November 25, 2025 • 28 mins
Join Jim and Greg for the Tuesday 3 Martini Lunch as they enjoy watching social media accounts purporting to be Americans get exposed for being based overseas. They also respond to Rep. Eric Swalwell claiming that people vote by phone all over the country and shake their heads at still more insanity from Tennessee Dem Aftyn Behn.
First, they applaud Elon Musk for the new feature revealing where X accounts are based. It's exposed some prominent MAGA accounts with no personal names to be based in foreign countries. Also, people claiming to be reporters based in Gaza were discovered to be in several different countries. Jim and Greg offer some helpful tips to avoid getting lured in by these sorts of accounts.
Next, they slam Rep. Swalwell, who is now running for Governor of California. In an interview on CNN, Swalwell said he wants Californians to be able to vote through their phones because it's already happening in many places across the country. No, it's not. Jim and Greg also do a quick review of the Democrats in the governor's race and warn Californians that whomever emerges from the primary will be bad news for the state.
Finally, they serve another martini on Aftyn Behn, the Democrat running in a special congressional election in Tennessee next week. In addition to comments that she hates Nashville (which is in the congressional district) and country music, she would not walk back anti-police comments from 2020. Now, there is audio of Behn saying she doesn't want children, she wants power, while explaining why she believes women should not have children. Oh, and there's yet another example of her screaming while protesting and being dragged away.
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First, they applaud Elon Musk for the new feature revealing where X accounts are based. It's exposed some prominent MAGA accounts with no personal names to be based in foreign countries. Also, people claiming to be reporters based in Gaza were discovered to be in several different countries. Jim and Greg offer some helpful tips to avoid getting lured in by these sorts of accounts.
Next, they slam Rep. Swalwell, who is now running for Governor of California. In an interview on CNN, Swalwell said he wants Californians to be able to vote through their phones because it's already happening in many places across the country. No, it's not. Jim and Greg also do a quick review of the Democrats in the governor's race and warn Californians that whomever emerges from the primary will be bad news for the state.
Finally, they serve another martini on Aftyn Behn, the Democrat running in a special congressional election in Tennessee next week. In addition to comments that she hates Nashville (which is in the congressional district) and country music, she would not walk back anti-police comments from 2020. Now, there is audio of Behn saying she doesn't want children, she wants power, while explaining why she believes women should not have children. Oh, and there's yet another example of her screaming while protesting and being dragged away.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
and Jim Garritty of National Review.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Free Martini's coming up.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Hey, so glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition
of the Three mar Tiny Lunch. Don't forget to follow
and subscribe on all the major podcast platforms. We're on
YouTube now. Make sure you subscribe and follow there. And
Jim today is technically good, bad, crazy, it's also all
crazy in a number of ways. And for a person
(00:34):
we never heard of a week ago, Afton Baine is
about to complete the hat trick, and things just get
more insane as time goes on. So I don't know
what we're going to get from her by the time
next Tuesday rolls around, but I'm a little bit afraid
to think how much you could even escalate after what
we know so far.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Listeners, you should know Greg and I have a fairly
high standard to talk about the same figure two days
in a row, unless it's the President or somebody who's
you know in the news all the time. Aften being
a candidate and a special election for Congress down Tennessee
ordinarily would not be important enough to talk about three
days in a row. But man, you know, we'll talk.
(01:11):
We'll talk more about her in a few moments. But yeah,
this may well become the Afton Baine Memorial Crazy Martini
by the end of the year, strong contender for the
End of the Year awards right now, putting in a
you know, just just just a late season surge on
her part.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, just a photo finish here with a
lot of other crazy stuff for the year. But let's
start with our first martini. We're calling it a good
but also a decent amount of crazy, and let's head
over to the town hall version of the story. But
there was a lot of this over the weekend. Man,
a lot of stuff happened over the weekend, which isn't
usually the case. But Elon Musk decided that on X
(01:47):
that they were going to try this new feature that
revealed the country of origin for every user account. And
from what I understand, this has been suspended, but I
could be wrong about that. And the reason it's been
suspended as everybody's freaking out because the accounts that they
purport to be in the Middle East or they purport
to be in the United States. Turns out not to
(02:08):
be true. There's really two types of frauds being exposed here, Jim.
One is people claiming to be America first and hugely promaga.
Turns out there not in the country. Townhall reports. For example,
an account called at seventeen seventy six General Underscore, which
describes the owner as a quote constitutionalist, patriot and ethnically
(02:30):
American unquote, with more than one hundred and forty thousand followers,
is based in Turkey. The owner posted that they work
in international business and are currently in Turkey, although that
claim is unverifiable. Another account called at American Voice had
over two hundred thousand followers, but was found to be
based in South Asia. That owner simply deleted their account.
(02:50):
Other accounts that have claimed to be journalists reporting on
the war in Gaza were found to be misleading as well,
with accounts claiming to be those of Gaza based journalists
being based countries like Poland, Egypt, or East Asia and
the Pacific. And so you know, some people are quibbling
that location means that's where you are at this very second,
(03:11):
where that account is based. Others are saying, no, that's
not necessarily the case. And so Jim I think the
main takeaway is here, don't put a lot of stock
in people who don't use their real names, and people
you don't know actually exist and things like that. But
it's fascinating what just a little bit of exposure here
on X did.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, I mean this is a good martini in that
people who are news consumer consumers deserve the full picture,
deserve to know as much as possible about the person
who are coming up in their feeds. It is still available.
It's on the profile of person. When you go to
the person and the date that they joined, you can
(03:52):
twitter back what it was then now called X. You
can click on it and will tell you where account
based in. Now if you look on right now, it'll
have a little star, a little shield with an exclamation point.
I use the VPN, and that is you know, but
my VPN is based in the United State, you know,
currently based the United States. But you know what, if
I want to throw off the Russians or somebody else,
I could put it in any country that I like.
(04:13):
That's a nice thing about having a VPN. Right now, Greg,
I am certain that there are lots of young men
in Albanian villages that are raising money to buy a
VPN so they can put their their location in the
United States as possible. This is, this is fascinating. Now
here's the thing. You're right. It has not been anybody
whose account is a first name and a last name
(04:36):
and you know their face and you've seen them out there.
And by the way, I probably have the person who
should not criticize Americans in Turkey we're commenting on American
politics because I did that for two years, because I
was very open about the fact that I was living
over in Turkey back then. Just as guys, if a
really hot woman DMS you out of the blue and says,
I've been so impressed with your feed, let me show
(04:58):
you my body or whatever, that's not a real woman.
It's some guy in Bangladesh, or it's some guy who's
you know. But I do think that there are some like,
you know, eye opening factors about this. One is there's
nothing wrong with fooling somebody who's like, you know, Maga
Patriot Warrior twenty twenty four or whatever that you know,
But like, if they don't have a first name and
last name and they don't ever put any pictures of
(05:19):
themselves up on that, then you probably should that. Okay,
I don't know if this person is genuinely an American
and if the basically what Twitter and X has done
paying people for tweets is perfectly fine, I signed up
for that program. I may probably like, you know, maybe
one hundred bucks every two weeks. It's it's not tons
of money, but in Bangladesh, that's a lot of money.
(05:39):
In Pakistan, that's a good living. So like, if you
are a you know, young per if you're at any
age in any of these foreign countries, having a Twitter
account in which you can put out stuff from Trump
is the best. Trump is the worst. Sometimes it's Jews
are the root of America's problems. Those are the accounts
that tend to turn out to be in places like
Turkey or Egypt or all over the Middle East. But
(06:00):
I think if you're if you're X right now, you're
having a meeting and you're saying, we have created a
system which we incentivized foreigners to pretend to be Americans,
to post the most divisive and anger generating messages possible.
Is that really what we wanted this platform to be?
Is this what we really set out to do with this?
And I think it's you know, fair to what I
(06:21):
think the argument that this information about where your you know,
your your electronic signal is coming from should be on
your profile page seems to make a lot of sense
to me. I would certainly not mind that. And then
the other question is, you know, should you be able
to block people by an entire country and could you say,
you know what, I just you know, unless Pakistan is
in the news, I don't want to hear from anybody
from Pakistan and their thoughts on, you know, on American politics.
(06:44):
That seems really reasonable to me, that that seems like
the sort of thing. And the fact that a good
portion of these folks are MAGA or pretending to be MAGA,
I think if you're the Maga movement, maybe you need
to look in the mirror a little bit and say,
why was I so convinced that these people with AI
generated avatars? And you know, why did I Why was
I so eager to believe that this person was really that.
(07:06):
By the way, there are also cases on the left
side where people who claim to be Palestinians and who
are in Gaza and I am suffering and my fourteen children.
There was somebody who said, my I and my children
are freezing tonight, and somebody pointed out that, like the
low in the Gaza Strip at that time was like
seventy degrees, So it's really like, you know, I know
they're used to warmer temperatures out there, but it's really tough.
(07:28):
The other thing is, I remember this is a and
by the way, this is I was telling this to
missus Garrity last night, and I got to genuinely invoke Diehard.
I got to genuinely invoke the German infiltration unit and
die Hard with the vengeance who says, man, it feels
like it's going to rain like dogs and cats out there.
Like when somebody says something and it doesn't quite sound right.
There was somebody, I think it was Iowahak or somebody
(07:49):
pointed out that there was someone who was saying that
they were a Texan. They were a true cowboy. They'd
been their their whole lives, and they raise cows, their cattle.
Cows are for dairy, cattle is for steak and be
and so the question is like, if you'd spend your
whole life as a you know, you know, would you
call it cows in Texan? That just didn't seem right.
So keep your eyes open for when somebody who you've
(08:12):
been following says wording and it doesn't quite seem right,
or the spelling is the British one or something like that.
There are lots of little signals like this, and I just,
you know, I think it's entirely reasonable for Americans to
say I believe that American political decisions should be shaped
by Americans. And it's very interesting that we were told
that there was this foreign influence operation in twenty sixteen,
(08:33):
which there was. I don't think it was particularly influential
in the twenty sixteen election. I don't think a bunch
of Facebook ads done by Russian trolls had that much
influence over it. But here's one in which is clearly
the whole world has gotten in on this, and we
as America, maybe maybe we shouldn't take so much of
our political perspectives from social media, right, Maybe you know,
maybe you should do it from reliable sources like podcasts
(08:54):
with two guys who are genuinely in Virginia, yes, and
sites like National Review and places like Radio America, places
like that exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
But people love to hear their own thoughts coming from
other people's mouths, and so they get excited about these things.
But you know, there's plenty of maga people you know,
are real. Follow them if you want to know what
the maga people are doing in the administration, their allies
and the media you.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
See on camera therese you've seen at events that like
that doesn't see you know, like, yeah, I don't always
agree with all of them, but they're real. Flesh is
blod you. We really should not turn into that woman
on the plane. Who should? That person is not real,
you know.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Unfortunately, unfortunately it's all too true.
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slash three m L. All right, Jim, Well, we had
already talked about who was at the time. It may
still be the leading Democrat for governor of California. A
few weeks ago Katie Porter, who just decided she didn't
want to do any more interview.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I'm not doing the same I'm out of here.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Exactly, and so then all the stories came about how
she beats staffers and dump scalding mashed potatoes on her
now ex husband's head. Since then, we've gotten some more
real winners in the race, and it's almost like a
mini reunion of the twenty twenty presidential race. Tom steyers
in the race now, and so is Eric Swalwell. You'd
think basically sleeping with a with a Chinese spy would
(12:06):
disqualify you even in California, but no, Polymarket thinks he's
probably the favorite for the Democratic nomination, but time will tell. Meanwhile,
he was on CNN with reporter Alex Michaelson talking about
a lot of terrible ideas and some ideas which he
thinks are innovative and have already been done a long
time ago. But here's Eric Swalwell's prescription for improving things
(12:28):
out there in California.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
I want us to be able to vote by phone.
I mean every California vote by phone.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
If we can do our taxes, do you know, our
make our healthcare appointments, you know, make essentially your do
your banking online. You should be able to vote by phone.
Make it safe, make it secure. But it's actually already
happening all over the United States. I want us to
be a blue state that doesn't do just a little
bit better than like Georgia or Alabama when it comes
(12:54):
to like voting access. I want us to max out democracy.
Also as it relates to democracy. If can you wait
in line for thirty minutes or more, if you do
want to vote in person, I think you should find
every county for every minute that a person has to
wait longer. We have to be better, not just a
little bit better than the other states. The DMV. I
don't think Californians should have to go in person to
(13:16):
the DMV anymore. I think we can do that virtually.
I think you you can have the DMV employees do
it virtually.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
But that's a lot of real estate. Is that the
most popular position? Digitize the DMV. Yeah, we can modernize
the state. And I look forward to, you know, bringing
these ideas to Californians.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I don't know where Eric Swawall has been, but you
can do most stuff virtually at the DMV. Some stuff
you still have to show up in person for. But
Jim voting by Phoney says this is happening all over
the United States. It's not happening anywhere in the United
States because nobody wants to do that. And then this
whole idea of finding counties if you're in line longer
than thirty minutes is also insane. So good to see
Eric Swawell starting nowhere near the world of rationality California.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I was hoping for better for you. It's not looking
good here. Tom Steyer, I will recognize this guy wants
the job badly. Greg tom Styer, who people may remember
for being a presidential candidate. This was the so I
know it was a really crowded debate stage last time
around in twenty twenty, this was the really short guy.
But the thing is that the way you can tell
(14:20):
he really really wants it, he took off the plaid tie.
And my understanding is that Tom Styr had worn that
plaid tie for something like forty years, you know, even
in the shower, that he just never took it off,
and now he's taking because it's California, it's you know,
it's casual, it's Silicon Valley out there, so he's taken
it off. By the way, I know you said that
Swallwell slept with a Chinese spy, Greg, the proper term
(14:42):
is penetrating Chinese intelligence. Swawoll he was another presidential candidate
in twenty twenty. I know he was in the race
for like twenty minutes and people may not remember, but
like this was the guy where you're like, out of
this entire field, out of all of these you know,
Corey Bookers and Kirsten Jill Brands, where Democrats were like
really and you know who never got barely got above
three percent, Swallwell was the one where like even build
(15:04):
a Blasi is like, who is this guy and what
is he doing on this stage? Right? Like I don't, like,
I believe that running for president is really hard and
that you really should only run for president if you
are a serious person ready to take on a job
with such enormous responsibilities, including writing letters of condolence to
(15:24):
members of the armed services who will probably die on
your watch at some point. Like if you're like, it's
this is not a fun job. This is not about
you know, being popular and hearing hale to the chief
when your name, you know, you should be a serious person.
And I don't really think of Eric Swalwell as a
serious person. And I think that when you are a
lesser known congressman, I'm sorry, that's not significant executive experience.
(15:46):
You should be a really accomplished person before you even
think about running for your party's nomination. If Swawell is
not one of those peoples and I was running for governor,
problem number one, Like when he says voting by phone
is already already happening all across the United States? Is he?
I don't mic producing LSD is big out there in California?
Like where is he getting? Like but the nice job
(16:09):
on calling him out on that interview or good job,
that's you know, good to notice. You know, no they're not.
Where is this happening? Too? Many states have a variety
of you know, a lengthy probably too long a period
for absentee voting. But if you want to go, if
you want to vote early, you can do it in
just about every fifty states. So the idea of, oh,
voting is so hard, really, I mean, this is a
(16:30):
pretty important responsibility. You probably like, if voting early, or
voting by mail, or voting absentee or showing up an
election day is that hard, maybe you shouldn't be voting.
Voting is a bigger deal than ordering from Domino's. But
voting is like, like, so the idea of like, oh,
I have to go all the way to my community
(16:50):
center and vote, well, okay, like you know, if it matters,
then you should be willing to do something. It's really
not that much. He interestingly, he doesn't have like they're
legitimate gripes to be made about California. By the way,
greg I noticed he doesn't say anthing about counting the votes. Right,
My big India piece is in the print magazine. India
counted all of its votes with a billion people, never
(17:11):
mind like the total turnout Mody's party had close to
one hundred million more votes than everyone who voted in
the United States in twenty twenty four. That's how many votes,
and they counted them faster than the state of California.
Now admittedly faster than California is not the highest party
clear now, but nonetheless, like you know, California has a
real problem with vote counting. Swell Walls not interested in
that now, But they're place in the United States where
(17:32):
they probably don't have enough voting places and the lines
can get too long. Yeah, yeah, think you know, so
the right answer there is for that county or that
locality to say, you know what, we need to find
another polling place. Let's see what elementary schools available, Let's
see what community center, government building, whichever place they they
actually they do it in a church where I live.
(17:53):
And then nobody's really griped about separation of church and
state for that. By the way, Greg, when you were
going to school as a little in Miami, in Michigan.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I know it's an m one that's definitely not Miami.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Did they have like so like in elementary school, did
they have like polling places in your school?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
All right, So do you think about it? We look
back at you. At that time, it was fairly normal
for those of us in Generation X. We had like
dozens or hundreds of strangers come into an elementary school
during a school day, yep, and just walk around and
often see down the hall and wave to the kids
and all that kind of stuff. Now the kids, at
least here in Fairfax County get off for election day.
(18:32):
And I kind of understand why, because like anybody could vote,
even weirdos and creeps and psychos, and you know, we
don't necessarily want the water around the halls of an
elementary school on every Tuesday in November. So but there
aren't genuine, you know, ways we could improve that. I
notice Swallowell doesn't mention any of those, and instead he's
got this idea of let's vote by phone and somebody said,
(18:52):
you know what, let's just decide our count let's decide
our national policies by Twitter polls. At this point, absolutely no.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Not only did they have it in my elementary cool,
I used to get in line with my mom when
I was obviously far too young to actually vote. And
then you get in there, and back then it was
the levers you know, and the big close to the
curtain and everything, and of course I was so into
politics and I knew I wasn't like contradicting her vote.
I'm like, all right, here we go. She's like, slow down,
(19:18):
slow down, I want to make sure that we've got everything.
And it was so much fun and you learned a
lot about the process doing it that way. Now, like
you said, it's like a four day weekend because they're
off Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Tuesday's usually the end of
a marking period or something, so it's a teacher work
day officially. But you're not gonna find counties. You're not
going to vote by phone. I mean, just the amount
of fraud you could potentially perpetrate by that is just insane.
(19:40):
So Eric swallwell, if he's trying to get the head
start on the lunatic fringe of the party, which is
not that small, he's probably doing pretty well. Tom Steyers
probably seems the most sane, but he's an environmental wacko.
And then you got Katie Porter, so it's all big
time winners out there. California.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Thanks, you're poison, you know. Do you want crazy ideas
or do you want environmental regulations of your drive out
even more businesses. Good luck California.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, somehow you're gonna be worse than Gavin Newsom if
if one of those people win, which is probably the case. Unfortunately.
All right, Jim, time for the hat trick. Afton Baine
take a bow. Although it's not for the reason you
would probably like. This is one of those candidates Democrats
would not love to be the only campaign going on
(20:23):
and having so much national attention, with all this stuff
blowing up. They'd much rather bury her when all four
and thirty five seats are on the ballot. But Afton Baine,
just to give you an idea of how crazy this
Democrat is, Jim, I had to delete my cuts from
yesterday that were labeled aften Baine yelling and aften Baine
shrieking to aften Baine screaming, so you know, totally different.
(20:46):
But let's start with other policy issue. Yesterday we talked
about her tweets that she would not retract or clarify
when it came to defunding the police I'm sorry, abolishing
the Nashville Police and celebrating the fact that some she
found allegedly said that a majority of Americans supported burning
down police stations. She's also speaking out now against the horrible,
(21:09):
horrible idea of young women becoming mothers.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
My therapist always asks me to transcribe my dreams when
they happen, and the recurring dream I've had is standing
up in a cafeteria full of women, I don't know
why I was there or whatever, and saying I don't
want children, I want power, and just screaming it at
the top of my lungs. And for someone who grew
(21:37):
up with my mother telling me, never have kids, because
you will. You know, you'll have to give up a lot,
You'll have to sacrifice professionally, which is what she's saying.
And where I am now with seeing the consequences and
the ramifications of women having kids and being in the
political field and what they're able to achieve because we
(22:00):
offer you know, it's like the political field hasn't met
the challenge of working moms. They really haven't. But also
the deeply patriarchal structures that these women are are involved
with because they've chosen marriage and they've chosen to raise children.
And I think in the South, it's incredibly difficult to
(22:21):
shake those especially if you've grown up here and that's
all you've been told is the definition of success, the
metrics of success. How many kids you have, the bigger,
the square footage of your house? Yeah? And where your
kids go to school?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
How dare young women have a desire for marriage and family?
That's so patriarchal, Jim. And she doesn't just scream in
her dreams, although that's disturbing enough. She's also screaming again
in protest. I don't know if this is the same
day of the clips we had yesterday where she was
screaming at the state legislature. This time she's screaming as
she's getting yanked out of the Capital office of Tennessee
(22:57):
Governor Bill Lee. At the beginning of this clip, the
officers are racing in and then she gets dragged out.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Will Okay, sorry, that was completely unnecessary.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
No, it was completely necessary because you were in the
office and obviously causing a disturbance. And you could tell
Baine's done this before because she did the whole going
limp thing and the officers had to drag her out.
So Jim, again, a lot to unpack, Grey what you got.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Well, Greg, we should remind all of our listeners that
today's coverage of Afton bin is brought to you by
Betterhelp See a Therapist so that you don't turn out
like Afton Baine. Now I'm going to rip into her shortly,
but I will just make one observation in that first
clip that you played there, it's really terrible to tell
your kids don't have kids. And suddenly like that explained
(23:57):
some things, and I'm really sorry that Afton Bain heard
that from her mother. That's like, look, I also believe
it if you're running for Congress or any public office
you buy and large should let people make their own
decisions with their lives, whether they want to get married,
whether they don't want to get married, whether they want
to have kids, whether they don't want to have kids.
I think you and I would say that fatherhood has
been one of the great joys and most fulfilling things
(24:18):
and most important jobs we're ever going to have. And
so like, I'm very pro parenthood, but there are people
out there who are like, I don't want that. Fine,
go right ahead, don't do it, But I don't think
your job as elected. We do not have a shortage
of problems in this country that we don't need somebody
running around saying yes you should have kids and yes
you should not have kids. And again in the backhanded
(24:39):
compliment category, I suppose we should give her some credit
for saying that in her dreams she screams I want power.
I look at that, and I'm like, Ah, that's that's
something what somebody say, I want power, I don't want children. Well,
you probably don't want to give that person any power.
You probably don't want to let that person operate heavy machinery.
(25:02):
You probably want that per like. It's good that she's
telling this to her therapist. I think that therapist has
gotten some more work. And honestly, this is a backhanded
endorsement of betterhelp. Like when you talk to your therapist,
that's between you and the therapist. It's not something unless
you say you're gonna harm yourself, you're gonna harm somebody else.
They're gonna keep everything you say within the cone of silence,
and it's between you, and it's your choice to decide
(25:23):
whether or not you want to share that with the world.
I think if you have dreams about how you're screaming
at women, how you want power, maybe you keep that
one to yourself. Maybe you don't need to put that
out there, and so I just want to say it
to Tennessee Democrats. Just take the l sometimes there's some
addition by some dress. You do not want this woman
in Congress representing the Democratic Party and saying something crazy
(25:47):
all the time and shrieking. By the way, the shrieking
as she's getting arrested. It reminded me Greg of Alvin Green,
the infamous senate candidate who kind of got nominated by
South Carolina Democrats by accident, and everybody's like, who is
this guy al Green? Maybe some people thought it was
the singer, you know, like it was kind of funny.
And then a television news crew went to his house.
(26:09):
He told them to go away and leave alone. They
you know, they wanted an interview and he wasn't interested,
which again, when you're running for senate, traditionally you want
to do interviews. Traditionally you want to talk to the media.
But so they do the live stand up outside of
his house and in the background you can hear Alvin
Green howling like a dog or a wolf howling, And
at that point the story kind of stopped being funny
(26:30):
and it started being Alvin Green had some real problems
and you really wanted him to see him get that
kind of help. I don't know if Apston Baine is
quite in that category, but we're getting close to it.
This is somebody who does not belong in Congress. This
is someone who clearly has some real issues going on,
and it'd be better to just you know, it's an
R plus ten district, just nominate the Republican. Try again
(26:51):
next time, Democrats. There's another election in November twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I also have to say hats off to Matt Van
EPP's team, or maybe it's National Republicans at this point
who digging through all these old podcast interviews that cannot
be pleasant to listen to all this stuff and finding
this insanity on so many different levels. But as we
saw yesterday, she's still shooting herself in the foot even
in interviews today.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
So again, Lesbie, you should have hired these guys.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
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In fact, it'll be the one of Jim's trip to India.
And then on Friday it'll be the Black Friday Gift Special,
(27:41):
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and technically i'll see you tomorrow. Officially, i'll see in
a few days.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I was gonna say for everyone, let's say it's Black
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happy Thanksgiving and we'll see you soon.
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Jim today is technically good, bad, crazy, it's also all
crazy in a number of ways. And for a person
(00:34):
we never heard of a week ago, Afton Baine is
about to complete the hat trick, and things just get
more insane as time goes on. So I don't know
what we're going to get from her by the time
next Tuesday rolls around, but I'm a little bit afraid
to think how much you could even escalate after what
we know so far.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Listeners, you should know Greg and I have a fairly
high standard to talk about the same figure two days
in a row, unless it's the President or somebody who's
you know in the news all the time. Aften being
a candidate and a special election for Congress down Tennessee
ordinarily would not be important enough to talk about three
days in a row. But man, you know, we'll talk.
(01:11):
We'll talk more about her in a few moments. But yeah,
this may well become the Afton Baine Memorial Crazy Martini
by the end of the year, strong contender for the
End of the Year awards right now, putting in a
you know, just just just a late season surge on
her part.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, just a photo finish here with a
lot of other crazy stuff for the year. But let's
start with our first martini. We're calling it a good
but also a decent amount of crazy, and let's head
over to the town hall version of the story. But
there was a lot of this over the weekend. Man,
a lot of stuff happened over the weekend, which isn't
usually the case. But Elon Musk decided that on X
(01:47):
that they were going to try this new feature that
revealed the country of origin for every user account. And
from what I understand, this has been suspended, but I
could be wrong about that. And the reason it's been
suspended as everybody's freaking out because the accounts that they
purport to be in the Middle East or they purport
to be in the United States. Turns out not to
(02:08):
be true. There's really two types of frauds being exposed here, Jim.
One is people claiming to be America first and hugely promaga.
Turns out there not in the country. Townhall reports. For example,
an account called at seventeen seventy six General Underscore, which
describes the owner as a quote constitutionalist, patriot and ethnically
(02:30):
American unquote, with more than one hundred and forty thousand followers,
is based in Turkey. The owner posted that they work
in international business and are currently in Turkey, although that
claim is unverifiable. Another account called at American Voice had
over two hundred thousand followers, but was found to be
based in South Asia. That owner simply deleted their account.
(02:50):
Other accounts that have claimed to be journalists reporting on
the war in Gaza were found to be misleading as well,
with accounts claiming to be those of Gaza based journalists
being based countries like Poland, Egypt, or East Asia and
the Pacific. And so you know, some people are quibbling
that location means that's where you are at this very second,
(03:11):
where that account is based. Others are saying, no, that's
not necessarily the case. And so Jim I think the
main takeaway is here, don't put a lot of stock
in people who don't use their real names, and people
you don't know actually exist and things like that. But
it's fascinating what just a little bit of exposure here
on X did.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, I mean this is a good martini in that
people who are news consumer consumers deserve the full picture,
deserve to know as much as possible about the person
who are coming up in their feeds. It is still available.
It's on the profile of person. When you go to
the person and the date that they joined, you can
(03:52):
twitter back what it was then now called X. You
can click on it and will tell you where account
based in. Now if you look on right now, it'll
have a little star, a little shield with an exclamation point.
I use the VPN, and that is you know, but
my VPN is based in the United State, you know,
currently based the United States. But you know what, if
I want to throw off the Russians or somebody else,
I could put it in any country that I like.
(04:13):
That's a nice thing about having a VPN. Right now, Greg,
I am certain that there are lots of young men
in Albanian villages that are raising money to buy a
VPN so they can put their their location in the
United States as possible. This is, this is fascinating. Now
here's the thing. You're right. It has not been anybody
whose account is a first name and a last name
(04:36):
and you know their face and you've seen them out there.
And by the way, I probably have the person who
should not criticize Americans in Turkey we're commenting on American
politics because I did that for two years, because I
was very open about the fact that I was living
over in Turkey back then. Just as guys, if a
really hot woman DMS you out of the blue and says,
I've been so impressed with your feed, let me show
(04:58):
you my body or whatever, that's not a real woman.
It's some guy in Bangladesh, or it's some guy who's
you know. But I do think that there are some like,
you know, eye opening factors about this. One is there's
nothing wrong with fooling somebody who's like, you know, Maga
Patriot Warrior twenty twenty four or whatever that you know,
But like, if they don't have a first name and
last name and they don't ever put any pictures of
(05:19):
themselves up on that, then you probably should that. Okay,
I don't know if this person is genuinely an American
and if the basically what Twitter and X has done
paying people for tweets is perfectly fine, I signed up
for that program. I may probably like, you know, maybe
one hundred bucks every two weeks. It's it's not tons
of money, but in Bangladesh, that's a lot of money.
(05:39):
In Pakistan, that's a good living. So like, if you
are a you know, young per if you're at any
age in any of these foreign countries, having a Twitter
account in which you can put out stuff from Trump
is the best. Trump is the worst. Sometimes it's Jews
are the root of America's problems. Those are the accounts
that tend to turn out to be in places like
Turkey or Egypt or all over the Middle East. But
(06:00):
I think if you're if you're X right now, you're
having a meeting and you're saying, we have created a
system which we incentivized foreigners to pretend to be Americans,
to post the most divisive and anger generating messages possible.
Is that really what we wanted this platform to be?
Is this what we really set out to do with this?
And I think it's you know, fair to what I
(06:21):
think the argument that this information about where your you know,
your your electronic signal is coming from should be on
your profile page seems to make a lot of sense
to me. I would certainly not mind that. And then
the other question is, you know, should you be able
to block people by an entire country and could you say,
you know what, I just you know, unless Pakistan is
in the news, I don't want to hear from anybody
from Pakistan and their thoughts on, you know, on American politics.
(06:44):
That seems really reasonable to me, that that seems like
the sort of thing. And the fact that a good
portion of these folks are MAGA or pretending to be MAGA,
I think if you're the Maga movement, maybe you need
to look in the mirror a little bit and say,
why was I so convinced that these people with AI
generated avatars? And you know, why did I Why was
I so eager to believe that this person was really that.
(07:06):
By the way, there are also cases on the left
side where people who claim to be Palestinians and who
are in Gaza and I am suffering and my fourteen children.
There was somebody who said, my I and my children
are freezing tonight, and somebody pointed out that, like the
low in the Gaza Strip at that time was like
seventy degrees, So it's really like, you know, I know
they're used to warmer temperatures out there, but it's really tough.
(07:28):
The other thing is, I remember this is a and
by the way, this is I was telling this to
missus Garrity last night, and I got to genuinely invoke Diehard.
I got to genuinely invoke the German infiltration unit and
die Hard with the vengeance who says, man, it feels
like it's going to rain like dogs and cats out there.
Like when somebody says something and it doesn't quite sound right.
There was somebody, I think it was Iowahak or somebody
(07:49):
pointed out that there was someone who was saying that
they were a Texan. They were a true cowboy. They'd
been their their whole lives, and they raise cows, their cattle.
Cows are for dairy, cattle is for steak and be
and so the question is like, if you'd spend your
whole life as a you know, you know, would you
call it cows in Texan? That just didn't seem right.
So keep your eyes open for when somebody who you've
(08:12):
been following says wording and it doesn't quite seem right,
or the spelling is the British one or something like that.
There are lots of little signals like this, and I just,
you know, I think it's entirely reasonable for Americans to
say I believe that American political decisions should be shaped
by Americans. And it's very interesting that we were told
that there was this foreign influence operation in twenty sixteen,
(08:33):
which there was. I don't think it was particularly influential
in the twenty sixteen election. I don't think a bunch
of Facebook ads done by Russian trolls had that much
influence over it. But here's one in which is clearly
the whole world has gotten in on this, and we
as America, maybe maybe we shouldn't take so much of
our political perspectives from social media, right, Maybe you know,
maybe you should do it from reliable sources like podcasts
(08:54):
with two guys who are genuinely in Virginia, yes, and
sites like National Review and places like Radio America, places
like that exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
But people love to hear their own thoughts coming from
other people's mouths, and so they get excited about these things.
But you know, there's plenty of maga people you know,
are real. Follow them if you want to know what
the maga people are doing in the administration, their allies
and the media you.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
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agree with all of them, but they're real. Flesh is
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on the plane. Who should? That person is not real,
you know.
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Unfortunately, unfortunately it's all too true.
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By the way.
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slash three m L. All right, Jim, Well, we had
already talked about who was at the time. It may
still be the leading Democrat for governor of California. A
few weeks ago Katie Porter, who just decided she didn't
want to do any more interview.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I'm not doing the same I'm out of here.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Exactly, and so then all the stories came about how
she beats staffers and dump scalding mashed potatoes on her
now ex husband's head. Since then, we've gotten some more
real winners in the race, and it's almost like a
mini reunion of the twenty twenty presidential race. Tom steyers
in the race now, and so is Eric Swalwell. You'd
think basically sleeping with a with a Chinese spy would
(12:06):
disqualify you even in California, but no, Polymarket thinks he's
probably the favorite for the Democratic nomination, but time will tell. Meanwhile,
he was on CNN with reporter Alex Michaelson talking about
a lot of terrible ideas and some ideas which he
thinks are innovative and have already been done a long
time ago. But here's Eric Swalwell's prescription for improving things
(12:28):
out there in California.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
I want us to be able to vote by phone.
I mean every California vote by phone.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
If we can do our taxes, do you know, our
make our healthcare appointments, you know, make essentially your do
your banking online. You should be able to vote by phone.
Make it safe, make it secure. But it's actually already
happening all over the United States. I want us to
be a blue state that doesn't do just a little
bit better than like Georgia or Alabama when it comes
(12:54):
to like voting access. I want us to max out democracy.
Also as it relates to democracy. If can you wait
in line for thirty minutes or more, if you do
want to vote in person, I think you should find
every county for every minute that a person has to
wait longer. We have to be better, not just a
little bit better than the other states. The DMV. I
don't think Californians should have to go in person to
(13:16):
the DMV anymore. I think we can do that virtually.
I think you you can have the DMV employees do
it virtually.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
But that's a lot of real estate. Is that the
most popular position? Digitize the DMV. Yeah, we can modernize
the state. And I look forward to, you know, bringing
these ideas to Californians.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I don't know where Eric Swawall has been, but you
can do most stuff virtually at the DMV. Some stuff
you still have to show up in person for. But
Jim voting by Phoney says this is happening all over
the United States. It's not happening anywhere in the United
States because nobody wants to do that. And then this
whole idea of finding counties if you're in line longer
than thirty minutes is also insane. So good to see
Eric Swawell starting nowhere near the world of rationality California.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I was hoping for better for you. It's not looking
good here. Tom Steyer, I will recognize this guy wants
the job badly. Greg tom Styer, who people may remember
for being a presidential candidate. This was the so I
know it was a really crowded debate stage last time
around in twenty twenty, this was the really short guy.
But the thing is that the way you can tell
(14:20):
he really really wants it, he took off the plaid tie.
And my understanding is that Tom Styr had worn that
plaid tie for something like forty years, you know, even
in the shower, that he just never took it off,
and now he's taking because it's California, it's you know,
it's casual, it's Silicon Valley out there, so he's taken
it off. By the way, I know you said that
Swallwell slept with a Chinese spy, Greg, the proper term
(14:42):
is penetrating Chinese intelligence. Swawoll he was another presidential candidate
in twenty twenty. I know he was in the race
for like twenty minutes and people may not remember, but
like this was the guy where you're like, out of
this entire field, out of all of these you know,
Corey Bookers and Kirsten Jill Brands, where Democrats were like
really and you know who never got barely got above
three percent, Swallwell was the one where like even build
(15:04):
a Blasi is like, who is this guy and what
is he doing on this stage? Right? Like I don't, like,
I believe that running for president is really hard and
that you really should only run for president if you
are a serious person ready to take on a job
with such enormous responsibilities, including writing letters of condolence to
(15:24):
members of the armed services who will probably die on
your watch at some point. Like if you're like, it's
this is not a fun job. This is not about
you know, being popular and hearing hale to the chief
when your name, you know, you should be a serious person.
And I don't really think of Eric Swalwell as a
serious person. And I think that when you are a
lesser known congressman, I'm sorry, that's not significant executive experience.
(15:46):
You should be a really accomplished person before you even
think about running for your party's nomination. If Swawell is
not one of those peoples and I was running for governor,
problem number one, Like when he says voting by phone
is already already happening all across the United States? Is he?
I don't mic producing LSD is big out there in California?
Like where is he getting? Like but the nice job
(16:09):
on calling him out on that interview or good job,
that's you know, good to notice. You know, no they're not.
Where is this happening? Too? Many states have a variety
of you know, a lengthy probably too long a period
for absentee voting. But if you want to go, if
you want to vote early, you can do it in
just about every fifty states. So the idea of, oh,
voting is so hard, really, I mean, this is a
(16:30):
pretty important responsibility. You probably like, if voting early, or
voting by mail, or voting absentee or showing up an
election day is that hard, maybe you shouldn't be voting.
Voting is a bigger deal than ordering from Domino's. But
voting is like, like, so the idea of like, oh,
I have to go all the way to my community
(16:50):
center and vote, well, okay, like you know, if it matters,
then you should be willing to do something. It's really
not that much. He interestingly, he doesn't have like they're
legitimate gripes to be made about California. By the way,
greg I noticed he doesn't say anthing about counting the votes. Right,
My big India piece is in the print magazine. India
counted all of its votes with a billion people, never
(17:11):
mind like the total turnout Mody's party had close to
one hundred million more votes than everyone who voted in
the United States in twenty twenty four. That's how many votes,
and they counted them faster than the state of California.
Now admittedly faster than California is not the highest party
clear now, but nonetheless, like you know, California has a
real problem with vote counting. Swell Walls not interested in
that now, But they're place in the United States where
(17:32):
they probably don't have enough voting places and the lines
can get too long. Yeah, yeah, think you know, so
the right answer there is for that county or that
locality to say, you know what, we need to find
another polling place. Let's see what elementary schools available, Let's
see what community center, government building, whichever place they they
actually they do it in a church where I live.
(17:53):
And then nobody's really griped about separation of church and
state for that. By the way, Greg, when you were
going to school as a little in Miami, in Michigan.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I know it's an m one that's definitely not Miami.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Did they have like so like in elementary school, did
they have like polling places in your school?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
All right, So do you think about it? We look
back at you. At that time, it was fairly normal
for those of us in Generation X. We had like
dozens or hundreds of strangers come into an elementary school
during a school day, yep, and just walk around and
often see down the hall and wave to the kids
and all that kind of stuff. Now the kids, at
least here in Fairfax County get off for election day.
(18:32):
And I kind of understand why, because like anybody could vote,
even weirdos and creeps and psychos, and you know, we
don't necessarily want the water around the halls of an
elementary school on every Tuesday in November. So but there
aren't genuine, you know, ways we could improve that. I
notice Swallowell doesn't mention any of those, and instead he's
got this idea of let's vote by phone and somebody said,
(18:52):
you know what, let's just decide our count let's decide
our national policies by Twitter polls. At this point, absolutely no.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Not only did they have it in my elementary cool,
I used to get in line with my mom when
I was obviously far too young to actually vote. And
then you get in there, and back then it was
the levers you know, and the big close to the
curtain and everything, and of course I was so into
politics and I knew I wasn't like contradicting her vote.
I'm like, all right, here we go. She's like, slow down,
(19:18):
slow down, I want to make sure that we've got everything.
And it was so much fun and you learned a
lot about the process doing it that way. Now, like
you said, it's like a four day weekend because they're
off Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Tuesday's usually the end of
a marking period or something, so it's a teacher work
day officially. But you're not gonna find counties. You're not
going to vote by phone. I mean, just the amount
of fraud you could potentially perpetrate by that is just insane.
(19:40):
So Eric swallwell, if he's trying to get the head
start on the lunatic fringe of the party, which is
not that small, he's probably doing pretty well. Tom Steyers
probably seems the most sane, but he's an environmental wacko.
And then you got Katie Porter, so it's all big
time winners out there. California.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Thanks, you're poison, you know. Do you want crazy ideas
or do you want environmental regulations of your drive out
even more businesses. Good luck California.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, somehow you're gonna be worse than Gavin Newsom if
if one of those people win, which is probably the case. Unfortunately.
All right, Jim, time for the hat trick. Afton Baine
take a bow. Although it's not for the reason you
would probably like. This is one of those candidates Democrats
would not love to be the only campaign going on
(20:23):
and having so much national attention, with all this stuff
blowing up. They'd much rather bury her when all four
and thirty five seats are on the ballot. But Afton Baine,
just to give you an idea of how crazy this
Democrat is, Jim, I had to delete my cuts from
yesterday that were labeled aften Baine yelling and aften Baine
shrieking to aften Baine screaming, so you know, totally different.
(20:46):
But let's start with other policy issue. Yesterday we talked
about her tweets that she would not retract or clarify
when it came to defunding the police I'm sorry, abolishing
the Nashville Police and celebrating the fact that some she
found allegedly said that a majority of Americans supported burning
down police stations. She's also speaking out now against the horrible,
(21:09):
horrible idea of young women becoming mothers.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
My therapist always asks me to transcribe my dreams when
they happen, and the recurring dream I've had is standing
up in a cafeteria full of women, I don't know
why I was there or whatever, and saying I don't
want children, I want power, and just screaming it at
the top of my lungs. And for someone who grew
(21:37):
up with my mother telling me, never have kids, because
you will. You know, you'll have to give up a lot,
You'll have to sacrifice professionally, which is what she's saying.
And where I am now with seeing the consequences and
the ramifications of women having kids and being in the
political field and what they're able to achieve because we
(22:00):
offer you know, it's like the political field hasn't met
the challenge of working moms. They really haven't. But also
the deeply patriarchal structures that these women are are involved
with because they've chosen marriage and they've chosen to raise children.
And I think in the South, it's incredibly difficult to
(22:21):
shake those especially if you've grown up here and that's
all you've been told is the definition of success, the
metrics of success. How many kids you have, the bigger,
the square footage of your house? Yeah? And where your
kids go to school?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
How dare young women have a desire for marriage and family?
That's so patriarchal, Jim. And she doesn't just scream in
her dreams, although that's disturbing enough. She's also screaming again
in protest. I don't know if this is the same
day of the clips we had yesterday where she was
screaming at the state legislature. This time she's screaming as
she's getting yanked out of the Capital office of Tennessee
(22:57):
Governor Bill Lee. At the beginning of this clip, the
officers are racing in and then she gets dragged out.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Will Okay, sorry, that was completely unnecessary.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
No, it was completely necessary because you were in the
office and obviously causing a disturbance. And you could tell
Baine's done this before because she did the whole going
limp thing and the officers had to drag her out.
So Jim, again, a lot to unpack, Grey what you got.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Well, Greg, we should remind all of our listeners that
today's coverage of Afton bin is brought to you by
Betterhelp See a Therapist so that you don't turn out
like Afton Baine. Now I'm going to rip into her shortly,
but I will just make one observation in that first
clip that you played there, it's really terrible to tell
your kids don't have kids. And suddenly like that explained
(23:57):
some things, and I'm really sorry that Afton Bain heard
that from her mother. That's like, look, I also believe
it if you're running for Congress or any public office
you buy and large should let people make their own
decisions with their lives, whether they want to get married,
whether they don't want to get married, whether they want
to have kids, whether they don't want to have kids.
I think you and I would say that fatherhood has
been one of the great joys and most fulfilling things
(24:18):
and most important jobs we're ever going to have. And
so like, I'm very pro parenthood, but there are people
out there who are like, I don't want that. Fine,
go right ahead, don't do it, But I don't think
your job as elected. We do not have a shortage
of problems in this country that we don't need somebody
running around saying yes you should have kids and yes
you should not have kids. And again in the backhanded
(24:39):
compliment category, I suppose we should give her some credit
for saying that in her dreams she screams I want power.
I look at that, and I'm like, Ah, that's that's
something what somebody say, I want power, I don't want children. Well,
you probably don't want to give that person any power.
You probably don't want to let that person operate heavy machinery.
(25:02):
You probably want that per like. It's good that she's
telling this to her therapist. I think that therapist has
gotten some more work. And honestly, this is a backhanded
endorsement of betterhelp. Like when you talk to your therapist,
that's between you and the therapist. It's not something unless
you say you're gonna harm yourself, you're gonna harm somebody else.
They're gonna keep everything you say within the cone of silence,
and it's between you, and it's your choice to decide
(25:23):
whether or not you want to share that with the world.
I think if you have dreams about how you're screaming
at women, how you want power, maybe you keep that
one to yourself. Maybe you don't need to put that
out there, and so I just want to say it
to Tennessee Democrats. Just take the l sometimes there's some
addition by some dress. You do not want this woman
in Congress representing the Democratic Party and saying something crazy
(25:47):
all the time and shrieking. By the way, the shrieking
as she's getting arrested. It reminded me Greg of Alvin Green,
the infamous senate candidate who kind of got nominated by
South Carolina Democrats by accident, and everybody's like, who is
this guy al Green? Maybe some people thought it was
the singer, you know, like it was kind of funny.
And then a television news crew went to his house.
(26:09):
He told them to go away and leave alone. They
you know, they wanted an interview and he wasn't interested,
which again, when you're running for senate, traditionally you want
to do interviews. Traditionally you want to talk to the media.
But so they do the live stand up outside of
his house and in the background you can hear Alvin
Green howling like a dog or a wolf howling, And
at that point the story kind of stopped being funny
(26:30):
and it started being Alvin Green had some real problems
and you really wanted him to see him get that
kind of help. I don't know if Apston Baine is
quite in that category, but we're getting close to it.
This is somebody who does not belong in Congress. This
is someone who clearly has some real issues going on,
and it'd be better to just you know, it's an
R plus ten district, just nominate the Republican. Try again
(26:51):
next time, Democrats. There's another election in November twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I also have to say hats off to Matt Van
EPP's team, or maybe it's National Republicans at this point
who digging through all these old podcast interviews that cannot
be pleasant to listen to all this stuff and finding
this insanity on so many different levels. But as we
saw yesterday, she's still shooting herself in the foot even
in interviews today.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
So again, Lesbie, you should have hired these guys.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Exactly worth pointing out that the rest of the week
will look a little bit different, but we will have
shows for you every day this week. Tomorrow are the
things we're politically thankful for. So that's the Wednesday edition. Thursday,
on Thanksgiving, we'll be with our families, and so that
will be a replay of one of our favorite episodes.
In fact, it'll be the one of Jim's trip to India.
And then on Friday it'll be the Black Friday Gift Special,
(27:41):
where Jim and I pick out gifts for political figures
heading into this Christmas season. So Jim, have a great day,
and technically i'll see you tomorrow. Officially, i'll see in
a few days.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I was gonna say for everyone, let's say it's Black
Friday and you're throwing elbows left and right at the
shopping mall and you've just shoved some grandma into traffic
so you could at the last cabbage patch doll. I
know they don't really sell catch whatever, whatever the hot
toy is this year. Take some time listen to our
political gifts. It's funny and we had a lot of
fun taping it. If everybody else out there, have a
happy Thanksgiving and we'll see you soon.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
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