A First Time For Everything (feat. Kyle Krahel)

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Daily Beans

Episode Title: A First Time For Everything (feat. Kyle Krahel)
Date: August 21, 2025
Hosts: Allison Gill (AG), Dana Goldberg (DG)
Guest: Kyle Krahel (Democratic candidate, San Diego County Board of Supervisors - District 5)

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Overview

Today's episode delivers a rapid-fire rundown of major political and social justice news stories, highlighting progressive wins, ongoing Republican power plays, and accountability actions nationwide. The episode’s central theme is the resilience and activism in response to Republican legislative overreach, most notably in Texas and California, and the efforts to “flip it blue” at the local political level, as explored in the interview with candidate Kyle Krahel. The tone is witty, urgent, and supportive of grassroots political engagement.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Texas Legislative Showdown & Detainment of State Rep. Collier

• Nicole Collier, a Texas State Rep., filed a writ of habeas corpus after being essentially detained by Republican leadership—her movements restricted to the floor or the bathroom, and threatened with a felony for communicating with colleagues while in the bathroom.
  • Memorable Moment/Quote:
    • [03:36] "Representative Collier in the bathroom has more dignity than Donald Trump in the Oval Office." — Guest speaker
    • [03:47] "What they're trying to do right there is silence an American leader, silence a black woman. And that is outrageous."
• Democratic Resistance Tactics:
  • Texas Dems are adding amendments on releasing the Epstein files to every GOP-proposed piece of legislation, a tactic recently deployed in the U.S. House.
  • [05:44] AG: "We're going to go ahead and say child rapist now," (referring to Epstein, after frustration with media whitewashing language.)

2. GOP Redistricting & Nationwide Repercussions

• Texas House passes new, Republican-favored congressional maps.
  • Prompt reaction: California's Governor Gavin Newsom pushes for redistricting, with strong public support and an endorsement from President Obama.
  • [07:32] "Texas House approves new congressional maps that favor Republicans. So they've done it. They've pulled the trigger." — AG
• Progressive Critique of Cautious Democratic Response:
  • [06:22] Obama: "We're not going to try to completely maximize it. That's a responsible approach."
  • [06:34] AG (on approach): "I disagree with the former president here... I think we should do it now, regardless of what Texas does."

3. Fox News Host 'Box of Wine' Pirro’s Political Bias Exposed

• Newly unsealed court records in the Smartmatic lawsuit show Janine Pirro bragged about supporting Trump and the GOP, despite Fox's public prohibition of political involvement.
  • [08:30] "I work so hard for the president and the party." — Janine Pirro, in text message revealed by Smartmatic suit
• Context: Smartmatic seeks to prove Fox personalities knowingly pushed election lies.

4. Target Boycott Fallout & CEO Resignation

• Target's CEO Brian Cornell steps down amid slumping sales, which the company itself admits were hurt by fallout over abandoning DEI programs and resulting consumer backlash.
  • [23:54] "I for one applaud the fact that Target has to go through this—the one-two punch of abandoning its diversity and inclusion programs and facing tariffs from the very government they were trying to lick the ass of." — AG

5. Judicial Oversight and Government Transparency

• Restoration of Congressional Appropriation Database:

  • Biden administration restores the database on congressional spending as ordered by court, though concerns persist regarding completeness.
  • [19:57] "What do you want to bet that it's not all there?" — DG

• Illinois Lawsuit Dismissed:

  • Judge upholds state’s privacy law against Trump administration's immigration enforcement push.
  • [21:01] "It draws a clearer boundary between federal immigration power and state authority over workplace regulation." — DG

6. Epstein Files & Federal Grand Jury Secrecy

• Judge Berman rebuffs Trump effort to release limited Epstein files, labeling it a diversion from the broader and truly illuminating DOJ files.
  • [15:48] Judge Berman: "The grand jury testimony is merely a hearsay snippet... pales in comparison to the Epstein investigation information and materials in the hands of the Department of Justice."
  • [16:07] AG: "Trump, your little filing... is nothing compared to the 300,000 pages of actual Epstein files that you currently have."

7. Trump’s Strategy Targeting Federal Reserve Officials

• Trump calls (without evidence) for Fed Governor Lisa Cook’s resignation, as part of broader efforts to manipulate the central bank and replace independent members with loyalists.
  • [10:00] AG: "He really wants to replace the Federal Reserve because he knows... he has to come up with false claims... so that he can put pliable people in there that will lower interest rates for no good reason."

8. Local Political Races: Interview with Kyle Krahel

• “Flip It Blue” Segment: Interview with Kyle Krahel, running for District 5, San Diego County Board of Supervisors.
  • District 5 has never elected a Democrat, but recent voting trends—including Kamala Harris winning by 4 points—signal real opportunity.
  • [30:46] "County Board of Supervisors is kind of a city council for the county... but it also is in charge of a lot of our health and human services budget."
  • [34:37] "District 5 has never elected a Democrat... but Kamala Harris won this district... by 4.9%. I think the time is right." — Kyle Krahel
  • Key campaign themes: Housing affordability, homelessness services, tackling the climate crisis, and defending immigrant communities from federal overreach.
  • Krahel makes a call for grassroots support over big-money interests, noting Republican opponents are backed by over $1M.
  • [39:20] "We're a people powered campaign, so we could use all the help that anybody's able to give. Kylecrahel.com." — Kyle Krahel

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [03:36] Guest on Rep. Collier: "Representative Collier in the bathroom has more dignity than Donald Trump in the Oval Office."
• [05:44] AG: "We're going to go ahead and say child rapist now." (On Jeffrey Epstein)
• [08:30] Janine Pirro (unsealed text): "I work so hard for the president and the party."
• [15:48] Judge Berman: "The Epstein grand jury transcripts pale… in comparison to the… materials in the hands of the Department of Justice."
• [16:07] AG: "Trump, your little filing ... is nothing compared to the 300,000 pages of actual Epstein files that you currently have."
• [19:57] DG: "What do you want to bet that it’s not all there?"
• [23:54] AG: "If you're a bigoted asshole, you're going to have a harder time."
• [31:41] Kyle Krahel: “[My] opponents are two MAGA Republicans…who want to follow [Jim Desmond’s] model of attacking immigrants…ignoring the climate crisis, ignoring the safety needs of our communities.”
• [34:37] Kyle Krahel: "Kamala Harris won this district…by 4.9%. I think the time is right."
• [39:20] "We're a people powered campaign..." — Kyle Krahel

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Important Timestamps

• 00:00–03:47: Texas legislative maneuvers, Rep. Collier’s detainment, Democrats’ Epstein-file strategy.
• 06:22–07:51: California redistricting reaction, 22-point poll advantage, Newsom/Obama positions.
• 07:51–09:39: Pirro’s incriminating texts; Fox election lawsuit context.
• 15:48–16:29: Epstein grand jury file ruling, significance for broader transparency.
• 23:54–25:57: Target boycott, CEO resignation, corporate accountability for DEI retreat.
• 28:12–39:51: Interview with Kyle Krahel, the importance and mechanics of county-level races, shift in San Diego’s District 5, campaign call to action.

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Tone & Closing

The episode moves with urgency and a sense of both outrage and hope, balancing tough news with determination and progressive organizing. The "good news" segment provides an uplifting close with stories of community kindness, activism, and personal triumphs.

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For deeper community engagement and candidate support:

• [39:20] "Kylecrahel.com" — sign up to volunteer, donate, and connect with the campaign.

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This summary preserves the unmistakable snark, passion, and progressive angle of the Daily Beans, offering listeners (or non-listeners) a clear, timestamped guide to the episode’s main content, key moments, and urgent calls to action.

Transcript

[A]

MSW Media hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Thursday, August 21, 2025. Today, Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier has filed a writ of ha. Dubious corpus with the Travis County District Court. Judge Berman rejects Trump's motion to release the Epstein grand jury material, calling it a diversion from the real Epstein files. Representative Lamonica McIver has filed a flurry of motions in the federal case against her. New York Mayor Eric Adams, former top aide, is set to face new charges. A federal judge in Illinois has dismissed Trump's lawsuit against that state. Unsealed court records show Judge Box of Wine bragged about helping Trump and the Republicans in the 2020 election when she was at Fox News. Texas Democrats plan to stall Republican redistricting efforts by attaching amendments to release the Epstein files. A new poll shows Newsom's redistricting plans are heavily favored by the public. The White House has restored the congressional appropriation database. Trump calls for the resignation of a Federal Reserve governor. And Target's CEO is stepping down as customers take their business elsewhere. I'm Alison Gill.

[B]

And I'm Dana Goldberg.

[A]

Good Lord. The news would not stop today.

[B]

No, it would not. One after the other after the other.

[A]

And there's even more. We're going to talk about this in a minute in the hot notes, but Representative Collier was on a call. She was in the bathroom and police barged in and, like, threatened to charge her with a felony.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

So that's awful. And that's going on Obama, President Obama is coming out in favor of, of Gavin Newsom's redistricting efforts. So we're going to talk a little bit about that as well. But it just, it wouldn't stop today. It just the news, like news avalanche. So, but I'm here, we're here for you. We're here to, we're here to take it all on the chin and bring you the headlines that we think are important. So thanks for supporting independent media. Later in the show, we're going to have a Flip It Blue segment with the District 5 candidate for San Diego County Board of Supervisors. A Democrat has never won that seat.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

But Kamala Harris won that district by four points last November. And so today I'm going to speak with the Democratic candidate, Kyle Crayl. He's running to oust a MAGA Republican. And I think he's got a damn good chance to put a Democrat in that seat for the first time ever. So I think with all this news, we're just going to have to lightning round it for the Hot notes today.

[B]

So let's do it.

[A]

All right. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first step. But let's talk about the redistricting. Texas representative, State House Representative Nicole Collier. She's been locked in the chamber for I think two days now because Republicans won't let her leave without a permission slip. She was followed into the bathroom and threatened with a felony for being on a press call with Cory Booker and Gavin Newsom. And I think Ken Martin was on that call as well. Let's listen to this clip of it happening live and all of our Democratic elected officials, Sorry, I have to leave. They said it's a felony for me to do this. Apparently I can't be on the floor or in the bathroom. Well, you told me I was only allowed to be here in the bathroom. No, hang on. Bye, everybody. I've got to go.

[C]

Hey, that, that's, that is outrageous. First of all, let me tell you something. Representative Collier in the bathroom has more dignity than Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

[A]

There you go.

[C]

That is outrageous. What they're trying to do right there is silence an American leader, silence a black woman. And that is outrageous. And I hope everybody took note of that. The fact that she can't even let her voice be heard is frickin outrageous. And this is what we're fighting for here. This is ultimately what this is about. What we just witnessed them trying to shut her down and say it's illegal for her to be in the bathroom. And on this call. This is the lengths that they're going to in Texas to try to bring about a system so unjust and so unjustifiable that they are going to try to silence those leaders from being heard and speaking out.

[A]

So that's fascinating.

[B]

Horrifying.

[A]

Yeah, just what the f. Anyway, we're going to get more on that story as it unfolds. In a related story from HuffPost, Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier filed a writ of habeas corpus on Tuesday. Good for her. In the District court of Travis County, Texas, claiming the state legislature's Republican majority has unlawfully detained her in in the state Capitol after she refused to consent to 24 hour police surveillance. And also from the Hill, Texas Democrats are looking to put Republicans on defense ahead of the expected passage of the GOP friendly map by putting an amendment to a vote concerning the Jeffrey Epstein files. Now, we saw Dems in in the US House do this right at the, toward the end of the session, right before the summer break. The Democrats were attaching an Epstein files Amendment to every single piece of legislation that the Republicans were trying to pass until Mike Johnson was like it, we're all home early because he didn't want to vote on that. So now they're doing this in Texas, which is wonderful. Texas House Minority Leader Jean Woo is introducing an amendment that would allow a new House map to take effect only after Attorney General Pam Bondi publicly releases files related to the disgraced financier. There it is, Dana. They called him a. The. The child rapist. A financier like you were talking about.

[B]

Yesterday, G. I'm so tired of it.

[A]

So we're going to go ahead and say child rapist now. Woo's amendment says the maps won't be adopted until Bondi makes publicly available and in a searchable and downloadable format, all unclassified records, documents, communications, investigative materials in the possession of the Department of Justice, including the FBI and the U.S. attorney's offices that relate to Jeffrey Epstein. So all of that's going on. And meanwhile, from Axios, Gavin Newsom's bid to redraw California's congressional seats in response to what Texas is doing to create more Democrat friendly districts has a 22 point advantage in support.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Among state voters. Newsom's longtime pollster writes in an internal memo obtained by Axios. And Obama has endorsed California's redistricting efforts. He said, I believe Governor Newsom's approach is a responsible approach. He said, this is going to be responsible. We're not going to try to completely maximize it. That's what Obama said at a Tuesday fundraiser on Martha's Vineyard, where Martha's Vineyard, famous for denying pierogies to Alan Dershowitz. I disagree with the former president here. And with this kind of steady approach being a response only and only responding in kind, I think we should do it now, regardless of what Texas does. And I think we should do online seats. But I'm a dick, I guess. So I just want to look up really quick whether or not we've actually seen any movement, because Texas today.

[B]

We have, unfortunately. I just did a podcast and there was an amazing woman named Kat. I think it's from Howdy Politics. They've already, I believe it's passing the House and they are going to be taking it to the Senate. So they did. They put a vote. Put it out for a vote.

[A]

Yep, here it is, 33 seconds ago. Texas House approves new congressional maps that favor Republicans. So they've done it. They've pulled the trigger. Which now means the noose is loose. Gavin Newsom is. We probably should call him the noose. Newsom's loose. How about that? I'll come up with a better. I'll come up with a better tagline.

[B]

There you go. All right. We'll see. We're gonna move on to another story. This is from the Post. Janine Box of wine Pirro, then a weekend host on Fox News, told the chairman of the Republican Committee in September of 2020 because that's what she was still doing for a living. That text message that she was determined to aid President Trump and the Republican Party despite the network prohibiting on air personnel is from political involvement. And I quote, I work so hard for the party across the country. That's a PIRO now, the U.S. attorney, District of Columbia, told Rona McDaniel in the message, according to newly unredacted court documents that were made public Tuesday in filings by voting technology company Smartmatic, which in 2021 filed that $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox over its 2020 election coverage. And I quote, I'm the number one watch show on all news cable all weekend. I work so hard for the president and the party.

[A]

Oh my.

[B]

Smart Matic compiled previously un text messages and emails between Fox employees along with comments made in sworn depositions in an effort to persuade the judge in the long running case to rule in its favor. Smartmatic's motion was originally filed in late April, but a judicial hearing officer decided only recently that many of the redactions obscuring parts of the original filings that those should be removed. Yep. Smartmatic is arguing that hosts and executives at Fox knew claims the voting technology company had rigged the election in Joe Biden's favor were false, but allowed them to err to maintain the network support with pro Trump viewers.

[A]

So yep, it's not going to be hard to prove.

[B]

It also puts a little bit of a hiccup in their whole he won the 2020 election, man.

[A]

Okay, well, this is from NPR. President Trump called on Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to resign following allegations from a Trump ally, Pulte that Hug that Cook made false statements on mortgage applications. This move comes as the president is in the midst of a high pressure campaign to get the central bank to lower interest rates. That's not how I would put that npr, but okay. Now Cook, who was appointed to the Fed by then President Joe Biden in 2022, voted with a majority of her colleagues to hold interest rates steady last month. There's like 12 of them on this board, by the way. Now last week, Bill Pulte as I mentioned who oversees mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, sent a letter to Pam Bondi for an investigation of Lisa Cook over a pair of mortgage applications she filed in 2021. Pulte has raised similar claims against New York Attorney General Letitia James. It will come as no shock to anyone that Lisa Cook is also a black woman. Here's a quote. Cook must resign now. That's what Trump wrote on social media on Wednesday. And this kind of Dana just bolsters my argument that Trump moved his pet inspector general Mike Horowitz to the Federal Reserve to try to get dirt on Jerome Powell so he can try to find cause to fire him in as well as well, and I bet you anything that Pulte has already gone through Jerome Powell's mortgage applications looking to see if he checked a box about primary residence or not. He's done this to Adam Schiff as well in California. Senator, as I said, Tish James and now Lisa Cook. He really wants to replace the Federal Reserve because he knows Clarence Thomas has said in a, in a case about a different multi member board, the Merit Systems Protection Board and National Labor Relations Board has said, Clarence Thomas has said, yeah, you can fire those guys, but you can't do it with the Fed. It might have been Alito or something like that. Right. But he's kind of carved it out for the Fed. So Trump knows he has to go in there and come up with false claims and false reasons for cause to fire people on the Fed Reserve so that he can put pliable people in there that will lower interest rates for no good reason.

[B]

Right. He's going to do everything he can. That's sketchy. Nothing's above board. Nothing's above board. All right, this one's from democracy docket. Rep. Lamonica McIver, she's a Democrat from New Jersey, is moving to dismiss the federal charges against her by invoking President Donald Trump's mass pardons for those who attacked the Capitol in his name on January 6, 2021. Let me explain. Grand jury indicted MacGyver in June on a three count charge of forcibly impeding officers during a chaotic confrontation between federal agents and elected officials outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark earlier this year. The charge is a felony and the three counts carry a maximum sentence of 17 years in prison. And MacGyver, the first sitting member of Congress to be criminally prosecuted by the Trump administration, pleaded not guilty. And in new filings late last week, MacGyver asked a court to dismiss the charge because she argues she is being selectively and vindictively prosecuted by the government. And because she cannot be charged for official acts, McIver said that the DOJ is demonstrating, and I quote, unconstitutional differential treatment by pursuing charges against her after dropping cases against over 160 other defendants facing the same crime for their actions during January 6th. Attack, quote. There's a simple difference between the prosecution of the Congresswoman McIver and the 160 cases involving assault against federal officers on January 6th that the Justice Department has dismissed. It's all about politics and partisanship. That's one of her dismissal motions. That's what it reads now. Body camera footage from federal agents that MacGyver's team received in discovery indicated that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the number two official at the doj, personally directed Baraka's arrest. In the footage, Ricky Patel, a DHS investigations official who coordinated Baraka's arrest, is heard saying, and I quote, I'm arresting the mayor, even though he stepped out. I'm going to put him in cuffs, per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.

[A]

Yeah. And she's actually filed a motion to compel as well, to get other body camera footage of the person that says that was that, you know, she assaulted them, the officer. For some reason, they didn't put that body camera footage in the, in the discovery. And also the, you know, the cameras on the outside of the facility, because there is now evidence that this guy Patel was on the phone with Todd Blanche, who ordered him to arrest Ras Baraka.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Which is kind of what caused the, that confrontation between Rep. MacIver and some of the agents. And there's also some body cam footage showing that while these agents say that she assaulted them, they actually shoved her pretty hard.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So I'm looking forward to seeing this dismissed. And if there's ever, like, selective and vindictive prosecution, motions to dismiss are real hard to win, but if there's ever a case for it, this is it.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

So I, I, I would love to see it happen. Me, too. And I bet she sent all this to Ross Baraka, too, because he's suing the Trump administration for wrongful arrest. Now, next up from our friend Adam Klassfeld at All Rise News, Donald Trump's Department of Justice struck out in each of their three attempts to unseal grand jury records related to Jeffrey Epstein. With the final blow landing today on Wednesday. As we record this, U.S. district Judge Richard Berman's ruling represented the third and final rejection of the Trump administration's request to unseal Epstein. Related grand jury records. Rather than disclose the 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence that they have at their disposal. So the judge brought this up, too. Here's what the judge says. Quote, the government is the logical party to make comprehensive disclosures to the public of the Epstein files. And by comparison, the instant grand jury motion here appears to be a diversion from the breadth and scope of the Epstein files in the government's possession. That's what he wrote. He went on to say, the grand jury testimony is merely a hearsay snippet of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged conduct.

[B]

Nice.

[A]

The information contained in the Epstein grand jury transcripts pales in comparison to the Epstein investigation. Information and materials in the hands of the Department of Justice.

[B]

Love this.

[A]

I know. And so, in other words, trump your little filing, which you didn't consult the victims for, to try to get 76 pages of an FBI transcript, Grand jury testimony is nothing compared to the 300, 000 pages of actual Epstein files that you currently have in your hands that you could release. Yeah. I love it. So.

[B]

Yeah. Right. Thank you, Alison. I hope. I really hope that. Just do not take your foot off the gas with the Epstein thing. Just please, everyone, don't. All the good trouble. You can do everything we asked you to do. Just pedal to the floor.

[A]

Indeed.

[B]

All right, this is from Politico. Mayor Eric Adams, his former top aide, will be hit with more criminal charges from the Manhattan district attorney's office on Thursday. Ingrid Lewis Martin's lawyer. That's what they told Politico. A new chapter, by the way, in the legal issues that have dogged the mayor as he mounts a long shot reelection campaign on an independent line. And I quote, the district attorney has refused to provide any details about the charges. This is from attorney Arthur Edela said in a statement confirming that Lewis Martin will appear in court in Manhattan on Thursday. Lewis Martin resigned from her role as chief advisor to the mayor in December, days before she was indicted on bribery charges. She's accused of helping a pair of real estate developers with bureaucratic issues in exchange for gifts to her son, including $100,000 he allegedly used to purchase a Porsche. She pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing. The new charges will be entirely separate from those allegations, Adela said. And he is expected, by the way, at least two new cases to be brought, likely with co defendants.

[A]

Yeah, I think there's going to be a lot of people rolled up in these indictments. And. And of course, Trump gives, you know, dismisses the Eric Adams charges, but none of these folks are going to have their charges dismissed. Yeah. So, yeah, more indictments coming. And $100,000 for a Porsche. Like, couldn't it be tuition or something?

[B]

It's just so gross that that's what it was spent on. And how much more obvious can you get?

[A]

I know. Oh, nice new Porsche. Where'd you get it? Oh, you know, I just been working hard. Yeah. All right. Anyway, this is from Roll Call. The White House has restored a website that shows how spending authority is parceled out to federal agencies throughout the year. But Democrats say some of the information that is required to be disclosed may still be missing. Dana, you and I have been following this case for a while. There was a bill signed by Biden that says you government, federal government, executive branch, you have to lay out in a website all of the congressionally appropriated funds that you're spending. And the Trump administration took it offline. Some folks sued and the judge said you have to put it back. And so now they have put something back, but we don't know if it's everything. The Office of Management and Budget restored the website Friday night to comply with the court imposed deadline. The Trump administration had shut down the site in March, shielding from Public view its decisions on so called apportionments directives that control the flow of appropriated funds from Congress. The restoration of the public spending database marked a victory for Democrats and two organizations that sued the administration over its attempt to keep the database secret, called Protect Democracy and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Good old crew quote. It should never have required months in court for this administration to begin complying with a truly basic and straightforward transparency requirement. That's Senator Patty Murray of Washington, ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee. In a statement on Monday, she went on to say OMB must now ensure that every last bit of this important budget data that has been hidden is properly made public as the court has ordered, and that the data is posted within days as the law requires going forward. Democratic lawmakers and Protect Democracy say they are scrutinizing the website to see if any apportionments or related information are missing.

[B]

Do you?

[A]

What do you want to bet that it's not all there?

[B]

Yeah, I would bet everything I have.

[A]

We'll see. We'll keep an eye on it for you.

[B]

Thanks, Allison. And a federal judge in Illinois has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration that sought to block the state's workplace privacy law on the grounds that it conflicted with federal immigration enforcement. In a ruling issued on August 19, Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman of the U.S. district Court of the Northern District of Illinois rejected the administration's arguments, finding that the Illinois Right to Privacy in the Workplace act is not preempted by federal immigration law. I know. Thank God. Now the ruling matters because it draws a clearer boundary between federal immigration power and state authority over workplace regulation. By rejecting the Trump administration's efforts to use immigration law to override Illinois's privacy protections, Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman reaffirmed that states retain broad authority to govern employment relationships. This decision safeguards workers procedural rights in the hiring process, and it could set a precedent for other states considering similar.

[A]

Oh, good. I'm very glad to hear that.

[B]

Me too.

[A]

Good job, Illinois. Woo hoo. Because I was like, oh, immigration, doesn't the federal government take precedent on immigration? But not when you're trying to fuck with privacy laws for states. So good, good, good. All right. This is from the Associated Press. Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a federal judge on Tuesday to dismiss a human smuggling case. These are the two bogus charges that they use to bring him back. They say the government was prosecuting the Maryland construction worker to punish him for challenging his removal to El Salvador. Their motion filed in court said that attempts to dismiss indictments on the grounds of selective or vindictive prosecution are infrequent and rarely succeed. But kind of like the Lamonica McIver one. But if there has ever been a case for dismissal on those grounds, this is the case. The attorneys said senior cabinet members, Justice Department leaders and Trump mounted unprecedented public attacks on Abrego Garcia. And that vindictiveness is clear from the record. And I agree with this. And Andy McCabe and I are going to go over this in further detail on this weekend's Unjustified podcast. And Dana, he's also still in limbo about whether he's going to be released or not. He's still being held in Tallahassee because a Judge Sinis in Maryland has ordered that ICE can't just whisk him away to a third country unless they give her 72 hours notice. But they aren't sure if they're going to, if ICE is going to detain him in Maryland where they're supposed to, or in Tennessee when he gets released. So the lawyers are going back and forth a little bit about whether and when to release him.

[B]

All right, thank you, A.G. and this last one is from CNN. Target CEO Brian Cornell is stepping down after 11 years at the retailer as the company faces slumping sales and backlash to its retreat on DEI. Target on Wednesday reported sales fell for the third straight quarter. Shares fell 10% in pre market trading. Target stock is among the worst performing companies in the S&P 500 this year. It matters. This boycott mattered now. Earlier this year, the company ended some of its DEI programs. The decision angered supporters of the diversity and inclusion policies, who felt blindsided by Target. Customers online protested Target's decision and Ann and Lucy Dayton, the daughters of one of Target's co founders, called the company's actions a betrayal. Target acknowledged its move. It hurt its sales. Target also imports about half of its merchandise compared to its roughly 33% at Walmart. So it needs to raise prices to almost double the rate of Walmart to mitigate the tariff impact. Bank of America analyst Robert Olmes said that in a report this week. So it's interesting because they're talking more about the boycott than they are about the tariffs. And I think that's because, you know, there's a little bit more control over the narrative when it comes from the administration with even this kind of a story.

[A]

True. And everybody has to contend with tariffs. But if you're a bigoted asshole, you're going to have a harder time. So I for one applaud the fact that the Target has to go through this, the one, two punch of first of all, abandoning its diversity and inclusion programs and two, facing tariffs from from the very government they were trying to lick the ass of. So I, I for one am that that news brings me joy and that's why I put it at the end of this segment. I love it. All right, everybody, we have a little bit of good trouble.

[B]

What are you guys doing getting into trouble?

[A]

All right, everybody, this is your good trouble. Couch fucker. JD Vance will visit Peach Tree City. That's not Peach Tree Dish. Like Marjorie Taylor Greene said. This is Peachtree City. This is Georgia on Thursday, August 21st. That's today to promote Donald Trump's billionaire bailout bill, legislation that's supposed to deliver sweeping tax cuts aimed at helping working class families, which we know doesn't do at all. It hurts working class and American poor and it helps billionaires. So according to reports, JD Vance will be in an event at the Alta Refrigeration manufacturing facility in Peachtree at 11am local time today. There's also a protest planned at 10:30am local time today at the 5474 intersection in Pct Peachtree, so. Or PTC Peachtree City. Sorry, I get my acronyms wrong. So anyway, that's your good trouble, should you choose to accept it, go out, maybe draw A sign with a picture of a couch on it and a big penis or something. I don't know. Or a small one. Whatever. However you want to do it, get out there and let J.D. vance know how you feel about him being in your city. All right, everybody, we are going to have some good news. But first, I am going to talk to the candidate running in District 5 for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. You don't want to miss this conversation on the Flip It Blue segment right after this break. Stick around. We'll be right back.

[D]

We'll be right back.

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[D]

I'm good. Good to be here. Thank you so much.

[A]

Yeah, it's good to see. I love that art behind you. Nobody can see it, but describe it for us. What's going on behind you.

[D]

You know, it's a face with a bunch of wonderful colors around it. Very artistically drawn and a little bit abstract. It's kind of fun and just kind of nice to reduce the attention on sometimes. The video calls we are all addicted to these days.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Ever since COVID Right. We're all on video these days anyway. That's lovely. I love that. It's a good background. My background is just kind of books. So I'm really glad to talk to you today because as you heard me explain in the introduction here on the Daily Beans, local politics is so very important to us and to the listeners. And we are all like, do something, run for something. And you've picked that up and you ran with it. Talk a little bit about your time though. I think when I first met you, I was knocking doors for Mike Levin.

[D]

Yes, exactly. So I was born and raised in Oceanside. So I really do believe in the power of local government and the bottom up approach. But to that I came back home after studying school, east coast and government and doing some campaigns out. I said I could make a difference back here in San Diego in Oceanside, and I found a candidate named Mike Levin who was running for Congress to kick out Darrell Issa. And I said, that sounds like the right thing for me. And we were able to do it. We flipped that 49th district and I continue to work with him to this day as we continue to fight against the Trump administration and continue to fight against Darrell Issa.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then he slinked away over to the 48 and I think we're going to draw him out of there.

[B]

I hope.

[D]

I sure do hope so. I think it's a very, very doable thing. And as long as we get that redistricting ballot measure passed, we're going to join up forces together and kick them out again.

[A]

Yeah. And that should be maybe today, Thursday, as we air this episode, we're going to keep an eye on that as well. And I'm probably going to be talking to John Pearson and Jess Craven at Chopwood Carry Water about that whole Prop 50 ballot initiative. It's going to be pretty huge here in California. There's a huge, like, massive backing for this. Some internal polling came out from Gavin Newsom's team showing that it's like up 22 points. So people are kind of sick and tired and want to fight back against what's happening in Texas, but we also want to fight back what's happening in our local districts. Talk about District 5 for a second and what the job is that you're running for.

[D]

Yeah. So County Board of Supervisors is kind of a city council for the county. And that sounds kind of very local, and it is, but it also is in charge of a lot of our health and human services budget. So we talk about Medi Cal and all the cuts that are happening to that. It also deals with our homelessness crisis. And right now, our current Supervisor in District 5 is a man named Jim Desmond, and he's actually now termed out running against Congressman Mike Levin for Congress. So you see how the local translates right up into the federal really quickly. And unfortunately, my two opponents are two MAGA Republic, the Mayor of Vista and the Mayor of San Marcos, who want to follow in that direct model of Jim Desmond of attacking immigrants, attacking things like bike lanes as being too radical somehow, of ignoring the climate crisis, ignoring the safety needs of our communities, or the fact that we really have an affordability crisis here in North County.

[A]

Yeah. And we often talk about how City Council and County Board of Supervisors are really kind of where the rubber meets the road when it comes to politics, not some lofty Darrell Issa BS that he's, you know, peddling as the carpetbagger out in the 48. Talk a little bit about some of the. The practical things that, that you do on the County Board of Supervisors that really make a difference in the lives of the constituents of the fifth District.

[D]

So the County Board is in charge of deciding where kind of land uses are going to be so where housing can be built throughout the unincorporated areas of the county, which in San Diego county is more than half of our land area. And so that's very important for being able to deal with our housing crisis. The county has a role to play, just like every city does. The county also administers a lot of their homelessness programs, but is in charge of dealing with that not just in the county, but throughout. Not the county unincorporated, but also in the incorporated cities. We have our live well centers up here in north county and Oceanside and Escondido and those are county administered buildings that provide services to our veterans for your basic healthcare needs. The county also administers in home healthcare. So if you're somebody who needs to be taken care of at home, the county helps provide those services. So it really touches all of our lives in a really close and important way. And then the county's also a very important vote on our regional boards. So we're talking about Sandag. Most people may not know about Sandag, but it's the Regional Transportation and Infrastructure Planning Group and it is in charge of dealing with the climate crisis probably more than almost any other entity locally in terms of planning out our new transportation routes, where we're going to invest to try to move towards a more climate friendly and sustainable future. And the county has one of the biggest votes on that board as well as our transportation district.

[A]

Yeah, it really is connected to the feds in a lot of ways. And again like it's like, like I said, it kind of comes down to the county board of supervisors and city council members and things like that to actually put these things into practice. Like you're talking about land use, building for the houseless. And because we do have definitely a housing crisis here, water issues. I know we work really closely with the water district because water is going to be more valuable than gold here, if it isn't already. And then we've got a lot of, not just urban areas and cities where we have to have transportation function, but we have a lot of rural areas where we deal with a lot of farm and farming and how tariffs are going to impact those folks and why these particular policies that are put in place by county board of Supervisors are so important on that local level. And I want to ask you, District 5 has never elected a Democrat. So this is like the ultimate flip it blue segment. It would be flipped blue for the first time in District 5's history. What makes you think that now is the moment to seize on this and that it is a winnable seat because it's never gone to a Democrat.

[D]

That's exactly right. It has never gone to a Democrat. Like I said, I was born and raised here and we had the same supervisor, Republican bill horn, for 20 years or so before we put term limits on. So I've been, you know, we've been A victim of this kind of same policies for a very long time. And I think now the time is for change because San Diego county is changing, north county is changing. And that's evidenced by Congressman Levin getting elected up here in North County. But it's also evidenced by the numbers in the 2024 election. Kamala Harris won this district, District 5, by 4.9%. I don't think people know that it has a 3% Democratic registration advantage. And so I think with that and then also just the demographics of this area, the no preference voters, and a lot of the Republicans even aren't Trump Republicans. They don't like this style that the MAGA movement has brought to our country. And they want a different somebody that deals with the climate crisis, somebody that deals with solutions and is not just complaining about demagoguing immigrants. So I think the time is right. We also, I think, need a change at the county board. We need to get four votes. There's really important changes to longstanding policies that can't be done with just three votes. We just got the majority, thankfully with Paloma Aguine. But we need a fourth vote in order to change some long standing policies that have been held over from decades of Republican misrule.

[A]

Yeah, I agree. And right now the GOP is so upside down in all of the polling in every issue, including immigration, where it used to be its number one, that used to be its number one thing. And you know, we've noticed here, particularly in Southern California, I think that, you know, Jelani Cobb, I talk about him all the time, he's a professor and he talks about how the neighbor is the fundamental civic unit in our country. And people on either side, regardless of party, are very upset that the military and the feds are coming in here and taking our neighbors away from us. And I think that that also, like. Well, not also, but like you said, to piggyback on what you said makes this a prime time to go after that status quo that's been happening in that particular district for so long. People are really, really mad. And again, like you said, it's not just about ice, but that's a big part of it. But it's also about climate and jobs and water and bringing communities together. And so I think that, I do think that you have a really, really good shot, particularly given how Kamala Harris did in District 5 this time around.

[D]

Yeah, I mean, we're seeing these, unfortunately, these effects of these policies at the federal level around immigration. Right here in my own neighborhood, I live in the East Side neighborhood of Oceanside, our traditional Hispanic and African American and Samoan neighborhood. And we've had incidents where Bice is picking up father when he's taken right after he drops his kid off at school, all because of a DUI 10 years ago or sometimes. No, no criminal record whatsoever. And those are shattering the neighborhoods and they're shattering those connections that are so important for. We've worked so hard to reduce crime over the years in neighborhoods like that. There used to be a big crime issues, gang issues. And we worked hard in order to build the cohesiveness of the neighborhood. And when you break up families, you actually pull back on that kind of advancement and that progress that we've made in trying to build a cohesive neighborhood and reduce crime.

[A]

Yeah. And I think what we saw in 2018 with most of Orange county flipping blue, just like kind of stunning to all of us here in Southern California. If you're not from around these parts, we call it being stuck behind the Orange curtain, living in Orange county and the fact that we were able to flip that with the help of Mike Levin, where, you know, who you worked with on those campaigns. And I think we're going to see similar things in the district races like this particular. Like the one that you're running for.

[D]

Yeah, I think so. Like I said a little bit earlier, the kinds of no party preference and Republican voters that are in some of these places, like Orange county and North County, San Diego, that were traditional Republican areas, maybe say Reagan conservative areas, those folks don't like this attack on science, these attacks on immigrants. If folks come here and they work hard, it's good for the economy, it's good for small businesses. Tariffs are not part of that traditional Republican attitude that hurts business. So I think that there's a really prime opportunity now to build bridges across, across different coalitions of folks to be able to chart a path forward that's good for all of us and good for the larger whole and not just a small group of people.

[A]

Yeah, I agree, Kyle. Well, why don't you let everybody know if they're interested in chipping in some money or writing postcards or making some phone calls, working on a text bank to help you get that seat in District 5 for the county Board of Supervisors where they can go to do that and learn more about your campaign and others like you.

[D]

Yeah, we're a people powered campaign, so we could use all the help that anybody's able to give. Kylecrahel.com www.K-Y-L-E-K-R-A h e l.com and you can sign up there to volunteer and to contribute. One of my components, the Republican MAGA mayor, like I mentioned, has already raised a million dollars. A million dollars for a county board race. So their big money from Darrelli. He's actually worked for Darrelli, so their big money's coming behind him. We need to fight back with people money and people power. So folks, go to KyleCrahill.com, you can sign up to volunteer, contribute.

[A]

Wow. It's been really great to talk to you and wish you the best of luck. We hope to have you back on as the election approaches and to, and to, to have you on at your, you know, after you, after you do the celebration and there's the big win, you know, the win party, then we would like to have you come back on and talk about what it means to defeat, you know, somebody, a Republican in a seat that's never been held by a Democrat. I appreciate your time today.

[D]

Sounds good. Thank you so much, Alison.

[A]

Everybody, Kyle Crayle, make sure to check them out. Kyle Crail.com and everyone, if you stick around, we'll be right back with the good news. Everybody. Welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news? Everyone. Then good news, everyone. Dana. I have been longing for the good news segment all day.

[B]

Oh yeah, we need a palette cleanser. Give it to us.

[A]

Us. We really, really do. So if you have any good news, any little good thing that's happened to you, doesn't matter when, send it to [e-mail] click on Contact. It can also be a shout out to a loved one or maybe a small business in your area, Some great community organizing, a shout out to a government program, a self shout out. We absolutely love self shout outs. Let us know what you're making and what you're creating. Maybe there's a nonprofit you work for or in your area that you want to shine a spotlight on. We would love to do that and help you help them. So send it all to us. Dailybeanspod.com click on Contact. And all you got to do to get your stuff right on the air is pay your pod pet tariff, which means really just attach a photo of anything. It can be, it can be your pet. It can be your happy place. It can be signs you've seen at rallies. It could be pictures of you and your friends drinking wine and writing postcards. It could be family photos, baby pictures, any random animal off the Internet, bird watching photos which can be actual birds, or you and your family and friends flipping the bird to Trump Properties or Musk Properties or anybody who's just a general asshole. Send it all to us dailybeanspod.com click on contact. First up from Maria Pronouns they and them hello Beans Queens. I've been listening since my therapist recommended y' all to me in January. I don't know how I feel about therapists recommending the daily beans.

[B]

Okay, maybe that's fair.

[A]

Oh my goodness. And I've listened daily since you help keep me sane and I'm so thankful for all the good work you do. My good news is the celebration of my engagement. My partner and I have been together six and a half years and I'm so beyond thankful to have them by my side. He proposed this past weekend and I can't wait to celebrate with our friends and family and have a small reprieve from the chaotic day to day that has become the norm for my Pod pet tariff. I've included a picture of our five year old leopard gecko, Cinnamon Wilson. Oh my God, it sounds like a stripper name. He loves snoozing, eating crickets and giving a mean side eye, but he's really a sweet little guy. Thanks for all you do and keep up the amazing work. The gecko is adorable.

[B]

The gecko really is very cute.

[A]

And look at this wonderful picture of these two in love. Congratulations. I'm so glad you're getting that reprieve. Maria, thanks for sending that in. Thank you.

[B]

All right, this is from Jen Pronoun. She and her beans Queens. I'm a proud resident of Alaska. As you can imagine, this week has been trying. Very often we are the forgotten, but this time we've been in the global spotlight. Most of us Alaskans aren't used to all this attention. I'm very excited about the amazing turnout at all the protests this weekend. Thursday night had a fantastic crowd of Ukraine supporters. Then Friday when the war criminal and orange clown were here, protests took place at 9am, noon 2pm 5pm Plus Alaskans showed up again Saturday for the national protest. I was standing there when the world's second largest Ukrainian flag was unfurled and it was beautiful. I'm sharing a picture of me at the protest with my Veterans Against Trump sign. I helped direct many of my brothers and sisters in arms to vote vets that day. Also, here's a blueberry harvest from a hike I did to get back in nature after all the excitement. Plus a few strawberries from my garden. Thank you for all you do keep us informed. Oh my God. Look at those adorable little strawberries that just made their way in. Jen, this is awesome.

[A]

I'm so jealous of the berry picking. I grew up, I love berry picking in Akron. The lake behind our house, it's real pond is more appropriate. Surrounded by BlackBerry bushes. And we would go and they were twice as tall as we were and we would go into the shrubberies and pick these blackberries over the size of your palm.

[B]

Oh man.

[A]

And we would be covering thorn scratches by the end of it because those are thorned bushes. Right. The shrubs are like, you don't, don't get. You got to work to get the berries. But I miss that. Like here where I live right now, we don't. It's just all succulents and, and xeriscape. And we do have our little guacamole garden from fast growing trees. That is a real thing. We do have a lime and a lemon and guacamole or guacamole avocado trees.

[B]

It's a guacamole tree.

[A]

It is. I mean, let's be serious. That's what it's for. And our little tomatoes, like we have salsa, guacamole garden. But I mean, I miss berry picking.

[B]

I love it, I love it, I love it.

[A]

Thank you so much for that. I love that memory. Anyway, next up from anonymous pronoun she and her. This is a random act of kindness from a stranger that almost made me cry. I am going out of the country for the first time. I'm 55. I'm going out of the country for the first time in a few weeks and I needed some decent shoes for walking around that country. While I might be considered middle income by most standards, I'm always broken. Not because I overspend, but because being alive in 2025 is just so expensive. Hear, hear. Anonymous. Anyway, I went looking for good shoes. I ended up finding three perfect pairs of shoes in the clearance section. Bonus. When I got to the register, the saleswoman said I needed the boxes for all three pairs and I only had one box. Another saleswoman offered to run back and get the other boxes, but I knew she wouldn't find one of them. So I ran back to help her. Her. We were back there about 10 minutes looking for that box and during that time I told her why I needed the shoes. She agreed to sell the shoes without the box if I promised not to return them. So done. When I was paying, that same saleswoman was helping me. She asked if I wanted to use my $5 reward. And I said, yes, every dollar helps. Then she took out her phone and scanned it with the scan gun thing, whereupon my total went from $275 down to $165.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

She used some discount that I didn't earn to help me out. I was so happy, I almost cried. What a wonderful gift she gave me. Not only the savings, but the happiness she gave me was even more precious. Shout out to DSW in Novato. Ah, Discount shoe warehouse. It is the Mecca. That saleswoman is golden. So this picture is of our disabled dog. A last chance shelter dog has been very expensive due to illnesses, which is another good news story. I'll send another time. But we love her to bits. We're not going to say her name on the air. So anyway, she's absolutely adorable.

[B]

Yes, she is.

[A]

Thank you for all that you do. I have my coffee and get dressed while listening to you each morning. Look at the baby doe.

[B]

So sweet.

[A]

Thank you. Thank you for that.

[B]

All right, this next one's from Jesus. Pronouns, he and him. And he says, by the way, Texas says we can't use pronouns in school anymore. All right, my good news is, how.

[A]

Do you teach English without pronouns?

[B]

I know.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

Oh, my God. All right, because we. I don't know if anyone realizes, but we.

[A]

Oh, my God, Dana.

[B]

I know. Jesus knows, but.

[A]

Oh, your joke, Dana, about the pronouns. And like, the phone on the table. So good.

[B]

Thank. Basically everyone. I, you know, everyone's got a problem with they them. Who has a problem with pronouns? It's not proper grammar. It's a singular. It's not. We've been using they them for a singular person our entire lives. And the example is, I mean, if you saw a phone on. On the table and you didn't know whose it was, you'd be like, oh, shit, someone left their phone on the table. None of us turn into British royalty and go, oh, dear. Someone left his or her phone on the table. So that was my example. We've been using it. Someone left their phone on the table.

[A]

Yeah, we have.

[B]

Anyway, Jesus, back to you. My good news this week is that Richardson High School was the only secondary school in my district to earn an A score with the Texas Education Agency. As you may know, Texas Republicans are out to hurt marginalized communities. And they went hard, hard after our trans and non binary kiddos this year to the point where we can't call them by a preferred name, even if the parents consented. Only legal names and birth certificates or nicknames that match their sex assigned at birth.

[A]

What? You can't even have. You have to have a gender appropriate nickname.

[B]

This is such. The reason they put that in there is because of Raphael.

[A]

Okay, but my cruise. My nickname in high school was Big Balls, so I don't. I guess I wouldn't get to use my nickname.

[B]

No. Hey, Suze goes on. Say I could go on a rant about Texas SB 12 and Texas SB 196. For now, I'll take this small bit of good news in what seems to be an endless pit of gloom and despair in this state, adding a picture of our adorable daughter Agatha. Agatha all along.

[A]

I love that show. Oh, all my co workers used to call me ag. That's how I came up with AG when I wanted to be anonymous. Okay, that's also my initials. Next up, Katie. My unexpected and wonderful good news is the unbroken chain of great cats. We lost our poor boy Penguin to kidney disease on August 7th. Katie, I'm so sorry. And we found ourselves catless for the first time in over a decade. I didn't know when we would be ready, but we made met Archimedes, also known as Archie, three days later and he was the one. He's beautiful. He's the snuggler I needed to heal my heart. Look at the baby Kitty.

[B]

Oh, sweetness.

[A]

Oh, I bet he purrs like an engine. So cute.

[B]

All right, we've got Nick Pronouns he and him. Hello, AG and dg. After listening to Wednesday's interview with Martha Barnett, which I love despite preferring the Oxford English Dictionary, I thought I'd chime in on the subject of Skibidi Toilet. It's a YouTube series made by the Georgian the country, not the state who goes by Da Fuck Boom. It started out with a few surreal videos of, yes, singing toilets with human heads sticking out of their bowls. Until the mechanical cameraman, speaker men, and TV men, later collectively known as the alliance, showed up and started fighting them to protect humans. The videos got progressively longer, and only within about last year have they had a significant amount of dialogue. Of course, not counting the Skibidi anthem Da Boom not only slowly got better and better at production from a technical standpoint, but it managed to tell the story full of feeling without anyone speaking. Everything only intensified when the Astro toilet showed up. At one point it was rumored that Michael Bay even optioned Skibidi toilet for a movie movie. I do recommend Skibidi Toilet. If you're into surrealism and absurdity, you'll find yourself asking why you, a grown ass adult with bills are watching it while also being unable to wait for the next episode to come out. In fact, one actually came out today which I discovered while getting the link to DFB's YouTube channel and they're gonna have a link in the show. Notes to Defuck Boom's YouTube account. Obviously I can't write in and not send pet pictures. Here's one of Megatron, Orange, Huge and Baby Our Void Goblin on their cat Tower. Megatron by himself all chilling on his bed that I also happen to sleep in. And Ozzy atop the dog food container. Keep up the good work. Skibidi. Boom. Sorry. Skibidi. Dom. Dom. Dom. Yes. Yes.

[A]

To Boom.

[B]

Thank you for that link. Boom.

[A]

Now I'm. I'm totally into it. Look at the puppy on the food and look at the sweet baby kitty. These. So thanks everybody. I really needed that good news today. I appreciate you all and we're going to be back in your ears tomorrow. There's a new episode of cleanup on L45 that came out yesterday if you want to check that out. Do you have any? Oh, and it's really good. By the way, Dana, you have to check out clean up on L45 because Alex Jones is one step closer to losing his brand. Good company to the onions. So you definitely want to check out that episode. Do you have any final thoughts before we get out of here today, my friend?

[B]

I do not. Not.

[A]

All right, everybody, like I said, we'll be back in your ears tomorrow. Until then, please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health and take care of your family. I've been ag.

[B]

I've been dg.

[A]

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