C (2:38)

I get it. I get it.

B (2:41)

Anyway, that I am very glad that we have some good news stories today. It's not all good, but we've got some stuff to look forward to.

C (2:49)

I'm very excited to announce this one. Our own Harry Dunne is running for Congress in Maryland.

B (2:56)

I'm so excited.

C (2:57)

I am so excited. No matter where you live, you can support this candidate. We'll have ways that you can support Harry Dunn in many different ways. Financially, emotionally, physically. However you'd like to support Harry Dunn, we would love to see him win that congressional seat. So I'm super excited about that.

B (3:16)

Yeah. And the cool thing is, is that he can literally fill Steny Hoyer shoes, plus probably a lot. So. Oh yeah, I'm really excited about that. He's got a great platform. He's hitting all the right buttons. And we're going to talk about that more as the race goes on. And so this is also cool. Judge Boasberg has granted my motion to compel in the Doge FOIA case I filed a year ago involving Elon Musk's phones.

C (3:42)

So really cool.

B (3:44)

Yeah, it's really interesting to see a minute order saying, you know, MSW Media Inc's motion is granted. You know, so I went over all of it and simplified it as best I could. Over on Mueller, she wrote dot com. So check that out. And some more good news. I'm going to be interviewing Andrew Bakai. He's the lawyer representing the whistleblower in the Tulsi Gabbard, possibly Donald Trump, super highly classified, locked up in a safe. Whistleblower report.

C (4:13)

Nice.

B (4:14)

Yeah. So we're going to air that interview on the Midas Touch Network Sunday at noon Pacific and here on the beans. We'll replay it Monday morning for you on the beans.

C (4:23)

Wonderful. And while Jeff Bezos is getting more and more rich and giving so much of his money to this administration just yet know for favor, the Washington Post is having a bloodbath. They laid off one third of its staff Wednesday, eliminating its sports sections, several foreign bureaus, its book coverage, and a widespread purge that represented a brutal blow to journalism and one of its most legendary brands. Bezos, who has been silent in recent weeks amid pleas from Post journalists to step in and prevent the cutbacks. Please do something. Well, he didn't have a comment. Shocking.

B (5:00)

Dude could pay everybody's salary until the end of time and still have $240 billion left over. Like, I don't.

C (5:06)

Yep, yep.

B (5:09)

So gross.

C (5:10)

Yeah, it is pretty disgusting, especially with all of the money he's spending on his yachts. And that Melania movie and oh, wedding. And the wedding. I think her dress is reported. And listen, you should be able to have a nice dress, but your dress is reported to cost $300,000. And you're just laying people off left and right.

B (5:27)

Okay, $50 million wedding. And you know, a lot of people are like, maybe he should sell the paper, he should try to save it or whatever. But if you're put in charge to like, if you, if you're there to.

C (5:38)

Destroy it, yeah, you're doing a fine job.

B (5:42)

I don't think you're probably going to try to help save it.

C (5:45)

No.

B (5:45)

All right. That's kind of a one of the bits of bad news. Is everybody getting laid off. Like you said, it's a bloodbath. Over at the Washington Post, the historic, you know, paper that blew Watergate wide open.

C (5:58)

Just, I know just watching all of these, they feel like titans fall, like these things we trusted. You know, there's so much, though, under this administration that we've trusted that's fallen.

B (6:09)

So Washington Post is where I wrote my op ed about active duty service members not being able to get abortions and that. And that op ed in the Washington Post changed policy at the Pentagon to allow leave for reproductive health care. So, yeah, after Roe fell. But, yeah, democracy, I guess, d in darkness. So, yeah, very upsetting, very sad. So we're going to be having to rely on independent media more and more. So thanks for listening to the Daily Beans. We got a lot of news to get to. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up from cbs, an intelligence community watchdog has handed over a highly classified whistleblower complaint that includes an allegation of wrongdoing by DNI Tulsi Gabbard to top congressional leaders. It's been handed over to them, the Gang of Eight following months of delay tied to what Tulsi Gabbard said were classification disputes and a government shutdown and leadership turnover at Gabbard's office. That's what CBS News has Learned in a February 2nd letter just a few days ago to the leaders of the House and the Senate Intelligence Committees. Intelligence Community Inspector General Christopher Fox said he received final approval on January 30th from Tulsi to share the material with the tight circle of lawmakers. The complaint had originally been filed eight months earlier on May 21, 2025. According to Fox's letter, which was labeled as approved for public release on February 3rd and obtained by CBS, the complaint was, quote, administratively closed by the intelligence community Inspector general's office In June of 2025 under prior leadership, and no further investigative steps were taken, a fact that Fox says undercuts notions that the matter was an urgent concern requiring prompt congressional notification. Now, Fox hand carried the highly classified complaint to Congress on Monday evening, according to a spokesperson. During that engagement, several members and staff of the Gang of Eight, that's the small group of leaders who oversee the intelligence community, reviewed the complaint on a read and return basis. They also received copies of former acting Intelligence Community Inspector General Tamara Johnson's original and supplemental determination memos. Now, Tamara Johnson was appointed by Biden, a holdover from the Biden administration. The whistleblower complaint filed last May by the IC employee intelligence community employee alleged that a highly classified report was deliberately limited in distribution for political reasons. It also alleged that an intelligence agency's legal office failed to refer a potential crime to the Justice Department, again for political reasons. That's according to Fox's letter. The handover of the complaint comes one day after public news reports revealed its existence. Huh, that's weird timing. First detailed by the Wall Street Journal, news of the holdup sparked immediate questions about whether political considerations delayed action and sidestepped oversight of a legally protected whistleblower complaint involving the nation's top intelligence official. Fox, who was nominated by Trump and previously served as an aide to Tulsi Gabbard, was narrowly confirmed by the Republican controlled Senate 51 to 47, split along party lines in late October. His predecessor, Tamara Johnson, was a career official who served as the intelligence community acting Inspector General in an interim role during the Biden administration. She's still employed by the IG Office. Now, at the time the complaint was submitted, Tamara Johnson determined that the complaint met the legal definition of an urgent concern if the allegations were true, but said she couldn't determine whether they were credible. That determination gave the whistleblower the right under federal law to take the complaint directly to Congress. On Tuesday, before news emerged that the complaint had been handed over, the whistleblower's attorney, Andrew Buckai, told CBS News ODNI had been withholding it from Congress without explanation. Quote, if this was challenging initially to get to members of Congress, all that had to be done was somebody picking up the phone and alerting the Hill that, hey, we've got something coming your way. We're trying to figure out how to get it to you because, you know, some complexities, but the process can move. It does move. It does not take eight months to get something like this to the Hill. That's what he said. Again, I'll be sitting down for an interview with Andrew Bakai this weekend for the breakdown on Midas Sunday at noon and here on the Beans Monday morning.

C (10:26)

Thanks so much Alison. And we do have a follow up to something we covered on the Beans Talk yesterday and I hope you're watching that video podcast. This comes from Politico. The Trump administration's massive immigration crackdown in Minnesota has exposed a severe rift between the Justice Department and ice, detonated the already crumbling trust between the administration and the courts, and led to dozens of detentions the courts have said are illegal. A dramatic breakdown by a Justice Department attorney in a Minneapolis courtroom Tuesday laid bare the crisis roiling the Trump administration as it continues mass arrest immigrants without corresponding resources to detain them, humanely process their legal cases and comply with federal court order. And I quote, the system sucks, this job sucks, and I'm trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need. That's prosecutor Julie Lee, who told a judge as he determined to know why his orders were being defied. She went to say, sometimes I wish you would just hold me in contempt, your honor, so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep. That's according to a transcript obtained by Politico. This lawyer for the Department of Justice is like, can you fucking lock me up so I can get 24 hours apiece, please? Now part of the problem, Lee said, is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials simply don't respond when she or other Justice Department lawyers try to get them to obey the court. That's unreal, she said. Fixing a system, a broken system. I don't have a magic button to do it. I don't have the power or the voice to do it. Shortly after the candid courtroom exchange on Tuesday, Lee was removed from her temporary post and returned to the Department of Homeland Security, where she works on immigration cases within the executive branch. This is a Justice Department officials who were granted anonymity to discuss the matter. That's what they told us. Now it has been clear that the cases Lee handled are not outliers. Court records and transcripts reveal widespread miscommunication, bungling of court filings, and suddenly rampant violations of judges orders. The administration's handling of its immigration operation provoked a five alarm emergency among federal judges in the state who have grown increasingly frustrated at what they see as overt defiance, caused not by the local prosecutors in Minnesota, but by the Department of Justice and DHS leadership in Washington. Contempt threats are now almost routine. Lee's a novice prosecutor who was only assigned to Minneapolis just last month. She's already listed as government counsel on more than 80 habeas corpus petitions filed by immigrants. Holy. No wonder she needs some rest. She told U.S. district Judge Jerry Blackwell at a hearing Tuesday that she was was so overwhelmed that she'd already attempted to quit. She said, I put in my resignation from the job, too, but they couldn't find a replacement. That's according to the transcript. She also said getting ICE to comply with court orders or even to respond to her inquiries was like pulling teeth. She said she stressed to ICE officials the importance of obeying the orders, even emailing officials in 24 point font, large font, and threatening to pull their names and legal filings. So I gave them a specific time to get it done. If they don't, then by all mean, I'm going to walk out. I love this person. I. I don't want to see her break in lifetime, but I'm sort of loving this. Like you guys are pushing me to my fucking end. She's 47 years old. She was born in Vietnam and she immigrated to the US in 1993. Also indicated she was troubled by allegations that at least some ICE detentions have been driven by racial profiling. Yeah, she said, I'm not white, as you can see, and my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up, too. So I shared the same concern and I took that concern to heart, like this is someone who's still working for the Justice Department, clearly, because she wants to protect this country and its citizens. Clearly she wants to do the right job and she's at her wit's end.

B (14:28)

80 habeas petitions just this month alone.

C (14:31)

Real unreal.

B (14:33)

And I also learned that on that specific Tuesday where she said, just hold me in contempt so I can get some sleep. She had 16 of those cases that had docket that were required for her to do something that day. Sixteen that day. Jesus heart goes out to her. All right, next up from tnr, to continue on stories we've heard in our good news segment. You know about pushback against the concentration camp warehouses, right?

C (15:00)

Yeah.

B (15:01)

A lot of folks have written in, said they've been part of some of these council meetings. A lot of our listeners have written into the good news about that. This is from tnr. When Stephen Miller offered his first big rollout of Trump's immigration agenda during the 2024 campaign, he demonstrated great enthusiasm for the idea of giant migrant camps. He gushed about creating vast holding facilities built on open land which would enable Trump to escalate the volume and speed of deportations to unprecedented heights. Trembling with excitement, Stephen Miller vowed President Trump will do whatever it takes. But a funny thing has happened with Miller's authoritarian fever dreams. As plans for these new detention facilities have become public, they're encountering opposition in some very unlikely places. Notably, that includes regions that backed Trump in 2024, which in turn captures something essential about this moment. The public backlash unleashed by Trump's immigration agenda runs far deeper than revulsion at imagery of ICE violence. It is now seemingly coalescing against the goal of mass removals as a broader ideological project. We're now learning that this year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to retrofit about two dozen vast new facilities in keeping with Trump Miller's visions. And in that, ICE vows to detain an additional 80,000 people in these places. Some will reportedly hold up to 10,000 detainees per space, per warehouse. In other words, the Trump Miller threat to create a system of new detention camps is just getting underway. Now, ICE wants to buy a warehouse in Virginia's Hanover county, which went for Trump by 26 points in 2024 and combines rural territory with Richmond's northern suburbs. Residents recently turned out in force and angrily condemned the proposed sale, which local reports suggesting only a handful backed it. The GOP heavy Board of Supervisors opposed the transaction, and the warehouse owner canceled the sale. The Republican Board of Supervisors. Meanwhile in New Jersey, the Republican dominated Roxbury Township Council in slightly Trump leaning. Morris county recently voted unanimously to oppose ICE's plans to buy a warehouse there, with some locals sharply protesting the scheme for humanitarian reasons. So, not like we don't want a migrant prison in our backyard. We think. That's not what they're saying. They're saying this is not humanitarian. The Republican mayor of Oklahoma City came out against a proposed ICE warehouse, with the owner also nixing the sale. Officials in places like Kansas City, Missouri, and Salt Lake City, Utah, are also dead set against plans for ICE camps in their locales. The pushback has come together surprisingly quickly. What explains this? A bizarrely overlooked finding in a recent Pew Research. Pollution that sheds some light. It finds that a huge majority of Americans oppose mass immigrant detention, and the wording is critical here. Do you favor or oppose keeping large numbers of immigrants in detention centers while their cases are decided? 64% of Americans oppose it.

C (18:05)

Good. I mean, those numbers surprise me. I'm not going to lie. I'm so grateful. I think they're. I'm happy about them, but they do surprise me a little bit. Yeah. All Right. This next one's from cnn. A Justice Department review found that Ed Martin improperly handled grand jury materials that were part of an investigation targeting Donald Trump's political enemies. At least two sources familiar with the review told CNN it was at least part of the reason Martin was pushed out of DOJ headquarters earlier this year. The review, which was overseen by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's office, focused on whether grand jury material gathered in the department's mortgage fraud inquiries into Democratic Senator Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James had been illegally shared with people not authorized to possess that information. This is what multiple people briefed on the matter told cnn.

B (18:55)

Wow. When, when you, when you're too shitty for Todd Blanche that you get, buddy, you know.

C (19:03)

The department found that Martin had shared the secret grand jury material in Schiff's case, one of the sources said. The person said Martin initially denied sharing the material with unauthorized people when asked by department. Email soon surfaced showing that Martin had in fact shared grand jury material. A second person told CNN a finding of misconduct gave the deputy Attorney general a reason to further ostracize Martin. Martin was removed as the head of the so called weaponization Working group on the first day of 2026, and he was relocated out of a department headquarters to a building across town that houses the pardon attorney. Martin's one remaining role.

B (19:43)

Yeah, he went from wackadagpa to just the p. Went from the weaponization czar, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Pardon Attorney to just the pardon attorney.

C (19:54)

Excuse me, poor attorney.

B (19:56)

Yeah, yeah, exactly. So now he's just selling pardons for Donald Trump.

C (20:00)

That's man, oh man.

B (20:02)

Only job. Next up from NBC, Facing the threat of being held in contempt, Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed Tuesday, as we know, to testify before the House Oversight Committee. Democrats now say Republicans have established a precedent when it comes to Congress's ability to subpoena and haul in former presidents, first ladies and family members under threat of criminal charges. If they refuse a precedent, they warn the GOP and Oversight Chairman Jim Comer they will soon regret. I knew the Clintons had something up their sleeve. Yep, now we can drag in former presidents under the threat of criminal liability. Quote, we're absolutely going to have Donald Trump testify under oath when Democrats take back power. That's Rep. Ted Lieu, a member of Democratic leadership who for years has been highlighting Donald Trump's ties to Epstein. It's a big deal, said Steny Hoyer, a former House Majority Leader who's retiring after serving 45 years in Congress. And of course, Harry Dunn is running for that seat. And it'd be interesting to see what former President Trump thinks of that premise. He said so. Womp, womp.

C (21:11)

Yeah, I mean, I can't. I'm going to keep some of my thoughts to myself.

B (21:15)

Yeah.

C (21:16)

All right. We do have some amazing news from cbs. The Supreme Court on Wednesday. We are shocked, but happy. I know. Consistency. Get the fuck out. The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to block California's new congressional map that could net Democrats five seats in the upcoming midterm elections. One of the things I didn't like before I continue this, the ap, their little title was like, supreme Court refuses to block, you know, new maps that favor Democrats in California. And I'm like that. Fuck you with your headline. How about the Supreme Court refuses to block maps that were voted on by the public in a 2 to 1 favor. How about you just leave it at.

B (21:53)

That in order to counter what Texas did when they did their. Yeah, I know.

C (21:58)

It just bugs the shit out of me. Anyway, I'm done with that soapbox. The decision from the high court clears the way for California to use for now the newly drawn lines for Most of its 52 House districts in this year's congressional elections. There were no noted dissents. California Republicans sought emergency relief from the Supreme Court last month and asked the justices to stop the state from using the new districts during the 2026 election cycle and instead require it to use congressional lines. Adopted in 2021 by an independent redistricting commission. They asked the high court to issue a decision by February 9th when congressional candidates can begin submitting paperwork to run.

B (22:37)

Oh, you asked for it. Careful what you wish for. Yeah. You got your ruling by February 9th. And they basically just denied certiorari. Right. They didn't even give any dissents or any reasons. They were just like, we're not even going to hear your arguments.

C (22:50)

Yeah.

B (22:51)

So the appeals court ruling that these maps are legal stands. Well done. Well done, well done. California, Texas map is stands as well. The Supreme Court.

C (23:02)

Yep.

B (23:03)

There was like, yeah, it's too late to go back to the old maps so they can use the new maps. And they didn't even get that far in the California case. They just said, we're not even going to listen to your arguments. So. Yay. All right, everybody, we've got the good news to get to, but we have to take a quick break, so stick around. We'll be right back after these messages.

C (23:23)

We'll be right.

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C (27:36)

Then. Good news, everyone.

B (27:52)

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C (28:27)

Yes.

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C (28:30)

Favorite Catherine o' Hara film.

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Yes, yes indeed. Anything at all. Send it to us dailybeanspod.com click on contact and all you got to do to get your submission read on the air is pay your podbet tariff, which means attach a photo, any photo. It can be your pet or an adoptable pet in your area, or a random animal on the Internet, or a bird watching photo to collect bird watching photos, which is you flipping the bird to Trump Properties. We also like photos of what you've been making or creating, or family pictures and baby pictures. Maybe a meme or a joke you want us to see. It can really be anything at all. Again, send it to us dailybeanspot.com click on contact. First up is your Good Trouble. All right, we got some Good Trouble homework. Watch John Good Trouble. This film explores John Lewis's 60 plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform and immigration. It's a story about real people standing up when it mattered and it feels incredibly relevant right now. Progress has always come from people willing to make good trouble. At this moment, voting rights and democracy are under attack. So recharge your resolve to make good trouble. You can find the movie on some streaming services and you can learn more about John Lewis@civilrightstrail.com so we'll have a link in the show notes to that. So if you get a get a moment, settle in, get a snack, get a beverage and watch John Lewis Good Trouble.

C (29:58)

Love it, love it, love it. All right, this is from Matt, pronouncing him what in the heck is that?

B (30:04)

Oh, it's Latin. Ave reginae fabarum.

C (30:08)

There we go. Probably something about beans.

B (30:12)

Queens of the beans.

C (30:13)

Yeah, there you go. Queens of the Beans. I first contacted you with Good News submission last night and like how at this point I'm just like allison, what the fuck is that I can't read.

B (30:22)

I'm not even crying anymore.

C (30:24)

There you go. Thank you, Matt. I first.

B (30:27)

Oh man.

C (30:28)

I first contacted you with good news submission last October about a couple of retirees who formed a faith based LGBTQ advocacy group group. This time I'm reaching out to you with sample of what I'm doing to help myself survive the fire hose of fuckery that is being unleashed on us daily. I've been looking for ways to express my outrage, but I'm generally not a confrontational person. As a graphic artist, I have made political cartoons in the past, but right now they don't seem to be potent enough to express my anger. I began researching the art of social justice, especially the art of social realists of the early 20th century. That end, I have decided to create my own protest art. The tariff piece I have submitted here is my first work in this vein. The composition is based on a painting by Hieronymus Bosch called Christ Crowned with Thorns. But I have rendered it in my own protest style and changed the subject matter to bring it up to date. The names on Christ's robe are the names of people killed by ICE or who died in ICE custody this year. The Spanish across the top train translates as he was despised and rejected. The first line from Isaiah 53. 3. I drew this on my graphics tablet, which makes it fairly fast work. I plan to do more. I'm going to be sharing this piece with all my friends and will encourage them to share it widely. Thanks for all you're doing to get the truth out there. Look at this.

B (31:55)

Amazing. Amazing.

C (31:57)

Yeah, you really captured J.D. vance's likeliness in this one.

B (32:04)

Yeah. Yeah, that chin beard. Super hot.

C (32:07)

Yeah.

B (32:09)

Matt, thank you. This is incredible. I love that you're doing this.

C (32:12)

Nothing against chin beards. That was. It was for J.D. vance.

B (32:15)

Yeah.

C (32:16)

Yeah. I'm sure some of you look very nice with a chin beard.

B (32:20)

Yeah, like you. I love my chin beard. All right, next up from Veronica. Pronouns. She and her. Thank you for the interview with Brent Henrich run this morning. It was great to hear from someone running against mgp. That's Glusen Camp Perez. I just want to let you know a little bit about Washington's third district. We're a suburb of Portland, Oregon and our urban areas pretty blue. However, our district includes a large section of rural areas that run very red. The Republican candidate in our district the last two election cycles with Joe Kent. Yes, that Joe Kent of the infamous Signal Chat. If you don't know a lot about him, consider yourself lucky. While Glsen Kent Perez is not the Democrat we may want, she was definitely the lesser of two evils. Best of luck to Brent in August. For tax, I give you Neil Caffrey, esteemed running coach and work supervisor and the very bestest snuggle buddy. You've seen him before, but you can identify his breed from this pick. He. Oh, they didn't black it out for us today.

C (33:16)

Oh, he's a boxer.

B (33:18)

Staffy pity mix.

C (33:19)

I mean, that's what I was gonna say.

B (33:20)

Australian cattle dog. That's totally what I was gonna say. Yeah. Thanks for everything you do. I start my day with you each morning, Veronica. Thank you.

C (33:28)

So cute.

B (33:29)

This dog is great. Look at that. That's the face I make every morning when I read the news.

C (33:33)

Yeah, me too.

B (33:34)

What the.

C (33:36)

Yeah.

B (33:37)

Thanks, Veronica.

C (33:39)

Yeah. This one's from Sally Pronoun she and her on the pod for Wednesday, February 4, 2026. You read a quote from Lynn Tremont, pronounced with a long e at the end. Oh, it's tremonti. Thank you very much for the correction, Sally, Executive director of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance. From the PBS article you shared on a judge blocking ending temporary protection status for Haitians. That's my niece. I am so proud of her. She's been working so hard to protect immigrants in Ohio and around the country. I love how our people are connected to people that are. We are the helpers. Love it. The quote you read from the article was a shortened version of a full statement she released after the ruling. The full statement is as follows. This 11th hour reprieve is of course welcome, but people can't live their lives like this, pegging their family's futures to a court case. Haitian Ohians have literally sinked, saved their own lives and their kids lives multiple times. They did the hard part. The least this country can do is honor their strength and contributions by giving them a permanent home. That is what many in Ohio are advocating for. As was made clear in Springfield today, donations to help her can continue. Her work can be made@ohioimmigrant.org I love her so much. Lynn inspires me every day to keep fighting for the rights of those who have migrated here. Ohio is home for my pod pet tax. I'm including photos of my youngest, Josie, in two of her favorite places. Her tunnel, which appears to be eating her, and the blanket she likes to wrap herself in. P.S. i live in Akron, Ohio. This is awesome, Sally. I love that you listen to the pod. I love that you heard the shout out to your niece. This. This whole seven Degrees of separation. One degree of separation is so cool.

B (35:25)

It really is. Lynn Tremonti and Sally, thank you so very much. And big ups to Akron. And I was born at Akron regional, went to Monroe, lived in Willow Springs, in Talmage, spent many a night at Bumpus Drugs, which sounds straight out of A Christmas Story, the movie because it basically is. That was my life growing up. All right, next up from Linda. She her beanie queens on the mini beans. I heard you say the anti pedo folks are not a mob per se. C, B S CEO, CBS CEO. Get it? C. Who was that that made that joke?

C (36:03)

Oh, that was. Oh, man. She hosted the Golden Globes.

B (36:07)

Nope.

C (36:07)

Yeah. Liza Schlesinger. Nope. The other one.

B (36:10)

Nope. The other one.

C (36:10)

That looks.

B (36:11)

That reminds me of her.

C (36:12)

Amazing. Yeah.

B (36:13)

The other.

C (36:13)

Yeah. Oh, thank God.

B (36:15)

Think of it. All right. You are right. We are not a mob. We are. Hope you're sitting down. The Moral Majority.

C (36:21)

Can you believe it?

B (36:22)

I realized this the other day. I called my sister Lisa for confirmation as it feels like like an upside down world. After a long pause, she agreed in complete silence. We just processed the reality of how bizarre life in Trump America is. At rallies for America, one of my signs says immigrants renew America. President Ronald Reagan. Yep. In this insane world, I'm quoting Reagan and I'm now part of the Moral majority. What the fuck is happening? I'm a lefty for podpet tax. Little bit. Our oldest and Jack, can you guess his breed? We have Jack's breed here behind redaction bar. There are more of us and we hold the moral high ground. We are the moral majority. Question mark, exclamation point.

C (37:02)

And I am gonna say Jack is a cat.

B (37:05)

Jack is a cat. Tabby.

C (37:10)

It's hard because the pictures in black and white, but yeah, yeah.

B (37:17)

British short hair, let's see, black and white tuxedo. The lighting is.

C (37:22)

Oh, then maybe they were trying to help us with the black and white complicated. Oh my God. And we were like, what's this bullshit? By the way, the comedian that said CBS news was Nikki Glazier.

B (37:35)

Nikki Glazier. That's it. That's it. That's it.

C (37:37)

That's it. All right, we've got Denise Finelli, pronoun. She and her. My son is my protest buddy. He is such a good guy. My husband has knee problems, so my son accompanies me to the marches. This picture is him striking a pose in front of the Constitution center in Philadelphia as the first hands on protest. Back in last night we went to our local indivisible meeting in the Camden, New Jersey area. On my way home, we were talking about the things we heard and he blurts out, I love you, Mom. It doesn't get any better than that. I was laughing because I could only see half of this picture and I was like, who is he hitting? I hope it's a Nazi. No, but this is an amazing picture of your very handsome, handsome child.

B (38:19)

Yeah. Well done. Look, you made that Denise, right? High five. But not too hard. He looks like he works out. It could hurt that. Go easy on my high fives. Next up and pronoun she and her. Hey there, Allison and Dana. My good news, I just dropped cash into Harry Dunn's newly announced campaign.

C (38:38)

Hell yeah.

B (38:39)

I live in a Minneapolis suburb and I'm mad as hell. My pot bet tariff picks are me in Yosemite on no Kings Day October. And my old girl, Cora baby. She crossed the rainbow bridge in late September after 23 years and 2 months. She really was my good old girl. 23 years. I'm telling you, long life. These, these tabby, these calico, these soft baby girls, they live in there. They live to be in their 20s, man. It's fantastic. She had such an amazing life with you, Ann. And that's a beautiful photo in Yosemite. Yeah.

C (39:14)

All right. This is from Cheyenne. Pronoun. She and her. Hello, beans pod people. My moms listen every. My mom's listen every day. They encouraged me to submit a shout out as I received public assistance since I was adopted as a teenager. This is awesome. Due to these services, I'm able to receive some wonderful health care. I was born blind in one eye. I didn't have a retina while still in high school. My blind eyeball was shrinking and painful. The eye was removed at Hershey Medical Center. The best part part is that I was connected to a super groovy ocularist. Yes, a doctor who makes prosthetic eyeballs. Thank you to Dr. Tara McNamara for working with people in Medicare and other public assistance programs. Her and her staff hand paint each eyeball to match the exact. It's hard for people to even tell. I am so blessed. Also, thank you to the two wonderful women who adopted me. I call them mom and Mommy. Oh, man.

B (40:12)

I know.

C (40:12)

I was holding it together.

B (40:14)

Me too.

C (40:15)

Who saw that I was worth their time. Who saw that I was worth their time and most importantly, their love. Cheyenne, this is such a beautiful submission for pod pet tariff. I was told you like goats. So here's a picture of me holding a baby goat at the recent farm show. I've also attached a photo of one of my cats, Dakota. He was bird watching then he got bored. My mom's allowed me to adopt four cats when I was adopted adopted nine years ago. Thanks for helping my mom stay sane so they can be the best that they can be. Cheyenne, this is an incredible submission and you with this goat is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for this. Thank you for this. My heart is full with so many reasons for this entire submission. Thank you.

B (41:01)

Oh man. Wonderful picture. Beautiful submission. Gorgeous cat by the way. Yeah, congrats on four cats. Four cats is a good number of cats to have. I I concur her. All right, next up from Wendy Pronoun. She and her hello badass bitches of the beans. The weekend Alex Preddy was murdered, I was meeting my brother for breakfast and Rage Scream singing to Operation Ivy on my way there. Next was a Violent Femme song As I cathartically flew down the parkway identifying with lyric after lyric. I thought this helps me and it can help others. So I started a social media project where I post a song a day and say a little something about it. Even though my reach is small, people have started to react and interact with the posts. Apparently I'm even taking requests now. My dad made a suggestion that I posted the next day. They're not always protest songs. Sometimes they're reflective of the silliness and joy of my everyday life. I played Sulu Dance if you know, you know Sunday because we were doing our first playthrough of Star Trek Captain's Chair, which is a board game. It's been healing to be this vulnerable and connect to people in this way. I highly recommend it. Additionally, I did something big to me this morning. I was outside with the dogs soaking up some vitamin D and listening to the good news then and there. For the first time. I went on5calls.org and called my representatives. I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so I thanked Summer Lee for being so amazing. Her speech at no Kings was inspired and then told Fetterman he ought to be ashamed of himself. And then I've never regretted a vote more in my 50 years on this earth. I can't explain the crisis of confidence that's kept me from calling until today. I've always marched and been a punk since I could form an opinion, but calling tripped me up. Then the shame spiral that I wasn't doing enough followed. It was a cycle and I broke that today and I wanted to share it with you two who give us so much hope while inspiring us to be Brave for my pod pet, Tirup. Here's a picture of our dog, Mayonnaise. I don't think it's a hard guess to her actual breed or the breed she believes herself to be in this picture, but have at it. P.S. it was around 15 degrees outside when this was taken. Even a blizzard can't keep Maisie from bird watching. Okay, this is so great. I love OP Ivy. I love the Violent Femmes. Oh, my God.

C (43:20)

So sweet.

B (43:22)

Was it Unity? Was it Unity by OP Ivy? That's a really good one. Look at this golden retriever who thinks she's a sled dog.

C (43:30)

I love it. Cute pup.

B (43:33)

And you play Star Trek board game. My kind of people.

C (43:36)

These really are your kind of people.

B (43:38)

Not yours, though.

C (43:39)

I play cribbage. Star Trek board game would throw me. I'm a cribbage player.

B (43:45)

Anyway, thank you all so much for your good news. Please continue to send it in DailyBeansPod.com click on Contact.

C (43:50)

We're a balance for each other, Allison. We're a good balance.

B (43:54)

We are.

C (43:55)

I know some sports things that you don't. You know, some pop culture that I don't.

B (44:00)

Yeah, that's very true.

C (44:02)

You want to date all the boys that I don't.

B (44:06)

No, not really.

C (44:09)

That's where. That's where our Venn diagram overlaps in the middle.

B (44:13)

Yeah, pretty much. All right, everybody, thank you so very much again. Send it to us dailybeanspod.com click on contact and we'll see you back tomorrow. Do you have any final thoughts before.

C (44:22)

We get out of here? I got a lot of shows coming up. Look at my website, danagoldberg.com go to the tour page. Yeah, there's all kinds of galas, but you can get tickets for Dallas. You can put tickets on hold as an alert for the villages. I'm going to be announcing a show in Nashville. We got Rochester, New York, where you can put get notified. So, yeah, go. Go get some tickets.

B (44:42)

Come see me live when you're in the village. Are you going to do, like, a golf cart meetup where you ride around on golf carts together?

C (44:48)

I mean, that sounds fun. Also, maybe a pickleball meetup. Maybe we'll have a little, like, pickleball game in the afternoon, something. But, yeah, we'll see if we can get something going.

B (44:56)

We can call them pickleball carts instead of golf carts, if that helps.

C (45:00)

That's true.

B (45:01)

You know how I have to drive around.

C (45:03)

Trust me, sometimes I will need a pickleball cart to get me from point A to point B.

B (45:07)

Imagine playing pickleball in a golf cart. That would be.

C (45:09)

Yeah, that sounds fun.

B (45:11)

Yeah, it does. All right, everybody, we'll talk to 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. Family. I've been ag.

C (45:18)

I've been dg.

B (45:20)

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