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Friday, June 19, 2026 Today, scores fall ill at an Air Force base after Hegseth makes the flu vaccine optional; the Supreme Court says habitual cannabis users can’t be barred from owning firearms; Donald’s lead Supreme Court lawyer against E. Jean Carroll is now a federal judge; Donald mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos’ bootlicking texts; Republicans block a Pentagon investment ban aimed at the Trump family; an administration official declines to call January 6th an attack, plus Allison delivers your Good News.
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Hi, I'm Frances Collier. And I'm Angela V. Shelton. And we're Frangela. You know what you mean in your life. The Final Word podcast. Yes, you do. That's right. It is the final word on all things political and pop cultural, where we make real news, real funny, where we inspire you so you can resist. Subscribe and get a new episode of the Final Word podcast each week. It's the news we think you need to hear. That's right. We think you need to hear it.
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That's right. And because all we do is give. Every Thursday, you can listen to our hysterical podcast, Idiot of the Week. We round up the stupid. Because you know what? Somebody has to. Okay? All we do is give MSW media. News with swearing. Daily beans. Daily beans. Daily beans. Daily beans. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Friday, June 19, 2026. Today, scores have fallen ill at an Air Force base after Hegseth makes the flu vaccine optional. The Supreme Court says habitual cannabis users cannot be barred from owning firearms. Donald's lead Supreme Court lawyer against E. Jean Carroll, is now a federal judge. Donald mocked Zuckerberg and Bas Bezos's bootlicking text messages. Republicans block a Pentagon investment ban aimed at the Trump family. And an administration official declines to call January 6th an attack. I'm your host, Alison Gill. Hey, everybody, Happy Friday. And when it's Friday on the Daily Beans, we celebrate Fugal Sang Fridays. So John Fugelsang will be here later in the show. Happy Juneteenth, by the way. Incredible holiday. I hope everyone's taking some time to themselves. Dana's out. She's traveling to Chicago. Which reminds me, we'll see you all, well, some of you patrons at least, at the gala this weekend. If you want to become a patron and be invited to our next gala, you can do that by going to patreon.com muller she wrote. And it also helps us put these shows together. We really couldn't do it without the support of our members, so thank you so very much for that. Otherwise, all of our content's always free. So, hey, either way, kind of like an NPR deal. All right, we have a ton of news to get to today, so let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from the Times, file this under preventable idiots. A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, according to defense officials. We told you this would happen. The outbreak at the base in San Antonio raced through an Air Force basic military training wing, where new recruits sleep on bunk beds in open bays and share meals at a large communal table. A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center. That's what the Air Force said in a news release. It was not immediately clear whether the death of the trainee, Keon McDaniel, was related to the flu outbreak. A comprehensive medical review into his death is underway to determine the cause, according to the Air Force. I'm sure that'll be covered up. In the weeks since Mr. Hegseth's vaccine policy took effect April 21, only about 40% of Air Force trainees have opted to take the vaccine. It used to be 100%, and that is previously, like I said, was mandatory, according to an Air Force official. In the aftermath of the outbreak, the Air Force issued an exception to the voluntary vaccine policy requiring all recruits at Lackland must now get flu shots, part of a broader effort to stem the virus's spread. You could have prevented it in the first place. Roughly 8,700 active duty and reserve troops voluntarily or involuntarily left the military after refusing to get vaccinated before that mandate was rescinded in 2023. As of last summer. Of those, 8,713 have decided to come back to the military. In March, Mr. Hegseth extended the deadline to apply for reinstatement to April 1, 2027. U.S. military personnel are still required to get vaccinations for everything else, including measles, mumps and polio. Others, such as the anthrax vaccine, may be required depending on risk and military occupation. This is just so stupid. They could have prevented this and now they're making everyone at Lackland get vaccines but not not anybody else. Anywhere else. They're not making it mandatory again. Way to learn. Next up from Wired Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sought to ingratiate themselves with Trump after He won in 2024, and in return he mocked their efforts behind their backs. According to this new book by the New York Times, reporters Haberman and Swan, Zuckerberg once texted Trump a photo of a letter written by one of his grade school age children who wrote that they looked forward to the Golden Age of America, which then Trump adopted as a slogan to repeat at his rallies during the campaign and over dinner at Trump's Mar a Lago Club. Bezos denigrated the Washington Post to Trump and essentially described the newspaper as one of his worst financial investments months before he unsuccessfully sought a business favor from the president. These episodes are detailed in the book Regime Change Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, a copy of which Wired obtained ahead of its release June 23rd. They illustrate the extraordinary scramble by some of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley to curry favor with Trump before the start of his second term. Now, weeks after they met with Trump, Trump was still regaling associates with stories of how Zuckerberg and Bezos were, quote, kissing my ass. According to the book, quote, you would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys. I've got to show you that is what Trump is quoted as telling some of his guests. The episodes also show how Trump reveled in the genuflections of the titans of big tech Google's Sundar Pichai. I hope I'm pronouncing that properly. And Apple's Tim Cook also met with the incoming president before relentlessly deriding their efforts. Quote, think of where these guys were in 2016, Trump said of Zuckerberg and Bezos in a conversation with Elon Musk recounted in the book. They hated me. They were doing everything they could to knock me down. And look at them now. Musk seemed delighted in the humiliation of his rivals, according to the book. Quote, first class groveling, musk is quoted as saying. Now, when Trump and Bezos dined in December 2024, according to the book, Trump told Bezos the Washington Post is really unfair. You've got to take better care, a remark that prompted Bezos to commiserate with Trump, quote, the people there are terrible, bezos said, complaining about the business side of the Washington Post he'd hoped to make profitable. They don't listen. My other companies, they listen. That's just so pathetic. It's just so pathetic. Grown ass men, right? Next up from Politico, the Supreme Court has delivered another win for gun rights advocates, ruling that the Constitution protects the right of habitual marijuana users to own a firearm. The justices ruled unanimously Thursday in favor of a Texas man who challenged a long standing federal law making it a crime for a person who is an unlawful user or addicted to any controlled substance to have a gun, saying the application of the law in his case ran afoul of the Second Amendment guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms. The decision is the latest pronouncement from the high court on gun rights since it ruled in 2022 that modern day firearm regulations will be struck down unless they have an analog in the founding era. The new ruling is a loss for the Trump administration, which generally favors expansive gun rights but defended the federal law as an important tool to prevent obvious public safety risks posed by drug use users having control of weapons. Now Next up from Ms. Now Another one of Trump's personal lawyers was confirmed as a federal judge on the appeals court on Monday when The Senate voted 48 to 43 to replace Justin Smith on the St. Louis based U.S. court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. Smith has been Trump's lead attorney at the Supreme Court in Trump's efforts to upend the millions of dollars in damages that E. Jean Carroll won against him for sexual abuse and defamation. Smith's confirmation follows Emil Bovey's confirmation to the Philadelphia based U.S. circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. It also follows Trump's nomination of Matthew Schwartz to the New York based U.S. court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Schwartz was working on the president's appeal of his hush money case, which New York State prosecutors won at trial against Bovee and Todd Blanch, the latter of whom the president is nominated to be Attorney General. Blanche is currently acting attorney General following the departure from that role of another Trump personal lawyer, Graham Bondi. Before his judicial appointment, Bovey was a high ranking Trump Justice Department lawyer who spearheaded several administration priorities, including the failed attempt to only temporarily dismiss corruption charges against then New York City Mayor Eric Adams. And separately, a DOJ whistleblower accused Bovey of telling the Department of Justice lawyers, we need to consider telling the courts you and ignore any such orders. In litigation over the deportation flights to Seacote. Bovey said he did not suggest that there would be any need to consider ignoring court's orders. Whistleblowers say otherwise. Now. Smith represented Trump in the Carroll litigation alongside his colleagues James Otis Law Group, a St. Louis firm founded by John Sauer, that's the solicitor General. The firm has represented Trump in several matters, including the criminal immunity appeal that Sauer argued to the justices in 2024. Now, like I said, he's the solicitor General, which is the DOJ's top lawyer representing the United States at the Supreme Court. The DOJ said it will be supporting Trump's high court appeal against Eugene Carroll. Now Trump has two separate but related Carroll appeals stemming from the two damages awards from separate juries. The president lost his appeals so far in the second Circuit over dissents from judges he appointed to that court in his first term. He's challenging both losses at the Supreme Court. One of his petitions has been pending for months, but the justices have yet to decide whether to grant review. They've postponed it like a dozen times. The latest filing on the docket is from June 2. It's a letter from Smith that says the second petition is coming within the next month and suggested the court may wish to consider the petitions together. It takes four justices to grant review. The court could grant review of either, both or neither, but we don't yet know what the court will do, only that it did not immediately deny the first petition. The promised forthcoming petition will show who Trump's latest lead counsel is. And so perhaps the reason the Supreme Court has denied one of the E. Jean Carroll cases like a dozen times is because they're waiting to consolidate it with the other. So we'll keep an eye on that. And next up from notice, Senate Republicans quietly killed an effort to bar the Pentagon from investing in companies tied to Trump, his Cabinet, it or their families, rejecting a Democratic amendment targeting conflict of interest concerns. The amendment failed 14 to 13 on a party line vote last week during the Senate Armed Service Committee's closed door markup of its $1.15 trillion National Defense Authorization Act NDAA, according to a committee vote tally released Wednesday. Republicans said they rejected a partisan attack on Donald Trump that would have undermined support for the bill. Wow. Quote, it just seemed like a shot at the president. But the NDAA is for serious stuff. That's Senator Mike Rounds from South Dakota. Quote, we keep all the cheap shots out and we think the president and most of the other members would have considered that a cheap shot. That's not what the NDAA is all about. Oh, it's a cheap shot to bar the president and his families and his Cabinet members and their families from getting Pentagon contracts. Wow. Okay. Now Senator Elizabeth Warren confirmed that her amendment she wrote, this amendment would have prohibited the Pentagon's equity investment arm, the Office of Strategic Capital, from making investments in any company in which top executive branch officials or their immediate family members hold significant ownership stake. Details of the measure haven't been previously reported. Quote, There wasn't even a debate. Warren told Notice this is the most corrupt administration in American history. Every amendment that might curb Trump's corruption even slightly was radioactive to Republicans. The vote came amid Democratic scrutiny of Pentagon loans and contracts awarded to companies connected to Trump allies and family members, including firms backed by Donald Trump Jr's venture capital firm and transactions that have raised questions about the financial interests of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's. Family. Senator Mark Kelly, who voted for the amendment, said lawmakers were trying to bar taxpayer backed investments from benefiting Trump's family. Quote, we're trying to be responsible with taxpayer money and to try to put it at some restrictions so it doesn't continue to flow to the Trump family. That's what Kelly told Notice. He called the administration corrupt and accused Donald Trump of profiting from public office. Next up from the Guardian, Donald Trump's nominee to serve as top independent watchdog, the inspector general at the Department of Justice to replace Michael Horowitz, has refused to call the January 6th insurrection an attack during questions by senators. I'm going to pronounce his name wrong. Don Bertheamu. No, Bertheomi. Bertheomi. Don Berthiomi, maybe a career Justice Department employee who's been serving as inspector general of the agency, faced senators as part of his confirmation process to take up the role permanently this past Wednesday. Berthiomi was praised by some as a veteran of the department and not an overtly loyalist pick to serve in the role. Trump's Justice Department has pursued his retribution agenda and faced criticism for lack of independence from the president. Trump tapped Barthiomi to serve in a temporary acting role as inspector general at the Justice Department last year, then nominated for the role permanently this year. Blumenthal, Democratic senator from Connecticut, asked Berthoumi, who won the 2020 election, to which he responded, joe Biden, as certified by the Senate. That old yarn. Blumenthal then asked about January 6th and the insurrection where hundreds entered the US Capitol, some of whom used violence against Capitol police and then were convicted for their roles in the attack. Trump pardoned and commuted the sentences for nearly all involved, some of whom are now seeking payouts from the federal government using an obscure legal claims process. Quote, let me ask you, was the capitol attacked on January 6th? That's what Blumenthal asked him. I don't know if I'd use the term attack. I mean, we had activity outside the Capitol, protests and such. Wow. Blumenthal called the wording the most obvious understatement and then again questioned whether Berthoumi would call it an attack, noting violence against Capitol police. And Berthoumi again said he didn't agree with the word attack, though he acknowledged there was physical violence. Okay, we're getting closer. Blumenthal said the questions were intended as a test of your prospective independence and so far I think you're failing that test. Went on to say, I hope my colleagues will agree that the inspector general of the Department of Justice should recognize reality and facts for what they are. All right, everybody. That is the news for this Friday. We're going to be right back with John Fugal saying. And then some good news. Stick around after these messages.
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Hey, everybody. Welcome back. It's Friday on the Daily Beans, which means it's Feagle Sang Friday. So joining us is my very good friend, incredibly funny, very well written and well read man. Just a gentleman and a scholar. He hosts Tell me everything on SiriusXM progress channel 127 weeknights, 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific. You can also listen to the John Fegelsang show podcast if you don't have SiriusXM and also the New York Times bestselling author of the New York Times bestseller Separation of Church and Hate. Please welcome my good friend John Figo saying.
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Hey, wow, great. I'm done. That's great. Thank you. Thanks, everybody. Take care of your waitress. Thank you. Great to be here. Thank you. Mercy.
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I've done that before. You get, you get an intro, you get a crowd goes wild, you get up on stage, you're like, I can't top that.
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Listen, I mean, I'm already, I'm already so excited about how well America did in this Iran deal. You don't need to say anything to make me happier. My goodness, we're just winning all over the place, aren't we?
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Oh, yeah. I think calling it a deal is a bit of a stretch.
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It's concepts of a plan.
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Yeah, it's like a bribe to open negotiations.
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Oh, it's a bribe to get him out of the mess he dug himself into. Literally. I'm going to bomb you until you bail me out by me paying you. That's where we've come to, folks. If there's one lesson America keeps learning from the Middle east, it's that America learns no lessons from the Middle East. That's it. I mean, you know why they're sending J.D. vance out to announce all this? Because Marco Rubio is in the basement sewing a Mission Accomplished banner. So he's too busy to do it right now.
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But also, they need someone to blame.
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Well, that's it, right? I mean, it's all, all of this Cabinet don't seem to realize they've been hired to be the flunkies and fall guys for this man. And they're all going to get their turn.
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And now we've got. They're already hanging this around J.D. vance's neck. There's people, there's beautiful Republican aides in Congress saying, well, this is all J.D. vance's thing. TRUMP signed it at Versailles.
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At Versailles. Testimony, by the way. Behold this groveling loser. It's just, I mean, it's, I mean, I mean, this, this, you know, they're going to say again, this was a mistake. This was like, like the Iraq War. This wasn't a mistake. This was a deluxe platinum collector's edition policy fiasco. This required a president to look at 25 years of Mideast policy and be like, you know what? All these failures lacked my personal touch. I can make this dumber. And they're still lying about it. And like, if your victory agreement looks like the agreement you spent a decade denouncing, then it's not victory.
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I mean, it's worse. It's worse. And when you've got worse.
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300 billion. 300 billion, yeah.
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When you've got Ben Shapiro, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal editorial board, the New York Times editorial board, and Ted Cruz, you know, saying that this is a pile of. Oh, yeah, it's not good. And he's what, now underwater 22 more points with independence. Like, he's got his lowest approval ratings ever. 33. The economy now.
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Brilliant. Brilliant.
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Just dropping like a stone. Like a stone into the bottom of the reflecting pool that will be hidden,
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that you can't see because of the
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algae and now apparently leprosy because the blue paint is peeling up the algae
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is the most honest thing that's happened in D.C. next to the slugfest on Sunday. But you're, you're right. I mean, Ben Shapiro is so furious. I saw him. I mean, he's like, he's like screaming in these interviews. But that, that's okay because nobody works at Daily Wire anymore, so they're not being disturbed by the noise.
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But, I mean, judge report was pretty brutal.
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I mean, but think about it. I mean, if this agreement succeeds, it proves the war wasn't necessary. But if this agreement fails, it proves the war was pointless. So, I mean, the Internet remembers Grandpa Just, I mean, it's just incredible. Did you hear him come out and talk about the missiles? I mean, now they have to change.
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Now that all his bootlickers have to change their whole concept about they. Now they're saying Iran should get to defend itself.
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Iran deserves a right to defend itself. My God, you could get, you could get deported from Columbia University for saying that a year and a half ago. And now, now they're, they're. I mean, like after we were told so many times that this is the threat to civilization and what am I supposed to do? Other countries have missiles. You know, like literally the President's argument is everybody else is doing it. He's a 14 year old caught vaping at school. Everyone's doing it. So come on.
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And you know, if your concern is Saudi Arabia has missiles, it could shoot at Iran. He gave them those missiles. And it's the reason, you know, we have that, like we have to arm Israel the same as we arm other Middle Eastern countries. Law that needs to be repealed. So that keeps that up as well. And, well, everyone has missiles. It's just the most ridiculous, I mean, historically terrible foreign policy blunder I have ever seen. And I was there when they started the Iraq war.
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War, yeah. And I don't consider Iraq a blunder because I think Iraq worked exactly the way it was supposed to go. Dick Cheney's $39 billion, like, no blunder. Yeah. They knew what they were doing all along and no one paid a price. So no blunders there. That was a, that was a con. Yeah, but I mean, the whole principle of the agreement he tore up was that Iran's gonna promise and affirm that they won't seek nuclear weapons. And if you're taking Donald Trump's side on any of this war, what you're doing is you're, you're saying that the US Military and all branches of military intelligence were lying all those years they swore up and down that Iran was complying with the original Obama deal. But now what he's done, it's like burning down your house because you hate the last owner's paint job. Right. So then you burn down the house, and you then spend billions of dollars and thousands of bombs and years to rebuild your house, and then you rebuild it in the exact same color you said you didn't like 10 years ago. And that's what he's done. I mean, with algae. With algae. And God bless the algae. You know, it's. The comedy's there, folks. Like God wants us to laugh. I mean, Good. Good Lord.
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What do you think of this switching subjects, this access journalism. Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan book. All these revelations coming out kind of word for word.
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Word for word.
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People are wondering if they have tapes of things that happened inside the situation.
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Lordy, there are tapes.
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Lordy, there are tapes of, you know, this. First of all, something that I noticed right off the bat was something that survivor Epstein survivor Annie Farmer and I talked about last year, which was that Donald Trump was going to go to the courts to release grand jury testimony materials that won't have anything in them so that the courts would say no, and then they could blame the courts. And Annie Farmer actually filed notice with the court saying, hey, don't let them off the hook this way.
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She was right.
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And to find that that was the exact conversation option one proposed by Todd Blanche to manipulate the jud system in order to shift the blame off of Donald Trump shield rapists for the Epstein fiasco. And it was just right there in black and white. And I was just kind of jaw on the floor. Now that's a detail that, you know, I don't want to overlook. The bigger picture that a bunch of people met up in the Situation Room to discuss how to protect Trump from the Epstein.
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It's a very big picture. It's a very big picture. You remember a year ago, you and I were talking about Pam Bondi's binders full of information that had already been released and all those influencers who showed up holding props, not realizing that the true props were them on camera holding props like they have worked so hard to cover up, that they did this in a situ. This is, this is the place built for nuclear threats, right? And terrorist attacks and, and military crises. This is the room where they, they track the, the bin Laden mission. And Republicans spend all these years telling us that there's this secret cabal of elites covering up sex crimes. And then they get into power and immediately they form a secret cabal of elites to cover up sex crimes like that's they should do in the basement of a pizzeria. And Trump wasn't there. Trump wasn't running the COVID up. I mean, think about that. They didn't want him in the meetings. His staff was running his cover up for him. The full power of our government was being mobilized to protect one guy from questions about his relationship with the worst sex trafficker in American history. The situation room, Dr. Gill wasn't protecting America. The Situation Room was protecting one guy from his own resume. It's just, I mean, this is the deep State, they told us the deep State was hiding the truth. They got control of the state and they start hiding the truth. And you'd think that his supporters would be a little bit more angry about this, but as you pointed out, pedophilia is okay now, right?
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Well, they keep moving the goalposts, right? I mean, Trump's about three seconds away from saying that Iran had nuclear weapons and we got rid of them.
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That's right.
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I mean, it's just, it keeps moving and changing every minute. And now we've got this Director of National Intelligence issue with Bill Pulte being nominated, and then both Republicans and Democrats in the Senate saying, we aren't going to confirm him, we're not going to pass your. Extend Your FISA section 702 unless you get rid of Pulte. And so he brought in Jay Clayton, who was part of, by the way, that judicial manipulation situation with the Epstein files. That was hatched in the situation, right? But now Trump is trying to turn that around and use Bill Pulte staying on as leverage war with his own Senate to get them to pass the Save America Act, Right? So it's just, it's a shit show.
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It's incredible. This is all his war with his own Senate as he loses more and more sway and riz and support with this Senate. I mean, the guy's up at 3:54 in the morning and changing the Director of National Intelligence on social media, right? Like, he's, like he's letting us know his fantasy football lineups. This is Tulsi. Tulsi got fired and they came up with their cover story to get her out of there. So then Bill Pulte gets put in and he's a mortgage guy, no experience in national intelligence whatsoever. In case any of you listening, you know, have families that you care about, it's the mortgage guy who goes after Letitia James for mortgage stuff. And hey, he was so good harassing Letitia James over mortgage stuff. Let's give him the full reach of national intelligence to go after Trump's enemies. Oh, and keep people safe, too, Right.
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So, oh, and to screw with the elections, the midterm elections, of course.
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So, so Bill Pulte, right? So then he announces that, no, it's going to be this, this other guy, Jay Clayton. And you know why it's Jay Clayton? Because Jay Clayton went on CNBC on Sunday and said, well, you know, it's possible that conceivably, theoretically, in some universe, that possibly, conceivably there was some election irregularity, quite possibly in California. And that was it. Like, he didn't want to say it. He spat it out. That was his audition. And three days later, three days later, after going on TV and saying there might be election fraud, he is apparently then qualified to oversee all of our intelligence and covert ops and cyber warfare and nuclear threat assessments.
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And to see the Republicans in the Senate go, oh, phew, all right, we
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like for this guy who's also unqualified, who's also totally unquote. But again, but he wasn't the mortgage guy. So, like, Trump is picking these guys. Like, he's the drunk guy in the bar picking the jukebox songs, you know, like, I like this one. Oh, no, I like this one.
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It's.
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No, go back to the one we had. Go back to that one. And while all this is happening, like, Bill Pulte's waking up, checking Truth Social to see if he still has a job. And when they ask Donald Trump, why are you blackmailing your own side? Essentially, he's like, oh, just a little bit of intrigue. A slight bit of intrigue.
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Well, now he's threatening to keep Bill Pulte as dni, knowing what a. What a horrible national security threat that is unless they suppress the vote in the midterm elections by passing the SAVE act.
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Because he knows that the SAVE act is never going to pass, and the SAVE act will never pass the Senate will never happen, which they'd have to
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do to kill the filibuster. So he's literally saying, I am going to threaten national security on an ongoing basis unless you rig the elections for me.
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Yes, and yet another way that he is doomed to fail with his own party. He's playing hardball with his own side. They are tired of this man's nonsense, and he's going to fail again. And he will spin it into a win when he gives up on this again as well. And the douchebags that took over Twitter will hail him. Repeat, repeat, repeat. I mean, one week it's Tulsi, then it's Pulte, then it's Clayton, then it's Pulte again, then Kid Rock next week, I think. But it's like a slight bit of edge, like. Like. Like it's the finale of Survivor, you know what I mean? Like, this is the American intelligence apparatus, and he's blackmailing his own side as a bargaining chip. So, as you can say, he can make it harder for women who've changed their name to vote this year, Meanwhile,
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giving hundreds of billions of dollars, helping usher that into Iran.
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Iran, because they're so now hates us
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and has a more hardline regime. But we've got the mortgage guy in as DNI to coordinate our intelligence to stop any kind of terrorist attack.
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But maybe you haven't heard, Dr. Gill. Now Trump likes his Iranian negotiators. Did you hear? They're very rational, they're pleasant to deal with. Three months ago, man baby is commanding. Complete and total surrender. Complete and total. I should get to pick who the new ruler now it's like five star. Oh, great, great. Communicators cleaned. Would negotiate with them again in a second. Like he's on link.
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He wanted Ahmadinejad, remember?
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Yes. I mean, but if, if Iran is defeated, then why are we negotiating? If, if, if, you know, if there's still peace, then why are we still threatening invasion? If the deal is done, why is Netanyahu still going to bomb? I mean, remember the whole we don't
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negotiate with terrorists thing?
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Of course, but they never meant it. Ronald Reagan armed both sides of the Iran Iraq war. Ronald Reagan armed the Iranians after they killed our marines in Beirut 40 years ago. This was the core of Iran Contra. After they killed our Marines, they secretly had Israel fly the money over and the weapons. And they armed them while they were also arming Iraq, arming both sides of the same foreign war. And we wonder why these people hate us. And now look at this. Now all of America's hands are burned because man baby had to go and touch the stove. Even Bush knew not to invade.
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And now we're going to arm Iran and we've armed Saudi Arabia and we arm Israel.
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So, yeah, how's that regime change, huh? We're now, we're giving them 300 billion and weapons. That's our regime change. Oh, he doesn't care about that now. Now that you hear Trump says, I never cared about regime. He said it this week. He never cared about. It's, it's like, it's like, oh, I wasn't dumped. No, we, we both agreed mutually she'd stop returning my calls. Yeah, I wasn't dumb. I mean, I mean it. And he knows that one third of white people in this country won't care. He knows that. That's all he needs is one third of white people who will believe whatever they're told. And, and he, he's not pulling it off. But he's still trying. Look at the slugfest. He's not trying to bring in any new fans. He's still pandering to the same core base that is blindly obedient A smart play would have been to piss off the liberals and do something universal that makes them look good. Good. He's not clever enough. He's still trying to be a big fish in a small pond because he doesn't know how to expand his own appeal. Yeah. And I love the slugfest, by the way. I. I support it.
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Well, we've got some great things going on this weekend. We've got the opening of the Obama Presidential center, some great speeches by Obama.
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Happy Juneteenth, everybody.
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And Michelle. Happy Juneteenth. Incredible lineup. I think they've got Milli Vanilli, cnc, Music Factory, Vanilla Ice. I mean, it's really. No, it's just an absolutely incredible lineup.
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Let's be fair to Milli Vanilli. All versions of Milli Vanilli pulled out of the America 250 that they. Millie Vanilli said, nope, it doesn't look authentic to us. We're. We're not gonna. Millie Vanilli. I think we said this before, but they. They finally have j. Earned my respect because they promised not to sing out of something like.
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I think. I think you and I were joking about giving them their Grammy back.
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They deserve a Grammy back for this. They earned it. They're not now. They're not going to sing on purpose and they're heroes for. For it.
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But we also had this incredible speech at the celebration parade for the Knicks championship by Mamdani, which was just a fantastic. One of the best, like, politician sports speeches I've seen in a really long time.
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And this guy's so smart. This guy's got such good political instincts. All the time. All the time.
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Yeah, he really does. Take a page, everybody. Take a page. And yeah, I'll be traveling to Chicago this weekend. We're going to have a gala for our. Our patrons. So that's something fun, very cool that I am looking forward to.
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I was just there last weekend. You're picking the right time of year to go.
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Yeah. So we just. We have some really got World cup, you know, despite how you feel about FIFA and how I feel about FIFA as an organization. It's fun to watch World cup soccer, but the chance. I'm looking forward to the Aussie chance about Donald Trump coming up this weekend, too. So we have some good, hopeful, fun things to look forward to. But I appreciate your time as always, my friend. Anything else that.
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Yeah, I just. I just think they should keep the claw up on the White House lawn. I think they finally used the White House lawn for its highest Purpose keeping violent, stupid white guys busy and preoccupied. I think we should do more of this. I fully support other white Republican men punching each other in the head on camera. I'll pay for the pay per view if they'll keep this going. And I hope they never take that lighting rig down. I think it should. It's the most true expression of, of what this man believes in. And I think that it's all about domination and submission, not service. So it's actually the truest thing Donald Trump's ever given us.
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And violence and stoking anger. I noticed when Elon took over Twitter, when Zuckerberg started getting really deep into doing psychographic shit over on Meta, that my feed began to become filled with world star fights and bum fights and fights this and UFC fights and. And it just, it seems like I was like, it really feels like they're trying to get me to want to be violent. And I think that that's no mistake
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that it's almost like fascist regimes repeat this pattern all the time when they come up.
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Isn't that weird?
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Yeah.
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Never seen anything like that before. Coliseum, you know, like, it's, it's.
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Yeah. I mean, when do they feed the Christians to the animals at this thing? You know, it's like. And again, it. No more pretending that their party is about family values. No more pretending their party's about civic vers, virtue or Christianity. No, like, let's see this reality show funded by taxpayers. We paid for those National Guard, but sponsored by corporations where rich guys make money, we pay for it. And gullible white men get punched in the neck. It was the greatest visual metaphor for this entire thing.
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And get paid in crypto for it.
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Get paid in crypto. It's beautiful. And I'm not with these people all offended that Josh Hokut smeared a beautiful, brilliant, educated black woman. Because when Josh Hokut is selling bone marrow on Craigslist, Michelle Obama will still be the most abired woman in the country. And I thank him for his moment of stupid racism. I think the media has to stop saying that he thanked Jesus. He didn't thank Jesus. He used Jesus to make himself seem virtuous and then immediately showed that he's a racist, woman hating douchebag. So he hates Jesus, but I actually thank him because this was Donald Trump's 80th birthday party and the only part of it the entire world is gonna remember is this racist woman hating douchebag back. And that's what Donald Trump deserves. We're all going to remember his birthday
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by that moment, I think you're right. All right, my friend, thank you so much. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Get some rest. I know you're writing. I know you're burning the candle at both ends. I hope you get a little bit of relaxation this weekend.
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Thank you.
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That's what I keep telling my coke dealer. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you, Dr. Gill, for all you do and I hope everybody has a great weekend.
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Thank you so much, everybody. Stick around. Oh, by the way, if you want to catch more John Fugal saying yes, all you got to do is listen to Tell Me everything. It's on SiriusXM Pro progress channel 127 weeknights, 9pm Eastern.
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And as long as this is on 6 Pacific Friday. I'll be on Ali Veli in the 11th hour tonight if you're listening on Juneteenth on MSNow.
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Fantastic there. And you can also listen to the John Fugal San show podcast. He has got a substack. He's, he's everywhere, right?
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Yeah.
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If you need. And don't forget to get your copy of Separation of Church and Hate. Thank you so much, my friend. Thank you everybody. Stick around. We'll be right back with the good news. It's no surprise that newsmakers try to manipulate the audience.
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All right everybody, welcome back. It's time for the good news everyone.
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Then good news everyone.
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Good news. Good news. And if you have any good news, big, small, recent, distant history, ancient history. Maybe you just want to say hi or thank you or thank yourself. We love self shout outs on this program. Tell us why you're awesome. Maybe have a good trouble recommendation or enough shout out for a loved one or a small business or a non profit or a government program. May your favorite street joke misheard song lyrics, anything, something funny that happened to you today. Maybe you saw somebody pay it forward somewhere and you want to tell us about it? Anything that'll help us microdose in your hope? We would love to hear from you. Dailybeanspod.com Click on Contact and all you got to do to get your submission right on the air is attach a photo. You can pay your POD pet tariff and attach a photo of your pet and maybe we can try to guess what breeds are in your shelter pet or if you don't have a pet, you can attach an adoptable pet in your area. We see if we can help find him a home. If you don't have that, just grab a random picture of a cute animal on the Internet. That works too. Bird watching photos, which can be an actual bird or you flipping the bird to a Trump building. We absolutely love those. It can be pictures of stuff you're making or creating because we have so many great entrepreneurs and makers and creators in this space and we would love to see what you're doing or just a sunset or your garden or maybe you got some chickens or goats or something and you just want to show us your awesome handiwork. Send it all to us dailybeanspod.com click on Contact. First up is your Good Trouble. Good Trouble is sent in from Thomas E. Patterson Bradley professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. Given your commitment to keeping your followers informed, I hope you consider sharing with them my free Harvard Online course on the Constitution, a timely and thoughtful way to engage with the nation's upcoming 250th anniversary on July 4th. The course is strictly nonpartisan and it's designed for a broad audience. It includes six short modules that are about 30 minutes each on the Constitution's history, separation of powers, federalism, and the Bill of Rights, core topics that can unite Americans. Anyone can take it at no cost by choosing the audit options. You can take a Constitutional law course. Well, yeah, U.S. constitution course from a Harvard professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government for free. And we're going to have a link to that in the show Notes. Thank you and my best from Tom so and we'll have again that link Free Harvard Online course on the US Constitution. Very cool. All right, next up from Jessica Pronoun. She and her hey guys, wavy smiley face. Will you and the rest of the Leguminati help me to wish my a very happy 25th birthday on Sunday 21st June, to my beautiful daughter Marilyn. From spending your first 10 days fighting in the NICU to thriving as a powerhouse running our local Starbucks, you've always been a fighter. I'm so incredibly proud of the resilient, amazing adult you've become. Mom loves you a latte. Ha ha. Included are some baby pictures and the one of Marilyn. Now, Malin. Excuse me, I was calling her Marilyn. It's Malin. I'm so sorry about that. AG&DG, thank you for all you do helping to give us the news every day with some appropriate swearing. Look at Meilyn Adorbs. Oh, incredible. What a great group of photos that. Oh, the baby with the wings. Oh my goodness sakes. Jessica Meilin. Happy Birthday, Meilin. Thank you so much for this. Next up from Casey Pronoun. She and her hello ladies. Allison recently asked for submissions of memes, and when this one came across my feed, I knew I needed to share it with you. Your Rainbow Connection duet made me smile just like everything else. You both do that for my for my tariff, I present to you my Emotional Support float and my Protest Witch backpack. The pool float lives fully inflated in my car at all times, and I lay it out in random places wherever I want to. My Protest Witch backpack is exactly what it sounds like. She hovers about three feet above my head when I'm wearing her. The float and the witch made their first appearances together outside of the back of the car at a mayday protest. So happy pride. And it's a cartoon of Kermit saying it's not easy being green. And the reflecting pool saying hold my beer. I've seen this meme. Thank you so much for sending it in. And there's the witch. The witch backpack that says melt ice. And the pool float that looks very comfy. Absolutely love it. All right, our next submission comes from the point of view of a cat. Furlan Hancock, Orange Cat. Hello. My name is Furlan, and I live with some other cats and a dog. But I love my mom more than they do, and mom loves me the best. I have beautiful orange striped fur and I'm most excellent at sleeping and eating four times a day from the box that spits out my food and calls my name. It's kind of weird, but I like the food. Here's my good news. Mom and the guy who cleans up our poop left with those boxes on wheels for forever. And another human moved into our house. But she brought two dogs with her and I hate them. Okay, I'm just the big slobbery one. When I was settling for the the new human, my mom came back. Poop guy, too. I'm so happy and I sit on top of her chest and her face while she sleeps so she knows how much I missed her. Ah, look at this cat Furlin. What a great name. Very handsome boy. All right, next up from Carolyn Pronoun. She and her hello beans Queens. My good news is about butterflies. Nonprofits in San Diego are trying to make a monarch superhighway along Penisquitos Canyon, that' nature preserve that stretches about six miles east to west in the north part of the city. I'm lucky to live along the rim of the canyon and I'm striving to make my yard monarch friendly. Today I peaked at a few of my milkweeds to find three monarch caterpillars munching away. Such simple things are so important for fostering joy, and I'm so delighted to be supporting the survival of this iconic species. People can support monarch butterflies by planting native milkweeds in their gardens, which is their preferred plant for laying their eggs. I've attached today's photos of these cute caterpillars. There they are. Distinctive caterpillars as well. You can always tell a monarch butterfly caterpillar. Thank you for that, Carolyn. That's amazing. Pepenasquita's canyon is just beautiful. All right, next up from Tim Pronouns, he and him. I recently found this furry guy on our patio in Florida. He's an evening bat and very common here. Voraciously devours mosquitoes. So very good. I thought of this when listening to Unjustified and thought it perfect for hit me in the head with a bat instead of. I get it, a bat. Look at the little baby. I love bats. I absolutely love bats. All right, next up. Oh, look at this handsome dog from anonymous Pronoun she and her September 2024. You read my good news that after a 13 year medical leave, I returned to school to finish my undergrad degrees. Well, I'm graduating. Congrats. I'm walking in June and when I tell you I did it all, I mean I did it all. Double degree 4.0 since my return, study abroad at 38, successful internship, President of the disabled students group, prestigious fellowship presented five times across three topics. State senate testimony, first published journal article, recognition for my leadership, advocacy and academics. Passed my thesis on the disability experience in higher ed with zero revisions. Next up, grad school and two first author articles being prepared for submission. Erica, good my geez, you did do it all. Thank you. Ssi, SNAP and vocational rehabilitation. My sweet Rosie and Sierra did not make it to graduation day. So for tax, here's our lily. Don't be fooled she's an absolute menace to society. He's so great. All right. And we have Erica Kopp, recent guest running for Congress in Virginia's first District. Hello, lovely Leguminati. Thank you. And the Beans team behind the scenes for all that you do. Early voting for the Democratic primary in Virginia's first district is right around the corner beginning on June 18th. There are so many people working tirelessly to ensure that Rep. Rob Whitman loses his seat come November. Recently, a video surfaced of him avoiding questioning by making a fake phone call. We've seen that with Ron Johnson. If you haven't seen it yet, here's a link to that clip posted by Midas Touch. We'll have a link in the show notes. Now the world can see what we, his constituents, deal with on a regular basis. Additionally, there's a website that publishes his voting record without commentary so that everyone can see the way he votes against our interests. Talk about good trouble. That website is robsrecord.com for tax. Please enjoy pictures of the persistent pups that sounded off during our call last week. They're both rescues. The one with the big ears is a blank and the other one is a blank mix. Love to you all and happy pride. Oh, my goodness. Look at these babies. Oh, my gosh. I have no idea what that dog with the big ears is, but the other one kind of looks like a, I don't know, maybe part hound dog. I'm not sure. Let's see what we got. The big ears is a pocket pit bull. I've never heard of that, and I love it. And the other one is a staff Staffordshire terrier hound mix. All right, so I got one out of four. Thank you, Erica. All right, Stephanie K. Pronoun. She and her. Hi, AG and dg. Thanks for your coverage of the news. I trust you and I learned so much from your guests. Plus, I laugh. I'm writing today to ask you to spread the word about two rescue dogs that have been at the shelter for the better part of two years. They're so cute that I'd adopt them if we didn't already have a house full of pets. Moose and Mia or Maya came to the rescue together. They're great friends and they're loving dogs. The challenge is they don't like little kids. So please, if any Leguminati have a child free home and you're looking to adopt, share the link below. And we'll have. We'll have a link in the show notes for Moose and Maya. They're so adorable and attached are pics of two of my three fur babies, our dog Wilson using the wall as a pillow, and our striped cat Fiero working hard to retrieve his toy from under the hutch. Lol. Stay strong. Okay, that looks like a super soft kitty and I can't see the kitty's face, but I want to pet that kitty. Everybody. Thank you so much for sending in this good news. We're going to be traveling this weekend. There's still going to be an episode of Unjustified on Sunday. There's still going to be an episode of the Breakdown with me on Midas Touch on Sunday noon. And as usual, Dana and I will be back in your ears on Monday. So please overwhelm us with good news this weekend. And if you're coming to the gala, send us all your pictures into the good news daily beanspod.com and click on Contact. Everybody. We'll be back in your ears on Monday. Go check out Beans Talk if you've got a minute. 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 and them's the the Daily Beans is written and executive produced by Allison Gill with additional research and reporting by Dana Goldberg. Sound design and editing is by Desiree McFarlane with art and web design by Joel Reeder with Moxie Design Studios. Music for the Daily Beans is written and performed by they Might Be Giants and the show is a proud member of the MSW Media Network, a collection of creator owned podcasts dedicated to news, politics and justice. For more information Please visit msw media.com msw media
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hello, Martin Sheen here, and it seems to me that no day of the week is without its endless barrage of bad news. Even on Sunday. For God's sake, let's change that. What do you say? Together, let's make Sunday immune to bad news. Available now every Sunday, Season three of the Martin Sheen Podcast with yours truly, Martin Sheen has begun. Yes. Ah, 10 brand new episodes are already underway. So join me Martin sheen, for a 20 minute journey as I share my personal stories, a bit of poetry and insightful reflections that will encourage you to take a deep breath and enjoy a relaxing moment. Of course, it's important to know and understand what's happening in the world, but I also believe there's nothing wrong with taking a step back to find strength and clarity. And Lord knows we need that now more than ever. A moment of thoughtfulness and calm may be rare these days, but it doesn't have to be. So what do you say? You want to take back your Sundays? So do I. And guess what? I've already done it with the Martin Sheen podcast, season three, available now. Don't mess with my Sunday, and thank you for listening.