Allison Gill (AG) (2:38)

It's a good song. I like that. Not the fuckery, the song. So thank you for singing it today. This afternoon, if you're around and you're a patron of this program or the cleanup on aisle 45 podcast, Harry Dunn and I are hosting a Zoom Q and A happy hour party to tonight at 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific. Look forward to that. We will not be covering the inauguration here at all. And, and since it's Fugal Sang Friday here on the Daily Beans, I'll be speaking with him about his counter programming. He's doing a big special on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and love it later in the show. I'm so thankful for him doing that. So that farewell speech, Dana, did you watch any part of that?

Dana Goldberg (3:19)

I did see some of the clips. I did not watch the in its entirety, but it was alarmin. He did a really good job. There was, you know, you're allowed to be a little braggadocious. You had one of the best presidencies in our lifetime. You're leaving an incredible economy to a thief. But there was that stark warning that we're going into an oligarchy if we're not already there.

Allison Gill (AG) (3:42)

Yeah. And most of his speech, he didn't spend really a lot of time at all touting him. His, you know, accomplishments.

Dana Goldberg (3:50)

Yeah, just a bit.

Allison Gill (AG) (3:51)

Harris's accomplishments. But man, he sure did have a lot of warnings for us. And Harry Dunn and I go over it a little more in detail on the bonus episode of Cleanup this weekend. But I, my jaw was on the floor. I never thought I'd hear a sitting president warn against a potential oligarchy on the rise in America. I was like, wow. He said the, he said it twice and then warned about misinformation and disinformation on social media. And it was, it was pretty stunned. Then I teared up at the end. You know, when he started, when he said, you know, you have the watch or yeah, you're on the guard now, or I was like, oh, I'm going.

Dana Goldberg (4:31)

To get over to the American people. Yeah, yeah, I'm. God, I just, you know, we want to be positive on the show and give you some hope. That's what we do. And some levity. But we're also not going to sugarcoat it. This is going to be a hard four years, and hopefully it's only four years, but we're in for an interesting time in our history and we've got, we've got a lot of work to do, a lot of work to do, a lot of fighting back to do, a lot of calling out to do and a lot of supporting each other.

Allison Gill (AG) (4:59)

Yeah. And rest when you need to. A lot of us thought we would be able to rest a little bit these next four years, and that has surreptitiously been taken away. But I think it's a lesson that we never really do get to rest. There's always work to do. I know Kamala Harris reiterated that multiple times during her campaign. You know, we win, we fight, we win. But this is just the beginning of the work. It's just a different kind of work. And we, I think if we maintain our joyful warrior posture, but make sure to take breaks when we need to, we have each other, and that's what I think is important. So.

Dana Goldberg (5:36)

Absolutely. Well said, my friend.

Allison Gill (AG) (5:38)

Thank you so much. I've. I'm at the end of a very long day today. I recorded 96 podcasts today. Yes.

Dana Goldberg (5:43)

107, 142.

Allison Gill (AG) (5:46)

And, you know, today, Friday, there'll be a new episode of the Jack Smith audio version. You can get that in the free Jack podcast feed. So we're putting that out. We're the only. We're the only ones doing it.

Dana Goldberg (6:02)

Dana.

Allison Gill (AG) (6:02)

This was so funny. I. I stayed up till, like, midnight the night that Jack Smith Volume one report dropped. Like, I'm going to record the first episode. We're going to be first out. We're going to be the first ones to get an audio thing. I got to beat everybody. All of our producers and editors and network directors were working to put this thing out the door, and we did it. And I'm like, yes, we're first. And then nobody fucking else is doing it.

Dana Goldberg (6:24)

We're the only. Your reputation precedes you. And they knew that this was going to happen or people are not doing their due diligence in their jobs, and that is informing the American people.

Allison Gill (AG) (6:36)

Yes. And this weekend's Jack episode is the last episode of it, known as the Jack Podcast. We're changing the name of it, and we'll be back the very following Sunday. We're not going to miss any shows, but Andy McCabe and I are starting a new project called Unjustified, and we are going to be keeping an eye on Donald Trump's Justice Department, as we should, given Pam Bondi's Fucked Up Jesus. I don't even want to call them responses to some of the questions that she. She was handed. But anyway, I just want to thank President Biden for that farewell speech. And we do have a lot of news to get to today, so we're going to have some quick hits to.

Dana Goldberg (7:13)

Make a long story short. All right, here we go. OB Bush and the Clintons won't be attending the inaugural lunch, having formally turned down the invitation, but they are going to be at the swearing, and I have feelings about that. I understand it's tradition, but when you. We just heard the president of the United States say we are heading into an oligarchy and a warning. It's so hard to watch them sit and watch this person be sworn in to do just that. Yeah.

Allison Gill (AG) (7:40)

Take an oath that they have no intention of holding of upholding. Michelle Obama's not going. She said nah.

Dana Goldberg (7:47)

Yeah.

Allison Gill (AG) (7:48)

So I love it. We'll see. We're not going to be covering it and I'm not going to be watching it. I encourage everybody to keep your TVs off that day. Don't watch online, don't watch on YouTube. Just don't give it any oxygen if you can, if you can help it. Next up, Rudy was a no show at his bench trial over his Palm beach condo and whether he'll have to hand it over and his World Series rings to Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss. Harry Dunn and I are going to cover that on the next week's Clinical 45. But after about two hours of no showing and then coming back after lunch and still nothing happening, apparently Ruby Freeman, Shay Moss and Rudy have reached a settlement agreement and we don't know too much about it other than Rudy will get to retain his properties. And an undisclosed amount of money is being given to Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss along with the promise that he's not going to talk about them at all anymore ever. We'll see if that holds up, but we'll go into detail on clean up on aisle 45 next week.

Dana Goldberg (8:46)

All right, thanks, Ag. And last in this section, entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban. He's ready to fund a TikTok alternative that is built on blue skies at protocol. He shared that in a TikTok video posted on Wednesday in anticipation of the coming US TikTok ban, which we'll go through on Sunday unless paused by the Supreme Court. But I think there's a bit of an extension that from the president right now. I've been watching under the Desk news. I don't think the ban is going into effect on Sunday, but users have been fleeing to other platforms because of this threat, including Chinese app RedNote. But investors like Cuban see the potential for a more open social web that includes an ecosystem of apps powered by the same technology that today underpins Bluesky's social networks. So I, I really and have been enjoying Mark Cuban a lot and what he's been saying and doing publicly to try and save the democracy in this country as well.

Allison Gill (AG) (9:38)

Yeah, especially our social media platforms. You know, Twitter, we all went to blue sky. Instagram, we could all go to flashes, which is going to be built on blue, which is like a photo app built on blue skies at Protocol. And now Mark Cuban wants to fund a TikTok style app. So we'll see how that all works out for good old Fuckerberg and Elon Musk. In the end, it's just going to end up being like a 4chan 8chan truth social getter bullshit platform. These places. Hopefully they go bankrupt. All right, we have more news to get to. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. And I just want to clarify before we get into the hot notes that I wasn't grouping TikTok in with the Zuckerberg and Twitter sitch. Although the head of TikTok will also be on the deus at the inauguration. All right, first up from Reuters. Aides to President elect Donald Trump have asked three senior career diplomats who oversee the U.S. state Department's workforce and internal coordination to step down from their roles. According to two officials familiar. This is a possible signal of deeper changes ahead for the diplomatic corps, the team overseeing the State Department's transition to the new administration. The agency review team has requested that Derek Hogan, Marsha Burnicat, and Elena Teplitz leave their posts. While political appointees typically submit their resignations when a new president takes office, most career foreign service officers continue from one administration to the next. All three officials have worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations throughout the years, including as ambassadors. Trump, who will be inaugurated on Monday, pledged during his presidential campaign to clean out the deep state by firing bureaucrats that he deems disloyal. Quote, there's a little bit of concern that this might be setting the stage for something worse. That's what One of the U.S. officials familiar with the matter said in response to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Trump's transition team said it is entirely appropriate for the transition to seek officials who share President Trump's vision for putting our nation. And you know what? I'm not going to read the rest of this statement. It is not appropriate. Okay? And these three State Department officials, I happen to know some folks who are very concerned about this personally, because these are the three people who, if the administration wants to do something fucked up or untoward to one of the people or people, multiple people who work at the State Department, these are the folks who would advise against it. So they're going after the teams of people who would protect our federal civil servants and career federal employees. A State Department spokesman said the department has no personnel announcements to make. Hogan, Bernicat Teplitz did not respond to requests for comment. Trump is likely to adopt more confrontational foreign policy and has vowed to bring peace between Ukraine and Russia and give more support to Israel. He has also pushed for unorthodox policies, such as trying to make Greenland part of the United States and pushing NATO allies for higher defense spending. A diplomatic workforce that dutifully implements rather than pushes back will be key to achieving his goals. The decision to ask the three to step aside is reminiscent of staff shakeups at the State Department during the first Trump administration, when several key officials and leadership positions were removed from their jobs, according to two separate sources familiar with Trump's plans for the State Department. The administration plans to appoint more political appointees to positions such as assistant secretary, which are typically filled by a mix of career and political bureaucrats, these sources said. Trump's team wants to get more politically appointed officials deeper into the State Department, as there was a pervasive feeling among his aides that his agenda was derailed by career diplomats in his first term. His illegal shit was derailed by career diplomats, and not just targeting political appointees who are experts at State Department stuff, but specifically targeting the people in the State Department who protect everyone else in the State Department is what's frightening. They know what they're doing. This time, the agency review team is already interviewing candidates for such positions, according to the State Department's website. Hogan is the State Department's executive secretary, the official that manages the flow of information between department bureaus and the White House. Berna Cat is the director general of the US Foreign Service and director of global talent, leading the recruitment, assignment and career development of the department's workforce. Assistant Secretary Teplitz has been with the department over three decades, serving overseas as well as in Washington, and most recently she has been implementing the duties under secretary for management, which oversees more than a dozen bureaus responsible for issues from the budget to recruitment, procurement and human resources across the workforce. Quote, these are not policy positions. This is all the mechanics of the bureaucracy. That's what Dennis Jett, a professor at Penn State School of International affairs who spent 28 years in the Foreign Service, said. But if you want to control the bureaucracy, that's the way you do it. Choosing who fills these roles would allow Trump's team to divert resources to and from parts of the State Department, control the information gathered by the numerous bureaus and embassies and manage personnel decisions. The request for officials to step down came as Marco Rubio, Trump's nominee for secretary of state, was testifying on Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in his confirmation hearing. On his campaign website, Trump laid out how in 10 steps he would, quote, shatter deep state and fire rogue bureaucrats and career politicians. The first of those steps is to reissue a 2020 executive order that would have removed employment protections for certain civil servants, making it easier to fire them. Opponents of the plan, called Schedule F after the new class of civil servants it would create, say stripping employment protections from government workers would be an effort by Trump to politicize the federal bureaucracy and carry out his policy agenda. Normally, presidents get to choose several thousand of their own political appointees, but the career civil service, around 2 million workers, is left alone. Schedule F would give Trump the power to fire up to 50,000 of those and replace them with like minded loyalists. Taking charge of the state's personnel would, quote, expedite the process of appointing loyal officials. Unions and government watchdogs have said they plan to sue Trump if he carries out his promise to reintroduce a Schedule.

Dana Goldberg (16:01)

F. Thanks so much Alison. This one is from Scott Wong at NBC. Speaker Mike Johnson has informed Rep. Mike Turner he's a Republican from Ohio that he will no longer be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and that's according to a GOP leadership source with a Republican lawmaker familiar with the matter. The lawmaker said Turner told him Wednesday that he would not be staying on as head of the critical panel that conducts oversight of the US Intelligence community. The House Intelligence Committee chair is also a member of the so called quote, gang of Eight congressional leaders who received some of the most sensitive classified briefings from the intelligence community. Johnson confirmed the news later Wednesday, but he downplayed the change as he offered praise for Turner. The top post of the Intelligence Committee is one of the few positions directly chosen by the speaker of the House at the start of a new Congress. Johnson said he would make an announcement about Turner's replacement on Thursday. In a statement Wednesday night, Turner, who's a staunch NATO supporter and who aggressively pushed for US Aid for Ukraine, said he was proud of his time serving on and leading the committee. His office said Turner would only be serving on the Armed Services and Oversight and Government Reform committees in the new Congress, meaning he's no longer going to have a seat on the intelligence panel. The decision to replace Turner stunned lawmakers in both parties, given that Turner, who's a defense hawk is what they're calling him, is well respected on both sides of the aisle. A former mayor of Dayton, Turner belongs to the GOP's Main street caucus, which describes its members as, quote, pragmatic. Other lawmakers in the caucus said that they were frustrated by Johnson's decision to oust one of their own. One member said the move erodes trust and could complicate Republicans ability to pass Trump's 2025 agenda, giving their paper thin majority. I hope that's true. Democrats on the Intelligence Committee said that they did not get any warning that Turner was being removed and this is a quote, I'm enormously concerned because I think you'd be hard pressed to find somebody as fair minded, said Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut. And he's the top Democrat on the intelligence panel. That quote right there is probably the one reason why they took him off. They don't want fair minded people right now leading any committee. He added that Turner quote, and I had our disagreements but you know, I had confidence in him. Again, this is from Jim Himes. With Trump days away from returning to the White House, Democrats have been sounding the alarm that top intelligence and national security posts they're being influenced by presidential politics and they are.

Allison Gill (AG) (18:34)

It's going to be so much worse than people thought. Yep, we've been talking about this for a while. And from Steve Karnowski at the Associated Press Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and House Democrats have asked the state's highest court to intervene in a partisan power struggle that is roiled at the start of the 2025 legislative session. As the standoff extended into a second day on Wednesday, Simon, a Democrat, petitioned the Minnesota Supreme Court late Tuesday to declare that he legally remains the presiding officer in the Minnesota House for now and that Tuesday's election of a GOP leader, Lisa DeMuth, as Speaker, was invalid. He asked the court to back his position that 68 members are needed for a quorum to conduct any official business in the chamber, quote, because the members of the House lacked this constitutionally required quorum on January 14, Representative DeMuth has not properly been elected speaker and the House cannot transact business. That's what Simon's lawyers wrote. Until a quorum is present and a speaker is properly elected, the secretary remains the House's presiding officer and his role may not be usurped. House Democrats boycotted the opening day of the session in an effort to deny Republicans that quorum and blocked them from exploiting a temporary one vote majority. Temporary to unseat one Democrat and advance the GOP agenda. This is a power grab. Is is what this is. They also petitioned the Supreme Court late Tuesday, asking the high court to prohibit Republican lawmakers from conducting any business until a quorum of at least 68 members is reached and to declare any actions taken in the meantime, quote, without lawful authority, null and void. The Supreme Court put the two challenges on a fast track, consolidating them and scheduling oral arguments for January 23. The official House GOP response is due by Tuesday. The number two House GOP leader Harry Niska of Ramsey told reporters they will comply with the court's ultimate ruling, quote, but we think that just like the executive branch can't stop the Legislature from functioning, we don't think the courts are going to try to stop the Legislature from functioning either. Now the main task of the legislative session is to pass a balanced two year budget in time for it to take effect on July 1st, and that will eventually require bipartisan cooperation. And both sides agree they can't pass actual bills without 68 votes under their rules. Democratic Governor Tim Walz is scheduled to roll out his budget proposal Thursday. All seats on the Democrats side of the chamber were empty when the House Republicans convened the floor session Wednesday to conduct what normally would be routine matters such as the election of the chief clerk. The November election resulted in a house tied at 67 to 67, and top leaders from both parties started to work out power sharing agreements on the assumption they would be evenly split this year. But a judge last month declared that a newly elected Democrat, Curtis Johnson, didn't live in his district. That gave Republicans a temporary, temporary 6766 majority until a special election can take place Jan. 28. Since the district, which includes Roseville, is heavily Democratic, the election is expected to restore the tie. Democrats are especially worried because Republicans have threatened to use their two week majority to refuse to seat another Democrat, Rep. Brad Tabke of Shakopee, who won his race by 14 votes. A court declared Tabke the legal winner and rejected the GOP effort to force a special election in his swing district. Efforts to revive a power sharing deal in the House failed. The chamber's top Democrat, Melissa Hortman of Brooklyn park, said Tuesday that DeMuth refused to commit to letting Tabke keep his seat, even though she offered a deal that would have allowed DeMuth to serve as speaker all session. Lawyers for the state GOP and an allied group on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to invalidate Tim Walls's order setting a January 28th date for the Roseville special election. They argued that he set the date earlier than the state law allows because the seat wasn't officially vacant until the Legislature convened on Tuesday. Man, they're just trying everything in the book. Assistant Attorney General Nathan Hartshorn countered that the seat became vacant Dec. 27 after Johnson lost in court and notified the governor he would not contest the judge's ruling. Hartshorn said the governor acted lawfully to fill the seat as soon as possible. The justices said they were mindful that the disputes are intertwined and that they'll rule quickly. I'm going to keep an eye on this for you, but that's some going on from Republicans in the Minnesota state House.

Dana Goldberg (23:07)

Not surprised. Thanks so much, Allison. This one's from Matt Dixon at NBC. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed state Attorney General Ashley Moody to the U.S. senate, setting her up to fill the seat of Senator Marco Rubio, whom unfortunately President Elect Donald Trump. He tapped him to be Secretary of State. Little Rubio apparently is in his good graces. Rubio was selected to serve in Trump's administration shortly after Trump won the 2024 presidential race, handing DeSantis a Senate appointment that is likely to have ripple effects across Florida's government and politics. It has widely been expected in recent weeks that Moody would be the pick. While others, including Reps. Kamek and Corey Mills, did talk to DeSantis about the position, DeSantis said publicly he had reservations about appointing a member of the House because of the GOP slim majority in that chamber. Now, State Senator Jay Collins, who serves as a Green Beret, also got considerable support from conservatives who wanted DeSantis to pick a military veteran. But ultimately the seat is going to go to Moody. She's 49. She won easily, by the way, her first election in 2018 to become attorney general and her reelection bid in 2022. She was unable to run again due to term limits. She will have to run in 2026, a special election to keep the seat for the final two years of Rubio's term. Now Mills has already said he's running For Senate in 2026, as first reported by Politico, and Kamek is mulling a run as well, meaning Moody's likely to face a Republican primary challenger, if not more than one. DeSantis has not previously signaled publicly who he would pick to fill Rubio's seat, but he said the person will be a hardliner on immigration, including pushing reforms to the so called H1B visa program, which has been the subject of intense internal post election fights among Trump's own supporters. Now Trump backers like billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk have said the program offers low cost international talent for many companies, while the populist wing of the MAGA movement, led by people like conservative pundit Steve Bannon, white supremacist Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer have said the program should be abolished. Trump said in late December that he believes the program is great. Moody's pick is also likely to reshuffle DeSantis own political orbit. It's widely believed that longtime DeSantis chief staff James Uthmeyer will now be appointed to fill Moody's post, requiring that DeSantis select a new top staffer. Uffmeyer served as the campaign manager for DeSantis failed 2024 presidential bid and he's considered one of his closest confidence man.

Allison Gill (AG) (25:49)

Remember that 2024 presidential run by. Remember Elon Musk tried to launch it on Twitter and it just didn't work.

Dana Goldberg (25:56)

Yeah, all a mess. All a mess.

Allison Gill (AG) (25:58)

All a huge mess. And of course, Elon is like, Trump, I'll give you the presidency, but you have to make sure I can have all my H1B visa employees that I brought in after firing thousands of folks here from Twitter and Tesla and SpaceX or whatever.

Dana Goldberg (26:15)

Yeah.

Allison Gill (AG) (26:15)

So, yeah, it's going to be a real interesting big bag of rats, as Stephanie Miller likes to call it. And we'll keep an eye on it for you. All right, it's time for some good trouble.

Dana Goldberg (26:23)

What are you guys doing?

Allison Gill (AG) (26:27)

All right, pretty simple today. Keep writing those letters to urge Merrick Garland to dismiss the charges against Trump's co defendants in the Florida documents case, Walt Nada and Carlos de Oliveira, so that he can release volume two of the report. Today, Democrats on the House Judiciary wrote him a letter urging the same. I was a little bit honored by that since I told everybody to write these letters last week. And now the House Judiciary Committee's like, yeah, you know, do this, drop these two cases and, and release volume two other. Otherwise it's going to end up in the, literally the shreddy dustbin of history after January 20th. So I wonder if, I wonder if the House Judiciary listens to our podcast. All right, you can find the reasons.

Dana Goldberg (27:10)

That some of them do and the.

Allison Gill (AG) (27:11)

Instructions on how to do this, how to write this letter and what to say. You can find it on my substack@melissarote.com which is always free to subscribe. And it's, you know, if you want to kick in some, some money to support us, that's real cool. But it's, it's free. Otherwise, I don't like, lock up any content for paid subscribers. So thank you so much everybody, and I appreciate you subscribing. Dana. We just passed 600, 000 views on our sub stack. So.

Dana Goldberg (27:38)

Amazing. Well done. Well done.

Allison Gill (AG) (27:39)

Really, really proud of that 600, 000 views this month. All right, everybody, stick around. We'll be right back with John Fugal saying after these messages.

Dana Goldberg (27:47)

We'll be right back.

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Allison Gill (AG) (28:50)

Hey everybody, welcome back. It's Friday on the Daily Beans, which means it's Fugal Sang Fridays. That's right, we're talking to my friend, host of Tell me everything on SiriusXM progress channel 127 weeknights, 9pm Eastern, 6 Pacific. And of course, if you don't have Sirius, you can always listen to the John Fugelsang show podcast. But you definitely don't want to miss this show if you can help it. Independent media is growing. It's important. Yes, we're taking over from corporate media and it was just a matter of time. Please welcome my friend, John Fugelsang.

John Fugelsang (29:24)

All the facts with none of the groveling. Welcome. It's great to see you, Ms. Gill. And let me congratulate you for not joining the Capitulation Weasel train to mar a lago to kiss the ring and lick the boot and bend the knee for these stooges.

Allison Gill (AG) (29:39)

It was a pretty easy decision. In fact, I didn't even think I needed to tell anybody that I wasn't covering the inauguration. And until I saw other friends of mine saying that they weren't going to cover the inauguration. And then I was like, I better just let everybody know that I'm not covering it.

John Fugelsang (29:54)

I had to let our listeners at SiriusXM and the heads of my channel know that come this Monday, we are going to have a fantastic special on the life and activism of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, focusing not just on the civil rights work, which is all anyone ever talks about. They don't talk about how he was at the end of his Life as anti war and anti militarism and as pro labor as he was pro civil rights and voting rights. He died at a garbage worker strike. So I'm really excited to have a fantastic special on Monday the 20th acknowledging MLK, the man who fought racism and not the racist who is getting inaugurated. We're not going to talk about it. If he signs an executive order, I'll talk about it that day. But I am not talking about this little fascist pageant. Not interested. I think God is weighing in by making it 30 degrees colder than it normally is on that day in January. And there's not going to be anything there that I don't need to know what Stephen Miller wrote that bad, right?

Allison Gill (AG) (30:54)

No. Or Scavino or whoever the fuck. And you know, you talk about. Go back to MLK for a minute. His anti military industrial complex was echoed by President Biden in his farewell speech. And the anti tech industrial complex warning of an oligarchy in America on the rise. I think it's here, but my jaw was on the floor to hear President Biden say that. Wish he said it two years ago.

John Fugelsang (31:25)

That's exactly what I was going to say. If only he had given this speech the day after the midterms in 2022. That's when we needed it. And then to build on the campaign from there, he said a lot of things and laid out a lot of terrific policies that I think we could have heard about years and years ago.

Allison Gill (AG) (31:42)

Yeah, let's talk about the Supreme Court stuff because you know, in his speech he called and he has been calling just, you know, I guess either the corporate media hasn't been picking it up or it got buried in a commission subcommittee for study. But that we need 18 year term limits on the Supreme Court. We need an amendment to turn over the immunity, the horrible anti forefathers immunity decision, anti reason America exists immunity decision handed down by the Supreme Court, which Jack Smith, by the way outlined in his report spending about God, more than 25% of his report talking about the delay caused by the Supreme Court that pushed these trials or ended these trials, at least pushed them past the election. Not that it would have made it through a second round of Supreme Court immunity briefs, but very fascinating. Again, I wish these concepts had been raised earlier. I think that the Democrat, you know, regardless of the message though, John, I think a lot of the problem which is kind of being addressed by Ben Wickler who's running to be the DNC chair, the elections are February 1st. Going onto podcasts and saying here's the problem. We weren't in enough ears. We didn't reach enough people.

John Fugelsang (32:58)

Yes, the facts didn't reach enough people.

Allison Gill (AG) (33:00)

Exactly. And so whatever the message is, I don't think we can sit and say at least, I don't feel comfortable sitting and saying that the messaging that the Democrats decided to go with during the Kamala Harris campaign was the wrong messaging. Because the message. I don't know that we can pick that apart. Because the message didn't get to the people.

John Fugelsang (33:20)

That's correct. When this many people believe that violence is worse in 2024 than it was under Trump, when this many people think that America has worse inflation than our capitalist allies. I mean, when this many people think that the unemployment rate is somehow higher now than it was under Donald Trump. I mean, lies are what won this election. Lies. And 49% of the people who showed up to vote.

Allison Gill (AG) (33:45)

Yeah. And, you know, we've got people Googling tariff. The day after the election, we've got people googling if they can change their votes enough people thought they could change their votes that they decided to vote for Donald Trump. And now after President Biden's farewell speech, everyone's googling what an oligarchy is. And we've been sitting here talking about it forever. And meanwhile, that message isn't getting through. So I'm really looking forward to more information and insight from Ben Wickler, who has done incredible things for Wisconsin. But to sit there and say, this is a shortcoming and this is how we fix it. I was very, very. Cause, you know, I've been asking, like, is anybody going to do a. Come out and say what the mistakes were, or are we just going to kind of COVID our ears and say we did everything perfectly and keep going with what didn't work? So I was happy to hear that.

John Fugelsang (34:33)

I mean, I think, I think, I think, you know, you're. You're making the best case I've heard yet, which, I mean, look, the two stains on the president's record, because, again, people have already forgotten he pardoned his kid. That's going to seem so innocent by Valentine's Day. But the two stains will be that they didn't do enough to stop this fascist thug from achieving power again after. I mean, like, you'd think that cops brutally, violently beaten on the Capitol steps for a goddamn lie would be enough to see some action, and it wasn't. So that's going to be a stain on him. And, of course, allowing the deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians are going to be the two things. But I do think that Biden's presidency will be a lot like Jimmy Carter's in that after all the abuse and taunting, historians will actually measure all the good that really happened under what may have been the most decent man to hold the job since Jimmy Carter.

Allison Gill (AG) (35:27)

Yeah, and I wanted to talk about something else because I thought of you this morning when I was listening to the opening of the gaveling in of confirmation hearing. I think it was Doug Burgum who's trying to exciting.

John Fugelsang (35:41)

Oh, I missed that.

Allison Gill (AG) (35:43)

Boy, it's like as George Carlin said, it's like watching flies fuck. And I was kind of taken aback, not shocked, but just like, oh really? Because the irony just doesn't exist anymore because less than 24 hours after Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen went on, you know, it said publicly in a congressional hearing, oh come on, we're all cheaters and drunks. We've all cheated on our wives. If not for our wives, I'd be in prison. And then the next morning they open with a prayer.

John Fugelsang (36:21)

Yeah, and first of all, what's your question?

Allison Gill (AG) (36:24)

Mr. So first of all, I mean the long question, why are we fucking praying? And the well of the Senate. But aside from, you know, we'll get to that, we'll read all about it in your new book coming out, the Separation of Church and Hate. But just the, I don't know, do we need to talk about the hypocrisy here?

John Fugelsang (36:43)

Because it's my favorite substance.

Allison Gill (AG) (36:46)

But I, you know, I tell you what it's like. Your, your mission here is to wield their own hypocrisy as a cudgel against them. So what are your thoughts on it?

John Fugelsang (36:55)

I mean, look, Jesus shows us the way. My favorite thing Jesus does next to the universal love for all people, including the most despised. And, and the magic tricks. Great. I'm Jesus first great Jew magician as far as I'm concerned. You want to talk Houdini, you want to talk amazing Randy, you want to talk Kreskin, all the great Jewish magicians, even David Blaine. Yes, I say great Jewish magician. But even more than that, what I love the most about Jesus is how he called out conservative religious hypocrisy time and time again. It sort of helped him get killed. But consistently in the book, he calls out the religious authorities for their hypocrisy. And you don't need to believe in the Bible as absolute literal fact to point out that these greedy bastards don't follow the character of Jesus. They claim to fetishize. He's a prop they wave over their heads. There is no Christ based justification for Donald Trump's support. Again, these are people who find racist lies about black presidents or innocent Haitian migrants acceptable. These are people who find executions and assassinations acceptable. These are people. These are people who find beating cops up for a lie to be acceptable. So you don't need to believe in Jesus as literal fact to point out that they don't follow him. And the question you should always ask is tell me the exact teaching of Jesus. Chapter and verse one that Trump MAGA or the GOP follow. Chapter and verse, please. And that's how you'll find out that these people have never read that book and they have no idea what's in it.

Allison Gill (AG) (38:29)

Yeah. And the people who have can't find a chapter or a verse.

John Fugelsang (38:32)

That's right. They always quote St. Paul or they'll quote Leviticus. And I have to say, that's not Jesus. You know the books Jesus is in and they'll say, well, Jesus is in the Old Testament because of the Trinity and he's always there. So everything in the Old Testament is true. And that's what I say. Oh, so then I guess A, you don't believe in the New Covenant, and B, if you believe everything in the Old Testament, I guess thanks to Leviticus 20:10 commanding you to stone adulterers to death, I guess you're heading over to Mar a Lago to settle in with Mr. Trump, right? These people hide. They use the Bible as camouflage. And it's up to all of us to take their goddamn camouflage away.

Allison Gill (AG) (39:15)

Their goddamn biblical camouflage.

Dana Goldberg (39:17)

Well done.

John Fugelsang (39:17)

They want to fight for anything Jesus talked about. I mean, we've talked about this. I've bored your listeners so many times with the crap Jesus actually commands, but he, Matthew 25, he gives four things that a society will be judged by and individuals. How they took care of the poor, how they took care of the sick, how they took care of those in prison, and how they welcomed the stranger. Jesus says these four things determine whether you go to hell or not. Not how you fought for fetuses, not how you were mean to migrants. Not how much money you gave to your church. Not how much you went to school board meetings and persecuted people because your religion deserves power. The sick, the poor, the immigrant, the prisoner. That's all Jesus cares about. And again, we have to throw this in their face every day. Don't let them pretend that they have any kind of piety in this situation.

Allison Gill (AG) (40:05)

Yeah, and speaking of other teachings of Christ, when he, you know, I'm pretty sure he doesn't really like people who hoard wealth. Something about the needle and the camel. I mean, many, many things. We could touch on that. When Biden talked about the tech industrial complex and lies being drowned out by the truth, we've got that in all, one big, giant package. We've got Jeff Bezos killed the Washington Post, Zuckerberg killing Meta, Musk killing Twitter, and this quote, unquote, holy triumvirate of adulterers are going to be sitting on the dais. Yeah, maybe on Trump's lap, maybe on each other's laps. I don't know. But I think that that's.

John Fugelsang (40:54)

That's what they'll be, and it's what they'll be remembered for. And let's not forget Donald Trump threatened and tried to hurt two of those men. So I don't even think it's fair to call them fascists. I don't think it's fair to call them Trump a fascist either. Trump's agenda is fascist, but it's clear that they're oligarchs. That's it. That's their ideology. They. They belong in Russia. That's what Russia is now. It's just a bunch of rich, evil rat bastards. The Hutts control Tatooine. And so, you know, they have no ideology. I mean, Donald Trump, like, was calling Zuckerberg Zucker Bucks, which you don't really do to our Jewish friends. And he tried, literally, to use government to hurt a private business, Amazon to hurt. I mean, he literally tried to hurt these two men. They hate him. And I'm sure Musk doesn't respect him at all. Musk knows what the ND is. They're all using each other. And to what end? What do we say about a society that allows billionaires and poverty to coexist at the same time? Every single person who's lost a home in California, Elon Musk, could buy them all a new mansion, and he would still have over $200 billion to his name. Like, these people will be remembered for exactly what they are. I don't see hospitals with Jeff Bezos's name on them. I don't see free clinics or summer camps for poor kids with Zuckerberg's name on them. These guys are addicts. They are addicted to power and wealth. They are not good men. And it's interesting, I saw you're backing away from threads over there now that Mark Zuckerberg is licking the boot.

Allison Gill (AG) (42:32)

Oh, yeah, I'm actually creating, working real hard with my Bestie to create our own social media platform for all of our Daily Beans patrons to come and other discussions on. Because currently our private Facebook group is a Facebook group. It's on meta. And so we're going to start peeling away from that and give everybody a place to go so that they don't have to remain there if they don't want to.

John Fugelsang (42:54)

That's great. I mean, but again, you know, like Jesus says to pay your taxes in Matthew 22. Like, you know, Jesus's brother James. You want to see someone really hating the rich, read the book of James sometime time. God has a totally woke take on poverty. If you believe the Bible. In Deuteronomy, God demands consistent help for the poor. In Leviticus 19, God commands landowners to always leave a portion of their harvest for the poor. Proverbs leaves no wiggle room. And this is Jesus's favorite issue. Talking about poverty is like Jesus's Layla. In all of his live gigs. He specifically blesses the poor, the Beatitudes. He commands his followers to care for the poor in Matthew. So again, you don't have to do any of these things. But none of these rap bastards get to pretend they're Christian.

Allison Gill (AG) (43:41)

He's a Layla. If he was a one hit wonder, that was it.

John Fugelsang (43:46)

Oh, he's doing the poor again. I know that. I can go get my T shirt. I know this one.

Allison Gill (AG) (43:50)

What did I think it was? David Spade a long time ago said, God, what if, what if they opened with Freebird?

John Fugelsang (43:58)

I mean, you know, I mean, Jesus drove the capitalists out of the temple and, and he never healed the blind and asked him to pay a monthly premium. I'm not against wealth. I'm against wealth with no appreciation of its own privilege. You know what I mean? Bobby Kennedy Sr. Was a millionaire at birth who got a huge jolt of empathy in his life and devoted himself to the less fortunate. That sort of thing is really interesting to me. Billionaires who use their money, I mean, go to fucking Mars. Go to fucking Mars. Like that's what he cares about. It's all about himself. It's all about power. They don't care about helping those who are here right now, which is how, you know, they don't give a about America any more than Trump does.

Allison Gill (AG) (44:40)

Oh, no. But they'll always say that those who aren't from here that are coming in or taking our resources, but when we try to give those resources to the poor here, they tell us to go ourselves. So it's not, it's, it's clearly not about that. And you and I could probably talk for hours on this and we're preaching.

John Fugelsang (44:56)

To the choir, but I know, I know. Everyone's agreeing with each other is entertainment death. I know.

Allison Gill (AG) (45:02)

I wanted to talk. I wanted to talk about that MLK special that you're going to do Monday. Some great counter programming. I hope everybody keeps their televisions off. And if, you know, if you. If you get a chance, you have to listen to Tell Me everything on Sirius XM. It's 9pm Eastern, 6pm Pacific on channel 127. Progress or the John Fugle Sang Show Podcast. Any final thoughts?

John Fugelsang (45:24)

Yes, if I may hoard myself just a little bit here. And by the way, I want to apologize to all sex workers for the amount of times I'll be using the word whores to describe this cabinet for the next couple of years. This cabinet is really linked, Alison, by three things they all have in common. Deviancy, extremism and inexperience. Or as I call it, dei. That's the Cabinet. But we are doing one last sexy liberal show on the Save the World tour, which we were so lucky to have you join us and class up our stage. We're doing one final show this weekend, Saturday night at the Warner theater in Washington, D.C. and it's gonna be a riot. Our special guests include Congressman Jamie Raskin, who'll be joining us on stage, as well as George Conway. Olivia Troy. Officer Harry Dunn is gonna be there with us as well. It's gonna be a real party, and if you can't make it, you can see it on the pay per view. We're gonna live stream it. It's going to be the first great comedy party of whatever the new resistance is. And that's at Meathook Live, M E E T Hook Live. Or go to sexyliberal.com for all the information. Let's have some laughs this weekend. Let's get ready to be the same people in the room. We're all going to have to be the hot chick at the bar, ignoring the racist douchebags at the other end of the bar for the next few years and doing our own thing, resisting. And we'll be fighting for the same things we'd be fighting for if there was a Democratic president. But we're not going to do it with our hair on fire.

Allison Gill (AG) (46:49)

All right, Well, I appreciate it. Right. Don't let them see you sweat. As you said, you are the best. Thank you, my friend. Appreciate you.

John Fugelsang (46:54)

And can I say one more thing, Alex? I just want to say what a relief it is that Donald Trump thinks it's totally cool for all of us to fly our flags at full mast when he dies. So I'm going to be selling extra high masts when Donald Trump passes away. So look for that. I got a really good deal for you. Nixon lowered the flag for his inaugural because Harry Truman had died. Nixon is classier and has more grace and confidence than Donald Trump.

Allison Gill (AG) (47:21)

You would attach a mast to the top of my mast and fly above full mast? If I possibly can.

John Fugelsang (47:27)

Yes. Extra high flags for sale.

Allison Gill (AG) (47:30)

Thank you.

John Fugelsang (47:30)

Thank you.

Allison Gill (AG) (47:31)

Thank you so much, my friend. Everybody stick around. We'll be right back for the good.

Dana Goldberg (47:34)

News after these messages. We'll be right back.

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Allison Gill (AG) (48:41)

Everybody. Welcome back. It's time for the good news.

Dana Goldberg (48:45)

Then. Good news, everyone.

Allison Gill (AG) (48:53)

Good news, good news, good news. And if you have any good news confessions. Corrections. You want to play what the mutt? Find the cat opine on the bovine. What the heck? Wine? What the hell's in that shell? What's the model of your axolotl? Any animal guessing game or just, you know, hand in a picture of your pet? That works too. If you don't have any of that, you can send an adoptable pet in your area to pay your tax. And if you don't have that, we're doing bird watching right now. So if you have a photo or your loved ones or family members flipping off Trump properties, send in your bird watching photos as well. Also, you can send in a shout out, whether it's a to your loved one, spouse, kid, family member, somebody doing great activism in your community, maybe a community group you want everybody to be aware of because we're really going to need to support ourselves in our local communities in the next four years. Send that in. Also small businesses or your small business and government programs that have helped you. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act, SNAP, WIC, Head Start, Section 8, any anything great VA health care that you've received? We would love to hear about that. And including student debt forgiveness. We know President Biden just signed off on another 150,000 people erasing their student debt forever. So send that all to us@dailybeanspod.com and click on contact. First up from Jay in West Virginia. Pronouns he and him. Dana and Ag thank you for reminding people not to be too judgy about those who use Twitter for different purposes. It reminds me of a situation I encountered a couple years ago. An elderly gay man was buying yarn at Hobby Lobby because he could not drive and the only craft store in his town was Hobby Lobby. The bus took him there every few weeks. Oh. He asked in a local Facebook group if anybody knew whether a certain brand of Hobby Lobby yarn had been discontinued because he couldn't find it anymore. And instead of answering the question about the yarn, multiple people started yelling at him in all caps, telling them he supported anti gay bigots and should be ashamed to shop at Hobby Lobby. I happen to know this man from a local painting class, and I know that it was a miracle he could even figure out how to post on Facebook at the age of 84, much less whether he could parse all the intricacies of online shopping literally. Imagine Joe Biden posting that kind of question he had. All of these strangers were yelling and telling him what a bad person he was. I went to another Hobby Lobby and bought him $74 worth of yarn. Oh, because that's all they had in the store that day. When I took it to him, he said the replies made him feel terrible. People do need to use perspective and remember that we're all human beings and you never really know the full situation that others are dealing with. So I appreciate you all mentioning this so clearly. Thank you.

Dana Goldberg (51:33)

Absolutely. You know, AG and I, the reason I brought this up, and I really love the submission, I had posted something on Blue sky, joking about, you know, posting something on Twitter and then having a show. And I think it was one of our Beans listeners that was like, do better, Dana. And I'm like, I still have 95,000 followers on Twitter that didn't go somewhere else. If they're listening to what I have to say, I'm still going to talk to them there. Like, it was just one of those things that it was the way they. The way I felt attacked. Is this. The submission is such a good example of like, you don't understand a lot of the increases of, like, what Allison and I do, where we reach our people, how effective it is that we are still on there instead of just them having an echo chamber of fascism and, and, and hate. But, Jay, this is such a great submission because it actually makes me even reflect, because I probably have said to someone, I don't think I've said, that they're a hateful bigot for shopping in Hobby Lobby. But, you know, when my friends are like, we're going to Chick Fil A, I'm like, don't do it. You know, that sort of thing. But you know what? People have reasons, and I. I trust their judgment. And I love what you did for this stranger. I love what you did for this stranger. Jay, actually a friend of yours, you probably weren't strangers. You. You.

Allison Gill (AG) (52:43)

You met at a painting. And you remind me of something, too, when I get a lot of that. Do better. Yeah, that. Stop it, please. You know, if you want someone to do better, first of all, you don't do it in a public forum with a condescending command like that. I know I have been guilty of this on social media, and I put a big mea culpa thread together saying I'm going to try to do better, but to just tell someone they have to do better kind of assumes that they're awful. And, you know, I think we need to bring a little nuance back. The reason, if you're new to the beans, the reason that on the corrections piece of our website, if you need to submit a correction, there are three fields. You have to have a compliment and then the correction and then another compliment. The reason that that's there is because that's how we should talk to people if we're trying to encourage them to actually do better instead of. Of performatively publicly trying to win, signaling points by.

Dana Goldberg (53:47)

And it's so disrespectful to people that they supposedly support. Allison, you were a veteran. You've gone through hell in your life. You have tried your best to save democracy. You've literally written a letter that implemented abortion access in the military. I stand on stage. I've raised over $60 million for nonprofits around the country. I try and do good things in this world. And because one of us posted on Twitter, suddenly we're going to get do better.

Allison Gill (AG) (54:11)

Right, like you do better.

Dana Goldberg (54:12)

What. What did you do today anyway?

Allison Gill (AG) (54:15)

And that's one reason that I love this community so much, is, first of all, you guys are so constructive in your feedback. Second of all, you have posts like Jay here. And third of all, you actually all are just truly incredible, amazing people who don't need to do better. You're already doing so much, so thank you.

Dana Goldberg (54:32)

If you woke up and you're listening to this and you voted, you're doing, you're doing. You're doing pretty damn good. Jesus. All right, this one's from Isaac. Pronouns he and him. Good news. My parents are in their late 50s and have been going through some mess medical issues. My father changed careers, he's making less than he used to, and my mother's currently unemployed. They're both on Medicaid and have been able to access their medications and make medically necessary doctor's appointments. I don't know how they'd be able to afford medical care without having access to free insurance. I hope this wonderful program stays in place and doesn't get cut from the budget. Pet Pictures. My cat Mary is sitting with her tongue out in front of a bag of caramel corn. Enjoy. Oh my God, that's a fantastic picture. And I would probably look the same with less fur.

Allison Gill (AG) (55:19)

How much corn did she eat? Isaac, I love this and thank you for that. Yeah, my mom gets free rides to her medical appointments using that program, so appreciate you writing in. Thank you. Good shout out to a government program. Next up, Jeffrey V. He and him. I started listening to the Daily Beans in August of 2022 when Pete struck was guest hosting. I was recently let go from a contract gig and trying to find employment. The previous November, I'd been let go from a job with a large media company that I loved for eight years, the last two, unfortunately, in a toxic work environment, I was not in a good place at that point. But after seeing many of your posts on Twitter, I finally tuned into the Daily Beans and boy was it like a warm blast of cleansing fucking clarity.

Dana Goldberg (56:07)

Nice.

Allison Gill (AG) (56:08)

That was sorely lacking from my normal newsfeed. I loved the honesty and swearing. To be frank, it's what really sold me and it helped realize I wasn't crazy and that I could rebound from a dark spot. I went on to secure a new contract gig within a month and got a full time job in my field by Thanksgiving that year. After changing my perspective and stepping into the light, I like to think that finding your podcast was one positive piece of that turnaround and why I became a member by October 2022. The Daily Beans and eventually clean up on Alph 45 and listen to your podcast first thing in my morning and applaud everything you do sharing my 11 year old pal Kipper. Let me know if you can guess his breeds. A Jeffrey.

Dana Goldberg (56:49)

Oh, he looks like a mong poodle. I know.

Allison Gill (AG) (56:52)

He looks like a dachshund Maltese poodle.

Dana Goldberg (56:56)

Oh my gosh, he's cute.

Allison Gill (AG) (56:59)

He's adorable. Let's see what we got. Havanese with a little poodle. Well, how do you get so long? I don't know. He's a long boy. Anyway, Jeffrey, thank you so much for all those kind words. I love the way you put that. And if it's okay with you, I would love to steal some of these phrases like a warm blast of cleansing fucking clarity. If I can steal those and put them out on social media, please let me know. And by the way, everybody, if you love this show, you know you can rate it over on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcast. Give us a rating if you have a minute. It super helpful helps.

Dana Goldberg (57:36)

Love that. All right, this next one's from Susie Pronoun. She and her I want to shout out. Okay, this is awkward. Let me tell you how wonderful I am, people. I wanted to shout out Dana for being an amazing human. Yes, you, Dana Goldberg. Allison, are you sure you don't want to take this?

Allison Gill (AG) (57:51)

Nope. You're reading it.

Dana Goldberg (57:52)

All right. I guess it's good for people to read good things about themselves.

Allison Gill (AG) (57:55)

It's a self shout out.

Dana Goldberg (57:56)

But you're from Susie. There are so many reasons to shout you out. Your kindness, your fundraising, your humor. But go on. But selfishly, I'm making it all about me. Okay, good. Let me explain. I send sporadic and random messages to Dana on Instagram and she always responds, which is so incredibly kind.

Allison Gill (AG) (58:14)

That's why this is to you and not me. Because I don't get to always respond.

Dana Goldberg (58:17)

I don't always either. It's just that Susie, for some reason, and I, I do believe this is my friend across the pond in Scotland. She's just been so kind. She was checking on me during the fires and I don't get, I don't always get to see the messages because when you message on Instagram, it goes into a bulk folder that's almost spammy. And so I have to sift through all of these made up 18 year old accounts of people with their tits and we want you to join our threesome. And I'm like, okay, just trying to find the good people here. So Susie happened to catch my eye and she's just been very kind. And so I try and respond to people as much as I can. So if you've ever written me on Instagram and I haven't responded, it's because I haven't seen it. Probably. Okay, okay, back to me. So weird. I never assume I'll get a response as you are very busy. So when I do, it really makes me feel great. Good. My work here is done. I appreciate it so much. Although, no pressure. Good. Thank you for taking that off me. And I want. I wanted to acknowledge it publicly as possible. I love you both. Amazing ladies. Susie, thank you so much for the shout out. It makes me feel good. It makes me feel like I'm not screaming into a void. Oh, and a quick misheard song lyrics lyric. This is from the Bee Gees Night Fever. Susie hears I got hair in my mouth and I'm higher in the morning.

Allison Gill (AG) (59:32)

I love that our producer put a note in here that says, I can't figure out which lyric she's talking about right now.

Dana Goldberg (59:37)

And I don't know this song. Ag. You're a wealth of this information. Any. Any guess.

Allison Gill (AG) (59:42)

I've got hair in my mouth and I'm higher in the morning. Ah, ah, ah. Is that it? Is that what you're talking about? I'm just doing that off the top of my head.

Dana Goldberg (59:51)

Okay. If you're right, and I don't think those are the right lyrics, but if you're right, I'm impressed.

Allison Gill (AG) (59:57)

Well, I'm singing her lyrics.

Dana Goldberg (59:58)

Yeah, well, you did. I mean, if you got the tune right. All right, we're going to keep on moving because this podcast needs to be less than 3 hours. Also, I highly recommend Peter K. UK comedian who has hilarious misheard lyrics. Podpet taxes Willow, aged around 15, sleeping on her pod bed. The roof isn't attached. I heat up wheat packs and put them in her bed for her. She's toasted. The other picks are Locke. Okay, Loch Lubnag. I know this is from someone from Scotland, so Loch Lanaig on my paddle board. I'm gonna go with that. AKA my happy place. In fact, I'm getting a tattoo of one on Thursday. First tattoo at 49 and a half years old and with my friend's dog, Loki, who is one of my many Neph dogs. Now, Susie, let me tell you, I actually got my first tattoo of 47 and it took me a long time to figure out what I wanted and it's the best decision I've ever made on my body. So I'm glad you found something that moves you. Thank you so much again for the shout out. This paddle board looks amazing. And the dog A little picture of you and your dog at the end.

Allison Gill (AG) (61:02)

Nice to meet you, Susie. And yeah, I'm sorry if I don't respond to.

Dana Goldberg (61:07)

Oh, trust me, I know. There's people that I haven't responded to either. But I'm telling you, a lot of the times, AG and I can't see them and we don't even know they're there. No.

Allison Gill (AG) (61:14)

And every once in a while, a message will boil up to the top that says, I'm unfollowing you for ignoring me. And I'm like, oh, my God.

Dana Goldberg (61:20)

Okay, yeah, we get that too. And again, people, perspective. Maybe a little perspective.

Allison Gill (AG) (61:26)

Next up from Paul S. Hehim. Hi, Beans. Ladies. My chemical engineering dissertation at UC Berkeley was entitled. Okay, so. Okay, if you're a new listener. I haven't been saying this at the beginning of the top, but I used to ask for dissertation titles because they're fascinating and ridiculous.

Dana Goldberg (61:42)

Very much so.

Allison Gill (AG) (61:43)

Hello, Beans. Ladies. My chemical engineering dissertation, UC Berkeley, was entitled titled Cyclic Voltammetry at a Rotating Disc, Electroduction of Nitrate in Acidic Nickel Solutions and Frequency Response Analysis of Porous Electrodes. I retired from engineering and now I paint.

Dana Goldberg (62:02)

Nice.

Allison Gill (AG) (62:03)

What would your painting dissertation be called, Paul?

Dana Goldberg (62:06)

Seriously?

Allison Gill (AG) (62:07)

I'm sharing a copy of a recent piece, When Flags Cry, in honor of the release of Jack Smith's report.

Dana Goldberg (62:13)

Oh, wow.

Allison Gill (AG) (62:14)

The painting hung in Watercolor Art Society, Houston's gallery for a month. It didn't sell, but I'm told it pissed someone off. Excellent. A photo of this piece is pinned to my Blue sky feed. Will link to Paul's Blue sky, which is Paul. 77006bisky.social. I'm also sharing a photo of one of the twins, Carly, or Hope to satisfy the pet tax requirement. Paul, you said that. Pod pet tax statement, like an engineer.

Dana Goldberg (62:44)

Thank you.

Allison Gill (AG) (62:45)

That's a hell of a dissertation. Cyclic voltammetry. A rotating disc electronitrate. Something about a solution and discs. Something about the volts on a rotating disk in a solution. Yeah, you got me. Sounds fascinating though. But that look at that painting is incredible.

Dana Goldberg (63:08)

And then very cool. Beautiful picture of that kitty.

Allison Gill (AG) (63:12)

Kidding. And then we have a link to Night Fever in case you're trying to figure out what lyric.

Dana Goldberg (63:16)

Yeah, I guess we. If we look through that, we could have listened to it and maybe Susie.

Allison Gill (AG) (63:20)

Can send you a DM about which lyric she's talking about.

Dana Goldberg (63:23)

Susie, Just record a little audio. We'll and send it into the podcast.

Allison Gill (AG) (63:27)

Thank you so much, everybody.

Dana Goldberg (63:29)

Seemed like you got a good sense of humor. Let's roll.

Allison Gill (AG) (63:31)

Absolutely. Everybody in Scotland does. Most people, I'm sure I say that because I'm sure people in Scotland know somebody who doesn't have a good sense of humor. And I didn't want to, like, belittle them that. Anyway, man, I'm so, I'm so used to, like, trying to avoid emails. What do you mean? Everybody's got a good sense of humor? We have this one Nazi who lives down the street. How dare you. You know, I, I inevitably expect those emails and replies. But thank you all so much for your, for your good news submissions, please send them to us daily beanspod.com click on Contact. If you've been thinking about becoming a patron, we're about to launch a new social media platform. We could really use your help. Help. There's a lot of costs involved in that. So if you can kick us three bucks a month, that would be great. It's patreon.com mullershirote or you can search the Daily Beans on Supercast. That's another way to become a patron. If you're not into Patreon. Do you have any final thoughts for the week? This is our final Friday now under the Joe Biden administration.

Dana Goldberg (64:26)

Oh, no, don't say it like that. I guess I do. Everyone, take care of yourself on Monday. I know that you'll have a Daily Beans in your ears, but you, you're not going to hear anything about the, the inauguration. So I'll tell you and remind you this again, but do something really enjoyable that day. Plan it this weekend. Make sure you can execute it, even if it's something little. Read a book, make a bath, have a glass of wine or some juice if you're juicing cookies. You know what I'm talking about, people. And just take care of yourself. Just take care of yourself.

Allison Gill (AG) (64:55)

Yeah. Pick up your hobby on Monday. And that's right. Spend some time. Take care of each other. Send a nice note to your friends. Check in on your piece.

Dana Goldberg (65:02)

Yeah.

Allison Gill (AG) (65:03)

On your peeps, plan dinner with everybody.

Dana Goldberg (65:05)

Just put little, little, little thing, little things little.

Allison Gill (AG) (65:08)

Send me a happy birthday message. We can do that. And tag Mark Hamill so that he'll make sure to send me a cake on, you know, a virtual cake on social media. All right, everybody, thank you so much. And we'll be back in your ears on Monday, January 20th, my birthday. Please listen. That day, I know everyone's doing a media blackout, but again, like Dana said, we're not going to talk about the inauguration. We're just going to give you the important, the good news and some good trouble. So we appreciate you. And until then, please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health, and take care of your family. I've been AG and I've been dg. And them's the beans. Refried beans. I like refried beans.