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Tuesday, July 21, 2026 Today, a federal judge paused the merger of Paramount/Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery pending litigation filed by state attorneys general; Troy Jackson has all but sewn up the nomination to replace Graham Platner on the ballot in Maine; Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline Nardone will run for her dead brother’s seat in the August 11th special primary election; the FBI not only subpoenaed New York Times journalists but members of their families as well; Marco Rubio claims that Cuba and Iran are funding Antifa; ICE shared Medicaid data with Palantir illegally; Trump PACs are paying tens of millions of dollars in legal bills for the president; Olympian Davey Hearn filed a motion to dismiss the reflecting pool charges against him arguing that the government destroyed exculpatory evidence; plus Allison delivers your Good News.
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I'm Brian Caram and I've spent decades covering politics. Now I'm taking you behind the scenes, one interview at a time. Join us as each week Brian confronts the issues that matter, posing the questions you wish you could ask. No filter, no agenda, just the truth. We're not here for sound bites. We're here for substance. Join me, Brian Caram, every week as we cut through the noise and get straight to it. This is Just Ask the Question where curiosity will lead us to the facts. Subscribe now on your favorite podcast platform and remember, when you want answers, all you have to do is just ask the question. Msw media. News we're swearing daily beans. Daily beans. Daily beans. Daily beans. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Tuesday, July 21, 2026. Today, a federal judge has paused the merger of Paramount Sky Dance and Warner Brothers Discovery pending litigation filed by state attorneys General Troy Jackson has all but sewn up the nomination to replace Graham Platner on the ballot. In Maine, Lindsey Graham's sister Darlene Nardone will run for her dead brother seat in the Aug. 11 special primary election. The FBI not only subpoenaed New York Times journalists, but members of their families as well. Marco Rubio is claiming that Cuba and Iran are funding Antifa ICE has shared Medicaid data with Palantir illegally. Trump's PACs are paying tens of millions of dollars in legal bills for the president. And Olympian Davey Hearn has filed a motion to dismiss the reflecting pool charges against him, arguing that the government destroyed exculpatory evidence. I'm your host, Alison Gill. Hello everyone. Happy Tuesday. I hope you're out on a nice morning walk or having a nice morning drive or something while you're listening to this show. We're Dana's out. She'll be back soon. Thank you for hanging in with me, Solo. We have a lot to get to today. There's just a ton of news that's been happening and I'll also be joining you solo over on the Beans Talk video podcast, which is on the MSW Media YouTube channel. We would love it if you would subscribe. It's totally free to do that and you can find it just by, you know, googling Beans Talk, MSW Media and our channel will pop up there. So we appreciate all of our subscribers and are always hoping for more. And the same goes with our patrons. I'm actually going to be hosting an in person live election night watch party on November 3rd in San Diego. I've rented out an entire bar. I've bought the place out. Food and drinks are on me and I'm going to turn all the TV screens on to election results and we can all kind of hang out and see what happens. You can sign up to become a patron and get an invite to that event and all of our other events. Plus, you get these episodes ad free and early, along with the Unjustified podcast and Beans Talk on the YouTube channel, all by going to patreon.com mullershirote and thank you for supporting independent media. All of our content is free, but you know, we really do need our subscribers to help us fund our program here. So we have, like I said, a lot of news. So let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, let's kick it off with election news. This is from the Times Senator Darlene Graham. They're calling her Darlene Graham now even though her name is Darlene Cardone Lardone. Let me look that up. Nardone. That's her married name, but they're, they're calling her Darlene Graham for obvious reasons. Senator of South Carolina, she was just appointed to fill Lindsey Graham's seat. She was sworn in last week. She said Monday she's going to enter the race to succeed him. The announcement came days after Trump urged her to run for the seat. It cements her rapid transformation from a grieving sister seen as a caretaker of the Republican held Senate seat to a first time candidate vying for a place in the nation's most powerful governing body. Ms. Gramshire shared her decision in an interview with Fox News with Sean Hannity, quote, I feel like I can do it, she said in a clip from the interview, which was shared on Monday. I feel an inner peace about it. Of course you can do it. All you have to do is vote with Trump now. The filing period for a special Republican primary election opens Tuesday and closes July 28. The special election is scheduled for Aug. 11. Nancy Mace, though, announced Monday she's not going to be running for the South Carolina seat held by Lindsey Graham, formerly quote, I'm not running for the US Senate, not because I'm backing down from a fight, but because the one I'm already in matters right now. Okay? That's what she said in a video announcement. Sounds like she doesn't want to come in fifth place again, even though there's probably not even five candidates running for that seat. More in politics and elections from Politico, Troy Jackson has effectively secured the Democratic nomination in the crucial main Senate race, winning the support of a majority of the state delegates who will officially nominate a candidate to this coming weekend. So while they're not legally bound to support him, more than two thirds of the 601 delegates have committed to voting for Jackson at the statewide convention. Jackson dominated the county level meetings this weekend that selected those delegates, with his rivals falling way far behind. And his two most organized competitors, Maine Secretary of State Shena Bellows and former state public health official Nirav Shah, both dropped out of the race on Sunday. A progressive fifth generation logger from the far northern corner of Allagash, Maine, Jackson has had a long career in organizing progressive activists and ties to Senator Bernie Sanders, who has endorsed him in his gubernatorial race earlier this year. Now the candidate will have less than four months to spin up major battleground Senate campaigns against GOP Senator Susan Collins, the only Senate Republican running for reelection in a state carried by former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. So congratulations to the main Democratic Party. I know it was a bit of a clusterfuck of talking to people on the ground and inside the party myself over the past week or so to get this delicate pop up convention process going, but you did it. You all did it. And I believe, I think that Troy Jackson is a great progressive replacement and you know, appreciate the main Democratic Party not trying to usurp the entire process and have, you know, just their hundred people vote for a replacement or try to put a different kind of candidate than Graham Platner was in that spot. So hats off to the main Democratic Party. Like I said, I know there were some bumps and bruises along the way, but you got it done and I think it's impressive how you did it. Next up from npr. After Medicaid officials improperly shared data about millions of people last January with immigration officials, ICE then shared that data with the data analytics firm Palantir outside of the government, according to new court filings. Palantir operates an app called Elite that is used by ICE agents to show the addresses of non citizens who may be subject to deportation. That revelation was made public in a motion filed Thursday by more than 20 Democratic attorneys general who sued the Trump administration last year over its data sharing agreement between the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Medicaid Services and ICE, Palantir said in a statement to NPR. The data set in question has been purged. U.S. district Judge Vince Chabria in California ruled in December that health officials could share with ICE certain details from Medicaid data about immigrants without lawful status from the states that had sued, like home addresses, dates of birth and immigration status Chabria, who was appointed by Obama, then temporarily paused data sharing between CMS and ICE for immigration enforcement purposes. In late May after federal officials admitted that CMS had shared data with ICE in January that went beyond what the court order allowed. One data set of refugees in Minnesota included US citizens, and another that was transferred on January 7th contained data of millions of people, including those in the country legally. Now ICE was supposed to delete the improperly shared data. Chabria set a hearing for August to further clarify his order and clear up ambiguity regarding which categories of non citizens data could be lawfully shared with ice. But in recent days, federal officials have admitted to additional instances of improper data sharing. In a court filing last week, the DOJ said CMS again inadvertently re shared with ICE the data set with millions of names that CMS had first improperly shared with ice. In January, they did it again. The government said the error occurred during an effort to share data from states not involved in the lawsuit. And now we're finding out they're sharing these data with Palantir. We'll keep an eye on this for you. Next up from ABC Secretary of State Marco Rubio convened an international gathering focused on rallying support for what he called the Trump administration's fight against far left political terrorism, which isn't a thing, describing the threat as a major blind spot in the national security strategies of countries around the world. It is not a blind spot, it just doesn't exist. Marco, everybody knows the number one major domestic terror threat in the United States is domestic violent extremism with white supremacy. Even the conservative FBI under Christopher Wray appointed by Donald Trump knew that anyway, quote, the very idea that far left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right wing fever dream or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy, rubio said during a speech opening the ministerial on Thursday, and went on to say, you will no doubt see the dogma rear its head in the coverage of this very conference. Rubio claimed this extraordinary ideological prejudice has led US Authorities to dismiss violence and terrorism so long as they served a left wing cause. The secretary also claimed leftist groups are being increasingly funded and working alongside hostile foreign states including Cuba and Iran. And I'll tell you what this is about. I talked on this program with Miles Taylor about this not that long ago and he has published something on defiance.org on his sub stack there. Which by the way you can get three months for free if you go to defiance.org beans talking about how what this is saying that antifa's far left terrorist groups are working alongside hostile foreign states like Cuba and Iran. What he's trying to do here is they set a pretext to be able to declare antifa, or Democrats, by and large, a foreign terror organization. Now, we already know that they've tried to designate them a domestic terror organization, but that designation isn't a real designation and it carries no legal weight because of the First Amendment. Okay, but a foreign terrorist organization designation by the State Department actually brings down the full force of anti terror laws and onto a group like whatever they define as Antifa. So this is something to keep an eye on, because if they try to classify left wing activists as foreign terror groups because they're working alongside Cuba and Iran or being funded outside of the country, that is something that we need to be very wary of. Now, do I think it will work? No, because to define or classify or designate something as a foreign terrorist organization, the terrorist organization actually has to be headquartered outside the United States. And as we know, not only is Antifa not headquartered outside of the United States, it's not headquartered anywhere. It has no leadership structure. It doesn't exist. It's a state of mind. It's a philosophy. It's. Yeah, so, but this is what he's trying to do so that they can bring foreign terror laws down on the heads of, you know, protesters, for example. So Next up from Ms. Now, two political action committees affiliated with Trump paid nearly $8 million in legal bills over the first six months of this year, paying law firms that have been defending him in personal and political court fights that have trailed him through the 18 months of his second term. Save America and make America great again. PAC also reported about 5 million still owed to law firms, according to their latest disclosure figures. This is small dollar donations from his base from your MAGA family members, for example. If anybody has somebody who's a MAGA in their family and they're donating $5 a month to Donald Trump's packs, that money is going to pay his legal bills. A whole chunk of it just went to Eugene Carroll. Now, since Trump's return to the White House last year, several of his high profile court battles have slowed down and so has his political committee's legal spending. But many of the cases have not gone away completely, still costing the President millions in legal bills. This week, 5.6 million in damages and interest paid by Trump was transferred to Eugene Carroll three years after a jury found him liable for sexually assaulting her in 1996 and then later defaming her on social media. Also this week, a federal judge Lambasted Trump's settlement with the IRS as the product of collusive backroom dealings and a fraud on the court, as you'll recall. And Trump is still appealing the conviction of his 34 felony counts for falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment in order to interfere in an election. And for both the Save America pack and the MAGA pack, which raise money primarily, like I said, from small dollar online donors, legal expenses have been their single largest cost over the past year. So your money's not going to support Trump and his politics or down ballot Republicans or anything. It's the single largest expenditure is his legal bills. Save America, created after the 2020 election, has been the main vehicle for those bills. It's paid more than $100 million in legal fees. All right, next up from the Times, the Trump administration sought the phone records of several New York Times journalists and their relatives, including one reporter's mother, in its effort to unmask the confidential sources who had provided information for articles about the security capability of Trump's bribe. Force One, the Cuttery Jet the Justice Department told the Times late last week it had issued subpoenas to third party phone service providers seeking several journalists phone and text message records. Isn't that what they're so mad about Jack Smith having done? But they're doing it okay. That effort was in addition to the subpoenas issued on July 10th. That's what you probably are thinking of. Haven't I heard this story before? Those were the subpoenas issued on July 10 that sought to compel reporters to testify before a federal grand jury. So this is in addition to that. The government's actions amount to an extraordinarily aggressive and unorthodox attempt by the Trump administration to unearth the confidential sources of independent journalists whose reporting had endangered the president. That additional subpoenas, which also sought information about calls and messages on the phones of two of the reporters spouses, were described in a motion filed on Saturday by lawyers for the Times, which is seeking to quash these requests along with the subpoenas. The motion was unsealed Monday morning by Judge Aaron Subramanian of US District Court in Manhattan. All the subpoenas have been paused until Judge Subramanian rules on the Times motion to quash. A hearing is scheduled on the matter for this Thursday in Manhattan in the Southern District and from the states. A D.C. superior Court judge on Monday encouraged the Trump administration to preserve the sections of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that it says a Maryland man damaged to ensure that the case moves forward. Associate Judge Todd Edelman warned during a status hearing in the case against former Olympic canoeist Davey Hearn that the government may be, quote, operating at its own peril if it does not preserve the pool for the defense attorneys and their experts to examine and test. It's already kind of too late for that. Edelman questioned why the Trump administration couldn't maintain the status quo for the rest of the week to ensure access to evidence doesn't become an issue in this trial. Assistant U.S. attorney Kevin Reddington said the Interior Department was in the middle of remedial work on the reflecting pool after draining it. Reddington said prosecutors certainly asked them to hold the site as a whole, but added, he doesn't have any control over what they do. The judge then encouraged the government to not do anything further on the reflecting pool before denying, without prejudice, Davey Hearn's team's motion to dismiss the case. So on Monday, Davey heard and's team filed a motion to dismiss because they asked the government to preserve the reflecting pool evidence, and they didn't. And since they destroyed the evidence, then they asked to dismiss the case. But Edelman said, no, not at this time. I'm denying your motion to dismiss without prejudice. He said the effort was entirely premature to file that motion, but did not prevent the lawyers from filing a different motion to dismiss in the future. And so what I think's going on here, at least from my understanding of following court cases for a while, asking for a motion to dismiss pretrial based on spoliation of evidence is premature. But let's say in trial, when it is time for the government to present its evidence, then the defense could then impeach that evidence, say that it had been spoiled, that they drained the reflecting pool and pulled up the stuff, destroyed any evidence that would prove Davey Hearn's innocence. It's called exculpatory evidence. And because they destroyed that evidence, they could, like I said, impeach their witnesses in court and then at that point file a motion to dismiss the charges for spoliation after the court has seen it or not seen it as the evidence as the case might be. That's kind of what I think is going on here. So the judge was like, yep, too premature to dismiss the case outright now, but, you know, when trial comes and it's time to cough up the evidence, and if we can find that it's spoiled during trial, then that's probably a good time to file your motion to dismiss the charges. That's why he dismissed these without prejudice. So they could be brought again. Mary Dorman, a principal at Washington Litigation Group and one of Hearn's lawyers, wrote in the motion to dismiss, quote, the Constitution simply does not permit the government to charge a man with destroying an object, retain exclusive custody of that object, and then drain, disturb, and alter the object before the defense can examine it, despite a written demand for its preservation. So they did their due diligence and demanded they preserve the reflecting pool. Apparently, the DOJ lawyer in this case said, hey, we told them, but they don't listen to us. So all the ducks are coming into a row, if that makes sense. She said, went on to say, dismissal is the only appropriate remedy in view of the government's actions. Now, Edelman, like I said, he denied that motion to dismiss without prejudice. Probably ripe for another day. And then Edelman, the judge scheduled a readiness hearing for September 11th and then set the trial date to begin on September 28th. We'll keep an eye on that trial. This is so, I mean, aside from the little legal chats we're having over here on the side, these little sidebars we're having about, oh, it's not ripe and you can bring it during trial. This is the fucking dumbest criminal trial. I mean, Sandwich guy's up there, Seashells is up there. But I mean, this just has to be so embarrassing for. Box of Wine, Pierrot. I just, I'll bring all the crimes. I don't care if there's a not guilty verdict. I think this could get dismissed during the trial because of a lack of evidence or spoliation of evidence. We'll see, but that's kind of my guess here. All right, next up from NBC, Paramount, Skydance's takeover of Warner Brothers discovery has hit a roadblock on Monday after a federal judge temporarily paused the proposed merger, granting a request from a coalition of 12 state attorneys general who sued to thwart the $110 billion deal. U.S. district Judge Araceli Martinez Oguin of the Northern District of California issued a temporary restraining order barring Paramount from closing the transaction. A corporate tie up that would unite two movie studios, two streaming platforms, and two news organizations under the control of David Ellison, the son of billionaire technology tycoon Larry Ellison. Martinez Oguin's order said that the restraining order will remain in effect for 14 days. They always do. And you can re up them if you haven't figured out what's going on next, or granted a more permanent restraining order through what's called a preliminary injunction or a permanent injunction. But the judge who's presiding over the case scheduled an Aug. 3 hearing on the state's motion for a preliminary injunction. That's the one that would freeze the transaction for longer than 14 days while the entire legal process played out. You don't have to renew those like you do a temporary restraining order. So that hearing is August 3rd. But since this judge has already found that this is likely a violation of antitrust laws, I'm assuming. I'm assuming a preliminary injunction will be issued after that August 3rd date, which would be great news for the industry. The plaintiffs, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, sued to block the merger on July 13th. It's only been eight days, arguing in a 38 page complaint that it would extinguish competition in Hollywood. Quote, the unlawful merger of these two entertainment behemoths would lead to higher prices, lower quality and less content for film and television, harming movie theaters, basic cable distributors and ultimately audiences on every sofa and movie theater seat in the United States. That's what Bonta said in a statement accompanying a court filing. Bonta and his fellow Democratic attorneys general contend that the transaction violates Section 7 of the Clayton Antitrust act of 1914, a federal law that bars mergers likely to substantially lessen competition. The states argue the deal would reduce competition in three areas. Wide release, theatrical film distribution, anticipated top grossing movie distribution, and the market for distributing basic cable channels to cable and satellite providers. The company has already received regulatory clearance from the Justice Department and has touted similar approvals from other countries, including Australia and China. Paramount executives are motivated to close the deal. That's partly because the company agreed to pay Warner Brothers shareholders a ticking fee of 25 cents a share for each quarter if the transaction isn't wrapped up by September 30th. I don't think it will be. The potential penalty is worth more than $600 million per quarter. So if this goes on, preliminary injunction is on hold. It's going to cost them. It's going to cost Paramount $600 million per quarter while this plays out in court. Now Paramount owns a 114-year-old film studio, the Paramount plus streaming service, the CBS broadcast Network and a suite of cable assets that includes MTV, Nickelodeon. Warner Brothers own 116-year-old film studio, the cable brands CNN and HBO, and popular intellectual properties such as Batman and the Superman franchises. In the state's antitrust case, Bonta was joined by the attorneys general of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico and Oregon. New York Attorney General Letitia James has said the merger threatens to raise costs for consumers and puts jobs and businesses nationwide at risk. The proposed deal has a political dimension. As we know, Oracle co founder Larry Ellison is an ally of Trump. Trump has praised the Ellison family and publicly called for new ownership of cnn. We're trying to have CNN go in a normal path, trump recently told the network's Jake Tapper in an on air phone interview. Jake Tapper wonder if he's going to write a book about Trump's dementia or if he's just going to keep trying to sell his Joe Biden book. The younger Ellison has already embarked on Sweeping changes at CBS, hiring Bari Weiss, as we know, overhauled 60 Minutes and the network's evening news broadcast, much to the chagrin of viewers. It has lost a significant share of its audience since Barry Weiss took over. So that's where we are with that. It's on hold August 3rd. I'm gonna say I'm gonna, I'm gonna bet a do that they'll get a preliminary injunction and then I hope they go in regular order. I hope it takes years for this to be litigated all the way up to, you know, the Supreme Court. Hopefully by the time we have a Democratic president in the White House who can replace the FCC chair and stop this from happening in the first place and have the DOJ rescind their approval of the deal. Looking forward to it. All right, everybody, that is the news. We have some good news we have to get to, but we have to take a quick break. Stick around. We'll be right back after these messages. We'll be right back. So cats are super honest about everything. About how they feel about you, about their nap time, about their food. They do not care what the packaging says or how much effort you put into choosing it. They either eat it or they don't. That's why I know switching to smalls was a popular choice with my little furry friends. Because I put the bowls down and they all show up and everybody walks away satisfied at the end of the meal. Are you spooked by commitment? Well, you can try Smalls Risk Free. They refund you if your cat won't eat the food. 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From crazy disasters and tasty scandals to enlightening and surprising heartwarming tales, we explore the moments where people behave badly and sometimes beautifully. We've got naughty politicians, cultural chaos, and a deep love for the Pacific Northwest, including Bigfoot. It's thoughtful, irreverent, occasionally serious, and always entertaining. Let's fall down the rabbit hole. Msw. Hey everybody. Welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news? Everyone? Then good news, everyone. Good news. Good news. Okay everybody, I need you to flood the inbox with good news. Even if it's just to say hi. Hi ag. You're doing great solo. We appreciate you hanging in there all by yourself. I'm lonely. I need your good news. It can be big good news, little good news. It can be recent or from the distant past. It can be just a fun story you want to share. Maybe something great that's happened to you on a recent vacation. Maybe some great community organizing that's going on. 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I love jimothy. I I can't get enough of of Jimothy. Seriously, it can be anything. Send it all to us daily beanspod.com click on Contact. First up is your good trouble. Good Trouble today comes from Nancy from Virginia. The National Park Service reopened comments for the Abominable Arch. Orange Man Baby wants to build for himself. All that's required is your country and City and zip code. The comments are open now until July 30th. We have a link to the story from NPR on veterans who oppose the arch in the show notes. We'll have a link on where to comment and how to comment on the Federal Register for the Triumphal Arch. And as for Nancy's tax I went to Brussels for Christmas market and spent two days in Bruges and two days in Ghent. I'm sharing pictures I took in Ghent at the castle. It was all decorated for Christmas and so lovely. I would love to go back to visit. I want to do one of these Christmas market things. So bad. Nancy. Oh that's so beautiful. Oh my goodness. That backlit stone looks like Joy Division album cover. I love it. Thank you so so very much for that good trouble. And also, as you know, we've got about nine days left in our Trevor Project fundraising for Pride Project. That's another bit of good trouble for you. You can donate@trevorproject.org beans tax deductible donation. It's 501c3. Next up from Jane Pronoun. She and her my husband And I are five weeks into a cross country road trip in our fifth wheel trailer. We listen to all your content in the days we were traveling and we just heard Ed's last submission from his amazing trip to Italy. Buongiorno. I thought maybe you would allow us to fill in as travelogue creators. Oh yes, Jane. We started in California and headed to Connecticut. After five days in Pennsylvania, we visited the amazing falling Water, the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright home. Went hiking with our faithful travel buddy Scout. I think you can guess her breed. Blank. And then we headed to Lancaster for a quick visit through Amish country. It was so smoky and hot we didn't stay long. But so grateful that Trump is going to tariff those pesky Canadians for not being able to control their wildfire Smok snort. If you like I can send more as we travel to the east coast and back across the country to California. Love your show, Jane. Yes, send to us the Frank Lloyd Wright house with the waterfall is one of the coolest pieces of architecture like ever. I am a huge mid century modern nerd. Right? And this house, oh my God, I would love to live there. Is that. Oh, is that. Looks like a cattle dog. Australian shepherd or cattle dog. What do you got? What is this here? Mini American Shepherd. American Shepherd. Okay. All righty. Very cute. Thanks for that photo of Scout and thanks for the Frank Lloyd Wright photo. Please send in your photos. Yeah, Jane, new travelog. Awesome. And then when you're done, we can hand it off to someone else who's traveling. We can just have like a, like an uncle traveling Matt segment like they used to do on Fraggle Rock, but with Jane. Thank you. Next up from Shawna. I saw on the news the other night that the New Trump semiquincentennial $1 gold colored coin is going to be for sale, not put into circulation like the bicentennial quarter was. But we still only have a face value of $1. Perfectly sums up the grifter in chief. Attached is my pod pet tax with my street rescue Rocco. The first pick is from the day we he was found with every bone in his body showing. And then here he is now, my love bug. Yeah, look how skinny and emaciated this baby is. And now look. Oh, the eyes. Those eyes. I feel like you pretty much have to give this baby whatever, whatever he wants. I also like your leopard pillow and leopard blanket it by the way. Shauna. Very nice. Next up from Donna Pronoun. She and her longtime 74 year old Nana of five soon to be six Grand Babes and faithful beans lover in ruby red Montana. You two rock and keep me nearly normal with your brilliant banter and skilled swearing. Pictures are of my Peace Garden and Mr. Carl, the most handsome rescue cat ever. Okay, Donna. See, this is perfect. Guys, flood my inbox with this kind of stuff. Hi. Love your show. Here's my garden. Thanks for all you do. Here's another animal. Look at this cat, Carl. Oh, what a clown. I bet. I don't know why I said that. Like Christopher Walken. Wow, what a clown. This is a clown. Donna. So cute. Thank you so much. Perfect. Perfect. Next up, Carol H. Regarding Blue Angels flyover. I am the wife of a retired US naval aviator, 26 years in and four years at the USNA. FYI, the Blue Angels are home based and train out of NAS Naval Air Station Pensacola. Air shows all over the country, not just in Pensacola, almost always include close flyby maneuvers. The CO Commanding Officer of the US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron recognized the mistake and apologized. This is the annual Breakfast with the Blues exhibition. It's obvious that one plane flew way too close. I understand it's scary. Usually those close flyovers are usually held over airfields with viewers in safe locations. My frequent recurrent nightmare while my husband was flying was watching an air show and witnessing a collision. Yeah, nightmare stopped when he stopped flying. Although the Acting Secretary of the Navy and the DoD, not War Secretary Hogsbreath, dismissed the concerns, the active duty responsible CO didn't. Thank you, Carol, for letting me know my adult daughter turned me onto your podcast, which I enjoy immensely. Keep up the good work. P.S. we lived in Louisiana for 12 years after my husband's retirement. He got out of the Navy and went on to get a PhD where he taught at LSU. I got quite a laugh about your pronunciation of oh lan Yap. Worst butchering ever. A lovely term. Oh, and thanks for not telling me how to actually pronounce it, Carol. Your best guess, the breed of the canine that rules our lives. But it's pretty obvious. Guinness the Menace. He's 11 years old and this looks like a little Havanese to me. What a little baby angel. I don't know if there's any poodle mixed in there or not, Carol, but let's see here at Havanese. Adorable. And thank you for your service. And your husband, too. 26 years. I can't imagine. Like that fear, right? Because that's also my fear when I go to air shows is that something bad's going to happen in the air. All right, next up from Ed, Pronouns he and him. Bonjour. No beans. Queens. You asked for more photos, so how can I say no? So I did a little back of the napkin math, and I think I can provide Italy pictures with or without stories to take us close to the midterms. Apologies if you get some duplicates because how can you take only one picture of Mount Etna or the Kirka waterfalls or the Tuscan countryside? To answer your question from Friday, I did indeed have pizza in Napoli and even got the recipe for their dough. The pizza I had there plus the pizza in Florence were easily the best I've ever had, hands down. I will now spend the rest of my life trying to recreate it at home. The first photo is the Napoli pizza, which was out of this world. The second picture is overlooking the harbor with Vesuvius in the background. Wishing everyone listening a great week. All right, we're going to get some additional pictures from Ed. Plus we got Jane doing the cross country travelogue. This is going to be amazing. That pizza looks so good. Oh, and there it is. Vesuvius lurking in the background. What a beautiful clear day. Thank you. Thank you so much, everybody. Thanks for sending this in Again. Flood the inbox, please. Just say hi. Just say hi. Keep me company while Dana's away. She'll be back soon. And I appreciate all y'. All. 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