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Monday, May 11th, 2026 Today, the Virginia Supreme Court has struck down redistricting voted on by the people; the NAACP is suing Tennessee Republicans over the gerrymander that eliminated the sole Black congressional district; ABC has accused the Trump administration of violating their First Amendment rights; Donald is planning on firing FDA Commissioner Marty Makary; the Trump administration is suing the New York Times for discrimination against a white guy; some insight into why Trump pardoned former Honduran president and notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Daily beans. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Monday, May 11, 2026. Today, the Virginia Supreme Court has struck down redistricting, voted on by the people. The NAACP is suing Tennessee Republicans over the gerrymander that eliminated the sole black congressional district in the state. ABC has accused the Trump administration of violating their First Amendment rights. Donald is planning on firing the FDA commissioner, Marty Makary. The Trump administration is suing the New York Times for discrimination against a white guy. And some insight into why Trump pardoned former Honduran president and notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez. I'm your host, Alison Gill. Hey everybody, happy Monday. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I hope you had a nice Mother's Day, however you celebrate it. Dana's out today. As you know, she's traveling a little bit for some shows. I hope everyone that was able to go and see her this weekend had a wonderful time in Dallas. Let us know. Send it in to us for the Good News segment. If you were there. You can do that by going to DailyBeansPod.com and clicking on Contact. Also, the latest episode of the Breakdown with which is my video podcast on the Midas Touch network that dropped yesterday at noon. You'll want to check that out. The audio is in the Beans feed today or you can watch it over@muellersharete.com I interview Epstein survivor Annie Farmer, who is putting together a statement for the hearing that takes place in Palm Beach. It's a shadow hearing put on by Democrats to hear a testimony from Epstein survivors. It's tomorrow, May 12, Epstein at 10am Eastern, 7am Pacific. And that's going to be live streamed on the Midas Touch Network. So you can watch it there. And you can catch my interview with survivor Annie Farmer again on the Breakdown. Now Democrats are working on ways, creative ways to keep the Virginia maps that were voted on by the people of Virginia after the state Supreme Court shot them down. And I'm going to go over some of these ideas and some opinion pieces today on Beans Talk. And you can catch Beans Talk at the MSW Media YouTube channel. You'll be able to find it there. It's free to watch and you can see what people are coming up with on how to fight back against this and not just roll over and accept what the Virginia Supreme Court has done here. So we're going to talk about that on Beans Talk. We're going to talk about the decision from the Virginia Supreme Court here today in the Hot Notes. Hot notes, all right. Up first from npr, the Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday struck down the congressional redistricting approved by voters in April. The ruling is a major setback. I wouldn't call it a major setback. It's a setback for Democrats attempt to counter the pro GOP reshuffling of voting maps led by Trump. Commonwealth voters last month approved by 52 to 48 a constitutional amendment to allow redistricting. But responding to a lawsuit brought by Republicans, the Virginia high court found that the Democratic led legislature made procedural errors in how it placed the question on the ballot. The majority opinion of the state Supreme Court found that the legislature violated the multi step process for putting constitutional amendments on the ballot and that the, quote, constitutional violation incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy. The Virginia Constitution required districts to be drawn by a bipartisan commission, but the amendment approved by voters temporarily granted the legislature the power to redistrict and now to place an amendment on the ballot. In Virginia, the legislature is required to vote on it twice in separate special sessions with an election in between. Lawyers for the Republicans argued that the first vote was in a special session that had been called for other topics long before. And the court, with the justices split four to three, said not enough time had passed between the first vote and the intervening election. And a few days later, basically the Republicans are redefining what election means by including early voting and counting of mail in ballots afterwards instead of just election day, which is the opposite of what they want to do for elections, which is just to have it on one day and to not have any early voting and to not count mails there. It's a bunch of fucking hypocrites. Now the Democrats lawyers argued that the legislature sets its procedures without court review and that procedural errors should not cancel the will of the voters in an election. Quote, I'm disappointed by the Supreme Court of Virginia's ruling. That's what Abigail Spanberger, the governor, said in a statement. But my focus as governor will be on ensuring that all voters have the information necessary to make their voices heard this November in the midterm elections, because in those elections, we the voters will have the final say. Now, I personally don't like that statement. I don't think that she should be just accepting what the Supreme Court did here. But again, we'll talk more about that over on Beans Talk. Now back to the story. They also argued lawmakers didn't hold the legislative vote in time to post notification of the amendment on courthouse doors as required by a 1902 law 90 days before the next election. And by the way, the constitutional amendment that created the redistricting commission in the first place, that wasn't posted on courthouse doors 90 days before the election either, which is a perhaps a way that Democrats can fight back on this. Now, the Democrats lawyers argue that the 1902 law had been repealed and it was out of date. They also argued that the legislature sets its procedures without court review and that procedural errors shouldn't cancel the will of the voters. Again, you can watch. There's several things out there about my opinion on this, including Bean's talk today. I also recorded a substack live with Wajahat Ali discussing possible remedies for this on substackolisharote.com so I want everybody to check those out so we can go into it a little bit further, including the plans that are being put forth by Hakeem Jeffries, Virginia Democrats and some others. So check those resources out for more information. All right, next up from Democracy docket, the NAACP filed an emergency lawsuit Thursday seeking to block Tennessee's new congressional gerrymander, arguing the Republicans rushed effort to dismantle the state's lone majority black district was not only racist, but outright illegitimate. Legal under Tennessee law and the Tennessee state constitution. The lawsuit, filed just after Governor Bill Lee signed the new MAP into law, marks one of the first major legal challenges to emerge since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Quote, it's a direct attack on our democracy and our constitution to dismantle majority black districts. A democracy without black representation is not a democracy. That's Kristen Clark and double ACP general counsel. In a statement following the lawsuit, she went on to say, we're outraged that the state, rather than seeking a more just and fair system, is seeking to roll Tennessee back to a time when many of us didn't have equal rights. We will fight this map tooth and nail. Now, instead of relying primarily on weakened federal voting rights protections, the NAACP's lawsuit takes a different approach. It argues Tennessee Republicans violated their own state laws and constitutional limits in their rush to redraw the map. This case quote involves a decision by respondents to engage in unlawful late decade congressional redistricting in violation of clear and unambiguous Tennessee statutory law and the mandates of the Tennessee Constitution. That's what the lawsuit says. It also claims Tennessee Republicans had no legal authority to redraw congressional districts in the first place. For over five decades, Tennessee law explicitly prohibited congressional redistricting between census cycles. Republicans repealed that prohibition this week in a special legislative session convened by Lee shortly after Trump ordered Tennessee Republicans to redraw the state's map. But the NAACP argues the repeal itself was unconstitutional because Lee's proclamation calling lawmakers into special session never specifically authorized lawmakers to repeal the anti redistricting statute. Under the Tennessee Constitution, lawmakers in a special session may only consider issues specifically identified by the Governor. The proclamation does not specify the purpose of repealing section 2.16.102. Thus any actions dependent on such repeal or suspension are impermissible and should be enjoined. This case is staggeringly easy for the court to decide. A challenge seeks to void the repeal, block the new congressional map and stop Tennessee from conducting elections under the newly drawn districts. The lawsuit also targets another under the radar move that Republicans made during the special session, suspending a one year residency presidency requirement for congressional candidates. According to the complaint, the suspension quote appears wholly to allow the election of candidates who have no history of living in the district they seek to represent. The GOP's new map splits Memphis, one of the nation's largest predominantly black cities. I believe it's 63% black into three separate congressional districts, effectively cracking black voters apart to create likely all Republican congressional delegations. So we're going to talk about some of this and maybe some unintended consequences for Republicans also. We're going to talk about that on Beans Talk next up from the Times. ABC has accused the FCC, Federal Communications Commission of violating its free speech rights, potentially setting the stage for a protracted high stakes legal battle between the network and the Trump administration. The company said in a filing with the agency that regulators had a chilling effect on free speech by trying to punish political content they disagreed with. The filing, made public on Friday, is the most aggressive defense from any television network since Trump kicked off an extended campaign last year to bring media organizations to heel. It represented a striking departure for abc. The network under corporate stewardship of Disney, set an early tone of compliance toward Trump when it settled a defamation lawsuit with him for $15 million in December of 2024. Many legal experts considered Trump's case unlikely to succeed in court, meaning they didn't have to settle this. Now the filing was registered on behalf of a single ABC station in Houston and involved a minor regulatory dispute over the talk show the View. But in a signal of its importance, the company's paperwork was signed by one of the most experienced Supreme Court litigators in the country, Paul D. Clement, a solicitor general under G.W. bush. Now the filing responded to an action the FCC took earlier this year questioning whether the View, the longtime ABC morning talk show, fell under old federal rules requiring entertainment programs on broadcast television to grant equal airtime to political candidates for the same office. The show features a mix of political and celebrity interviews led by a panel of hosts who often are highly critical of Donald Trump. Now, Trump's appointed chair of the commission, Brendan Carr, has strongly suggested in public that the View has, which is technically part of ABC's news division, should not qualify for an exemption that the equal time rules allow for so called bona fide news programs. But the filing from ABC revealed for the first time the intensity of the agency's efforts against the network, which have included extensive requests for documents and information about its operations and editorial approach. Now, according to ABC's filing, the FCC ordered the company's station in Houston, KTRKTV, to file a formal request asking whether the View qualified for the exemption. The agency suggested that if the show was not exempt, then KTRK should have registered formal paperwork required under the Equal time rules in February when the View booked James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas. James Talarico was also the the hot button issue on the Colbert show, if you'll recall, ABC said that exemption had never been challenged in the 24 years since and considered it to still be in effect. So we'll keep an eye on that for you. Next up from the Times the EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the New York Times on Tuesday, claiming the paper had engaged in unlawful employment practices and had discriminated against a white man who did not get a sought after promotion. The lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York says the Times, quote, stated race and sex based representation goals influenced the decision not to advance the man's candidacy for a deputy real estate editor role in 2025. The lawsuit followed a rapid escalation of an investigation that began last year when an employee filed a complaint with the EEOC in New York. The lawsuit indicates that the employee, who's not named, had worked at the paper as an editor since 2014 and applied for the deputy editor job in 2025. According to the complaint, the complainant the white guy, was interviewed for the job but wasn't selected for a panel interview. The four candidates advanced to the panel interview stage matched the race and or sex characteristics that New York Times sought to increase in its leadership, according to the complaint, the final pool of candidates consisted of a white woman, a black man, an Asian female and a multiracial female. The complaint asserts that the white man was more qualified than the person who ultimately got the job. The person at the Times said the job listing specifically sought somebody with experience in service journalism, which the person who got the job had in addition to supervisory experience. The complaint requests compensation, including back pay, for the complainant, and ask the court to issue an injunction to keep the Times from discriminating against employees because of race or sex and and compelling the paper to, quote, eradicate the effects of its past and present unlawful employment practices. I don't think this is going to go well for the eeoc, but we'll see. Next up from the Wall Street Journal, Trump has signed off on a plan to fire FDA Commissioner Food and Drug administration commissioner Marty McCary, according to People Familiar following a tumultuous period for the regulator that included clashes over vaping, abortion and drug policy. Makary, a former Johns Hopkins surgeon who became a frequent Make America Healthy Again surrogate on television news programs, is seen by other top administration leaders as struggling to manage his agency, sparring frequently with Health department officials and at times with the White House. His tenure has also been dogged by the after effects of layoffs led by Doge and rapid turnover at the FDA's leadership ranks. He would become the latest top lieutenant fired under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Since the ouster last summer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarres and the February removal of HHS deputy secretary Jim O'. Neill. Asked late Friday about McCary's possible departure, Trump said, I know nothing about it. Sure, buddy. All right. After the break, an almost unbelievable story about why Donald Trump might have pardoned former Honduran president and notorious drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernandez. Stick around. You don't want to miss it. We'll be right back after these messages. We'll be right back. Delete me. Makes it easy, quick and Safe to remove your personal data online at a time when surveillance and data breaches are common enough to make everyone vulnerable. 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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 yeah, 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.
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All right, everybody, welcome back. This story is wild and it comes from a reputable global Spanish language outlet called El Pais and it says a leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, Javier Milei and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of Claudia Sheinbaum, Lula and and Gustavo Petro. The United States and Israel, with the help of Honduras, are allegedly positioning themselves on the geopolitical chessboard to control spheres of influence in Latin America. The news outlet Diario Red and America Latina and the website Hondurasgate have revealed in an investigation based on leaked audio recordings the interventionist intentions of leaders of the global right. One piece of evidence released at the end of April, claims that former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, pardoned by Trump for his 45 year sentence for drug trafficking, with the support of the Republican president himself, his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei, and the current Honduran administration. All of them are conspiring to create a channel for disseminating fake news with the intention of spreading misinformation and destabilizing the governments of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Now, the second installment of the Honduras Gate scandal of the three released so far includes a recording of an alleged conversation between Hernandez, who had become an operative in the region for the US President, and the current president and vice president of Honduras, Nasri Asfura and Maria Antonietta Mejia, respectively. The objective? To undermine the administrations of Claudia Scheinbaum, Un Gustavo Petro, both of whom adhere to left wing ideologies. In the conversation between Hernandez and As Fora, the former president tells the Honduran leader that he needs $150,000 to rent an apartment in the United States where he plans to set up an office for a digital journalism unit. This unit will publish information about Manuel Zalea, who accused Trump of, quote, protecting the plunderer of the state, referring to Hernandez's pardon last November, and about Kiomara Castro, who served as president until handing power to Asfura. And here's a quote from the tape. Someone else here from the US President's team will handle it for me. Well, he's one of the Republicans who are helping us. They're going to set up a news site for us. That's what Hernandez said to us for a. I wonder who they're talking about. Is it Devin Nunes? He's out of a job at Truth Social. I don't know. Anyway, as far as response is, quote, I'm going to transfer it from a friend's account, the $150,000. Let's see if they can give it to you in cash. But explain to me, what are we going to do with. What are we doing again? What do we gain? And Hernandez says, we're going to set up a cell, Mr. President, from here, from the United States, an information cell so they can track us there in Honduras. It's going to be like a Latin American news site. I was on a call with President Javier Malay and it was very successful. Very, very, very good. And I think at this point we can do great things for all of Latin America. There are some cases coming up against Mexico, some cases coming up against Colombia, and most importantly against Honduras. Again, the Zelaya family also, he said, I think you need a little more money for yourself. So we're going to send another $150,000 and, and the way you can survive a little longer that way we're going to take it from INSEP Secretariat of Infrastructure and Public Services. As far as says at the end of the conversation on the same topic, in another alleged communication between the former Honduran president and the current vice president, Hernandez emphasizes the importance of having that liquidity quote, with the support of some Republicans in order to, quote, attack and eradicate the cancer on the left in Honduras and throughout Latin America. Quote, I was telling President Nasfura that we were able to speak with Javier Milei and He's also contributing $350,000. Another great friend of ours from Mexico is also providing support specifically for the Mexican community. We're pretty much ready and hoping this moves forward quickly. Hernandez added, without revealing the identity of his Mexican contact involved in the project. The conversations, according to the source, originated from WhatsApp signal and telegram. They were recorded between January and April 2026 this year, the website that released the 37 recordings made them available in their entirety, details that each file was analyzed using Phonexia Voice Inspector Protocol, which is a forensic suite from the Czech company of the same name, founded in 2006 and deployed in more than 60 countries by intelligence agencies, law enforcement, banks and media outlets. Now, Sheinbaum, during her morning press conference this past Wednesday, said that she did listen to the audio recordings and saw part of the news reports. The Mexican president again sent a message, though without mentioning her by name, to Isabel Diaz Ayuso, a regional premier of Madrid who is currently on tour in Mexico as part of an international right wing linked to groups in Spain, the United States and Argentina that have a network to spread fake news because, quote, they don't like Mexican humanism and prefer to worship Herman Cortez. They can set up a smear campaign office against our government in Honduras using resources from a friendly nation. It won't affect us, not at all. There may be days of confusion, but if we remain true to our principles and know what we must do within the framework of our Constitution, the laws, and with respect to sovereignty, no one will be able to undermine the Transformation Project. It's that clear. That's what Sheinbaum said. Netanyahu's intervention, however, check this out. Hernandez, known as Joh Juan Orlando Hernandez, was president of Honduras from 2014 to 2022 for the Conservative National Party. Those were years of cooperation with the U.S. in the fight against drug trafficking, or at least that was the appearance he sought to project. In 2024, he was sentenced in Manhattan. Hernandez was to 45 years in prison for associating for more than a decade with drug traffickers who paid him bribes to ensure that more than 400 tons of cocaine reached the northern border of the Rio Grande. Three years earlier, his brother, Juan Antonio Hernandez, had been sentenced to life in prison for the same crimes. The New York District Attorney's office had accused JOH of receiving a million dollars from Mexican drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman. By the way, I don't know if you know this, but Donald Trump gave asylum to 17 members of the Sinaloa cartel family. So that's interesting as well. According to the same leaks from Hondurasgate, Trump's pardon of Joh days before the elections in Honduras was not a gesture of clemency, but rather the initial payment in a larger agreement. In one of the recordings, Hernandez explains it directly, though without revealing his interlocutor. Quote, the pardon money didn't even come from you, it came from a group of rabbis and people who support Israel. And in another audio recording, he says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had everything to do with his release and the negotiations that made it possible. Now, this alleged leak comes at a time when diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States are at their most strained due to Washington's indictment and extradition request against Ruben Roccamoya, that's the governor of Sinaloa, and nine other officials for alleged ties to drug trafficking. This is further exacerbated by Trump's repeated threats to intervene in Mexico against organized crime, something he reiterated this past Wednesday. Now Trump's relationship with Petro has also been less than cordial, despite smoothing things over after his Colombian counterpart's visit to D.C. in February, but not before Petro had his visa revoked and was called a narco by the Republicans. Pressure remains on both the United States and Mexico to implement tougher and more effective policies against drug trafficking. So that's a wild fucking story and I just wanted to share it with you. You can find it at Alpais P A I S online in English if you prefer. And man, I knew something was going on there and there's probably a lot more to it. So definitely check out that story and stick around because we're going to be right back with the good news. Lord knows we need it. See you in a minute. All right, so I'm not trying to have a profound out of body experience on a random Tuesday. If I take an edible, I just want to feel nice and simple and I don't want to lose control the rest of my day. The sweet spot for me is something that feels calm and steady. Not too loud and you know, not too doesn't, you know, produce anxiety. I'm much more into products that feel approachable and predictable. I'm more than like anything that comes in like a marching band. 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You'll be glad you did History is messy. It's weird, wild and anything but boring. Rainy Day Rabbit Holes is a history podcast about unhinged stories that make you stop and ask. Ask, wait, is this real life? 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.
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MSW Media. Everybody. Welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news? Everyone? Then good news everyone. Good news, good news. And if you have any little bit of good news, flood. Flood our inbox with good news. Dana will be back tomorrow. She would love to hear from you, especially if you went to her Dallas show on Mother's Day. We would love to hear from you. If you have a good trouble suggestion or a shout out to yourself or a loved one or a government program or a non profit or some great community activism that you're seeing, we want to hear all about it. Anything that'll bring a smile to our face. It can be misheard song lyrics, it can be your favorite street joke. Whatever it is, send it to us. Date DailyBeansPod.com click on Contact and to get your stuff right on the air, you just got to attach a photo that will bring a smile to our face. It can be your pod pet, which we can try to guess the breeds in your shelter pup if you like. It can be an adoptable pet in your area. Maybe we can help them find a home. It can be a random animal on the Internet or bird watching photos which can be a bird or you flipping the bird to a Trump building. Everyone's got one of those in their phone somewhere. Especially if you've been to Chicago or Las Vegas or New York recently. And then also, you know, photos of babies, family pictures, what you're making and creating beautiful Sunsets, maybe your favorite meme. Seriously, Any photo will do. Again, send it to us dailybeanspod.com click on Contact. First up is your good trouble. Your good trouble today comes from Molly Fish. Pronoun she and her beans queens. I have a good trouble suggestion. When I heard Bezos is doing an Apprentice reboot with Don Jr. I was livid. I went on Amazon looking for the customer support page, and it's damn near impossible to get a real person. Of course, I just kept selecting other as my problem until I got a chat pop up. I told the chat that if Bezos does the reboot, I will cancel my prime account. Now, I'm realistic. It was likely AI driven, but I figure if enough of us do it, he may get the message. So tell Amazon you'll cancel your prime account if they reboot the Apprentice or cancel your Amazon prime and let them know it was because they're thinking of rebooting the Apprentice. Here are photos of my two kitties who have both crossed the rainbow bridge. Oh, I'm so sorry. Molly Fish Blue sleeping with her favorite toys and baby chilling in the chair. Nobody puts baby in the corner. Thank you so much for that good trouble, Molly Fish. I love it. All right, first good news from Anonymous. I usually read geeky nonfiction, but in these dark days, I'm listening to many murder mysteries. While listening to Naomi Hirahara's Evergreen, I Learned of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, composed almost exclus of Nisei children of Japanese immigrants. Now to this day, they are the most decorated unit in U.S. military history. Based on time and size, part of this group liberated a slave labor sub camp in Dachau. So take that, you piece of shit fascist Stephen Miller. Here's a pic of Harry Truman doffing his hat to the 442nd color guard. Amazing. We'll have a link in the show notes to that regimental combat team. And for power pet tax, here is Rosie. Working the poles is a beautiful little dog. Looks like some sort of doodle with a vote here. It looks like some like maybe. What was Obama's dog? Portuguese water dog mixed with, I don't know, a Shih Tzu something. It's adorable. Let's see what you got behind the redaction bars here we have Portuguese water dog Spaniel mix. Okay. All right, I got half. I'm good. I'm good with half. Thank you for that. All right, next up from esoteric enthusiast, he they synchronicities Kitchen table listener with not quite a Correction here, your 8 May rhyme caught my attention as involves an odd area of my expertise. I knew the 1 May version and first encountered it in the book illuminatis from the 70s, a book where May the first is recurring synchronicity. I was curious where the eighth came from so I searched around and I found it. 1 May rhyme is believed to originate from the Gaelic holiday Beltane. Yes indeed so mode it be known for reunions around a bonfire dancing and was popular date for permanent and temporary marriages. While it may not have been part of the ritual, we can guess why the rhyme arose. 8 May is popular in the Pacific Northwest and seems to originate at wsu. Local legend states that the university banned blankets from grassy areas and the students organized a very particular protest on 8 May and conveniently repurposed the rhyme. So while the first is older and linked to pagan history, the eighth originated from a protest and rebellion. Just an excuse to celebrate twice in my humble opinion. 5 PET tax is a photo of my cats Val and Meta for Valafar and Metatron, a demon and an angel respectively. I promise they are the best of friends. Love all you do so keep it up. So mote it be. Oh look, you did a so mote it be. Just like I did earlier when you brought up the pagan and Wiccan origins of the first of May and Beltane. This is amazing. Thank you for doing the research on this Pacific Northwest makes sense because I think I picked this up from a friend of mine who I met in college back in the 90s who is from the Pacific Northwest. So thank you very much for that history. The kiddies are fantastic. Next up from Tiffany Pronoun she they Allison, can you give me the Gen X? I feel seen joys tonight during the good news. Anytime I hear or read the name Alice I say aloud or to myself depending on the context. Alice. Alice. Who the fuck is Alice? Living next door to Alice was a popular song in a DC bar scene in the early aughts when I first moved there, the memories of drinking at Irish times and screaming call and response just came flooding back. I'm reminded of the better times when D.C. was a place good people wanted to be. Thanks for bringing back that joyful memory and showing me that I wasn't that it wasn't just a figment of my imagination. Apparently we both need to know more about Alice. Yeah, Tiffany I sang and played as a resident in an Irish pub called the blarney stone for 78 years. Something like that in the early Aughts and we would sing Living Next Door to Alice. And there was another song we sang that reminds me of Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel that says fuck you, I'm drunk. Fuck you, I'm drunk. Pour my beer down the sink. We've got more in the trunk. You I'm drunk. Fuck you, I'm drunk. And I'm gonna stay drunk till the next time I'm drunk. Thank you. Thank you very much. The crowd went wild. We would do Finnegan's Wake. We would do the New York Lullaby. I mean, just you name it, we sang it. Those are fun times. Fun times. All right. Podpet tariff my 7 month old puppy Octavia enjoying a sunny Los Angeles day so named because of Octavia Butler who tried to warn us and we still chose the path of the Parables. Sigh. Big high fives to everyone at the MSW back office and thank goodness for all of you as always. XOXO to AG and dg. This dog is adorable. Tiffany, thank you for the walk down memory lane on Alice, who the fuck is Alice? And all those other songs I used to sing way back in the day. All right, next up, Scott pronouns he and him. Thank you for the dose of sanity you provide every morning on my commute as I navigate the traffic and terrible drive driving of the metro area between Chicago and Milwaukee. We need driver's ed back in these schools. My daughter sent me this posted on the table of a vendor at a flea market in central Wisconsin. Immediately made me think of you. We accept cash, credit, debit, gold, uranium, goats, shrooms. Goats on shrooms. And what's great is whoever's taking this picture I can see on the ground under the table where this sign is somebody wearing a Birkenstocks. So thank you very much Scott that next up from Samantha Pronoun. She and her hi beans Queens. I love the prompt from Friday 58 to share weird things shared between friends and I got a good one. I lived with my friend in Boston back in the late 90s early aughts. Our landlord was our mutual friend's uncle who lived downstairs from us. One of his brown dress socks somehow ended up in our laundry and rather than return it, we would take turns hiding it in each other's stuff. This would continue even when we lived separately and would visit each other and even crossed state lines when I moved to Chicago and now Phoenix. Ahwatukee Allison, I think you lived there at one time. That is right, Samantha. I used to live on the Ray Chandler Loop. I don't live there now, so please don't go there. We would even have to involve other people to secretly get this sock to each other. Sometimes it would be years before that sock would make an appearance. It's great. It's hilarious every time. Picture of sock attached, pet tacks also included. My handsome 8 year old adopted boy, Smoke, who I adore. Thank you for all you do and keep up the great work. I love this. I should probably have the. Now that I think about it, the producers bleep out the number. Address there on 24th way used to be on the cross street of a street called Squaw Bush, which they have since changed. As they changed, there were Arizona laws that changed everything with the word squaw in it to Piestua, I think. Anyway, thank you for that walk down Awatuki memory lane. And that is really amazing that you would regift this sock to one another and that sometimes it crosses state lines and can take years. That's fantastic. Beautiful kitty. And that's the sock. I love it. Now Smoke. I don't know, it looks like a Russian blue maybe. Let's see. Is part Russian blue. FYI, look at me go. Ooh, ooh. I'm doing the Cabbage Patch. But you can't see it because it's an audio podcast. Ooh. All right, next up, the Running Man. No, that's our final submission. Thank you all so very much for sending your good news. Please send it all to us. Dana will be back tomorrow. I want it overflowing in our inbox. So any tiny little thing you can think of, especially those fun things that you do with friends. I know that a friend of mine and my, like two of my friends are re gifting each other this horrible bottle of pumpkin spice bourbon or Kahlua or something that is shaped like a pumpkin and it just ends up at their bar during a party, just, oh, look at that. And we. It's been swapped back and forth several times. So anything like that at all that you know is just between you and your friends. 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