Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 Today, it’s Stormy Daniels Day in the Manhattan courtroom; Kristi Noem begged for an NRA job; a federal judge blasts Alabama for threatening to prosecute groups aiding in out of state abortions; what to know about the Trump campaign’s use of artificial intelligence; Marjorie Taylor Greene meets twice with Mike Johnson to make her demands as she threatens to file a motion to vacate; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Hello, and welcome to the Daily Beans for Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Today it's stormy Daniels Day in the Manhattan courtroom. Christy Noem begged for a job with the NRA. A federal judge blasts Alabama for threatening to prosecute groups aiding out of state abortions. What to know about the Trump campaign's use of artificial intelligence with one Brad par scale. And Marjorie Taylor Greene meets twice with Mike Johnson to make her demands as she threatens to file a motion to vacate his job. I'm Allison Gill.
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
It is hump day, and it's Stormy Daniels day. Now, I know we record on Tuesday, but that's just fun for me.
It's fun. Um, she. I don't even know what to say because I think if you've been following it, her testimony, apparently she said, uh, a few extra things that maybe she shouldn't have. And the defense didn't do a very good job of objecting when they needed to. And even though the judge was like, you know, uh, let's try and keep your, you know, the, uh, witness under control. He also said to the other lawyers, if you wanted to object, you should have objected.
Yeah, he actually had to object. Sueante on behalf of the defense.
Yeah.
And that after her direct examination, that's when Trump's team filed for a mistrial. A motion for a mistrial, because they say her testimony was so prejudicial. I mean, it was pretty bad. I mean, she talked about how, you know, she was in the hotel room. He invited her to dinner. He answered the door in silk pajamas. There was no dinner. Um, she asked to use the restroom. When she tried to leave, he blocked her passage, uh, and then said, don't you want to get out of the trailer park? Um, basically. Basically said, you need to have sex with me, and I will help your career. Right.
Um, which sounds a lot in line with, you know, stuff that I think he has been accused of in the past.
Correct. And then he said that she reminded him of Ivanka, which is. Made me shudder.
Gross. On so many levels.
And then, um, they had a very brief sexual encounter. Didn't wear a condom. She was shaking when she left. She wished she would have said no. Um, but that doesn't sound like consensual sex to me. But none of that is really relevant to the case other than trying to, um, you know, make her story seem credible, because Trump is arguing that it never happened. Right, right. And so the. The judge actually was considering this motion a mistrial. He was listening this mistrial motion and thought he didn't disagree with what Todd Blanche was saying on Trump's side, but he did deny. He said, we're not in mistrial territory yet. And that's when the DA's office advised stormy Daniels, don't narrate. Just stick to the questions. Uh, and now they're. Now she's under cross examination, uh, by Nicholas. And I was wondering, you know, I had put out on twitter, you know, did they learn that? Did Trump team learn their lesson from when they sicked pit bull Joey Takopina taco pants on Eugene Carroll?
Yeah.
And I, um, was wondering if they would have the woman, Susan Nicholas, cross examine stormy Daniels instead of a man. And they are. It is Susan Nicholas that is cross examining her right now. And it's pretty tense. Uh, and it seems to be that the defense is that Stormy Daniels wants Donald Trump to go to jail because she owes him legal fees.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah, she owes him like, $500,000. She's tweeted a bunch of times. I'm never given that orange turd a penny or, you know, laugh hard.
He's happening at the same time. Correct. And she's like, I don't see that affecting the case we're in now.
Yeah, she lost. Um, no, she didn't lose, but she didn't prevail in a defamation case, and Trump was awarded attorney's fees. So she's been saying she's not gonna pay him. And so now they're accusing this of, I guess. I mean, where does that go, though? I mean. Oh, you're just. She didn't indict Donald Trump.
Right. And two things can be true at the same time. She may owe Donald Trump money, but that also does not mean he did not violate campaign finance laws with this payoff. So both things can be true at the same time.
Yeah. So it'll be interesting to see, uh, where this goes. But I've all, I've long wondered why they were going to bring some of these more explosive witnesses in. They do have to have stormy Daniels testimony to get it on the record that this encounter did happen, that there was something to cover up. And I thought that there was some really great wins for the prosecution today. None of this is going to be in today's clean up on l 45 because it's today. Um, but we, uh, will talk about it in depth on the next one. So, um, anyway, that's what's going on in the, uh, in the big election interference trial. Um, we'll keep you posted. Make sure if you're a patron of cleanup, to listen to the bonus episode this weekend, we'll probably talk a little bit about it, even though we're will repeat it on the public episode. All right, we have a lot of news to get to today. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot, uh, notes. All right. First up from John Fritz at CNN, a federal judge smacked down a series of threats by Alabama's republican attorney general who wants to prosecute groups that help women obtain out of state abortions, wading into a debate over access to the procedure that has lingered since the Supreme Court killed Roe. Now, the plaintiffs, including a group called the Yellowhammer Fund that helps women obtain out of state abortions, sued Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall after he suggested prosecution might be possible for groups that aid and abet abortions, including by helping women travel out of state. That issue has been closely watched by advocates on both sides of the abortion debate as red states across the country ban or severely limit access to the procedure in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and that has forced many women to seek abortion across state lines. Quote, the right to interstate travel is one of our most fundamental constitutional rights. That's US District Judge Myron Thompson in a preliminary ruling on Monday. Alabama can no more restrict people from going to, say, California, to engage in what is lawful there in California than it can restrict people from coming to Alabama to do what is lawful here. Now, the suits were brought not by women seeking out of state abortion, but by groups that intend to help them. Thompson, appointed to the bench by Jimmy Carter, wrote that a patient's right to travel was inextricably bound up with those groups. Collectively, he wrote, the groups receive as many as 95 inquiries search inquiries each week asking about the availability of out of state abortions. Quote, the Constitution protects the right to cross state lines and engage in lawful conduct in other states, including receiving an abortion. That's what Thompson wrote in his decision that will allow the lawsuit to proceed. Remember, these groups who want to help women get out of state abortions are suing the Alabama Republican attorney general for threatening to prosecute them. Quote, travel is valuable precisely because it allows us to pursue opportunities elsewhere that are available elsewhere. Now, a spokeswoman from Marshall didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. Even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe, abortion rights groups warned that some states might attempt to limit out of state travel for the procedure. Since the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson women's health organization, nearly two dozen states, two dozen states have banned or heavily limited access to abortion. Two dozen. Dana, um, Florida. Six week abortion ban just took effect last week, for instance, cutting off access to the procedure in most of the southern United States, Alabama has banned abortion with no exception for rape or incest. Quote, I think we will see statements like these increase as attorneys general and other state actors try to extend their own abortion politics and policies across state lines. That's Temple University, Beasley School of Law dean Rochelle Rabouche, quote, this is the world Dobbs created one of intense interstate conflict. The Supreme Court's majority opinion in Dobbs didn't deal with out of state travel, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a, ah, conservative who joined the court's five four majority to overturn Roe, wrote separately to suggest that the question wasn't an especially difficult one to decide. Quote, as I see it, some of the other abortion related legal questions raised by today's decision are not specifically difficult as a constitutional matter. For example, may a state bar a, ah, resident of that state from traveling to another state to obtain an abortion? In my view, the answer is no, based on the constitutional right to interstate travel. Access to abortion medication, another option for women in states that ban the procedure, is also, as we know, facing a legal challenge. Supreme Court this year considered a suit by conservative doctors and dentists who say the Food and Drug Administration overstepped its authority by expanding access to the abortion pill mifeprestone. The Alabama groups were represented, by the way, by the American Civil Liberties Union. The decision, quote, brings us one step closer to ensuring that healthcare providers can fulfill their ethical duties to their patients and to establishing that pregnant Alabamians can access comprehensive information about their legal health care options. That's Allison Mullman, legal director of the ACLU of Alabama.
Thank you so much, ag. This one's from the Associated Press. Brad Parscal. Am I saying Brad's last name, right? Parscal.
I think it's Parscale.
Parscale. Brad Parscale. He's the digital guru behind Donald Trump's surprise victory in very surprise victory in 20 sixteen's election. He was promoted to manage the 2020 campaign, but he didn't last long in that job. His personal life unraveled in public, and he later texted a friend that he felt, quote, guilty for helping Trump win after the riot of the US Capitol. That was January 6.
Yeah. And it's funny because when, when this story says his personal life unraveled, he was tackled by the cops out front of his house.
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
I remember that guy.
I think he was like. He was in his underwear. He was like, holding the beer. Holding the beer. Yep, that's now. Thank you. He has since become an evangelist about the power of artificial intelligence to transform how republicans can run political campaigns. And his company is working for Trump's 2024 bid, trying to help the presumptive Republicans nominee take back the White House from democratic President Joe Biden. Now, here's what to know about Pascale and his new role. He says his company, and it's called campaign nucleus, it can use AI to help generate customized emails, parse oceans of data to gauge voter sentiment, and find persuadable voters. He can also amplify the social media posts of, quote, anti woke influencers. According to an, uh, Associated Press review of Parscal's public statements, his company's documents, slide decks, marketing materials, and other records not previously made public. Soon, Parscale says, his company will deploy an app that harnesses AI to assist campaigns in collecting absentee ballots in the same way drivers for DoorDash or Grubhub, uh, pick up dinners from restaurants and deliver them to customers. Ag, that's not. Isn't that ballot harvesting?
It's legal. In some places it is. Okay.
Now, Parscal was relatively unknown web designer in San Antonio, Texas, when he was hired to build a web presence for Trump's family business that led to a job on the future president's 2016 campaign. He was one of its first hires and super headed an unorthodox digital strategy. Strategy goodness, Dana. Teaming up with the scandal plagued Cambridge Analytica. So all this ties together, and they did that to help propel Trump to the White House. Quote, I pretty much used Facebook to get Trump elected in 2016. That's what Parscale said in a 2022 podcast interview following Trump surprise win. His influence grew. This is Pascal's influence. He was promoted to manage Trump's reelection bid and enjoyed celebrity status. A towering figure, 6ft, eight inches. He's huge, with a viking style beard. Pascal was frequently spotted at campaign rallies, taking selfies with Trump supporters and signing autographs. Pascal was replaced as campaign manager not long after a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, drew unexpectedly small crowd, and that enraged Donald.
That was when. You remember when the k pop stands.
Yep. They bought out all the, uh-huh. Signed up for him.
And they signed up for that rally, which was, by the way, in Tulsa on the anniversary of the Tulsa massacre.
Yeah.
And it's awful. Yeah. So there was, they had this whole overflow extra stage where they were expecting tens of thousands of people and like, literally, I'm serious, like, eleven showed up.
Yeah.
And that's what got him canned.
That's probably why they would have banned tick tock. All right. Since last year, campaign nucleus and other parse linked companies have been paid more than 2.2 million by Trump's campaign, the Republican National Committee, and their related political action and fundraising committees. Campaign finance records show all of this par scale did not respond to questions from the AP about what he's doing for the Trump campaign. Trump is called artificial intelligence. So scary and dangerous. While his campaign, which has shied away from highlighting Parscal's role, said in an emailed statement that it did not quote, engage, or utilize tools supplied by any AI company.
Whoops.
Yep. Parscal occasionally offered glimpses of the AI future he envisions, casting himself as an outsider to the republican establishment. He has said he sees AI as a way to undercut elite Washington consultants whom he describes as political parasites. In January, Parscale told a crowd assembled at a grassroots christian event in Pasadena, California, at a church, that their movement needed, and I quote, to have our own AI, from creative large language models and creative imagery, we need to reach our own audiences with our own distribution, our own email systems, our own texting systems, and our own ability to place tv ads. And lastly, we need to have our own influencers. This is scary as shit, uh, because people can't tell the difference between these real and AI, uh, ads and images. So.
Yeah. And they're using AI to do the work of what a grassroots campaign would do. Yeah. So that's also a problem. And, I mean, what happened to Brad Parscale's arrest?
I would love to know. I feel like this is a violation of a probation, but maybe I'm wrong.
Well, I mean, you gotta break a law to violate probation, but I have no idea.
I just wish that there was something set up that he wasn't allowed to participate in the election in any way. You know that.
Well, that'd be nice, but I don't think he's been charged. All right. From Rachel Bade, Politico Marjorie Taylor Greene has named her price for backing down on her threat to call a vote on Speaker Mike Johnson's removal. She doesn't have the votes to do it. But she's making demands with an empty threat, of course. In a nearly two hour long meeting yesterday, requested by Marjorie to explore potential off ramps from what? The MAGA fire brand. Stop calling her that. An allied Rep. Thomas Massey outlined several policy demands they're seeking before calling off their plans. They're plans that will fail. They include, according to people familiar with the talks, no further aid for Ukraine, a return to the Hastert rule, meaning no legislation is brought to a vote without support from a majority of the House. Majority? Wow. No, that's awful. Ah. Defunding the special counsel probe. Jack Smith. Defunding his stuff. His probes into former President Trump. Congress can't do that, you dumbass. That is a permanent treasury fund. Yeah, that funds the, um. Anyway. Okay, well, this isn't. She's not doing this because she thinks it's reasonable, uh, enforcement of the Massey rule, whereby government funding is automatically cut across the board if no superseding agreement is reached before a set deadline. No, they'll meet again today at 1230 in hopes of finding, uh, an, uh, off ramp here. Spokespeople for Green and Johnson declined to comment in their discussions, but the speaker struck a conciliatory note after yesterday's meeting, sympathizing with Marjorie and pledging to keep this team together. Okay, big guy. Make no mistake. The pressure for republican party unity in an election year is weighing on Green, who is battling exasperated GOP colleagues and skepticism from the party's unquestioned leader, Trump. She was disinvited to something recently, or not invited, I can't remember, but some Trump thing. Oh, and by the way, this is totally a tangent, but Trump is going to be planning to attend a Minnesota fundraiser for Republicans on May 7. On May 17?
Yep. Then you know what that is?
That's Barron's graduation. Now maybe he'll go to both.
Yeah, okay.
Okay. Yeah, we'll see. Uh, this article goes on to say that Johnson could be in a position to grant at least some of Green's requests since this Congress has effectively finished passing controversial must do items like funding the government, raising the debt ceiling, and extending surveillance authorities. That's FISA. Johnson can probably stick to the Hastert rule, named for former, now disgraced Speaker Dennis Hastert. Democrats agreed to a version of the Massey rule during last year's spending talks with then Speaker Kevin McCarthy, so Johnson could probably go there as well. On Ukraine, Congress just sent Kiev 60 billion, enough to last through the year, though Green might also want to strike an expected nine figure aid authorization in the annual Pentagon policy bill that's expected to move later this year. But I think it's October. But defunding special counsel Jack Smith's and Trump investigations could be much trickier. Yeah, much trickier. Fucking impossible. Okay, I'm, um. That's my little addition to this story. Frontline Republicans in the past have balked at such demands, to say nothing of Democrats. If Green is expecting Johnson to put up a fight on a much anticipated September continuing resolution, that would be a recipe for a federal shutdown just weeks before the election. The two sides don't have a deal yet, and they probably will never get one. But it's clear that temperatures are dropping. At least a handshake solution is, after all, in the interest of both parties. It would spare Johnson a risky vote. It's not risky. They don't. Uh. Where he'd be relying on the generosity of democrats to save his gavel. We have put in writing that we will do that some. I swear to God. Some days, Dana. I swear to God. As for Green, her relationship with Trump and his inner circle is on the line. We're told the former president, quote, could not have been clearer. One person close to him said last night in signaling that he isn't interested in any more inter party drama this election season. Oh, okay.
Okay. Then we should stop it all. Good luck. Good luck, indeed, because this person's not helping at all. And this is from Axio, South Dakota governor Christy Noem pitched herself to a top NRA job as early as last fall. This is from two sources.
They told axios she didn't have enough guns to kill all the puppies.
Awful human being Noam M offered to step down early as governor for the role. By the way, according to a person familiar with her conversation with former NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre.
Wait, she was gonna quit her governor, uh, for this? Oh, wow.
Last fall. Late last fall, Noam called LaPierre to advocate to be the next executive vice president or CEO of the gun lobby. Noam is now in a heated pr cycle because she can't shut her mouth over passages in her book about shooting her dog and meeting Kim Jong un, which never did. Noam has long been aligned with the NRA, uh, signing an executive order during its annual conference last year. Her name came up in very senior NRA circles immediately after LaPierre resigned in January. That's according to a source familiar. LaPierre has little official control over who will be tapped as his successor, but the 76 person board, stocked with many people he nominated, will vote to determine who obtains that position. Noam was previously seen as a potential contender to be Trump's running mate. She has vehemently defended her decision to shoot her dog, cricket, arguing the 14 month old animal was dangerous and untrainable. When pressed on the supposed Kim Jong un meeting, Noem refused to provide any definite answer, but said, ah, the book would be changed when it's reprinted. A spokesperson for nome unequivocally denied that the governor had a conversation with Lapierre. Quote, she loves her job as governor of South Dakota. This is from Ian Fury. That's what he told Axios. LaPierre, through his lawyer Kent Carell, declined to comment. So who knows what the truth is about this whole thing because, uh, everyone over on that team's lips move and they're lying. So who, who knows what happened at this point?
Maybe she saw, like, triangulating her chances as being VP nominee if she could control the amount of money donated through the NRA to Donald Trump while Laura Trump was running the RNC.
I mean, it is possible, but with every. All the scrutiny that NRA is under after this case, I'd be shocked if they put her in that sort of a position. She.
She'd be. She'd be in charge of a sinking ship.
Yeah.
I mean, seriously. And probably she didn't put that much thought into it. It's probably just like, guns. Awesome. Pew, pew, pew. That was probably all. It was. All right, thank you. Thank you for that. That is our news. We have some good news that we have to get to, but we have to take a quick break first. So everybody stick around. We'll be right back after these messages.
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I did a Gerber, uh, garadaisi, but I have no idea.
We did go with the Gerber daisies. Uh, again, that's just how my brain works. It completely forgets. Like, I remember Brad Parscale getting arrested and tackled on his front step holding a beer, wearing blue shorts. Do I remember what I said yesterday? No.
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No.
Cricket was displaying the type of behavior we look for in a young pointing dog. We say the first year is for the dog and you should have zero expectations. One thing we do in training pointing dogs is to let them run and chase birds, as many as they can find. Sounds like what he was doing, right. They learn how to find birds and also that they cannot catch them without cooperating with you. This incentivizes them to hold point, which is a breed trait. Mhm. It's a bred trait, but my God, you do not do it with other hunters and dogs present in an overstimulating, bird rich environment. Killing chickens, that's a bird he can actually catch. We want the pup to be bird driven, but giving him the opportunity to catch chickens is the opposite of what we're trying to teach them. He clearly did not know how to react to the collar and therefore was never collar conditioned. I use a beep for recall and a vibrate as a warning to heed if the beep is ignored. My dogs understand this. As we train in the yard with the collars, we want our pointing dogs, uh, to range out and find birds. Cricket seemed to excel at this. This is the type of dog that we want. He just needed obedience training, collar conditioning, and more time in the field. So it's a little frustrating to me when I hear cricket wasn't a good hunting dog. He was exactly what we want in that age range. I also don't believe for a second that he bit kids. At this age, all they want to do is play and run and find birds. Here's my pet, my two french Britneys, Theo, two years old, and Stella, two and a half. The goggles were to protect their eyes, but they won't wear them for more than 10 seconds. Love you both and love lupod. Keep up the good work. And look at these beautiful working dogs.
Scott, I love this, and I thank you for. I mean, I just learned a lot about, you know, bird dogs during this submission. So also this bullshit that Christy Noem was like, I did it for my children. They were attacking my children. Well, that's weird, because in her book, she said she was heartbroken when her daughter was like, where's cricket? Not, where's that dog that won't stop attacking me? I'm so afraid. Like, it was just gross.
Yeah, she's such a liar. That's just it, that the dog bit the kids. I even question that the dog killed chickens.
Right? Uh, question the whole story.
Uh, she didn't meet with Kim Jong un.
She stood down. M Alison, how dare you?
Did you hear? She stared him down like the little tyrants. She teaches at church.
Yeah, because she's a youth pastor. I was like, this is getting way worse.
Is she? Yeah, I was talking about that yesterday. I'm like, that was the news for me, that she was comparing children to, uh, Kim Jong un. Okay, okay.
We're gonna keep going with the good news, people. Sorry for that. A little bit of an off railing there. This is from Jen. Pronouns she and her.
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Trudy, who shared the information for blind and other disabled voters, inspired me to write in thank you. I'm a listener since the kitchen table days, and I'm so addicted to the daily beans and the good news. I consider it as essential as my meds for chronic depression. You add so much sunshine into my day and the required amounts of swearing. Anywho, I'm finally riding in to share resources and info about things we can all do to improve accessibility. Global accessible awareness day, or what they call Gad G Aad, is May 16. This year, I helped write up a list of helpful things people can do to turn awareness to action. The link is going to be in our show notes, everybody. These small acts of inclusion help us move forward to build a flexible world to help anyone who's with disabilities, injuries, or just too much stress and distraction manage more easily. Also, as another proud moment, I'm up for a vote to be added. Seattle's lighthouse for the blind board. Also on May 16, to honor the day and bring things full circle, I'm hosting and asking others to watch their favorite shows and movies with audio descriptions. Yeah, the lighthouse is an amazing organization and is raising funds for their low vision clinic. We tend to forget that glasses and contact lenses are our most common assistive, uh, technology that so many of us couldn't find function without. Me included. I have some on right now as I read this as pod pet tacks. Here is my german shepherd dog, Reese, who I've shared before. We take walks in our local park and make friends with the crows to walk with us and help manage her prey drive. I'm I'm sure I look like a weirdo with crows swirling me m and my GSD, but whatevs. Uh, here she is with our winged friends as a safe distance. At a safe distance, hoping to catch any of her savory treats she leaves behind because she is such a picky eater. Gratitude to you both, your amazing team at MSW and all of the leguminati for creating such an amazing community for people. I feel so connected and supported by. Take care. This is a very cool picture.
It is the dog, and like a murder of crows. Wow. Beautiful, beautiful german shepherd. Thank you so much, Jen. Thank you for all the kind words. Next up, we have Andrea, aka resistance schnauzers, retired, pronounced she and her. Hello, ladies of the legumes. Been a fan since the early kitchen table days. Nice. I love the good news segment and have some of my own to share. After my bestest boy, Rocky, crossed the rainbow bridge in January, he didn't want me to be sad. And in April, he sent me someone else to love and care for. Meet Manny, my little man. He's seven years old. He's seven pounds. Manny was rescued from a schnauzer puppy mill in North Carolina. By far, he's the tiniest little schnauzer I've ever met. And also the most cheerful. Everyone is his friend. Though when the squirrels next door are bigger than you, wouldn't you also try to befriend them, too? I bring you Manny for a what the mutt. There might be schnauzer in there somewhere. But what else? And what kind of designer breed name shall we give him? Is it a schnorky? A, uh, schnoodle? A schninpin. A schnoawa. Your guess is as good as mine. Keep up the good work.
First of all, I think it's a schnorky.
I think it's a schnorky as well. And maybe a snorky doodle. I feel like there's an oodle in there.
There might be.
That's adorable. This little, tiny, tiny, sweet baby.
Thank you for sharing that. All right, this one's from Matt. Pronouns he and him. Hello to my favorite two beans on a podcast. It finally happened. I got that wonderful email. Your loans have been paid in full. I honestly didn't expect all of it to get paid off, and I kind of gave up hope that I might get some relief. But it finally happened. I graduated from culinary school with a bachelor's in 1999 and I've been paying on that loan since then. So for almost 25 years now. During the pandemic, when they paused, interest payments was the only time I've really been seen my number actually go down. I went back to school in 2010 when the downturn finally closed the restaurant where I was chef, thinking that I would have a career change. But it didn't take and ended up owing more than I borrowed. After paying on the new loan for almost 15 years. Words cannot express how I'm feeling, except for holy shit, what a relief. For pet tax, I include a pic of the four kittens that recently showed up to my job. There are lots of feral cats on the island I now find myself living, and these four seem to have adopted the restaurant I call home. We're working on trapping them and getting them fixed, and they may just end up as mascots for the restaurant as they get more brave and come out from under the building to play and get used to people. Thanks for all you do. Keep up the amazing work. And these kittens are so sweet.
Oh my gosh, they're adorable. And I love restaurant mascot kittens. Right. By the way, I am 100% in approval of this. When we went to when I go on vacation, a lot, a lot of the places will have like the cat. Mhm. And like, I'll see the cat every night in the same place. Yeah, I love it. Next up from Krista Pronoun. She and her I've been listening for some time now, but I've never written in. Even though I enjoy all the podcasts and everyone else's good news, I finally have something newsworthy of sharing, so I thought I'd write you to tell you about it. But first, the backstory. I'm a teacher and I love my job. When I was 24, I was really sick, and when the doctors finally figured out what was wrong, they said I wasn't going to make it. I asked how long, and they said, if there's anything you need to do, now is the Time Lord. I told them I wanted to get my doctorate, and they said I'd never lived to see the end of it, but they wished me luck. So I quit my job and went to get my degree. I saw doctors at, uh, all of the major research hospitals around the country and enrolled in whatever treatment was available. It wasn't cancer, in case you're wondering. It's more of a lifelong thing. I was told two more times I'd never lived to see the end of treatment or the cure, but here I am killing it 20 some years later. Wow. All of this to say, I got that doctorate.
Nice.
But I acquired massive student loan debt that I was sure I would die with. But this weekend, I got the news. All of my loans have been forgiven.
Wow.
Every last dime. It was almost $200,000. I cried at the kitchen table with joy and relief. I can get a car loan, a house loan, or move jobs if I want. So much freedom for all the little things that I couldn't do before. I've paid on the loans that I took for 13 years. And I owed more than I borrowed. So I just wanted to see if you could please let the Biden administration know how grateful I am. I just want them to know that with all of the little people like me, that we're grateful for this huge impact that they have, uh, that it has on daily life. I don't know what the future will bring for me, but I know it won't be crushing debt and an inability to meet my family's needs. Oh, and I called my republican relatives just to let them know because, well, yeah, I'm that bitch. Fuck you.
Oh, my God, Krista.
Uh, you know, somebody wrote in recently and was, like, really, uh, like, kind of offended that John Fugelsan calls me Miss Gill instead of doctor Gill. And I wrote back and I said, I only make republicans call me doctor Gillian for pod pet tax. Krista's including a picture of her dog, Scoog. That's a great name. His ears give him away so you don't need to guess his breed. He's a Frenchie. He's a french bulldog. Thank you for all you do. Please keep bringing us the good news. With all the swearing, my sanity depends on it. I'm a teacher, after all. Thank you for your service, Krista.
This is awesome, this whole submission. Congratulations on getting the loans and also for, like, beating the odds. Like, keep on surviving. Enjoy every moment of this. I'm so glad you're getting more time on this earth with us.
Incredible. And this dog is beautiful. Like, that looks like the softest little forehead wrinkles ever.
Oh, that was the cutest goddamn puppy on the planet. They're so sweet.
Adorable. Thank you, everyone, for we got two student debt relief stories today. There's so many out there. Um, please send them in to us along with any other good news you have. Seriously, anything you can think of that's a little uplifting, even if you just want to write in and tell us something amazing about yourself and attach your baby picture just for good measure.
Loves those.
Yeah, just do it@dailybeanspod.com. And click on contact. Do, uh, you have any final thoughts before we get out of here for the day, my friend?
No, not for today.
All right, well, you have a wonderful rest of your day, and the rest of you have a wonderful rest of your day. We'll be back in your ears tomorrow. Until then, please take care of yourself. Take care of each other. Take care of the planet. Take care of your mental health. Take care of your family.
Vote blue over Q and you know what? Take all that family with you.
Every single one of them.
I've been ag and I've been dG.
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