April 9, 2025 • 36 mins
In this episode of 'The Civil Union' podcast, hosts Alex and Ryan, a married couple from a conservative state, return after a two-week hiatus. They share personal updates, including birthday celebrations, movie nights, and dining experiences, before diving into current political discussions. Topics include the erratic schedules of movie theaters, outrageous posts from Trump's Truth Social platform, political maneuverings in the Republican party, and a controversial military planning breach via a group chat among top officials. The episode also touches on state legislation, amusing lawsuits, and lighter stories, such as Robert Irwin's modeling photos.
00:00 Introduction to the Civil Union Podcast
00:38 Catching Up After a Hiatus
00:48 Birthday Celebrations and Social Activities
06:12 Voting Day and Local Elections
07:34 Exploring Truth Social and Its Wild Posts
17:43 Illegal Group Chats and Judge Boberg's Workload
18:54 Senator Murkowski's Concerns and Republican Colleagues
20:40 Political Dynamics and Responsibilities
23:15 Mid-Episode Game: Red State, Blue State, No State
30:27 Greenland Trip and JD Vance's Role
34:20 Lighter Stories: Starbucks Lawsuit and Robert Irwin
36:00 Closing Remarks and Social Media Plugs
Music: What's The Angle? by Shane Ivers -
https://www.silvermansound.com
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Welcome to the Civil Union, thepodcast where politics meets
partnership.
We're Alex and Ryan, a marriedcouple, navigating life and
debates in a conservative state.
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Well, we're back after a twoweek hiatus.
Yeah.
It's given people some time toget caught up.
I feel like we've been so busy.
Yeah, we've been really busy.
I mean, it was uh, a birthdayweek.
We celebrated my birthday Ariesseason.
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Yeah.
You're getting old just like me.
Yeah.
I'm still younger than youthough.
So it was a good week though.
I mean, um, you know, very lowkey and that's exactly what I
wanted.
So it was very nice.
Yeah, we've had, we've beendoing some TV shows.
We've been doing some movies.
We've been getting some dinnerswith friends.
We've been pretty active.
Oh, and a few city, a couplecity games I believe.
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Um, which were always fun.
But yeah.
We went to this place calledLouie and it was really good in
St.
Louis.
and I don't really go to like.
Really fancy places like that,but it was actually one of those
places you're like, okay, thisis actually worth it.
It was really good.
Oh, it was so good.
And I'm also still like on thishealth kick, so I got like
mussles there, so that wasreally good.
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And yeah.
Yeah.
Louis, we should go again babe.
And I've been trying, you know,movie theaters are having a
weird moment.
I tried subscribing to the AlamoDraft house thing where I like
go, you could like pay a monthlyfee and you can go whenever you
want.
Thinking that I would utilize itand I'm just, I'm still.
I'm trying to see if I'llutilize it, but theaters, I
don't know if anyone else hasnoticed this, but their hours
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are so weird now.
They used to show movies duringthe day.
Now it's only like if you lookonline, like movies don't even
start showing till like five or6:00 PM which for me, working
nights it's like, well, thatdoes not do me any good.
But I, I read that there'sactually like AMO Drafthouse is
having some strikes, like movietheaters are not doing that
great, which I don't think is asurprise to anyone.
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But I went and saw a few movies.
Saw Death of A a Unicorn, whichwas really good.
And then Almo Drafthouse didthis re like re production of
Mary Ette where they likere-released it and it was so fun
to see that on the big screenagain.
But anyway.
Is that the one with Kirsten Dunin it?
Yes.
Kirsten Dunton, Justin Long orsome, no, not Justin Long.
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Um, yeah, no, but that's right.
I had to watch that for like amovie class once Rose Byrn is in
it.
And um, the girl from SuperbaSuperstar.
Um, Molly Shannon Barley.
Shannon's in it.
She's in that movie.
Um, um, Tom, uh, the Batman guythat has a deep voice everyone
thinks is hot.
He's in it.
Like there's a, oh, and the guywho played, um, gray in 50
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Shades of Gray, he's in it too.
It's like you don't realize all,all these Was he good looking?
Yeah, he sleeps with Mary in thenineties.
Uh huh.
He was in 50 Shades of Gray.
He was in 50 Shades of Gray, themovie, but he was in Mario
Antoinette as well.
Oh, he must have been very youngthen though.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
He was, he plays MarioAntoinette's like lover that she
has an affair with at a party.
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Weird.
It's like funny how when youwatch the movie, you don't
realize all these people are init, and then now that they're
all famous or gone, the biggerand better things, you go back
to a movie like that and they'relike, oh wow, this movie is like
really casted, but.
It was good.
Have you been watching the WhiteLotus?
I, so I needed to get caught up.
I did get caught up with seasontwo, which was in what?
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Italy and that was a really goodone.
But I have not watched the onein Thailand.
Oh, you need to watch season.
Three so we can talk about it onhere.
I know I'm trying to get caughtup on my Bravo shows and I'm
almost there.
I'm on Salt Lake City.
No, you need to watch seasonthree so we can discuss it like
on the next podcast episode orsomething.
'cause it's like, it needs to bediscussed.
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You know, I hear the ending wasinteresting.
It was, it was, um, I was goinginto it expecting different
things and then different thingshappened that I was not
expecting.
So.
A little bothered, but I guessthat's what you expect with
every white Lotus season.
So I will say with the secondseason, I'm not gonna spoil
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anything but one characterleaves the show and I, I
actually really love how that.
All played out because I mean,that character went through so
much and even like defeatedpeople, which was great.
And then she like did somethingto her that was so basic, but it
made, it was funny.
But anyway, I don't know if theydo the same thing in season
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three, but.
Uh, you, you watched some of theepisodes of that new Ellen
Pompeo show, uh, Dr.
Meredith Gray, it's called, uh,Good American Family.
How'd you feel about that?
Oh gosh.
I, and I love Ellen Pompeo.
I'm a big Grays fan.
I actually need to get caught upon that.
I'm like eight episodes behind,but it was okay.
I can't get into it.
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It's kind of funny.
It's a, based on a true storythough.
So I, that's on Hulu and thenalso on Apple tv.
I will have to do a mentionhere, The Studio with Seth Rogan
and Catherine O'Hara.
I mean, it's hilarious.
The first two episodes werejust, I mean.
Gold Comedy Standard.
I think Catherine O'Hara isgonna win an award.
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It, it was just such a goodshow.
So everyone should watch thestudio.
It is.
That's also very good.
It is a really good show.
And what's interesting fromthat, from like a movie person
that like looks at some of thisstuff, cinematography is great
and they have so many sceneswhere it's all one take, which
is what makes it impressive whenit comes to the comedy of it
because they do these long assshots and.
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They can't screw up.
No one can screw up theirtiming.
No one can screw up their linesand they do it so well.
I mean, they'll be walking likestudio lots or walking through
scenes and I don't think peoplerealize how difficult a scene
like that is to do.
And they do it throughout theentire show.
Like every episode has a scenelike that.
So I did have to work today andso on my commute home, I was
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like, oh, it's a voting day.
It's election day here inMissouri, April 8th, and, um.
I was like, God, should I govote?
Should I not go vote?
I was so tired on the way homeand well, I did.
It was a quick in and out fiveminute thing.
It's local elections mostly, butit's still very important to
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vote.
I don't know who's gonna win theSt.
Louis City mayor.
Uh, she's not even in our, ourarea, but I'm interested between
Kara Spencer and Tashara Jones.
I did see a big last minute pushfor Tashara Jones.
I think this will be her secondor third.
election win if she wins.
But, uh, yeah, we'll see howthat turns out.
But I did make my cast my ballottoday.
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So good for you.
Civil duty.
Did you cast your ballot?
I, it's hard for me to vote ondays like this because I work
the night before and so unless Ican get up and go, it's just
difficult, but.
You know, so that's a no.
If they had poll places open atnight, I would go.
I would be able to make it.
Or like really early in themorning, but.
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Yeah, you babe.
My gosh.
I know you're hosting apolitical podcast.
I know.
It's terrible.
If I didn't work the nightbefore, I totally would.
Yeah, I understand.
We all understand.
Life gets in the way sometimes.
Um, so, oh my, so I was veryinterested in exploring this
Truth Social site, you know,this, social media site that
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Trump launched in 2022 andessentially Trump, our wonderful
president.
Posts every like one to threehours, something crazy,
something newsworthy as always.
And it's, it's quiteentertaining.
Like people on this site areabsolutely insane.
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It's quite hilarious.
Some of the posts I've, I'veseen, I've come across and, um,
it's, it's real entertaining.
So I'm gonna.
Go ahead.
Do you feel,'cause True socialcame out because the Republicans
were trying to make their ownlittle area because they were
getting, you know, fact, youknow, fact checked on Twitter
and Facebook.
So they came up with their ownlittle website to be able to do
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that?
Well, yeah.
And he was like banned.
Yeah.
After in Insurrection X.
Now that.
Elon, whatever his name is, isin his pocket.
I'd be curious if they startposting more on X and Truth
Social kind of phases out ornot.
I don't know.
I'd be, because that was thewhole point of it.
And you would, he's all aboutsupporting his stupid friend.
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But anyway.
Yeah.
So I'm gonna read some of theposts.
Word for word.
So this isn't gonna make senseto anybody.
I have about four of'em, butthey are just wild.
Okay, so here we go.
This is the first post I comeacross.
Okay.
And I'm only, I was only on thissite for like two days and it's
just, I couldn't get off of itbecause I was just like in awe,
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like of reading these people'sposts.
So here's the first one.
I was talking to some friendsabout this pyramid thing and
what is underneath it and howthese pyramids are the tip of
something.
They say now much bigger thananything on earth.
We don't even have technology tobuild anything like it.
Egypt never has nor any of thecivilizations where these
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wonders of the world are.
We barely have a glimpse.
I was thinking how God told Noahto let out all the animals and
to be fruitful and multiplythroughout, throughout Earth.
Then comes Nimrod doing theopposite.
Who's Nimrod?
I would think maybe Biden.
I don't know.
The Globalism versus nationalismfight is much deeper and darker
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than those titles.
Light verse dark.
I know Satan can only be in oneplace and not omnipresent like
our father, I think Satan spokepersonally to Nimrod.
Nimrod was trying to buildsomething that would reach even
heaven, maybe like somethingunderneath those pyramids in
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Egypt, God buried all of that,whatever it was.
And I love to know these thingsand speculate.
I love that they are seen withsatellite images, these things.
Now I tell you something, God'spromise, I.
What?
I have no fucking clue.
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I guess he thinks God buriedsomething underneath the
pyramids in Egypt.
No clue.
And who's Nimrod?
They, they, he's Nimrod talkedabout him like he is someone in
Egypt, but.
I don't think that's right.
I thought that was just someoneyou called a word.
You just called someone as likea, you know.
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Oh, Nimrod is a figure from thebook of Genesis.
Oh, it's a religious thing.
He founded cities, so he was abiblical figure.
So why do we use it as like a, Idon't know, like an A term of
stupidness?
Yeah, like you're a nimrod.
Alright.
Are you ready for the secondpost?
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't understand why it wasn'tmy body my choice when it came
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to the Covid vaccine.
They didn't care.
It was my body, my choice.
I don't understand what thedifference is.
People on the left say that notgetting a vaccine can affect
others, so it's not the same.
That's some kind of stupid thatthey think abortion won't affect
others, but not getting avaccine will well.
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It's always been my body, mychoice.
I think he doesn't realize thathe just took a stand for
abortion.
Really?
It's weird that they flippedthat.
They were saying that notgetting Eva like abortion w will
affect other people.
So that is the weirdest post inthe world.
All right.
Are you ready for the next one?
Here's number three.
Okay.
And this is a response tosomeone, uh, a user.
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I found, I, I don't have, I havescreenshots, but I don't have
like their, you know, what doyou call'em?
Handles.
I don't, I don't really careAnyway, so, alright, here's post
three.
First asshole, prove me wrong.
You tried to tell me that JoeBiden didn't open up the border
and allow murderers into murder.
Innocent Americas, huh?
Asshole.
You got stupid.
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Do you think that he didn'tlegalize drugs as they want
marijuana meth?
Whatever.
Cocaine, fentanyl, and organ.
He legalized fucking doing drugsin Oregon.
Ass swipe.
You don't think that?
He doesn't.
Hasn't freaking murdered.
Freaking North Carolina ChimneyRock people for lithium in the
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mountains.
Literally.
Kamala Harris is the one thatsigned off to her husband, but
who do you think owns stock andDan Garden?
Black Rock.
That's right.
The Clintons.
The Obamas, Joe Biden, KamalaHarris.
That's right.
Ass swipe.
Now you're gonna tell me theycan't modify whether there's no
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such thing as go fuck yourself.
Go question mark.
Fuck yourself.
There's so much hate in that po.
Like this person literally wentfrom the border to murderers and
drug dealers in Oregon to.
Oregon across the US to NorthCarolina.
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Then he concluded it with allthe democratic presidents about
something.
He rounded it out with a goquestion mark.
Fuck yourself.
Do they not have a word count ontrue social?
I, I guess they don't.
I, yeah, because that was along, that's a lot.
I can do that much why I haven'tposted, but interesting.
My gosh.
I guess I can post somethingreally, really stupid and get
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like a shit ton of likes.
Alright, this is the last one.
Planet a globe.
We called earth, not planet.
We sit flat, plain.
We have the fert.
God put there, have ice walks.
We have other continents pasticed wall.
By way, after all that, shut thefuck up, dummy.
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Not interested.
What the fuck you've got to saynow?
Put a sock in it.
It's spin.
Put front face.
It's okay.
I like teaching truth, not.
Talk to yourself.
Is that about, that has to beabout like global warming, but
again, have no idea what he'stalking about.
It was like a flat earth.
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Ice walks and then socks.
But planet, a globe we callEarth, my God.
And that's our president's.
I'm sure there's a lot of stupidshit on, you know, clearly there
is like on X and Facebook andall that.
But these, these things I were,I was literally scrolling by and
I was like, wow, like, um, youcan't make this up.
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I mean, these are the followers,these are his followers.
Posting.
It's wild.
You gotta think too, if you'rein on that site, in that eco
echo chamber surrounded by allthese idiots, what does that do
to your brain?
I mean.
Uh, you'd start believing someof this stuff.
Like I almost wanna startlooking in the pyramids and
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seeing what's underneath them.
I'm interested in what'sunderneath the pyramids too,
actually.
But there's nothing, I mean,there's obviously, there's stuff
underneath the, well, the, thereis nimrod, well there is things
under the pyramids, like tunnelsand like, um, burial sites.
Like there are things underneathpyramids, but they're not like
civilizations underneathpyramids.
But then he said satelliteimages are now.
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Seen it and it's like, wellwe've had satellites for like,
you know, 70 years and I've seenthat show at least where they
like take a photo of these old,old things and they can see
through'em and see all thesethings they didn't see before.
It's really cool, but like theyhaven't seen any of that.
That's so strange.
Yeah.
So anyway, during our hiatus, Ilove that we can say hiatus.
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Um, during the hiatus, the WhiteHouse confirmed an extraordinary
breach of security involving topgovernment offices, which
included.
VP JD Vance and defensesecretary Pete Hegseth, I can't
say that name ever.
Pete Hegseth Hegseth, whodiscussed plans for military
strikes on Yemen in a groupchat, on a commercial messaging
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app that inadvertently includedthe top editor of News
Organization, the Atlantic.
The world found out shortlybefore 2:00 PM Eastern Time on
March 15th.
That the US was bombing healthytargets across Yemen.
The news organization, theAtlantic, knew about this two
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hours before the first bombsexploded.
The uh.
During that attack?
Yeah, I, this whole situationwas crazy.
I had read that they were doinggovernment business over signal
to specifically avoid federalrecord keeping laws, and it
wasn't just Pete and JD Vance.
This group message also includedMarco Rubio, CIA Director, John
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Ratcliffe, and Director ofNational Intelligence.
Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
There's already a lawsuit.
Well, there, you know, I wouldbe curious where this lawsuit is
now from the Watchdog Group.
American Oversight, because thiswent against the Federal Records
Act.
let's be very clear.
This wasn't a technical slip up.
These were top officialsdeliberately choosing the
conduct classified militaryplanning over a third party.
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App and it's important to note,just to throw it out there, this
little signal group chat wasonly caught because of the
incompetence of the membersadding an actual journalist into
the chat.
So how many other potentialillegal group chats.
May exist or have existed.
Judge Boberg is handling thislawsuit and he's the same judge
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handling the deportationflights.
Whole situation from ElSalvador.
God, I would hate to have hisworkload, because that's a lot
already on his plate.
But this reminds me of HillaryClinton emails.
The difference is Clinton used aprivate server.
For mostly unclassified statedepartment business with a
handful of retroactivelyclassified emails found in that
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mix.
While these guys are literallyplanning military strikes over
signal, including operationaldetails, so sensitive, that
journalists won't even publish'em, and they did it
specifically to dodge bothsecurity protocols and federal
record laws, that's not verycomforting.
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Anyway.
Yeah, and they're just gonnabury the hatchet like they do
with everything else, andthey'll probably do it again.
They're probably still doing it.
They're probably still utilizingsignal because they're idiots.
You're only like, it's April.
We're, what is this month?
Like three now for thisadministration?
It's wild.
Or maybe they'll start messagingeach other on X.
Yes, right.
Or true social actually.
Um, so this, this story nowleads us into something that
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Senator Wright, Alaska, SenatorLisa Murkowski said about her
Republican colleagues.
She said that they are afraid ofTrump and Musk warning that.
She could face an expensiveprimary challenge of this
administration.
Well, sorry lady.
I mean, she, she also says thatthey're looking at how many
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things are being thrown at me.
That's why you got everybody'szip lip not saying a word
because they're afraid they'regoing to be taken down.
She's talking about colleaguesand her, her Republican
colleagues are zip lipped,tightlipped, and they're not
saying anything.
Um, about what's going on inthis administration right now
because they're scared of beingattacked not only by the
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administration, but by theirvoters, because their voters are
absolutely brainwashed.
But maybe that's just theproblem.
People like power and nooffense, why won't The Pope just
retire.
I mean, he was in the hospitalfor several weeks even on a
ventilator.
Then they rolled him out infront of everyone and he didn't
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look healthy.
It's also like, hmm.
Joe Biden said he was gonna be aa one-term president.
He should have stepped aside atthe appropriate amount of time
and let the Democrats have morethan 120 days to get their shit
together and not allow Trump totake office for a second.
Time.
But this also begs the question,why the hell didn't Republicans
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get their shit together during,you know, the Biden
administration are hissupporters really that
brainwashed?
It's kind of scary how easy itis to manipulate the.
General American population.
Well, and it also seems likethese politicians, and it's
funny'cause I feel like this isprobably a learning, learning
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thing, but the governmentdoesn't move forward because so
many people are only looking outfor themselves.
They, they are only worriedabout their own elections, their
own seats, and so no one wantsto talk.
So then you review this.
Allows people to get away withthis.
Administration allows withgetting away with all these
things because people are tooafraid to talk.
It's like a vicious cycle.
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But anyway, you know this wholething with Murkowski, she has
said her stances aren'tnecessarily anti-Trump.
They're actual concerns aboutnot supporting Ukraine or
pulling out of nato.
She's standing against policies,not a person.
She, which is the right thing todo.
She was quoted saying, I amstanding up for my role as a.
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Dually elected senator and amember of the congressional
branch standing up for myresponsibilities under the
Constitution.
And I think I can do thatwithout it being interpreted
that I'm against Trump.
So, which I mean, I guess whatI'm.
What I'm trying to bring up ispeople like Murkowski, people
like Liz Cheney, theseRepublicans harken back to a
time where being a Republicandidn't mean you just 100%
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followed one person.
Being a Democrat didn't mean youwere 100, a hundred percent
following another person.
They are voicing concerns overpolicies and are getting
pushback, which just makesabsolutely no sense.
They should be allowed to talkand push back against an
administration and not be afraidthat it's gonna affect their
election situation.
Right.
Yeah.
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So the Republican Senator.
Has long been an outlier.
Among her conference, she brokefrom Trump multiple times on
confirmation battles andcriticized the widespread cuts
made by the Doge situation.
Murkowski did leave the dooropen to switching her
registration to become anindependent if she made the
switch.
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She would still caucus withRepublicans, which would
effectively making her changingher registration.
Just symbolic essentially.
I think the S Murkowski story,just in general, yes, it, you
know, happened a week or twoago, but this is gonna continue
happening.
It'll be very interesting tosee.
What other politicians in theRepublican sphere this will
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affect because they are in thisbetween a rock and a hard place.
And it's gonna be interesting tosee who has the guts to kind of
stand up for,'cause you allthese people are upset.
All these town halls are crazy.
Like at some point some of themare gonna have to voice what
they believe in and are theygonna stand with a person or are
they gonna stand with their.
What their role is as acongressional, you know, as a,
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as a elected official.
So anyway, yeah.
Alright, time for, uh, midepisode break, mid episode game
time.
So we're gonna be bringing backthe red state, blue state, no
state.
I think it's a good, we'rehaving a good run with it.
And it's fun to come up withsome of these.
So we're gonna play that today.
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Are you ready to lose?
I am ready to win.
Okay, so we'll start the firstone, this state has banned
public school systems fromteaching.
Any lessons about climatechange?
Red State, blue State, or no?
State?
Texas.
So Red State.
Red State.
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You got the Red State right, butit's actually Oklahoma back in
2022.
Oh, probably by that RyanWalters guy that we had an
episode on probably.
I wonder if that had anything todo with it.
Probably Ryan Walters.
He's such an idiot.
This state is the, by the way,that's funny about the climate
change because Oklahoma has hadso much.
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When we lived there, there wasso many earthquakes from
fracking.
There's.
Tornadoes like crazy.
Like it's funny how the onestate not teaching climate
change is probably the one thatis it all?
Well, they're all greatlyaffected, but I think bad
state's really affected byclimate change.
But anyway, this state is thefirst to implement a law that
guarantees free publictransportation to all students
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through high school.
Red State, blue state, or nostate.
I'm gonna say no state.
Blue state.
Ooh.
Okay.
So Oregon.
Correct.
Oh my God, really?
Wow.
Yeah, Oregon.
How random Oregon has.
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Yeah.
Well it says, we talked aboutthat true social guy.
I mean, maybe he knowssomething.
I mean, I mean, but the, thebill was house bill 2 8 8 2 back
in 2019, which is a great, Idon't think I've ever gotten the
state.
I get the regions.
But I don't get the statesright.
Moving on in this state, a statesenator proposed replacing their
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public libraries with Amazongift cards instead, red State,
blue State, or no state.
No state.
Correct.
I made that up, but I, I wouldnot put it past somebody to do
that.
Um, alright.
This state passed a law thatmandates all businesses with 50
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or more employees must providefree therapy for their workers
every month.
Red State, blue State, or noState, blue State.
It's in fact no state.
Oh, okay.
But I love that idea.
I was gonna say, California,everyone should be given
therapy.
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Next.
This state passed a ban on bookbans, allowing libraries to have
more control over thatsituation.
Red State, blue state, or nostate?
Wait, what did they do?
This state passed a ban on bookbans, allowing libraries to have
more control.
So book bans, you know.
Oh, a ban on book bands.
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Red state, blue state, or nostate?
Well, that's definitely a bluestate.
Alright.
What state?
New York.
Illinois, Illinois, and it was ablue state.
In 2023, governor Pritzkersupposedly passed this bill, and
other states are trying to passsimilar bills because of what
they did.
So Illinois kind of paved theway for that idea of banning on
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book bans, which I think isgreat.
I think libraries should havemore control over that on their
own, because some books arebanned for the most stupid
reasons.
All right, moving on.
In this state, it's illegal totake a selfie with a tiger.
Red state, blue state, or noState?
Red state.
It's blue state.
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It's illegal to take a picturewith a tiger.
Mm-hmm Hmm.
I'm gonna do Colorado.
New York.
Hmm.
In 2014, it's specifically, Ihad to look this up because I
was like, that sounds weird.
For those tiger selfies.
People do, like, we know someonethat did it with a white tiger.
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Um, with the tiger, likephysically with them interacting
with them, they're saying it'sanimal cruelty.
Um, it.
Isn't really healthy for bothpeople involved.
The the person or the animal.
So they just outlawed it, whichis I agree with actually.
Alright.
I mean, I don't plan takingphotos with tigers anytime soon.
Right.
I don't know.
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I don't know the whole idea ofthat.
Yeah.
Why people wanna do that, huh?
Anyway, in this state, it'sillegal to keep your holiday
decorations up after January14th.
Red State?
Blue state?
Or no state?
No State.
Blue State.
I am gonna go withMassachusetts, Maine.
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Maine.
That's the region?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
You got one region?
Fascinating.
I got two, three regions on thisone, Oregon.
Oklahoma, but it was, I saidTexas.
Yeah, keep going.
I actually don't mind whenpeople leave their decorations
up.
It's kind of fun to like drivearound.
You just see random Christmaslights up in like February.
I don't know.
In this state, citizens mustcomplete a yearly mental health
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screening and provide proof ofcounseling to receive their
annual tax refund.
Red state, blue state, or nostate?
No state.
Correct.
It's no state.
I made that up, but I thinkthat's also a good idea and I
think it'd be interesting howmany people don't pass their,
that mental health screeningall.
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In this state, this is our lastone.
In this state, anyone caughtusing a plastic straw is
required to perform 10 hours ofcommunity service to promote
environmental awareness.
Red state, blue state, or nostate?
Well, I'm gonna say no state.
Or is it a thing?
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What was that?
Your final answer?
Final answer is no state.
Yes, it's no state.
Okay.
I was gonna say, huh?
I can see like San Franciscodoing that, you know?
Yes.
But yeah, I agree.
I, I agree with the whole noplastic straws thing.
I just don't like whenbusinesses don't give you any
straw, like.
Let us pay for a straw.
I'll buy a silicone straw fromyou, but I don't need, I like
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using a straw.
I mean, I like using plasticstraws.
I'm sorry.
I know, I don't mind it.
I like Starbucks as the onesthat they like compost
compostable.
They're not fully paper, butthey're not fully plastic.
I like that.
Like material used.
No, you know, it was that turtlephoto, I think that was taken in
like 2008 with the straw on thenose that caused the whole, you
know, straw controversy.
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But I briefly lived in Floridafor a few years and.
I would walk on the beach andthere were little caps all over
the beach, not straws, but capsfrom water bottles.
And I tell the story all thetime and I was surprised that no
one has ran with the the waterbottle caps, because those were
just.
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Everywhere.
It was wild.
Well, I think certain sodacompanies, I feel like Pepsi,
maybe their soda caps areactually biodegradable now or
something.
I don't know.
I'll have to look in that.
Huh.
Okay.
So, um, during our hiatus wealso saw a, a green lip tr
Greenland trip take place wheresecond Lady, Usha Vance went to
Greenland and it basicallypissed everyone off there.
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They don't want to become anAmerican territory.
They're not asking for it.
They've never asked for it.
Why do they want to become anAmerican territory?
I mean, as a Democrat, everyoneis welcome here.
Everyone should become anAmerican.
But like literally, Greenlanddidn't do anything.
Why do we want it?
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They, and if you think about it,if we take Greenland, poor
Canada is gonna be surrounded bythree sides of American
territories.
You know, you got Alaska to thewest.
The US to the continental 48states to the south.
And then if we take Greenland, Imean that basically surrounds
Canada.
And Canada doesn't want tobecome a state, by the way, they
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have universal healthcare.
And I don't see reports ofpeople getting kicked off their
health insurances or dyingbecause they can't afford their
medical bills.
It's so pathetic.
This administration needs to go.
But I did see during thisGreenland tri, I did see a photo
op where both the vs.
we're like speaking inGreenland, and one point I'll
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make, where was JD Vance's suit?
I mean, he berated thatUkrainian president for not
wearing a suit.
And two, the second lady waswearing these really hot unisex
RayBan sunglasses.
The same ones that I've had forover a year now.
Well, I got'em last June.
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And it was real concerning.
It was a real concerning momentfor me because I was like, oh, I
wear the same sunglasses as her,but I'm still wearing them
though.
At least she has good taste andstyle, I guess.
But while all this is going on.
The RNC made JD Vance a part oftheir finance chair.
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JD Vance has been tapped toserve as a top fundraiser at the
Republican National for theRepublican National Committee,
and another sign that he iscementing his status as the
quote unquote torch bearer ofTrump's Make America a great
again movement.
It's the first time in the RNCshistory that a sitting VP has
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held the position of financechair giving Vance a prominent
direct role in next year'smidterm elections, and helping
him build ties with topRepublican donors.
I guess since.
Elon Musk is doing JD Vance'sjob.
They needed to find a role forJD Vance to fill.
I guess that sounds like aconflict of interest.
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It's so weird that JD Vancewould be in charge of that.
I have no idea.
It's, it just benefits him.
Yeah.
Also, I like your sunglasses,your little ray bands that you
wear.
It would be interesting to seeif RayBan actually gave them to
her, or if she actually boughtthem.
I'd be curious if RayBan'ssupporting this presidency or
not.
But anyway, this appointment isthe latest.
Demonstration JD Vance'sappointment with the RNC.
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Um, you know, of how Vance isbeing embraced by many in
Trump's orbit as his heirapparent more than three years
before the 2028 election, the USConstitution bars Trump.
So far from running for thirdterm, though he has repeatedly
teased the prospect of remainingin office.
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Nevertheless, an open GOPprimary will likely draw a long
list of contenders, but severalof the party's most prominent
voices have been openly pushingfor Vance during an appearance.
Trump's eldest son Donald TrumpJr.
Who has his own loyal followingcalled Vance, the only
impressive vice president of mylifetime, which I highly.
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Doubt and I don't agree with.
Okay, so some lighter stories toclose this episode out.
Uh, Starbucks had to pay a$50million law lawsuit over hot
tea.
It like, did you hear aboutthis?
No.
It like spill, like, so like thegirls like handing the drink
out, the drive through windowand this like hot tea.
(34:38):
It's very hot water spilt onthis guy's d and he had to get
like multiple, like.
Surgeries, like skin grafts andhe got$50 million.
That is insane.
Did he just not grab itcorrectly from her?
Like what's the story there?
I guess the lid fell.
I have no idea.
But that was a story that I waslike, huh, fascinating.
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$50 million.
Weird.
And then did you, do you, do youknow who Robert Irwin is?
No, it's Steve Irwin's.
Yeah, his son.
Son.
Okay.
Oh my gosh.
He just released some likemodeling photos, uh, doing this
like underwear brand calledBonds underwear.
I highly recommend everyone togo search these photos of Robert
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Irwin.
I mean, he's like, does he anAnaconda?
He has like a snake.
He has like all these animals onhim and he's just like in his
underwear and it's, uh.
Fascinating very down under.
Yeah, let's, I really, reallylike Robert Irwin and his, um,
sister.
The fact that they keep, like,have been kind of living his
(35:42):
legacy.
They do a lot of nature thingsand even have their own shows, I
think like they're really likerunning with it, which is really
cute.
Oh yeah.
It's a great, great family.
And it was so sad about Stevedying, like, what is that in
like 2007 or something?
I know from a.
Stingray from Stingray.
Yeah.
But, but yeah.
Robert Irwin, I have not seenthem and I will have to go check
it out.
All right.
Well, we're gonna, while he goesto do that, we're gonna close
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Well, we're back after a twoweek hiatus.
Yeah.
It's given people some time toget caught up.
I feel like we've been so busy.
Yeah, we've been really busy.
I mean, it was uh, a birthdayweek.
We celebrated my birthday Ariesseason.
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Yeah.
You're getting old just like me.
Yeah.
I'm still younger than youthough.
So it was a good week though.
I mean, um, you know, very lowkey and that's exactly what I
wanted.
So it was very nice.
Yeah, we've had, we've beendoing some TV shows.
We've been doing some movies.
We've been getting some dinnerswith friends.
We've been pretty active.
Oh, and a few city, a couplecity games I believe.
(01:17):
Um, which were always fun.
But yeah.
We went to this place calledLouie and it was really good in
St.
Louis.
and I don't really go to like.
Really fancy places like that,but it was actually one of those
places you're like, okay, thisis actually worth it.
It was really good.
Oh, it was so good.
And I'm also still like on thishealth kick, so I got like
mussles there, so that wasreally good.
(01:38):
And yeah.
Yeah.
Louis, we should go again babe.
And I've been trying, you know,movie theaters are having a
weird moment.
I tried subscribing to the AlamoDraft house thing where I like
go, you could like pay a monthlyfee and you can go whenever you
want.
Thinking that I would utilize itand I'm just, I'm still.
I'm trying to see if I'llutilize it, but theaters, I
don't know if anyone else hasnoticed this, but their hours
(02:00):
are so weird now.
They used to show movies duringthe day.
Now it's only like if you lookonline, like movies don't even
start showing till like five or6:00 PM which for me, working
nights it's like, well, thatdoes not do me any good.
But I, I read that there'sactually like AMO Drafthouse is
having some strikes, like movietheaters are not doing that
great, which I don't think is asurprise to anyone.
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But I went and saw a few movies.
Saw Death of A a Unicorn, whichwas really good.
And then Almo Drafthouse didthis re like re production of
Mary Ette where they likere-released it and it was so fun
to see that on the big screenagain.
But anyway.
Is that the one with Kirsten Dunin it?
Yes.
Kirsten Dunton, Justin Long orsome, no, not Justin Long.
(02:43):
Um, yeah, no, but that's right.
I had to watch that for like amovie class once Rose Byrn is in
it.
And um, the girl from SuperbaSuperstar.
Um, Molly Shannon Barley.
Shannon's in it.
She's in that movie.
Um, um, Tom, uh, the Batman guythat has a deep voice everyone
thinks is hot.
He's in it.
Like there's a, oh, and the guywho played, um, gray in 50
(03:04):
Shades of Gray, he's in it too.
It's like you don't realize all,all these Was he good looking?
Yeah, he sleeps with Mary in thenineties.
Uh huh.
He was in 50 Shades of Gray.
He was in 50 Shades of Gray, themovie, but he was in Mario
Antoinette as well.
Oh, he must have been very youngthen though.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
He was, he plays MarioAntoinette's like lover that she
has an affair with at a party.
(03:26):
Weird.
It's like funny how when youwatch the movie, you don't
realize all these people are init, and then now that they're
all famous or gone, the biggerand better things, you go back
to a movie like that and they'relike, oh wow, this movie is like
really casted, but.
It was good.
Have you been watching the WhiteLotus?
I, so I needed to get caught up.
I did get caught up with seasontwo, which was in what?
(03:49):
Italy and that was a really goodone.
But I have not watched the onein Thailand.
Oh, you need to watch season.
Three so we can talk about it onhere.
I know I'm trying to get caughtup on my Bravo shows and I'm
almost there.
I'm on Salt Lake City.
No, you need to watch seasonthree so we can discuss it like
on the next podcast episode orsomething.
'cause it's like, it needs to bediscussed.
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You know, I hear the ending wasinteresting.
It was, it was, um, I was goinginto it expecting different
things and then different thingshappened that I was not
expecting.
So.
A little bothered, but I guessthat's what you expect with
every white Lotus season.
So I will say with the secondseason, I'm not gonna spoil
(04:33):
anything but one characterleaves the show and I, I
actually really love how that.
All played out because I mean,that character went through so
much and even like defeatedpeople, which was great.
And then she like did somethingto her that was so basic, but it
made, it was funny.
But anyway, I don't know if theydo the same thing in season
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three, but.
Uh, you, you watched some of theepisodes of that new Ellen
Pompeo show, uh, Dr.
Meredith Gray, it's called, uh,Good American Family.
How'd you feel about that?
Oh gosh.
I, and I love Ellen Pompeo.
I'm a big Grays fan.
I actually need to get caught upon that.
I'm like eight episodes behind,but it was okay.
I can't get into it.
(05:15):
It's kind of funny.
It's a, based on a true storythough.
So I, that's on Hulu and thenalso on Apple tv.
I will have to do a mentionhere, The Studio with Seth Rogan
and Catherine O'Hara.
I mean, it's hilarious.
The first two episodes werejust, I mean.
Gold Comedy Standard.
I think Catherine O'Hara isgonna win an award.
(05:35):
It, it was just such a goodshow.
So everyone should watch thestudio.
It is.
That's also very good.
It is a really good show.
And what's interesting fromthat, from like a movie person
that like looks at some of thisstuff, cinematography is great
and they have so many sceneswhere it's all one take, which
is what makes it impressive whenit comes to the comedy of it
because they do these long assshots and.
(05:57):
They can't screw up.
No one can screw up theirtiming.
No one can screw up their linesand they do it so well.
I mean, they'll be walking likestudio lots or walking through
scenes and I don't think peoplerealize how difficult a scene
like that is to do.
And they do it throughout theentire show.
Like every episode has a scenelike that.
So I did have to work today andso on my commute home, I was
(06:17):
like, oh, it's a voting day.
It's election day here inMissouri, April 8th, and, um.
I was like, God, should I govote?
Should I not go vote?
I was so tired on the way homeand well, I did.
It was a quick in and out fiveminute thing.
It's local elections mostly, butit's still very important to
(06:38):
vote.
I don't know who's gonna win theSt.
Louis City mayor.
Uh, she's not even in our, ourarea, but I'm interested between
Kara Spencer and Tashara Jones.
I did see a big last minute pushfor Tashara Jones.
I think this will be her secondor third.
election win if she wins.
But, uh, yeah, we'll see howthat turns out.
But I did make my cast my ballottoday.
(07:01):
So good for you.
Civil duty.
Did you cast your ballot?
I, it's hard for me to vote ondays like this because I work
the night before and so unless Ican get up and go, it's just
difficult, but.
You know, so that's a no.
If they had poll places open atnight, I would go.
I would be able to make it.
Or like really early in themorning, but.
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Yeah, you babe.
My gosh.
I know you're hosting apolitical podcast.
I know.
It's terrible.
If I didn't work the nightbefore, I totally would.
Yeah, I understand.
We all understand.
Life gets in the way sometimes.
Um, so, oh my, so I was veryinterested in exploring this
Truth Social site, you know,this, social media site that
(07:44):
Trump launched in 2022 andessentially Trump, our wonderful
president.
Posts every like one to threehours, something crazy,
something newsworthy as always.
And it's, it's quiteentertaining.
Like people on this site areabsolutely insane.
(08:05):
It's quite hilarious.
Some of the posts I've, I'veseen, I've come across and, um,
it's, it's real entertaining.
So I'm gonna.
Go ahead.
Do you feel,'cause True socialcame out because the Republicans
were trying to make their ownlittle area because they were
getting, you know, fact, youknow, fact checked on Twitter
and Facebook.
So they came up with their ownlittle website to be able to do
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that?
Well, yeah.
And he was like banned.
Yeah.
After in Insurrection X.
Now that.
Elon, whatever his name is, isin his pocket.
I'd be curious if they startposting more on X and Truth
Social kind of phases out ornot.
I don't know.
I'd be, because that was thewhole point of it.
And you would, he's all aboutsupporting his stupid friend.
(08:46):
But anyway.
Yeah.
So I'm gonna read some of theposts.
Word for word.
So this isn't gonna make senseto anybody.
I have about four of'em, butthey are just wild.
Okay, so here we go.
This is the first post I comeacross.
Okay.
And I'm only, I was only on thissite for like two days and it's
just, I couldn't get off of itbecause I was just like in awe,
(09:09):
like of reading these people'sposts.
So here's the first one.
I was talking to some friendsabout this pyramid thing and
what is underneath it and howthese pyramids are the tip of
something.
They say now much bigger thananything on earth.
We don't even have technology tobuild anything like it.
Egypt never has nor any of thecivilizations where these
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wonders of the world are.
We barely have a glimpse.
I was thinking how God told Noahto let out all the animals and
to be fruitful and multiplythroughout, throughout Earth.
Then comes Nimrod doing theopposite.
Who's Nimrod?
I would think maybe Biden.
I don't know.
The Globalism versus nationalismfight is much deeper and darker
(09:57):
than those titles.
Light verse dark.
I know Satan can only be in oneplace and not omnipresent like
our father, I think Satan spokepersonally to Nimrod.
Nimrod was trying to buildsomething that would reach even
heaven, maybe like somethingunderneath those pyramids in
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Egypt, God buried all of that,whatever it was.
And I love to know these thingsand speculate.
I love that they are seen withsatellite images, these things.
Now I tell you something, God'spromise, I.
What?
I have no fucking clue.
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I guess he thinks God buriedsomething underneath the
pyramids in Egypt.
No clue.
And who's Nimrod?
They, they, he's Nimrod talkedabout him like he is someone in
Egypt, but.
I don't think that's right.
I thought that was just someoneyou called a word.
You just called someone as likea, you know.
(11:04):
Oh, Nimrod is a figure from thebook of Genesis.
Oh, it's a religious thing.
He founded cities, so he was abiblical figure.
So why do we use it as like a, Idon't know, like an A term of
stupidness?
Yeah, like you're a nimrod.
Alright.
Are you ready for the secondpost?
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't understand why it wasn'tmy body my choice when it came
(11:27):
to the Covid vaccine.
They didn't care.
It was my body, my choice.
I don't understand what thedifference is.
People on the left say that notgetting a vaccine can affect
others, so it's not the same.
That's some kind of stupid thatthey think abortion won't affect
others, but not getting avaccine will well.
(11:50):
It's always been my body, mychoice.
I think he doesn't realize thathe just took a stand for
abortion.
Really?
It's weird that they flippedthat.
They were saying that notgetting Eva like abortion w will
affect other people.
So that is the weirdest post inthe world.
All right.
Are you ready for the next one?
Here's number three.
Okay.
And this is a response tosomeone, uh, a user.
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I found, I, I don't have, I havescreenshots, but I don't have
like their, you know, what doyou call'em?
Handles.
I don't, I don't really careAnyway, so, alright, here's post
three.
First asshole, prove me wrong.
You tried to tell me that JoeBiden didn't open up the border
and allow murderers into murder.
Innocent Americas, huh?
Asshole.
You got stupid.
(12:33):
Do you think that he didn'tlegalize drugs as they want
marijuana meth?
Whatever.
Cocaine, fentanyl, and organ.
He legalized fucking doing drugsin Oregon.
Ass swipe.
You don't think that?
He doesn't.
Hasn't freaking murdered.
Freaking North Carolina ChimneyRock people for lithium in the
(12:53):
mountains.
Literally.
Kamala Harris is the one thatsigned off to her husband, but
who do you think owns stock andDan Garden?
Black Rock.
That's right.
The Clintons.
The Obamas, Joe Biden, KamalaHarris.
That's right.
Ass swipe.
Now you're gonna tell me theycan't modify whether there's no
(13:14):
such thing as go fuck yourself.
Go question mark.
Fuck yourself.
There's so much hate in that po.
Like this person literally wentfrom the border to murderers and
drug dealers in Oregon to.
Oregon across the US to NorthCarolina.
(13:35):
Then he concluded it with allthe democratic presidents about
something.
He rounded it out with a goquestion mark.
Fuck yourself.
Do they not have a word count ontrue social?
I, I guess they don't.
I, yeah, because that was along, that's a lot.
I can do that much why I haven'tposted, but interesting.
My gosh.
I guess I can post somethingreally, really stupid and get
(13:56):
like a shit ton of likes.
Alright, this is the last one.
Planet a globe.
We called earth, not planet.
We sit flat, plain.
We have the fert.
God put there, have ice walks.
We have other continents pasticed wall.
By way, after all that, shut thefuck up, dummy.
(14:18):
Not interested.
What the fuck you've got to saynow?
Put a sock in it.
It's spin.
Put front face.
It's okay.
I like teaching truth, not.
Talk to yourself.
Is that about, that has to beabout like global warming, but
again, have no idea what he'stalking about.
It was like a flat earth.
(14:39):
Ice walks and then socks.
But planet, a globe we callEarth, my God.
And that's our president's.
I'm sure there's a lot of stupidshit on, you know, clearly there
is like on X and Facebook andall that.
But these, these things I were,I was literally scrolling by and
I was like, wow, like, um, youcan't make this up.
(15:03):
I mean, these are the followers,these are his followers.
Posting.
It's wild.
You gotta think too, if you'rein on that site, in that eco
echo chamber surrounded by allthese idiots, what does that do
to your brain?
I mean.
Uh, you'd start believing someof this stuff.
Like I almost wanna startlooking in the pyramids and
(15:24):
seeing what's underneath them.
I'm interested in what'sunderneath the pyramids too,
actually.
But there's nothing, I mean,there's obviously, there's stuff
underneath the, well, the, thereis nimrod, well there is things
under the pyramids, like tunnelsand like, um, burial sites.
Like there are things underneathpyramids, but they're not like
civilizations underneathpyramids.
But then he said satelliteimages are now.
(15:44):
Seen it and it's like, wellwe've had satellites for like,
you know, 70 years and I've seenthat show at least where they
like take a photo of these old,old things and they can see
through'em and see all thesethings they didn't see before.
It's really cool, but like theyhaven't seen any of that.
That's so strange.
Yeah.
So anyway, during our hiatus, Ilove that we can say hiatus.
(16:04):
Um, during the hiatus, the WhiteHouse confirmed an extraordinary
breach of security involving topgovernment offices, which
included.
VP JD Vance and defensesecretary Pete Hegseth, I can't
say that name ever.
Pete Hegseth Hegseth, whodiscussed plans for military
strikes on Yemen in a groupchat, on a commercial messaging
(16:26):
app that inadvertently includedthe top editor of News
Organization, the Atlantic.
The world found out shortlybefore 2:00 PM Eastern Time on
March 15th.
That the US was bombing healthytargets across Yemen.
The news organization, theAtlantic, knew about this two
(16:48):
hours before the first bombsexploded.
The uh.
During that attack?
Yeah, I, this whole situationwas crazy.
I had read that they were doinggovernment business over signal
to specifically avoid federalrecord keeping laws, and it
wasn't just Pete and JD Vance.
This group message also includedMarco Rubio, CIA Director, John
(17:08):
Ratcliffe, and Director ofNational Intelligence.
Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
There's already a lawsuit.
Well, there, you know, I wouldbe curious where this lawsuit is
now from the Watchdog Group.
American Oversight, because thiswent against the Federal Records
Act.
let's be very clear.
This wasn't a technical slip up.
These were top officialsdeliberately choosing the
conduct classified militaryplanning over a third party.
(17:30):
App and it's important to note,just to throw it out there, this
little signal group chat wasonly caught because of the
incompetence of the membersadding an actual journalist into
the chat.
So how many other potentialillegal group chats.
May exist or have existed.
Judge Boberg is handling thislawsuit and he's the same judge
(17:54):
handling the deportationflights.
Whole situation from ElSalvador.
God, I would hate to have hisworkload, because that's a lot
already on his plate.
But this reminds me of HillaryClinton emails.
The difference is Clinton used aprivate server.
For mostly unclassified statedepartment business with a
handful of retroactivelyclassified emails found in that
(18:15):
mix.
While these guys are literallyplanning military strikes over
signal, including operationaldetails, so sensitive, that
journalists won't even publish'em, and they did it
specifically to dodge bothsecurity protocols and federal
record laws, that's not verycomforting.
(18:35):
Anyway.
Yeah, and they're just gonnabury the hatchet like they do
with everything else, andthey'll probably do it again.
They're probably still doing it.
They're probably still utilizingsignal because they're idiots.
You're only like, it's April.
We're, what is this month?
Like three now for thisadministration?
It's wild.
Or maybe they'll start messagingeach other on X.
Yes, right.
Or true social actually.
Um, so this, this story nowleads us into something that
(18:58):
Senator Wright, Alaska, SenatorLisa Murkowski said about her
Republican colleagues.
She said that they are afraid ofTrump and Musk warning that.
She could face an expensiveprimary challenge of this
administration.
Well, sorry lady.
I mean, she, she also says thatthey're looking at how many
(19:18):
things are being thrown at me.
That's why you got everybody'szip lip not saying a word
because they're afraid they'regoing to be taken down.
She's talking about colleaguesand her, her Republican
colleagues are zip lipped,tightlipped, and they're not
saying anything.
Um, about what's going on inthis administration right now
because they're scared of beingattacked not only by the
(19:41):
administration, but by theirvoters, because their voters are
absolutely brainwashed.
But maybe that's just theproblem.
People like power and nooffense, why won't The Pope just
retire.
I mean, he was in the hospitalfor several weeks even on a
ventilator.
Then they rolled him out infront of everyone and he didn't
(20:02):
look healthy.
It's also like, hmm.
Joe Biden said he was gonna be aa one-term president.
He should have stepped aside atthe appropriate amount of time
and let the Democrats have morethan 120 days to get their shit
together and not allow Trump totake office for a second.
Time.
But this also begs the question,why the hell didn't Republicans
(20:25):
get their shit together during,you know, the Biden
administration are hissupporters really that
brainwashed?
It's kind of scary how easy itis to manipulate the.
General American population.
Well, and it also seems likethese politicians, and it's
funny'cause I feel like this isprobably a learning, learning
(20:46):
thing, but the governmentdoesn't move forward because so
many people are only looking outfor themselves.
They, they are only worriedabout their own elections, their
own seats, and so no one wantsto talk.
So then you review this.
Allows people to get away withthis.
Administration allows withgetting away with all these
things because people are tooafraid to talk.
It's like a vicious cycle.
(21:06):
But anyway, you know this wholething with Murkowski, she has
said her stances aren'tnecessarily anti-Trump.
They're actual concerns aboutnot supporting Ukraine or
pulling out of nato.
She's standing against policies,not a person.
She, which is the right thing todo.
She was quoted saying, I amstanding up for my role as a.
(21:26):
Dually elected senator and amember of the congressional
branch standing up for myresponsibilities under the
Constitution.
And I think I can do thatwithout it being interpreted
that I'm against Trump.
So, which I mean, I guess whatI'm.
What I'm trying to bring up ispeople like Murkowski, people
like Liz Cheney, theseRepublicans harken back to a
time where being a Republicandidn't mean you just 100%
(21:47):
followed one person.
Being a Democrat didn't mean youwere 100, a hundred percent
following another person.
They are voicing concerns overpolicies and are getting
pushback, which just makesabsolutely no sense.
They should be allowed to talkand push back against an
administration and not be afraidthat it's gonna affect their
election situation.
Right.
Yeah.
(22:08):
So the Republican Senator.
Has long been an outlier.
Among her conference, she brokefrom Trump multiple times on
confirmation battles andcriticized the widespread cuts
made by the Doge situation.
Murkowski did leave the dooropen to switching her
registration to become anindependent if she made the
switch.
(22:28):
She would still caucus withRepublicans, which would
effectively making her changingher registration.
Just symbolic essentially.
I think the S Murkowski story,just in general, yes, it, you
know, happened a week or twoago, but this is gonna continue
happening.
It'll be very interesting tosee.
What other politicians in theRepublican sphere this will
(22:49):
affect because they are in thisbetween a rock and a hard place.
And it's gonna be interesting tosee who has the guts to kind of
stand up for,'cause you allthese people are upset.
All these town halls are crazy.
Like at some point some of themare gonna have to voice what
they believe in and are theygonna stand with a person or are
they gonna stand with their.
What their role is as acongressional, you know, as a,
(23:11):
as a elected official.
So anyway, yeah.
Alright, time for, uh, midepisode break, mid episode game
time.
So we're gonna be bringing backthe red state, blue state, no
state.
I think it's a good, we'rehaving a good run with it.
And it's fun to come up withsome of these.
So we're gonna play that today.
(23:32):
Are you ready to lose?
I am ready to win.
Okay, so we'll start the firstone, this state has banned
public school systems fromteaching.
Any lessons about climatechange?
Red State, blue State, or no?
State?
Texas.
So Red State.
Red State.
(23:53):
You got the Red State right, butit's actually Oklahoma back in
2022.
Oh, probably by that RyanWalters guy that we had an
episode on probably.
I wonder if that had anything todo with it.
Probably Ryan Walters.
He's such an idiot.
This state is the, by the way,that's funny about the climate
change because Oklahoma has hadso much.
(24:13):
When we lived there, there wasso many earthquakes from
fracking.
There's.
Tornadoes like crazy.
Like it's funny how the onestate not teaching climate
change is probably the one thatis it all?
Well, they're all greatlyaffected, but I think bad
state's really affected byclimate change.
But anyway, this state is thefirst to implement a law that
guarantees free publictransportation to all students
(24:35):
through high school.
Red State, blue state, or nostate.
I'm gonna say no state.
Blue state.
Ooh.
Okay.
So Oregon.
Correct.
Oh my God, really?
Wow.
Yeah, Oregon.
How random Oregon has.
(24:55):
Yeah.
Well it says, we talked aboutthat true social guy.
I mean, maybe he knowssomething.
I mean, I mean, but the, thebill was house bill 2 8 8 2 back
in 2019, which is a great, Idon't think I've ever gotten the
state.
I get the regions.
But I don't get the statesright.
Moving on in this state, a statesenator proposed replacing their
(25:18):
public libraries with Amazongift cards instead, red State,
blue State, or no state.
No state.
Correct.
I made that up, but I, I wouldnot put it past somebody to do
that.
Um, alright.
This state passed a law thatmandates all businesses with 50
(25:39):
or more employees must providefree therapy for their workers
every month.
Red State, blue State, or noState, blue State.
It's in fact no state.
Oh, okay.
But I love that idea.
I was gonna say, California,everyone should be given
therapy.
(25:59):
Next.
This state passed a ban on bookbans, allowing libraries to have
more control over thatsituation.
Red State, blue state, or nostate?
Wait, what did they do?
This state passed a ban on bookbans, allowing libraries to have
more control.
So book bans, you know.
Oh, a ban on book bands.
(26:20):
Red state, blue state, or nostate?
Well, that's definitely a bluestate.
Alright.
What state?
New York.
Illinois, Illinois, and it was ablue state.
In 2023, governor Pritzkersupposedly passed this bill, and
other states are trying to passsimilar bills because of what
they did.
So Illinois kind of paved theway for that idea of banning on
(26:43):
book bans, which I think isgreat.
I think libraries should havemore control over that on their
own, because some books arebanned for the most stupid
reasons.
All right, moving on.
In this state, it's illegal totake a selfie with a tiger.
Red state, blue state, or noState?
Red state.
It's blue state.
(27:04):
It's illegal to take a picturewith a tiger.
Mm-hmm Hmm.
I'm gonna do Colorado.
New York.
Hmm.
In 2014, it's specifically, Ihad to look this up because I
was like, that sounds weird.
For those tiger selfies.
People do, like, we know someonethat did it with a white tiger.
(27:25):
Um, with the tiger, likephysically with them interacting
with them, they're saying it'sanimal cruelty.
Um, it.
Isn't really healthy for bothpeople involved.
The the person or the animal.
So they just outlawed it, whichis I agree with actually.
Alright.
I mean, I don't plan takingphotos with tigers anytime soon.
Right.
I don't know.
(27:45):
I don't know the whole idea ofthat.
Yeah.
Why people wanna do that, huh?
Anyway, in this state, it'sillegal to keep your holiday
decorations up after January14th.
Red State?
Blue state?
Or no state?
No State.
Blue State.
I am gonna go withMassachusetts, Maine.
(28:09):
Maine.
That's the region?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
You got one region?
Fascinating.
I got two, three regions on thisone, Oregon.
Oklahoma, but it was, I saidTexas.
Yeah, keep going.
I actually don't mind whenpeople leave their decorations
up.
It's kind of fun to like drivearound.
You just see random Christmaslights up in like February.
I don't know.
In this state, citizens mustcomplete a yearly mental health
(28:32):
screening and provide proof ofcounseling to receive their
annual tax refund.
Red state, blue state, or nostate?
No state.
Correct.
It's no state.
I made that up, but I thinkthat's also a good idea and I
think it'd be interesting howmany people don't pass their,
that mental health screeningall.
(28:54):
In this state, this is our lastone.
In this state, anyone caughtusing a plastic straw is
required to perform 10 hours ofcommunity service to promote
environmental awareness.
Red state, blue state, or nostate?
Well, I'm gonna say no state.
Or is it a thing?
(29:14):
What was that?
Your final answer?
Final answer is no state.
Yes, it's no state.
Okay.
I was gonna say, huh?
I can see like San Franciscodoing that, you know?
Yes.
But yeah, I agree.
I, I agree with the whole noplastic straws thing.
I just don't like whenbusinesses don't give you any
straw, like.
Let us pay for a straw.
I'll buy a silicone straw fromyou, but I don't need, I like
(29:37):
using a straw.
I mean, I like using plasticstraws.
I'm sorry.
I know, I don't mind it.
I like Starbucks as the onesthat they like compost
compostable.
They're not fully paper, butthey're not fully plastic.
I like that.
Like material used.
No, you know, it was that turtlephoto, I think that was taken in
like 2008 with the straw on thenose that caused the whole, you
know, straw controversy.
(29:57):
But I briefly lived in Floridafor a few years and.
I would walk on the beach andthere were little caps all over
the beach, not straws, but capsfrom water bottles.
And I tell the story all thetime and I was surprised that no
one has ran with the the waterbottle caps, because those were
just.
(30:17):
Everywhere.
It was wild.
Well, I think certain sodacompanies, I feel like Pepsi,
maybe their soda caps areactually biodegradable now or
something.
I don't know.
I'll have to look in that.
Huh.
Okay.
So, um, during our hiatus wealso saw a, a green lip tr
Greenland trip take place wheresecond Lady, Usha Vance went to
Greenland and it basicallypissed everyone off there.
(30:40):
They don't want to become anAmerican territory.
They're not asking for it.
They've never asked for it.
Why do they want to become anAmerican territory?
I mean, as a Democrat, everyoneis welcome here.
Everyone should become anAmerican.
But like literally, Greenlanddidn't do anything.
Why do we want it?
(31:01):
They, and if you think about it,if we take Greenland, poor
Canada is gonna be surrounded bythree sides of American
territories.
You know, you got Alaska to thewest.
The US to the continental 48states to the south.
And then if we take Greenland, Imean that basically surrounds
Canada.
And Canada doesn't want tobecome a state, by the way, they
(31:25):
have universal healthcare.
And I don't see reports ofpeople getting kicked off their
health insurances or dyingbecause they can't afford their
medical bills.
It's so pathetic.
This administration needs to go.
But I did see during thisGreenland tri, I did see a photo
op where both the vs.
we're like speaking inGreenland, and one point I'll
(31:47):
make, where was JD Vance's suit?
I mean, he berated thatUkrainian president for not
wearing a suit.
And two, the second lady waswearing these really hot unisex
RayBan sunglasses.
The same ones that I've had forover a year now.
Well, I got'em last June.
(32:09):
And it was real concerning.
It was a real concerning momentfor me because I was like, oh, I
wear the same sunglasses as her,but I'm still wearing them
though.
At least she has good taste andstyle, I guess.
But while all this is going on.
The RNC made JD Vance a part oftheir finance chair.
(32:29):
JD Vance has been tapped toserve as a top fundraiser at the
Republican National for theRepublican National Committee,
and another sign that he iscementing his status as the
quote unquote torch bearer ofTrump's Make America a great
again movement.
It's the first time in the RNCshistory that a sitting VP has
(32:52):
held the position of financechair giving Vance a prominent
direct role in next year'smidterm elections, and helping
him build ties with topRepublican donors.
I guess since.
Elon Musk is doing JD Vance'sjob.
They needed to find a role forJD Vance to fill.
I guess that sounds like aconflict of interest.
(33:14):
It's so weird that JD Vancewould be in charge of that.
I have no idea.
It's, it just benefits him.
Yeah.
Also, I like your sunglasses,your little ray bands that you
wear.
It would be interesting to seeif RayBan actually gave them to
her, or if she actually boughtthem.
I'd be curious if RayBan'ssupporting this presidency or
not.
But anyway, this appointment isthe latest.
Demonstration JD Vance'sappointment with the RNC.
(33:37):
Um, you know, of how Vance isbeing embraced by many in
Trump's orbit as his heirapparent more than three years
before the 2028 election, the USConstitution bars Trump.
So far from running for thirdterm, though he has repeatedly
teased the prospect of remainingin office.
(33:58):
Nevertheless, an open GOPprimary will likely draw a long
list of contenders, but severalof the party's most prominent
voices have been openly pushingfor Vance during an appearance.
Trump's eldest son Donald TrumpJr.
Who has his own loyal followingcalled Vance, the only
impressive vice president of mylifetime, which I highly.
(34:18):
Doubt and I don't agree with.
Okay, so some lighter stories toclose this episode out.
Uh, Starbucks had to pay a$50million law lawsuit over hot
tea.
It like, did you hear aboutthis?
No.
It like spill, like, so like thegirls like handing the drink
out, the drive through windowand this like hot tea.
(34:38):
It's very hot water spilt onthis guy's d and he had to get
like multiple, like.
Surgeries, like skin grafts andhe got$50 million.
That is insane.
Did he just not grab itcorrectly from her?
Like what's the story there?
I guess the lid fell.
I have no idea.
But that was a story that I waslike, huh, fascinating.
(34:59):
$50 million.
Weird.
And then did you, do you, do youknow who Robert Irwin is?
No, it's Steve Irwin's.
Yeah, his son.
Son.
Okay.
Oh my gosh.
He just released some likemodeling photos, uh, doing this
like underwear brand calledBonds underwear.
I highly recommend everyone togo search these photos of Robert
(35:21):
Irwin.
I mean, he's like, does he anAnaconda?
He has like a snake.
He has like all these animals onhim and he's just like in his
underwear and it's, uh.
Fascinating very down under.
Yeah, let's, I really, reallylike Robert Irwin and his, um,
sister.
The fact that they keep, like,have been kind of living his
(35:42):
legacy.
They do a lot of nature thingsand even have their own shows, I
think like they're really likerunning with it, which is really
cute.
Oh yeah.
It's a great, great family.
And it was so sad about Stevedying, like, what is that in
like 2007 or something?
I know from a.
Stingray from Stingray.
Yeah.
But, but yeah.
Robert Irwin, I have not seenthem and I will have to go check
it out.
All right.
Well, we're gonna, while he goesto do that, we're gonna close
(36:02):
this episode out.
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We are also active on TikTok.
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Want us to discuss something,email us.
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(36:23):
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