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MSW Media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Tuesday, September 2, 2025. Today, Donald Trump is now posting photos of himself playing golf from August 23rd and telling people without prompting that he's in excellent health. All 76 children the Trump administration tried to kidnap and disappear to Guatemala this weekend are back at their refugee and resettlement facilities. Robert Mueller has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and will be unable to testify in the Epstein matter. Trump's Commerce secretary's former investment bank is taking bets against Trump's tariffs. Preliminary data shows 1.2 million migrants are missing from the workforce. But those numbers might not be accurate. Russia is suspected of jamming the gps of the EU leaders plane. Florida may lose $218 million with the shutdown of the Everglades concentration camp. And a judge has dismissed the charges over chalk art at the Pulse nightclub crosswalk. I'm Allison Gill.
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And I'm Dana Goldberg.
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Well, we asked for a little bit of good news today and we got a little bit of good news today. So.
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Yeah. And we hope you had a nice three day weekend. Most of you, well, all of you, but some of you didn't get to actually have a three day weekend because some of you work jobs that don't necessarily make that happen. So we hope you had a nice weekend.
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Yeah, we do hope. Nice and safe weekend. And as everyone who listens to this show knows that you can thank labor unions for, yes indeed, your three day weekend and for a lot of other things including safety at work and 8 hour work days and 5 day work weeks and all of that. So thank a union and a Democrat. Trump still hasn't addressed the public.
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I, you know, listen, his true social sounds ridiculous. Last night he, I think truth, good night at 7 o' clock in the evening. And we all know that he's up at 4 o' clock in the morning tweeting his ass off normally. So, yeah, there's some things that are, that are definitely suspect. Every picture I've seen of him that is of supposedly him of present day unhealthy, looks like he's been stung by bees and he's allergic to them. He's very puffy. His eyes are dead.
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The one from this morning, I didn't even see he had any hair.
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Yeah, I don't know what's going on.
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Me neither.
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So one of my favorite things though, Allison, is that the whole horse loose in the hospital bit by John Mulaney is waking the rounds again because everyone's like, we haven't heard from the Horse in days.
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That's a great bit. That is a great bit. And there's lots of other stuff going on in Labor Day. Two tons of amazing protests happening. I'm getting flooded with a lot of great pictures from rallies and marches.
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Wonderful.
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And protests. And it's getting some news coverage, at least on msnbc. I turned on. I rarely turn on the news these days, but I wanted to, like, jump on this morning at the top of the hour to see if the leading story was the fact that Donald Trump hasn't spoken to the public in a week and it wasn't the leading story. I think MSNBC got around to it and they did cover it, but at about 40 minutes into the hour, almost at the bottom of the hour. But I did notice that MSNBC was covering all of these protests that are going off this weekend, and I think that that's fantastic. So there's also a huge rally right now with Platner, the oyster guy, running against Susan Collins and Bernie Sanders in Maine. There are thousands of people there. And he's making a really, a really great speech. I think he said something to of. I think I can actually pull it up here because the quote is really good. He says, no one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe v. Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
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Wow.
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Yeah. Yes. So he's getting all sorts of standing ovations at that rally. And there's a lot of coverage on that, at least on social media. And finally, before we get to the hot notes, All 76 children, at first, we talked about these children who are in foster homes and foster care that are Guatemalan children that Trump was trying to disappear in the middle of the night. Right. Put on planes at 2:30 in the morning on Saturday on a holiday weekend. Very. Susan. And there are 600 children in the putative class, meaning 600 of these kids are eligible for deportation under this Trump rule. But only 76 were actually loaded onto planes.
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Interesting.
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And I am happy to report, per the plaintiffs, per the children's attorneys and the Department of justice, all 76 children that Judge Sparkle Souk Nananan ordered returned to their ORR facilities are back and they're in their ORR facilities, Office of Refugee and Resettlement Facilities in the United States. So that's good news.
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And it's wonderful news, not just good news.
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Yeah. And so they actually listened, at least so far, as far as we can tell. Lawyers for the children said as far as we can tell, all the kids are back. So we'll be following that case. The underlying case still has to go forward. All right, we have a lot of news to get to today, plus the good news. So let's kick it off. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from the Times, Robert Mueller, the former special counsel who investigated ties between Trump's campaign and Russia, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he was diagnosed four years ago, according to his family in a statement. In recent months, Mr. Mueller, a former FBI director, had difficulty speaking and experienced mobility issues, according to people familiar. As a result, a congressional committee has withdrawn its request for Mueller to give testimony this week and its inquiry into the government's handling of the Epstein investigations. Quote, bob was diagnosed with Parkinson's in the summer of 2021, the family said in a statement to the New York Times. He retired from the practice of law at the end of that year. He taught at his law school alma mater during the fall of both 21 and 22, and he retired at the end of 2022. His family asks that his privacy be respected. A statement from the family came after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said it would subpoena him to testify on Tuesday. The committee had sought to question Mr. Mueller, who's 81, about the FBI's handling of the Epstein investigation, where he served as its director from 2001 to 2013. Those who worked directly for Mr. Mueller on the Russia investigation have said that while Mr. Mueller showed his age during the special counsel investigation, he was sharp and fully in command of his team and made all of its major investigative decisions. Now, the reason, again, that he, they wanted him to testify this week is because he was the director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013. So.
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Right.
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I'm not sure he would be able or that he would tell. I mean, dude was a rule follower. He wouldn't indict a sitting president because of an Office of Legal Counsel memo. Yeah, he's not going to break the rules and tell you anything that the public doesn't already know about the Epstein case. That happen even if he were to testify. So, anyway, I didn't know this and none of us did because the family never said, never made public the fact that he was diagnosed with Parkinson's until this week.
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Wow. All right, Allison, thank you for that story. This one's also from the Times. A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union's executive arm, suffered from jamming of GPS navigation while flying over Bulgaria. And Bulgarian authorities believe that Russia was behind the operation. This is what her organization said on Monday. The plane landed safely in Bulgaria. And Ariana Podesta, the EU spokeswoman, that's what she told reporters without elaborating too much. Now, Ms. Von der Leyen, who has been on tour of European Union member states that are near Russia or share its borders, has been a vocal supporter of Ukraine in its war against Russia. Now, Ms. Podesta said that the Bulgarian official suspected that the episode, and I quote, was due to blatant interference by Russia. She directed questions about whether the plane was specifically targeted to the Bulgarian authorities, who did not immediately request the questions. A Kremlin spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Not surprising. The episode would be the latest example of GPS jamming, in which what happens is satellite signals, they're basically drowned out. It could confuse pilots. It has been rising around the world in recent years, but especially in our conflict zones. And I wonder who's controlling those gps? Like, are they using Starlink?
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Right. As soon as you said that, I was like, oh, I think Ben is onto something.
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Maybe we should find out.
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Yeah. Because you'll remember Elon turned off Starlink that the Ukrainians were used to communicate during an incursion. A very, like, really important incursion.
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Yeah. And he was like, I didn't know. I did not do that. We didn't. And then later, he admitted he did it.
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Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I don't want to start World War Three. Okay. Yeah. Dicks. That's really interesting. Thank you for that story. Next up, from the Associated Press. This is such a waste of money. Just like everything that happens with Republicans is a total waste of money. Florida could be on the hook for $218 million. That's the money the state spent to convert the remote training airport in the Everglades to the concentration camp known as Alligator Alcatraz. This is Florida taxpayer money, okay? And it's meant for emergencies, emergency relief. That's like the Florida Emergency Management something or other. The center may soon be completely empty because a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday, ordering operations to wind down indefinitely. Shutting down the facility for the time being is going to cost the state 15 million to 20 million immediately. And it will cost another 15 million to 20 million to reinstall structures if Florida is allowed to reopen it. According to court filings by the state, the Florida Division of Emergency Management. That's what it is. It's going to lose most of the value of the 218 million it invested in making the airport suitable for a detention center, according to a state official. An Associated Press analysis of publicly available state spending data shows that Florida has signed at least $405 million in vendor contracts to build and operate the facility, which officials had initially estimated would cost 450 million a year to run. A previous Associated Press review found that as of late July, the state had already allocated at least 245 million to run the site, which opened on July 1. So the Florida taxpayers are going to be on the hook for all this money. Meanwhile, you probably can't get health care.
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That's exactly it. And meanwhile, they're two worry about people fucking putting chalk in a crosswalk. All right, we'll talk about that in a little bit. From Wired, Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of U.S. commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. It's creating a way for investors to bet that Donald Trump's signature tariffs will be struck down in court. They're betting against him.
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Bet in the pass bar.
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Yep. Traders at the firm's investment banking subsidiary. This is Cantor Fitzgerald and company. That they say they have the capacity to buy the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars in potential refunds from companies who have paid Trump's tariffs. It's according to documents viewed by Wired. Lutnick ran Cantor Fitzgerald for nearly 30 years until he was confirmed by the Senate in February and when he turned over control of the firm to his sons. That's Kyle and Brandon, who are both in their 20s. Okay, so now they're running this. Supposedly since joining the Trump administration, Lutnick has emerged as one of.
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Wait, I'm sorry, they're in their 20s?
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Yeah. Okay, maybe let's. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say maybe. They're 29 and 11 months, both of them. Since joining the Trump administration, Lutnick has emerged as one of the most vocal supporters of the president's tariff policies, which Ludnick has said would raise, and I quote, hundreds and hundreds of billion dollars with a B in revenue for the United States, eventually eliminating the need for Americans making less than $150,000 to pay taxes. Bullshit.
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Oh, my God.
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Yeah, but the investment bank that made Lutnick a billionaire is now letting certain clients wager that Trump's tariffs will eventually be ruled unlawful, at which point companies that have paid the import duties can apply to get their money back.
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I didn't know they could apply to get their money back.
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That sounds a little bit also like insider trading in a Weird way, like Betty, insider betting. I don't even know if that's a thing.
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And so now these guys, these investment guys, these rich assholes, can buy the rights to the refund dollars so that they can make money off of those refunds. Wow. This is like the subprime mortgage crisis.
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Yeah, that's exactly what this sounds like.
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Fucking A. Ugh. All right. Ugh. Eat the rich, okay? From the Associated press. More than 1.2 million immigrants have disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July. And that's according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research center, which includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents. And I just want to say the Census Bureau data is controlled by the Trump administration right now.
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Oh, boy.
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So when they say 1.2 million immigrants have disappeared from the labor force, just keep that in mind. Right? Keep in mind, who's reporting that number now? Immigrants make up about 20% of the workforce in the United States. And the data shows 45% of workers are in farming, fishing, and forestry. 45% of those workers are immigrants. And that's according to Pew senior researcher Stephanie Kramer. About 30% of all construction workers are immigrants, and about a quarter of all service workers are immigrants. She said the loss in the immigrant workforce comes as the nation is seeing the first decline in the overall immigrant population after the number of people in the US illegally reached an all time high of 14 million in 2023. Quote. It's unclear how much of the decline we've seen since January is due to voluntary departures to pursue other opportunities to avoid deportation or removals or underreporting or other technical issues. That's what Kramer said. However, we don't believe that the preliminary numbers indicating net negative migration are so far off that the decline isn't real. Now, Trump campaigned on a promise to deport millions of immigrants working in the U.S. he said he's focusing deportation efforts on dangerous criminals. But most of the people, as we know, detained by ICE have no criminal records. At the same time, the number of illegal border crossings has plunged under his policies. But Aaron Reichland Melnick says the 1.2 million figure is actually likely too high and probably by a large degree. And that's because this analysis relies on a presumption that immigrant survey response rates have not changed. And he says, I'd bet dollars to donuts they have. Wow, people. You know, if you're an immigrant, you're probably unlikely to respond to the census these days.
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Totally. Yeah. I, I can't we never trust any numbers that are coming out of this administration. We all know that.
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Yeah. And when I say the census, I don't mean the census that happens every decade. I mean, we have the Census Bureau, and it's constantly taking data on people who live here.
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This is the story I was alluding to a little earlier in this show. This was from Rolling Stone. A judge has tossed out a case finding no probable cause on Saturday after Florida police arrested a man as part of an ongoing standoff over art at a crosswalk memorializing the 2016 mass shooting at the LGBTQ Pulse nightclub in Orlando. This is from Wesch. This is what they reported. Wesh. The man has been released from jail. Okay. Florida Highway Patrol arrested Sebastian Suarez during a protest Friday night outside the nightclub. He colored the bottom of his shoe with chalk and then left footprints as he crossed the street. That's it. He was facing a charge of defacing a traffic device.
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Oh, my God.
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Yep. And he said to. And this is a quote. To come here and do something like this and to be threatened with something so extreme as a felony charge for protesting and showing love to your fellow human, it's not just insane, in my opinion. This is from Suarez. That's what he told Wesh. He went on to say, we came out here yesterday just to show our support, to come out and help with the chalking, he said. And he and his fiance, by the way, are just visiting from Georgia. This is in solidarity, because as a community, we stand together. He said, we put some chalk down on the ground, and before we knew it, an officer approached us saying, we want to talk to you. He said, I identified myself. I tried to do everything the correct way. And before I knew it, I was in the back of a squad car.
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Oh, my God.
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Yep.
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Chalk on his shoes, walking.
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I know. I just. It makes me so angry. All of this just makes me so angry.
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That is the dumbest. I'm glad that the judge tossed the case.
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Me too.
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I hope. I hope judges keep doing that.
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Yeah.
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All right, everybody, we have a little bit of good trouble. What are you guys doing? So, everybody, tomorrow is the deadline to publicly comment on the Department of Veterans affairs new rule banning reproductive health care or certain reproductive health care to veterans. So I'm asking again, because tomorrow's the deadline to please head to the link in the show notes and leave a public comment demanding that the VA continue providing health care to our veterans. It's really important to me, so thank you. If you've already done it, maybe do it again. I Don't know if they let you do it twice, but I would love it if everybody could just take a minute and click on that link in the show notes and make that public comment. All right, everybody, we have some good news to get to, but we have to take a quick break, so stick around. We'll be right back after these messages.
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We'll be right back.
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Everyone.
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Then good news everyone. Good news. And we have so much great good news to go over today. If you have any good news you want to send us, any little thing that's happened to you that's good and in forever, whatever great story you want to share with us, we would love to hear about it. If you want to give a shout out to a loved one or yourself, we love a self shout out. A small business in your area maybe or a great non profit that's doing good work you want to shine a light on. We would love to talk about them and give them a little love. If you have a shout out to a government program that's helped you or a loved one, we would love to hear about that too. And then of course all you got to do to get your stuff right on the air is pay your pod pet tariff, which means attach a photo of your pet. We're happy to try to guess the breeds in your shelter pup. We're not very good at it, but we love to guess anyway. If you don't have that, an adoptable pet in your area will do. We found a lot tons of homes for adoptable pets here on the beans. If you don't have that, just grab a random photo of any animal off the Internet really if you don't have that, any photo that just makes you happy, that brings you joy. It could be a rally that you've gone to recently, maybe a great sign of maybe one of those overpass protests. If you have a photo of the things that you're making and creating or maybe your garden, something that you're growing. We would love to see that. Bird watching photos, right? Which can be an actual bird or you and your friends and family flipping the bird to Trump or mosque properties. We love those as well. And any family photos, awkward family photos, baby pictures, you can send it all to us really@dailybeanspod.com and click on Contact. And if you're a patron you can see the photos and you can become a patron. Patreon.com muellershirote and we have had a ton of people donate free 1 year premium patron subscriptions over this last couple of weeks. Tons of people. So if you want to see if you can get on the list to get one of those donated patron accounts, just head to DailyBeansPod.com and click on Patrons Helping Patrons. That's also by the way where you can buy a year long subscription, I think it's only 36 bucks or something. And donate it to somebody who maybe can't swing it. All right, first up, this is from Anonymous. Pronoun she and her pronunciation for judge Sparkle. Souk Nannan Sukhnanan with the emphasis on the souk nanan with the emphasis on the first syllable and the last two syllables, like the Indian flatbread. I'd like to shout out the judge's mother. She's a naturalized citizen living here in America, working hard and avoiding the spotlight so her daughter can do this important work.
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This is amazing.
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She would never go to a march. So I go for both of us. My tariff image is me at a march with one of my church's signs. No human is illegal. All right, Suknanan, got it. Thank you, Anonymous for that help.
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Yeah, great submission. All right, this is from Nate. Pronouns he and him. My good news is that about two years ago, my wife and her bestie started an educational consulting company with the focus on bridging the gap between archaeology and education. They've been working to open up different counties in Maryland and the other day they got an invite to be presenters at a national conference in May in San Francisco. I am so proud of all of her hard work on her passion and as a shameless plug, I've taught government for 22 years and have started making an educational Instagram reels.
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Awesome.
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I encourage people to check out the following and it's Dry Ocean society, a play on the flat earth idiots. And see my videos. It makes me feel like I'm making a difference regardless of how insignificant. Thanks for all you do. Here's my pod tags. Good luck with guessing her three breeds.
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Nate, first of all, that's so awesome. Dry Ocean Society, everybody. On Instagram. I'm yep, on Instagram. Okay, the breeds here, what do you think?
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Australian cattle dog.
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Uh huh.
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And a dalmatian.
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Oh, interesting. I was gonna say staffy and pity and dalmatian and healer, but there's only three. Let's see. Scroll down, it just says shrug emoji.
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We don't know.
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So we were right.
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I think the producers think they're funny when they put these in and they're like.
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They are. They are. Thanks, Nate. That's a great submission. Next up from Anonymous. No pronouns. Hi, beans team. I'm a veterinarian and on Tuesday one of my colleagues came through to the back from a consult with a sort of stunned look. Came through to the back, I guess. Came to the back with a consult with a sort of stunned look on his face, holding a seven week old kitten and assigned euthanasia consent form the kitten had been limping and the owner was struggling emotionally and financially and elected to put the kitten to sleep even though they were told that it was worth just trying pain management and rest to see if the kitten would recover. Now don't get upset at the owner. I think they were just completely overwhelmed and couldn't deal with this immediately. Myself and all the other staff just said nope and set about trying to contact the owner to get them to sign the kitten over to us legally sell us the kitten so that we could give this kitten a different future. Unfortunately, they'd already left and the phone number wasn't working. My boss ended up hand delivering the letter with the transfer of owner form through their front door and I went home that night with the kitten and the feeling that we had only given her a temporary stay of execution. My husband asked why we couldn't just keep her anyway. I had to explain it would have been theft. It's considered highly unethical and could have cost me my license, but this is one of the rare occasions where morals and ethics don't align. I've been off work for the last two days and when I came back in it was to the wonderful news that she had been signed over. The now previous owner had called as soon as we opened the next day to tell us she had signed the form and was bringing it straight down. Today she's been hanging out in the cattery, having cuddles whenever we could spare a moment and stealing hearts. One of my colleagues is especially besotted and will be taking her home. I don't know what her plans to name her are, but feel free to give us some suggestions. From the photos you may notice that the cage rest didn't last long. It turns out she was a little escape artist and just small enough to squeeze through the bars of the crate that I had. And she's cute. Adorable little tabby Calico maybe, I don't know.
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But adorable indeed.
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Oh, a little Houdini maybe, right? She's gorgeous. What a great good news story that is.
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Thank you.
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Great good news story.
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We've got more. Alison. We've got more. This is from Adrian Pronoun she and her hello beautiful ladies of the legumes. Yo Adrian. I'm not Adrian. I'm not sure if this is a good news community building edition or maybe a good trouble, but I wanted to give a plug for my company's volunteer expo that's happening on Thursday, September 4th in Portland, Oregon's Pioneer Square. Since it's succinct. I'll pull the copy from the site and this is it. The Standards Volunteer Expo is Oregon's largest gathering of nonprofits, volunteers, and donors. Every fall, the Expo brings people together with organizations in one place to discover volunteer service and donation opportunities. The free event helps members of our community discover opportunities that fit their skills and interest, and there's going to be a link in the show Notes Community involvement is good trouble, right?
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Yes Yes.
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I want to say hi to Patty V. Who I know through a women's business group I was part of for many years. Patty turned me on to a few podcasts and I knew we shared similar taste in music, so I wasn't surprised when I saw her name turn up in the Facebook group. It made my legume community feel even more real. Attached is a picture of Abby Cat, my office helper who runs upstairs every morning and waits at my desk while I get the coffee started. She's in charge of fur distribution, rolling on the keyboard, kibble pouncing, and testing the durability of various desk items by occasionally tossing them onto the floor. I'm sure you can guess her breed, but I assume that when she's awake she's just 100% goofball.
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Oh yeah, look at the pretty calico. Or no tortie. Sorry. She's adorable. I love that that she's in charge of fur distribution. Merv, get your wispies. He's blowing your wispies so good. My best friend, by the way, got me a cameo of Merv.
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Oh no.
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Yeah, so I got a little Mervin Cumberland Weems in my inbox the other day. It was amazing. Just for me. All right, next up from Anonymous pronoun she and her hi by the way, that's an Internet cat. Merv, if you I just realized I might have said a bunch of wor that everyone was like, I don't know what the you're talking about. Merv on on Instagram is one of my favorite Instagram cats. All right, this is Anonymous Pronoun she and her hi ladies of the Beans. I've written in before about whether or not I should stay in the running for the Presidential Fellowship Program late last year. You guys advised me to stay, but the program was doged so it became a non issue. Damn it. As hard as that was, I've been hanging on like everyone else. I just want to share some good news regarding Tricare for Light. My mom is a member because of my late father's service. The insurance is her secondary to Medicare. This April she took a nasty fall that put her in the hospital for a week and then six weeks in a physical rehab center. With back surgery following, she started getting her explanation of benefits. Recently, everyone's seen one of those, the eob. For the first time ever, tricare stopped covering her medical bills. This has never happened, and it looked like she was going to owe close to $80,000. I googled what the denial codes were, and they meant that she wasn't entitled to coverage. Reddit's tricare board showed that it is now common with lots of posts. Within the past six months, I gave the advice that worked for other service members and their families. The workers at the call center were very helpful. They kept saying they weren't sure what was going on either, but long story short, a few phone calls and appeal letters to tricare For Life and tricare for Life came through again. They paid the remaining medical bills. So I just wanted to shout out the great healthcare program that took care of my father until his passing and has taken care of my mother. Because of this program, she never has to worry about high medical bills. I hope the current issues so many service members and their families are experiencing are temporary and that the program is allowed to work as it was designed to do, as it has for so many years. For my POD pet tax, I've included pictures of my two dogs. The big boy is Scout. He is a big dog who thinks he's a lap dog. I've also included his DNA results because so many people have asked if he had rotty in him. The other is my Chihuahua, Ella. I took her in after my brother's passing. Aw. And she's true to her breed. She's a feisty little dog who backs down Scout when she thinks he's in her space too much. Please continue doing what you're doing. You keep me informed to keep my spirits up during these hard times.
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Oh, we got a side eye.
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Thank you for that. Anonymous. I used to work at the tricare regional office on the VA side, so I'm glad that that came through. Look at the side eye. Yeah, I would say Rottweiler, but maybe some sort of hound dog. And German Shepherd. Basset hound. Yeah, and beagle. And chow chow. All right, let's see what we got. Golden retriever, Labrador, retriever, husky, setter. Chow, chow.
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2%, everyone, 2%. Chow, chow.
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2%.
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Put that little horse in there.
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Yep. That's why I always say chow, chow. They're everywhere.
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Oh, my God. Thank you, Allison. All right, this is from Nat M. Pronouns. She and her. Apparently the elementary school we attend had a broken sprinkler over the summer and it watered the dirt path outside the gates and gave life to a zombie plant that produces awful bike tower popping, shoe coverings, sidewalk nightmare goat head burrs. So walking back to the car after I heard my own words that I often tell my kids. If you encounter a problem and think someone needs to do something about this, that someone is you. I also tell them if they don't want to do something alone, they've got to start doing it and your people will join you. So I got to work and I spent 5 non consecutive days weeding, raking, scooping, sweeping the perimeter of the school, enjoying the sunshine, listening to your podcast and tackling a project where I could feel just a bit of control and accomplishment this insane time in our history. And guess what? One neighbor saw me out there and brought their green waste cans over to help cart away the debris piles I had made. Another neighbor showed up with a lead, probably a leaf blower. I was like wow, a lead blower. I need one of those. A leaf blower to. Just as I was about to give up trying to sweep in the heat, dog walkers praised my work and expressed their happiness that they could walk the block again. Parents were excited to report no flat tires on their kids bikes, and passerbyers committed to popping by on the weekend tour attack some weeks in the interior while their kids used the playground. I'm not a religious person, but I felt like I was doing the Lord's work in my tiny little corner of the world and the support of the community. The story shared the kids who saw their friend's mom doing her part to help their school was nothing short of soul quenching. I shared inspire others to just do it, make a difference, however small, and get a little dose of energy in an ever defeating news cycle. Including my pet tags of almost 20 year old cat Misu who still prefers to sit where she fits in a box instead of the comfy pillow the bed next to it. There's also pictures of. I cannot. No wonder people would not be on this path. The goat heads. That's what we call them. The amount of stickers on this person's shoe. Unbelievable.
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Oh my God. Yeah. Can you imagine your dog just getting all that caught in their pockets? No.
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And the tire. Awful.
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Awesome. Awful. Oh, and look at that. They're before and after. Well done. And you get some vitamin D. Yep. Right? I really encourage everybody to like when you're listening to this podcast, just go out On a walk around your neighborhood, you know, get some sunshine. It really does make a huge difference. I, I, I'm not sure why. I'm sure there's science, but just feels good. There's the kitty. 20 years old. Wow, this cat looks like a baby.
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Yeah, it sure does. It's cute, though.
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Thanks, everybody, so much for your good news this Labor Day weekend. Of course we're going to be back in your ears tomorrow. Who knows, maybe Donald Trump will come out and say something to the cameras.
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I mean, you know what? I was, I found that picture that you said, or it didn't look like he had any hair and he was puffy. Listen, I'm not saying he's on steroids. I'm not saying he's getting treated for anything, but it would be absolutely insane if really something happened to his cotton candy hair. But steroids make sense if he's puffy. And I have to wonder what they were treating with that because he looks very, very swollen.
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Yeah. And he just doesn't look well. Nope. Like he's pale. I mean, I guess maybe he doesn't have his makeup on. So it's kind of hard to tell, you know, sometimes with people who wear makeup every day and then they don't. You're like, you look, you know, you look pale. But they, they are. That's just their way of looking. Yeah, but I can't see any hair. And that is weird because the other.
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Picture be the angle.
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I don't know the other picture, but if you look at all pictures of him wearing a hat, the hair comes down out from the back and kind of sticks out and comes down like there's a lot of hair there. Right. I don't know. I don't know what's going on, but.
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It'S, we're gonna find out eventually. I mean, so we know the problem.
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Is that the media isn't hounding him 24. 7 to, oh, 100%. Give a press conference like, what wt fuck.
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Biden is actively fighting cancer and he looks better than this guy. And they're saying nothing.
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Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Anyway, you know how I feel about corporate media.
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Yeah.
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But we're gonna be back in years tomorrow. Do you have any final thoughts, my friend?
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I just want to send a thank you to everyone who voted for the 100. A lot of you commented on my Instagram directly that you voted, and I just the beans, listeners. You always show up. I know a lot of people in the community and my fan base, but you all, it's in numbers. That are obvious that you hear our requests and you do it. You show up, you support us, and I just can't thank you enough. So I appreciate you very much.
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It's seriously the way you guys show up for us and each other is just, yeah, gets, gets me out of bed every morning, you know, it's the coolest community and so very grateful. And I just don't have words when it comes to that, you know, like, the gratitude that's in my heart is so overflowing that there just aren't words that can describe it. So thank you all so much. We'll be back in your ears tomorrow. Until then, please, 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 aggressive.
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I've been teachy.
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