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1:00Hey everybody, it's A.G. and welcome to Refried Beans, where we play an episode of the Daily Beans podcast from the same week, either one, two or three years ago, so we can see how far we've come. So please enjoy this episode from Days Gone By and note the date in the intro. Refried Beans, I like Refried Beans. That's why I want to try Fried Beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're wasting time. Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Friday, March 8th, 2024. Today, Judge Kaplan has denied Trump's last minute bid to stay his payment to E.G. Carroll. The Navy, apparently stripped Ronnie Jackson of his admiral rank before he left the military. Jack Smith has filed his oppositions to Trump's motions to dismiss the espionage and obstruction

2:04charges against him, Dean Phillips and Nikki Haley have dropped out of the presidential race. Trump is ordered to pay legal fees after a failed lawsuit against Christopher Steele and Jared Kushner has been subpoenaed by an ex-Trump staffer in a lawsuit. I'm your host, Alison Gill. Hey, everybody, happy, happy, happy Friday that you know Friday, that means it's Fugel saying Friday. So John Fugel saying we'll be joining me later in the show. And I know I said Dana would be back today, but she's traveling. She's doing her show in Bend, Oregon. So if you don't have tickets to that, it's tonight, get them and go see her. She'll also be traveling on Sunday. So she will be back in your ears with me on Tuesday's episode of Daily Beans. So the state of the union addresses tonight, I'll be watching and sharing on President Biden. We'll talk more about that on Monday's Beans. Pete, Pete struck an eye. We'll be in New York for a few days of Trump's first criminal trial. That is the Alvin Bragg Manhattan DA's case against him for 34 felony counts of falsification

3:05of business records and an attempt to interfere in the 2016 election. Patrons, by the way, will be invited to a meet and greet while we're in New York. Pete struck Andy McCabe and I will be coming to the Hamilton Theater in DC in August for a live show details to come watch your inbox for that event. I will also be announcing more tour dates, including let's see Seattle, Chicago, New York, Nashville, Boston, Philadelphia, and Portland, I'll be announcing those Monday and I will have links to pre sale tickets and VIP meet and greet tickets. And there will be links in your show notes for patrons on posted on Patreon and in your inbox. This Monday, so look for those plus we'll have more shows announced soon, including St. Louis and Milwaukee, all kinds of places. I'm looking forward to seeing all of y'all out on the road. Patrons, you get pre sale and meet and greet access. You can become a patron at patreon.com slash muller she wrote, you'll also get these episodes ad free and early plus the peace of mind, knowing that you're supporting independent media.

4:07Also today, Jack Smith has filed a ton of responses to Trump's motions to dismiss the espionage and obstruction indictments against him in the documents case, including scathing responses to Trump's assertions that the classified documents he stole were personal records under the Presidential Records Act and that he somehow immune, he has some sort of presidential immunity for shit that he did post presidency. Andy McCabe and I will go over those in detail on this Sunday's episode of the Jack podcast. So with all that out of the way, we have a lot of news to get to today. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from Aaron Cater ski. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. And Peter Shara Lombas at ABC News, a New York judge on Thursday denied Donald Trump's request for a temporary delay of the penalties in E. Jean Carroll's defamation case, leaving the former president three days to pay or post a bond for the entire 83.3 million dollar

5:08judgment, plus interest, looking at about 91 to 92 million bucks, quote, Mr. Trump's current situation is a result of his own deletory actions. That's what Judge Lou Kaplan wrote in his order late Thursday, quote, he has had since January 26 to organize his finances with the knowledge that he might need to bond this judgment, yet he waited until 25 days after the jury verdict to file his prior motion for an unsecured or partially secured stay pending resolution of post trial motions. Kaplan said that Trump failed to show how the judgment constitutes an irreparable injury or demonstrates the expenses he faces by posting a bond in the case in the filing Kaplan signal. He's still considering Trump's request for a reduced bond or a delay until the resolution of his post trial motions. He says, quote, the expense of ongoing litigation in the absence of a state does not constitute irreparable injury in the relevant sense of that term, that's what Kaplan said. It's so fun to read these decisions.

6:10It reminds me of, you know, when somebody from the South says, well, bless your heart, you know, it's just kind of this really, you know, this does not constitute an irreparable injury in the relevant sense of that term. It's just it's so nice. It's just the the snark and and and just it's subsumed in the in the proper legal ease. And I love it. This decision follows a whirlwind month for the former president, whose lawyers have made a concrete push to delay a half a billion dollar lawsuit judgment in the New York Attorney General Civil Fraud trial. In January, a jury awarded Carol 83.3 million in damages after determining Trump defamed her while denying her claim that he's actually assaulted her in a department store in the 90s. Trump's lawyers that argued the case was wrongly decided and that covering the 83.3 million would cause the former president a irreparable injury in the form of substantial costs. Yeah, that's the point of a damnation lawsuit is to hit you with a substantial cost.

7:12Now, lawyers for Carol push back against the delay, arguing Trump failed to offer critical information about his own finances to justify the delay, quote, the reasoning Trump offers in seeking this extraordinary relief boils down to nothing more than trust me. That's what Carol's attorneys wrote. He doesn't offer any information about his finances or the nature and location of his assets. He doesn't specify what percentage of his assets are liquid or explain how Carol might go about collecting. Now in a separate civil case, as we know, a New York judge ordered Trump pay 454 million or so and discouragement plus pre-judgment interest for a decade of fraudulent business practice. Now, Trump, through his attorneys, similarly argued that that decision was flawed, requesting a delay and offered to pay a hundred million dollar bond instead. Trump's lawyers said that if the court did not grant the stay, the former president might have to sell some of his properties to raise enough money to cover the bond. New York attorney general, the Tisha James, pushed back on that request warning in a filing that Trump and his co-defendants might actually be attempting to evade the financial penalty.

8:17Quote, contrary to the defendant's argument, there's substantial risk that defendants will attempt to evade enforcement of the judgment or make enforcement more difficult following the appeal. Now, New York's appellate division denied the request for a stay at the financial penalties last week, but clarified, Trump's ban on accessing New York-based financing does not apply to bond companies. But I did nothing wrong except build a successful and very liquid company owning some of the greatest properties in the world. Trump said on social media following the ruling. Now the deadline back to E. Jean is to pay that $83.3 million plus interest is Monday, and the Trump $454 million dollar judgment that deadline is later this month. Pete and I are going to cover all this on next week's Clean Up on aisle 45 podcast. Next up from Brian Malliot, the Associated Press, more financial trouble for Donald Trump. He's been ordered to pay a six-figure legal bill to a company founded by a former British spy that he unsuccessfully sued for making what his lawyer called shocking and scandalous

9:17false claims that harmed his reputation. A London judge who threw out the case against Orbis' business intelligence last month, saying it was bound to fail, ordered Trump to pay legal fees of about $300,000, that's $385,000. That's according to documents released on Thursday. This was founded by Chris Steele. He once ran the Russia desk for Britain's secret intelligence service, known as MI6. The British court case was one of few in which Trump, who is almost sure to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, was not a defendant as he faces massive legal problems back home. Trump has charged in four criminal cases and faces civil complaint in the U.S. courts. He lost a subsequent defamation case in which a jury found him liable for sexual abuse, and he's been ordered to pay $355 million for a fraud verdict against his businesses. Now, Steele was paid by the Democrats for research that included salacious allegations. Russians could potentially use to blackmail Trump, the P-tapes member.

10:17The so-called Steele dossier, assembled in 2016, created a political storm just before Trump's inauguration with rumors and uncorroborated allegations that has since been largely discredited. And don't forget, while the Democrats did pay for that upper research, it was Republicans that were paying for it first. Trump sued the company, saying that the dossier was phony, and Orbis had violated British data protection laws. Attorney Hugh Tomlinson said in an October hearing, the former president, quote, suffered personal and reputational damage and distress, over claims that in the dossier that he'd taken part in sex parties in St. Petersburg and consorted with sex workers in Moscow. Now Tomlinson said the dossier, quote, contained shocking and scandalous claims about the personal conduct of President Trump, and included allegations that he paid bribes to Russian officials to further his business interests. Orbis said the lawsuit should be thrown out, because the report was never meant to be made public, and it was published by BuzzFeed without permission of Steele or Orbis. It also said the claim was filed too late. Judge Karen Stain or Stein, I'm not sure which the proper pronunciation is, but she

11:21sided with Orbis in her February 1st ruling, she issued an order several days later on the legal costs. She cut the amount of legal bills that Orbis incurred from 634,000 pounds. By more than half, because she said it was high, considering there'd only been a one-day hearing. In 2022, a US federal judge in Florida dismissed a Trump lawsuit against Steele. 2016, Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and former FBI officials, remember that lawsuit? It was like Pete Strack and the Hillary Clinton, everybody was on there. The judge in Florida dismissed that suit, rejecting Trump's claims that they helped concoct the Russia investigation that overshadowed much of his administration. Wamp Wamp, he owes another 300 grand. Next, from Dara Gregorian at NBC, the candy man, Rep Ronnie Jackson, he's a Republican congressman from Texas now, was quietly demoted by the Navy after a Defense Department Inspector General report found that he'd engaged in inappropriate conduct while serving as the

12:22top white house physician for President Barack Obama and Donald Trump. That's according to records obtained by NBC News. Jackson, who was a rare admiral when he retired from the Navy in 2019, is now listed as a captain, according to a service records, a spokesperson for the Navy declined to comment on Jackson's rank, but said in a statement to NBC News that the substantiated allegations in the DOD, IG investigation of rare admiral, lower half, Ronnie Jackson, are not in keeping with the standards the Navy requires of its leaders. And as such, the Secretary of the Navy took administrative action in July of 2022. The spokesperson would not elaborate on what the administrative action was, a current defense official and former US official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the Washington Post, which first reported the demotion that it was a reduction in rank. A spokesperson for Jackson did not immediately respond to NBC News's request for comment in a page on his congressional website and on Twitter and his bio, Jackson still reversed to himself as a retired US Navy rare admiral with nearly three decades of military service.

13:28Completed in 2021, the inspector general's review found Jackson drank booze, made sexual comments to subordinates, and took the sedative ambient while working as the White House physician. It also found he mistreated subordinates and disparage belittled bullied and humiliated them. Jackson pushed back against the findings, telling reporters, Democrats were quote, using this report to repeat and rehash untrue attacks on my integrity. Because quote, I have refused to turn my back on President Trump, okay, good. Jackson was first assigned to the White House Medical Unit in 2006 and ascended to the top post there during the Obama administration. He also headed off with Trump, who he effusively praised after giving him a physical in 2018. He has incredibly good genes and it was just the way God made him, Jackson said, adding he thought Trump could live to be 200 years old if he'd just ate better. That year Trump nominated Jackson to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is when the allegations of improper conduct first became public. Jackson later withdrew his name for consideration while insisting he'd done nothing wrong.

14:32Quote, unfortunately, because of how Washington works, these false allegations have become a distraction for this president and the important issues we must be addressing, how we give the best care to our nation's heroes. He remains steadfast as a Trump ally and was elected to the House of Representatives in 2020. And as we know, and I've spoken to Miles Taylor about this when I interviewed him about his book Blowback on C-SPAN book TV, that Trump wanted to gut the Department of Veterans Affairs. And I think Ronnie Jackson was supposed to help him do it. Next up from Sarah Kay Burris at Raw Story, Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has been subpoenaed to testify in a trial regarding a lawsuit filed against Trump's campaign by a former staffer who says she was punished after a supervisor got her pregnant. Matthew Russell Lee from Inner City Press published the subpoena online. It demands Kushner appear before the court in New York on March 27th and bring with him documents regarding discussing and or concerning Jason Miller from December 2016 to July 2020.

15:36The case involves a claim by an ex-staffer. We know her is AJ Delgado who said she lost her responsibilities after she had an affair with supervisor Miller during Trump's 2016 campaign and got pregnant. She alleged discrimination by the Trump campaign quote the father and I were dating for two months. He was separated from his wife. He said and had been since June. That's what Delgado wrote on social media in 2017 a 2017 piece in page six claimed the two hadn't spoken since she told Miller she was pregnant. Instead, they've communicated only through lawyers. She has said Kushner who had a central role in Trump's campaign and the White House was involved in a decision not to hire her when Trump won power. Last month she started to go fund me account to find the money needed to continue her case. Quote of some of you may know I have a case which the Trump campaign managed to delay for years against the Trump campaign for pregnancy discrimination and breach of contract based on my not receiving my well-earned White House job after I became pregnant by Jason Miller, my supervisor. That's what she wrote.

16:36If you're wondering whether Miller has fared a similar fate, he's currently Trump's top adviser and flies everywhere with him. So no. That's what she said. And she went on to say while almost everyone who takes on Trump and Maga, such as E. Jean Carroll, has the benefit of free attorneys and no legal costs, the attorneys front the costs, or rich benefactors such as Reid Hoffman, I do not. It's just me, David against Goliath. She said in a post that she intends to depose among others, Eric Trump, Trump advisor Brad Parscale, and Jared Kushner, remember Brad Parscale got tackled and having a beer outside of his house. Remember that guy? Fantastic. And from Carter Sherman at the Guardian, the Republican led Kentucky Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to grant the right to collect child support for fetuses, advancing the bill that garnered bipartisan support despite nationwide fallout from a controversial Alabama decision, also advancing fetal personhood, and measure would allow a parent to seek child support up to a year after giving birth to retroactively cover pregnancy expenses.

17:39The legislation Senate bill 110, one Senate passage on a 36 to two vote with little discussion to advance to the House. Republicans have super majorities in both chambers. The Republican State Senator Whitney Westerfield said afterward, yet the broad support reflects a recognition that pregnancy carries with it in obligation for the other parent to help cover the expenses incurred during those nine months. Westerfield is a staunch abortion opponent and a sponsor of this bill, quote, I believe life begins a conception. She said while presenting the measure to, oh, it's he. Whitney Westerfield is a he, I apologize, Whitney. Whitney Westerfield said that while presenting this measure to his colleagues, quote, but even if you don't, there's no question that there are obligations and costs involved with having a child before the child is born. The measure sets a strict time limit, allowing a parent to retroactively seek child support for pregnancy expenses up to one year after giving birth, quote, so if there's not a child support order until the child's eight, this isn't going to multiply.

18:42That's what Westerfield said when the bill was reviewed recently in Senate committee. Even at a year and a day, this doesn't apply. It's only for orders that are in place within a year of the child's birth. It's also from the Guardian, Elon Musk is facing a $128 million lawsuit from four former Twitter executives who alleged that Musk failed to pay them severance after buying Twitter. This suit filed on Monday in California follows a separately go complaint last year by rank and file employees seeking 500 million and unpaid severance, quote, because Musk decided he didn't want to pay the plaintiffs severance benefits, he simply fired them without reason then made up fake cause and appointed employees of his various companies to uphold his decision. That's what the suit says. If our plaintiffs in the case include Twitter's former CEO, let's see Agrawal, I believe is his last name, former CFO Ned Segal, former General Counsel Sean Edgett, and former Chief Legal Officer, let's see, Vijaya Gaddy, I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly,

19:46Musk fired all of them amid a string of mass layoffs after he acquired Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, claiming at the time he didn't have to pay the executive severance because they were terminated for cause. The lawsuit is one of several legal actions related to Musk's unwilling takeover of Twitter and subsequent operation of the platform, which he renamed X, the National Labor Relations Board, also issued a complaint early this year alleging that Musk's SpaceX rocket company illegally fired eight workers because they issued a letter criticizing his leadership. He's facing all kinds of lawsuits, and my big question is, why is the sole contractor for National Security Satellite launches in this country? There's one other, but I think that contract is about to or has expired, and we rely heavily on him. Not only for that, but for, you know, I know Ukraine relies on Starlink, his communications thing for their, you know, on the ground communications, and he has shut them off or failed

20:49to turn them on during critical points during the conflict, during the war. And it's, I hope, now I know the government doesn't always tell us what's going on, but I hope with everything in me that they are reconsidering the contract, the National Security contract that are satellites depend upon with Elon Musk, because he should not have that much power over our government, frankly, now the problem is, is those contracts can take years to secure years, and there's just no one else right now as a backup. So it's not something that the government can just snap their fingers and change, but I hope, I hope they're at least talking about it, and we haven't heard much as far, you know, as far as public reporting goes, but that's something that needs to be considered.

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23:58anywhere else? Burlington deals brands wow. Hey everybody, welcome back. It's Friday, and that means it's Fugal saying Fridays here on the daily beans with my very good friend John Fugal saying he hosts the tell me everything show on Sirius XM Progress channel 127 week nights 9 p.m. Eastern 6 p.m. Pacific. And if you don't have Sirius, you can always listen to his podcast to John Fugal saying show for free wherever you get your podcasts. John, how are you? Allison, I'm so glad to be back on your show. Thank you so much. I am so glad to have you and you are going on tour and that's pretty exciting. We are going on tour. The sexy liberal comedy tour is back for the first like real year of touring we've had in about seven years. We've only done like a few gigs a year, but we're going to do, I think 16 shows through live nation for the first time. We are partnering with live nation to do one of these things. Stephanie Miller, Angela House Parks and myself and tons of special guests. And we're coming all over the country as so many cities. It's

24:59really exciting. It's never been more important to laugh at fascism and ridicule the Christian nationalists. And I'm delighted to be doing it in a bunch of really gorgeous theaters filled with thousands of very moral and morally deviant people. Excellent. That's so awesome. And where can people get information and tickets on your tour? People can go to livenation.com or ticketmaster.com. You can learn everything you need to know with sexy liberal.com. That will send you to all the right places for all the right cities. We'll be in Chicago for the democratic convention and playing coast to coast. Going up until Washington DC for inauguration weekend. Very cool. Very, very cool. I'm going to be in DC in August at the Hamilton Theatre with Pete Struck and Andy McCabe. I'm excited about that. I want to come see that show. I want to be in your audience. That's going to be amazing. You should come up on stage with us. That's that's what you should do. See how drunk you get me. See how drunk you are. We're doing Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, Nashville with Phil Williams is going

26:06to be joining us. Oh, man. You're playing some towns. We're not going to a very jealous. Yeah. Philly Boston, New York, Chicago. I mean, we're going to be all over the place. I'm doing Columbus this March 29th at the sold out Natalie's music hall. And I think Olivia Troy is going to be joining me for that. It's going to be great. Oh, what a lighter. So anyway, thank. Okay. So we got our live stuff shows out of the way. Let's talk about the election. We had Super Tuesday this week. And boy, there were some super stuff that happened, including very disappointing numbers for Donald Trump. I mean, he did win. He will probably care the nomination, which is in my view, a suicide pact with the Republican party. Allison. They do it. Let them do it. They can't go rogue. There are party rules. Say that they're delegates have to vote for Donald Trump. If they chose, if they were delegated to vote for him in the primaries. So they can't really do anything. But they can try to

27:06go rogue. They can try to go rogue. But I know Mike pencil do the right thing, Allison. Mike pencil. If Mike pencil do the right thing, it won't matter. But we had Dean Phillips drop out and endorse Biden and Nikki Haley drop out and not endorse Donald Trump. What are your thoughts? I think she's waiting to have the pot sweeten. There's no way she doesn't endorse Donald Trump because Nikki Haley, let's not forget does everything for Nikki Haley. This entire party's ethos is selfishness. As John Kenneth Galparet said, 1967, the modern conservative is engaged in one of mankind's oldest pursuits. The search to make selfishness appear virtuous. And that's the party. That's their platform. That's the candidates. Nikki Haley does what she does for herself. She ran against Trump in 16 to campaigning for Ted Cruz. Then she embraced Trump and worked for him. All for self game. Then she turned on a for self game. Believe me. She wants to be the party's nominee in 2028. She will endorse Trump at the right time and bring her delegates to the convention. I'm a bit surprised. She dropped out

28:09as soon as she did. I thought she'd hang in there even longer and try to rack up a few more delegates. But we'll say. Yeah. I thought so too. I figured she, well, she didn't she, she lost the Coke brother. That's it. Singular backing. And so that probably is what pulled her out of the race. Honestly. Yeah. She's not going to Nikki Haley's not going to want to fly coach for this whole thing. Come on. Kirsten Sinema taught us that people. Kirsten Sinema taught us. Don't fly coach with the rabble. And speaking of Kirsten Sinema, she is not going to be running for Senate this year in Arizona, putting a head to head match up between Ruben Gallego and Carrie Lake, which is I think a very good thing for Democrats and their prospects to hold the Senate. If you'd asked me a year or two years ago, I would say probably in 2024, we'll keep the White House. We'll take the House back, but we probably will lose the Senate. It's a very hard map for Democrats in the Senate this year. But this her dropping out helps us considerably and we're in a post row world. So incredibly.

29:16I mean, just imagine if the Democrats somehow can keep the Senate, then this time next year, the Democrats will control the Senate, but without a mansion or a cinema. I mean, that's what Biden's whole thing is about. His whole state of the union, his whole message is, look how much we've done so far, elect more Democrats and we can do more. Imagine if both mansion and cinema were replaced with Democrats, then you can codify row. Then you can have the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. There's so much that Democrats can actually get done without these two there, protecting the filibuster in exchange for Mitch McConnell telling the big donors to funnel their money to Manchinema. And there was a lot of it that went their way. I have to say. And speaking of the state of the union, that's tonight. It hasn't happened yet as we record this, but I'm looking forward to it. And I know you're doing some live coverage. Tell us about that. Yeah. Well, I'm hoping to get you to join us at some point, but we have a lot of, we have a lot of good people on the show tonight. And, you know, look, this is going to be a,

30:20they're always interesting to me, but this state of the union and a lot of folks listening to this have already watched it. But I mean, Biden has three things he has to do. He has to convince Americans that the economy is as strong as it is. And it's recovered as strongly as it has. In spite of high prices here and there on different things, he's got to calm everybody down about his age and his ability to serve. I'll remind you that he's going to be running against 95 year old Herbert Hoover economics. So ideologically, Joe Biden is the young guy in this campaign. And he's he's got to remind everybody what the stakes are of a rematch against Donald Trump, you know, a week when Alistafonic, who is disqualified from a holding office because of the poor teeth amendment, by the way, but when Alistafonic is coming out asking, are you better off now than four years ago? This is exactly what Biden's going to talk about four years ago when we had double digit unemployment, mass death, crime all over the place. I mean, in April, we were losing 2000 American citizens per day, April of 2020, 2000 American citizens dying per day. We are so

31:26substantially better off now than we were four years ago. But of course, Ronald Reagan proved when it comes to Republicans, amnesia can be contagious. Absolutely can. And that that's all they have is to rewrite history because it's not on their side, even current history. They're trying to rewrite history going all the way back to 1619, but you know what I mean, listen, I'm just hooting in to see, you know, what Marjorie Taylor Greene screams and who Lauren Boebert gropes. I mean, that's really the main thing for me to watch. People with no impulse control going out in public is always good for reality TV. Well, Mike Johnson was trying to tell his caucus to keep their mouths shut because the last time, you know, there was a, I guess kind of an unscripted moment at the state of the union was when Joe Biden brought up, don't touch Medicare, you're so security in Medicare. And they booed. And he's like, all right. So we're all on the same side then, right? We're not going to cut Social Security Medicare very viral moment for that last state of the union.

32:29And we can see something like that again. So we will be, I'll be paying attention to that. By the way, that's, that's an important note, Alison, what you just brought up because Mike Johnson is not imploring his caucus to behave themselves because he cares about dignity or decorum. No, he doesn't want Joe Biden to play them again and make them look like fools like happened last year. That was a beautiful moment. It was. Yeah. And I'll also be looking for, you know, his, his discussions on how what we're facing in this election is democracy versus autocracy. Or if you want to be like super Republican about it, you could say a democratic republic or a constitutional republic versus an autocracy, which is, you know, when you want to get down to it, that's what they always, that's what they always say. That was, that's always their argument. This is a constitutional republic, not a democracy because they don't read. So it'll be, it'll be, I think a good state of the union. I think it will be too. I think most people already understand the difference between Trump and Biden on abortion and they understand the difference between

33:29Trump and Biden when it comes to democracy and a peaceful transfer of power. But when it comes to the economy, you know, that's going to be the real challenge because things are unquestionably better now than they were four years ago. I mean, America is doing better recovering from inflation than all of our G7 allies. But the fact is, it's still price gouging. We're still using words like inflation instead of words like corporate greed. And how does Joe Biden walk that line of reminding people that he's not going to come out and call it corporate greed, but that's what it is. So how will he be able to, with mere facts, convince people? Yeah. And it'll be, it'll be interesting to see how he, how he goes about doing that. And then one last thing before I let you go, my friend, we had a ruling from Supreme Court seemingly last minute with apparently some meta data issues about whether what so-to-my-or clearly wrote was a dissent or a concurrence. And you have a little bit different take than some folks. Tell us your take on this decision. Well, my

34:35unpopular opinion is that Democrats may have dodged a bullet with this ruling. I have said for a very long time that while I agree with the arguments on the logic on the law, yes, Trump is disqualified. You can read the 14th Amendment. It's right there. He is disqualified. On a practical political level, I've never thought this was a good idea for Democrats to pursue. I always thought the Supreme Court was going to get rid of this. And I think we're fortunate they did. Can you imagine what would have happened if the Supreme Court had said, yes, states can throw him off the ballot? Well, first of all, Donald Trump would have had a real win. You know, he gave a subdued victory speech, but he would have raised so much more money if he'd been thrown off the ballot in Colorado. And the Republicans would be screening that it's the Democratic Party that hates democracy. They would have a cudgel to beat Democrats with for the next year, saying Democrats oppose Americans getting to vote for who they want. Democrats opposed to one person, one vote. They're

35:37against freedom at the ballot box. Blah blah. None of it would have been true, but they would have it. They would have done it. And they would have fundraised off of it. And on a broader level, if the Supreme Court, and again, they only believe in states' rights when they're trying to excuse racism. But if the Supreme Court has said any stake in throw any president off a ballot, how long would it be before Mississippi and Alabama decided the evidence was in on Hunter Biden and through Joe Biden off the ballot? And we'd see this happening all over the country. So I really think that in many ways, Democrats dodged a bullet with this. I think conservatives were way too happy. Progressives were way too angry about it. All the Supreme Court really did was give Donald Trump permission to lose Colorado a third time. He lost it by 14 points last time. He's gonna lose it again. This doesn't change anything. Yeah, very interesting. A kind of one of the bright sides of the Supreme Court waiting until April 25th to hear immunity arguments. If we could have a bright side, I mean, that I am enraged about.

36:41What's the bright side of that? Well, like you, on the law, this trial should go before the election, 100%. But now we don't have to worry about an acquittal before the election. So there's that. I mean, I guess that's, you know, and we do have a criminal trial starting here in, let's see, two weeks about. It's going to be beautiful. It's going to be beautiful. I'm sorry. I'm not sick of the Stormy Daniel story. I was mad that DA Syvance bumped this thing years ago. And it's an important story. It speaks to all of Donald Trump's criminality in one. It is a very, very important and very relevant. And Michael Cohen is already gone to jail. It's election interference. Michael Cohen's already gone to jail for this, like for this actual case. And I didn't hear any Republicans outraged when Michael Cohen went to do time for it. So I'm glad his unindicted co-conspirators finally going to face the music on this. Yeah, I concur. All right, well, with that music, I feel like we're playing you off the stage at the Oscars, my friend.

37:46Oh, I know. Look at the Oscars, by the way, everybody. I hope you win your office pools. Yes, good luck. It's your Oscar office pools because I at least nobody I know is nominated for an Oscar. But when is it to soon? I think I think it's this weekend. Yeah. And you know, it's a lot of great films nominated for awards this year. I mean, there's two satires Upper Best Picture, Barbie and American Fiction, two satire live action films Upper Best Picture, which is incredible. One of the greatest Holocaust films ever made, zone of interest is just a landmark achievement in cinema. And hey, all the awards are going to go to Oppenheimer, the movie that bends over backwards to make the guy who made the bomb a sympathetic victim. So really, it's something for everybody this year. Super. Look forward to it. Thank you so much, my friend. Everybody, you can hear John Fugel saying weeknights, 9 p.m. Eastern six Pacific, that tell me everything show a serious XM progress channel 127 and his podcast. So John Fugel saying show my friend, John Fugel saying thank you. Thank you Friday night.

38:50Eddie is her joins us to talk about her amazing solo show of Hamlet, where she plays 23 different characters. And she and I go really deep on Hamlet. It's amazing. Don't miss it. That'll be on the show live Friday and then the podcast on Saturday. She's one of my all-time favorite comedians. If you if you get a chance or the ability to see dress to kill. Oh, yeah. Absolutely must see. I mean, they're all incredible. But dressed to kill really just open my eyes. I bought that CD as soon as it came out when I was a kid. I love it. So good. That's incredible. Thank you so much, my friend. Everybody, stick around. We'll be right back with the good news. Choose to lean into it. Every Mazda is engineered to give you effortless control. Life's busy. Don't let banking slow you down. Whether you're paying bills,

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41:56whatever you're doing. I want to hear. And then also if you have these these titles or dissertation titles, those are always fun. We're really fun for me to try to guess what you're talking about because sometimes there's so specific. And many times have words I can't pronounce, which I love. I love deducing. So send those to us. Any great VA healthcare stories or student debt relief stories, woobies stories, blankies stories, stuffed animal stories, I think our oldest one right now is I think a little over 100 years old. Those are incredible stories. I love those. If you have any holiday photos you want to send to us from any holiday, pictures of your happy place, pod pet tax. If you can't pay pod pet tax because you don't have a pod pet, you can send us an adoptable pet in your area. And we'll try to get a forever home for that little baby. So send us anything that you want at DailyBeansPod.com and click on contact. First up from Anonymous. No pronouns. I registered for classes today to finish my associate's degree after dropping out of college two decades ago attending school and working two part-time

42:58jobs, which is too much. And I didn't think returning to college was in the cards for me. But thanks to the Michigan Reconnect Program, Michiganers can attend community college in their area for the associates or certification program of choice. I am so grateful for this opportunity and proud of myself for taking these steps toward a better future. I hope other Michigan residents hear this and sign up too. Thanks for all you do. For pod pet tax, I've included Hazel and Cassie sitting in our brand new recliners like the royalty they are. Look at these beautiful babies. And I love your end table and I love your bookshelves and your wood floors gorgeous and so are these recliners. And the kitties are also adorable. Thank you for that and congratulations. The Michigan Reconnect Program. That's amazing. I love Michigan. All right. Next up from Kathy Pronoun. She and her my son loves oxalottles. My husband has started a 3D printing artist, started 3D printing articulating oxalottles for him. So what's the models of these oxalottles? I love you both

44:02and love the show. Keep doing what you're doing. And look at the little 3D printed oxalottles. Fantastic. And there's a lily pad too to round out the entire collection. That's beautiful. Thanks Kathy. Next up from Chris, no pronouns, correction and good news. Andy Kim is running for Senate in New Jersey, not Pennsylvania. Oh, dang it. That's right. He has a support of many grass roots volunteers like myself who got involved in politics in 2016. I knew that Chris because he's he's running to oust Bob Menendez. Oh, I knew that. Okay. It's because Fenermons from Pennsylvania and is also trying to get Menendez to resign that I mixed up the states. He's running against our indicted Senator Bob Menendez and Tammy Murphy, the wife of Governor Phil Murphy, who has been anointed by the Democratic machine. Good news. I live in UAE and I'm serving second term on Democrats abroad. Despite a lot of challenges, this cycle, we launched our presidential primary the other day in Dubai. Chris, thank you for your work with Democrats abroad. Such a vital

45:08organization. And thank you for the correction. It just I went, Federman, Pennsylvania, Andy Kim, without making the jump to New Jersey and Bob Menendez. That's thank you for the correction. Brain fog. Next up from Marcy D. Pronoun, she and her good morning beans, Queens. The good news is that at 80 years old, my dad published his first book and the official book launches this week. It's called the blueprint for going green by Jerry McCarthy, former Albuquerque resident. It's a primer on the environmental movement in Virginia from 1972 today. This labor of love, I'm not doing this to make money, he says, describes his efforts from the forefront of the green movement and is intended to advise younger generations on how they can make a difference even in small ways. It's written for students, but it is so well written that everyone with an interest in the subject will love it. I could not be more proud of my dad. Pod Tax is a photo of him with my then infant son, his only grandson, Marcy D. Congratulations to him on this book,

46:12Jerry McCarthy, blueprint for going green. And the baby is adorable. I'll pass this on to Dana, she will love it. Next up from Aaron, pronoun, she and her, hello, love all the podcasts and the community you've created. I feel less alone as a blue dot in a red state and as the parent of an amazing trans kiddo, thank you for your advocacy. It means the world. Good news. I'm turning 37 on Saturday the 9th and to celebrate. I want to shout out a nonprofit organization in my area. The literacy alliance has a mission of empowering people and strengthening our community through education. TLA helps adult learners prepare for their high school equivalency exam helps adult learners with their English and they also help kids in grades K through three with reading skills. I've been involved as a board member since November of 2022 and it's been amazing to see the impact that TLA has had on people's lives. I've had the privilege of attending a couple graduation ceremonies and it's heartwarming to hear the stories of the students who have overcome so much

47:14adversity to achieve passing the HSC. TLA is supported by many volunteers and a small staff and they could always use help. There's an Amazon wish list on literacy alliance dot org and donations are always welcome. I am dedicated to doing what I can to help this organization thrive to help improve the lives of people who are less privileged than I am. Thank you for all that you do to shine a light on amazing people everywhere. For pod pet tax, I've attached a picture of my Chihuahua Charlie and my rescue pomeranian Nana who are both amazing pups to have around oh they're so cute. I like fluffy Chihuahua's. I like not fluffy Chihuahua's as well but this was especially cute with a little blip. The little mlem so adorable. Totally amazing if you can help out please go to literacyaliance.org. Next up from Gerald pronouns he and him and this is our last submission of the day. Hi beans queens. I decided to attend law school at night and have my last year interrupted because of the 9-11 attack on the World Trade Center.

48:16I was one of the lucky ones able to escape from one World Trade Center about 10 minutes before it collapsed Gerald my god. I retired about five years ago from a state agency but I was told that I qualified for the public student loan forgiveness program so I applied. I received an email stating that I didn't qualify since I was no longer working. About three months later although I did nothing different. I received a letter stating that the balance of my loans had been forgiven. I was shocked happily surprised and I can't thank Joe Biden enough. Having that extra $500 a month is life changing. I had the pleasure of meeting AG at the DC event last April and again in New York City this past January. Hopefully I will meet DG one day soon. For Pat Bettax here is my blind but you would never know at rescue cat Bochelle. He is one of three and this is what happens when you volunteer with an animal rescue to keep busy. Gerald thank you so much for this. Look at this little baby. He's adorable. I love tuxedos. Moocats are the best.

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