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Tuesday, August 26th, 2025 Today, Donald Trump has signed an executive order making flag burning illegal with a mandatory minimum of one year in prison; the general who led the assessment that Trump’s bombing of Iran didn’t destroy anything has been fired; Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir before she died and it will be posthumously released; Trump and Netanyahu are moving forward with an all out assault on Gaza; Judge Xinis has blocked the government from moving Kilmar Abrego for now; Nancy Mace canceled a speech after just 8 people showed up; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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MSW Media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Tuesday, August 26, 2025. Today, Donald Trump has signed an executive order making flag burning illegal with a mandatory minimum of one year in prison. The general who led the assessment that Trump's bombing of Iran didn't destroy anything has been fired. Epstein's survivor, Virginia Giuffre, wrote a memoir before she died and it will be posthumously released. Trump and Netanyahu are moving forward with an all out assault on Gaza. Judge Sinis has blocked the government from moving Kilmara Brego for now. And Nancy Mace canceled a speech after just eight, eight people showed up. I'm Allison Gill.
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And I'm Dana Goldberg.
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Eight people.
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I mean, I don't mean to brag, but you and I have both done shows for more than eight people on an open mic.
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Yeah, I think actually one of my first shows at a place called the salty frog in 2009, I think I had 12 people there.
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That's at least 50% more than she had. Well done. Thank you.
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I like how you're like, like that's your math sound little calculator. Oh, so sad.
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But she deserves it. It couldn't have happened to a better, worse person.
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I know, I know. Somebody had tweeted like Nancy Mace burst into my shower and accused me of hurting her.
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She's, she's, she's lost her soul. Don't know how, don't know why, but it's gone.
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I'm not sure she ever had one.
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That's fair.
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The guff was empty that day. That's all I'm saying. And when God was handing out brains, she thought he said trains.
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She wanted small.
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I'm sorry, that's just one of those old.
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I was like, what is happening right now? I'm cutting you off. Tell me about your interview with Joyce.
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That's probably a good idea. Sorry, we cutting you off from jokes, Allison. Thank you. By the way.
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Yes.
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The interview with Joyce was great. Joyce fans. And thank you everybody. I've been getting tons of feedback about it, so I'm going to be ramping up my discussions with experts on Substack Live. It is free to subscribe, so please head to mellisherote.com and do so. I'm also just a couple weeks away from launching a new weekly video podcast that's a wrap up of all the headlines we cover on all the pods every week. Patrons of the Daily Beans will get the audio early, so you'll be able to get that early and ad free. So I'm really looking forward to it. Kind of. I hate video, but I guess that's what all the kids are doing these.
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Days, so we're learning. We're learning.
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I'm trying not to.
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To be sus toads.
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Totes. McGo says I'm doing my video podcast, so I'm not going to be wearing makeup, though. I refuse. I refuse. If I'm wearing makeup, it's from the night before.
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Yeah. Why would you need to.
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I went out so Little glam tax. You know, stupid dudes can just roll out of bed and get on a podcast.
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We have not the president. He needs to cake that on his hand and face. And who everywhere else.
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Did you see the video? First of all, there was a video of him hiding his hand, but then he. He didn't hide it today. He forgot.
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And there was no makeup on it. He came out completely hand for hand free out in the world with the bruise showing. He's not health. He's not well, everyone. He's not well. I don't know how much time we've got left, but he's not well.
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I assume if you have that venous problem, you know, with your blood flow, that getting an IV into you could be. Can be hard and cause bruising.
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Totally agree with that. But the slurry, the puffy eyes, the loss of energy. He does not look well. And the mainstream media. Where the fuck are the articles? Because if this was Joe Biden, we would never hear the end of it.
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Right. Where is the calls for resignation?
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None. None. Charlotte Clymer said that. Isn't it crazy with everything that's happened, nothing in legacy media have we had one call for an impeachment or one call for resignation. They're blocking all of them.
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Yep. Yeah, it's. It's absolutely beyond comprehension that maybe. Maybe Jake Tapper will write a book about it. I don't know. Probably. Also, we're going to be having a patron happy hour this Friday, 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific. That's for patrons of this show. You can become a patron. It's super cheap. You can do it@patreon.com MullerShiprote and we look forward to our monthly Zoom happy hour extravaganzas that we have. And that one's going to be this Friday for patrons. All right, we have a ton of news to get to. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from the Washington Post, A federal judge on Monday temporarily barred Kilmar Abrego's deportation to Uganda until she can hold A hearing to examine whether the Trump administration will give him an opportunity to contest his removal to that country. U.S. district Judge Paulissenis issued the order from the bench hours after Homeland Security officials detained him during a required check in at the U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore and said they'd begun processing him for removal. This is all kinds of wrong. I just have to interject here.
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It was a setup. He was doing what they told him to do.
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Yeah. And the Washington Post isn't correct here that they started processing him for removal after they detained him? No, they started discussing his removal. First, they offered him Costa Rica if he pled guilty to the two criminal charges. And then they said, if you don't, we're sending you to Uganda. That happened well before. That happened last week. Before he was taken into custody today. Yeah, he was taken into custody without notice. His lawyers have filed a petition. Writ of habeas corpus, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, saying that he should be released from detention. Because this detention, which is probably going to be lengthy while they await, you know, while they figure out what their the deportation status is going to be, that is a punishment for him availing himself of his constitutionally protected rights. And so we'll see what ends up happening. But the other thing that's incorrect in this article is that they said that they're preventing him from being sent to Uganda. She's actually preventing him from being sent more than 200 miles from Baltimore.
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Good.
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Like, they're not allowed to send him to Louisiana or Abilene or, you know, whatever. He has to be able to stay close because he's got a case in Tennessee and a case in Baltimore, and he has to have access to his lawyer. So they go on to say the effort to remove Abrego comes just three days after he was freed from criminal custody by another federal judge in Tennessee to await trial on migrant smuggling charges. Trump officials had insisted Abrego would never go free in the United States. And ICE notified him shortly after his release Friday that the agency intended to seek his removal to Uganda within days. But during Monday's court hearing, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign said that regardless of Judge Seniors order, Abrego's deportation is not imminent. Quote, third country removals take some time, he said. And that's an admission that this detention will be lengthy and, you know, which kind of helps the case that it's punitive for him doing nothing more than filing a lawsuit and getting out on bail. Like, he's constitutionally allowed to do still c stressed at the top of the proceeding that the government was absolutely forbidden at this juncture from removing Mr. Abrego Garcia from the United States at all. Now Abrego's lawyers have separately asserted the government is threatening him with removal to Uganda in order to coerce him to plead guilty and accept deportation to Costa Rica, a Spanish speaking country that is regarded as the safest in Latin America. Abrego spoke at a press conference this morning and he said, regardless of what happens today with ice, promise me this, that you will keep fighting, praying, believing in dignity and liberty and not just for me, but for all.
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Wow. After everything he's been through, I know.
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Wonderful young man. And Adam Klassfeld from All Rise News and I were at that hearing virtually and we had a discussion and you can see it now. It's up on my substack, Mueller she wrote.com, free to watch.
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All right. Thanks, Alison. This next story is from the Associated Press. A posthumous and unsparing memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, I would say victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre will be published this fall and it's being published by the House of Alfred. How do you say that? Last name? Knopf.
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Knopf.
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Knopf. Alfred Knopf. All right. That's what was said Sunday. Now it's called no, Nobody's A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice. It's scheduled for release October 21st. The publisher confirmed that to the Associated Press, Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at age 41, had been working on Nobody's Girl with author journalist Amy Wallace and had completed the manuscript, completed it for the 400 page book. That's according to Nampf. The publisher's statement includes an email from Giuffre Tu Wallace a few weeks before her death saying that this it was her and I quote, heartfelt wish be released regardless of her circumstances, said the content of this book is crucial as it aims to shed light on the systemic failures that allow the trafficking of vulnerable individuals across borders. This is what the email said. It's imperative that the truth is understood and that the issues surrounding this topic are addressed both for the sake of justice and awareness. Giuffre had been hospitalized following a serious accident March 24th. This is again from the publisher and sent the email April 1st. She died on April 25th. And I quote, in the event of my passing, I would like to ensure that Nobody's Girl is still released. I believe it has the potential to impact many lives and foster necessary discussions about these grave injustices. This is what she wrote to Wallace, so I am I'm glad her voice is going to carry on. I have a feeling this is going to be a horrifying memoir. But the bravery of writing that and everything she went through, knowing that it'll help some people and hopefully shed some light on some bad people that should be held to justice. Even if that does not happen in the eye of public court, perhaps it will sway.
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Yeah, agreed. Thank you for that story. This next one is from cnn. Nearly a week after Hamas accepted the latest Gaza ceasefire proposal from Qatari and Egyptian mediators, Israel has yet to respond, even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims he is immediately starting negotiations to release all the hostages and end the war. The silence from BB reflects a fundamental shift in Israel's approach that has befuddled mediators and families of the remaining hostages who have accused Netanyahu of abandoning and sacrificing their loved ones. After 18 months of agreeing only to partial phased ceasefire deals, Netanyahu is now demanding a comprehensive agreement that would secure the release of all the hostages and end the war entirely. The on Israel's terms. The policy reversal comes as the prime minister simultaneously accelerates plans for a massive military assault on Gaza City, pursuing a dual strategy of negotiating while waging war. At the same time, Netanyahu made a point of continuing to advance plans for the Israeli Defense Force IDF and their massive assault and takeover of Gaza City, according to senior Israeli sources. The answer in Netanyahu's new negotiation strategy lies not not in Jerusalem, but in Washington. In recent weeks, Trump has expressed explicit public support for Israel's renewed assault on Gaza, adopting the Israeli rhetoric aiming to destroy Hamas. Instead of pushing for a ceasefire, Netanyahu has demanded a full Israel security control over Gaza in a post war, any post war scenario, a scenario in which Israel would retain the right to carry out strikes on Gaza. Former State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said the Biden administration believed it was Netanyahu that was throwing up the roadblocks to the ceasefire deals. There were times that we very much wanted to go public and make clear we thought the prime minister was being completely intransigent and making it tougher to get a deal. That's what he told Israel's Channel 13. But the administration kept the disagreements private, Miller said, because former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar pulled back from negotiations when he saw a split between the US And Israel. So the reason we didn't hear about the fact that it was Bibi that was Throwing up roadblocks to the Biden Harris ceasefire, which eventually was secured right before Biden left office. The reason we didn't hear about that is because diplomatically, they wanted to keep negotiating. And they were pulling back from negotiations when they saw Bibi splitting with President Biden.
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Corrupt to the core, indeed. Thanks so much, Alison. And this next story is from Stars and Stripes. Two admirals and the general whose agency oversaw the initial assessment of the US Bombing raid of three nuclear sites in Iran. They've been fired. This is from defense officials. They confirmed this on Friday. Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Cruz will no longer serve as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said a defense official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The official did not provide more information about that decision. Now, the Navy officers fired were Vice Admiral Nancy LaCour, the Chief of Navy Reserve, and Rear Admiral Milton Sands, a Navy SEAL officer who oversees Naval Special Warfare Command. By the way, a second defense official confirmed that no reasons were provided Friday about why the admirals were fired. Well, I think we can connect the dots. The firing of Cruz comes months after the agency, which is part of the Defense Department, it received backlash from the president, his administration for its assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear sites from the US Airstrikes. Initial reports on the strike indicated Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed. And intelligence suggested uranium was moved from the sites prior to the US Strikes because they were given warning.
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Yeah, yeah. He was probably, look, talking about it at Mar A Lago on the patio and showing people photos, and somebody, you know, picked up the phone.
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Kegseth was probably texting his wife about it.
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Right? Oh, Jesus.
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Yeah. A preliminary report from the Defense Intelligence Agency assessment in the days following that the airstrike set Iran's nuclear program back by months, but it didn't eliminate it. And remember, we were told everything was destroyed. It was forever successful.
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Totally destroyed.
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Yeah.
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Not as destroyed as the back of your hand and your cankles, sir.
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Serious.
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All right, next up from cbs, President Trump signed an executive order on Monday. I'm in a fucking. I just. I can't. Signed an executive order Monday that seeks to punish people who burn the American flag, accusing those who do so of displaying hostility and contempt toward the United States. Mr. Trump has for years threatened to crack down on flag burning. In 2016, he wrote on social media that anyone who burns the American flag should lose their citizenship and face jail time. During a 2024 speech before the National Guard association of the United States. Then candidate Trump said he would work to Pass a law imposing criminal penalties on those who burn the American flag. Well, he can't pass a law because he needs 60 votes in Congress.
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Correct.
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He's writing an executive order. But get this, it's not even a. First of all, that's not how executive orders work. But it's not even a. If you burn the flag, that's breaking the law. Check this out. In remarks from the Oval Office on Monday, Trump alleged that burning the American flag incites riots.
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Very specific language there, everybody.
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And said those who are prosecuted and convicted as a result of his directive would face one year in prison. Titled Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag Workshop.
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That for a while.
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Yeah, that was. There were meetings. That's what they came up with. Mr. Trump's executive order does not direct the Attorney General to prosecute those who burn the flag for the act itself. Okay. Rather, it says the Justice Department should bring cases against acts of American flag desecration that violate other applicable content neutral laws while causing harm unrelated to expression consistent with the First Amendment. So if you murder someone with a burning American flag, then you can be prosecuted.
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You can be prosecuted.
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If you tell everybody, let's incite a riot. Go hang that guy. While a burning an American flag, you're going to be charged with inciting a riot. Like, this is the dumbest thing ever. Examples of those laws include violent crimes, hate crimes, legal discrimination against American citizens or other violations of American civil rights, and crimes against property and the peace, blah, blah, blah. It's just the dumbest. Like, it'd be like fire president and I wrote an executive order saying you have to say that I'm pretty every day or it's. Or you're going to jail a lot. As if it's done in concert with actual crimes.
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Yep.
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So like I said you were pretty.
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Or if I didn't say you were pretty while I was.
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Well, you robbed a bank.
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Well, I robbed a bank. Then you can charge me for a crime.
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Yeah, if you charge into the bank. Stick them up. Allison Gill is ugly.
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You'll be charged for robbing that bank and for calling Allison kill ugly.
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Nope, nope. Just. Just robbing the bank. The directive, by the way, this executive order acknowledges a 36 year old Supreme Court decision that found flag burning is protected speech. But it says American flag desecration conducted in a manner that is likely to incite imminent lawless action. So if you throw a sandwich at a cop while burning an American flag, maybe that'll do. Amounts to fighting words. That's actually what it says them are Fighting words. Yeah. May not be entitled to the same protection under the First Amendment.
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His speech in the Oval Office was ridiculous. He's like, it incites what? Riots. Like you've never seen. We've never seen riots this big in this country. It incites the worst riots you've ever seen.
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Oh, my God. The order directs the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Secretary of Homeland Security Krista Noem. Puppy killer. To take action against foreign nationals who have engaged in American flag desecration activity, including by revoking their visas or residence permits or seeking their removal from the U.S. now, that's a totally different set of laws. Right. Because we already know Marco Rubio can just revoke someone's visa on national security vibes. Right. So that is still doesn't make flag burning illegal. The attorney general. Mr. Trump's executive order says shall vigorously prosecute those who violate our laws in ways that involve desecrating the American flag and may pursue litigation to clarify the scope of the First Amendment exceptions in this area. So if you attack the Capitol and beat a police officer.
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That's exactly what I was thinking.
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I wonder if that. Probably not. Those. Those people got. Got pardons. Yeah.
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Those people are probably ICE right now.
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All the dumbest stuff. I can't.
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But this is a little good news.
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Oh, good.
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Yes. This is from the Advocate. Great publication. Nancy Mace's campaign for South Carolina governor suffered an embarrassing stumble last week when she canceled a planned speech in Myrtle beach after just eight people arrived, undercutting her claim that she is leading the Republican field.
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Though she might be just. Nobody can pull eight.
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It's possible. Mace, who announced her gubernatorial bid on Aug. 4 with anti LGBTQ rhetoric and declared herself a proud transphobe, had advertised that more than 100 people would attend a Moms for Liberty event at Forward Church on Thursday. But at the scheduled start time, rows of empty chairs greeted her. Only eight attendees were present, not including reporters and security. That's according to my Horry News. That's H O R R Y, by the way.
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I was gonna say. All right. Did you start a publication?
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I did. My Horry name Start a publication. Sure did. Your mom. But yeah, that's quite the name for my Hori News. Hori. Hori. Okay.
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Horry. Maybe if you have a pronunciation correction.
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Yeah. If you know about. If you're in South Carolina, it's myhorry news. I really want it to be Horri. All right. Instead of taking the stage, Mason or staff slipped into a back room. A press Aide later told reporters that the speech was off.
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Oh, come on. You do the show, even if there's only a handful of people there.
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Oh, not her. Her show needs an audience. Yep. Now Nason's staff slipped out a back room. Okay, so. A press aide later told reporters that the speech was off. And the Charleston Republican answered media questions outside the sanctuary before meeting briefly with those who did show up, which didn't take long because there was only eight people.
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Her meet and greet took five minutes.
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There you go. The flip and the flop. They came just weeks after Mase launched her run on the parade ground for the Citadel, where she became the first woman to graduate from the military college's corps of cadets. Is that. Wow, that's true, isn't it? That's crazy. At that event, she promised to, and I quote, ban pronouns in the classroom. Cut off public.
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Good luck teaching English. Right.
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Not personal pronouns, all pronouns. Or banning pronouns in the classroom. People. And to cut off public funding to schools and colleges, she accused of promoting gender ideology. This is all from the Advocate. Now, she also leaned into Trump style messaging, pledging to punish prosecutors and sheriffs she deemed too lenient and to defund colleges that can't define what a woman is. Yeah. Mason says she remains the front runner. God, she's delusional as fuck Delulu. As the kids say. Her campaign released polling last week showing her to 25% support. That's ahead of Attorney General Allen Wilson and U.S. republic Ralph Norman, though more than a third of Republican voters.
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Ralphie boy.
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Were undecided. How you doing, Ralphie boy? She said she texted the results to President Trump, who reposted them on his social media platform. I can't. But the optics of an empty room added to a string of awkward campaign moments. Earlier this month, Mace berated a reporter at a town hall after being fact checked on her opposition to the inflation reduction act. She also faced backlash after boasting that she likes to unwind by watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. Go fuck yourself.
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Didn't ICE tell the courts they weren't conducting raids, but operations? That's fun. So, Inflation Reduction Act. By the way, she was claiming credit for some of the dollars Biden sent to her state. You know?
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Yeah. And they were like, no, because you didn't fucking. Yeah, yeah. Here.
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Go say hi to your eight people. If I were still on Twitter, I would just respond to all of her tweets with, how's your. How your eight friends? Just over and over again. All right, everybody, it's time for some good trouble.
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What are you guys doing?
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All right, you're good. Trouble this week from on offense from Chris Goldsmith, who says the Trump administration has proposed a rule that would strip abortion access and even abortion abortion counseling from the Department of Veterans affairs health benefits. They're trying to make it seem like the rollback is what veterans want. But the public comment page on the regulation is being flooded by copy paste spam from anti choice activists who are trying to game the system to push Christian nationalist policies in our nation's best and largest unified health care system. It's very nice to hear someone say that the VA is the best and largest health system because it is. No, for now. And Dana, I actually had a very productive phone call with a VA health provider, a GYN who is in a state that doesn't have an abortion ban and sends mifepristone to veterans in states that do.
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That's amazing.
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It's legal right now, but this rule would change that. Okay. Because of Biden. You know, Biden came in after Roe was overturned and said, all right, everywhere that's federal, you can do abortion stuff and you can do reproductive health care.
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Go.
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And that's still in place, but they want to rescind that rule. And that's what this comment period is about. It's. And it's. By the way, the comment period closes September 3rd. Right. On a holiday. Right. And that's on purpose. So we have until September 3rd to comment. And there will be a link in the show notes for you, giving you all the information about how to comment, what to say and what the link is to register your comment. So please flood them with comments and speak from your own experience, your own values, your own understanding of what this country owes its veterans. The most effective comments include your personal and professional perspective. They identify how the rule would impact you or your community and other specific recommendations or concerns. So again, we'll have that link for you in the show notes. Not your good trouble today. All right, everybody, stick around. We'll be right back with the good.
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News.
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We would love to hear about it. You can send it all to us@dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. And all you got to do to get your submission on the air is attach a photo of your pod pet. Bean means pay your pod pet tariff. And if you don't have a pet you can send an adoptable pet in your area. And if you don't have that, any animal photo is fine. Just crop one off the Internet. You can do a photo of your happy place, maybe your garden. Show us what you're growing or making or creating or crocheting or whatever it is. We have a lot of really amazing quilters who listen to this show. You can also send photos of your family if you want. Really? Baby pictures, Awkward family photos, bird watching photos. Can be an actual bird or you flipping the bird to Trump or Musk or whoever else sucks that that you happen to be passing by or something, you know, with their name on it. Anyway, send it all to us dailybeanspod.com and click on Contact. And in case you missed it or the link was omitted from the show notes and you couldn't find it on the Internet, the IRS is conducting a survey about its free online tax preparation. We covered this in the Good Trouble yesterday and I think that the link was missing from the show notes. So we will have it in the show notes this time for you. All right, first up, from anonymous Ranger Pronouns she and her hi, Allison and Dana. I've been a daily listener for several months, but I just pulled the trigger last Friday on becoming a patron. And oh my, what an amazing difference it makes to listen through Patreon with no commercials and having access to the tariff photos. The extra joy is well worth the small investment to support your work. Thank you, Anonymous Ranger. I put off becoming a patron because I'm a National Park Service employee who's very nervous about losing my job and I'm limiting all new expenses to save a nest egg. Very good idea. I'd like to send a shout out today to the 109th anniversary of the founding of the National Park Service. To my fellow rangers who are holding the line to preserve and protect our nation's most treasured places for the enjoyment, education and inspiration of this and future generations. The realities of the current environment weigh heavily on us all, but that so many continue to show up daily to try to fulfill our mission with professionalism, compassion and commitment is truly an inspiration. And it's a privilege to stand shoulder to shoulder with you Every day. I share photos of my beloved dogs whose breed should be pretty obvious but are commonly mistaken for smushy nose breeds, other smushy nose breeds. Thanks for all you do. And to my fellow Leguminati who aren't patrons yet, make the leap. You'll be amazed by the smile on your face at the end of every episode.
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Oh, the baby.
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Look at the little. By the way, the sequin Christmas outfit is fantastic.
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Yeah, Very, very cute. All right. This is from Cat in Albuquerque, New Mexico, my hometown. What up, eyebrows?
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Okay, Sorry, go ahead.
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Yeah, pronoun she, her and her hello beanie queenies. I love hearing DG mention New Mexico and all its beauty and wildness. Truly the wildest of the west. I've been listening since November and you ladies have been keeping me informed and sane. I work for local government and provide grants to behavioral health providers via gross receipts tax dollars. I'm trying to see the silver lining with the current state of things as Medicaid cuts will drastically impact my community. The silver lining is to tariffs is if prices are going to skyrocket, our grants to provide medical assisted treatment mental health services will also increase. I'm stressed but my partner and I decided to add another family member this weekend. Her name is Faye. She was rescued from the Animal Humane Society. I've included a picture of her and her sister Shenzi who was also a rescue. They remind me every day that life is precious thing worth protecting and I won't stop fighting for the good in the world. No matter what happens, keep strong because you keep us strong. Yep.
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Nice, nice. Look at this baby.
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Oh, eyebrows. Little cone head. Those so good. Oh, it said what we have. What? The mutt.
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Oh, we do.
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Okay, which one are we guessing?
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The top one with the cone. I think Rhodesian, Ridgeback, German shepherd and golden.
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Sure.
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And then this guy who's given me the side eye in the sweater. Chihuahua.
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Chihuahua lab mix. I don't know how big the dog is, Dobie.
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Maybe like a min pin or something. All right, let's see.
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Breed.
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Spoiler. Faye.
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Labrador, German shepherd mix and Shenzhenzi's a Manchester terrier.
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That's a full blown Manchester terrier.
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There you go.
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I just learned something new every day. Thanks, Kat. All right, next up, Anonymous. And the pronouns are she and her. Hi, AG and dg. This news is about the Pulse nightclub Rainbow. It's inspired me to tell you about my town of Lexington, Kentucky. We have a rainbow crosswalk downtown and our mayor, Linda Gorton received the same report that stated there was a lack of safety due to the design. However, Lexington city officials responded by saying they will not be removing our rainbow crosswalk as they feel it meets the federal requirements regarding crosswalks. Kentucky is a very red state, but has some big blue dots and I'm proud to live in one of them. Sorry for no podbet tax on my work computer and I wanted to quickly share this bit of good news. Thanks for all you do. Thank you. Anonymous.
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Oh, so sweet. All right, this is from Norm Bailey, Dean's, Queens. I'm going to assume that's where the daily beans Queens. I'm a courier for a hospital here in Southern Idaho. Listening to the podcast during my drive to the Sun Valley area to bring blood and tissue samples back to the local hospital certainly provides knowledge, entertainment and sometimes absolute fits of pissed off. Not your fault. During my trips north, I have the pleasure of seeing a herd of 50 to 70 of these beautiful beasts. There's a pic below A little late, but we have a no Kings rally and the local police were out in force after speaking with one of them. They were there to protect the protesters from the maggots. Yes, I'm a blue dot in a crimson red square state where lifted trucks, mullets, unkept beards, camo underwear and tiny dicks are all in fashion. Thank you for both, for all you do. I had the best time listening to the slang terms by generation. It was cool. Genji Groovy. Far out boss. Out of sight. Right on. Heavy hip, rad, tubular, gnarly, bodacious and bitching. Far out ladies.
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Far out.
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Here's a shout out to my wife of over 25 years for bringing me to the blue side. Oh, I could not be happier and have no thoughts of ever changing. That gives me my feels. Here's some good news. The hospital I work for recently put a mobile mammogram bus into service. The bus goes to the outlying communities to provide health care to the people that are underserved because of distance, lack of time. We are a large farming area and time is precious. Lack of funding on the patient's parts and many other reasons. My good news is that I'm lucky enough to get to drive the bus to these communities. I've been totally enthralled by the GCN attack on DJT by emulating his speech and we're talking about Gavin Newsom, everybody. And writing patterns. It seems to have triggered many on the wrong side of politics. I say let's do more. Why don't we all start calling the right the deep state woke get them out by draining the swamp. Hopefully that will trigger them more for my POD pet tariff, I have attached pictures of Asta, our oldest and sweetest. She has a very soft heart and is oh my gosh and is crushed when we just discipline her sister. Oh, when we discipline her sister. The sister? That's Stella, the black pain in the ass. She's very needy. Sleeps between us for a good portion of the night. Oh yeah, they weigh around 100 pounds each. Whoa. Yep, Keep up the good work. There are a lot of us out here who appreciate you you okay?
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A hundred pounds. So they're not poodles. Are they Bernadoodles? Are they like, they look like that?
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That second one definitely looks like a burner noodle.
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Yeah. The first one just looks like a poodle, though. But it's £100.
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Like a schnauzer.
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It's like maybe one of those new fees or something. Sorry, that's what they're called. A schnauzer doodle. A schnoodle.
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It's a schnoodle.
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All right. Asta, the light colored pup is half Saint Bernard. Half Standard pun. It's a bernadoodle. We got it. Stella, the black pup is three quarters poodle and a quarter Saint Bernard.
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Another. Oh, my gosh.
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Bernadoodle. Just. Okay. But it's more poodle than. And yes, they're half sisters. Oh, my goodness.
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Oh, my God, they're so cute.
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Thank you so much for that, Norm. That's awesome. Appreciate that. Yeah. And I love what Gavin Newsom is doing, too. All right, next up, from Julie Pronoun. She and her. Hey, Beans Queens. I wanted to share this touching moment I experienced yesterday. Today, Monday, August 25, is the anniversary of the founding of the National Park Service. We have so many amazing rangers and national park enthusiasts. My kids and I wanted to do something nice for our local park rangers, so my son's made a card for them, and I picked up coffee and donuts. We stopped by this morning and thanked the rangers for all they do, and they were so touched that they started crying. It was a beautiful moment. I encourage everyone to please just take some time this week to thank a park ranger. They protect and manage our green spaces and our historic sites, both of which are under threat by Mango Mussolini, not to mention how he has gutted their staff. They don't get enough recognition for what they do. They're so deserving of our thanks and our appreciation. Especially now I'm including pics of the card and us with the rangers at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site.
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Nice, Julie.
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Thanks for doing that. And the kids making this card so sweet. The drawings are super impressive. That's. Look at that. That's art.
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I love this.
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And that's a beautiful photo as well.
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Yeah. Thank you so much. All right, this next one's from Tara. Pronouns she and her hello, AG and dg. Can you please clear something up for me? I've been listening to the podcast for a few months now and become a subscriber.
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Yay.
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But every time you both sign up in the podcast, I think I know what you're saying, but I can't 100% be sure, and it's driving me bonkers ever since I started listening to your show. What I hear when you sign up off is, I've been ag. And I've been ag, and I've been dg, But I highly doubt that the two of you are referring to yourself in past tense. So I highly suspect that you're saying I'm being AG and I'm being dg, which seems more logical to me, even though that's not exactly what I hear in my brain. Okay, Tara, the fact that you just said that, it really should be that way, but. But what we're actually saying is what your brain doesn't want us to say, which is our names in a past tense. But I think it's hysterical. If you're being AG and I'm being dg, I.
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Like I'm being agey.
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I do, too. Okay, I say brain and not ears because I have auditory processing disorder, apd, Which I've had for years, but was diagnosed. Wasn't diagnosed until I was an adult. APD is not a hearing issue. It's actually a condition where the brain has trouble processing sounds despite normal hearing. AB so even though I have normal hearing, I rely heavily on closed captioning when I watch television. Closed captions don't help with podcasts, though. Certain sounds and or words just tend to turn into mush into my brain, so I have a tendency to mishear things. It sure does make life interesting sometimes, especially when trying to communicate with my wife. Thank goodness she's patient understanding about my APD and knows that when my brain hears grab the whale, she was actually saying, get the mail, and it takes a little longer than most to register that is really what she's saying. Anyway, if you can clarify what you're saying when you sign off, that would be fantastic. For my pod pet tariff, I'm attached a pic of our two beautiful rescues. Zoe, our tan white shih tzu, and Piper, our gray and white Lhaso apso. Both of them have incredibly rough starts to life, but now they're living like queens, like, every single day. Thanks for all you both do to make this world a better place. Tara, you have no idea how happy this submission made me. I am sorry, though, that you deal with that, with not being able to understand the words even though there's no hearing issue. I can understand why you were confused by this, and I think that we've made the wrong decision. I think, and I know we're not going to change it. But I'm being agey and I'm being DG is hysterical. But we are saying our names in the past tense. I've been AG and I've been dg and that's the beans.
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And I got this a long time ago watching old news programs where that's how they sign off. I've been. This has been, you know, this has been the daily beans.
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Yeah.
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I've been Allison Gill. I still am and I will be tomorrow.
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Yeah.
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But for the duration of this show, I've been Alison Gill. It's just, just something I've always said and I would love to hear from other people about this because this has come up several times if you're not new to this show. I've always signed off as I've been and people are always like, what do you mean you've been? You still are. If, if anyone else knows where I picked that up from or if you do that too, I would love to hear from you. And I'd also love to hear from you if you don't. And then maybe we can have a poll.
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There you go.
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But I, I can't quite put my finger on where I heard it first and why I do it that way, but I just always have.
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I don't know. I like it. I like our sign off. It makes me happy.
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I do too. But I also, like I'm being agey.
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I know, it's really cute, Tara. That made me laugh.
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And, and what's interesting is I don't know if it's a hearing problem or just a processing problem for me, but I often hear something other than what the person said. And it'll just take me a second, but I'll. I'll unwind it and figure it out. But oftentimes what I hear is so much better than whatever somebody said to me that I always. Yeah, I, well, it's not better. Like I'm better than them, but funnier or weird and makes me laugh, I should say. And I'm like, did you just say earn more sessions by sleeving or whatever it is.
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I love when that I, I mean, imagine if this happens all the time. Must be so frustrating. But those moments that are sporadic, when I get to be like, like, okay, let me tell you what I heard you say and then you can tell me if that's what you said. Yeah, yeah.
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And if you can name the movie Earn more sessions by sleeving, boy, I would be really impressed. So thank you, everybody. We need all of your good news, please send it to us daily beanspod.com click on contact and and thanks to all the new patrons who have joined us. Thank you for supporting independent media. You make this show possible. I am deep, deep in the throes of planning what I'm going to call the IT Gala, Dana, for patrons. So when it happens, we can all have a big giant party.
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B
Oh.
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Oh, so and that we have galas all the time. You come to, if you're a patron, we, you get to come to these galas and I buy everybody dinner and I, I get an open bar and buy everybody drinks and we have a really, really wonderful time and some great guests. But I am the next one I really want to do is the IT Gala. So if you know, if you know.
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What I'm talking about, if you know, you know.
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If you know, you know, if you know, you know. All right, everybody, we'll be back in your ears tomorrow. Do you have any final thoughts, Dana?
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Not at all.
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All right, we'll see you tomorrow. Until then, please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health and take care of your family. I've been aging.
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I've been dg.
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