Trump, The Mad King, Has No Plan & Award Winning Economists Are Calling Out His Lunacy 4/11/25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is the Mark Thompson Show without Mark Thompson today
on a Friday. Albert is with me. I like your
aloha hat Aloha.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
To you, Helloha, welcome to Friday. We made it.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
We made it to Friday, and it is going to
be a great Friday show with Friday Fabulous Florida. Albert
has put together another good one. Jim Avola will be here,
former ABC White House correspondent. We've got journalist Michael Shore
on top as well, and then of course Michael Snyder,
the Culture Blaster, coming in and he's got a lot
of movies and streaming options to share with you today.

(00:32):
So it's gonna be really good. I'm excited, Albert, me too.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
And uh Mark is out of town. I think he's
doing some fun things while we're holding it down for him.
I do have an update for Mark's Madness which we
could get to also, and so let's do it.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Let's do it right off the top, because Mark's Madness
doesn't stop just to give some monk because Mark Thompson
has taken a three day weekend, you know, how about goes.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Let me, let me, let me, let me get it ready.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
We're down to what I think it's now is it
final four yet?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
No, it's the it's the final So I could announce
the ones that made it. Obviously people could.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Just pack their rackets, but.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Okay, I like it. We can.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, I'll share what made it and what's going to
happen next time.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, a lot of alohas. I think your hat is
giving giving people the Aloha Friday spirit, So we love
it absolutely all right, So the brackets are doing well.
I am not doing well in my bracket, but that's
okay because I've had a really good time with Mars madness,
and it's a nice diversion really from the fact that
the markets are still all over the place and the

(01:40):
tariffs are rising from China one hundred and twenty five percent.
We'll get to that. The top economists in the world
are not so happy, and it's interesting because they all
seem to say the same thing, which is they're questioning
the brain power behind these tariff moves. So we'll talk
a little bit about that. Also, Canada is coming forward

(02:02):
to say listen, we'd like to make a deal and
we don't understand why you're not working with us. So
we have some video about that as well. But First,
let's jump into Mark's madness, because I know that everyone
is on pins and needles trying to figure out exactly
what happened yesterday. And I think I had I had

(02:24):
a drop in there and I don't know how it
ended up doing no.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well I could give at the guy for ready, I
will give an update on what did make it? What
did when yesterday? And the ones that made the final
is I blame you? Which is your drop him?

Speaker 4 (02:49):
And we have.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
And we have AOC baby girls. So those are the
two that have officially made the finals. The finals will
be played it on Monday, so we'll let the anticipation
build over the weekend and the finals will be run
on Monday, and then there'll be one winner and we'll
see who will win at all.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
So it all comes down to I Blame you versus
AOC's girl baby Girl. Yes, that's kind of how I thought.
Along the way. I made a lot of stumbles to
getting there, but I kind of visualized that in the end.
Who's at the leaderboard right now? Is it still Michael
Snyder who's taking the top spot?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
The cer is close to the top, but also Jane, Yeah,
Jane is number one. Matt who's been hovering around the top.
His bracket finally broke. But if you see further down
this list, we have a one Mark Thompson m M
who is also in the running. He is above Michael Snyder.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Oh so Mark is above Mike Michael at this point.
All right, I don't see you and I anywhere on
the top.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Oh no, my brad get my bracket's horrible.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
No.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I think I'm thirteen and seventeen close to the end.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well, it's interesting that the top ones you have all
have I blame you.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, and here you're not too far off eighteen picks. Correct, Kimka,
you have AOC baby girl winning it all.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
So hey, that's pretty good for my first bracket. Very good,
mm hmm, wonderful. So the voting for these two starts
on Monday.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Is that how Monday Monday? And then I guess we'll
announce the winner on Tuesday morning. So prepare accordingly, prepare
for defeat.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yep. I think, if I had to guess, I think
I blame you as going down to girl, Baby Girl.
We'll see.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
I think you're trying to influence the vote, kim.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
I'm not saying like I'm I would back my own.
But I just think that AOC is pretty strong.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Both are very strong jobs. It's gonna be I think
there's a reason why everybody picked those towards the top.
Lulu can't Lancaster pick try ignoring it. She that one
almost made it, but not quite.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
It was close. It was close.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
We'll happen till Monday and then we'll see what happens.
So everybody to just sleep on it, think about it,
and then we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh, I see Uncle Russ surprised that Mark bet against
my drop. You know, it's not surprising to me. After all,
I'm not his favorite McAllister. So these are This is
the way that I expect to be treated. This is
how it goes with Mark. Which one you use?

Speaker 6 (05:23):
Mark Thompson?

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Uh huh, okay, let's jump right into the stories. Actually,
before we really jump into the tariffs. I saw this
story about Elon Musk who was playing video games from
his jet and posting it live streaming it, and apparently
this is all there. He is. You can see a
little picture of him at the bottom of the screen.

(05:45):
This is him playing video games above his jet in
aboard his jet using the starlink can Wi Fi connection,
and I guess he was posting this to say, you know,
look how well starlink works above my plane. But the
video apparently ends rather abruptly, as you can see the
chat coming up there, and people start hassling him for

(06:09):
the chat, and now House Democrats are using this. They're
saying he is absolutely Congressman Robert Garcia from California calling
Elon Musk the most unlikable person in the United States.
He was speaking yesterday and said he really wants to
make sure that Trump knows Musk has to be out

(06:31):
of his doze job by May thirtieth, and he better
be gone. And he used this live streaming of Musk
playing video games and all the comments that the horrible, awful,
nasty comments coming up on this game over Wi Fi
aboard the jet, and the whole thing ends very abruptly.

(06:53):
I guess Musk sees all the comments and shuts it down. So, yeah,
the most unlikable person in America, which I'm saying it.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Was the in game chat too, so it's those of
So I think he's live shaming and people are seeing
that he's live shaming in the game, so they're joining
his games, and they're spamming his chat saying like he
grew in the country. Some of them were asking for money,
so it's a it's a good mix of comments.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Garcia said, the man can't even go and play video
games anymore because people he's playing with are all harassing
him online, and so he's feeling more and more isolated,
posting less on social media, distancing himself a bit more
from the Trump administration, and he says Garcia, I think
he understands he's the most unlikable person in the country.

(07:39):
So he said, we have to continue that pressure, and
Garcia joined seventy seven other lawmakers sending a letter to
Trump saying, remember he can only be a special government
employee for one hundred and thirty days and then he's out.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
So yeah, that even his gameplay was getting criticized by
a lot of the internet people who know video games,
no video games, so when they saw his gameplay, they're like,
and Elon was claiming a whole bunch of things like
oh yeah, I'm a top ten player in the world,
and everybody's watching him play and they're all skeptical. So
Elon doesn't have respect from the gaming the gaming world either.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
So for Elon, he can't catch or break this guy.
All right, let's move on to tariffs. I kid, let's
move on to tariffs, because today it really is escalating
with China. They're putting one hundred and twenty five percent
tariffs on America and a retaliation for Trump's tariffs on them,

(08:36):
and they're also now trying to partner with the EU
in going against Trump and working together. So that's a
new development. Let's take a look at how the markets
are doing today.

Speaker 7 (08:49):
So we begin this hour on Wall Street where stocks,
as you see right next to me there mixed traders
are trying to plan around these changing tariff headlines. This morning,
China raise its levies on US goods to one hundred
and twenty five percent. President Trump has tried to calm
concerns about the market while pointing blame at other countries.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Listen, there'll be a transition cost and transition problems, but
in the end it's going to be it's going to
be a beautiful thing.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
We're doing again what we should have done.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
Many years ago.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
We let it get out of control, and we allowed
some countries to get very big and very rich.

Speaker 7 (09:31):
At our expense, CBS News money. What's corresponding, Kelly, Oh, Grady.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah. So here we go and it's ratcheting up, and
we have China again, as you heard, raising tariffs to
one hundred and twenty five percent on American goods. It
was eighty four percent. Now it's one hundred and twenty
five percent. And the yeah, it's it's not going well.

(09:59):
The The UH president of China, Xi Xingping, is saying
this economic bullying is not going to be tolerated. The
new tariffs begin on Saturday. The Chinese Finance Ministry spokesman
is saying that this repeated raising of tariffs by President

(10:20):
Trump will become a joke in the history of the
world economy. They say, however, if the United States insists
on continuing to substantially infringe on China's interests, China will
resolutely counter and fight to the end. Xi Xingping says
there are no winners in a tariff war here. For

(10:42):
more than seventy years, they see, he said, China has
always relied on itself and the hard work for development,
never relying on favors from anyone, and not fearing any
unreasonable suppression. They're standing firm against Trump's tariffs and safeguarding
the common interests of the international community to ensure he

(11:02):
said that humanity is not dragged back into a jungle
world where might makes right. And so that's the response
from China. They're not backing down and not willing to negotiate.
They're not calling. Trump has said seventy five countries have called,
many of whom haven't received a call back. But what

(11:24):
we do know is that China is not one of them.
As a matter of fact, China is talking to the EU.
They're saying they'd like to invite the European Union to
team up against Trump's bullying. They are looking at Spain
and other trading partners trying to figure out how to

(11:46):
work around Trump and the United States. So now you
have the rest of the world allying against the United States,
at least when it comes to trade. And that's I
feel very concerning, very concerning. One of the things China

(12:07):
said as well. If US continues to impose tariffs on
Chinese goods exported to the United States, China will ignore
it and there are other countermeasures to come. So the
markets around the world continue to tumble. Asian markets down

(12:27):
the nick the Hong Kong stocks all down.

Speaker 8 (12:32):
This is.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
We called it a couple of weeks ago, a ripple effect.
I think it's more like a tsunami effect, is what
it looks like to me. And many countries of the
world are willing to negotiate. The premiere Doug Ford, he's

(12:54):
been pretty tough when it comes to Trump. Remember he's
trying to is the cost of energy exported to the
United States. This Canadian official, Doug Ford, is saying, listen,
we're here to talk, but you have to talk to us.
I think we have video of Doug Ford from Canada,

(13:15):
thanks so much for joining us. Were talking about what
it will take for Canada to drop their tariffs tomorrow.
Here's what he has to say.

Speaker 9 (13:24):
You're surprised that the White House didn't pause tariffs on Canada,
perhaps our closest friend and ally, as it did with
several other countries, several of whom are not necessarily close
friends or allies.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
Yeah, we were shocked that we weren't part of the
group per se. And you know, number one, number one customer.
We're both each other's number one customer, and we need
to get through this and bring certainty back to the
people of the United States and Canada, certainty to the markets.
As you mentioned, the DALL is down, the SMP is

(13:57):
down because there's still uncertainty.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
I know took a little bump.

Speaker 6 (14:01):
Up yesterday, but the reality is a tariff on Canada
is a tax on Americans, and that's the last thing
we want to see to the American people. You know,
we didn't we didn't start this. President Trump aimed at
Canada and the rest of the world for the most part,
and we just need to get rid of these tariffs.

(14:23):
We'll drop our tariffs tomorrow. If President Trump drops drops
the tariffs. We always believe in the am can fortress
working together make the two strongest nations in the world.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
That's what we want to do.

Speaker 9 (14:37):
Could you see Canada Premier actually rolling back those tariffs
on the US as an olive branch to the Trump administration.

Speaker 6 (14:46):
Well, as long as we know the tariffs are going
to be dropped against Canada as well, if we have
a mutual understanding, if they feel comfortable with us going first,
by all means, but we need we need insurance that
their President Trump's going to drop those tariffs shortly after
we do.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
So here we have our friend and neighbor saying, yes,
we want to make a deal. Yes we'll take the
tariffs away. We'll even go first as long as we
know that America will go first. Crickets. How embarrassing and
how scary these are friendly neighbors. Maybe it's just that
I don't understand tariffs. Wait, the top economists in the

(15:30):
world say this is a bad idea as well as
a matter of fact. On his sub stack, top economist
Paul Krugman, who's a Nobel laureate and considered one of
the top economists in the world, titled his substack listen
to this. Trump is stupid, erratic, and weak. You can
imagine what else he has to say on this here

(15:52):
it is anyone he says, sounding the all clear on
tariffs or trump economic policy in general, should be away
from sharp objects and banned from operating heavy machinery. He's yeah,
He's saying. In his piece on substack, Krugman Trump is stupid, erratic,

(16:13):
and weak. He says it's foolish to think Trump's pivot
on tariffs with this whole ninety day pause when he
announced he was now putting a ten percent tariff on
every country and a one hundred and twenty five percent
tariff on China for the next ninety days has actually
improved anything. Krugman says, we are still at risk of
a major financial crisis. He said, the rest of the

(16:35):
world now knows that Trump is weak as well as erratic.
I mean, I think we all knew that right, erratic
for sure. So he says, are things settled now now
that we have the pause? And Trump pivots No. He
says hardly. The pause is only for ninety days, and

(16:56):
then what happens. No one, he says, including Trump, has
the faintest idea. And that's what we were talking about yesterday,
how it seems like these decisions are being made at
a whim. Trump even said the decision to pause for
ninety days was made that morning and quickly written up.
They didn't even have a lawyer go over it. They

(17:17):
just wrote it from the heart, and that's how it's gone.
Krugman writes, if you were a business owner or executive,
would you make any major investments or long term commitments
over the next few months? He said, I wouldn't. Research
has found tariffs lighter than these, Lighter than these would

(17:37):
impose a nasty shock on the United States economy, and
that's what we're seeing. There's a study out of Michigan
looking at consumer confidence, and this is before Trump pushed pause.
People are afraid to spend money right now, and they're
afraid of what's going to happen to the economy. By

(17:58):
the way, mister Krugman is not the only person who
is very concerned about what's happening in the economy. Former
Fed Chair, Treasury Secretary Rather Janet Yellen have a lot
to say to President Trump as well. She of course,
is a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, and she was

(18:21):
on CNN and they asked her about Trump's handling of
the economy, and she said, as a good professor would,
I'm afraid I can't give it a passing grade. She said,
this is the worst self inflicted wound I have ever
seen on an administration, that ever seen an administration impose

(18:43):
on the well functioning economy. She's not the only economist
we saw Krugman. There are others. It's scathing. And then
you have Stephen Miller, the Trump mouthpiece, who has been
nothing but as you would expect, conciliatory to Trump, saying

(19:09):
that they inherited an economy in a state of calamity
and catastrophe, and what Trump is doing is wonderful when
we know that's not true. Yellen said just last year
in October that the United States economy is the envy
of the world, but is it anymore? Yellen said Trump

(19:32):
inherent in an economy where growth was actually very strong
and unemployment numbers were low. There was an outstanding record
of job creation, and inflation, while not at the target
of the Federal Reserve, which is two percent, was coming down.
So she said we had a very well functioning economy
and that Trump has taken a wrecking ball to it.

(19:55):
And there we there we go. Yeah, good old Stephen Miller.
So that's where we stand right now. And I just
I don't know. Speaking of the EU and it working
together with China, the EU saying to Trump on tariffs,
will retaliate when we're ready, not when you tweet. So

(20:18):
your tweets and your freakouts and whatever else doesn't make
us respond to you. Pretty scary. There was a big
press briefing at the White House this morning, and switching
gears a little bit here, we know that Trump is

(20:38):
now announcing a six hundred million dollar deal across the
board with these five law firms that he was going
after for pro bono work. The series of agreements with
five major law firms and in six hundred million dollar

(21:00):
in pro bono work. As they try to keep these
the pressure up on these law firms that they're angry
went against Trump or Trump is angry went against him
in previous cases. So the law firms that are now
bending a knee and submitting it would seem Kirkland and Ellis,

(21:21):
Alan Overy, Sherman, Sterling, Simpson, Thatcher, Bartlett, and Latham and Watkins.
They're all agreeing to perform one hundred and twenty five
million dollars each in pro bono legal work. And that
is the highest figure that has been seen yet in
any of these deals brokered by Trump and various legal firms.

(21:41):
So and this is over. Apparently it seems like the
retribution tour. But technically the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sent
letters to these firms asking about their hiring practices and
implying that firms that have efforts to diversify their workforce
could violate employment laws. So here we go again with

(22:03):
the DEI. It's kind of heating up every single day.
And now we get to immigration, because ICE is taking
people that they are arresting or detaining, and where they

(22:25):
were picked up is absolutely not where they end up.
They're taking them thousands of miles away from the cities
in which they were caught so that they can separate
them from their families, from their legal representation. It's a tactic.

(22:48):
It's a tactic. One detainee or I don't know what
you want to call them, person arrested by ICE was
transferred thirteen hundred miles away from home, even though they're
There were two detention facilities that had room closer to home.
And this is not unique. They are using this power

(23:11):
where they can decide where they want to detain migrants
and remove them from their support systems. So I says
the detention is nonpunitive. They say it's practicality and logistics,
but the way in which they're holding people doesn't seem

(23:35):
to give them much of a fighting chance. Speaking of immigration,
the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Trump has to facilitate
the return of this man who was mistakenly deported, This
Maryland dad who was deported to El Salvador. The emergency

(23:58):
ruling that came down yesterday instructs a lower judge to
clarify the language of her order, but does say that
she acted pro when she told the Trump administration that
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case, if it had been handled properly,
he would not have been sent to Al Salvador. So

(24:19):
they want time frame to be established for this, and
none of the judges dissented in this. They said the
district court should continue to ensure the government lives up
to its obligations to follow the law, and they want
mister Abrego Garcia brought back to America. This is a

(24:44):
man who has lived in Maryland since he was sixteen.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
He was.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
When he was nineteen, early twenties, nineteen early adulthood legally
allowed to stay in the United States. So now the
Supreme Court says, can't do that. Got to bring him back,
which does give me a little hope because you've heard
the Trump administration say we don't want him back, even

(25:12):
though he was deported in error, and there are worries
about exactly where he is and whether he's come to harm.
So we'll keep our eye on that case. The there's
been a memo that Marco Rubio apparently wrote about Mahammoud Khalil.

(25:39):
This is the student, I believe from Columbia grads of
grad school, who was leading protests against the war in Gaza,
and that goes against the thought police for the Trump administration.
They don't want you to do that, and so that
goes against your student visa in their mind. And he
has been detained as well well. Now a memo has

(26:00):
been released about this because there's a deadline for the
government to provide evidence that Mahmoud Khalil poses a national
security threat to the United States, and the Trump administration
responded with this memo only citing the Columbia student protesters'

(26:20):
beliefs for justifying his deportation. Just his beliefs, so not
that he's a security threat or anything else, just his beliefs,
his thoughts. This week, an immigration judge in Louisiana ordered
the federal government to provide evidence justifying its attempt to

(26:41):
deport him, and so Marco Rubio, Secretary of State of
the United States, responds Wednesday night with a one and
a half page memo citing an obscure provision of the
Immigration and Nationality Act of nineteen fifty two. He said
this that while Khalil's past, current or expected beliefs, statements,

(27:03):
or associations are otherwise lawful, the provision allows alone to
personally determine whether or not he should remain in the country.
He said allowing Khalil to stay in the United States
would create a hostile environment for Jewish students in the
United States. Rubio rights, the foreign policy of the US

(27:28):
champions core American interests and American citizens, and condoning anti
Semitic conduct and disruptive protests in the United States would
severely undermine the significant foreign policy objective that leads Khalil's
attorney to say, so, basically, you have no case against him.
That's all you got. That this is really a case

(27:49):
about whether lawful permanent residents and other immigrants in the
United States can speak out about whatever they want, be
that the conflict between Israel and Gaza, or the Palestinians, whatever,
or Hamas, whatever it is, whether they can speak out
without fear of deportation for expressing beliefs that the First

(28:13):
Amendment completely protects. And then he asks the question are
US citizens going to be next? Which is a hell
of a question because we saw Trump on Air Force
One saying yeah, you know, actually he'd like to take
the worst criminals that are American citizens born and bred
and deport them too. It's like they don't understand the Constitution.

(28:38):
Did you ever read it? Can't do that. So that's
what's going on there. Meanwhile, CNN had this exclusive report
saying that El Salvador is sharing gang intelligence and information
with the United States and also they are requesting certain

(29:01):
people that they would like deported back to El Salvador.
So I guess we're in this information sharing zone with
El Salvador, but we can't pick up the phone and say, hey,
we sent this Guydio on accident. We'd really like to
get them back.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
El Salvador, according to CNN, is sharing intelligence with the
United States about gang members that they want back. They're
providing complete records on them before formally requesting their deportation.
It's true. They say we raise our hands and say
look this guy. And yes, they say, this is not random.

(29:45):
The people that are being selected not random. So far,
two hundred and seventy men have been deported to El
Salvador and accused of being members of the Venezuelan trend
day Aragua gang or the MS thirteen gang tied to

(30:05):
El Salvadorians as well well Salvadorans. Not an eye in there.
So that's the way it is. I guess we can
share information, but we don't have a good enough relationship
to say, hey, can you send this guy back? Crazy

(30:25):
and scary at the same time. All right, let's move
to fired federal workers. The Department of Education sent out
a letter finally to the people they're letting go, saying
your position is being abolished. The reduction in force notices

(30:48):
went out. More than thirteen hundred federal employees impacted by
the Department of Educations reduction and force got their official
separation notices yesterday. It says, it is with great regret,
this is from the Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
It is with great regret that I must inform you

(31:10):
your position is being abolished and you have been reached
for reduction in force action. And that's the way it is,
the beginning of the end. In addition to laying off
people without going through civil service protections, which apparently, according
to the NAACP, is illegal, they know it's illegal. According

(31:34):
to attorneys. It damages people. They're damaging not only what
they say is deep state, but they're damaging really dedicated
federal workers working professionally on behalf of education, families, young people,
Damaging families and kids in these communities, many of them
who actually voted for this administration. And now look what happens.

(32:00):
Their kids are paying the price. So the letter came
out because they have to provide sixty days and notice
alerting federal employees that their final days are coming and
on June tenth, they will no longer be employed. That's great.
So another hit to the federal government abolished. Yeah, all

(32:28):
the protests don't seem to matter. This is what they're
going to do. Apparently they have to do it quickly,
get it all done. There was a meeting at the
White House, a cabinet meeting yesterday where Elon Musk was
talking about all the money that he's saving America. And

(32:50):
I don't know that I forget the exact numbers, but
the number came way down. Originally he was going to
cut you know, this many billions, and now it's lowered
a little bit, so I don't know, I don't know. Meanwhile,
speaking of Cabinet members. RFK Junior is saying that by

(33:11):
September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic.
By September Okay, yeah, I mean pretty good. People have
been trying to figure this out for a long time,
but we're gonna know by September. He apparently RFK Junior,
who is the dear Department of Health and Human Services Secretary,

(33:35):
has launched a massive testing and research effort that will
determine the rising cause of childhood autism rates in the country.
He is involving hundreds of scientists around the world and
says the answers will come this fall. By September, we
will know what has caused the autism epidemic, and he

(33:57):
says we will be able to eliminate those exposures. That's
a pretty lofty goal there. Who's going to choose from
all the reasons the scientists you invite to participate offer,
who will choose the right one? R FK Junior, Well,
he's the one. Is he the one that's going to

(34:17):
make the proclamation about what causes autism? Let me guess
he's going to say vaccines, which is absolutely untrue. But
he's been a a naysayer for vaccines, I would say,
wreaking havoc on communities all over the world. If you've

(34:39):
heard about what happened in Samoa. Crazy. Finally, after a
second child death last week because of measles, he finally
said the best way to protect your child is by
getting them the vaccine, the measles vaccine. He's all over
the map on this. I can't believe anything that comes

(35:01):
out of this guy's mouth, and we all.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Kind of expected it when he got appointed.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yeah, of course, Yeah, a scientist don't know what causes autism.
They have researched this for years and years. Whether it's environmental, genetic, biological,
whether it's some type of combination. They don't know. So
I don't know Albert, how we're supposed to figure it

(35:28):
out by September.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
I mean, hats off to him. He's gonna what's next?
Can he find a cure for cancer or something like that?
That would be great. So yeah, he's doing he's doing
big things.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
So yeah, we'll get it all figured out. We've got
a fall deadline. There is, by the way, have been
no reliable study that has shown a link between autism
and any vaccine. But Trump said apparently that it could
be based on a shot. So here we go. I

(36:04):
don't know. He said this. If you can come up
this is what Trump said, If you can come up
with that answer where you stop taking something, you stop
eating something. Maybe it's a shot, but something is causing it.
I don't think it's that simple. But yeah, we're going
to know by the fall. Here we go.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
So maybe maybe the light from inside the body will
work him.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Maybe that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Maybe maybe the bleacherside, you know whatever.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
There's a story that came out yesterday, Albert and this
is kind of a massive thing that Los Angeles County
is planning to pay four billion dollars to settle nearly
seven thousand claims of childhood sexual abuse that apparently happened
inside juvenile facilities and in foster homes. It is one

(36:53):
of the largest sex abuse settlements in United States history.
They still have to officially get that approved by county officials,
but it's a billion dollars more than what county officials
had anticipated as the worst case scenario in this. So
that's a huge settlement out of the Los Angeles area.
Is it time for freda fabulous Florida?

Speaker 2 (37:14):
We have a couple shout outs before we get to
h oh Florida. We have starting off with Brian.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Look, Brian with eighteen dollars. He says, passover begins tomorrow evening.
My family sends a lot of love for everyone for
a passover, a peace, goodness and lots of family hugs
and in good health. He's right, Thank you, thank you,
Thank you you, Brian. What a really lovely thing to do.
Eighteen bucks to the Mark Thompson Show. And what a
nice thing to say. Do you say happy passover? If so,

(37:42):
happy passover, peaceful passover to you as well. Louis with
five bucks. Here's to the Year of the Woman. In
Mark's Madness. The final two drops are credited to women
mirrors the NCAA tournament, women out drawing the men. Yeah,
thank you Louise. Mmmm girl, baby girl, don't even play

(38:03):
And I blame you. Thank you also Louis with five dollars.
Trump equals George Santos with a cult following a wide
range of compulsive lying by megalomaniac sociopath in the service
of self enrichment. True. As a matter of fact, I
saw it. I was watching Jimmy Kimmel last night, and
I saw a clip of George Santos, who remains steadfast

(38:27):
in his devotion to Trump and was saying once again
that Trump could blow someone away on the streets of
New York and that George Santos said he would still
love him and follow him. Craziness. Thank you Louis for
the five dollars twice. Oh, and thank you Harry Magnan
for ten dollars five for each McAllister. I really appreciate that.

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Unlike Mark, he says, I don't play favorites. Harry, Thank you.
This show is crowdfunded. We can't make it happen without you,
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Thank you. Love to see the contributions coming in to
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Speaker 2 (39:27):
Now, Albert, let me do you one hundred and sixteen
So one hundred.

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And sixteen thousand. Okay, so things are getting really good.
We're going to keep click the subscribe button if you
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you support the show, really really appreciate it. All right, Albert,
here it comes. It is time for Friday Fabulous Florida.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
It's time for Friday Fabulous Florida. Now here. Oh look,
the weirdest story from our weirdest state.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
We're starting strong. Cops bust a drunk man wearing a
pink thong, fake breasts and a pink wig. This is
in an Applebee's. Mmmm. A drunk man wearing a pink wig,
fake breast and a pink thong was arrested Friday night
for causing a disturbance outside of Applebee's, where concerned diners

(40:26):
had their eaten good in the neighborhood a little bit disrupted.
Police say forty nine year old Daniel Ciriello was so intoxicated,
Oh my god, his eyes are crossed, so intoxicated that
he was unable to provide for his own safety and
well being as he was stumbling around the Applebee's parking

(40:46):
lot in Clearwater, Florida, The extremely disoriented Ciriello apparently tried
to get into a car that didn't belong to him,
and when questioned by deputies, he was unable to answer
basic questions like do you know where you are? Where?
Do you know where you came from? Do you know

(41:08):
what state you're in? No, none of these questions could
he answer. They also say he yeah, he was. He
had some interesting items on his body, including the fake
breasts and the wig. He was arrested for disorderly intoxication,
booked into the county jail where they changed him into
this nice orange outfit here, and he got out of

(41:31):
jail on Saturday after pleading to a misdemeanor charge. Had
to pay five hundred and seventy dollars in fines and
court costs as well. He lives near Applebee's, apparently he's
very close by. So yeah, he's been sad. He had
to go through a divorce a couple of years ago,
and apparently it's not going well for him.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
It's a little disappointing that we can't get his full getter,
his full get up from the Applebee's in the in
the mugshot.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
It would be nice. It would have been also nice
maybe if there was some some chestcam video from the arrest. Yeah,
the pink thong and the fake boobs. That had to
be a sight. Oh wow, there he goes, all right.
The next one, this Florida man was sunbathing on a
beach and he was left screaming bloody murder after a

(42:23):
a woman drove over him on the beach. He was
at Ormond Beach in Florida, and this lady in a
jeep wrangler just came barreling down the sand and thump, thump,
there he goes. The thirty year old guy from Okola, Florida,
say O calla Ocala. He was lying face down on
the sand and the beach north of Daytona Beach when

(42:46):
he was hit by this jeep, according to the Lusia
County Sheriff's Department, and he was hurt serious injuries. Here
broke his leg, fractured his right forearm, he had third
degree burns, a fractured pelvis. To take him into a hospital.
He's he's doing okay now, there he is. The driver
was a sixty one year old woman trying to back

(43:07):
into a parking spot on the beach accidentally crossed over
the travel lines. This man's name is Coulson. He said
he was left screaming bloody murder after his afternoon was interrupted.
He said, I just got a I guess it's the
woman said, I just got a jeep a couple of

(43:28):
weeks ago, which is why he was visiting the beach
that morning, something he wanted to do. Oh, he got
a jeep a couple weeks ago too. He said, All
of a sudden, at tire was going over my head
and I'm just laying face first, crying and screaming. Horrible. Yeah, so,
he said. As he was looking over his body, he

(43:49):
realized how bad his injuries were. But again, he's going
to be okay. The driver of the jeep that hit
him on the beach did stay cooperated with police and
the investigation. She was cited for careless driving, not impaired
at all, just a mistake. There you go, and there
he is in the hospital. The next story, and I

(44:11):
don't think it gets more Florida than this one. A
man turns iguana eggs into breakfast. This happened on Marco Island, Florida,
where the owner and founder, John Johnson of Down goes Iguana.

(44:31):
This is the group he has founded has been removing
these invasive pests for years, responding to calls and apparently
getting rid of these lizards on site. He said, when
you remove hundreds of pests in a year, you've got
a lot of these lizards to deal with. And so
that is where this breakfast that he has cooked up

(44:53):
was born with the iguana eggs. It is an invasive species.
The green iguana has been spotted all over South Florida.
They burrow into sea walls, They damage landscaping, apparently compromised
pool structures, which can lead to big costs for people.

(45:13):
He says, I have the tools to help, and after
I'm done, I might as well do something a little different.
Where other people see nuisance, he sees a breakfast opportunity.
So he took a sharp knife harvesting iguana eggs and
it's like a typical egg recipe, he says. He combines

(45:33):
the yolk of the eggs with a little milk, whifts
them up with some salt and pepper, a little Latin
inspired spice, maybe little faheat of seasoning, and some garlic
scrambles them, puts in some diced ham as well, and
some onions like a classic omelet. He said, they're eggs,
so I treat them like eggs. If they taste like eggs.

(45:55):
And I put this in front of you and didn't
tell you what it was, you would have no clue
whether it was an aguaa egg or a chicken egg.
There's a way to deal with the high egg prices.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Would you would you try some?

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Kim? I would not try iguana eggs. No, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
You've gotta try at least.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
On No, no, no, no, I'm not eating a lizard egg.
That's weird food. Not doing it. Would you try it?
You're maybe more adventurous.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Yeah, I'll try it.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
I mean I don't want to see the process of
them making it. It doesn't look appetizing at all. But
I'll try some.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
You'll try an iguana egg for breakfast and iguana omelet?

Speaker 6 (46:32):
Mum hmm.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Okay, all right, So that's what we got for you.
Three stories, right.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Albert, I think we have one more. I put it
in there.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Okay, uh oh, this is a good one too. Fourth story,
This Florida man was arrested for illegally renting out a
home that he didn't own, allegedly from Punta Gorda, Florida.
A woman who moved to Florida for a fresh start
says instead she walked into a nightmare after discovering that

(47:04):
the man she rented a home from didn't actually own
the property at all. Her name is Amanda. She and
her daughter relocated from Ohio to.

Speaker 6 (47:15):
It just like woke.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
They found what they thought was the perfect rental. She said.
The listing on Facebook appeared to be legitimate. Okay, red flag.
First of all, this popular realtor had posted it and
told her to reach out to the homeowner Clinton. They
say he had great reviews. People were saying he's amazing.
But about a month into their lease, the two women

(47:39):
showed up at the home and asked Two women rather
showed up at the home and asked her what she's
doing in their dead grandpa's house. Oh oh. That's when
she learned the man, the man who rented her the home,
had no business renting out that house at all. She said,
I was stunned, I was hurt, mad, embarrassed all at once.

(48:00):
It was very deceiving. Deputies say that he had been
paying the property taxes and renting out this home despite
not having legal ownership or any right to do so.
The actual owners, who were out of state family members
of the deceased homeowner were unaware until they actually came
down to Florida. And that's real property. So now the

(48:22):
woman and her daughter have been forced to move, lost
their security deposit, and all the money that they'd saved
for their relocation. Probably about seventy five hundred dollars hit
for them in all, and they say it was everything
they had coming down from Ohio. And now they say,
we're just having to learn to figure out how to
live paycheck to paycheck. This man was arrested now facing

(48:43):
a felony charge of property fraud for an amount between
twenty and fifty thousand dollars. They think he'd been illegally
renting out this home for more than a year and
that he had collected more than twenty thousand dollars in income.
So they're hoping by sharing this story that people won't
fall victim. He doesn't look sorry in this picture. I'm

(49:06):
gonna give the mugshot for defiance and uh, just general
appearance six and a half.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
What do you think, like three, the neck is scaring
me the neck area. Okay, yeah, if you don't look
in the neck area, you're he's you would scare way higher.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
But yet it is time to vote. The options are
again cops bust a drunk guy wearing a pink thong,
fake boobs and a pink wig, and the Apple beats
parking lot. A Florida man's sunbathing on a beach is
driven over by a jeep. A Florida man arrested for
illegally renting out a home he did known. Or a

(49:49):
man turning iguana eggs into breakfast. I turned to you, Albert,
what is your favorite Friday fabulous Florida story of the day.

Speaker 10 (49:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
So then in the chat they like Florida in quotations. Man,
the guy who's a sixty two percent of the vote,
we have twenty percent. On saving money on eggs, extreme
sunbathing was an option and not your landlord. It was
the last option.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
I do like.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
I do like saving the money on the eggs. I
think this is the first time it's resourceful. I haven't
seen it yet, and it's very Florida, like only in
Florida will people be eating eggs.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
Yeah, you're going for iguana eggs. I have to go
with the majority here for pink thong. Applebee's guy, Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Mean you'd already think Applebee's. In general, you see a
lot of things that you don't want to see, not
quite like waffle House. But then I think even in Florida,
like if Florida Applebee's is like steps above just your
regular Applebee's, so.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
I think, so you never know what you're gonna find.
And that is Friday Fabulous Florida.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Okay are you muted?

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Oh am I muted?

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yeah, there you're back.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
And that my friends, it's Friday Fabulous Florida.

Speaker 5 (51:02):
This has been Friday Fabulous Florida.

Speaker 10 (51:06):
There is alligator in my kitchen.

Speaker 5 (51:12):
Y'all come back now here?

Speaker 1 (51:15):
All right? We have Jim Avola, former ABC White House
correspondent journalist Michael Shore coming up as well. But let's
do just a touch of news before we get to them,
to talk about this week in politics, because the markets
are just about ready to close and I think it's
worth finding out what's going on. So, without any further ado,

(51:37):
it's time for the news on The Mark Thompson.

Speaker 5 (51:39):
Show, The Mark Thompson show.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
On the Mark Thompson Show. I'm Jim McAllister. This report
is sponsored by to new To Vineyards in Livermore. Stocks
are wrapping up a wild week as trade uncertain impacts
Wall Street. The major averages opened lower, then they climbed
higher in this roller coaster of trading we've got going on.
The moves come after China raised tariffs on US imports

(52:10):
to one hundred and twenty five percent, and the European
Union said it is sending a trade representative to Washington,
d C. To try and sign some deals. Yesterday, there
was a helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River in
New York City. Six people were killed. They say this
helicopter might have run out of fuel. The owner of

(52:31):
the helicopter tour company says the chopper was heading back
to base to fuel up right before it plunged into
the Hudson. The NTSB is expected to give an update
today on the early stages of its investigation. There's at
least three people that have passed away after a small
plane crashed into a car in Florida. This happened in

(52:51):
Boca Ratone. The plane and the car both burst into flames.
The wreckage landing on nearby railroad tracks. The fire spokes
person says all three people aboard the plane did not
survive and a person in the car was injured as well.
There was black smoke that could be seen for miles around.
That small aircraft was headed toward Tallahassee. The Menendez brothers

(53:15):
resentencing could end today are their bid to be a
resentenced in a Los Angeles Superior Court. A judge is
expected to hear arguments about whether La County District Attorney
Nathan Hawkman can withdraw a motion filed by his predecessor,
George Gascone. Hawkman is trying to block efforts to change
the original sentence of Eric and Lyle Menendez, who are

(53:37):
serving life in prison without parole for the murders of
their parents and their Beverly Hills home in nineteen eighty nine.
It's been a long time they've been in jail, and
now they're trying to get out.

Speaker 10 (53:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
The White House says illegal immigrants must leave now. Press
Secretary Caroline Levitt says the deadline under the Alien Register
Station Registration Act is today. The Act says all foreign
nationals in the United States longer than thirty days must
register or face imprisonment. Levitt warned that if you've registered

(54:12):
and you leave now, you may have the opportunity to
return later legally, but if you don't, you can. President
Trump's Special envoy is in Russia as the White House
pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine. Steve
Whitcoff held talks with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin and
Saint Petersburg. Today. Putin was seen on State TV greeting

(54:34):
Whitcoff comes as a deal for a possible cease fire
has hit a snag over some disagreements about the conditions
in the area. There's a Texas man who was sent
to federal prison for storming the capitol on January sixth.
He's now running for Congress. His name is Ryan Nichols
of Longview, Texas. He repeated claims that the election was

(54:57):
stolen during his announcement. As he runs Congress, he says
he doesn't regret his involvement in the riot. He says
what he calls a riot, others call it insurrection, but
he says he does feel bad that people got hurt.
He pled guilty to assaulting a police officer. He used
some pepper spray on Capitol cops in order to force
his way into the Federal building and now running for Congress.

(55:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
He's trying to be a better person.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Is an issue a formal apology, then I think it'll
be fine.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
It's all good. That's all it takes, is I administration.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
Yeah, he's done nothing compared to these other people.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
I guess no.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
No.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
The Pentagon is removing a base commander in Greenland after
she sent a critical email related to Vice President Vance's
comments on Denmark. One you know, one disagreement, one little thing,
and you're out this, according to multiple reports. In a statement,
the Space Operations Command said Colonel Susannah Myers was let

(55:57):
go from her leadership position that it said was a
loss of confidence in her ability to lead military dot
com reporting. Meyers said in the email, the concerns expressed
by Vance are not reflective of those at the Space
Force Base. So now they've got another Colonel Sean Lee
taking over the position and she's out. One thing, you say,

(56:21):
one thing, and that's it. Big medical examination Today, President
Trump set to undergo his annual physical exam. He went
on truth Social earlier this week, making the announcement, saying
he's never felt better. Presidents typically visit Walter Reid and
Maryland for their annual physicals, with the results then released
by the White House physician. That is where Trump headed

(56:44):
this morning before flying off to mar A Lago to maybe,
I don't know, get a little fun time in at
the golf course again. Maybe that's what he's doing. Yeah,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Well, aren't we all trying to get to the golf course?
Kimks sweet are perfect weekend to me now.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
A group of Stanford University students in California are facing
felony charges for taking part in a pro Palestinian protest
on campus and allegedly damaging a campus building. The Santa
Clara County District Attorney's office says twelve people, including eight
Stanford students, have been charged with felony vandalism and felony
conspiracy to trespass. The charges come less than a year

(57:25):
after protesters barricaded themselves into the Stanford President's office and
allegedly did hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage
to Building ten on the campus. Prosecutors say the protesters
broke windows, broke furniture, disabled a camera and then splashed
flate fake blood around that office as well. Have you

(57:48):
heard of this really expensive market in southern California. I
think it's called Arawan Arawuan where you can get like
a twenty dollars smoothie that we're selling the strawberries really extensive. Yeah,
of gazillion dollars.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
And that wasn't from inflation now, it's just from they chose.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
They chose to fancy straw babies. An upscale grocery store
chain in southern California is now closed due to what
public health officials call a vermin infestation. The Los Angeles
County Department of Public Health says it's inspectors recently discovered
Arawuan in Santa Monica had a couple of live cockroaches,

(58:30):
spotted one dead cockroach in the Tonic bar. This is
where they make the twenty dollars smoothies. The health department
also said they found major problems with rodents, insects, birds,
or animals. Arawuan is known as the most expensive grocery
store in America. I'm sorry, and I think they're gonna
get rid of the vermin and try to keep selling

(58:52):
their very expensive things.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
I'm telling youous.

Speaker 4 (58:57):
He's got going.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Here is a situation in Truckee, California. There is an
upside down American flag now displayed on a rock face
at Donner Summit, right near Trucky. It is nearly seven
thousand feet in elevation. An upside down flag symbolizes distress
and echoes. A recent event in Yosemite Valley, a group

(59:21):
of park employees and former employees hung an upside down
flag on El Capitan to raise awareness about job cuts
and challenges facing public lands. Many Trucky residents have been
protesting the job cuts on Saturday afternoons for the last
several weeks. The Trucky Town Council also passed resolutions opposing
the federal government's reduction of funding for national forests. In here,

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when the federal workers are posting the flag upside down,
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No context will suffice to explain the hurt and anguish
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I apologize to.

Speaker 10 (01:01:51):
All who have been hurt.

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God bless America began. There's never been anything like this.
Do I hit it?

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
Love is trump straw?

Speaker 7 (01:02:21):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:02:21):
Who is having that conversation?

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
It's fantastic, that's not fake, that's real. The science is ridiculous.

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How would you alish? We could try ignoring it, sir.

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If you get it an order, you get extraployage.

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Listen to me.

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I don't want to hear you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:46):
You cannot say you love your country.

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Where am I?

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
We've smokers at.

Speaker 5 (01:02:52):
This is a word from the Lord, and he's not happier.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
There is no defense for my conduct. It was wrong,
it was stupid, and I'm trying to be a better person.

Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
I don't ever use that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
You get nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
That's a guilty pleasure to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
It is the Mark Thompson Show, and yeah, I'm telling
you guys, I'm Kim McAllister and from Mark Thompson. This
week in politics has been a real doozy, and so
we invite my favorite journalist, Michael Shore and Jim Avela
to the show to talk about the week that just happened.
And to wrap it up, let's welcome Jim Avela and

(01:03:45):
I believe we have Michael Shore. But look at you
in your baseball cat computie.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
Both dueling doula.

Speaker 11 (01:03:52):
No, see, Jim's looks a little like the Montreal Canadians,
but it's not at distance.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
It's Jim.

Speaker 11 (01:03:59):
I mean Chicago Cubs, and I'm sporting the National Hockey Leagues.
Will give ten points to Kim if she can tell
me this team.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
I don't I have forfeit my points.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
Yeah, yeah, you do fourth.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
Jim notes, though, Jim, what am I wearing?

Speaker 10 (01:04:17):
Well, let me put my glasses on.

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
It's not the Detroit Red Wings.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
It's not the Detroit Red Wings. I think Jim will
get this.

Speaker 10 (01:04:25):
I don't know it's not the shark.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
Wow, it's not clear enough for me.

Speaker 11 (01:04:29):
Michael, I'm sorry, sorry, I uh Maybe we can get
Albert to solve this mystery.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Maybe Albert knows. Oh easy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
The Buffalo Sabers, who uh yeah, we always tend to
win at the end of the season to get their
hopes up for the next season, just to have the
same loophole of never winning my sweater.

Speaker 10 (01:04:47):
In the National Hockey League is the Wlackhawks.

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
This should not be this shouldn't be cutting into the
forty eight seconds.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
No, no, we'll do that at the end. We won't
cut into your sports time, I promise. Yes, of course
the commission would know. But let's start with the tariff situation.
Now you've got China saying they're going to put one
hundred and twenty five percent tariffs on America. They're not
backing down. They say they're reaching out to the EU
to work against the American bully. This is getting worse

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and worse, and the markets are on a roller coaster ride.
Michael Shore, what do you think.

Speaker 11 (01:05:23):
I look again, when it comes to finance, that's not
my area of expertise, but it does certainly seem that
retaliatory tariffs are just that, and if that is what
what China chooses to do there well with, then I
would guess their rights to do that. What creates the

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interesting dynamic here is the second part of what you said, Kim,
which is that there are alliances being formed against the
United States over this, something that US presidents have tried
to avoid many turns throughout history. Now during periods of war,
they've stumbled upon it for moments. There have been problems,

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especially when it comes to bringing militaries together for foreign
interests when it is not a land threat to some
of those countries. But this is unprecedented when you have
countries going to China, when you have countries that are
ordinarily allays of the United States saying we can't work

(01:06:29):
with this guy, so we've got to come up with
our plan be And hey, you know what, this plan
B thing might even be better than what we had before.
So we can thank Trump for doing that. And I
think you're seeing that in places like France and Great Britain.
You're certainly seeing it in Canada. And that's what becomes
problematic politically, and that's the oversight here, the massive oversight.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
We also have Democrats now looking at posts that Trump
made about possible market manipulation related to tariffs, wondering if
they are profiting off of this. Jim Avala, have you
been looking at this and what do you think? Is
there going to be an investigation or are they just
running their lips and talking about possible market manipulation but

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nothing will come of it.

Speaker 10 (01:07:16):
I'm not sure anything is going to come of it.
Trump controls the Department of Justice and he controls the Congress,
so I mean, there may be some noise about it,
but I don't think anything will come of it. It
is interesting that people I was with an uber driver
yesterday who said this is all about making billionaires more

(01:07:38):
money by exactly what you're talking about. The presidents signaling
that they should buy stocks again just before he took
the tariffs off of most countries, so that that's out
there in the public. And I think it's another thing
is that kind of hits at the credibility of Donald Trump,

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which is building and his and his approval ratings are
going way down. I also agree with anything Michael's saying
about the alliances being put in trouble. You know, when
the dollar if some of these countries start using the
stop using the dollar as their currency to trade in

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among east each other. That's a real problem for the
United States. Also, the problem with tariffs is it costs
us money. I mean, most of the stuff that we
buy at Walmart and other low cost clothing places comes
from China, and they're warning us that prices are going

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to be much higher, one hundred and twenty five percent higher.
So these tariffs are not doing anybody any good. It's
not certainly her helping the American public. It's not coming
into our pockets. So, you know, the tariff situation, the
trade war is not a good thing. Donald Trump started it.
It's on his back, and he realized that and pulled

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back for most of the tariffs except for against China,
because he realized it was really hurting his credibility and
hurting what the American public thought of his supposed genius
of being a businessman. He totally screwed it up.

Speaker 11 (01:09:25):
And I don't We should not overstate how much foreign
leaders liked Donald Trump to begin with, right, he was
not a particularly popular person except with the sort of
despotic leaders like you know, the leader of North Korea,
the leader of Hungary or ben and of course Kim Jungle.

(01:09:46):
And so I think that we don't want to say
that he's ruined every bit of capital he had with
these people, but what he's done is he's dug us
deeper because the country is now suffering, as Jim said,
and that's a little different than Trump's ego suffering or
Trump's popularity suffering. And now when the actual people on

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the ground who are buying either nail polish or tupperware
are or clothing are suffering because of what this president
is doing simply on a whim, it's really kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
Yeah, in addition to how the rest of the world feels,
there was a study released this morning out of the
University of Michigan's authoritative survey showing that consumer confidence is
way way down. Consumer sentiment fell nearly eleven percent from
March to April and thirty four percent down from this
same time last year.

Speaker 10 (01:10:42):
So that's not an outlier either. That Michigan Consumer Index
Survey is done every month and is an important an
important monitor of what the economy is doing, and Wall
Street watches that, and certainly the politicians watch that. And
if if consumer confidence is way down, as they say,

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that's not good for the economy.

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
It's always been one of always been one of Jim's favorite.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
Yeah, So wasn't it consumer confidence that influenced the outcome
of the election and got us Trump? Anyway, wasn't it
everyone so concerned about the economy and prices at the
grocery store? And now we're looking at this consumer confidence
index dropping like someone dropped a bowling ball on top
of it. So does that mean that midterm elections are

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going to be different because we've clearly not gotten what
was promised when it comes to prices going down, Well, there's.

Speaker 10 (01:11:41):
Still a long way away, Kim, the midterms. I think
that that sentiment is building against Trump and his and
his popularity ratings and polls are dropping. But you know,
the he can turn it around. You know that it's
too soon to say about mid terms. But the Democrats,

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you know, not so much the politicians, but the grassroots folks.
There are huge demonstrations going on across protests going around
and around the country that have been going on in
the last week or so. And you know one of
the places you can see that is every every night
Rachel Matta how highlights which cities around the country are protesting.

(01:12:26):
My little city of Oceanside, California, big protest here last Saturday,
So you know, it's happening all over, but more of
a grassroots thing. And so, yes, I think I think
there is. He's there's a big threat to him from
the general public.

Speaker 11 (01:12:43):
And the midterm elections are a different animal anyway. So issues, Yes, Kim,
what you're saying is right, but there's something different about
the type of voter who votes in a midterm election,
and it's not the typical MAGA figure. It's not someone
who's coming out of Trump is not on the ballot
as we've seen in special and midterm elections in the past.

(01:13:04):
So yeah, these issues of how much eggs cost and
how much tariffs may affect at Jim's right. We can't
predict what that's going to be like a year and
a half from now, but what we can predict is
that the Republicans tend to have to do more work
in these mid terms if they're the party out of
party in power. Party out of power usually does better

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in a midterm election anyway, And he's proven that his
voters don't show up when he's not on the ballot,
and that would be a problem notwithstanding what happens with
all of these financial issues that are going on right now.
Another thing to point out is, you know, a lot
of the arguments being made by Trump and his people,
which is why I think some of these tariffs were

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at least paused or suspended, is that it would create
you know, manufacturing in the United States. Well, as soon
as this happens, what do the business is that by
so much from China? Do they look at other countries
and say, well, can we get this for less from Vietnam?
Now that those have been suspended, can we go to
Peru and South America for some of these items for manufacturing?

(01:14:11):
So it's not like they're saying, hey, let's build a
factory here, which is what the America firsters and the
Trump people want you to think is going to happen.

Speaker 10 (01:14:19):
Now.

Speaker 11 (01:14:20):
The people that are buying these materials, materials that go
into things that maybe are made here where they buy
parts and implements for the production here from China, those
are being sourced elsewhere. It's not like they're building a
factory and you know Smyrna Illinois right now.

Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
No, as you mentioned, building these factories. That the next
thing that Trump wants to terrifies is pharmaceuticals, and so
he wants then the pharmaceuticals to be manufactured within the
United States, which is a great goal, except it takes
a while to get that set up. So what happens
between the time he puts the tariffs on to the

(01:15:00):
time that the meds are actually made in the United States,
which I would think they have to pay more to
make them here because you have to pay American workers
more than you have to pay workers in other countries.
Does that send the price of medications skyrocketing for people
that are already having tough choices about whether to pay
their rent or buy their meds.

Speaker 11 (01:15:19):
Well, it has people in India making those medications at
a faster clip than they were maybe even a month ago.
And yeah, while it is it's a noble idea, and yeah,
let's build it here, the fact of the matter is
that these corporations and these bigger companies that do that
don't want to spend the money on it, and that
costs more money to do it here. Even if you

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were able to build that factory immediately, they start looking
at other countries immediately. You really you read about the
relief that so many of these company owners and CEOs
are feeling once the tariffs have been lowered on or
suspended on other countries. Now we can go to Japan,
Now we can go to Vietnam and Cambodia and Singapore

(01:16:04):
and try and source some of these items. So it
is disingenuous to think this is about building factories in
the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
One of the things that the members of the Trump
administration are spending a lot of time doing is kissing
Trump's rear end there. We've watched Treasury Secretary Bessent tap
dancing all over this tariff thing. But also it looks
like they if you don't get in line, if you

(01:16:34):
don't offer the right kind of love to Trump, you
get fired. We just saw the leader of the Space
Force base in Greenland replaced because she dared to criticize
Vance and his comments on Greenland and on Denmark. And

(01:16:54):
so he's just find it interesting that there was a
cabinet meeting yesterday where much of the discussion centered on
how great President Trump is and how amazing everything he's
doing is. And I wonder how much time could be
spent doing actual work versus kissing his backside.

Speaker 10 (01:17:18):
Yeah, I mean he demands this loyalty in this you know,
fealty that from from anybody. And we saw what happened
with the poor with the Zelenski in the Oval office
when he didn't kiss his ring right away, right, you know,
he got his country abandoned by the United States because

(01:17:42):
he didn't didn't say thank you, you know that those
type of things. You know, it's it's part of the
Trump ridiculousness. The more important stuff, Kim, is what's going
on now in the in the courts with the deportation. Yes,
this guy who was deported to Al Salvador, and then
Supreme Court actually comes out surprisingly and sides with him

(01:18:07):
and says the United States government, the Justice Department, must
quote facilitate his release, leaving some gray area there. And
then today the Justice Department goes back in and says, wait,
we're not going to do that. We're not going to
give you the details of how we're going to facilitate that.
They've missed two deadlines today in direct defiance of not

(01:18:29):
just the court of Federal Court, but of the Supreme Court.
And they're setting up a real you know, we keep
hearing this business of a constitutional crisis. But this is real.
I mean they are. The Supreme Court has ordered them
to get this guy back and to get out. And
they're claiming, well, he's in a foreign country and it's

(01:18:50):
Al Salvador and we can't tell him what to do. Well,
we gave him six million dollars to tell him what
to do. You can, you can tell him what to do.
And it's going to be interesting to see how the
Supreme Court handles the fact that they're not doing what
they were told to do. Well.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
What's interesting as well on this case is that El Salvador.
There was an exclusive report on CNN. They say El
Salvador says that it's been sharing gang intelligence with the
United States, is working directly with the United States, requesting
exactly which people here that they would like deported back
to El Salvador. So, if we as a country are

(01:19:26):
working so closely with El Salvador, how hard is it
to pick up the phone and say, oops, we sent
this guy on accident. Can you send him back? Michael?

Speaker 4 (01:19:34):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
Why does it? Why was it taking so long to
get that done?

Speaker 10 (01:19:37):
Mister art of the Deal evidently made a bad deal
with L Salvador. Was one way. We can send them
to you, but we can't get them back.

Speaker 11 (01:19:45):
And deference deference to someone who is someone who is
similar to Orbon in his dictatorial ways, and that's Boukla
in L. Salvador. So he picks his friends because he
knows that they will do what he says, because they
are like minded in the way they want to rule.
So what does this say that they're giving sort of

(01:20:07):
carte blanche to El Salvador in this But they're but
they're ignoring what the United States Supreme Court, one that
he had a big hand in building, is saying on
these things.

Speaker 10 (01:20:17):
So unanimous decision.

Speaker 11 (01:20:19):
Yeah, yeah, exactly what people, even his people, right, No,
I'm saying but that you know. But but what's he doing.
He's listening to Bukla in L. Salvador and what's coming
out of the of the government and sent Salvador there before.

Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
He's listening to.

Speaker 11 (01:20:36):
What the Supreme Court has to say on this. Uh,
the excuse they're giving is this ruling came so quickly
that we need time.

Speaker 3 (01:20:43):
To facilitate this. Well, I don't know.

Speaker 11 (01:20:46):
I mean that that's one thing, and it could be true,
but there's no reason to believe the things that come from,
you know, the lips of the people speaking on behalf
of this.

Speaker 1 (01:20:56):
President Trump has actually said we don't want this guy back.
That's what he said.

Speaker 10 (01:21:00):
But what is interesting is, yes, the Justice Department is
saying they need more time, as Michael says, not to
bring him back. I mean, the judge today didn't say
bring him back today or right now. What the judge
said is tell me what you're doing to get him back.
That's not a very high bar for the Justice Department,

(01:21:22):
and for them to refuse to do that is really
against the Constitution. And what this judge does is pull
them in, pull one of those Department of Justice people
into her court and ask him those questions, ask him
or her those questions directly, and if they don't answer,

(01:21:44):
it's the whoscal Yeah, that's what would happen to you
or me if we refuse to answer a judge's question.

Speaker 1 (01:21:51):
Well, this man was, by the way, in the United States. Legally,
he had every right to be here. So but speaking
of the border, Ice posted something that has me very
very concerned. They say, now it was a mistake, they
shouldn't have posted this, But here's what they said. They said,
they are working to enforce federal laws to prevent the

(01:22:13):
following from crossing the border illegally. People, money, products, and ideas, ideas.
Wait a minute, what do you mean you mean, like
the ideas that Mahammud Khalil had that is getting him deported?
What ideas? You don't want ideas to come into the

(01:22:35):
United States? I am I freaking out for no reason,
you guys, because it seems like ideas are something in
America to be protected. We're able to talk about our ideas,
to speak our mind, and now at the border they're
trying to keep ideas out. There's idea police going on.

Speaker 11 (01:22:56):
Well, I mean that's America first to to the hill, right,
I mean the America first is the only ideas that
come here, unless it's an idea that a leader of
a Central American country things is better than the one
that your courts think. So protection of ideas? It is
it intellectual property? Is it the value placed on that
monetarily and otherwise?

Speaker 3 (01:23:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:23:19):
And and.

Speaker 11 (01:23:21):
But just the mere fact that they're saying these things
is isolationism and protectionism taken to a different degree than
I've ever seen it before.

Speaker 10 (01:23:29):
Yeah, even Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, has tried
to justify the deportations of these people because they had
ideas and they and they spoke about them, and they
said they spoke out against American policy as far as
Palestine is concerned. And so what they did. What he
did is say, you know, if you are going to

(01:23:52):
if you're if you're hearing a green card, green card
is one step away from citizenship. My grandparents well in
green cards their entire lives. They never actually went and
got citizenship. They worked and lived here about houses, paid taxes,
all in a green card. And now if you have
a green card, you cannot if you're hearing a green card,

(01:24:14):
you can't speak out against an American policy.

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
This is this is why I want to send Avola
to El Salvador.

Speaker 10 (01:24:25):
Marco Rubio has totally lost his spine.

Speaker 3 (01:24:28):
He is such is he is that presumes a spine,
I mean that presumes there was one before.

Speaker 10 (01:24:34):
He is soning himself up for MAGA support for the
next presidential rates and also to keep his secretary of state.

Speaker 7 (01:24:41):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (01:24:42):
You know, we know that the last secretary of State
under Trump lost his job because he objected to some
of the things Trump wanted to do. Marco Rubio is
just sitting there and slinking down and letting letting Trump
do whatever he does and run right over him.

Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
We're in extremely dicey territory when you talk about ideas
and policing ideas at the border, because who decides the
ideas that we want to let in? Who decides what
ideas are okay and what ideas are not okay? And
we're going straight down a slippery slope with this.

Speaker 10 (01:25:17):
Yeah, the dictator decides.

Speaker 3 (01:25:20):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 11 (01:25:22):
And to have expectations of the people with whom Trump
surrounds himself, especially in this second term, I think is
a mistake because even though Marco Rubio was approved ninety
nine to nothing by his Senate colleagues to be Secretary
of State, what Jim said is absolutely right. There are
other ambitions. And you know, I just argue with Jim

(01:25:42):
because I don't think he had a spine when he
showed up in the United States Center a Senate. I mean,
he's been a man about ambition the whole time. There's
nothing wrong with ambition, but to cow taw at every
turn just because of ambition is very dangerous and politics,
and it actually, it doesn't prove terribly successful in the

(01:26:04):
long run for a lot of these people. I don't
think that the MAGA people and the people that will
be electing or nominating the next candidate for the presidency,
whether MAGA helps or not in twenty twenty eight is
we don't know yet. But I don't think MAGA will
help Marco Rubio. I think he's barking up the wrong tree.

Speaker 1 (01:26:24):
Well, switch gears because I saw a story today that
the Department of the Interior is now releasing an analysis
of fuel deposits fossil fuel deposits that show another one
point three one point thirty billion barrels of oil in
the Gulf of Mexico's outer continental shelf. So here comes

(01:26:47):
more drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, also known as
the Gulf of America.

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
I guess they say that once there's more drilling, it
will be yeah, I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
So they say the new data confirms what we've known
all along that area is sitting on a treasure trove
of energy, and we are unlocking it. This from Interior
Secretary Doug Burgham in a statement yesterday. So they're going
to ramp up oil and gas drilling in coastal areas
in the Gulf of Mexico. I guess we should have
seen this coming. Yes, here's the.

Speaker 10 (01:27:18):
Thing with is Kim. We focus on these day to
day things which you know are hard to ignore, you know,
whether it's immigration or the prices of eggs. You know,
we're focused on that. The real issue, the real issue
was climate change. He is destroying this earth. He's he

(01:27:44):
wants coal back up, he's allowing oil in, you know,
he wants He's going to punish California if we don't
allow more uh drilling rigs off of our coast. Donald
Trump is he's going to be personally responsible for the
diruction of our earth. And are you know it's not
going to hurt me or you maybe Kim who's younger

(01:28:05):
more than us, but it's going to hurt our kids
and our grandkids. You know it. It is really something
and it's really dangerous, and it's something that we need
to really focus on. And the next candidate for the
for the Democratic Party needs to make that a main issue.
He's destroying the earth.

Speaker 11 (01:28:26):
So further to what Jim is saying, it goes under
the red hat of MAGA, which is the notion that
making America great again. I asked so many people who
I've talked to what that means to them, and it
is going back to a time when there weren't regulations. Well,

(01:28:46):
we have regulations now because of that time when there
weren't regulations, and and and the climate regulations we have
learned the hard way we are in desperate need of.
And so yes, was there a time when you could
you could drill in unregulated ways offshore in the United States,
from from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Coast,

(01:29:10):
to the Atlantic Coast, to the you know, to basins
around the Virgin Islands, even in Puerto Rico, you know,
the deep trenches there. There's been so much that we
have learned that just saying make America great again and
going back to a great time when we could just
be kind of cavalierly drilling, that's not what America wants,

(01:29:30):
and that's certainly not what the Earth wants from America.
And that's that's part of the problem with the ideology
that kind of informs every single you know, Jim said
not to focus on the day to day, which is correct,
because this is about the macro but when you see
the day to day, this ideology informs that day to
day and in whatever realm you're looking at in this country,

(01:29:51):
whether it's about race, whether it's about immigration, which I
think are the same issue, whether it's about economics, protectionism, military,
now of course drilling, which equals climate, it's all the same.

Speaker 10 (01:30:04):
Let me let me just point out, I'm older than
both of you. When I was growing up in Los
Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley in the late fifties
and sixties, there were days when we had to cancel
Little League practice because you couldn't breathe these regulations. And
now you look outside and it's clear. You know, even

(01:30:26):
in Los Angeles, the air is pretty clear, and that's
because of regulation. Is because of tailpipe in factories that
have been told I can't use coal anymore. And he
wants to bring that back to a point I can
remember my lungs hurting as a kid. Don't do this.
This is crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:30:47):
To the last story I present to you both today.
We talked a little earlier on the show about Elon Musk,
and there is a bunch of Democrats sending a letter
to the White House reminding them that he has only
got what one hundred and thirty days, and then he's
got to get out. But now today we have a
new announcement. The Social Security Administration says today that going forward,

(01:31:11):
its communication will be relying solely on X or formerly
Twitter right, instead of traditional press releases or memos that
are posted to the agency's website. They will only be
using X to communicate to the press and the public.
That is it. It'll become, they say, their communication mechanism.

(01:31:33):
So there it is. I mean, it seems like even
if Trump does only work for one hundred and thirty days,
or if his position with Doze slowly sinks away, his
tentacles are all over the US government, and I don't
know how we get rid of that.

Speaker 10 (01:31:48):
I just will hope this. They just need to answer
the phone. The Social Security Administration they're not answering, has
already messed up by not answering the phone. And they
wanted people to go on their computers to con to connect.
You know, these are old people, you know, the Social
Security folks are old people, and they don't necessarily aren't
that computer savvy in many cases, and so they they're

(01:32:09):
they're they're stuck. So this this dose business of not
answering the phone, using the using Twitter or X or
whatever it is, is not connecting with the You know,
these are not These are not twenty somethings that are
using that are on Social Security for the most part.
These are older folks, and they're older Trump voters, and

(01:32:33):
he's pissing them off, which is not smart.

Speaker 1 (01:32:38):
Yeah, and you know.

Speaker 3 (01:32:41):
It's it's really true. It's it's who's your audience.

Speaker 11 (01:32:43):
Your Social Security audience is not necessarily the one that
is savvy about X. And of all of the communications.
First of all, ex communication, I think a bad thing. Right,
but but but but the that all these people are
expected to get any updates from the Social Security Administration

(01:33:04):
on X on social media when many of them have
no facility with it at all, it's absurd. Not only
is absurd, it's gonna be something that members of Congress
are going to be hearing about.

Speaker 3 (01:33:18):
And the people they're.

Speaker 11 (01:33:19):
Hearing about it from is Jim correctly states are not
It's not about party.

Speaker 3 (01:33:24):
They're going to be hearing from older.

Speaker 11 (01:33:26):
People who just have no way of getting in touch
with Social Security Administration, who are missing a check, whose
checks didn't come to the right place, whose checks were
less than they all to have been, all the normal
customer service and customer relations calls that the SSA has
gotten for so long. So this is wildly irresponsible. And
I can't imagine that Congress won't step in once their

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phones continue to ring, because you can reach a Congressman
and a congresswoman still by phone.

Speaker 1 (01:33:54):
We have come to the portion of the show where
Michael Schure takes us on a ride for forty eight
seconds regarding.

Speaker 11 (01:34:01):
Sports, and we bring Albert in for this all the time.
But you know, I mean, I I think people want
to talk about the Masters. I will mention that my
beloved Rangers, even though I'm wearing the handsome hat of
the of the Buffalo Sabers, that the Masters really taking
center stage here. I don't really care about it a lot,

(01:34:22):
but it's one of the ones that I watch. Albert,
who what do we think, Jim Kim, Who's gonna win
this thing?

Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
I mean, Rory had a terrible first round and he
just recovered today by shooting I think a six under.
I'm definitely not watching while I'm working the show though.

Speaker 10 (01:34:39):
Just the two double bogies yesterday. Yeah, the highlight of yesterday, however,
was the Spanish golfer who had to use the bathroom right,
he walked over and peeded in the river at the
stream that goes through the Masters and was seen by
the public. That was the highlight.

Speaker 11 (01:34:59):
That was a high And uh, and you know the
Master not a place, not a place, thank you? Where
you where you want that to happen. The NHL season
ends a week from Saturday, and uh. The Rangers that
looks like are not going to make the playoffs. But
there's still excitement in in hockey because Ovechkin Albert, as

(01:35:22):
we predicted, he broke the record.

Speaker 3 (01:35:24):
And that was a lot of fun.

Speaker 10 (01:35:25):
He's a Putin lover, He's He's not.

Speaker 3 (01:35:28):
A Putin lover.

Speaker 11 (01:35:29):
He's somebody whose family is in in Russia and has been.
He said that he just wants peace, but he knows
that if he would have said something terrible about Putin,
there would be reprisal against his brothers and his family there.
It's just something you don't do, is he He's not
a Putin over criticizer. That's fair to say. But I

(01:35:50):
wouldn't say that he's a Putent lover because I get
why he I get why he takes that post.

Speaker 3 (01:35:57):
It's been well explained.

Speaker 1 (01:35:59):
That's forty eight seconds of sports.

Speaker 11 (01:36:01):
But I'm going to forty nine. But Wayne Gretzky, whose
record he brought, who broke you can't tell that we
do know about that exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
All right, forty eight seconds of sports. Jim Avolo, Michael Shore,
thank you guys for being here and recapping the week
in politics. Always love the conversations with you too, and
we'll see you next Friday. Boys, Michael Shore and Jim Amla, everybody.

Speaker 5 (01:36:28):
And the Mark Thompson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:36:32):
Now switch gears to more fun stuff, right, this is
the entertainment portion of the show. He comes and goes
on a rainbow. It is Michael Schnyder the Culter flaster, right,
and Michael Snyder's report is sponsored by the Comic Book Boys.

(01:36:52):
Michael Snyder, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (01:36:54):
Hey I Cam and yeah, the Comic Book Boys are
in as a sponsorship on the tre Blast segment for
the MTS. And you know I'm a big comic book
fan and collector. I have always been that way. I
taught myself to read as a toddler via Donald Duck
and Uncle Scrooge. Comics written and drawn by the great

(01:37:15):
Carl Barks, and I collected the zillions of them, but
you know, it got to be a bit much, and
I wanted to monetize my collectibles. So I reached out
to the Comic Book Boys, and they are located in
a very cool warehouse headquarters in southern California, and they
can tell you what the worth of individual comics and

(01:37:38):
collections are. They buy collections in Toto. They sell comics
on consignment, and if you're in Southern California, you can
bring your comic books to them or arrange for them
to look over what you have. And I got to say,
depending on what they're working with at any given time, the.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
Warehouse is a wonderland if you go there.

Speaker 8 (01:37:59):
When I was there, I saw some amazing vintage books
in mint or near mint condition that they were selling
at impressive prices, And it's kind of like you're looking
at these things from like, I don't know, nineteen forty eight.

Speaker 4 (01:38:09):
Mark says he has a Batman comic from the forties.

Speaker 8 (01:38:13):
He has yet to show it to me, and I
am going to probably push the issue next time I'm
over at Shay Tom say, that's really it's kind of
like a peak at a corner of American cultural history.
And if you have enough comics and you're anywhere in
the continental US, they can arrange to transport your correction
collection to their warehouse. Chris is there, one of the boys.

(01:38:35):
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I was among friends while dealing with them. And if
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Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
They're the comic book boys.

Speaker 1 (01:38:56):
There you go. All right, let's move one to the movies.
What have we got?

Speaker 7 (01:39:00):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:39:00):
First, I got to say, you know you mentioned it earlier.

Speaker 8 (01:39:03):
Passover starts this Saturday evening and it's the week long
celebration of the exodus of the Israelites from bondage in
Egypt back in the BC.

Speaker 4 (01:39:12):
And it sounds kinky bondage, but it was, you know,
a bad sleevery thing.

Speaker 1 (01:39:18):
Iron Rod.

Speaker 8 (01:39:19):
Hey, God sent ten plagues to convince Pharaoh and the
Egyptians to let the Israelites go. Frogs, locusts, blood cooties.
I think thinning hair was one of the plagues. Maybe
that's just what I'm dealing with anyway, if you've seen
the Ten Commandments, you know the story. I just want
to wish a happy Passover to the Jewish community, although

(01:39:39):
I don't know how anyone with a palette could be
happy about what's on the table at the Satyr dinner.
I you kosh, your food and oat queisine are mutually exclusive. Seriously,
maybe indigestion is one of the plagues. Anyway, all right,
I got that out of my system. I just wanted
to acknowledge Passover because it's a big deal this weekend,
many of them wonderful. We should get some movies, and

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I want to kick off with an incredibly impactful and
relevant film called Warfare. And it is a no nonsense
powerhouse plunge into a firefight in the middle of the
Iraq War or Iraq War if you prefer, and it's
based on the recollections of soldiers who survived the conflict,

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especially Ray Mendoza, who co wrote and co directed it
with Alex Garland, the writer director responsible for, among other things,
Civil War and Twenty eight Days Later. So modern filmmaking
techniques place you inside the mission and a no ensemble
of up and coming actors, some of whom you might

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recognize deliver the grit and the humanity. I mean, some
of these guys are out there working and pretty well known.
The Pharaoh Wuna Tai is one of them. Will Poulter,
who has been in a Marvel movie or two, Cosmo
jar Harvis who was the British guy in the miniseries Shogun.

Speaker 4 (01:41:05):
Yet these are talented guys.

Speaker 8 (01:41:06):
Michael Gandolfini James's kid and he's currently in Daredevil Born Again.

Speaker 4 (01:41:13):
They're all in this.

Speaker 8 (01:41:14):
Troop and I have to tell you this is resolutely
brutal and uncompromising and not for the faint of heart.
But it is a stunning achievement if you ever wanted to.

Speaker 4 (01:41:25):
Know what it was like to be in the middle
of war.

Speaker 8 (01:41:28):
Warfare is one of the most vivid recreations of that circumstance.
It's in theaters right now, and I think it should
be experienced in theaters by those who are interested, precisely
for its immersive quality, high marks to warfare.

Speaker 1 (01:41:44):
Interesting. Yeah, it sounds like it definitely is something that
will leave an impact on you after you see it, right. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:41:51):
A couple of the other actors, Joseph Quinn, who's going
to be in the upcoming Fantastic Four film as Johnny Storm,
the Human Torch. He's one of the troupe. Charles Elton.
It's a great cast and they disappear into these roles
as soldiers in the middle of this madness and yeah

(01:42:11):
powerful all right. As the Amateur spins its tale of
espionage and international intrigue, plausibility takes a leap out the
window like one of Putin's Russian thugs pushed it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:24):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:42:25):
The Emitor is not bad.

Speaker 8 (01:42:28):
I mean it has some really intriguing moments, and it's
anchored by some decorated actors, led by Romy Malik in
the high tech expert under fire mode of his character
in the TV series Mister Robot, rather than you know,
the flamboyance of his Oscar winning portrayal of the Queen
lead singer Freddie Mercury.

Speaker 4 (01:42:47):
This is not rock and roll.

Speaker 8 (01:42:50):
The supporting cast features Lawrence Fishburne, John Berenthal, Rachel Brosnahan
that's right, Midge masel Is in this thing, and Michael Stolen.
But they don't get anywhere near a lot of screen time.
That's all on Malik as Charlie Heller a Cia code
expert in Langley, whose wife played by Brosdahan is and

(01:43:11):
it's not a spoiler alert, it happens at the top
of the film. She's killed in a terrorist attack while
she's on a business trip to London. So he's rebuffed
by his bosses when he demands that they go after
the terrorists. So Charlie takes it upon himself to seek vengeance.
I know, instead of a skinny, wiry little guy. You
don't think he has what it takes, but he's going

(01:43:34):
to track down and eliminate the villains despite nothing more
than a brief course of training by a cynical agent
played by Fishburn. Of course, there are vague and convoluted
reasons why the CIA agrees to leave it all to Charlie.
Director James Hawes has worked on some of my absolute
favorite TV shows, including Slow Horses, Snow Piercer, Penny Dreadful

(01:43:57):
and Black Mirror and Doctor Who. Both of the latter
two both have new seasons up this weekend. He's good
at his job, Hause, and he keeps things moving here.
But you know, the formula embracing script and the limitations
of telling a story this globe spanning and potentially sprawling
in the time. A lot of the feature film, even

(01:44:18):
one coming in at two hours, they kind of undermine
the final product.

Speaker 4 (01:44:23):
It felt like there was too much going on.

Speaker 8 (01:44:25):
To be honest, I think The Amateur would have probably
worked better as a mini series, and I won't call
it amateurish. A little disappointing, but I thought, you know,
it does have some value. It just isn't what it
might have been. The Amateur is in theaters. It opens
wide today.

Speaker 1 (01:44:42):
That's a disappointment because I was kind of wanting to
see this one, So I'm sad that you didn't really
love it.

Speaker 8 (01:44:48):
It has its moments, it really does, but you know,
I just it just could have been so much better.
I feel like it was a missed opportunity.

Speaker 4 (01:44:56):
Are you ready? Are you ready? My favorite movie of
the week weekend, I think.

Speaker 8 (01:45:03):
Was Drop, and it's coming out today in theaters and
it is shockingly good. I thought it was going to
be some kind of silly exploitation, but you know, it's
last reel almost goes off the rails. But Drop is
one of those unexpected delights that ends up being better
than many movies that seem to have more impressive pedigrees
it certainly was a blast to watch. Really, Drop is

(01:45:25):
a tension packed, creatively shot thriller that could not have
been made twenty years ago because so much of its
story relies on invasive, genuine, up to the minute tech
to enable its threats. Hei there are no really bankable
stars here, but no problem. The cast features a handful
of talented actors who have done some solid work on

(01:45:45):
TV shows, starting with Megan Faye, who earned an Emmy
nomination for her role on.

Speaker 4 (01:45:51):
The White Lotus season two.

Speaker 8 (01:45:53):
In Drop, she plays Violin, a widowed mom on a
first date at a fancy skyscraperestaurant in Chicago and Kim.
This is clearly one of the worst first dates ever
since right in the middle of it, she gets a
message dropped on her phone from someone in the vicinity.
The message instructs her that she must perform a number

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of tasks while at dinner, ending with a command to
kill her date or her sister and young son will
be killed back at her house. So the date is
a handsome fellow played by Brandon's Splenner, and he you know,
he seems like you know, it's the dream date. Remember
he used to have that little game girls would play

(01:46:37):
called dream Date.

Speaker 4 (01:46:38):
This guy seems like the real deal.

Speaker 1 (01:46:39):
He's like a.

Speaker 4 (01:46:40):
Photo journalist type.

Speaker 8 (01:46:41):
He's good looking, he's charming, he's you know, very very gallant.

Speaker 4 (01:46:45):
But she's got to kill her.

Speaker 1 (01:46:48):
He played a hunk in the Yellowstone spin off at
nineteen thirty six. I think it is Yeah right.

Speaker 4 (01:46:55):
I remember him with Yeah. He was on It ends
with Us. He's been out in the marketplace for a
little while.

Speaker 6 (01:47:03):
But here is a situation.

Speaker 4 (01:47:07):
It is giving me a bit of a spotlight.

Speaker 8 (01:47:10):
Drop was directed by Christopher Landon from a very lean
and canny script by Jillian Jacobs and Christopher Roach. The
plotting is intricate, yet never confusing. The excitement is palpable,
and it's really easy to be invested in Violet and
shear her on in this. I call it an untenable,
deadly situation. Drop is in theaters. It's the sort of

(01:47:33):
reason you go to the movies. I mean, oh wow,
the many reasons I go to the movies. Be entertained,
enjoy yourself, have some fun, and Drop has you on
the edge of your seat.

Speaker 4 (01:47:44):
It's it's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:47:46):
So you got me on this one. It's on the
list Michael, It's on the list, all.

Speaker 8 (01:47:51):
Right, A fresh entry in the bare bones indie comedy
of this comfort genre. I think that's really a genre. Sacramento,
Hey in California, residence and audience Members. Sacramento is a
neurotic Buddies on the Road picture with the distinct advantage
of four capable performers taking on the tidy script co

(01:48:12):
written by the movies director and one of its two
male leads, Michael and Gerano. And you've seen him in
various movies and shows, and here he plays a sort
of aging lost boy named Ricky who has no girlfriend,
no prospects, and no direction. Is somewhat a strange buddy
is Glenn, played by the always nerdy Michael Sarah. I mean,

(01:48:35):
you know you're in for moments of cringe, especially since
Glenn is a bundle of ankst with a very precarious
job situation and a pregnant, albeit super competent wife. And
by the way, the wife is played by no less
than Kristen Stewart, who subtly conveys the sort of love
and patience you'd have to need to be married to

(01:48:55):
a train wreck like Glenn. I mean, really, if the
movie is a bit slow. It only runs ninety minutes,
and it does manage to convey the scary nature of
facing adult responsibilities like parenthood as the bickering Ricky and
Glenn dry from La to Sacramento with the ostensible mission
to scatter Ricky's late father's ashes in his hometown.

Speaker 4 (01:49:17):
At least that's what Ricky says he wants to do
in order to convince Glen.

Speaker 8 (01:49:21):
To join him, and the trip is increasingly an uncomfy
ride as Ricky plays on Glenn's anxieties, manipulating him to
elongate the journey for reasons that eventually come to light,
and for reasons that involve a character played by the
engaging Maya Erskine of TVs Mister and Missus Smith. Yeah,
four really good performers here. In some way, Sacramento is

(01:49:44):
like seeing two versions of Kieran Colkin's tragically annoying character
in a real pain on a road trip together. And
you know what, that's actually pretty cool. Sacramento is in
select theaters, and I hope one of them is in Sacramento.
You know, consider it the location of.

Speaker 1 (01:50:01):
The movie recommended.

Speaker 4 (01:50:04):
Yeah, to an extent, for sure.

Speaker 8 (01:50:05):
You know, you may get that skin crawling feeling when
these two guys are, you know, kind of going at it.
But here's a movie I really can't recommend, although you
may want to watch it.

Speaker 4 (01:50:17):
For I don't know. I'll explain why you may want
to watch it.

Speaker 8 (01:50:23):
It's called gun Slingers and it's a derivative forgettable western
that's set in the early nineteen hundredths.

Speaker 4 (01:50:30):
We're in.

Speaker 8 (01:50:31):
A shady character named Thomas Keller played by Stephen Dorf,
is wanted for the New York City murder of a
certain wealthy fellow, so he goes on the lamb and
ends up hiding out in a small Kentucky town among
other questionable characters, until a posse led by his brother
comes a looking for him and all hell breaks loose.

(01:50:52):
So other familiar faces in Gunslingers besides Dwarf include Heather
Graham as a woman with a steak in Keller fate,
cost This Mandylore as a town bigwig, see Ma in
a very bad wig as the town sheriff.

Speaker 4 (01:51:08):
And here's the reason to watch Nicholas Cage.

Speaker 8 (01:51:12):
I mean, there is always a certain pleasure watching Cage
in full bull goose looney mode. And though it's little
more than a cameo as this kind of weirdly twitchy,
gravel voiced gunman who has renounced violence, turned to photography,
and embraced Jesus.

Speaker 4 (01:51:30):
He just doesn't disappoint.

Speaker 8 (01:51:32):
I mean, the movie is a cast off, but I mean,
Cage is so compelling, even when he's thoroughly off the wall,
which he often is. So if Gunslingers is a Western
reachhread that's primarily an extended shootout in one grubby locale
with a little bit of brotherly ankst thrown in, Cage

(01:51:55):
doesn't care. I mean, he has another more promising movie
coming out shortly called The Surfer. So hey, let's cash
a paycheck and have a little fun. As for the
b movie director, screenwriter Brian Skiba and the movie gun Slingers,
you know, the movie is mostly a dud.

Speaker 4 (01:52:12):
Maybe we should call it a C movie.

Speaker 8 (01:52:14):
And one more quick casting note, a blonde, somewhat appealing
actress named Scarlet Stallone. A Scarlet Stallone plays the daughter
of Mandylore's character, and yes, she is the daughter of
one Sylvester Stallone.

Speaker 4 (01:52:29):
I'm just surprised he didn't name her age.

Speaker 1 (01:52:34):
Is she good at it?

Speaker 4 (01:52:35):
She's okay? Yeah, I mean, are you good while covered
with bird droppings? I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:52:40):
It's sort of that's I guess a comparison here. Gun
Slingers is in select theaters and available for streaming on
demand if you want, you know, and you may want,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:52:53):
Okay, is it recommended or is it a no?

Speaker 4 (01:52:57):
It's really no, it's not very good. It's not very good.

Speaker 8 (01:53:00):
I didn't hate it because I had a chance to watch,
you know, Nick Cage go bonkers, but it really is
not a very good I mean, we've been there before,
you know. It's not a really good movie. Kind of
a movie I'm sort of on the fence about is Zero,
which is about a couple of Americans who come to
consciousness separately in the car Senegal, with bombs strapped to

(01:53:25):
their chests and a voice in my phones is telling
them that they have to do a variety of tasks
that is going to actually cause a political uprising, get
worse in the car, or they're going to get blown
up or worse. And it's kind of interesting. The voice

(01:53:46):
on the phones is courtesy of Willem Dafoe, and that's
kind of a high end piece of casting. But everybody
else is like, who is this guy? I don't know
who this guy?

Speaker 10 (01:53:58):
Who is this guy?

Speaker 8 (01:53:59):
So the guy we first meet with a bomb strap
to his chest is played by hus Miller. The second
guy is sort of like looks like a World Wrestling
the World Wrestling Veneration villain played by Cam McCarg and,
you know, not a lot of familiar faces, but it's
kind of well shot by the director Jean Luke Herbalou

(01:54:20):
and this guy Herbalon and he also co wrote it
with hus Miller, and I don't I wouldn't call it
a vanity project. It certainly seems to want to point
out the dicey geopolitical situation we all face. There's a
lot of issues about theocracy and you know, the people

(01:54:40):
being oppressed in African nations, including Senegal. There are moments
and there's a lot of tension and there are some explosions,
but it just it doesn't totally congeal for me.

Speaker 4 (01:54:53):
You know, it is in fact in theaters and also
available for streaming. It's called zero.

Speaker 8 (01:55:00):
It's interesting, and I guess I'm kind of damning with
faint praise, but it certainly kept my attention. Let's just
wrap up by talking about a documentary that I was
completely caught up in. It's called One to One John
and Yoko, and it is a documentary directed by Kevin MacDonald,
who has done some narrative films like The Last King

(01:55:21):
of Scotland, but he's also done some documentary work and
it is utilizing archival audio and video and some recreations.
It is a look at the almost two years that
John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent in New York in
the early nineteen seventies, living in Greenwich Village. This is
before they moved to the Dakota. This is before Little

(01:55:44):
Sean was born. This is when John and Yoko were
trying to get her custody of Kyoko, her daughter from
her first marriage. And it's also very much about Lenin's
only post Beatles concert where he wasn't just a guest star,
the One to One Concert, which was meant to basically
raise funds for disadvantaged children. And I have to tell

(01:56:09):
you I was just fascinated by it. It seems like
we may be entering the era of Beatles documentary overkill,
but the performances by Lennon and his backup band quite good.
By the way that concert also featured guest appearances by,
among other people, Shanana and Stevie Wonder, who comes out

(01:56:30):
and sings on give Piece a Chance.

Speaker 4 (01:56:32):
But what's really interesting is to see.

Speaker 8 (01:56:35):
How genuinely committed this very privileged couple was too important
socio political causes, you know, the free freeing of political prisoners,
you know, money diverted to orphanages that were mistreating kids,
you know, ending the war in Vietnam. It's really a

(01:57:00):
vivid recreation of that time and it shows what sort
of people they really were. And it also touches on
how hated Yoko Ono was by Beatles fans. She was
disdained by other members of the group from what she
says in various interviews here, and you know, people look
down on her despite her career as an artist, very respected,

(01:57:23):
very innovative. I thought it was pretty fantastic, and you know,
it's episodic. It's not for everyone. It's a tiny little
slice of the John Lennon story, but it's still pretty
cool and you can see it in select theaters including Imax.

Speaker 1 (01:57:38):
Oh cool, And that was one to one John and Yoko, Yes,
indeed it was. I think that you are the ones
that recommended a streaming option for me called The Pit.

Speaker 8 (01:57:50):
I did not, but I am a big fan of
Noah Wiley, and I do believe it's been praised in
other corners.

Speaker 1 (01:58:00):
It's so good. I for some reason I thought it
was you. But yeah, so I am looking forward to
your streaming options and hoping that you might have some
more good stuff to recommend.

Speaker 8 (01:58:10):
I have one of my absolute favorite shows in recent memory,
The Studio. Now, as someone who we don't have to
get into details works in the film and television industry,
industry doing you know, writing and development stuff, specific specifically animation,
and as someone who's on studio lots when I'm in
Los Angeles for screenings and for meetings, the Studio is

(01:58:34):
hilarious and creepily accurate. It is part of what we
would have to call, as we discussed earlier, the comedy
of discomfort, which is a kind of genre that basically
became something codified with the British sitcoms The Office, which
of corspawned an American version and various other international versions,

(01:58:57):
and peep Show where the lead character are kind of creepy,
can't get out of their own way, and in the
studio Seth Rogan, who I'm not a big fan of,
but he is brilliantly cast here as Matt Remick, who
has just been appointed head of Continental Studios after a
shakeup and his longtime mentor played by the great Catherine O'Hara,

(01:59:20):
has been pushed out, and reciprocally, he gives her an
independent production deal with the studio, so she's around in
the series, his best buddy for many years as his assistant.

Speaker 4 (01:59:33):
He's played by Ike Barenholtz.

Speaker 8 (01:59:36):
It is hilarious, it is creative, it's an inside baseball
thing in terms of how things go down in Hollywood,
and it is I guess of the moment, and it
does some really intriguing things the second episode, you know
those spoilers. And by the way, I want to point

(01:59:57):
out that, as in some of these kind of docu
comedies or mockumentaries, we have a number of Hollywood actors
and directors playing themselves all kind of sucking up to
the character of Matt Remick to get their projects made.

Speaker 4 (02:00:15):
At the studio.

Speaker 8 (02:00:16):
And that includes, of all people, you gotta love it,
the esteemed Sarah Pauley, who appears in the second episode
as herself directing a movie wherein she needs to get
a tracking shot that's one long shot during Golden Hour,

(02:00:37):
and Rogan as remic keeps messing up the shot and
the entire episode is one long tracking shot. In addition
to it being about a tracking shot. The creativity is
brilliant and no less than Martin Scorsese appears in the
first episode. One of the things this movie does is
show the absurdity of what goes on in Hollywood. Now,

(02:01:00):
you know, I'm always complaining about, you know, intellectual property
and trying to use a brand to sell something, to
build a franchise. In the first episode, the head of
the corporation that has acquired the studio, and he's played
by Brian Kranston, wants to do a movie series built
around the character of the kool aid Man, you know,

(02:01:22):
oh yeah, giant picture that busts through walls and what
have you.

Speaker 1 (02:01:27):
Yeah yeah, And.

Speaker 8 (02:01:30):
Matt decides to try to get scor says he to
do the Kool aid Man movie. And I won't say
anything more than that, but it's pretty inspired. Every episode
has been off the charts great so far high recommendations
for the studio, which is visible on Apple TV and

(02:01:50):
It's been directed and co written by Rogan and his
longtime partner Evan Goldberg. At least most of the episodes
have been and it also includes, among other people, the
great and talented Catherine Hahn as a studio flunky.

Speaker 4 (02:02:07):
You know, high marks.

Speaker 1 (02:02:09):
Okay, the studio wonderful. I got it.

Speaker 4 (02:02:12):
I have another one for you. You know, I like
crime stuff.

Speaker 8 (02:02:15):
Mob Land at Paramount Plus was originally conceived as a
prequel to Ray Donovan, talking about how the Donovan family
ended up you know, deep in crime and in Boston
here in the United States, and it was retooled by
Ronan Bennett to become a contemporary crime drama about a

(02:02:39):
battle between two families in London trying to control the
criminal trade there.

Speaker 4 (02:02:46):
And oh what a cast. Tom Hardy plays the fixer.

Speaker 8 (02:02:50):
Who might be the kind of proto Ray Donovan type,
the head of one of the families, and man, what
a career resurgence, played by Pierce Brasna in a brilliant
performance that embodies the viciousness of this gangland leader. His
wife played by Helen Mirren. That's right, Dame Helen Mirren

(02:03:12):
plays not so much a mall, but his partner. You
know Brosden's character's partner in crime.

Speaker 4 (02:03:20):
It is aces.

Speaker 8 (02:03:22):
Patty Considine plays one of the Brosden characters' sons. It's
an extended crime family. Mob Land has everything I like
in one of these sorts of shows. It's available currently
on Paramount Plus again big recommendation. And you know I
mentioned Doctor Who earlier. It's back for its second season
within Shootie Gatwa as the Doctor and he is.

Speaker 4 (02:03:44):
Joined by a new companion.

Speaker 8 (02:03:46):
He is the alien New travels through time and space
in what looks like a police box from the sixties
in the UK. And you know, it doesn't matter whether
it's the past or the future, alien worlds or on Earth.
And he usually has a human companion and this time
it's a nurse. Amusingly enough, a doctor with a nurse

(02:04:07):
and Belinda Chandra and she's played by Verada Sethu of Andor,
who is a really wonderful actress.

Speaker 4 (02:04:14):
But she doesn't want to travel with them.

Speaker 8 (02:04:16):
Usually they're all eager, Oh yeah, myho, exciting, I'm going
to see the universe now. She wants to just get
back home and it looks incredibly promising. Doctor Who is
back and it's back on Disney Plus and on the
BBC player. So I think that pretty much wraps things
up for today.

Speaker 1 (02:04:34):
Let's recap it. You say, as far as the movies go,
Warfare is a stunning achievement. You called it vivid and
powerful and a really great movie to see in theaters
the amateur you said, it's got a little too much
going on. Better it would have been as a mini series.
And it was a little disappointing to you that you
called it a missed opportunity. Drop was your favorite movie

(02:04:58):
of the weekend. You said, this kind of movie is
the reason you go to movies in the first place.
Drop Sacramento. You called it cringey, but it's got a
great cast, and you recommend it. That's Sacramento for gun slingers.
This Nicholas Cage movie, you said, he's so good in it.
You said, the movie is a bit of a retread,

(02:05:19):
but Cage good.

Speaker 8 (02:05:21):
Well, you know, I don't want to point out I
want to point out Kim it's a small role.

Speaker 4 (02:05:25):
He's one of an ensemble.

Speaker 1 (02:05:27):
But yeah, but you know you don't recommend it. You said, no,
we're not going about that.

Speaker 4 (02:05:31):
No.

Speaker 1 (02:05:32):
Zero you I got the meh feeling from you on zero.

Speaker 8 (02:05:36):
There were things about it I liked and things about
it where I kind of shrugged, And you know, it
was a noble attempt at making a thoughtful, geopolitical action
film with explosions.

Speaker 1 (02:05:50):
But you know, gotta love that. One to one John
and Yoko, you love that it highlights highlighted their commitment
to causes. You said, it's a fantastic movie and you
really loved it. Again, that's one to one John and Yoko.
It's a documentary.

Speaker 8 (02:06:08):
Yeah, fantastic music sequences and insightful, but it's just a
tiny slice of his life.

Speaker 4 (02:06:13):
Though.

Speaker 1 (02:06:14):
For streaming, you say, the studio from Apple TV is inspired.
You loved this one. It's a comedy of discomfort with
seth Rogen. You're recommending the studio again on Apple TV.
And Mobland you love this one too on Paramount Plus.
Great cast, you called it aces. You recommend Mobland on

(02:06:36):
Paramount Plus. And there you go. That is it the
movie recommendations.

Speaker 4 (02:06:41):
And Go Giants, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and go Warriors.

Speaker 8 (02:06:45):
They have to win tonight and they have to actually
beat the Clippers on Sunday. The Giants are at Yankee
Stadium tonight. Titans both former well the Giants as a
former New York franchise going back home question Mark, and
we'll see what they can do. The new look Giants
with the resurgence of young Jung Jung Hu Lee and uh,

(02:07:07):
you know, I'm excited about both teams, but you know,
we never know until the game is played, do we
We don't.

Speaker 1 (02:07:14):
You can find more of Michael's writing at the Voice
SF dot org. The Voice SF dot org and this
report is sponsored by the Comic Book Boys. You can
find them online cbbauctions dot com. Thank you, Michael Snyder.

Speaker 4 (02:07:30):
You're very welcome.

Speaker 1 (02:07:31):
Kim.

Speaker 4 (02:07:32):
Everyone, have a lovely weekend and we'll be back with
you next Friday.

Speaker 1 (02:07:36):
He comes and goes on a rainbow by Michael Snyder.

Speaker 2 (02:07:39):
Hi, I thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:07:43):
Awesome. I'd love to have him on the show. And
so many people to thank Albert, so many including you.
Hemioday Arnall with a five dollars supersticker helping to support
the Mark Thompson Show. Harry Magnan comes in with a
ten dollars for chat, saying, still not playing favorite love
both of these guys. Why not a full minute of sports?

(02:08:07):
You know he picked forty eight seconds. What can I say?

Speaker 2 (02:08:11):
That's the way it is memorable number. It is very
good producing on his end for us.

Speaker 1 (02:08:16):
Yes, there you go. Louis with five dollars. Donald Trump
good businessman, same as Hannibal lecter Strick Vegan. He says,
thank you for the super chat Louise and Vilma with
a ten dollars super chat says the Court should retract
presidential immunity. They must realize they have created a dictator
who will ignore any Supreme Court ruling that he wants. Vilma, Yeah,

(02:08:41):
that presidential immunity. That's troublesome, isn't it. Vilma with ten dollars.
Thank you to everyone contributing to the show. Today. You'll
find us at the Marcompsonshow dot com. Thank you to
all of our guests, that's Michael Shore and Jim Avola
and Michael Snyder. Thank you to albert A great Freday,
fabulous Florida today as well. Everyone has a really really
good weekend. Check us out. On Monday, Mark will return

(02:09:05):
and Gary Dietrich will be back on Monday to talk
politics as well. So it is a show not to
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Speaker 2 (02:09:12):
And also on Monday we will have the voting will
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Speaker 1 (02:09:18):
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