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy, because I should be clear here, it was the Louisiana maps case that went up to the Supreme Court, correct? Right. So this is why Landry is like, well, we gotta cancel our elections because the Supreme Court didn't say not for this midterms. It's too late right now.
Right.
So they didn't give him, they didn't really instruct him to do this. He's doing it, if that makes sense. Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry announced Thursday that while the U.S. house primaries would be suspended, all other races, including the state's hotly contested Senate primary, will continue as scheduled. NBC News reported earlier Thursday that governor Jeff Landry, no relation to his secretary of state, had planned to delay the House races in light of Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling. Absentee voting for the May 16 primary is already underway. It's already underway in Louisiana and early voting had been set to start this weekend for all races. The last minute moves means the House races will still be on voters ballots, but any votes in those elections won't count. So they get to see how these folks would have done.
Oh, wow, it's fucked up.
Now the move to halt voting for the House primaries could face legal scrutiny. Yeah, yeah. But Republicans are confident they'll be able to press pause on the process because of the Supreme Court's ruling directly labeling Louisiana's congressional lines an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican in Louisiana, told Porters Thursday that the governor has no choice but to suspend the May 16 primary. Right. Because the courts just ruled our map unconstitutional. Now in response, Republican lawmakers are set to draw lines eliminating at least one of the two Democratic held districts. They're going to. Yeah, so they said. They said it's a racial gerrymander. So they're taking away a black district.
That's exactly it.
Because it's racist toward white people. That's how alito interpreted the 15th amendment. Yep. Oh, it just makes my blood boil. So they're gonna get rid of one of the two Democratic held districts, starting with the one currently held by Rep. Cleo Fields, whose district is at the center of the court challenge. The only other Democrat in the delegation is Troy Carter, who represents much of New Orleans and communities to its west. Louisiana's move is just the beginning of the fallout from the Supreme Court's ruling, which severely limited provisions of The Voting Rights act, which had been used to guarantee the creation of majority minority districts in states with significant populations of vot voters of color, allowing those voters to elect candidates of their choice. This is going to whitewash, literally Congress. Yeah. Now, while the law had previously been construed to allow for the consideration of voters race while drawing districts, Alito wrote in his majority that allowing race to play any part in government decision making represents a departure from the constitutional rule that applies in almost every other context. In the short term, that ruling would allow a handful of Republican controlled states to redraw lines to give their party a boost in the battle for control of Congress. But the the full political impact of the decision likely won't be felt until 2028 when states have a full election cycle to take action. Democrats are warning that could dramatically reduce or possibly eliminate seats currently held by black Democrats in the South. On Thursday, Trump posted on Truth Social thanking Landry for moving so quickly on Louisiana's maps. The new Supreme Court decision has collided with Trump backed efforts to redraw maps in numerous states ahead of the 2026 election as his party seeks an advantage in the midterms. Now, Trump also posted that Tennessee Governor Bill Lee told him he would work hard to put a new congressional map in place in Tennessee, which currently has one Democratic district based in Memphis. That's the thing I was talking about, to a friend earlier, Dana. They're threatening to go make all these changes in red states where red governors are, but they've already gerrymandered the shit out of their states. So they're only gonna be able to, like in Tennessee, get rid of one Democratic seat. Do you know what I'm saying?
I do know what you're saying. And I'm hoping, and I talked about this on Stephanie Miller, that the people that are getting disenfranchised are going to be pissed. And I'm hoping there's enough people out there that are independents that are like, fuck you for this. And these statewide races, you're going to give us an easier path to a very hard path to the Senate.
Yes. In statewide races, you're, you're just pissing off so many voters. Now in Louisiana Senate primary, Republican Senator Bill Cassidy is fighting for his political career against a crowded field that includes Rep. Julia Letlow, who has Trump's endorsement over Cassidy.
Interesting.
Now, the top two Republicans would move on to a runoff if no one wins the majority. So they're keeping it on the ballot. They're going to get to see how they would have voted. They're postponing, actually. It's just suspended. We don't know when it'll U.S. house primary will actually happen. But now it's going to be a weird special election with super low turnout. Probably.
Yeah.
I mean, but you also have a lot of really pissed off voters.
Yeah, you do. I think there's going to be way more than they expect. I do have a little bit of good news from NBC. A federal appeals court Wednesday shot down Trump's request to rehear his appeal of that $83 million defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll.
Oh, I love this for him.
I know. In a split boat, a majority of the 12 member 2nd U.S. circuit Court of Appeals denied Trump's motion for a hearing by the full bench of judges or an en banc hearing. The decision opens the way for Trump to ask the Supreme Court to hear his argument of presidential immunity. He did not do these things while he was president. Okay. Now federal and. And he has said things about her that were not true when he was not president. Now, a federal jury decided in 2024 that Trump defamed Carol when he disputed her accusations that he sexually abused her in a dressing room in the 1990s. A ah, three judge panel, the Second Circuit first rejected an appeal from Trump based on presidential immunity in September. In his second appeal, Trump's lawyer sought to replace the defendant with the United States and make another claim of presidential immunity, which the appeals court dismissed on Wednesday. So this is twice now, and I quote, the fact of the matter is that no other defendant would be permitted to move to substitute the United States in his place 15 months after trial and the entry of judgment against him.
Him.
This is Judge Denny Chin. That's who he wrote in a 34 page statement supporting the court's decision. And I quote, the court appropriately declined to convene en banc to revisit this issue. Trump's legal team said in a statement that it would appeal the decision, calling it liberal law fair. Uh-huh. The attorney, the incredible Roberta Kaplan, Robbie Kaplan, celebrated the court's denial of an en banc hearing in a statement and said, E. Jean Carroll is eager for this case, originally filed in 2019, to be over so that she can finally obtain justice. The minority argued in favor of hearing Trump's challenges for a second time, writing that the case represents a significant legal development.
It doesn't.
I know, and I quote, I would rehear the case on bonk to bring our case law about the scope of presidential duties and immunity into conformity with decisions of the Supreme Court and to resolve these questions of exceptional importance in line with the constitutional separation of power, powers and normal judicial practice. That was Judge Stephen Minashi wrote in a 54 page dissenting opinion. Good Lord. One I know.
Long winded crybaby. 54 pages of be mad about it.
Good lord. Now. Chin said the dissent mischaracterizes Trump's conduct as merely, and I quote, responding to an accusation that Carol published that should be expected considered the content of Carol's claims against him.
Him.
The record showed that Trump made multiple statements over many years accusing Carol of lying for political and financial gain and suggesting that Carol was too unattractive for Trump to have sexually assaulted her. This is from Chin. Trump filed an appeal to the Supreme Court in November, and a second case that Carol brought against him focused on comments he made about her after his first term ended, as well as an alleged assault itself. The move came after a federal appeals court tossed out Trump's appeal in the lawsuit in June. Carol was able to include the allegations of assault in that second lawsuit, which won her another 5 million in damages through a New York law that opened one year window for adult victims of sexual offenses to file civil suits even if the statute of limitations on their claims had expired. Trump first called Carol a liar in 2019 after she publicly claimed that he sexually abused her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996. He said Carol made up the story to draw more cells for her upcoming book and called the claims a hoax and a con job. Which means they're absolutely true. Trump has repeatedly denied the claims in both lawsuits and any wrongdoing.
Yeah, and he's basically trying to say that since he was president the first time he lied about her.
That he's got some sort of immunity, but that. That it would cover anything civil is bananas. Yeah, that's not what the Supreme Court ruled on. Immunity. Let's hope.
Let's. Let's hope.
Yeah. Yet. Yet. They're about to get it again. Yet. That's what I should always remember to say about the Supreme Court. All right, everybody, stick around. Well, we don't have any commercials, so we're gonna, we're gonna head right over and talk to John Fugal saying, we'll see you in a second.
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Thank you so much, Dr. Gail. I just want to celebrate with everyone that Trump is giving half a billion dollars to Spirit Airlines because they can't afford fuel because.
Is he bailing it out?
Can you believe he's bailing out? But it's not the auto industry, so it's okay.
Well, I think for sure that this means he should have to now, from here on out, fly on Spirit Airlines, as most of us comedians in the business have done.
I can only hope that'll happen after the next administration seizes his assets.
Ah, yeah. Well, J.D. vance is here in, in San Diego. I guess he's visiting family. I know his in laws work at like UCSD and sdsu, so he's here in Kearney Mesa.
how exciting for you with the fam.
Yeah. Oh, we love, we love when. And I just got a brand new couch, so I'm actually a little worried.
Hey, hey, hey. Now, come on, we don't do that around here. We, we, we. We don't call him a couch. Ok? He identifies as. He's a sexual. Sexual. And I ask you to please identify him correctly.
Understand? I'm sorry. I'm terribly, terribly sorry.
It's okay. He's not too popular. The couch made him sleep on the bed. Never gets old, man. It never gets old.
Never does.
It's still so mean. It's so mean. You know, it's like I can't. I won't call Trump A for the same reason because we know he's more into his daughter. I'm just trying to be fair, Alison. I'm trying to be fair and accurate to all these people. I won't play their games.
Let's talk about fair and accurate for a minute though. Because, you know, nobody runs on the Supreme Court. And they should, because they just put a nail in the coffin to the Voting Rights act, the death knell. Section 2. It said the whole thing is all but obliterated. Section 5 went away a long time ago.
Yeah. And now, I mean, I mean, Alito says that Section 2 still exists, but, you know, technically Blockbuster Video still exists too. You know.
Yeah, he's.
Fuck that guy. Fuck that guy.
Every person.
Fuck the president who put him there too, by the way.
Every person running for Congress, any Democrat that wants to run for the White House in 2028 needs to run on term limits, senior status applicable to the current bench, meaning three people would have to take senior status and you would get three new appointments. Everybody has to run on this. It's a law. It needs 60 votes in the Senate to pass. But we need to start, start pushing it. Just because you don't have the votes to do something doesn't mean you don't lead on it. I mean, we didn't have the votes for marriage equality for a very long time.
You know, when FDR was having three Supreme Court judges trying to dismantle the New Deal, he threatened to pack the court and he threatened to have a situation where all the judges over age 70 would be grouped together and get one collective vote. And we talk all the time. Oh, FDR tried to pack the. But. But those three Supreme Court judges back down and stop dismantling the New Deal. All Roosevelt had to do was make the grandiose threat and they backed down. This is something that I want Democrats to realize.
Too late now. The whole Voting Rights act is gutted.
Yeah, I know. Now it's gone. And John Roberts has been chasing this thing like Inspector Javert chasing Jean Valjean for decades. He gutted it. Section five back in 2013. and I'll never forget it because it was the same week that Sharknado 2 got greenlit. And I knew that there was problems for the future of this country. And this is how they kill things now. They interpret it to death. You know, they don't stab it in the back. They hand you a 73 page opinion telling you why it died of natural causes. This Voting Rights act passed because so many Americans marched and bled and were beaten and even died for the right for everyone to vote. And now these six aristocrats reauthorized over by Republicans. By Republicans. But these six aristocrats have decided protecting that right. It's gone too far. It was the pre clearance rules back in 2013.
We're not racist anymore. There's no more. We elected a black president. We don't. We're not racist.
We support equal voting rights in theory, right up until equal voting rights changes who wins. And it's tied to the SAVE act too, because women have been voting Democrat consistently since 1992. And so the SAVE act is designed to make sure you women who are thinking a little too much, have a hard time if you change your name. So, I mean, this is how they do it. They won't say we hate it when black people vote. They'll say we're protecting uniquely American heritage.
Well, and the most disgusting part is that they're using Reconstruction amendments.
Oh, yeah.
To justify reverse racism against white people. They're using amendments created to make sure that black people were not marginalized in order to marginalize black people.
Well, and this. This ties into the Southern Poverty Law center thing, too. But this is going to be the largest rollback of minority representation since reconstruction. DeSantis did this, what, three years ago with the Fifth District, went from Jacksonville to Tallahassee, had a black congressman, they chopped it up. So that district got absorbed into four bigger majority white districts, and suddenly no more black congressmen from that part of Florida.
And by the way, the reason that it's called pack and crack is not because you just crack the district up. The first part is the pack part where you. Have you ever wondered why black and brown people live in very specific parts and they're all m. Have you ever wondered how that came to be and
why that is and how those lines got drawn around those areas and how
then you can pack and crack those districts? Like, you get everybody together that you don't like the way they vote, and then you split it up by districting right through the middle of it.
It.
And you.
Yep.
None of it's an accident.
And they all show up to vote. And someone that looks nothing like them and doesn't campaign in their.
It's all because we didn't hold the Confederates.
All. All of it. And again, so this court is saying that race conscious college admissions to address historic discrimination, that's illegal. Race conscious voting maps to remedy racial vote dilution, that's racist. Is illegal. But race conscious immigration crackdowns, that's fine. Race conscious policing, that's fine. Race conscious travel bans, if you use national security langu, that's fine. Have you noticed this court believes America must only become colorblind only when race is used to help minorities. Otherwise, they don't talk about it. This is not redistricting. This is racist Photoshop. This is an Instagram filter for democracy. That's called whiter. And this is why DeSantis, being a weasel, waited. He waited. First, he delayed the session until he saw what Virginia did, and then he waited again to see what would happen with the Court. And so right away, within hours, he's carving up these Democratic district like a meth gator with a steak knife. All to impress Donald Trump. Trump's been going around saying that DeSantis is begging him for a job. Right. DeSantis is doing this, taking four Democratic seats away from the representation of his state just to get someone he hates, that hates him back to give him a job. It is dismantling black voting power the moment he had legal cover. And Jeff Landry's doing the same thing now, as of now, he suspended the primary election. The primary elections, because he wants to pass a completely red gerrymandered map before midterms. So it'll be like there's no black people voting in the entire state of Louisiana.
Now, I tell you what, back in December, the Supreme Court, when Democrats sued Texas. Saying you can't redraw these districts. The Supreme Court, it got all the way up to their court, and, what they decided was, we can't go back to the old maps anyway. So your thing is moot. It's too late. The primaries are coming soon. This was in December. Landry is actually canceling an election, a primary election. Postponing it.
Yeah.
And by the time this gets to the Supreme Court, if they are consistent at all, which they have said, they've shown that they are not. Not. And they say, sorry, it's too late for these new maps. For your new map, Mr. Landry. It's just. It's too late. He's already canceled the primary. He's already with the election.
Primary. And they're doing it all because Donald Trump sucks. Yeah, that's it. Donald Trump is so unpopular, the polls are not changing. The Iran war is not helping. Epstein's not going away. Fox News can't stop running.
34% approval. Right.
The polls. And so we talked about it. They began cheating to win this midterm term last year, in early 2025, when Donald Trump publicly, like a dope, ordered Texas to redraw the districts. We have talked about how both Virginia, God bless them, in California, did the opposite of Republicans. Those Democrats said to the voters, do you people want to do this? We don't want to cheat and take away conservative representation. Do you people think we should do it to balance out how they're trying to steal the House when they're this unpopular? The only way is to cheat. Let's not forget Trump. He got impeached twice for cheating in the same election. And, you know, it's like your old map Discriminated illegally against black voters. And then Louisiana tried to fix that and the court's like, no, not like that. We like the old illegal better. Right. Like they're trying to. It's like you're trying to put out a fire and then getting arrested for using too much water. They, they don't want to acknowledge the racism even existed. And this is how it ties in completely to what they're doing to Southern Poverty Law center and how Trump is lying about Charlottesville and how they're trying to launder all of the white racism so they can raise a generation of kids and who just don't know what happened. It would be so easy for these lame white people to identify with the white abolitionists, but they can't. They identify with the slave owners and they don't like reality making them feel bad.
Yeah, this is just, all this is, is an authoritarian trying to fix the elections.
And again, look at Charlottesville. Right? Jews will not replace us. So right wing. They were there literally for white supremacy. Charlottesville was there. Unite. The right was there to defend statues of white supremacist Confederate traitors. That's why they were there. And now they're telling us that the KKK and Richard Spencer and the Nazis, that was just antifa community theater. Right. Trump. Trump can't admit.
Did you see that Richard Spencer was pissed about that?
He's totally pissed about it. When you have a Nazi doing your fact checking for you. But they can't admit that bad people support them. Right. Trump can't admit that hatred exists in his coalition. He can't admit that the Nazis marching in his name march in his name. So the reality must be rewritten. So the Nazis are fact fake and the insurrectionists are tourists and the prosecution are witch hunts and the elections he loses are rigged and the judges are corrupt and it's all about giving stupid white people permission to ignore history, to deny evidence, to absolve themselves to be the victims.
yes.
If Charlottesville was fake, then the racists are the victims and the anti racists are the villains. So the problem's not white supremacy. It's these people who go after the white supremacists. And that's the inversion, that's the game.
White supremacists. Right, right.
That's again. January 6th was peaceful. The 2020 election was stolen. Every scandal's a hoax. It's Soviet grade reality laundering. It's like the final stage of cult politics. And they're literally going after the people who went after the Klan, saying that they're with the Klan.
Well, that's why they're always into investigating the investigators. You know, co host Andy McCabe's got a couple of subpoenas sitting on his desk from, the Brennan investigation we've got. But, you know, to be fair, it's the Seashells. Very serious.
I need someone keeping us safe from seashells. Why are they. Why are we talking about these other things?
Do you see Ms. Now? Like two days ago, I'm like, oh, yeah, the timing's not weird. I'm sure the investigation into the seashells took 11 months. Perhaps if Kash Patel hadn't fired the Seashell experts, it wouldn't have taken so long.
you know what? You're so right.
Gutted the Seashell unit. And that's why, of course, this doesn't have to do with Pam Bondi leaving and Todd Blanche trying to get. Get a job as Attorney General because he's just the acting Attorney General right now. Of course, it has nothing to do with it, but today it's come out that, that in fact has everything to do with it. It was a done case. And, then Pam Bondi was fired. Todd Blanche came in and picked it up and ran with it.
Well, don't leave out the fact that you know Comey's daughter, Maureen Comey, federal prosecutor, worked on the Epstein case, worked on the Maxwell case. They fired her, she sued the judge ruled her lawsuit can't proceed. And one day later, her, they re indicted her father, you know, like, oh, you're suing us. Be a shame if your dad got indicted over driftwood, right? Like, this is. This is the whole. And you're right, Cash Patel came in and the first thing he did was shut down CSI Sandcastle unit. And I mean, like, Joe Biden took the criticism and ignored it. This guy declares war on arts and crafts. Comey, deletes the picture. He assured everyone it wasn't a call to violence. Which makes him a worse assassin than that clown last weekend.
He didn't even. He didn't even arrange the seashells he found.
Even arrange the sea. Look, when I talk about the 86 Mets, I'm not calling for the death of Mookie Wilson. You understand? It's not the entire what do they. Next it's going to be hostile macaroni art. They're going to go after.
When I worked at a bar, if I asked somebody to 86 somebody, I don't mean to kill them. I mean, just take them out. Just escort Them kindly out of the bar, please.
Vladimir Putin's watching this like, you indicted for shells. Damn. That's petty respect. Respect.
I mean, like, I couldn't even pull that off.
The indictment, they're saying a reasonable person would see decorative shells and fear imminent assassin. No, a reasonable person would think, oh, your aunt found a hobby. Ten years in prison. Like, I guess my.
Not.
Jonathan Turley actually wrote this up and said, this is ridiculous. Now, he got it right, but for the wrong reasons. But he brought up an old Supreme Court case because there was somebody who was being drafted into Vietnam. And he said something like. Like, if they put a uniform on me and give me a rifle, the first person in my sights is going to be lbj.
Yeah.
And the Supreme Court said, that's not a threat because he didn't have the intent to actually do that.
It was a hypothetical. It was always a hypothetical.
If.
Then.
So if that is not a threat, then this, the 8647, is certainly not. But my argument.
No, it's not a real case. It's just to humiliate Comey and try to bleed him with legal fees. That's how Trump's always.
My argument is you don't even have to get to that Supreme Court precedent because Turley was saying that 86 is a death threat.
Oh, my God.
I say no Reasonable person thinks 86 means to do anyone any harm at all.
Not at all.
I don't even think you get to the Supreme Court argument from the 60s,
but this is like Cash Patel's suit against the Atlantic. It's not going to make it to discovery phase. It's not going to make it to the snack bar. It's all just deeply insecure male posturing and trying to make someone who told the truth about you suffer with legal pay some money.
Yeah, that's it.
That's it. Yeah.
You brought up the incident that happened outside the White House Correspondent's Dinner. What are your thoughts on that?
Well, I was in D.C. when it happened. I was down doing the keynote for the, Americans United for, Separation of Church and States Summit for Religious Freedom. And I was just in my hotel room writing and watched the. The whole thing as it happened. I mean, it's amazing. I do want to say, try to live your life in such a way that if you ever face multiple assassination attempts, millions of people across the spectrum won't automatically assume you staged it, because I beg my liberals, please. It's not staged. Okay. Like, I get it. I understand why it looks that way I'll talk all day about the questions that are unanswered. How did he get the guns? How do you bring them across the country? How do you check into a hotel where the president's speaking the next day with a long gun in your. Your duffel bag? Why was he allowed to check in the. How did this guy manage to have all those room in that hotel this week?
I have all those answers.
Well, yeah, and it. I mean, it looks like he never even fired his weapon. It. And, Todd Blanch is trying to hide this, but it seems more and more likely that he never discharged his.
I think they found the bullet and realized it came from one of their own. And they said, we can't find it. Yes. And.
And again, like all this thing proves is that, you know, they, they. They don't want to stop gun violence. They need the gun violence to make us hate each other more. And again, it's all about the ballroom. I mean, we can talk about that. But this shooter.
Yeah, they asked Todd Blanche on television. They're like, well, don't you think. I mean, he, he took a train. That's how he was able to. Yeah, they don't check you when you get on it.
They don't check you on the train.
They don't check.
And they don't. And I know they don't check you for the hotel. I don't know how this guy, because, well, his math tutor salary booked that hotel room for that night. It's a tough booking.
Well, the.
He did it months in advance back when Trump said he was gonna go to it. But the. The problem is, is that the Secret Service decided not to declare this a national special security event.
Exactly.
Only the event you have the entire line of succession in the room, and you're not going to call it a national special security event.
Straight to Chuck Grassley, can you. And the only reason Chuck Grassley wasn't there was that he has to go to bed at 2:30pm can you imagine? Can you imagine that? We're. We're. We're like he to be our president. America's turning 250, and our president would be 250. We came so close.
We did. We did came. We came very, very close.
But he needs a ballroom, Allison. If only he had a, Like all the public schools deserve a ballroom. That's. That really. That's the solution to violence. A Versailles themed banquet hall that other people pay for. Looking at you, Fetterman. It's not hosted by the government.
Did you see the filing where Todd Blanche said to the court, he was like, look, you have to give us the ballroom now because this happened. There's a huge bipartisan chorus of support, including John Fetterman, Paul.
I get that all the time.
And I said, I said, okay, a bipartisan chorus, John Fetterman and Rand Paul. A bipartisan chorus does not make that.
You got Joe Lieberman too. So bipartisan. You got Zell Miller. How bipartisan is it?
at best, that is a libertarian duet, like at, ah, best. Right. But they're really going on justifying the ballroom and that just drives more people to think. Of course it was staged. He's only doing it for the ballroom.
You're exploiting it right away. Right away.
That's the story here.
Yeah.
The story is not whether or not it was staged. The story is that everybody thinks it was.
Exactly. To me that's the same story. And I don't fault anyone for believing it was. Especially after what happened in Butler, where
we can't blame anyone for not believing.
Never saw a hospital report. Trump wears a maxi pad on his ear, would not allow a congressional. A president got shot and miraculously, for the first time in history, an AR15 round didn't damage cartilage and Congress is not allowed to investigate. And here's the thing. 45 years ago, a guy shot Ronald Reagan and we all remember his name. Two years ago, a guy shot Donald Trump. How many people you know remember the name of that kid, that Republican kid on the roof.
Dragon was shot at that hotel, by the way.
I, I know, but when we remember the name of his shooter, Trump shooter's already been forgotten. It's such a cover up that I don't fault anyone for thinking that this thing was staged. But I gotta say that's because they
have to cover up stuff like the pipe bomber and the assassin because they were maga, because they were, you know, right wing nut jobs and they can't have that in their narrative.
But when it comes to this shooter, my friends, sometimes, an idiot with easy access to guns and main character syndrome is just an idiot with easy access to guns. You have to believe they hired a California math tutor to carry out the stupidest, most inept false flag assassination attempt
in history and got his brother in on it, who. And then the new Connecticut Police Department
told the cops in advance where he never even made it to the same floor as the ballroom. No journalists were ever in danger. And I guess the master plan was that Trump wanted to look scared and weak and to fall down on stage because that's what they achieved. I mean, it was amazing to watch. Rob RFK Jr. He left his wife behind like Larry David. But, you know, again, I don't like
Stephen Miller, though, using his pregnant wife as a human shield.
Listen, I don't believe he was doing that. I hate to have to be fair to Stephen Miller, but it looks like he was letting her go first. We don't know if he ran over her or not.
Did you see the video?
I did see the video.
Oh, okay. It seems to me like he was ducking down behind his wife in the back of a conga line, but I
wouldn't be surprised if he was. But I don't think he was using her as a human shield.
but, well, there was nothing to shield from.
There was no. Yeah, there were no, there were no shots in the room. But I mean, here's my thing about this guy. I read the manifesto, and if you read the manifesto, you will not think that this was, staged in any way. What's fascinating is that this guy, the shooter, the would be shooter who didn't fire a shot, just like the guy on the golf course, by the way, never fired a shot. He made the same morally diseased fake Christian arguments that right wing extremists use to justify violence against abortion providers. It's kind of been overlooked. But he, he said, oh, but, turn the other cheek doesn't apply to me because that's for oppressed people. And I'm not oppressed. I'm going to step in and stop a guy who's an oppressor. In other words, it's the, it's the anti abortion argument. I had to commit violence because evil left me no choice. And if you think murder is justified because your target is evil, then you are at the same logic used by every fanatic and terrorist and holy warrior in history. This guy was not righteous or brave. He was a damn fool with easy access to weapons. And in trying to hurt Trump, he made him stronger. Because authoritarians love this stuff. They feast on it. They use violence against them to justify violence against everyone else.
Can you guys like, stop it? Yes, stop it. Yeah, like for example, we pulled off the largest single day protest in American history with no Kings 3. And they were peaceful. Peaceful because people were like, don't give them what they want.
Look at Minnesota. No one ever threw a rock at an ICE agent. They kept it cool after all that death. Amazing. Just amazing. But if you, if, if you give into it, I mean, you just help them, you're handing authoritarians a propaganda gift. Political violence against authoritarians does not.
Begging us to be violent, silent. They're making it up.
It gives them a martyr complex. It gives them a justification for harsher crackdowns, and it makes the public more terrified.
Yeah, always.
and the seashells, of course, we're all living under that horror, too.
Well, there's. That's the scariest thing of all is the seashells.
Hold me, hold me.
I need a Kleenex.
By the way, can you imagine if, if a Democratic president came in and just pardoned this guy? Imagine if a Democratic president came in and pardoned this guy who did less damage to people than Trump's January 6th. Sixth terrorist did to people. What would the response be? This guy who never actually hurt anyone. And if the Democrats. Yeah, right, exactly. But I mean, he. Ladies, he's single. That's all I can say about this. It's just, again, it's going to be forgotten by next week. And that's the crazy thing about it. Another presidential assassination. It ate up the headlines for 48 hours. And it will be ancient history by early next week.
Oh, yeah, for sure, sure. And there won't be a. A, Louisiana primary and there won't be a.
Well, I'm looking forward to seeing what the, what the lawsuit on that's going to be because.
Yeah, but it's, like, already too late. He already canceled the Pride by the time it gets done. I don't know that this will go up to the Supreme Court before early voting was set to start on Saturday. That's tomorrow.
It's all by design. They all are just trying to make us a little bit harder here, a little bit harder there. And that's how they kill democracy. Not in one fell swoop. Just little bit.
Little bit. We saw what happened in Dallas County, Texas, during the primaries. You know, they put out. They didn't put out the right information on the Secretary of State's website. People went to the wrong poly places the judge went and extended two hours because of the misinformation. And then Paxton comes in and the Texas Supreme Court takes away the two hours and says, you have to sequester those ballots. Like that. Chaos is what they want.
Yeah.
And they do it just little tiny bits at a time. Time. Yeah. So we have to do the same back.
Amen. no notes. You're helping the Pete Heg says of the world when you do this.
Thank you, my friend.
Oh, Pete Hex said that guy. He's Pete Hex said this like the guy, explaining crypto while doing lines of coke at the divorce party.
You know, I hate that guy.
What a, what a testimony this week. I can't wait for him to get blamed for bad Trump policy he's hired to pull off.
Yeah, he'll be thrown under the bus once, once Trump finds out there's no way to, to get out of, for bad Trump Iran. He's going to blame it all on all of them.
He's going to Pam Bondi Island.
Peace out. Yeah, Pam Bondi Island. I like it. I like that right now. It's, it's Nome Bondi Darimur. Who's next, by the way? Who do you think is next?
She was the real surprise. The next one. Tulsi.
Tulsi. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, I think RFK is hanging on. Cash is going to have to get a lot worse. And with Pete Hex said that's going to happen.
Cash just saved his job. I think with what happened at the
White House Gores, I don't know, Cash might have lost his job with what happened. I'm getting a betting market going on. Who's the next one to go on America's Next Top Cabinet dump?
God.
Because all you got to do is keep supporting these policies until you get fired for these policies he told you to support.
That's true. That's very true. All right, my friend could talk to you forever, but we do have to get out of here. We got some good news that we have to get to, but I'm So.
Thank you, Dr. Gil.
So glad to, to see you. Everybody, you can check out tell me everything on SiriusXM progress channel 127. It's weeknights. It's hours of amazing entertainment. It's a call in show too.
Indeed. Oh, yes.
Nights at 9:00pm Eastern, 6 Pacific. That's again, that's progress 127 on SiriusXM progress. And you have to get your copy of Separation of Church and Hate if you don't have it already.
Oh, yes.
And I can't wait for, this next book to come out. I know it's early on in the process, there's forever to go, but I'm still very excited about it.
Yeah, I can't wait to give them their 80,000 word crap drafts. I'm trying so hard to get that done. I want the headlines to slow down a bit so I can actually work on stuff.
Yeah, good luck with that, my friend. Yeah.
Thank you so much, Dr. Gill, and thanks to your Attractive audience.
Yes. Thank you. And we will see you next week. My, my dear friend John Fugal saying, everybody stick around. We'll be right back with the good news. Everybody, welcome back. It's time for the good news.
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No, that second photo, I think it's five pounds.
I think you're right, but five pounds.
Five pounds, two ounces even.
I know that Second one.
Is that a rainbow trout?
I. You're. I don't know. Now we've got to be like, guessing the fish breeds.
I don't know if they call them
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Oh, man. I wanted to get an axolotl, but you can't have them in California. That's what we found out.
Everybody. Allison tried to get one and then there was a whole Reddit like page called how.
Hey, Californians, how did you get your little guys.
No, people are axolotl ing on the black market.
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I think, I think the three kids, baby, goats. No, there's empty nesters, they say.
Oh yeah, that's true. It's not like these goats wouldn't gone to college.
Okay.
I had to remember what I read everybody. My heart was so excited that I'm
like, clearly these goats are off to university. Okay. As far as the goats go, they're adorable, but I don't know. Striped.
That baby one is so cute.
I know. Look at the little white shock of fur on his booty.
I know.
Something about the stripe on their back maybe. I don't know anything about goat breeds. What do we have here?
I don't know either.
Nigerian dwarf goat. I actually have heard of that.
I've heard of a dwarf goat.
I've heard of that. This one's, this one's. Is it Nigerian? Yeah.
Oh, okay. The second one is not a goat. We're guessing a dog.
That's 195 pound dog.
Yes, it is. And my assumption, I mean from the. It looks like a, like a mastiff, but like a.
It's got to be some sort of mastiff, right? Because I mean, what, what gets to be £200,
very well fed, anything.
That's insane.
And we've got a hundred pound dog. We have a Spanish mastiff. Specifically a Spanish.
I've never heard of a Spanish mastiff, but holy majoli, that's a big dog.
Yeah, you should hear.
Well, thank you Evan for the wonderful note about and happy 20th anniversary to you.
That was awesome. I hope the goats are doing well at university.
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I know Australia.
I would go all the time.
I know and now for some misheard lyrics. For years, around the Christmas holidays, my wife would sing along with a song called Mary's Parking Lot. One day she heard that the name of the song was actually Felice Navidad. Marie's Parking Lot. Marie's Parking Lot. For my pod pet tariff. I was thinking about the makers creators that you feature. I wish I had a maker talent. Then I remembered I'm a baker. In particular, I enjoy baking bread, though. Cakes are fun, too. So first, here are a couple of my creations. Sourdough bread and sourdough English muffins. Yum. Next, my wife and I have attended all three no Kings rallies. We were in the D.C. area for the second. Here we are in D.C. if you look closely, you can see the Washington Monument in the background and also the sign she carries. Anyway, you've helped give me hope again. I know our country will never completely recover from Trump, but I feel as if we can again move in the right direction. Thanks again for your hard work and swearing. And this bread looks absolutely delicious. Like, I'm an English muffin fan. And sourdough English muffins. Yes, please.
So am I. You get all the butter and the. And the jam and all the nuts and the honey.
Honey. Butter and honey.
Honey m. Hey, we got. We have somebody who tends bees that. From earlier. Maybe we can.
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Yeah. Don't make me repeat myself. Assigned history. That's what the sign says.
That's fantastic.
And look at in the banana costume. Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. I like how you went in halfway between 58 and 82. Because didn't I say at some point I told my friend that I was halfway between 48 and 60. 64.
Did you? Oh, my God, that's funny.
Or, something like that. And I was like, what the. That sucks. 40 and 64. I am halfway between 40 and 64. And my friend just looked at me and she's like, you. Sorry. Next up, Len pronouns he and him. Good morning again. My morning she. Rose. Did I spell that correctly? I think so. Here's a quick correction. WTTW is Chicago's public television station, not the radio Radio, one of the nation's oldest. Back in the day when it was called Educational tv. The pioneering station's call letters stand for window to the world. Ah. and it truly has been. While I'm here, let me include a bird pic. A more pleasant bird. a new to our yard bird. Thank you again for all your Staff and what they do behind the scenes week in and week out. And for this community. See you in Chicago in June. Awesome. Lan, I'm so glad you're coming. Coming.
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WTTW window to the world. Public television. Awesome.
Cool.
That is a cool bird picture. Thank you.
Gorgeous bird. All right, this is from Tina Pronoun. She and her what has been bringing me joy in tracking my fish during Survive the Sound. It's Survive the Sound dot org. It uses real tracking data and it makes it both educational and fun. My fish is still alive on day four and with 18 miles to go, which is better than any of my previous picks. Oh, my God. This is awesome. Awesome. Attached from my pet tax is Blake, who's two years old, blank, two breeds. That's an amazing picture. the mix doing what we both love best now that the weather is turning so nice. Obviously playing Frisbee. We've got Australian shepherd and Kangaroo.
Kangaroo.
Kangaroo.
Let's see what we got. Cattle dog, Mini American Shepherd. Look at you. Look at that. I say that those are correct.
Thank you very much.
Now, I just wanted to let you know Survive the Sound what this person writing in is talking about. If you go to the website, it says we take real world salmon research and turn it into fun, free educational games. Sign up, build your team, and compete to see if your favorite fish will survive its migration.
Stop it.
That's awesome. 27. So they have seven. Fishy seven, Monty. You can bet on Monty, Abby, A, Coho king, Tony, Steel head, Willie. There's one. Willie, there's backjack, floundry, 10, Brian, mackerel. You can pick your fish and bet on it and track it. That's so cool.
That's awesome.
All right, next up, from Bridget Pronoun. She and her hi AG and dg. As everyone says, thank you for your podcast. You really do help my mental health and I just love listening to you every day. I've also been a listener since the kitchen table days, and my good news is a response to a listener who wrote in months ago, sorry to her for my procrastination. She had cancer and was looking for some positive cancer stories. So here's mine. My mom had pancreatic cancer. We didn't realize then just how serious that was. Of course, all cancers are serious and shitty. She had the whipple procedure to remove the cancer. And when we, me and my five siblings were in post op with the surgeon after saying the surgery went well, he said that if my mom made it through recovery in the icu, she Might have another five years to live. I can't tell you how strongly he stressed that that was only a possibility and not a given. Well, that hit us like a ton of bricks. Needless to say, the following days, weeks, and months during her recovery were challenging and scary. Well, 13 and a half years later, she passed peacefully and cancer free. It never came back. And every one of her doctors would tell her she would be written up in medical journals. We were blessed with eight and a half more years with her than the surgeon thought possible. So the docs aren't always right. The odds can be beat. For my pod pet tax. Here are photos of our dog, Milo. One guess for his breed. we only get one guess. Is that. And our cat Eddie, with his taint. High for you, high four for you.
Oh, my God.
Look at that. High four. High four is when you put. When the cat puts his leg up.
Oh, my God. That's very funny. Milo looks like a little Aussie. He's cute.
He's adorable.
I don't know what Eddie is, other than a little.
Eddie is a flame point chonker. That's what that is. Exactly what it is. I can only give the color. I don't know the breed, but that is a. I have a flame point. Boy.
Oh, my God. That's really funny. you're right. It's a flame point Siamese.
Is it?
Yeah.
Well, mine's not a Siamese. Mine's just a flame point. But flame point is a color that some, Siamese come in. This just looks like a chonker to me. 100% chonker.
There you go.
But who knows? Who knows? You let us know. You can let us know. We're sitting here like, Bridget's not even in the room. She's like, I'm right here.
No, I can tell you. It's literally right here under the bar. It's a point.
Oh, it is. I missed it. Oh, my God.
There it is, stroking out right now. I, ah, literally was having a moment where you thought I was lying to you. That was very cute.
I was like, oh, that. You know. Yeah, there is such a thing as a flame point Siamese, But I'm not sure that's what this is like. I don't know, Allison. It's written in the email.
You're like, if someone could write in and tell us, we'd love to know what this is.
You're like, it's right there.
Guess what, Allison? Someone did write in and tell us.
Us.
Oh.
Oh.
Today's episode is killing me. I hope that you all are laughing along with us because this has been a lot of fun.
This has been a pretty fun, epic episode, I have to say. I've got to tell you. No sighted falsehoods detected.
No. No.
All right, everybody, I hope you have a great weekend. and thanks to John Fugal sang for stopping by. I'm going to be on the Breakdown with Katie Fang this Sunday at noon. You don't want to miss that. I'll be sending a link out on my Blue sky about an hour before comes out. That's usually when we get the link to go live then. And, we also have an episode of Unjustified on Sunday, but we'll be back on your ears Monday. 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. 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.