The Justices May Finally Pull the Plug on Trump’s Trade Tantrum 11/7/25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Mark Thompson Show. I'm o Kelly and I'm
back in for Mark Thompson. I got to tell you
yesterday was a fantastic day. It was a fabulous day
hearing from you, seeing your comments, helping me as we
try to navigate through this crazy world, and it seems
like it gets crazier and crazier each and every day.

(00:23):
We got to talk about the collapse in the Oval
Office yesterday on a start with that in just a moment, unbelievable.
You think, after all these things which are unprecedented and unbelievable,
and it can't get more unbelievable. Well, I got more
unbelievable for you. We got to talk about Steve Bannon
and his admission or belief that if the Democrats were

(00:45):
gained power after the midterms, some people, including him, are
going to prison. Well I think we would appreciate that.
But slow down, slow down, don't get ahead of yourselves.
And it's King Trump. Their quotes is King Trump? Has
he been throned at least in relation to the tariffs.

(01:08):
We'll find out soon enough. We'll talk about that if
the Scotus rules against them. And wait, I'm gonna tell
you right now. I don't believe the Scotus is going
to rule against them, and even if they do, it
won't make any difference. We'll talk about that, and I'll
probably make you mad when I tell you why. I've
been known to make some people mad. But before I

(01:30):
make you mad, let me make you glad. Let me
introduce my friends. As I said before, the folks who
are actually guiding this ship. I am just a passenger
on this love boat. Kim Albert, good morning, Good afternoon.
How are you? Good morning, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'm looking at your Are those martial arts belts behind you?

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yes, I'm a practitioner of the Korean martial art of
hop keto. I've practiced it since I was fifteen years old,
and I now actually teach an insistent instructor that songs
of keto West Los Angeles in Culver City, teach children adults,
women's classes, and it's probably the best decision I've ever

(02:13):
made with my life. It's not about fighting, It's about
defending yourself and also learning how to manage your emotions
and just exist in this world without fear. That's the shortening.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, that's great, and I'm not gonna meddle with you
in a dark alley.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
No, I'm fifty six years old. I'm not trying to
get ninny fights at oh. But I can protect myself
and that's what I tell people, and most of self defense,
before I get too far afield, most of self defense
is about thinking about one safety prior to being in
a situation. And safety is not always physical. It could

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be emotional. There are a lot of components that we
incorporate as far as making sure that we're safe and
comfortable in this world in which we live. And it's
funny that this is a great lead in Kim because
part of safety is also preparation for health emergencies. It's
about thinking about situations before they happen. And I'll give

(03:15):
you a perfect example before we start talking about this
collapse in the Oval office. Unfortunately, I want to say
this is maybe twenty nineteen or so. My father, who's
no longer with us, but he there was a point
in which he collapsed, and he collapsed in the kitchen.
I just happened to be over at my parents' house
at the time, and I knew enough CPR where I

(03:35):
immediately jumped in, starting chess compressions and I wouldn't wish
this on anyone, but there's a point to this. And
I was administering chess compressions for about four minutes or so,
mouth to mouth, all of that until the paramedics could arrive.
I would not wish that on anyone, but it reminded
me the things that you learn going back to martial arts.

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You don't know when you will need to call upon
those things, and the preparation prior to that moment is
the usually the difference if you've never thought about it,
if you've never considered it, then you might freeze up
in that moment. You may not know what to do,
you may be overcome by fear, and those precious seconds

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may lead to a much more undesirable result. So using
that as a leader, and thank you Kim for getting
me there, because it's going to highlight some of my
points here. Albert, let's bring up either the video or
the still of what happened in the Oval office where
seemingly an unidentified man fell out and either lost consciousness

(04:43):
or was overcome by some medical emergency. Albert, do we
have that?

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Okay, okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Okay, Now if you saw this still after that There's
a prominent still picture which is floating around social media
which shows President Trump standing almost at attention my phrase,
looking at the camera, almost bewildered that the guy in
the background behind him to his left was taking the

(05:26):
spotlight or the attention or focus away from him. You
saw in the video that President Trump briefly at least
looked at the man, but did not offer any help
to the man. He did not try to intervene. And
if you know anything about these types of high pressure situations,
we are all ingrained with the fight or flight or

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freeze response. Fight you're gonna get engaged, fright, you're gonna
freeze up and do nothing, okay, or you're gonna flee,
you're gonna leave the situation. Well, someone did flee. That
was RFK Junior, health guy.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
In the United States. Isn't he supposed to be like,
you know, you have a health problem. RFK Junior knows
all the things about the health right.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
He was completely helpless in that moment, and I guess
he needed to find a doctor and maybe that was
the right response, but it should tell you how professionally
capable he is in an actual medical emergency. That's what
happens when you're a lawyer, I guess. But here's something
that I want to be serious about. That imagery of

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Donald Trump standing aside and not intervening and not helping,
looking at the camera subsequent to that, I think is
a perfect crystallization of this administration not actually helping, more
concerned with the optics, not actually getting involved, but more

(06:57):
concerned with the interruption and disruption. If you've ever been
around someone having a medical emergency, a reasonable person, even
if they can't help, is going to be at the
ready to help. You might not be the person who's
administering medical aid, but at the very minimum, you're probably

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the person saying, let me get some help, or can
I get you some water, or being ready if there
is someone who is administering aid may need some secondary help.
And from what we've seen from the video, what we've
seen from still photography Donald Trump, that man was not interested,

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not able, and not even of the mind to offer
any type of assistance. And I think that's also endemic
of where we are as a society. A lot of
these videos that you see on the street of someone
being harmed and no one intervening. You can see it

(08:03):
on the subway. You can see it on buses and
trains where someone is being accosted, and people are more
inclined to pull out their phones than they are to
get involved. And I get it. In some instances you
don't necessarily want to get involved with something that could
bring danger your way. Going back to martial arts, I
get it. Not everything should involve you, And I think

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about it all the time. If I should see someone
in distress, am I or am I not going to
involve myself? Because police officers will tell you all the
time the most dangerous calls that they go on are
domestic disturbances. And so I understand when someone may be
reticent as far as a domestic disturbance to involve themselves.

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But we're not talking about that. We're talking about someone
who is obviously having a medical emergency. And Joy said
it best. He seemed an annoyed by it, like, how
dare you fall out and maybe die in the old
office while I am talking about something which is important

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to me, the president and here's something else? Why is
there this confusion my word about who is the individual
who had the medical emergency? Don't you know that everyone
is on a short list and you have to sign
in and sign out when you go in the Oval office.
There's no unknown person who's in the Oval office. So

(09:31):
the whole idea that they don't know who it is,
or it is confusion about who it is, or they
were given the wrong name, it's not even possible. I
don't understand why we're not even told that. And then
that goes back to the administration doesn't want us to
tell us the truth about anything. It's hard for me
to believe them because if a person lies about the
small things, they lie about the big things. They'll lie

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when the truth is sufficient. They'll lie when the truth
will do. Just tell us the damn name, and we
get one name, we get a different name. I don't
understand the confusion. But but speaking of lies, did you
see the video from Steve Bannon, one time campaign manager,

(10:14):
one time jailed former campaign manager, Steve Bannon, who's now
in the periphery of this administration, had thoughts about what
may happen if the Democrats were to retake control of
the House. And he's talking about this against the backdrop
of the very good night that the Democrats had on Tuesday.
Look at this, and I.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Will tell you right now, as God is my witness.
If we lose the midterms, and we lose twenty twenty eight,
some in this room are going to prison, myself included.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
They're not gonna stop. They're getting more and more and
more radical, and we have to counter that. And what
do we have to counter it with.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
We have to counter it with more action, more intense action,
more urgency. We're burning daylight if you look across every
aspect of this. We have to codify what President Trump
has done by executive order, right, we have to codify it.
And people say where they're just going to be messing

(11:18):
Bill Scan Pass send.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
We got to We've got to put.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Aside these structural barriers and get on with it. President
Trump today gave to the Senate when they came over
for breakfast, even Lindsey Graham, some of the guys that
liked and some of these institutions. I understand this is
a very tough decision to make, and you're going to
see some people in the conservative movement that not in
a million years, because I talked to him today quite frankly,

(11:41):
I had Hawley on the show this morning, Josh Hawley,
and he's talking about it.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
And I'm trying to play the institution. Well, well, they
called me up.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
To staff now and said, let's go through the ten
reasons we need to do it. And these are heavy
hitters on what I would call the constitutional limited government
constitutionalist in our movement. And they're about to come out
of the next couple of days and make this argument
because he said, look, we have to understand that if
we don't take this to the maximum, a maximum strategy

(12:08):
now with a sense of urgency, and in doing this,
seize the institutions.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Let's stop right there. Now, let's stop right there. He
said a lot, and I think he told on himself.
He gave away the game. As some would say, when
he says that they need to codify this, he's acknowledging
that you can't govern by executive action. That's the first thing.

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But what he's not telling you is to codify it
is to go through the co equal branches of government.
He's not telling you that the only way that they
can codify it is to circumnavigate the co equal branches
of government, and that would be illegal. And that is

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why he believes that he and others are in the crosshairs.
If you will regarding litigation if and when the Democrats
take over Congress or at least the House. And here's
something else. Every projection is a confession because this is

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what is happening right now with what the Republicans are
doing to James, coming the Tisia James, what they want
to do with Adam Schiff, what they want to do
with Jack Smith. They want all of their political enemies
in prison, and they are using unlawful means in which

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to get it done. But this is where I disagree
with Steve Bennett. The Democrats do not do what the
Republicans do. The Democrats are not going to forward these
bs indictments with no underlying evidence. If Steve Bannon were
to go to prison, it's because he's already on record

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with iminality. There is a paper trail, an evidence trail
to what he has been doing and what he plans
to do, because he's telling you it's all out in
the open. And here's something else. The Democrats do not
operate in the same way that the Republicans do when
it comes to quote unquote law fair. We saw this

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with the overwhelming evidence the classified documents sitting in the
bathroom at mar A Lago and Merrick Garland just sat
on his hands and twiddled his fingers because he was
worried about the optics of prosecuting a former president. The
Democrats are not going to do what the Republicans have done.
The Republicans are telling you what they are doing and

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will continue to do, and they say we better continue
to do it because the Democrats might do it if
you follow that silly logic. It's not going to go
down like that, Kim. I would love your thoughts on that.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
As far as Bannon thinking he's going to jail, my
first thought was what did you do wrong? But I mean,
can we ever get back to that? Like you, if
you are worried that someone's going to come for you
and arrest you and throw you in jail, it has
to be in my mind because you're worried, you know

(15:16):
that you've done something that would mean that you have
somehow guilt, or you've realized that you're you know, you've
put yourself in a position that the handcuffs are coming.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Do you remember what James call Me said. James call
Me said after he was indicted, I welcome this opportunity
to exonerate myself. Yes, not that he was afraid of
being put in prison for something he had done, regardless
of the ill intentions or whatever the questionable motives of

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this administration. He said, I welcome I welcome it because
I'm not guilty. I have nothing to fear. I have
nothing to hide, and I think a reasonable person, an
innocent person X. Accordingly, an innocent person is not going
to fear going to prison. Now. They can fear unlawful
prosecution because you can fabricate an indictment, but you're not

(16:15):
going to fear going to prison unless there's reason to
fear boy to prison.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Do you remember, and I'm sure you remember Trump consistently
laying the groundwork for things like, oh, the election's rigged
before the election even happened, like sat saying it, and
kind of like getting people ready for what he's gonna
do coming up, right, It's almost like Bannon's laying the

(16:42):
groundwork for some type of excuse for why he's going
to be arrested.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yes he is. You know that's coming.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
And if you know that's coming, then what are you
you know? Are you are you telling us something bad
is going to happen to you? Because I don't think
I really don't believe that in a normal presidency the
Department of Justice is weaponized. I think that's a Trump thing.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, in a normal period of time in this country.
But you know, I'm glad that you said that as well,
because it leads me to this next story, and actually
is the top story. We talk about the Trump tariffs
and what's going on at the Supreme Court, how the
Scotus is hearing oral arguments, And you've heard me talk
with a number of people and talk to you about

(17:28):
my feeling that the Scotis is more than likely in
my mind, to side with this particular president when it
comes to his particular issues. Now, if it's just an
issue of constitutionality having to do with ice or something,
then maybe less so. But when it comes to something

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that Donald Trump, the person, the politician, the president wants,
I'm of the mind that the Scotis was more likely
going to side with him. But but if I'm wrong,
what does that mean? And the question is what will
happen with the troiffs? And here's what I think is
going to happen. Absolutely nothing. And I think this president,

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in his defiance, in his unconstitutionality, in his illegality, in
his criminality is going to say, f U Scotus and
do whatever he wants to do. Bumo. Where is that
coming from? Kilmar Abrego Garcia. When the Scotis had handed
down the ruling that the federal government had aired and

(18:32):
robbed him of due process, what did the president do?
What did this administration do? They gave every excuse in
the world why they could not return him at that
time from Costa Rica. In other words, defy the Scotus.
So in my mind, this is not going to be
any different. Regardless of how the Scotus is going to rule.

(18:53):
This president is going to find some way to either ignore, disregard, deny,
and just and just move forward with tariffs. Now it
may be fought by way of some other executive action
forcing this uh legal process to continue. Will someone have
to ask for an injunction or a stay and then

(19:15):
they'll send it up the the court as they as
they usually do, and eventually gets back to the Supreme
Court again. In other words, just just have it wallow
in legal challenges over and over again, this this delayed tactic,
and you never get a final ruling or something where

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you can hold this administration accountable. So I don't. I
don't know what the Supreme Court is going to rule
regarding Trump's and tariffs. The tea leaves suggest that they're
going to rule against this president. That's what they suggest.
If you listen to the argumentation, if you listen to
the questions which are being asked by the Scotus justices,

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it may give you the end that, hey, they're on
the side of reasonableness, they're on the side of constitutionality.
They're going to rule against this president. They're going to
provide a check in balance against this president. I don't
believe that. But even in the event that they should,
I don't believe that this president is actually going to
abide by anything that the Supreme Court tells him, you know,

(20:24):
And he's basically going to say, and Vilma says it
best basically going to dare the Supreme Court to enforce it.
What is the enforcement provision for anything that Donald Trump
does or does not do? What are you gonna have
the FBI the DJ I mean, who exactly is supposed
to come down to the Oval Office and say, mister President,

(20:47):
you're gonna have to either do this or we're going
to do that. Are you going to subpoena the president,
because this is the same Supreme Court which has already
said this guy's basically immune. And I say this guy
because I don't believe any of these Scotis rulings would
apply evenly across all administrations. I don't believe that if

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Joe Biden were doing the same thing, they would have
the same reticence in which to stamp come down hard
on this pre on this president. So I don't believe
that they're going to side against this president. I don't
believe that I could be wrong. I hope i'm wrong,
but I doubt I'm wrong. But in the event that

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I am wrong, I don't believe it's going to make
a damn bit of difference with this president. He's going
to do whatever he wants. And that's the sad part
about it, because we're supposed to have three co equal branches.
We're supposed to be this country of law in order
was it? He said that we're a country of laws,
and if you don't have any laws and you don't
have a country or whatever, you would always say. And

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he's the first in line to break a law, he's
the first in line to ignore a law, he's the
first in line to tell tell us that, well, he's
if you don't know your history, he is Richard Nixon
times twenty, and Richard Nixon was the one said if
the president does it, then it's not illegal. He is

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the embodiment of that statement that Richard Nixon made to
David Frost so many decades ago. And it's going to
get worse before it gets better. So if you want
to combine all these things to collapse in the Oval
Office delineates Trump's livid indifference to the suffering of people

(22:38):
right within his eyesight, right within his line of sight.
And if he doesn't care about the person who might
be dying right next to him, how in the hell
is he supposed to care about you and your food stamps?
How is he in the hell is he supposed to
care about you and the cost of groceries. Why in

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the hell would he care if you're struggling? Why would
he care at all about any of your concerns. If
he's going to put up a gold sign to the
Oval Office, if he's going to tell all of his
economic personal successes right in your face while you are
suffering economically, that, if anything, should tell you that he

(23:23):
does not care. And if he does not care in
those instances where it's the easiest to care, to turn
and offer assistance to someone who may be dying and
not worry about the camera, if he can't do it,
then then he never will be able to. And I
saw that, and I said, what a great opportunity if

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you look at it through a political prison, to humanize
the president and show him that he cares beyond himself.
And he couldn't do it. He could not muster enough
care and concern to help someone who was passing out
right next to him. And RFK Jr. To his credit,

(24:08):
knew that he had nothing to offer. He could not
do anything. He cannot offer any type of CPR, he
cannot offer any kind words. He said, let me get
someone who's actually said with me qualified to assist. And
I don't want to reduce this to just a political discussion,

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but in that moment, there were some political opportunities for
this president to be able to say that he's human.
There was an opportunity to show that he had some
level of empathy, and he couldn't even fake it. And
for those who might be watching right now who are

(24:50):
ardent supporters of the president. And I know there are
some watching because you might be hate watching me, or
you might be hate watching the show. If you're an
ardent supporter of the presidentcident that should be, that should
be clear to you that a person of innocent mind
acts accordingly. You shouldn't have to be prepped to show
or demonstrate empathy. It should be a natural inclination inside

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of you. Someone is in need, someone needs help. And
what would a person of innocent mind do. What would
a person who is capable of empathy and sympathy do?
You would turn to offer aid, You would not turn
to look with disapproval on that person and think that

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there's somehow, this is my phraseology, somehow interrupting your press conference,
stepping on your moment, he revealed once again who he is.
And I think it was Michelle Obama who was talking
about the power of the oval office, the power of
the presidency, and she was saying that the presidency only

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reveal more of who you are. It doesn't change into
something else. It reveals who you are. And I've always
said that about money. If you get more money, you're
just gonna be more of who you are. If you
are a giving person, you will turn into a philanthropist.
If you're a miserly person, you're going to go in
the exact opposite direction. Money and power just make you

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more of who you are, and it gives you the
microphone to broadcast to more people who you are. If
you're an a hole and you have nothing, you're gonna
be an a hole when you have everything. And yesterday,
that was the moment, that was the opportunity, that was

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that the time where President Trump could have shown everyone
I care about every single American and he couldn't even
care about someone who politically was aligned with him, was
professionally going to help him and personally in his circle
of sphere of influence, and had at every reason for
hi him to show favor to this guy who was

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on the floor, and he couldn't freaking do it.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
He never will, would you say, mo. In addition to
showing humanity that and general concern for the welfare of
a human being who just hit the floor next to you,
that it also showcases how someone acts in an emergency,
because I think there's a you know, as you talked
about fight or flight, but they're different. People react in

(27:32):
emergencies in different way. We all have a person we
know in an emergency, they're the person that stays calm, cool,
level headed, you know, will offer assistance. We'll be able
to do what needs to be done. I would argue
that the person that sits in the presidency should be
someone who's good in an emergency, because, as they say,

(27:53):
when the phone rings in the middle of the night, right,
we have to make snap decisions like that. Don't you
want the person who can handle an emergency fine and
not just stand there and go, uh, what do I do?

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Well, it's more than that. It's more than that. Obviously,
he probably abrogates his responsibility to make that either split
second decision or to make that thoughtful decision. But there's
something else. It shows that he can't. If you have
the if you're incapable of carrying beyond yourself, then whatever

(28:26):
decision he makes is going to be the wrong one
because it's only going to be with concern for himself.
If he's going to talk about a military strike with
his advisors and he's incapable of thinking beyond his own
self interests, that means human life does not have any value.
And we're seeing that play out. If he's talking to
his economic advisors, and he's only concerned with the stock market,

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or his crypto scams, or or some sort of friend
in the tech industry that can benefit from an economic decision.
If that's the extent of his capability or his empathy,
then the multitude of us, the rest of America has
no chance. And he's demonstrated this again and again and
again that he does not care about anything beyond himself,

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even his supposed friends. He only cares about them inasmuch
that they can do something for him. You think he
cares about Elon Musk, No, he cares only about Elon
Musk as much as Elon Musk can do something for him.
Peter Tiel, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg. It's all the same
inasmuch that they can do something for him, And the

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moment they can't, even his best Epstein right being able
to do something for him dropped him like a hot potato.
There is a theme in pattern here and if anything,
and I say this to his credit in quotation marks,
he has been consistent. He is predictably consistent. If you

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know anything about the man, He's always going to act
in his own selfish interests, including letting someone die right
next to him. Now, thank goodness for what I understand.
The guy whose name I don't even know at this
point is okay. But if he died in that moment,
I don't think Donald Trump the person is capable of
even caring. Is that an amalgamation of a person who

(30:21):
who lacks empathy and is a sociopath baby? Possibly? Probably
is that a person who is declining cognitively and can't
ascertain the depth of seriousness of a situation like that
and rendering a Possibly it could be as sordid combination

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of all that. All I know is that he is
a broken person. This is going back to what you
were saying, Kim. The person is most important when we're
talking about the president. If you're indecent as a person,
if you are in horrigible and corrupt and unlawful, unconstitutional

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in your behavior as a person, then how in the
hell can we trust you with this country. Now we
know that you will trust, we can trust that you'll
do whatever is best for you as an individual or
your presidential ambitions or your legislative agenda. But if we
can't trust that you can somehow marry that to the best,

(31:29):
what's best for us as Americans. Then God help us all.
And I mean exactly that, God help us all. And
CC asks which the media would ask Trump, when was
the last time you cried? Well, one, the media has
been distilled down to this body of sycophants which are

(31:50):
not going to ask any real probative questions of this president.
And also, I can tell you exactly right now, this
president would never admit to crime. Never, and actually I
believe him, because showing emotion to him would be a
sign of weakness, and to him, the outward display of

(32:12):
weakness is empathetical to everything that he supposedly stands for.
So if he cries every single day, he would never
let you know if he. I doubt he died over
the death of his brother or his sister. I don't
think he is capable of showing emotion because crying says
to you that you care. Crying says that something impacts

(32:36):
you so emotionally that you are overwhelmed internally, that there
is a loss of control, and it displays itself in
the form of tears.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
He might have cried when he lost to Biden, but.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
He may he doesn't, So I don't know if in
his mind he has ever ex accepted that he actually
lost that election, and the expression of that has always
been anger, contempt, and derision. His insults suggest to me
that there was never a point of contrition, reflection, or

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acknowledgment that he may have lost. And that's why he's
still stuck talking about Hillary in twenty sixteen and Biden
in twenty twenty and Obama in two thousand and eight.
And he can't deal with the hero. And now I
believe that he is He was an individual, and I'll

(33:38):
leave with this before we go to law and disorder,
because I think it flows into that. I believe that
he was a person whose growth was stunted. I don't
know if he ever became a fully formed adult. He
never had to care for himself. He never did his
own grocery shop, and we could talk about that in
his inability to understand what grocery is actually costs, you know,

(34:01):
I don't He says these things that you need to
get an ID to buy groceries, never with the exception
of if you're paying you for your groceries with a check.
And I don't know who does that anymore other than
my mother, not bloods her but you don't need a
Most grocery stores don't even accept checks anymore. But the

(34:22):
whole idea that you would need an ID And I know,
and I'm bouncing around, but the point is, he is
a person who I don't believe was ever fully formed
and then was broken even further along the way. The
fact that we have someone who is so emotionally and

(34:43):
intellectually ill fitted to be leader of the free world
just confounds me. And that goes back to what I
said yesterday. There probably will need to be consequences for
us to understand the depth of those decisions that some
people made sending him back to the Oval office. And

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with that, let's get into just a little bit of
law and disorder. Kim McAlister take it away.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
Getting the criminal justice system.

Speaker 6 (35:14):
The people Hemp addicts, thieves, bums, linos, girls who can't
keep on address, and men who don't.

Speaker 7 (35:20):
Care are represented by two separate and equally important groups.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Copp of flat Foot, a bull of Dick John Law.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
You're the fuzz, the heat, You're poison, your trouble, your
bad news.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
These are their stories.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Here we go, we're talking about the Louver Lou You
want to do the story or you want to do
the story.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
No, go do the story. I'll just hotshot on a
round on the We.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Got information now that the big heist at the Louver
one of the main suspects is was a former museum
guard and also a social media star, because isn't everyone
now these days? The arrest of one of the men
suspected of stealing the Crown jewels from the Louver is

(36:07):
a minor social media star with a passion for motorbikes
who worked as a security guard at that center. According
to French media, he's been identified by justice officials as
Abdula n. He's thirty nine. He was arrested at his
home near Paris, where apparently he faces charges of organized

(36:28):
theft and criminal conspiracy. And I think we kind of
all called this. I put the story in because everyone
knew that this seemed like some kind of an inside job,
right it.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Had to have been. If it had to have been,
how are you going to steal anything a paper clip
from the Louver news and it not be an inside job?
Anythink you're going to steal these Crown jewels and no
one inside had anything to do with it. Of course,
it was an inside job. And you know, I never
thought that anyone's anyone was going to get away scott

(37:04):
free with this. There's just too many ways in which
you could find people's digital footprint, people's uh presence inside
the Louver cameras everywhere in today's world, the whole idea
of robbing a bank or robbing a museum, the odds

(37:24):
of success are slim and none, So I was not surprised.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
The suspects looked like supermodels there Albert Scott the mug
shots up, and I will say, you know, you would
think Mo that robbing the Louver would be difficult, but
now we know. And we mentioned kind of touched on
this yesterday that the password to the video surveillance system
at the Louver was Louver, according to an employe. So
maybe they need to beef up their security a little bit,

(37:51):
because I don't I don't think.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
They're taking but it just might woke.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Our next entry comes from Liz Oyer, Lawyer Oyer. She's
talking about Trump finding shockingly unqualified, disgusting people to pardon
his latest cad Catherine, she says, is a prime example.
Albert has the video, but Liz says, we can't let
these people and these corrupt pardons fly under the radar.

(38:17):
Here's Liz Oyer. He is a.

Speaker 8 (38:25):
Truly repulsive person. And hey, everybody, this is Caid Catherine.
He is a truly repulsive person, and he just received
a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. His story is flying
under the radar right now, so please help me spread
the word. I'm Lizayer, the former parton attorney for the
Department of Justice. Cotherine was a rising star in the
Tennessee Republican Party. At age thirty two, he became chief

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of staff to the Tennessee House Speaker Glenn Cassada, but
that didn't last long. Unfortunately for Catherine, A whole bunch
of his text messages leaked, including texts with his boss
where he taught about harassing, degrading, and praying on women.
Some of these women were young interns who worked for him.
With one intern, Catherine solicited oral sex, asked for nude photos,

(39:11):
asked if she was wearing underwear, and talked about orgasms.
In another case, this is a different intern, Cotherne wrote quote,
I'm going to keep hitting on her just to see
what happens. Before long, I'll be that guy. That guy
Kate is a sexual predator. There were also racist text messages.

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Cautherne declared that black people are idiots, and of course,
he used the N word. He also texted about orgies,
using cocaine in his office, and quote tripping balls on acid,
cocaine and weed. After Catherine was forced to resign, he
started a sham company with his former boss. Together, they
defrauded other legislators and profited off of taxpayer money. They

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were both prosecuted for fraud and public corruption. Catherine was
convicted on nineteen counts and sentenced to two and a
half years in prison plus a twenty five thousand dollars fine.
He and Casada were both scheduled to report to prison
later this month, but then Donald Trump intervened and gave
them both pardons. Catherine claimed he was unfairly persecuted by

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Biden's DOJ, but in fact, his criminal investigation began during
Trump's first presidency and continued into Trump's second presidency. He
was sentenced to prison by a Trump appointed judge. Presidential
pardons are supposed to be reserved for people who have
repaid their debt to society and who have demonstrated exemplary
conduct and character that's actually written in the Justice Manual.

(40:40):
Kate Catherine is unqualified for a presidential pardon in every
conceivable way. But in Trump's world, character doesn't matter. You
can be a racist, you can be a sexual predator,
you can be a liar and a cheap All it
takes to get a pardon is kissing the ring or writing.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
A fat check.

Speaker 8 (40:57):
It's truly disgraceful and disgusting.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Maybe it may be all those things, but that goes
back to what I was talking about with the terroriffts,
I mean, there are no consequences to any of this. Yes,
we know the president has the power to pardon, but
that presupposes that there are expectations and norms that we follow.

(41:24):
This president doesn't follow any norms and does not care
about optics. If the person serves his interests, or if
he finds some personal kinship with this person, be it
racial animus, you know, be it any of these things,
sexual deviancy, you know, if he finds some sort of

(41:47):
personal kinship with the person, then he is more inclined
to pardon him or her or them. And that's he
keeps doing this out in the open. And I say
this as a person. I think I said it here
on the Mark Thompson Show that I did not support
the pardon of Hunter Biden. I understood it, and I
can understand why Joe Biden felt that he was mistreated

(42:09):
by the Democratic Party and he wanted to make sure
that he protected his remaining son. I understood it, but
from a political pardon sense, it was something that I
did not agree with, and I don't think he should
have done it. But that said, that's one pardon where

(42:30):
just about every pardon is for Donald Trump is connected
to him in some way. Either he benefits from it,
or it's a person who does business with or a
person who he thinks that it sends a message to
his voters that he pardons that he is in spiritual
alignment with. I don't know how to even characterize it,

(42:51):
but those have been the pardons, and you know, it
may be lawful for Trump to pardon whomever he wants.
But don't urinate down my leg and say that it's raining.
Just call it what it is.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Yeah, it's corrupt.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
I'm sorry, Kim, go ahead, no, no, I love it.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Man arrested after groping the President of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum.
On street, some drunk guy comes up to the President
of Mexico and tries to cop a feel, leans in
for a kiss, puts his hands on her body. She
pushes the guy away, and she's now pressing charges against
this guy, saying that it is an assault on all women,

(43:35):
that him doing this to her is an assault on
all women. The video is all over social media. This
guy appears to lean in for a kiss and touch
the President's body with his hands. She pushes gently his
hands away, has a stiff smile on her face, and
she turns to face him, and she appeared to be

(43:57):
emphasizing that this is not the first time that she'd
suffered this type of harassment, and she said the problem
goes far beyond her. Her quote is this, no man
has the right to violate this space. I decided to
press charges, she said, because this is something that I
experienced as a woman, but that we as women experience

(44:18):
in our country. Her reflection is that if she does
not report the crime, what condition does this leave Mexican
women in. It also raised some concerns about the security
for the President of Mexico.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Well, that was my first response. I'm thinking about security
and we know that Mexico can be a very violent
place for politicians, very violent. The US pales in comparison
to Mexico when it comes to violence against elected officials
and presidential candidates. I didn't understand, number one, how someone

(44:55):
could not only get that close to the Mexican president
but remain that close. The moment that you lean in
for the kiss is when you would think someone is
going to swoop in. The moment that the Mexican president
pushes the guy back, you would think someone's going to
swoop in. This shouldn't have been this interchange in if
you exchange and having the Mexican president file formal charges

(45:18):
the Mexican Secret Service. I don't know the name of
the organization, but you would think they would have beat
the ish out of this guy pick gone from there.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
One would think, apparently, even if you're the president of Mexico,
you're at risk. Here's a guy who maybe shouldn't have
brought drugs to the airport. Don't they have drugs sniffing
dogs at SFO. This twenty five year old guy has
been sentenced after fourteen pounds of meth were discovered hidden
in his luggage at SFO. Yeah, wait a minute, the

(45:51):
airport is not necessarily the place for this. This is
a guy from Los Angeles sentenced to two years in
county jail after authorities discover more than fourteen pounds of
methamphetamines hidden inside a false bottom in his luggage at
San Francisco International Airport. He was arrested following a random
screening by a Customs and Border Protection officer. He'd flown

(46:14):
from LA to San Francisco before trying to board a
flight to Sydney, Australia. Apparently he kind of knew he
was busted. Pleaded no contest to one felony count of
possession of meth for sale and admitted a weight enhancement
of more than four kilograms. Police say he was going
through SFO at ten at night and a customs agent

(46:35):
made a random search of his luggage. He was ticketed
to go to Sydney, Australia, and when the agent was
going through his luggage, he noticed that in two pieces
of luggage there was a false bottom, so they pulled
it up. Of course, found in there five heat sealed
packages of methamphetamines weighing more than fourteen pounds and carrying
an estimated street value of seventeen thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
That surprise me. He just I guess wanted to get caught.
And I told you about my sister used to work
for LAX. I also have other friends of LAX. One
is a TSA lead agent. He trains the canines there
and I remember seeing this story and we had talked
about things like this over the years, and it's and
it may surprise people, it's not impossible to get drugs

(47:22):
through airport security. In fact, a lot of travelers travel
with marijuana, which is illegal on a federal level, and
when you're flying, federal law is the law of the land,
regardless if you're flying from California to Colorado, where it's
legal in both states, can't take it on an airplane.

(47:42):
But more times than not, a lot of people will
get drugs through TSA security. But usually TSA will look
the other way because they're looking for fools like this
one or bringing in some fourteen pounds of meth. But
it happens more often than not, and that's part of

(48:02):
the reason why you have people trying TSA with this
large quantity, because TSA buying large is overwhelmed especially during
the shutdown. Let's let's not leave that out. You know,
someone may be more inclined to try to traffic drugs
during the shutdown because there are fewer flights, there are

(48:23):
fewer TSA agents, and there are probably fewer eyes looking.
I don't believe it was and I don't know this,
but I don't believe it was a completely random search.
I don't I don't think TSA got that lucky baby.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
I don't know that the guy was arrested in June
before the short staffed. Situation happened during the shutdown.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Who knows?

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Last story on the docket? Here mo a Bay Area
high school football dad reportedly tackled his son's opponent on
the field. What happened. This happened at a high school
football game in Atherton, near San Francisco over the weekend,
where police were reportedly called to the scene after an
assistant coach sparked an explosive incident by attempting to tackle

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an opposing player. The Palo Alto High School coach is
the father. His name is Jason Fung. He's the father
of the Vikings quarterback Justin and a former athletic director
at the high school and he's now facing disciplinary action.
The whole incident on the field caused a significant delay.

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Police were called to the campus. There's video of the
game where you can see they have it on Max Preps.
This high school football side as well. The Palo Alto
was behind twenty eight to fourteen, facing a fourth and
four from the opposing team's forty seven yard line. On

(49:49):
the play, Justin Fung faced a blitz from his opposing team,
the Gators, and ran several yards backward, escaping from one
defender who grabbed on to his face mask, drawing a
penalty flag. He then scrambled to his left to avoid
the oncoming pressure, and as Jace Justin got near the
Palo Alto sideline, two Gators tackled him, with one Sacred

(50:14):
Heart Prep player emerging with the ball, holding it up
in the air. As he did that, the man who
reporters identify as Jason Thong the father, can be seen
walking up to the player and attempting to swipe at
the held up football. When he missed this on the
swipe of the football apparently stumbled to the ground near

(50:36):
the Gators player, but grabbed a hold of the player's
leg and then walked for several yards while still holding
onto the player's leg. They had to pull him off
the player. It was a big mess.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
Yeah, I could offer my own story, and I know
people are just getting to know me. But Kim, I've
been a youth referee in high school official since the
nineteen eighties. I started when I was in college at
Georgetown intramural refereeing and then after graduating college is something
that I've always done even to this day, and more recently,

(51:10):
I've just limited to high school basketball and the things
that you will see from parents. This surprises me, not
at all. Let me skip to the end that this
does not surprise me. I've had parents come out on
the court for a sixth grade basketball game trying to
fight me. I've had someone We've had fights in the

(51:33):
stands and then players on the floor go to join
the fight in the stands. High school sports and youth
sports now, they are very much representative of the dysfunction
of our society, where you will have parents living vicariously

(51:54):
through their children, trying to have their children have success
they couldn't have while they were in high school. You
have so much money flowing through high school sports in
aau in the recruitment of these athletes going to universities
that it is taken on a completely different function where

(52:18):
there are pro sports on a much lower level. And
so when you tell me about a guy who walks
out on the field and tries to tackle an opposing player,
I said, yeah, that's Tuesday. Unfortunately, because that's where sports
have now gone, even on a high school level. It's
dangerous for other players, it's dangerous for the officials, it's

(52:41):
dangerous for those in the stands, and unfortunately, it's kind
of representative of the society in which we live today.
It's unusual, possibly, but not all that unusual.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
I would say my son played little league for a
couple of years and there was a sign on the oh,
here's the video of it. Yeah, there was a sign
up on the gate, you know where behind where the
parents sit on the fencing, that said, please be respectful
of the referees, Please don't yell at the parent volunteers,
Please stay in your seat, Please don't yell with the children.

(53:15):
They had to put signs.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
Up no it is go ahead. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Yeah. You could see everything kind of unfolding on the
side of the fence there or the side of the field.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
There we have announcements of the high school games that
I do where they have to tell the people in
the stands do not yell profanities, you know, do not
try to come out on to the floor. And you
would think like, of course, but no, we have to
have that announcement made to inform people that they will
be removed if in the event they tried to go

(53:49):
after a player or an official. Yeah, that's unfortunately, very common,
very common.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
And that is law and disorder.

Speaker 5 (53:59):
Tune in again next time for more law and disorder.
I'm a Mark Thompson show.

Speaker 9 (54:04):
All right, that's it, let's roll, Hey's speak, can't.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Fall out there. I was monitoring the comments, Kim as
you were going through those stories, and there was one
consistent theme that and I'm just paraphrasing that it starts
from the top down, and a lot of the reason
that you see certain types of crime, certain types of
behavior can be traceable to what we see going on

(54:32):
in Washington. And I don't want to blame Washington for everything,
but I do believe that there's an argument to be
made that some of the things that like, for example,
some of the attacks on minority communities are a direct
correlation to what we see as far as coming out
of Washington and the rhetoric. Some of the boldness in

(54:53):
which people are approaching those who are Latino is a
direct reflection of what's coming out of Washington. The disregard
for the law and constitution, I believe is a direct
reflection what we see coming out of Washington. The indecency
that we see coming out and incivility that we see
coming out of Washington plays out in many ways in

(55:17):
our day to day society. So I think there is
a connection we can make as far as the law
and disorder that we see on a just personal level
in our neighborhoods, in our schools, and you know, our
grocery shopping that we also see also in Washington, d C.
I don't believe that you can have one without acknowledging

(55:40):
the other. That, yes, it does matter what the president
does would do, It does matter what his administration chooses
to do, the policies they choose to support, what they
choose to fight for, who they choose to demonize. All
these things are connected. You cannot mistake the fact that
if you're willing to go around and lie about Haitian

(56:02):
immigrants eating pets. How that will impact actual Haitian people.
You cannot go around and say that they're bringing, you know,
their rapists and their killers. They're sending us their worst
and not see how that will play out in general society.
You know, you have a lawless administration, You're going to
have a more and more lawless society. So I'm tickled
when I hear the President talk about we're a country

(56:24):
of laws and you don't have any laws. You don't
have a country. Well, you know, look a look at
the man in the mirror, you know. Anyhow, you know,
I don't want to toss it back to you too soon, Kim,
but we do need to have a news update before
we get into the politics of it all with Michael Schure.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
I have that for you. Ready for some news, Let's
do it, okay show, I'm Kim mccallis or This reporter
is sponsored by Coachella Vallet Coffee. Airlines are canceling hundreds
of flights at major airports across the country. The FAA

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began limiting flight capacity today at the nation's forty biggest airports,
including lax SFO and Oakland as it deals with a
shortage of air traffic controllers during the government shutdown. Transportation
Secretary Sean Duffy says the flight reductions will gradually increase
to ten percent by next week, and he said he's
doing this in order to maintain safety.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Let me jump in there. I completely reject the premise
that this is about safety. There is a safety component,
but how they're choosing to address the safety issue is bs.
If you know anything about the airline industry or air
travel about I've read in a number of sources like

(57:54):
twelve percent of it is private. None of that is
being limited. So there's a way that you can address
the safety issue, but it has to be inclusive of
that private jet crew, of that portion of air travelers
who have obviously again more money than most, not just

(58:14):
those who are flying commercial. And let's look at the airports.
It's not just high traffic airports. They are very specific
airports in cities and states which coincidentally or not coincidentally,
ideologically in opposition to this administration. I don't believe for

(58:37):
a second that that is just luck. I don't believe
that that's just a coincidence that they are limiting this
traffic at very specific airports which also happen to be
in Democratic strongholds, while also ignoring private travel. That's all
I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
The vote in Congress to end the government shut down
today looks bleak. It appears the misery will continue for
millions of American Senate Majority Leader John Thune throwing cold water,
they say, on reports of optimism from some Republicans and
Democrats that a temporary deal could soon be reached. This afternoon,

(59:19):
Thune told reporters the wheels came off any bipartisan talks
after the Democrats caucus meeting on late Thursday. So it
looks like our shutdown continues. President Trump is praising the
Prime Minister of Hungary as a quote special man. Trump
is meeting with Victor Orbon at the White House today,
with the Ukraine War and the trade and trade expected

(59:42):
to be topics. Orbon's visit comes as Trump pushes Hungary
to stop buying Russian oil in an effort to end
the war in Ukraine.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Orbon, you said, right, Victor Orban, Right?

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Hyah, special man.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
He couldn't find some other dictator. No, that was the
only one he could find. That was it? Okay? I
was just curious. All right, continue, Please.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Death toll on that ups plane crash in Louisville's risen
to thirteen. It comes as the maintenance track record show
a crack in the jets fuel tank needed a permanent repair.
That plane had been grounded in San Antonio from September
three till October eighteenth. The jet crash Tuesday while taking
off from the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, causing a

(01:00:25):
massive explosion. The Trump administration is asking for an emergency
pause on a federal judge's order to fully fund SNAP
benefits for November. Doesn't want to feed the poor people, mo.
The judge ordered the White House to pay out the
benefits by today and said people have gone without for
too long. The Trump administration had planned to partially fund

(01:00:45):
food Stamps, the program for forty two million Americans. The
judge ruled the government must now draw from additional USDA
funds so states can deliver full SNAP benefits.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Kim, are you telling me that this administration they were
given a directive by a federal judge and this administration
did not fully comply. Is that what you're telling me?
I believe that's what I'm saying to you, Mo. Yeah,
So if in the event the Scotis should rule against
the President and tariffs, why would it be any different.

(01:01:19):
I just wanted to circle back to that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Cornell University has struck a deal with the Trump administration
to restore federal funding. The New York university one of
several Ivy League institutions that the White House had accused
of anti Semitism and admissions discrimination. The deal will reportedly
restore hundreds of millions in federal funding. In return, Cornell

(01:01:42):
is expected to pay a thirty million dollar fine and
invest millions more in its agriculture.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
And farming programs.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
President Trump, speaking of farming programs, being challenged on his
claim that a Thanksgiving meal purchased at Walmart is cheaper
this year year than it was last year. He said
this a couple times now, touting his efforts toward affordability,
using Walmart's advertised price of under forty dollars, down from
last year's price of about fifty five on Friday at

(01:02:14):
the White House, noting that a reporter noted that Walmart
is putting less food in its item than last year,
which is accounting for the difference in price.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
But we all know the President has never been shopping
in his life, has never bought No, no, wait, the
president has never been shopping in his life. And the
President has never shopped for groceries in his life. And
the President has never shopped for groceries from Walmart in
his life.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
As if, Trump accused the reporter of fake news and
immediately asked Press Secretary Caroline Levitt to speak to the
press about his efforts to make things affordable to Americans.
He says, don't want to talk about affordability. It's fine,
everything's fine. Representative at least Stephonic is running for governor
of New York. The Republican congresswoman made it official today

(01:03:04):
in a campaign video posted on social media. A close
ally of President Trump, Stefanik, called Kathy Hokeel the worst
governor in America, vowed to tackle affordability while standing with
law enforcement, saying she's running.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Can I jump in there? And I think that's a
very very important race to watch. At least Define has
long been considered a darling of the Republican Party, and
she's been a chameleon as far as whether she's actually
maga or not. I don't believe that she is I
think she's been using the megabase to forward her political aspirations.

(01:03:39):
I think she's more towards a conventional Republican but can
masquerade for as long as she needs to. The reason
I think that this governor's race is important is it
will signify whether big picture, the politics of New York
are willing to disregard all things MAGA. All things MAGA,

(01:04:02):
it's one thing you talk about in New York City.
It's another thing when you talk about in New York State.
And the way that you want to use California as
a as an indication of what may be going on
in the rest of the country as far as progressive politics.
I would look at that governor's race as another indicator

(01:04:23):
as far as whether MEGA is increasing in strength, which
I believe it is not, or whether it is waning
in its popularity and strength. I'm sorry to interrupt you,
but I thought that was important to indicate that that's
something that you should watch. You should watch and a
lease Stephanic, one of the darlings of the right, should
be unable to get any traction in New York and

(01:04:45):
goes down That ought to tell you that MAGA is
closer to the end than it is the beginning.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Now, this is news and commentary. You jump in anytime
you want to. The New York Mets legend Darryl Strawberry
being pardoned by President Trump. The White House confirms the
pardoner is for the Sluggers guilty plea to a federal
tax fraud charge in nineteen ninety five. Strawberry got three
years probation and repaid three hundred and fifty thousand dollars
in back taxes. He cannot be pardoned for his previous

(01:05:14):
drug crimes, which were brought in state court. Strawberry has
a long standing friendship with Trump, dating back to the
nineteen eighties.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
Let me jump in there, because you know, dating back
to the nineteen eighties what we were talking about, he's
kind of stuck in the eighties. You know, Daryl Strawberry
was a star at the Biggest star as a member
of the New York Mets win the nineteen eighties. And
and we've already talked about this. He will pardon his friends.

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And this is something that I particularly bristle about because
when it comes to the pardoning of African Americans, it's
usually an athlete, it's usually a rapper or someone who
has some degree of personal affinity and they fit in
this box of deceptible African Americans. You know, Donald Trump

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beyond the people that he likes, he perceives black people
as just entertainers and sports heroes. One of the first
pardons he did was of the late Jack Johnson. Why
you know did he is walking around in prison allegedly
according to published reports saying that Trump is going to
pardon him at the first of the year. I actually

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believe him because, you know, one, there's a rapport there
and Trump and his association with hip hop, which I've
talked about, and then also his perception of black people
and their value having to be connected to entertainers or
sports figures. It all fits. So yes, I'm not surprised
that he hardened Darryl Strawberry New York Icon, New York

(01:06:49):
Sports Icon, and he's going to also pardon Diddy New
York Icon, New York Hip Hop Icon. So yeah, it
all makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
Speaking of Trump and sports, he will be attending Sunday's
game between the Detroit Lions and the Washington Commanders. The
Commanders say they are honored to welcome the President to
help celebrate veterans and active duty service members. Trump will
reportedly sit with the Commander's owner, Josh Harris, in his
private box because, of course, the President has attended several

(01:07:21):
high profile sports events since returning to the White House,
including the Super Bowl, the Daytona five hundred, and UFC fights.
The kickoff from Landover, Maryland for Sunday's game is set
for four to twenty five pm Eastern. In case you
want to watch all that pomp and circumstance there, Oh
I do, I do.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
I love to see the crowd reactions. And it also
when I was doing my show on KFI, I talked
about this a lot. For all the people who allegedly
supposedly want politics out of their sports are the same
people who have no problem with Donald trum of weighing

(01:08:00):
in on sports, appearing at sports events, and then using
those interactions to foment all of his issues with the sports.
He's always had plenty to say about the NFL, and
if you don't know his history, going back to the
nineteen eighties, again, he wanted to buy an NFL franchise.
NFL told him no, and he's always had this ax
to grind regarding the NFL, and I think he takes

(01:08:23):
great delight and be able to show up to NFL
events like the Super Bowl and then having to be
catered to buy the NFL because the NFL wants to
stay in his good graces. But you know, we don't
want politics in sports, except when the President inserts himself
in sports time and time again. And that's saying nothing

(01:08:44):
of this upcoming UFC event which is supposed to be
on the White House lawn and they're going to have
the fighters walk out allegedly from the Oval Office itself.
Just had to put that in there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez fired by Fox Sports. According
to multiple reports, Sanchez was let go after he was
involved in a fight in Indianapolis, where he was set
to call a game in early October that apparently almost
killed him. Sanchez was arrested in a hospital bed after
allegedly attacking a delivery driver, which led to the man

(01:09:16):
stabbing Sanchez and self defense.

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
The Farmer's Almanac is.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Ending its two hundred and eight year run with the
twenty twenty six edition All Good Things Come to an
End mo. The almanac, known for its long term weather predictions,
gardening guides, fishing and moon phases. What will we do
without it? In a statement, the editor and the editor
emeritus said they are incredibly proud of the legacy they

(01:09:44):
leave behind, and they are filled with gratitude. The Farmer's
Almanac was first published in eighteen eighteen. In twenty twenty six,
it's the last one.

Speaker 1 (01:09:54):
I have to ask you, and I want to ask
Albert as well, because we're different generations. Had a few
almanacs growing up, and I also had a Funk and
Wagons encyclopedia. At school, we had Encyclopedia Britannica. Sure, but
I remember, and I was one of those nerds who
actually read the dictionary and read the thesaurus. I got

(01:10:17):
enjoyment out of that. And I don't say that as
a boast. I'm just saying that I was a nerd.
That was stuff I did. And so I read my
encyclopedia from cover to cover that had maybe maybe twelve volumes.
But this over the course of maybe twelve thirteen years
or so, it never changed. And to someone who who

(01:10:38):
doesn't remember a world without Internet, they didn't understand the
importance and value of an almanac or an encyclopedia. For
old folks like me. Now, I can't speak to Albert's generation.
Albert's a little bit younger than me. But Albert, did
you grow up using an almanac or an encyclopedia? We did.

Speaker 10 (01:11:01):
I was sitting I'm a millennial where the generation as
the Internet started coming out, we were that one. But
prior to that, we we didn't have anything. So we
did use that for a lot of our schoolwork, a
lot of everything we referenced to. Now you can just
hit Google, which is or I guess chat GBT for
all these studios nowadays.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
You never flipped the pages, the static pages of an encyclopedia,
or at least you didn't seek that out. It's it's
it's it's amazing to me. I just I can't imagine
that world. I would rather go to Wikipedia before I
went to Chat GBT, and Wikipedia is suspect as hell.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
I don't think my kids have ever ever seen an encyclopedia. No,
I know, I've been remiss. Lastly, the Northern Lights may
be visible overnight in as many as twenty two states
thanks to an arriving Geoma magnetic storm caused by a
powerful solar flare. That means millions stand a good chance

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of a glimpse of the Aurora borealis or Northern lights.
Light show always unpredictable, but a cloud free sky and
minimal light pollution can increase your odds of seeing them
before or sometimes even after sunrise. So not California, but
it's all right.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
I've never seen it. I've never seen the Northern Lights.
I've never been in that portion of the country or
the world to see them.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
No, me neither. We have them in Gosh, I want
to say, six months ago. Maybe about in California in
the Bay Area. You can see them over the Golden
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I'm Kim McCallister and this is the Mark Thompson Show.

Speaker 10 (01:13:31):
The Mark Thompson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
I have this itching that I need scratch. I need
to talk a little bit more about politics to stories
of the week. Normally we are joined on Fridays by
the inimitable Michael Schure, where I don't know if he's
been able to reconnect. We had some technical issues, Albert.
Was he able to reconnect? Michael? Sure? There he is.

Speaker 7 (01:13:56):
Yeah, look at that. Yeah. I was having a lot
of problems in today.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
But it could be worse. We could have had you
drive to the studio.

Speaker 7 (01:14:04):
Yeah, that's true, that's good.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
Let me.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
I am outstanding. It is great to talk to you.
I've had the opportunity to talk alongside you with Mark,
so I look at this as an opportunity to kind
of guide the conversation. But I wanted to start with
what you thought was the biggest takeaway from Tuesday and
the wins by the Democrats.

Speaker 7 (01:14:28):
You know, I I'm sort of a curmudgeon about looking
at these things as Bill Weathers or this means anything massive.
I think when you look at the biggest takeawa, to me,
the biggest takeaways, which is your question, are in three
counties in New Jersey where Hispanic voters came out in big,
big numbers for Mikey Cheryl and that governor's race and

(01:14:50):
really undid a lot of the progress that Trump had
created in those counties I think was Cumberland, Pise and
one other maybe Hudson. And I think that to me,
it's not the sexiest thing about Tuesday, but it is
the it's the fact that resonates most in terms of

(01:15:11):
what it may portend next year and beyond, and it
shows that Democrats have an opportunity. It shows that the
immigration issue is one that is whether you know, I've
been around a lot of Hispanic voters for a long
time and they never tell me, or rarely do they
tell me that immigration is their biggest issue, but human
rights and civil rights are And I think when you

(01:15:33):
see that violation of those civil rights that's going on
with Ice right now. I think a lot of people
are saying, hey, you know, that's the truth, that is
that is why we don't support this administration. So it
isn't so much about immigration policy, it's how it's being
enacted in terms of deportation. So well, again, not sexy,
but I do think it was important. I think also,
you know, I'm the Mamdani election in New York exciting

(01:15:57):
exciting in that money didn't play as big a role.
He was outspent and he won. Andrew Cuomo had a
lot of money to spend as he would having been
governor and been sort of a part of a dynastic
New York political family, and the money didn't win. And
I think that's what a lot of these grassroots campaigns
are showing now in America, is that money, while important,

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is not everything. Money used to be how you get
your advis in your yard signs, and now people communicate
their campaigns in very different ways to younger audiences. And
so I think that was what is pretty telling to
me about the Mum Donnie victory in New York.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
Let me stay with Donnie, because I had a slightly
different take. I don't think it was a bell Weather.
I don't think it was an indicator of the larger
political trends. But I do think if we look at
how and why he won, Yes, money was not an issue,
but it leads me to my point. I believe that
Republicans buy and large mismessaged that election in the sense

(01:16:57):
of they may have lost that he knows by the
policies that they've enacted regarding Ice. I believe that they
also alienated another minority group as far as Muslims Arabs,
as far as how they tried to negatively portray Mamdani,
and I think that is going to have consequences if

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they continue down that messaging path, and it seems like
they are. If they continue down that messaging path, they
will have more of those issues the midterms. Did you
see anything or did you extract anything as far as
how Republicans tried to confront Mondomi, Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:17:36):
In predictable ways, right. I mean, what they're very good at,
Republicans is fear mongering. They're very good at labeling, and
they're very good at once that label is on someone
hammering at home, until it is all you can hear. Now,
what do they do? They change their tune. Good, We're
glad he won, and now we're going to show you

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how a socialist can screw up a city and how
socialism is not the way to go. It's you knew
that's where they were going to go when this happened.
I do think though, that there's something there. And in
terms of when you are what the Republicans had a
very good time doing and a successful time doing, was

(01:18:18):
saying that the Democratic Party was more interested in trans
athletes than they were in the price of eggs. Right,
of course that's not true, and of course that isn't
how anybody who ran for office in twenty twenty four
put forward their platforms, et cetera. Yet it became part

(01:18:38):
of the narrative. And so that's what they're doing in
New York. And I think Democrats on the national stage,
and now I was probably disappointed that Hakim Jefferies and
Truck Schumer never went in and endorsed in the same
way that Governor Hopel did in New York. Didn't endorse
Mom Donnie. They are national figures. They are trying to
win back their the Senate and the House and their

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take is, and the take that is the prevailing wisdom
until it's proven wrong, is that if you go and
you hug somebody who is being portrayed as a lightning rod,
whether correctly or incorrectly, and I think incorrectly here. As
we both said, I think that we can see the
strategy out of the Mamdani race that Democrats are going

(01:19:24):
to take in twenty six anyway, which is to distance
themselves even from the rumors and the innuendo about candidates
and their party, to say no, no, we're for the
working class. We're now fighting for health care. We're keeping
the shutdown going because we're fighting for health care. That's
the direction they're going. They win, they may lose, but
that's a decision, a decision that they've made. So that's

(01:19:45):
where I see what you're saying about Mamdani and the
Republicans and all of that as interesting. But I think
that the way Republicans have played the political game has
worked for them in so many ways that they're not
going to vary from that until it's You.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
Make a great point, Michael, Sure, as you talk about
the embracing or distancing from a political figure who might
be a Lightning Rod And I wonder, given that you
said that, whether any of those internal discussions are being
had with rank and file Republicans or congressional or senatorial Republicans.
Given what Donald Trump. Going back to what you were

(01:20:21):
saying about Ice and the policies, the President said in
the recent Sixty Minutes interview that he thought that the
ice raids haven't gone far enough. Shouldn't Tuesday have given,
if not Donald Trump, Republicans more generally, some pause about
how these ice raids could play out, not just among

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Latino voters, but voters more generally. Given that the President
is going to double and triple down and heretofore Republicans
have been loth to have any daylight in between. Are
Republicans possibly reconsidering breaking with the president on some of
his policies.

Speaker 7 (01:21:01):
Yeah, and that's absolutely that's the case. I mean, Republicans
are going to look at what happened. I think the
Republican game plan has always been to wo independence with
wedge issues. It's been that way, certainly for all of
the two thousands, right, and by and large that stuff
tends to work, whether it's gay marriage, whether it's gays

(01:21:23):
in the military, whether it is. It's immigration. You know,
these scare scare taxics on immigration have been a go
to for them. So what I what I do see
out of this is, first of all, it's in combination
with the fact that whether he believes it or not,
Donald Trump is going to be a lame duck president
pretty soon. And there are a lot of very very

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ambitious Republicans who want that job, not just jd. Vance
and not some gadflies. There are people in the House
and in the Senate who want that job. Only one
person will get that job, and one person will get
that nomination, but they're going to have to carve out
a path at some point that differs from what the
administration is doing. The administration believes that their policy, their

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ice going into blue cities, is helping them with rural
voters and will help them in twenty twenty six. I
think this bore out Tuesday bore out a little bit
when you look at the numbers, and again they're not
all in. So the polling that we see the day
after a race is not really fair. But when you
see the way Independence in Virginia and the way Independence

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in New Jersey behaved, and even you know, exceeding what
they had expected. In Pennsylvania and some Supreme Court races there,
they're finding that that's really not working. There was, you know,
Jacob Fry was re elected as government as mayor of Minneapolis,
and they thought that a lot of you know, Minneapolis
is a pretty blue city and Minnesota is pretty much

(01:22:52):
a blue state. But they thought that a lot of
the policies that were going on in other cities would
help independent voters toppola mayor in Minneapolis. It was a
long shot, but it didn't happen. And so these sorts
of things are the things you can take away and say, yeah,
you're right, mo. I mean, the Republicans are going to
rethink some of their policies, but you can only rethink

(01:23:13):
them so much. Right now, there's nothing to legislate because
Congress is out and there's a president who is kind
of governing by fiat at this point, and so we'll
have to see how it works into the different races
that are going on. Democrats are putting together a really
good field of candidates, not to say they're going to
win the Senate, but a much better field of candidates

(01:23:34):
for the Senate with more opportunities than people thought even
a year ago that they would have, and those incumbent
centaers are going to have to be able. I'm thinking
of people like Susan Collins. I'm thinking in Ohio. There
are definitely going to be some races that are going
to be in play that weren't in play because of

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these policies.

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
Let's talk about the politics of the shutdown. The President
has been calling Republican leaders together and advocating for the
nuclear option to end the filibusters so they can conceivably
end the shutdown. From what I know the people that
I've talked to, that is not preferred strategy going forward

(01:24:18):
by the rank and file Republicans. What are you hearing
and what do you expect?

Speaker 7 (01:24:22):
Yeah, you know, I spoke, I guess Tuesday night with
a Republican Senate staffer and was asking her about whether
or not she thought this was going to change anything.
And you know that was before the President came out
and blamed the shutdown for these losses, and so the

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Democrats took a different tag. Oh oh, the President thinks
that the shutdown hurt Republicans, Well, we're not going to
open this government back up if that's the case, and
the President wants to say that we could open the
government back up if we didn't have this filibuster. The
philibusters something that the Senate has used for a long time.
But the truth is, you need fifteen Republicans, and this

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staffer told me that there just aren't fifteen Republican senators
that are going to jump ship in order to override
that law and to put the nuclear option in. There's
certainly some senators who will say that they are for
ending the filibuster, but I think John Thune, who's the
Senate majority leader, doesn't want to cowto out, or I

(01:25:26):
should say he does want a cowtout of the President.
He doesn't want to seem weak because when you are
a week leader to a strong White House, you lose
a lot of your currency on Capitol Hill. So I
don't see that changing. I think that there's going to
be some kind of a budget deal that some moderate
Democrats and moderate Republicans will strike in the Senate, which

(01:25:47):
will not make every Democrat happy on Obamacare subsidies, but
I think it's going to that will be the way
out of this. But the Democrats are no longer in
a hurry, especially with a president who thinks that the
shutdown was what caused election losses. So you know Democrats
are going to say bring it on.

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
Civics aside, not talking about the Senate, but the House
Speaker Mike Johnson seemingly has been one of the more
vocal voices that we've been hearing from regarding the shutdown,
even though he does not play a direct role in
ending the shutdown. He made the remark about how weak
leadership maybe perceives in all of this. How would you

(01:26:26):
characterize Mike Johnson as far as not swearing in Adelida, Grijalva,
not actually being a speaker and actively involved and playing
a more forceful role in the shutdown civics.

Speaker 7 (01:26:41):
Yes, it's sort of the it's the power of the gavel, right,
I mean, you know, I think that he feels that
these daily press conferences he's having where he's casting blame.
He's calling it a Schumer shutdown. He's saying that the
Democrats in the House are not doing enough and that
he has prevented somehow from swearing in Grihava in Arizona.

(01:27:03):
You know, the swearing in of Grahalva should have happened.
They're now filing suit for it. In practical sense, until
the government's back open, none of the things that Grahava
wants to do would be able to be done because
the House wouldn't be in session. They would have a
pro forma session to swear her in, but it wouldn't
change the things that people want to see change. Certainly,
it wouldn't embolden a discharged position until petition until they

(01:27:28):
reopen the House. But I think he is trying to
be that strong leader for his caucus. He has a
divided caucus. But in the meantime he's seeing sort of
the moderation of Marjorie Taylor Green, who is using the
time off and a lot of these members are using
the time off to get on the airwaves and talk
about other things, so they're not getting an agenda completed.

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And you know, Johnson is going to be judged on that.
Congressional popularity will be absolutely low, and generally speaking, historically speaking,
as you know, Mo, that the party in power is
the one that always ends up with blame for these shutdowns,
and the longer it goes, the more you know, I
was cynical about how what its impact will be and
who cares about it when next November. The longer this

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goes and the more there's damage and the more someone
remembers a canceled Thanksgiving flight, the more that's going to
matter to Americans. And if Republicans are the ones that
are going to take the blame and the President is
saying that that caused election losses, then then I think
the Republicans are going to have to figure a way
out of this, and Johnson's going to have to be instrumental.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
Before I let you go, I want to keep it
right there talking about the shutdown and Speaker Johnson specifically.
I don't know if you saw the video of Congresswoman
Chrissy Hulihan who interrupted Johnson when he was trying to
have one of these shutdown press conferences. And I don't
think it went well for Congresswoman hula Han. But I

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want to show you the video and then get your
thoughts on the other side, what you thought of it. Yeah,
part of the American you should respect free speech. What's
the question, what's the question back? What's the questions? Tu
last night's suggested at the government, I can't hear you
because we have someone who doesn't respect the rights of
their just I love to talk. I love to talk.

(01:29:13):
We can come to the office. Okay, you have called
the leadership of both parties and bring us together and
all this problem together. Okay, let's talk about it. I've
been doing that.

Speaker 6 (01:29:22):
We did that before the shutdown began. We went to
the White House. We went and sat in front of
the resolute desk. We brought Leader Jeffries and Leader Schumer
in and we had a discussion. The President said, please
don't shut the government down, and we calls all this
pain of the American people. This has never happened before.
It's a clean, non partisan cr that every Democrat, including you,
voted no on in September nineteenth.

Speaker 1 (01:29:43):
You voted to shut.

Speaker 2 (01:29:44):
Down the government.

Speaker 1 (01:29:44):
You voted to stop snap benefits. You voted to not
pay the troops, not PTSN order patrol.

Speaker 6 (01:29:50):
You may regret it now, but that's your vote and
it's on the resident.

Speaker 1 (01:29:53):
So the President had his hand that they didn't want
to have a dialogue, faith together as they thumb their nose,
and can you get it? I did there. This is
my point. I want to see if wether you agree
or disagree, Me'm I'm not a fan of peanut gallery engagement.
If you're trying to engage someone who has a microphone,
you're going to lose. And I think it was a

(01:30:13):
missed I don't think it was a missed opportunity. I
thought it was a reckless use of that moment to
try to bring light to what you're saying, most of
which we was unintelligible. And it makes the Democrats, I think,
look like they're just engaging in peanut gallery politics, throwing
rocks on the periphery. What say you, Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:30:34):
I don't see it that way. I sort of see
you know, these are the struggles of being in the
minority when the House is in session. So when the
House is out of session and these, uh, these things
are happening and it's not official business, decorum isn't to
me as important as it would be we're on the
House floor. And so that's that's kind of my take.

(01:30:56):
I don't know that I agree with you. I don't
know how effective it was, but I do understand the
frustrations of Americans who feel that they're Democratic representatives. Probably
they're Republican representatives, but I know Democrats who are sort
of voiceless in the capital right now, want to see

(01:31:18):
some pushback, and so to that end, I think this
was pushback. I don't think that there are very many
people walking around saying, did you see you know, Hulahana
Pennsylvania and what she did. But I get what you're saying,
but I think that the rules are different when it's
happening outdoors, when Congress isn't even in session, and there's
a frustrated American populace right now that wants to see things,

(01:31:41):
you know, wants to get there, get on their planes
for Thanksgiving, wants to see their snap benefits, wants to
see want to go to national parks, what have you.
And they see this guy in charge saying no, no, no, no, no,
it's not all the speaker, but a lot of it is.
And I think also he did misrepresent that continuing Resolution
and vote it all would have died in the Senate anyway.

(01:32:03):
They were Republicans who didn't support it in the Senate anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
Yeah, and I think we agree on that. The misrepresentation,
I think is emboldened by the fact you got a
microphone and you can overtalk someone. But I accept your point.
But before I let you go, I wanted to end
with this one thought about the shutdown, I said, when
Mark was hosting, he asked me how long I thought
the shutdown would go, and I said it was pretty

(01:32:29):
much open ended because both sides, at least beginning wanted
that shutdown. They wanted this fight, and this fight is
continuing because both sides, for various sundry reasons, feel that
they have an upper hand as far as messaging or leverage.
I think that it's going to go through at least
the Thanksgiving holidays, which would be disastrous for our economy,

(01:32:51):
disastrous for our federal government, disastrous on all sorts of
levels leading into the holidays. Do you see any end
insight given what has and has not been happening. Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:33:04):
I mean, listen, Americans a sleep in Logan Airport because
their flight going west wasn't was canceled or not scheduled
over the Thanksgiving holiday, or having to be shepherded onto
buses in big traffic because people aren't flying. That's going
to affect people and upset people. I think, you know,
my feeling is that these things are unpredictable. I think

(01:33:27):
in a frustrating way. Moderates in both parties are usually
the ones who figure the way out of these shutdowns
and these impasses. What I do think though, in this case,
is the Democrats have to do a better job certainly
messaging that they are doing this for healthcare benefits. I
don't think enough people are in touch with what's going

(01:33:49):
on with the Democratic role here is if we don't
get these Obamacare subsidies increase and extended, we're not going
to be able to sustain healthcare in America. We are here,
so the Republicans don't cut it. If they're able to
get that message out in a more succinct way, I
think that it will help the Democrats and they're not
in any hurry. I also do think that what the

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President said the other day, I said it earlier blaming
the shutdown for the losses, which I don't think is true,
by the way, but he I don't think it's correct.
But he did say that Democrats are like, oh, that's
what you think, then we're going to give be more
of the same, And it's your party that's going to
have to concede on some of these issues if you
want to open the government back up, which he clearly

(01:34:32):
now does want to do, even at his own peril.
I think that there is some delight that the government
shut down because he's been able to travel, he's been
able to do foreign policy, and he's been able to
avoid that Jeffrey Epstein discharge position, a petition which he
wants nothing to do with.

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
Michael SHEHRR. Is always a pleasure to talk to you.
It's nice to be able to talk to you in
this format on the Mark Thompson Show. And I'll be
in next Friday, so hopefully you'll be able to join
me then as well.

Speaker 7 (01:34:57):
We'll do all right, see you then.

Speaker 1 (01:34:59):
Michael Shaw. There it goes. I goes at the Mark
Compston Show. I'm Okelly in for Mark not only today
but the rest of the week. And I was told
yesterday they were adamant, they were clear, they were serious.
They said, mo, do not do not mess up my
personal ownership. Do not mess up my Friday Fabulous Florida.

(01:35:23):
So I'll do the best I can. Here we go,
Friday Fabulous Florida.

Speaker 5 (01:35:28):
It's time for Friday Fabulous Florida. Oh look at the
weirdest stories from our weirdest state.

Speaker 1 (01:35:45):
I gotta tell you, my computer was working just wonderful.

Speaker 2 (01:35:51):
It's not always the way, MO, It's just like that,
just like that. Well, oh how about I read the stories?
Then I'm going to start with the title. Then my
ad blocker is getting in the way.

Speaker 1 (01:36:01):
But a Florida woman has faked a home invasion and
given police an AI photo of the alleged attacker.

Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
Oh no, she didn't. This happened in Saint Petersburg. This
woman facing charges after reporting to police that she was
attacked and then sharing an AI generated image of the suspect.
It started as a frightening nine to one one call, MO,
turned out to be completely fake. Saint Petersburg Police, there

(01:36:33):
she is. We usually grade the based on whatever your.

Speaker 5 (01:36:36):
Criteria, wild idea, but just like wo.

Speaker 2 (01:36:39):
Does she look the part? Does she look pathetic? Does
she is she attractive? Is she whatever? Whatever criteria you
want to use. Usually we we rate the the mugshot.
I'm gonna give her a six point five. Saint Petersburg
police say a woman who claimed a stranger broke into
her apartment and attacked her made up the whole story,

(01:37:01):
even created a fake suspect image. But AI. Yes, thirty
two year old brook Brooks Schinault is her name. The
victim now suspect in this case had shown proof of
images of a person that she didn't know, and had
entered her home forcibly and possibly injured her getting inside

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her house. Investigators say forensic teams and a canine unit
came out, searched the area, found no suspect. A few
hours later, the woman's boyfriend called police back, saying she
hadn't told them everything. When officers returned, Brooke claimed she
had also been sexually assaulted. That's when a detective was

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called to the scene and immediately became suspicious of the
picture that Brooke provided. The detective immediately saw the proof
or the evidence she provided and immediately knew this was
part of a TikTok trend that they are seeing online.
According to police, investigators later found the AI generated image
saved in the woman's deleted files was created days before

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she ever even called nine one one. They say this
is a waste of resources. They've had officers go out
to this home twice in one day, and police say
creating fake pictures like the one used isn't difficult, just
takes a few minutes with AI software, and even though
they suspect it is false, they were going to handle
it as if they believed it was a real case,

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going through the process and the evidence until they have
absolute proof that it is not real.

Speaker 1 (01:38:33):
This image is hideous, Yes it is.

Speaker 2 (01:38:36):
The woman is now charged with two misdemeanors and is
currently out on bond.

Speaker 1 (01:38:41):
You would think with the advent of AI, that crime
would get more sophisticated, not less sophisticated, you would think.
But I guess not.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
And AI really isn't even that good yet. You could
kind of tell AI images and videos still.

Speaker 1 (01:38:59):
Have this kind of you can tell. I can tell. Yeah,
But as I go around, Let's say, if you bump
around Facebook, you'll see all these fake stories which are
being hosted these videos which are obviously AI, and people
what I think are people are all in believing what
they see. No, I can understand the belief that people

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could be fooled by AI, because so many people are
fooled by AI. This woman is not very intelligent, but
I can understand the thinking that she could fool some people.
Maybe not law enforcement, but cool could fool some people.

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
Don't you think AI images have a kind of a
weird quality to them, kind of prescige. Yeah, little too perfect,
little machine to them. Yeah, something that makes you think
that's ai, Like you know it right off the bat
when you see it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:51):
You should, but not everybody does. Next story, a man
has Florida man, of course, is open fire after a
bar argument about how many eggs a chicken can lay.
Because we've all thought about this. A man in Florida
walked into this bar, got into this heated argument, and
cops in Port Saint Lucy say forty four year old

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Peter Rieira fired shots Tuesday morning outside Harper's Pub, and
police body camera footage that you can see right now
shows Riia being taken into custody. Police say Rieira got
into an argument with three people outside the pub who
claimed we're trying to con him. Riira does raise chickens,
and the dispute was about how many eggs chickens can lay,

(01:40:35):
because like that is like in.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
A week and a lifetime.

Speaker 1 (01:40:39):
What. For some reason, argument got heated, and Riia allegedly
fired four shots from a forty five caliber block.

Speaker 2 (01:40:47):
Oh this got serious fast.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
Oh well, anytime anytime you're talking about gunshots. Cop se
Rieia was paranoid and thought the folks he was arguing
with were out to get him which is the definition
of paranoia. Yep, and everyone, of course allegedly was drinking.
But thank goodness, no one was injured. He was a
bad shot or just shot up into the air.

Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
I've been willing to bet my lunch there's alcohol involved. Albert,
absolutely willing to bet my lunch that there's alcohol involved.
So here's the question for everyone. How many eggs can
a chicken lay? We'll say what in a day?

Speaker 7 (01:41:24):
For?

Speaker 1 (01:41:24):
I have no idea. How he's your age? I have
no idea, No, no, no, And what a question.

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
Isn't it different for every chicken?

Speaker 1 (01:41:32):
It probably is. It probably is, but it's not worth
pulling a gun on that worth serious?

Speaker 2 (01:41:40):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:41:41):
Anyhow do we get the bug shot up? Every air up?
I didn't see, No, just a body cam, Okay, okay,
just want to make sure get this. An otter has
helped Florida deputies in their search and rescue missions by
finding miss seeing people underwater. And that's cool. I guess

(01:42:07):
when it comes to finding dead people, I usually think
about K nine units, but I guess Splash the otter
has now taken that over. Splash has the unique ability
to smell underwater by shooting air bubbles that trap sense,
allowing him to find things such as human remains. Ooh ooh.

(01:42:28):
The fact that there's so many bodies underwater should be
off putting, but law enforcement across the state took part
in the training with Splash, and I guess they're showing
how they train Splash. I guess it's like a cadaver dog,
just in the water.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
Absolutely. I did not know Thattters possessed that ability.

Speaker 1 (01:42:47):
I didn't know that there are that many bodies floating
in Florida marshes, But I guess so. Splash is possibly
the only known cadaver otter in the world. According to
news reports, Splash has participated in over twenty missions so far,
finding four bodies.

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
Well, dun, Splash, that's cool. Love it?

Speaker 1 (01:43:14):
Yeah? All right, So those are our three stories. I
guess at this point we have to have a vote.

Speaker 2 (01:43:20):
Yep, we do. Uh, you want to ask for the favorites?

Speaker 1 (01:43:25):
Yeah, let's see which which favorite? Um are we going
to ask the chat or just you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:43:32):
We'll start with us and then we'll go to the chat.

Speaker 1 (01:43:35):
Okay, camp your favorite story.

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
My favorite, I'm gonna say, is going to be the
Although I do like the how many chickens eggs chickens story.
I'm gonna go with the AI brain power lady who
thought that she could fool the police with an AI
picture of a suspect.

Speaker 1 (01:43:55):
That surprises me. Not at all, Not at all, Albert,
how about you?

Speaker 10 (01:44:00):
I like the Otter story.

Speaker 1 (01:44:01):
It's uh.

Speaker 10 (01:44:02):
I thought that was an AI story first, and then
I saw CBS News posted it, so it wasn't fake.
So very cool story, could ever honor?

Speaker 1 (01:44:11):
I gotta say before we go to the chat, my
favorite is the chicken gun play. You know, I can
understand people going to the bar fighting over a woman,
fighting over politics, but not fighting over chickens and how
many eggs they can lay. That's that's new even for Florida.
HEYI and Florida and faking crimes. That seems very Florida.

(01:44:33):
Ask I can I can get that. I can get that.
I can mentally wrap my head around it. I can't
mentally wrap my head around pull it out a gun
and opening fire over how many eggs a chicken could lay?
That's me And and looking at the chat, it looks
like the Otter seems to be coming in first. It's
you know, it's it's just it's just anecdotal. But I'm

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just feeling like the Otter is the most impress story
coming out of Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:45:02):
Albert usually does a poll of the audience. What do
you got, Albert?

Speaker 10 (01:45:07):
I got a lot on my plate today. No poll,
but yes, just off the just off the chat Otter
and Uhich is disappointing because I thought AI was a
wild idea.

Speaker 2 (01:45:15):
But the snow Gators, Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:45:22):
Have you ever spent any time in Florida before we
go to Michael Snyder, have you ever spent any time
any extended time?

Speaker 2 (01:45:29):
Just no, just a couple of days on the way
to a cruise.

Speaker 1 (01:45:32):
It is another world in many ways, and when you
spend time in Florida, you don't know that the strange
stories are very much emblematic of Florida. That's all. That's
all I can say. It's it's weird until you go
to Florida and spend some time there, and that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:53):
Is Friday fabulous Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:45:55):
And it's that time.

Speaker 5 (01:45:56):
This has been Friday fabulous Florida in my kitchen. Y'all
come back now here.

Speaker 1 (01:46:09):
I know I'm still new to this. I didn't mean
to step on that sounder that exit sounder. But is
that time of the show where he comes and goes
on a rainbow. It's always good to hear from Michael Schnyder.
Michael coming in.

Speaker 9 (01:46:22):
Mark, Well, greetings for Mo Kelly, as I said, as
I said last week, I'm ready for Les Thompson and
Moe Kelly. Anyway, of course we miss Mark. If he's listening,
try not to be on any fishing boats while you're
down in Columbia, pal you know those waters are a
little treacherous. And uh Mo, I want to express my

(01:46:45):
thanks for running the clip of the Oval Office collapse.
I mean RFK Junior left that room so fast I
thought he was being chased by Wiley coyote. I mean,
all that was missing was a maybe. I really could
not believe what I was seeing, honestly. So you know,
Halloween and LA was a party and Thanksgiving is on

(01:47:06):
the way, which means Christmas decorations were up as soon
as the last Jack O lantern was smashed. And it
also means that the pumpkin spice plague has infected Trader Joe's.
In a recent poll taking the rate the current worst
TJ's pumpkin spice products here are the top losers Pumpkin Spice,

(01:47:26):
Almond Beverage, Pumpkin Spice, Power Bars, Pumpkin Waffles, Mini Spicy
Pumpkin Somosas, and Pumpkin Spicy JoJo's Cookies. Oh my god,
Speaking of scary, what do you say it's time to
review a slew of new movies?

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:47:44):
You ready? Yep?

Speaker 9 (01:47:45):
All right, Let's start with a bang and a banger,
Predator Badlands. So combining the intellectual property elements of Alien
and Predator must have been a smart, expedient commercial move
for twentieth century movies. When it was Fox, they owned

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both franchises and released the less than accomplished Alien Versus
Predator movie in two thousand and four. I mean, I
shrugged that, and I thought that's what a big studio
would do to generate income. But director and screenwriter Dan
Trachtenberg cleverly incorporates the evil Earth conglomerate Wayland Utani from
Alien into Predator Badlands in clever and effective fashion. I mean,

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James Cameron elevated the Alien franchise with his nineteen eighty
six sequel Aliens, and Trachtenberg has done the same with
Predator in bad Lands, we learn a lot more about
the Yauja, the predator species in society, turning them from
simple one note hunting and killing machines into more nuanced
beings with a hierarchy and personal honor, expanding them way

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beyond the villainy of their appearance in the first film
of the French nineteen eighty seven's Predator, you know, the
one with Arnold Schwarzenegger. So Tracktenberg has been a major
contributor to this Richard Richard Exploration, having been the main
creative force behind the last three Predator movies, the live
action prequel Prey, which is said in the Past and

(01:49:18):
Pitts a young Native American woman against a predator, really
great film, the animated anthology Predator, Killer of Killers, and
now bad Lands, and honestly, I think Prey and Baylands
are the best of the series since that first one.
So computer animation has evolved to such an extent that
there is absolutely no problem suspending this belief in the

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incredibly otherworldly and treacherous flora and fauna that had disgraced
the alogia name Deck, played by newcomer Demetrius Schuster Cola
Tangi encounters on what is touted as the deadliest planet
in the galaxy, and this is a player based an.
Even Deck's fellow predators fear so He's there on a

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quest to kill the most fearsome beast on that planet
and regain his status and his clan after his father,
a chieftain murders Deck's brother and vanishes Deck as it happens,
And here's where we get the alien element. The whylan
Utani Corporation is very interested in the biology of the
planet and is acquiring samples of its native creatures for

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you know, sinister research and development. But they seem to
have learned their lesson from all the humans who have
died trying to capture the Xenomorph in the Alien movies.
So their expedition is populated by androids, and the first
synthetic we meet is Thea played by el Fanning, and
THEA has been damaged, having lost her legs. This leads
to an alliance of convenience with Deck against the twin

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threats of the planet's ecosystem and whalan Utani shock troops.
So will Deck succeed against these stack odds? Will he
get his trophy make things right back home? Will THEA
regain her life and transcender programming to help Deck. And
these questions and more are at the heart of Predator Badlands.
And I got to tell you, even with its B
movie roots, it gets an A plus. I mean, this

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is how you make a blockbuster. And Fanning, by the way,
is wonderful, droll and witty. Predator Badlands is in theaters
wide this weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:51:25):
So shall we move on? Well, let me just say
that Dan Trackenberg is a friend of mine and I'm
a huge Predator fan from the very first one in
nineteen eighty seven. To hear you say that it's the
best of the series just warms my heart. I cannot
wait to see it. Thank you, Michael Sneyder, please continue.

Speaker 9 (01:51:42):
Well, he knows what he's doing, He's immersed himself in it,
and he has made the series better with all of
his contributions. Yeah, give him my regards. He's got a
fan right here. Okay, die my love. Directed and co
written by Scotland's Lynn Ramsey, who made the brutally gritty

(01:52:03):
dramas Rat Catcher, and we need to talk about Kevin offers.
A scathingly good performance by Jennifer Lawrence as young mother Grace,
who is stuck home alone and going nuts with a
newborn after she and her husband relocate to the Middle
American Boonies from the city. So from the get go
they seem to have had a tumultuous relationship, but the

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baby and solitude exacerbate her situation. Though giving less to
do than Lawrence Robert Pattinson Aids and a Betser with
one of those fierce when needed portrayals playing the woman's
frustrated and effectless husband, Jackson. There's also notable supporting work
from Nick Nolty and Sissy Spacek talk about talent. They

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played the baby's grandfather and grandmother. He's struggling with dementia.
It's a little heartbreaking, and she's trying to assist Grace
with the baby but encountering resistance from the unhinged new mom.
You know, it may not be rams He's best, but
it is wrenching on many levels, and it digs deep
into the psychological morass of one woman's madness. You know,

(01:53:09):
it skitters through time, occasionally presumably reflecting Grace's increasing loss
of sanity, and that's where it loses some clarity and thrust.
But that's kind of a minor quibble with such a
powerhouse turn by Lawrence. You know, it's what I call
difficult viewing. Still it is very rewarding if you can
handle it. Die My Love is in theaters Jennifer Lawrence.

Speaker 1 (01:53:32):
I never thought of her as a great actress, but
from the way you describe her performance and what I've
read about her chemistry with Robert Pattinson may change what
I think about her as an actress. It seems I
tend to agree with you. Sometimes she seems to be
phoning it in, or maybe.

Speaker 9 (01:53:46):
It's her choices, but this one is potent, to say
the least. And continuing along those lines like Lawrence in
Die My Love, Sydney Sweeney, Yes that Sydney Sweeney seems
likely to garner her share of award season love for
what is the most daring and impressive work of her

(01:54:08):
career so far. She is unrecognizable but deeply real in
the role of woman's trail blazing boxer and boxing champion
Christy Martin in what is a riveting biopic entitled Christy.
So the physical transformation alone compounded sorry by the fresh
faced blonde sex symbol putting on extra poundage and muscle

(01:54:31):
and enhanced by dark contact lenses and a series of
wigs is stunning, But it's her rich characterization of the closeted,
gay West Virginia girl of little means who discovers a
life path and unexpected success as a pugilist that seals
the deal. Like Lawrence has Pattinson to counter her and
die my love, Sweeney has the always able Ben Foster,

(01:54:55):
who is also unrecognizable here, and he's by her side
through it as Christy's predatory manager and trainer and eventually
abusive husband. Now Christie breaks no truly new ground as
a dramatic rags to riches to crisis boxing movie biography.
How can it escape the shadow of Raging Bull, which

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was about the legendary middleweight champ Jake Lamata, or fictional
flicks like the Rocky films and the Hillary Swank Clint
Eastwood drama about a female boxer million Dollar Baby. If
Christy does smack a formula, it remains a worthwhile look
at this woman's remarkable life in the sport and her
perilous private life, and it's made even more noteworthy by

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what Sweeney and Foster bring to the screen, especially Sweeney.
It's directed and co written by David Michaud. Christy is
enhanced by a supporting cast that includes Merrit Weaver as
Christie's judgmental mother not a nice woman, and Chad L.
Coleman as larger than life and larger than large boxing

(01:55:59):
promoter don I'm king again. This is somewhat by the numbers. Nonetheless,
the truth of Christie's struggles in and out of the
ring and the weight of her public and personal triumphs
went out in the end, Christy is in theaters.

Speaker 1 (01:56:12):
I'll probably be the hardest on that movie when I
see it because I worked as a as a producer
for Jim Rome sports analysts and broadcaster, and we had
interviewed Christy Martin many times during the height of her career,
so I know her story front and back. So it'll
be interesting to see whether the biopic is in alignment
with some of those high notes and low notes of

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her career.

Speaker 9 (01:56:34):
I would love to hear your take on these films
once you get a chance to watch them. I so
love that you know, Tractenburg, Dude, I can't tell you anyway.
Moving on, Yeah, thank you, thank you, audience, stand Tracktenberg,
you may know the story of the Nuremberg Trials from
the history books, or if you're part of the postliterate

(01:56:55):
crowd the History Channel, or or if you're a movie hound,
you might have seen Judgment at Nuremberg, which was the
award winning nineteen sixty one dramatization of the post World
War II legal action against the Nazi regime. But none
of that should keep you from checking out the new
historical docu drama Nuremberg. If this interests you, it is

(01:57:17):
the latest necessary reminder of the horrors that the fascist
leaders of Nazi Germany visited upon the victims of the
Holocaust in.

Speaker 1 (01:57:25):
World War Two.

Speaker 9 (01:57:27):
The Nuremberg Trials are investigated in some detail here, with
a specific focus on the case against Nazi high command
officer Hermann Gering, supreme commander of the Luftwaffe that's their
air force and the second most powerful man in the
third Reich after you know who, and he is portrayed
here in a memorable, complex and unsettling feed of character

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acting by Russell Crowe as the war criminal plays a
game of kat and mouse with the US Army psychiatrist
played by Oscar winner Remy Malik and an American attorney
played by the incredibly talented Michael Shannon prepares the prosecution.
This character prepares the prosecutions. So anyway, despite the five

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star performances by all the principles, Nuremberg occasionally feels a
little dry in the exposition, But then it hauls off
and throttles you with its depiction of evil incarnate, the
shades of gray that muddle the fog of war, and
the sacrifices made to deliver justice. James Vanderbilt wrote and
directed Nuremberg, and he should be really proud of what

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he's achieved. It's part of a story that apparently needs
to be told and told again, so it's not forgotten
or diminished by time. Also good supporting work by John Slattery,
Richard D. Grant, and Colin Hanks. Nuremberg is in theaters.

Speaker 1 (01:58:46):
That's one hell of a cast. I don't know if
you can go wrong with the cast of that caliber.
But something that you said, Michael Snyder, which gives me pause.
It's unfortunate that we live in a day where history
has been so badday is that we have to look
to our entertainment choices to help fill in those gaps.

Speaker 9 (01:59:06):
It's awful miss and disinformation have basically created rack and
ruin here. I don't even know what to say other
than moving on to the next movie, Sentimental Value, which
justifiably won the Palm d'Or at this year's can Film Festival.
I think it was the Best Picture winner. I wasn't there.

(01:59:26):
I should have been there, but I wasn't anyway, It's
the latest movie from Norwegian director and screenwriter Joaquim Treyer Again.
Sentimental Value is a family drama that also addresses the
power and burden of being a high profile creator in
the performing arts. In the movie, two sisters in Norway,

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actress Nora and housewife Agnes, have to deal with the
fraud relationship they've had with their father, Gustav Borg, who
is a renowned filmmaker, re entering their lives as he
prepares to shoot a movie about the suicide his late wife,
the mother of his daughters. So he tries to convince Nora,
and a claimed member of Norway's National Theater, to essentially

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play her mother in the movie, and Nora blanches when
he refused. He is greeted by her refusal, Gustav turns
to a rising young American actress Rachel Kemp to take
on the role Stellan Scarsguard, you know, the patriarch of
the scars Guard acting family, Alexander Bill You know those guys.

(02:00:29):
He's his usual brilliant self as the self absorbed by
tormented Gustav whose own mother dealt with the tragedy of
her own. Norway's Renata Rensevi, who is Tryer's twenty twenty
one lead in the romantic dramedy The Worst Person in
the World. She is spectacular and complex as Nora inga

(02:00:51):
Ib's daughter. Lilias is solid as Agnes and guess who
plays the American actress Rachel. I am not saying that
it's El Fanning week, but Rachel was played with great
sensitivity by a predator's best synthetic pal, the versatile Spanning.
I was like, wow, could you It's like Poles apart,

(02:01:12):
mo Polls apart. Stimental Value is an emotionally affecting, thoughtful
movie for grownups that deserves every accolade and will be
in the discussion as one of the year's best films.
It is in select theaters.

Speaker 1 (02:01:27):
Now you're making it real difficult for me to not
watch any of these movies. These are some fantastic, thorough reviews,
and I'm all in keep going please.

Speaker 9 (02:01:35):
I got to say, honestly, man, this is a rarity
a week when every movie has, you know, some value
to it, and here we go with an outlier. Okay,
Peter Hujar's Day is a little movie, but a masterful
one for writer director Iris Aks, who did Passages, Love
Is Strange and Little Men, and this benefits greatly from

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the presence of two superb actors, Ben Wishaw and Rebecca
Hall in the only two roles that this recreation of
an actual nineteen seventy four conversation requires, and that would
be gay New York City photographer Peter Hujar and his friend,
writer Linda Rosenkrantz, who wrote a book about their day
long chat entitled Peter Whosjar's Day. So this is a

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downtown art scene cousin to the intimate conversational feat that
was My Dinner with Andre with theater in film Stalwartz,
while a Shawn and Andre Gregory speaking to one another
in a chikh midtown Manhattan restaurant. Instead, they're in Rosenkrantz's
apartment and over the pointed but brief and engaging hour

(02:02:43):
and a quarter course of Peter Hujar's day. Hujar and Rosenkrantz,
they're just hanging out and Whojar is recounting what is
probably a typical day in the local scene for him,
interacting with the iconic likes of Alan Ginsburg, William Burrows,
who's in Sontag. I'll just say that, if ever there
was a totally cool opportunity to eavesdrop, it's Peter Hujar's Day.

(02:03:06):
It's in select theaters. I think it's going to play
very well on home video too. Again, it's very intimate,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (02:03:13):
M give us one more before we're done.

Speaker 9 (02:03:16):
I'll make a quick short, sweet and lovely Little Amilie,
or the character of Rain captures the joyful discovery and
painful lessons of childhood. It's a gorgeous piece of animation,
the work of French animators who are developing quite a
rep for their magnificent work, like the movie Mars Express,
which is sort of an animated futuristic fill noir, and

(02:03:39):
TV shows as diverse as Scavenger's Reign, which is sci
fi r Kane which is basically based on a video
game and sort of Supernatural and the unbelievable splinter Cell
Deathwatch new to Netflix, which is essentially an espionage show.
There is a kind of a high out Miyazaki Studio

(02:04:01):
jibli vibe to Little Amili or the character of Rain,
which portrays a little girl's innocence and wonder and is
further enhanced by the Japanese setting in kind of pre
digital Japan, which is still dealing with the aftermath of
World War Two. It's based on an autobiographical novel by
the writer who I guess experienced this, and that would

(02:04:25):
be Emily Nolm. And it's colorful and has some simple
delegate designs and it echoes anime, but it just has
its own unique look. It is in select theaters and
I think this is a great family films. It's just
a work of beauty. Little Amili or the character of Rain.
I can't believe mo no terrible films this week. There's

(02:04:49):
usually something I can kind of dump all over, and
that isn't the case.

Speaker 1 (02:04:54):
Well, there's always hope for next week. There's something that
you'll defecate on.

Speaker 9 (02:05:00):
I will bear the fangs when given a chance. But
in the meantime, I think Mark is still going to
be off next week, so you and I.

Speaker 1 (02:05:06):
Will reconvene and you.

Speaker 9 (02:05:07):
Can tell us what you thought of some of these
films if you get a chance to catch up to
them in the meanwhile, my total focus mo is Niners,
Rams coming up this Sunday live from Santa Clara and
Levi Stadium. Go Niners and Man a pleasure to interact
with you on the air.

Speaker 1 (02:05:27):
Buddy Michael. We were doing so well and then you
had to bring up the forty nine ers. You don't
know that. I'm a lifelong Rams fan from nineteen seventy
six when my father took me to see the Los
Angeles Rams defeat the then franchise expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
They won thirty four to zero. I've been a Rams
fan ever since then. I can't in good conscience root

(02:05:48):
for the forty nine ers. Oh my god.

Speaker 9 (02:05:49):
Well, no, you know we shall remain frenemies on the
sports front.

Speaker 1 (02:05:53):
Okay, before we go, i'd need to recap very quickly
your selections. Predator Badlands is the best of the series.
She gave it an a plus. Die my love you
said it was great Jennifer Lawrence performance. That impressed me.
It gives me something to remember. You talked about Christy,
which you thought was the most impressive work of Sydney
Sweeney's career. Wow, that is high praise. Nuremberg hell of

(02:06:18):
a cast, but dry at moments. Okay, I'll take that
sentimental value, emotionally effective but spectacular performances. And Peter Hu'siar's
Day my characterization, a little movie but a big message.
Definitely want to check that out. And Little Amie or
the character of Rain colorful but unique visually a great

(02:06:42):
family film. So all I can say is I was
listening intently, I was taking copious notes, and I want
to be in the theater and novel report next week.

Speaker 7 (02:06:50):
All right, man, A pleasure with.

Speaker 1 (02:06:54):
Michael Snyder. Have a great day. And before we go,
I have to shout out some folks who were really,
really supportive of this show and also me. Dan Hartford
five dollars, Thank you so much, Dan, Ricky Obear one
hit the thumbs up button and then subscribe. Thank you.

(02:07:16):
Richard Della Matter two dollars. MO, don't sugarcoat? Was I sugarcuddy?
Was I SUGARCARTI? No, you weren't doing it. You tell
them like it was all the whole time, Luis says
talking about Donald Trump, mo, he's Marie Antoinette or Marie Trumpionettes,
literally letting people starve to death while he blows millions

(02:07:37):
of dollars to build his versace Palace DC to whole
parties or luisa're not wrong. Definitely not wrong and also
Luise another five dollars ironic and disgusting to have a
draft Dodger at NFL game celebrating Veterans' Day but no
troops serving or flyovers because of government shut down hashtag

(02:08:00):
amful again, not wrong at all, and we thank you
for supporting the Mark Thompson Show. It can't be done
without you. It can't be done without the contributions of
Kim McCallister. Kim, thank you for helping me on this
day and throughout the past two days. We're gonna do
it all next week.

Speaker 2 (02:08:17):
Yeay next week. Gary Dietrich joins us at politics on Monday.

Speaker 1 (02:08:22):
And Albert thank you as well. Alberts just give me
the silence change

Speaker 4 (02:09:17):
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