Episode 265 | The People vs. ICE

0:00Hey everybody, welcome to episode 265 of Clean Up on Ile 45. It's Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 February is going by really fast. I'm Alison Gill. Hey, what's up? A.G. I am fine with that. I am so for a fast month because that means a fast year and a faster time to get Donald Trump the hell out of here. It's very done here. Okay, y'all lots to cover today, including Project Salt Box in Maryland and redistricting there and in Virginia. Yeah, Project Salt Box is growing by leaps and bounds since they were appeared for an interview on Rachel Maddo. And I'm very excited to know some folks who are

1:07kind of working alongside them as flight trackers. Like, there is a massive underground network of resistance against ice in this country. And I think it's starting to finally come to the surface. And people are finally learning what these folks are doing. So we're going to talk about all that. We also have an update on another January 6 criminal convict of crimes unrelated to the attack on the Capitol. And an update on pillow man. He's digging his heels in. He's doubling down on defending spending half of his campaign funds, buying his own book. So we're going to talk about. Insane. We're going to talk about that. First, we have some new patrons to thank, including Francine McCassie, Amy Bedard and Caitlin Butler. And then our Hall of Famers Cliff Cash, Kimberly D. Steven. The future is not looking bright. Please don't read this on the pod. We don't need a call out. Thanks for what you do. Jess, I'll strip Rasmussen Yens. Excuse me Yens, I'll strip Rasmussen. Clover's tree 73 star Linus, Christine G. Passion and Greg Krimer. Thank you.

2:11So much. And Harry, before we get into our news today, I just wanted and we're going to talk about, we talked about this on the daily beans yesterday, actually. But I wanted to bring it up here, too, because it just makes me so mad. And I'm also going to bring it up with Andy on unjustified because he worked for the FBI forever. But they're guests now formally refusing to share evidence in the Alex Prattie murder with Minnesota investigators. So that's just so crappy trading. Yeah. Yeah. You know, we knew that they weren't, but now for them to say that they're formally not going to do it, because what that does is it takes away any little glimmer of hope that they would say, Hey, we'll pass on whatever we're done when we're done with it. You all can have it. They said, no, that's not going to happen. And I'm looking forward to the conversation with Andy, how that goes because, you know, he knows a lot more when it comes to what lawyers and can cannot do. So I'm looking forward to that conversation. Well, he said it's totally unprecedented. Well, you know, when we talked about it before it was formal, you know, because we brought

3:16out the fact that FBI wasn't sharing any of the evidence. And he's like, that's just so I've never heard of anything like that. Why would you want to piss off your local law enforcement? They help you so much. They do so much work on the ground for you. Because they're leaving now because ice is leaving now. They said that their mission is completing their out. They haven't left. They haven't even left. And, you know, there's a couple of like one of the judges who's working on the case against ice and Minneapolis has said in a ruling today that it doesn't matter if they leave or if Tom Homan has said they're going to leave. They're still there. So like the case will go forward, I think probably regardless. Because there's going to be an ice presence. I just don't know how big, but how big. Yeah. Yeah. But you're right, though. They do work with your local law enforcement partners. And why would you want to piss them off? So just a more continuation of, yeah. It's like about cooperation, but this this administration is not about that,

4:19I guess. All right. Well, first up, I want to talk about something from the Baltimore banner. First, they unearthed US immigrations and custom enforcement contracts for 42,000 ready to eat meals coming to Maryland. Then they built a data map of how the federal Department of Homeland Security was distributing its funding. Last week, the two-month-old project Salt Box and its seven-person team revealed what some say as a sign that an ice surge could be coming to the state. The group, which works to unearth and explain the public documents behind federal immigration enforcement, was the first to report on Tuesday that DHS had purchased a warehouse near Hagerstown. In correspondence with Washington County officials, federal officials described how they could retrofit the space to become an immigration detention facility. Yeah, there's been a lot of people talking about this that's supposed to be happening in Maryland.

5:22The emergence of the group comes amid an increase in immigration enforcement in Maryland. Hundreds of people in the state have been taken into ice custody and held in Baltimore's ice field office. Those actions, plus an influx and immigration enforcement nationally, have led to cheers in some corners and protests around Maryland. Michael Ritzton, one of the writers behind the project, grew up outside of Hagerstown and said in an interview this week that the news of the facility felt incredibly disheartening. I agree, but the Air Force veteran and photographer is encouraged by the response from his neighbors since their piece was published. Now, Ritzton added that the story and subsequent community outcry are the perfect blend of awareness, data, and action the group aims to achieve with Project Salt Box. Quote, we have advanced notice. We know it's coming down the pipeline. That's what Ritzton said. How do we push back and make our voices heard? Now, Ritzton and the six others on the volunteer team of public record sleuths formed about a

6:22month ago. Outside their day jobs, they have been living in a group chat. That's what Ritzton says. Their name is a play on words referring to the yellow wooden boxes found around Baltimore that are filled with salt mint to melt ice or in this case ice, immigration customs and enforcement. I like that play on word. Before their coordinated research, the members of Project Salt Box were strangers to group found each other under a post on Reddit in September from Brianna Grissurko, a U.S. Army veteran, a computer engineering student. All of them felt that their work was a way to do something about the looming threat of federal agents surging it to Baltimore as they have in Minneapolis. Yeah, and you know, it's interesting too with the canaries in the coal mine that they're digging up in these contracts, like 42,000 ready to eat meals on their way to Baltimore. Heads up. Like it's a sign, right? Exactly. Or the contract in Hagerstown, right? They were able to piece that together. And a lot of the flight trackers do that too, you know, they're like,

7:29they've noticed, for example, since a judge ruled in Minneapolis that people could get bond hearings. Yeah. That more people are actually coming back to Minnesota than being removed on planes. Yeah. So you can see like, and one day just like I think like three or four days ago, there were zero people that were flown out of Minnesota for the first time in a really long time. And a long time. So they kind of have these hints and clues and working together to kind of try to head these things off at the past, you know. Yeah, we know those 42,000 meals aren't to feed the homeless and the hungry. Right. Not from this government. Not from this government, exactly. Yeah. Now it was until an ice protest. It wasn't until an ice protest in mid-January that any of them even met in person. For some, it was also their first protest. Once their group chat formed, the research got underway and they began sending their findings to local advocacy organizations

8:32and politicians as well. So inside their homes scattered around the Baltimore area, the group of watchdogs has been scouring the internet for public records, property filings, contracts, government procurements that are otherwise go, they go overlooked. Quote, I'm pretty much living and breathing this because this is life anyways. That's what Elise Lee Ski said, a member of the group and owner of the pet care company be more best buds. Elise Lee Ski said she also has been a source for neighbors and local ice watch groups, often notifying people when she spots immigration enforcement officers while out dog walking. Yeah, the project members said they share a general obsession, healthy obsession with going down the rabbit hole with each has their own unique skill sets. Other members include Madison Parisi who is once an auditor and now independent journalist as well as MNEP who has work in government contracting for about a decade. An attorney and an immigration rights advocate both to request an anonymity because they fear reprisal are also helping

9:35with research and providing broader context to the writers. We all have different perspectives on how we're seeing this information said Liske, which helps the group write about the documents in a way that everybody could understand them because that stuff is hard to get it. Two months ago the group decided it be easier to publish the information they were sharing with local groups in a newsletter and their following has gone from 20 to about 450 subscribers. Their post had more than 15,000 views in January. Now while their work is derived from publicly available records, they worry about their general safety as their local fame grows. Quote, that's one of the chief concerns said, Restan, there have been stepped up efforts in cities nationwide to keep an eye on ICE and US board of patrol officers, but protesters and ice watchers have at times been labeled as domestic terrorists by the Trump administration. Yeah, that's terrible. Cash Patel, obviously the director of the FBI said this week that the agency was investigating some of Minneapolis ice watch group chats. Project salt box said it has also received online backlash

10:39for their work. Restan and Parisi said they've been told they have Trump derangement syndrome. Isn't that like their favorite insult? Trump derangement syndrome. With some readers claiming that they are only out to attack the president and his administration, but Restan said the project has little to do with Donald Trump. If any administration, Democratic or Republican allocated 190 billion dollars to fund a paramilitary that was going to come into American cities and behaved the way that it has and put human beings at risk, we'd still be here. Restan said, very well said. Yep. Now, while the work is daunting with the occasional all-nighter, the project salt box team sees itself as a Ragtag community driven effort that's hoping to educate people quickly in the midst of the chaos. Restan jokingly called project salt box the hot mess for Kurosko, whose post started the project, it's about building community. Quote, I hope it also encourages people to find their own little niche or a little group that they can get involved in to actually do something that they think matters, even if no one else thinks it does.

11:44That's very well said. I love that because like we read an earlier in the article, HG, they each bring their own unique skill set. And there's something that everybody can do. You've been saying it. I've been saying it. We want people to just do something. You could do something even if no one else thinks it matters. It does. Wow, very well put. And that's why I wanted to highlight this little group of folks. And I can tell you there are many, many groups like this doing a lot of similar things. We've had Joshua Aaron, who comes to our some of our happy hours and has been on the daily means for interviews, who the guy who developed the ice block app, right? And then the Trump administration pressured Apple to remove it from the app store. So he's suing. So we've got that. We've got these flight trackers. We had during the January 6th, we had the sedition hunters. It's just a groups of citizens doing real work that

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14:52first words of a January 6th writer pardoned by Donald Trump did what has been convicted of child molestation and other crimes after he tried to use an anticipated payout from the Trump administrations to silence one victim according to a Florida prosecutors office. A jury in Hernando County found Andrew Paul Johnson 45 years old guilty, but of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16 as well as lured and less severe exhibition and transmitting harmful materials by electronic devices to a minor according to Walter forging of the 5th judicial circuit states attorney's office. This is disgusting. Now Johnson faces life in prison when he sentenced in March that this according to the state attorney's office. Good. I hope he gets life in prison. His defense attorney did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. You can't really defend that. Can you? NPR first reported this news. Now Johnson pled guilty in

15:532024 to nonviolent charges after he entered the US Capitol through broken window during the January 6th 2021 insurrection court documents say Johnson who referred to himself as an American terrorist and proud J sixer engaged in disorderly and disruptive conduct for more than four hours. He was among more than 1500 people who were pardoned or had their sins commuted by Trump after he was reelected in 2024. It was among his first access president and Johnson is one of several former January 6th defendants facing criminal charges in separate cases after their pardons. One Christopher P Moynihan 35 plead guilty plead guilty this week to a harassment charge after he was accused of threatening to kill house minority leader came Jeffries from New York. This is from the associated press. Yeah, but Johnson was arrested in August. The Hernando County Sheriff's Office said in an affidavit that discord messages showed Johnson sneaking into a child's home to take him food and hang out with him. He also told a child quote since he was pardoned

16:58for storming the Capitol on January 6th. I'm being awarded I'm going to be awarded $10 million as a result of being a January 6th and that he would be putting him in his will to take any money he had left over. That's according to the affidavit. This tactic was believed to be used to keep the victim from exposing what Andrew had done to him. I lost for words man. The Trump has discussed the possibility of compositing January 6th writers, but no one has received any payments in the administration. The administration reached a settlement of just under $5 million with Ashley Babitt's family. An officer fatally shot her during the riot as she tried to climb through this broken window of the barricaded door leading to the speaker's lobby. At least 33 January 6th insurrection is pardoned by Donald Trump have been re-arrested charged or sentenced at least 33. Charged have been re-arrested. Charged are sentenced for other crimes since January 6th, 2021. According to new analysis by crew, four pardon insurrectionists have allegedly reoffended

18:03since receiving their pardons. 33 have been arrested and growing. Yeah, it's going to get bigger. I mean, they're criminals. Speaking of pardons, the lawyer for Brian Cole, Jr., the guy accused of placing the of explosive the pipe bomber right outside RNC and DNC on January 5th. His lawyers say he believes President Trump's January 6th pardon applies to him. I knew this was going to happen. Defense attorney Mario Williams says Cole voted for Trump twice before his arrest and was charged in December with interstate transportation of explosive devices and malicious attempt to use explosive devices. Cole has pled not guilty to both charges. Quote, I think you have to employ some kind of common sense as applied to the allegations, says Williams. So if the allegations here are that he went there and set those components down and that they were found on January 6th, the judge says it's part of January 6th. You're allowed to get a pardon for everything related to

19:12the events that occurred on or at the Capitol or nearby the Capitol on January 6th. Yeah, Williams said the allegations that the devices were placed ahead of January 6th and discovered on that day fall within the scope of the pardon language 100%. The text of Trump's pardon states that the president grants a full and complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Federal prosecutors say Cole confessed after his arrest describing how he built the homemade devices and where he placed them outside the RNC and DNC headquarters the night before Congress certified Joe Biden's election victory. Yeah, at or near the Capitol, RNC DNC are near the Capitol. Five minute walk. Yep. If that now after prosecutors detailed what they described as Cole's confession and a public court filing, the defense demanded access to the evidence. Williams says

20:17that he has now reviewed the recorded interview conducted after Cole's arrest and claims the government filing it omits key context. He also accused prosecutors of making false representations. Boy, this government lying about. No way. No way. No Williams said some of the government statements about the interview are incorrect. And in some instances, flat out false. No way, this government. No way. No way. Shaw. Come on now. No way. We're not talking about Biden's DOJ. This is though. The Trump administration cannot mess up. This Pamela Joe. Come on. Oh my gosh. What could go wrong? Cosh Patel? On the scene? What could go wrong? Oh my god, I can't believe he's the true. Sometimes I just like shake my head. I can't believe these people are in charge. Like I just said, Cosh Patel is in charge of the FBI and it blew my

21:19mind again all over like it had never happened before. Oh my gosh. Is this real? Like it's just a bad. What a shit show. All right. We've got more shit show after this quick break. Everybody stick around. We'll be right back. All right. Let's go back to Maryland for a minute. Right. What district is it you're running in? Maryland's fifth congressional district. There are eight in Maryland and seven are democratic led and the only one that is outstanding to one Republican is no. His an insurrection is by the name of Andy Harris. So here's the well-known Republican in Maryland. And so they're actually thinking of making it all blue. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's draw the whole map. But let's talk about Governor West Moore. He's not going to relent on his push to redraw Maryland's congressional districts this year, but he's going to set it aside briefly when he delivers the state of the

22:19state address. That's today. Quote, my speech is going to be focused on the issues that this administration has been focused on his administration, including economic growth, affordability, et cetera. Now he said of redistricting. He said, I think people are going to see and know that this issue is very real priority for me, but I think we'll also see that my priorities are making sure that we can make the state more affordable, that we can make the state economically competitive, and that we can protect the people of this state. Yeah. Governor Moore said he also wants the state to continue to push back on the additional assaults that we are seeing from Washington DC. We know that we have a lot of work to do. We're thankful for the momentum that we're seeing in those areas. He told reporters on Tuesday. We know we're looking forward to working with the General Assembly to ensure all the goals and aspirations of the people of the state of Maryland have. We can continue to meet. Now for West Moore, this is his fourth state of the state speech since his historic inauguration in 2023 as the state's first black governor. But more

23:20who entered office on a wave of optimism has seen his relationship with the legislature kind of fray a little bit. Two months ago, the General Assembly overrode more than a dozen of his videos, including his veto of the bill, creating a task force to study reparations. Those votes followed a bruising 2025 session were more raised $1.6 billion in taxes, and saw some of his legislative priorities kind of stumble a little bit. Yeah. Legislators for Moore's own party are angry over his creation of a state, a slate committee that could be weaponized to support challengers in the primary who are more supportive of the governor's agenda. Since peaking in 2024, Moore's approval numbers have turned it downward. In one recent survey, the number of people strongly disapproved of his job performance, outnumbered those who strongly approve the first time that had taken for a statistic. That's exactly right. He's still above water like by so. But that was the first time that happened since governor Moore has been sworn in.

24:20Yeah. He's not making Gallup quit doing approval ratings after 88 years with his shenanigans like Donald Trump is. Do you think that's why? I still haven't read why. Gallup is it's going to not do the presidential approval rating anymore. Did they just like, we can't approve. We can't. We just can't do with this guy. I would have been surprised. Like, how is it not zero? We quit. Anyway, West Moore's speech comes at a time when he portrays the state in the country as an existential political crossroads, he says. Now, the governor wants Maryland to redraw its eight congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms to counter partisan redistricting in Republican states. The House lacks weak approved redistricting plan that would flip the state's only Republican held district to democratic. But that bill has stalled in the Senate where it remains consigned to the rules committee. That's weird. Yeah, at almost every turn, Moore has used traditional and new media appearances to pressure the Senate and its leader,

25:20Senate President Bill Ferguson, a Democrat from Baltimore to vote on the bill in a meeting with reporters, Tuesday. He again demanded that the Senate led by Ferguson bring redistricting legislation to a full Senate for a vote. My position hasn't moved, Moore said. I think that we have to fight for democracy. And that means we have to have a vote. Moore vowed he was not going to move on, and I'm not going to stop. I love it. I love the persistence by the governor. Yeah, me too. He's also insisted it would not be the focus of his address Wednesday, though, but Republicans and other critics say, well, I mean, why would it be the focus, the entire focus of your state-of-the-state speech? It's a sentence or two. We're working on redistricting. What do you want? What do you need to know that it's not out there already? Anyway, Republicans and other cities say that Moore is too focused on national politics, perhaps in service of a higher aspiration, maybe. Moore has routinely mentioned as a potential candidate for president in 2028.

26:23Now Ferguson in a separate meeting with reporters Tuesday said there's a host of issues on which legislators will work with Moore, but he said he's hoping the governor will touch on concerns about government operations. Quote, I'm hopeful that the governor will talk about some of the performance management actions that his administration will move forward to make sure that we're delivering on behalf of all Marylanders every single day, regardless of what, regardless of what is in the White House. I don't know if you meant to say who is in the White House, but that's pretty funny. I always take it as a, when they say I'm going to read this part again, Republicans and other critics say Moore is too focused on national politics, perhaps in service of higher aspirations. Moore has routinely mentioned as a political, a potential candidate for president. Governor Moore has said no way, like he's not even focused on that right now, but so many, I think it's a compliment when so many people say, oh, you have higher aspirations? That's, I feel like that's a compliment. He's focused on that right now. Right. When they're trying to make it sound like an insult.

27:24Yeah, it's like that's not it. Oh, he's focused on higher. Well, shouldn't we all be focused on better and higher aspirations, but I just always feel that's all you're positioning yourself to do. Wow, by doing the right thing. Yeah, look how ambitious he's being. Like the nerve of him, like in recent months, department after department have received deficit, sometimes scathing audits from legislative auditors. Many have been repeat audit findings. Just today, we saw the story of M-H-E-C, the Maryland Higher Education Commission, yet again has another program that failed to deliver Ferguson said, this is for a program that's supposed to be having teachers receive scholarships so that they can have the highest quality individuals who are in our classrooms every day. And of course, now we are finding out the M-H-E-C has failed to operate the program effectively and people are going to get stuck with bills. Well, I'm sure it can be fixed. It's how things work in the government. Sometimes things are wrong and then you fix them. I know that's weird. I know

28:27that's weird. Yeah, right. But, you know, God forbid somebody ambitious comes in and fixes the the issues, right? Yeah, exactly. Talk about ambition, right? Whatever. Yeah, I thought there was a little bit of a Republican bent there from Ferguson, right? So I think they're just mad that they're about to get erased from Maryland. Like, oops, there goes the whole, you know, it's all blue now. Bye. And Virginia's going 10 to 1. Yeah. And the Virginia Supreme Court just allowed that to be a referendum. It's still being, it's still being litigated. But in the meantime, the court is allowing Virginia to proceed with it. Yeah, they're going to proceed on it. Yep. So we'll see. We'll see how that ends up going. I wish, like I said, I wish with all this with this, I wish that everybody did like California did,

29:28like prop 50 kudos to y'all kudos to Gavin Newsom for having the the foresight to sing any challenges and saying, Hey, you know what? Let's let the people do it. Because I remember when he came out forcefully saying he said, you know what? We're going to have the people decide. And that's what it's all about. So I wish all states would have done that. Now, obviously if I have to take a stance on it, because I'm a political person now, I say I support it. I wish that, however, I wish that it would have went to the voters first and let the people decide. Yeah, yeah, that's um, I guess sometimes in certain states, because of our constitution, it's why they went to the voters. Yeah, they had to. I don't know that they wouldn't necessarily have done that if they didn't have to. Or other states too might be running out of time as well, because they have certain dates by which candidates have to put their name in to to run. Yeah, definitely. All right, we've got one more story. The pillow man and pillow man. And we're going to he cries and says that he's broke again.

30:35Can't find the pillow man. Okay, we're going to talk about him after this break. Stick around. All right, everybody. One more story from the independent. My pillow CEO and Trump, Alan Michael Dell has defended his decision to spend over $187,000 in campaign contributions on copies of his own book. Lindell, who's running for governor of Minnesota, was asked Sunday if it was a wise use of campaign spending to purchase thousands of copies of his memoir from crack addict to CEO. Quote your campaign took in more than $350,000 in contributions in just under a month. Hey, Harry, would you get in the first 12 hours? You know, A.G. We'll check this out. So I'm about break some news for everybody. What's going while we're listening, but we just announced today, as we're recording on Monday, that in just over a little bit over a week with eight days since we've announced, we raised one million dollars today, one million dollars from close to 60,000 donors,

31:42not one corporate penny, and an average donation of $18.60, and I can promise you not one dollar was spent on my book. Well, you don't understand. I mean, pillow man got $350,000 in under a month, but quote, filing show your campaign spent more than half that money on your own self-published memoir, explained to people, why buy all those books? Is that a wise use of campaign spending? That's news nation. Okay. That's the news nation is putting my pillow man in a bind here. And her name is Natasha zoos. That was on a show called prime that she hosts on news nation. Yeah. Lindell first noted that the memoirs were a very good price. And he added what you what you can do instead of paying money for flyers and stuff, we have to go around and have debates for about a month and a half. These debates and we gave out the books instead of giving them a little

32:43flyer about me. This is my memoir. This is my autobiography and showing people who I am. Lindell was was asked if you plan to spend any more of his campaign funds on his book to which he replied. Absolutely. He's going to buy more books. Lindell is seeking the Republican nomination in the 2026 Minnesota gubernatorial race to succeed Tim Walls Democrat who announced he's not seeking reelection. The might Pelosi EO dropped out of college in 1979 became addicted to crack cocaine and gambling according to CNBC. I like how they say according to CNBC and not his book, you know, he then established his pillow company in Minnesota in 2004 propelling him to financial success. Yeah. Lindell, a jovial presence on infomercials that became ubiquitous on TV subsequently emerged as an early supporter of Donald Trump in 2016. He since became one of the president's most vocal supporters repeatedly backing Trump's false claims that the 2020 election

33:48was stolen. Lindell has also joined the president at numerous campaign events, White House press briefings and has addressed the CPAC conservative political action conference and annual gathering of conservatives. Trump also frequently repost Lindell on true social. Lindell is running against Lisa Demuth, the state house speaker for the Republican nomination. C-PAC, that's an annual gathering of conservatives where you might get groped by match lap. Another Republican running for governor, Jeff Johnson suspended his campaign earlier this month after his 22-year-old daughter was found stabbed to death in her home in what officials call an attempted murder suicide. Now a Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar is also running to replace Walls if Lindell or Demuth were to win the election, they would be the first Republican governor since 2006. I'm pretty sure Klobuchar probably has this in the bag. Let's hope some. Let's hope some

34:50because any of those guys, you know, I think Al Franken should run for his old seat back. I like it. I was great. He was a comedian, wasn't he? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember him at the Capitol. He had good hair too. He had great hair. He's got great hair. Not as good as like John Fugel saying. Yeah. No. No. It's fabulous. Or Andy became hair because I love Andy but Kate's hair. Andy's got. Yeah. He's got great. He looks like my dad's your book picture. That's what Andy McCabe looks like. You know what I mean? I gave it. Yeah. Absolutely. Old school black frame government issue glasses and his high-end tight little haircut. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you know what's weird too? Is after a while Pete Struck grew a beard? Yes. It's like weird to see like clean, shaving high and tight, dude. It's like kind of gets good like it's scrappy. It's scraggly. Yeah. I like it. I'm here for it though. Pete says hi to everyone, by the way. We love you, Pete. He enjoyed a nine-inch nails concert

35:52the other night. I was like, are you going with Feinberg? He's like, nah, he's hurt his back. It's like old people going to see nine-inch nails. They need the seats, that standing up singing. They're going to be sitting down singing all the time. Yeah. It's a seated venue for sure. And everyone's leather jackets are going to be too small, but they'll be there. They will be there. Anyway, just wanted to pass along his message of hi there and hello to everyone. He is used to co-host the show. So that's it. That's the show. We don't have any Rudy news. Just Pillow Man and it's as ridiculous as you would expect, but we will be back. Actually, I'm not going to be here next week. I need to let everybody know I'm going to be on vacation next week and I'm actually doing a thing where I'm not going to work on vacation. I've never done that. I'm proud of you for doing that. I usually do the shows wherever I am, right? Like, I've been on vacation a couple of times and you all probably didn't even know.

36:57I was on vacation. So Harry's going to take over this show next week and Wish me luck, y'all. Yeah. And also the bonus episode for patrons. So we're definitely looking forward to that and the happy hour, which is going to be Thursday, February 27th. There's not, no, 26th, 26th. That's a happy hour for patrons. So anyway, just wanted to give you that heads up. So I won't see you next week, but I'll see you the week after. Do you have any final thought? No, no, no, just cool us to you for taking a break. You deserve it. Cool us to you for running for Congress. Well, shit, I don't deserve that, man. Yeah, you do. It's a lot of work. That's a lot of work. But you know, yeah, not definitely going to get in there and get this work done. So thank you everybody to support the show that supports me, the supports Allison. Really, thank you. Like I said, we raised a million dollars announcing today as we're recording Monday, February 16th. What about friends said, that's so great. They sent me a

38:00text and said, what's the goal? I was like, as much as possible. Like the goal is as much as possible. The goal is as much as possible to get in there. So, and like I said, I promise you, I won't be buying my book. So, yeah, that's so fucking funny to me. It's about $200,000 on his own book. And the book is called Crack Addict and CEO or something like. Yeah. 19. Oh, man. And you know, what's the problem with being good? You know, like I drug abuse and substance abuse is very real and a lot of good people suffer from it. But he's not a good person. No, he's not a good person. Screw him. Well, I mean, there's, you know, I'm not going after him for his addiction. Correct. I'm going after just a weird title. That's all. Yeah, absolutely. We think to call your book. But, you know, I mean, I guess hats off for being super open about it and wanting to talk about it. That's right. Republicans never do anything to fund support for

39:03addicts. So that's odd that they want to embrace it, right? Yeah. And I've never read the book. I don't know how much talks about it or if he talks about how he got help or whatever. I haven't, I have not read I must confess. Generally that I have not read the Mike Lindell. Yeah, same. But you bring up a good point about addiction. He probably didn't have the kind of wonderful support that like Hunter Biden did, you know. Hello. All right, everybody. Like I said, Harry, I'll see you next week. I'll be back the week after that. But I think I'll see the patrons this weekend for our bonus episode. So that's when I'll see you next. Until then, I'm Allison Gil. Harry done. Thanks, Sean. Clean up on our 45 is written research and produced by Allison Gil with editing by Molly Hockey. Our art and logo designer by Joelle Reeder and Moxie design studios and our music is composed and performed by Adam Moore. Clean up on aisle 45 is a proud member of the MSW Media Network, a collection of creator-owned podcasts dedicated to news, politics and justice. For more information,

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