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Monday, December 16th, 2024 Today, more corporate media including ABC and Jeff Bezos are capitulating to Donald Trump’s administration; a Coast Guard commander miscarried and nearly died after being denied care; Atrium Health has canceled medical debt for nearly 11,500 people after an NBC report; a Trump crypto venture partner has links to Iran and Hezbollah; an incoming West Virginia lawmaker has been charged with threatening to kill fellow lawmakers; Senate Democrats are demanding communications between Boris Epshteyn and potential Trump appointees; the missing American Travis Timmerman has been found in Syria; the Air Force has named the first female SERE specialist as chief master sergeant; Manchin and Sinema hate working class Americans; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Allison Gill
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Dana Goldberg
Jelly beans. Jelly beans. Jelly beans.
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Allison Gill
Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Monday, December 16, 2024. Today, more corporate media, including ABC and Jeff Bezos, are capitulating to Donald Trump's administration. A Coast Guard commander miscarried and nearly died after being denied care. Atrium Health has canceled medical debt for nearly 11,500 people after an NBC report. A Trump crypto venture partner has links to Iran and Hezbollah. An incoming West Virginia lawmaker has been charged with threatening to kill fellow lawmakers. Senate democr communications between Boris Epstein and potential Trump appointees. The missing American, Travis Timmerman has been found in Syria. And the Air Force has named the first female SERE specialist as Chief Master Sergeant. I'm Allison Gill.
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Dana Goldberg
And I'm Dana Goldberg.
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Allison Gill
Hello. Happy Monday, my friend. Did you have a good weekend?
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Dana Goldberg
I did, but I need a weekend from my weekend. Like, I need a weekend after my weekend. I need a fuck. Like, I know people think I travel a lot, I'm in some pretty places, but, man, I need a fucking vacation.
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Allison Gill
It's a lot. It's a lot. But you did raise a lot of money for ELPAC last week, so. Yes.
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Dana Goldberg
It was so nice to have you at the event. You know, it was a small gathering, but they're a mighty. And it's. They, they literally the ELPAC, so it's the Lesbian Political Action Committee, they won 75% of the races they were in. That's a massive turnaround for the money invested in this, in this organization. So shout out to Chris and Christopher, my bears who keep me safe. Love you. They were there that night. Yeah. It was just a great event and a beautiful, beautiful art gallery, lesbian run LGBTQ art gallery in SoHo in New York. So it was beautiful.
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Allison Gill
Yeah, Absolutely fantastic event. And thanks for, thanks for inviting me to Charlotte and the board and it was great to be there with you, my friend. It really was.
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Dana Goldberg
It was nice to have you fighting the good fight with all of us.
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Allison Gill
Yes, yes. That's what we have to do, right, is protect our communities.
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Dana Goldberg
We do.
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Allison Gill
That's the way it goes. So, yeah, we are going to be having, tonight, we're having a patron meetup gala, I don't know, cocktail mocktail hour here in D.C. so that's going to be fun. And then we're going to go to the White House and we'll tell you all about it as well. And we'll make sure to put pictures up on social media. I know DG comedy, G comedy on Instagram. You're pretty generous with your photo sharing, so I look forward to seeing you.
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Dana Goldberg
I try to be, it seems the only platform that doesn't give me ajna. So we put up pictures and usually if someone is unkind in their comments, I catch it pretty quickly and block them. So it's sort of a, a nice way to just show love for each other.
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Allison Gill
Yeah. For reals. All right, everybody, we have tons of news to get to today. We have a whole separate B block included. But first we have some quick hits. And to make a long story short, too late. All right, first up from NBC. And before we get into this story, I just want to say go Navy. Navy beat army this weekend. So yay. It's very crowded with army and Navy here in D.C. but I'm, you know, I'm a little biased having been in the Navy. So go Navy. First up from NBC. In early November, the Linda Buries received a letter from Atrium Health telling them it was removing what was left on the lien of their house. $92,000.
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Dana Goldberg
Wow.
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Allison Gill
And leaving them free and clear of any obligation to the hospital. They were among the beneficiaries of a decision that the hospital system announced in September to release 11,500 liens on people's homes in North Carolina and five other states, some of which dated back 20 or more. Advocates health decision. Their decision to release the thousands of liens on former patients homes came after NBC News detailed how its Atrium Health unit aggressively pursued patients medical debts. So it I'm really glad that they're, they're doing this. This did happen back in September before the United CEO shoot the shooting there. But they have released 11,500 people from their medical debt.
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Dana Goldberg
That's amazing. Amazing. This quick hit. This from some NBC Travis Timmerman, the missing Missouri man who was unexpectedly found in Syria after he said he crossed into the country to make a quote, pilgrimage, was flown out by US Military to Jordan. This is from two US Defense officials and his family said that on Friday, families said that they had gone several months without any contact. From Timmerman. He's 29 and then saw him in media coverage Thursday after video emerged from Syria, leading some to misidentify him as missing. American journalist Austin Tice, who's 43. His discovery came as a shock to locals and journalists as thousands of detainees emerged from jails after the overthrow of President Bashar al Assad over the weekend.
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Allison Gill
Incredible. All right. So he's on his way home. And Joseph DeSoto, who was elected in November to serve as a delegate in the West Virginia House, was arrested by troopers early Thursday morning after an investigation showed, quote, he had made several threatening and intimidating threats against government officials. A witness told police on Wednesday that DeSoto was upset following a recent meeting where, you guessed it, Republican state lawmakers discussed whether to expel him from the caucus. He was charged with one count of threats of terrorist acts, a felony, and his bond was set at $300,000. So don't threaten your fellow lawmakers, I think, is the lesson that we can take forward. All right. We have more news to get to. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, first up, from Michael Ciss at the Associated Press. ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million to Donald Trump toward his presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos's, quote, unquote inaccurate honor assertion the president elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer Eugene Carroll. As part of the settlement made public Saturday, ABC News posted an editor's note to its website expressing regret over Stephanopoulos statements during a March 10 segment on his this Week program. The network will also pay a million dollars in legal fees to the law firm of Trump's attorney, Alejandro Brito. The settlement agreement describes ABC's presidential library payment as a charitable contribution with the money earmarked for a nonprofit organization that's being established in connection with the yet to be built Trump Library. Are they going to burn books there? What, seriously?
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Dana Goldberg
Just ban them? It's going to be an empty fucking building and a bunch of copies of Mein Kampf.
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Allison Gill
Yeah, and Art of the Deal. Right?
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Dana Goldberg
That's it.
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Allison Gill
Quote, we're pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit on the terms in the court filing. That's ABC News spokesperson Jenny Katis. The settlement agreement was signed Friday, the same day a Florida federal judge ordered Trump and Stephanopoulos to sit for separate depositions in the case this week. The settlement means that sworn testimony is no longer required. The agreement bore Trump's bold, distinct signature and an electronic signature with the initials GRS for George Stephanopoulos. Deborah O'Connell, the president of ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks, also signed the agreement. ABC News must Now transfer the $15 million for Trump's library to an escrow account that's being managed by Brito's law firm within 10 days, according to the agreement and the network must also pay Brito's legal fees within 10 days. While sizable ABC's contribution to Trump's presidential library will likely cover just a fraction of the cost. Former President Barack Obama's library in Chicago, for example, cost about $830 million as of 2021, but he has actual books in his library. Trump sued ABC and Stephanopoulos in federal court in Miami days after the network aired the segment, in which the longtime Good Morning America anchor and this Week host repeatedly misstated the verdicts in Carol's two civil lawsuits against Trump or Diddy. During a live this Week interview with Nancy Mace, Stephanopoulos wrongly claimed that Trump had been found liable for rape and defaming the victim of that rape. Neither verdict involved a finding of rape as defined under New York law, and in the first of the lawsuits to go to trial, Trump was found liable last year of sexually abusing and defaming Carol, and a jury ordered him to pay her 5 million. And in January, at a second trial, Trump was found liable on additional defamation claims and ordered to pay an additional 83.3 million. After Trump lashed out, calling Carol a nut job who invented a fraudulent and false story to sell her memoir, she sued him for unspecified monetary damages and sought a retraction of what she said were Trump's defamatory denials. Testifying in 2023, Carol told jurors, I'm here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn't happen. He lied and shattered my reputation, and I'm here to try to get my life back. After she'd agreed to help Trump shop for a gift for a woman, Carol testified he pushed her against a dressing room wall, stamped his mouth onto hers, yanked down her tights and content warning here, shoved his hand and then his penis inside her while she struggled against him. She said she finally knead him off and fled. In upholding the $5 million judgment for the first trial, Lewis Kaplan, the judge, wrote that the unanimous verdict was almost entirely in favor of Carroll, except that the jury concluded she failed to prove Trump raped her, quote, within the very narrow technical meaning of a particular section of New York penal law. Kaplan, who presided over both of Carroll's lawsuits against Trump, said the definition of rape in the state code was far narrower than how rape is defined in common modern parlance in some dictionaries, in some federal and state criminal statutes and elsewhere. Under New York law, a rape finding requires vaginal penetration by a penis and forcible penetration without consent of the vagina or other body orifices by fingers or anything else is just called sexual abuse. The judge said the verdict did not mean Carol failed to prove that Trump raped her, as many people commonly understand the word rape. Indeed, the jury found that Trump did, in fact, exactly do that. And so I am. I'm very upset with ABC for. I am, too, because saying that he raped her or was found solely liable for rape, in common parlance, is not defamation. Right. And to give up deposing Donald Trump about possible potential damages, a cause to ABC giving up a deposition, forcing him to try to be under oath for eight hours and not contradict himself so that he could be impeached later at a potential defamation trial. I believe ABC would have won this case had they fought it. And, you know, you didn't have to settle right now if you thought you might end up losing the case. Like, you could get to pretrial motions and say this case should be dismissed because raping is not defamatory. Saying rape is not a defamation because Judge Kaplan said it's. It's not defamatory to say rape, because you remember, Trump sued Eugene Carroll after all of those cases, saying that he defamed her by saying that she raped him. And the judge dismissed that case because the judge said rape is an acceptable term. It just doesn't fit this narrowly prescribed New York statutory law. And Trump lost that case. And I think ABC would have won the same case had they stayed in and fought. Oh, and to add insult to injury, Jeff Bezos just donated a million dollars to Trump's inaugural fund. The owner of the Washington Post. So everybody's paying off Trump, and it's very, very frustrating, all this money.
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Dana Goldberg
I mean, I would just laugh if Trump was like, I'm just going to have the inauguration at the Four Seasons parking lot and pocket the rest. Oh, but that costs that much money? You know damn well he's not using all this money for the inauguration.
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Allison Gill
No, there's still $50 million missing from his inauguration in the first thing. That was run by Tom Barrick, who he just made the fucking ambassador to Turkey. It's just corrupt, Phil.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh, that's so disgusting. All right, we're going to keep going, though. This one is from Daniel Klaidman at cbs. Two top Senate Democrats. They're calling for President Elect Donald Trump's potential appointees to be required to disclose any communications they had with Boris Epstein, a longtime Trump advisor, after allegations recently surfaced that Epstein was soliciting financial, financial payments in connection to their efforts to secure government appointees and I quote, all appointees appearing before the Senate. The Senate Judiciary. That's what happens when I have to say Epstein. The Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee should immediately act to retain all communications with Mr. Epstein, provide those materials to the committee well in advance of their hearing date, and be prepared to testify regarding any discussions with Mr. Epstein about receiving a potential appointment. Incoming administration pay to play. Democratic Senators Richard Durbin of Illinois and Sheldon White House, whom we love of Rhode island, wrote in a letter shared with CBS News and the conservative publication Just the News. The letter was addressed to Republican Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Chuck Grassley of Iowa. Isn't Chuck, like, 180 years old?
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Allison Gill
Yeah. Something.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah. Okay. Also copied to Trump's transition team. By the way, that leader is Susie Wiles. It asks that the senior Republicans require any Trump appointees who come before the Judiciary Committee for confirmation to, quote, preserve and produce to the committee. And in communications with Mr. Epstein, the senators wrote that, quote, questions remain regarding whether any nominees made promises or other assurances to Mr. Epstein as a condition of his support. A transition source called the letter, quote, a pathetic lawfare tactic.
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Allison Gill
No, it's not. This isn't a court. It's a fucking hearing for.
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Dana Goldberg
Yep, Cotton. No, I know. Epstein previously told CBS News he was honored to be working for President Elect Trump and that the allegations against him were patently false. Quote, these fake claims are false and defamatory and will not distract us from the make America great again. That's what Epstein said in a statement. Graham's office said it would defer comment to Grassley, the incoming Judiciary Committee chair. A spokesperson for Grassley said in a statement, quote, committee members will have the opportunity to ask nominees questions on these issues when they come before the Senate for hearing.
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Allison Gill
Man, I know they're making Grassley the chair of the Judiciary Committee.
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Dana Goldberg
There's not one female that was appointed head of any committee in this new administration. And they're all white men. All of them. It's really sad to see. Now, late last month, the New York Times reported that attorney David Warrington, who will be Trump's incoming White House counsel, conducted a review into the allegations against Epstein and concluded that Epstein had solicited payment from at least two people. The Times reported that Warrington recommended that Trump keep his distance from him. Last month, CBS News reported that Trump's transition team was grappling with internal strife over Epstein's conduct related to possible candidates for positions in the Trump administration. At least one Republican politician, former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, he alleged in a sworn declaration to the transition team that Mr. Epstein's overall tone and behavior gave me the impression of an implicit expectation to engage in business dealings with him before he could advocate for any or suggest my appointment to the President.
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Allison Gill
Wow.
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Dana Goldberg
Yep. Another quote, this created a sense of unease and pressure on my part, said the declaration, which was first obtained by the online publication Just the News. That's con. That's conservative rag I told you about. And shared with CBS News. Greitens and his attorney, Timothy Par. Oh, him I know. Authenticated the one page document to CBS News. Politore, who has been critical of Epstein in the past, confirmed to CBS News that the declaration was submitted in connection with the internal investigation being conducted by Warrington, who also served as general counsel to the Trump campaign.
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Allison Gill
Bag of rats. Big bag of rats.
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Dana Goldberg
The Trump transition team confirmed it had conducted a review and now intended to move on from the issue. As first reported by cnn, quote, as a standard practice, a broad review of the campaign's consulting agreements has been conducted and completed, including as to Boris, among others. This is what the transition spokesman, Stephen Cheng said at the time. He went on to say, we are now moving ahead together as a team to help President Trump make America greater.
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Allison Gill
Gal.
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Dana Goldberg
So this is just so bizarre to me because Epstein, it feels like a double, double dipping situation. We already know that most of the people that are being considered for cabinet positions have purchased them by donating so much money to Trump's campaign, so they're already beholden to him to do favors anyway. So it's just really bizarre to me. I feel like Epstein now is the fall guy because if we focus on him trying to extort money from, from them, everyone's going to what? Forget that everyone bought these positions in the administration. It's just bizarre.
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Allison Gill
It is. And I mean, it's a complete and total pay for play and there's tons of it and there's going to continue to be tons of it that will be uncovered. And I mean, I just, I can't believe. Well, no, I shouldn't say I can't believe. I can believe that there's this unrest within the Trump transition team and nobody likes Boris Epstein. But I mean, I remember, I love that they conducted well, we investigated ourselves and it's fine. It reminds me of when, you know, the government and the Department of Justice were like, you still have more fucking classified documents. And Trump's like, I'll go and do another search. And he had his lawyers go and do another. Hire some friends who were also lawyers, go and do another quote unquote search. And they're like, we didn't find anything. We did find this one thing in his shed out by know Ivana's grave. I don't know. They, they found like a document or two totally innocuous that they forgot to bury with her. Yeah, it was just like, oh well, we, we did it. And, and Jack Smith was like, you judge, you need to hold them in contempt. They're not executing this search and we still don't really, I mean we went over kind of how that ended. But you know, she held off holding them in contempt and then the Supreme Court stepped in and said he's a king. And then we're all. So yeah, it sort of all unraveled from there. But anyway, thanks for that report. Again, not surprising in the least, but I hope they're all going after each other. Par La Torre hates Epstein, who hates Warrington. I love it like keep doing it and keep leaking it all to the press because that's how we're going to find out about this stuff. From Alexander Ulmer at Reuters is our next story. A crypto venture recently unveiled by Trump and his new Middle east envoy, Stephen Witkoff, who's a billionaire, has partnered with a crypto platform that authorities and financial experts say has been used by criminals and Iran backed militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah. World Liberty Financial, founded by the Witkoff family two months before November's election. Interesting timing with Trump as a financial beneficiary. Presents concerns over ethics and conflicts of interest, say six specialists in US Government ethics.
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Dana Goldberg
Jesus.
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Allison Gill
Among their biggest concerns is World Liberty's new partner, Tron crypto platform. Quicker and cheaper than Bitcoin, the Tron network has overtaken its rival as a vehicle for crypto transfers associated with groups designated as terror organizations by Israel and the United States and other countries. That's what Reuters reported in 2023, citing interviews with seven financial crime experts and cryptocurrency investigation specialists. Tron announced last month it was investing $30 million in Trump's world liberty. Tron's founder, Chinese born entrepreneur Justin sun, will join the Trump Witkoff venture as an advisor soon. And World Liberty said on social media platform Twitter, the British Virgin Islands registered Tron is now World Liberty's largest investor. Tron, which profits from transaction fees off its network, told Reuters its technology, quote, has attracted both lawful and users and those with illicit motives, but didn't specify or respond to claims that had been used by militant groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. On the sidelines of a crypto conference in Abu Dhabi, Eric Trump told Reuters that the use of crypto by criminals was everybody's concern, foremost concern, but said traditional financial institutions are also used to funnel bad money. Trust me, I know, but might as well have, right? Anything can be manipulated if used by the wrong people, Eric Trump said. And you have to crack down on it. Trump's second son said this and then added that the crypto industry will do a great job of policing itself when it comes to illicit flows. Yeah. Huh? Do you believe him? Do you believe eric Trump?
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Dana Goldberg
No.
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Allison Gill
U.S. treasury has seized Tron's wallets, including an account linked to a group that the department said raised money for Hamas in the wake of the 2023 attack on Israel. The US Treasury Department. In March, the Treasury leveled sanctions against the Lebanon based Money Changer, who said it provided Hezbollah officials with crypto accounts, including a Tron wallet, to receive funds from Iran. This is all like, so illegal. Quote, there are red flags all over this, said Kathleen Clark, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis who specializes in government ethics. Her concerns include the significant size of TRON's investment in world Liberty, whether Trump could benefit financially from it, and the alleged use of Tron by militants including Hamas and Hezbollah. Yeah, it's a couple red flags. She also highlighted an investigation of Tron founder soon by the U.S. securities and Exchange Commission. So he's under investigation. In 2023, the SEC charged him with fraud, accusing him of artificially inflating trading volume and concealing payments to celebrities to promote his company. Soon, who is based in Switzerland and a citizen of Grenada, said the SEC charges lack merit. Okay, the case is ongoing. I'm sure it'll be dropped by Trump. Clark questioned whether World Liberty's close relationship with soon would pose a conflict of interest for Trump once his administration takes over the SEC in January. Yes, yes, it will. Spokespeople for Trump and his transition team didn't directly respond to questions about Trump's financial ties to World Liberty, the Tron investment and potential conflicts. Quote, president Trump didn't get into politics for profit. That's what transition spokesperson Caroline Leavitt says. Uh huh. Quote, he's fighting because he loves the people of this country and wants to make America great again.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh, God.
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Allison Gill
Yeah. That's why he's selling sneakers and watches and. Yeah, $15 million from ABC. Okay. He's not in it for profit at all. Not in anything for profit. Right.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh no. He's probably going to donate his salary again.
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Allison Gill
Yeah, totally. Militant groups and criminals like Tron. This is a great statement. Militant groups and criminals Like Tron, because it gives users the option to conceal their identities, charges low fees, and can be converted into cash easily, according to some crypto experts.
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Dana Goldberg
So you're going to wreck the dollar. All right. This one's from Riley Cedar at the Air Force Times. An airman recently became the first female survival, evasion, resistance, escape, and that's known as seer, the specialist who achieved the rank of Chief Master Sergeant. The services announced this. Chief Master Sergeant Tiffany Zaludek earned the highest enlisted rank in the air force on November 1st. That's according to an Air Force release. Zludik earned her Ser Beret in 2007, becoming the first woman in eight years to finish the specialized course. But her path was filled with doubters, of course, along the way. Why not? She said the recruiter for the course supplied her with a SEER brochure devoid of any images of women and didn't exactly offer his support. This is what Zaluty recalled in her release. And I quote, he told me that he only knew of one woman to ever graduate SEER specialist training and that I didn't look like the type who would do this job because I was so feminine. Wow. She also went on to say, I understood CYR was a demanding career path, but I felt I was ready for the challenge. She chalked up his incorrect assessment of her grit to his knowledge. Knowledge that she'd owned a pet rabbit in the past. What? Yeah.
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Allison Gill
All right.
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Dana Goldberg
Yeah. This says the joke was on him. Nearly a decade later, she was the one teaching airmen in the woods how to skin a rabbit. SEER specialist provides service members with essential knowledge on how to find food, make shelter, hide from enemies, and engineer their own rescue. In the early stages of her training, Zaludic was mocked as a, quote, combat Barbie. But she paid the jeers no mind, maintaining tunnel vision on her goal to never quit. That's according to the release. Eight years later, she achieved her goal and graduated as a top performer in her class. Even after becoming a SERE specialist, though, Zludik said that some people weren't able to look beyond her gender, and they continued to misjudge her. Individuals mischaracterized her outgoing personality as a form of weakness. Zaludic responded by acting more reserved, becoming more stoic, and flattening her character to blend in. This is all from the release notes. She said she'd spoken to other women in the services who have experienced a similar watering down of their identity as a response to inaccurate accusations that their success is attributed to their gender or their Looks Salute eventually emerged from this protective cocoon and reclaimed her outgoing identity. Now she's a chief master sergeant. Quote to all the women out there, please know that strength and femininity go hand in hand. Hand. Zik said, adding that the success in a male dominated career doesn't require conforming to gender stereotypes. She said, I personally like wearing makeup and doing my hair. That doesn't make me less of a seer specialist. And for those who prefer not to wear makeup or do their hair, that doesn't make them any less of a woman. You can look however you want to, look within regulation and be your own brand of woman. And man, she is stunning. And she's a fucking badass. She's a fucking badass.
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Allison Gill
I have a picture here. We'll see if we can put a picture in the show notes for patrons, but if you want to Google this from the Air Force Times, Zaludic Z A L O U D E K She's a fucking badass, dude.
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Dana Goldberg
She's a badass. And absolutely beautiful, stunning eyes. I mean, she talks about this, as in her own article, is that you can be an attractive woman and still kick some ass. And so I'm giving her props for both.
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Allison Gill
Yeah, and I love that she says, and you don't have. And it just, if you don't wear makeup, doesn't make you any less of a woman. I fucking love her. Like, she's like my new hero. I'm not going to see her school anytime, ever. Okay, but this is the shit. This is inspirational stuff, man. She's a badass and I love her. Anyway, thank you for that story. It makes me feel like, yeah, I'm gonna go fucking kick some ass. Which for me is like talking. But that's fine. You know, it's your own thing. You do what you do. All right, everybody, I have another story for you from ProPublica. This one's about TRICARE. I was the. When I worked Dana, at the Department of Veterans affairs for the last few years, I was there under the Trump administration. I was the tricare liaison to the Department of Defense. And this story is a stunner. And the. Everybody needs to support ProPublica and the work that they're doing on these investigations. 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Hey everybody, welcome back. I wanted to do a special segment for this story, a standalone again it's from erin Edwards for ProPublica and Robin Fields. And please, if you get a chance and you can swing it right now, go to ProPublica.org and donate support their work. They are going to be one of the really important investigative journalism sources that is going to be looking into a lot of the corruption the next four years. They're about to embark on a huge investigation into health care claim denials. And this piece is called A Coast Guard commander miscarried and she nearly died after being denied care. And I wanted to share this with you because Tricare is the benefit that covers active duty service members and their families when they can't get direct government health care on a military base. And this is how we, you know, we tend to give coverage to our military members. Even though it's government and it's supposed to be single payer, it still goes through these private insurance companies. Our tricare contracts can be from United Healthcare, Humana, Tri west, to any of the big ones. And then there's even a third party administrator who, who actually goes through and processes the claims financially, which is another corporation with private, you know, that's privately owned and operated that also takes giant swaths of taxpayer money. And this is about the kind of care they receive. The night, the EMTs carried Elizabeth Nakagawa from her home, bleeding and in pain. The tarp they'd wrapped her in reminded her of a body bag. Nakagawa, who's 39, is a Coast Guard commander, stoic, methodical, an engineer by trade. But as they maneuvered her past her young daughter's bedroom, down the narrow steps and onto the ambulance, she felt a stab of fear that she might never see her girls again. Then came a blast of anger. She'd been treated for miscarriages before. She knew her life never should have been in danger. Earlier that day, April 3, 2023, Nakagawa had been scheduled to have a surgical procedure called a dnc. And this is to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy. But that morning, she was told the surgery had been canceled because tricare, the military's health insurance plan, refused to pay for it. While her doctor appealed, Nakagawa waited. Then the cramps and bleeding began. In recent months, ProPublica and other media outlets have told the stories of women who died or nearly died when state abortion restrictions imposed after The Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision impeded them from getting critical care. But long before Roe v. Wade was overturned, military service members and their families have faced strict limits on abortion services, which are commonly used to resolve miscarriages. Under a decades old federal law, the military is prohibited from paying for abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. This applies even to service members based in states where abortion is legal. Nakagawa lives in Sonoma County, California. There's also no exception for catastrophic or fatal fetal anomalies. In those cases, service members either have to pay out of pocket for abortions or carry to term fetuses that won't survive outside the womb. Tricare does allow abortions in cases like Nakagawa's, in which the fetus has no heartbeat. But even then, some doctors who treat military Service members say tricare requires more documentation and takes longer to approve these procedures than other insurers, putting women at risk. Quote, there definitely have been cases where our tricare patients have required emergency services, emergency DNC procedures, blood transfusions, things like that, things that have been critical to life saving care, but their procedure has yet to occur. That's Dr. Lauren Robertson, an OBGYN who has served military members and their spouses in San Diego for more than a decade. Quote, it just feels very unnecessary. Since the Dobbs decision, abortion care for service members seems to be coming under heightened scrutiny, said retired Rear Admiral Dana Thomas, who was until recently the Coast Guard's chief medical officer and advocated for Nakagawa. Quote, trust me, post Roe v. Wade, I'm sure people felt there was much more of a spotlight. That's what Thomas said. I think they were more guarded after June of 2022. After being rushed to the emergency room, Nakagawa hemorrhaged for four more hours before doctors performed the surgery tricare had refused to authorize. Later, tricare and Defense Department officials would all agree that Nakagawa should have been treated as her doctor recommended and said they told her they'd taken steps to prevent future mistakes. But her experience, which doctors say nearly cost Nakagawa her life, laid bare the challenges that service members have long faced in obtaining reproductive health care. And it raises questions about whether the Supreme Court's ruling has created a chilling effect that has further complicated access to these procedures. Officials at the dha, the Defense health agency which runs the military health system, including TRICARE, did not respond to specific questions from ProPublica, but they provided a statement saying its policies haven't budged. Quote, there have not been any changes to TRICARE coverage or documentation requirements for medically necessary care of DNCs following the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision. Medically necessary care was and continues to be covered. The agency declined to answer questions about Nakagawa, saying that as a matter of practice, it does not discuss individual beneficiaries care. ProPublica is involved in an unrelated public records lawsuit with the dha. As a senior officer, Nakagawa felt duty bound to press for answers about what happened to her. Quote, the abortion policy in theory is supposed to protect life, and in my case it did the opposite, Nakagawa said. It almost led to my children not having a mother. After the Supreme Court upended Roe, the Biden administration took steps to reassure service members that their access to reproductive health care would remain unaffected by the wave of state abortion bans. An October 2022 memo from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin pledged to facilitate leave for service members seeking abortions that were not covered by tricare and to pay for travel care if it wasn't available nearby. It also emphasized that these procedures would be, quote, consistent with applicable federal law. And before I continue on, I wanted to bring up my op ed that I wrote for the Washington Post about leave for military members. I don't know if a lot of you have read it, so let me just do that really quick. And again, I wanted to do this. I wanted to read this to you in light of this paragraph. The memo from Lloyd Austin pledged to facilitate leave for service members seeking abortions that are not covered by tricare and to pay for travel if it wasn't nearby. Here's what MYOP ed said and Content Warning for SA Overturning Roe v. Wade could have disastrous consequences for the US Armed Forces and here's how I know when I was 21, I was drugged and raped violently while serving in the military, a crime that resulted in pregnancy. Had I not had access to abortion, the assault would have ended my career and derailed my life. Should Roe be overturned and access to abortion restricted for female service members across the United States, military readiness would be directly affected. Women make up 14.4% of our active duty military and about 18% of our reserve and National Guard. Rape in the military is prevalent. In 2018, the Defense Department reported that roughly 20,500 service members experienced sexual assault, up from 14,900 two years before. Many states have trigger laws banning or criminalizing abortion that will go into effect as soon as Roe is overturned, a probable outcome considering the Supreme Court draft opinion that leaked earlier this month. This will immediately affect active duty service members who don't exactly get to choose what state they serve in and who don't have the freedom to travel to other states without a leave chit approved by the chain of command, a command that is notoriously bad at dealing with the aftermath of sexual assault. Of the 20,500 service members sexually assaulted in 2018, only a third reported the assault and 43% of those who did say it was a negative experience. Military leaders are often averse to having sexual assaults associated with their command. Not to mention the rapist is often in the chain of command. This leads to situations in which it's unsafe to report range rape, and if there's no safe space to report rape, there's certainly no safe space to request leave to travel for abortion care. Potential workarounds like mail order abortion medication would most likely be unfeasible When I served, mail went through the chain of command and there were inspections to prevent the receipt of contraband. Although I don't know whether abortion pills received through the mail today would be confiscated, I do know I would have never ordered them for fear of being caught and disciplined. When I tried to report my rapist, I was asked the same question so many victims have heard before. What were you wearing? Were you flirting? Are you in a fight with your boyfriend? A higher ranking officer told me I could lose my prestigious nuclear position. He said I'd be dishonorably discharged for filing a false report and court martialed for adultery because my rapist was married. Quote, let's just chalk this up to what it was, he said. Bad judgment on your part. I left believing it was my fault. Fault A lie that took over a decade of therapy to undo and I was terrified to mention it to anyone. There was no morning after pill to prevent pregnancy back then, but when I discovered I was pregnant, I was able to access abortion care at a nearby Planned Parenthood, along with a counseling referral. The trauma from the rape almost cost me my life. Access to the care I received afterward saved me. Now imagine if I hadn't had that care. Imagine if multitudes of people in the military couldn't access such care. In a world without Roe, service members without ready access to abortion care would be trapped. A service member who is raped and becomes pregnant could essentially be forced by the government to carry their pregnancy to term and give birth to their rapist's baby. There are concrete steps U.S. officials can take now to help service members who might need to seek abortion care. First, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin should create policy granting leave for reproductive health travel, and President Biden should call on the Defense Department to put that policy into practice. And then second, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer should bring the Military Justice Improvement act, sponsored by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and supported by senators including Joni Ernst, Chuck Grassley and Ted Cruz, to a floor vote. The bill proposes taking the decision to prosecute rape and assault out of the chain of command, which would give active duty service members a safe space to report. The MJIA has 67 bipartisan sponsors, but it was killed when Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat, insisted it be included in the National Defense Authorization act, where it was gutted. Kirsten Gillibrand has continued to push for a vote on the full proposal and has been repeatedly blocked. The lack of protections is unacceptable, forcing service members with unwanted pregnancies to covertly seek abortion care or to carry a pregnancy to term would be inhumane. If the United States values women's military service, it must find a way to ensure they have a choice. So that was May of 2022, after the leak of the Dobbs decision and I urged Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to please grant leave for military care. And then four months later he did. And when I met Ron Klain, the Chief of Staff in the White House, he knew who I was because of this op ed. So I like to think that it made a difference in getting that policy put into place. And now we know it will likely be overturned. So Back to the ProPublica article. The statute barring the Defense Department from paying for most abortions goes back to 1985 in mirrors language in what's called the Hyde Amendment, named for its author Henry Hyde, a Republican representative from Illinois. Congress has attached the amendment to spending bills since the late 1970s to prohibit the use of federal funds on abortion. With Congress in control of military spending, abortion care is very politicized. That's a statement from Kylie Ann Hunter, a Marine Corps combat veteran and senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. Quote, there's been a lot of backlash and a lot of scrutiny and a lot of congressional disapproval as to how the DoD is engaged with abortion care, DNC and care, DNC and the like. About 9.5 million people, including active duty service members and their families, as well as military retirees and their dependents, rely on tricare for health services. Women make up a growing portion of the active duty force, more than 17%. They also leave the military at higher rates. Research by RAND and others suggest the military's reproductive health policies may make it harder to recruit and retain them. Dr. Tony Marengo, a former Navy OBGYN, said she left the service in part because she felt unable to provide patients with the appropriate care. Many of them only discovered how sharply TRICARE's policies curtailed access to procedures like DNC when they needed them. Quote it was like living in a pre Roe world, said Marengo, now chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood for the Pacific Southwest. So there's a lot more to this article. There's a whole lot more I would love for you to read. Just go to propublica.org and search for Nakagawa, Elizabeth Nakagawa and her miscarriage and you can read more details about hers and others cases dealing with the TRICARE regional offices that are supposed to support and care for our active duty service members and their families. So thank you. I just wanted to go through this with you because again, it's A subject like veterans benefits and the Department of Veterans affairs. That is personal to me. So thanks for sticking around for the B block. We'll be right back with the good news. Stay with us everybody. Welcome back. It's time for the good news, everyone. Then good news everyone. And if you have any good news or confessions or corrections you want to send us a great story, anything at all, please do so by going to DailyBeansPod.com and clicking on Contact. Just submit your pod pet tax, which is a photo of your pet. If you want us to guess the breeds in your shelter pup, we can do that too. If you don't have a pet, you can send an adoptable pet in your area. We'll try to match them with the Forever Home. And if you don't have that nearby you, you can also just send in really any animal photo we'll take. We accept pretty much any animal photo, especially birds. Right now we're bird watching, right? Send us your, your middle fingers. Your middle finger salute to Trump Properties. I love those photos they make. They, they fill me with glee. And then of course, if you have none of that, you can send your baby pictures, which we also love. Also, if you have a shout out, if you don't have some good news, but you just want to give a shout out to somebody, whether it's your spouse or kid or a parent or yourself, self shout outs are incredible and amazing and very uplifting. So send those in. Maybe somebody doing great community organizing in your area or a small business that could use a boost or your small business. Let's see what you're making and creating. We'd love to see that that any ideas that you're trying to come up with or percolate, please send those to us. And of course shout outs to government programs that have helped you or a loved one. And it can be any government program, local or federal, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Affordable Care act, maybe you've got some great health care in your state. I know a lot of states are have worked and are still working on getting more universal health care and public options put into place. So we'd love to hear about that Medicaid expansion in your state. Perhaps even if it's like section 8 or snap or WIC, head start, anything at all. All great care you've gotten at a VA clinic for veterans and of course student debt forgiveness. Anyway, send anything you want to us basically@dailybeanspod.com and click on Contact. All right, first up from Vicki Pronoun. She and her Hello Beans Queens. I was just in DC for a human rights conference. While I was there, I went to see a fabulous painting at an exhibit by three Japanese American women artists called Pictures of Belonging at the American Art Museum. There'll be a link in the show notes for you. While at the Smithsonian where the National Portrait Gallery is, I wanted to see the Kehinde Wiley portrait of Obama. I'm sure I'm saying that incorrectly. Please send in a correction. Kehinde maybe.
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Dana Goldberg
Kehinde Wiley. He's fucking incredible. If you've ever seen this artist. Mind blowing everything of his I've ever seen. He's a beautiful black artist.
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Allison Gill
Kehinde Wiley. That's the portrait of Obama. But first I had to get this ass hat so I decided to give him the salute he deserves. Oh good, it's birdwatching. Yeah. Fucking flipping off the dawn at the National Portrait Gallery. Thank you so much for this. It has made my day.
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Dana Goldberg
That's awesome. That's so cool. Yeah Kenny Wiley is an unbelievable artist. Everyone check his work out. Linda C. No pronouns given. I'm thankful for Department of Agriculture that ensures our food supply is safe and many other things. Department of Weights and Measures I never worry that a gallon of gas is actually a gallon. Same at water machines and anything I buy. NASA all the fabulous pictures and info from space. We flew past Pluto. We landed on asteroids. We have touched the edge of the sun. We've traveled beyond our solar system to interstellar space. They brought us Tang and Velcro. Department of Printing and Engraving they make the money. National Archives, Post Office, whomever does volcano monitoring, faa, cfpb, fdic, USGS for keeping track of the motion of the ground beneath our feet. Big 7.0 quake just rolled through redwood country. Yes it did. There are far too many of those obscure departments to list where Americans work every day to help other Americans. I hope they fly under the radar and survive. Trader Trump and his treacherous billionaires. We have four kitties, oldest is Gray little bit Rescued off the streets in Phoenix when my dad was dying from leukemia and was doing trap neuter return to comfort myself. She may be the oldest and declawed found that way by the way, but she is the queen. Jack our current tuxedo was trapped as a baby foster fail. Buster was rescued from the prison in Soledad, California by Rachel the Cat Whisperer and EZ E Z Rescued off the streets of Salinas is our latest Manx. We love the breed and he and has been a great addition to the family. He has the cutest Butt. Thank you for all of what you do and have done for America. Our founders will welcome you, Trump, McConnell, all of Fox, you will be shunned as traders.
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Allison Gill
Okay, look at the Manx butt. That's pretty cute.
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Dana Goldberg
It's a good Manx butt. Yep, yep.
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Allison Gill
What are the breed traits of a Manx? I've never had a Manx cat. Are they cuddly? Are they standoffish? Are they goofy? Like what? Write back to us, Linda C. And tell us the. Or if you, anyone who has a Manx, and tell us what the breed characteristics of a man links is or what they are and why you keep getting them. Because they seem very cool. I'd like to learn more. Thank you for that. Next up from Jim Pronouns, he and him. First off, I love the beans and I listen every morning and I love connecting with the fellow Lagoonati on Blue sky and Facebook. It's a great community you've built. While I like seeing birds on the show, I thought this morning that another way of saluting the buildings is by fixing the nomenclature on their exteriors.
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Dana Goldberg
So good.
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Allison Gill
I humbly submit my photo of the convicted felons Tower. Enjoy. And our two cats, Luna and Leo, at the window watching some other birds. So here we have Trump Tower. I think this is the one on fifth Avenue. And it doesn't say Trump Tower.
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Dana Goldberg
It's also really good, the Photoshop on this. Like the glare of glass and everything. Like, well done on this.
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Allison Gill
Yeah, it looks like it's like, it doesn't look photoshopped.
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Dana Goldberg
It's really good at all.
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Allison Gill
And look at these two kitties. Very adorable. Oh, and I forgot to mention too, I like, I totally skipped right by this, but in Linda's submission, all those tiny little government programs, all those government agencies, the obscure ones. I do also hope they fly under the radar and don't get hacked to pieces. And if you're a federal civil servant. Right now I'm working on a project to help folks in the federal civil service keep their jobs. But in the meantime, find out if you're eligible to be in a union. And if you are, make sure your dues are current because there have been a bunch of new union contracts signed with federal agencies that can be sued against if something happens to your job. They can be used to sue and take like eeo action within your agencies with administrative law judges. So make sure that your dues are current and you are all set and you're in the union and like, good to go. And if I know a lot of government employees aren't eligible to join unions because some are considered management or they have direct reports or they are in the SES or higher up in the GS pay scale. If you don't have union available to you, if you can swing it, look into getting liability insurance so that when you are if you are fired, you can push back on that and have money to pay a lawyer to help you. And I'll have more information because I've gone through this and I know how to delay and I know how to use the bureaucracy and I want to help people do this. So those are the first two steps. I just wanted to bring that up because Linda's submission reminded me.
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Dana Goldberg
Awesome. This one's from Anonymous. Good morning. I have a suggestion for your consideration. Doggies are good. And doji is probably how it's actually pronounced is bad. But I know we've been calling it dog Doggy on the podcast is bad. So maybe you could instead pronounce it dodgy because it is. Have a great day.
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Allison Gill
Yeah, anything but doge, which is how he wants us to say it.
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Dana Goldberg
Really?
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Allison Gill
Yeah.
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Dana Goldberg
I like dodgy. All right. This is from James P. Pronouns, he, him. Hi all. Greetings from your upstairs neighbor. Defending democracy from your northern border. I'm currently listening to my first episode, December 12, 2024. I'm really pissed that I took so long to find you. Your show is exactly what I need as an antidote to mainstream media. My good news is that I'm in the process of starting my own storytelling podcast. I've included a picture of my majestic house tiger, Vicenzo. Keep up the good work, love and light. And I just want to apologize to Anonymous above. You submitted a picture of two beautiful cats, so thank you for that. And James submitted a picture of the Vicenzo Vincenzo. Vicenzo.
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Allison Gill
Thank you for the correction, James. Is he named after Vinnie from My Blue Heaven, the character played by Steve Martin? Vincenzo. I have to know where you got the name Vincenzo, but he's very beautiful.
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Dana Goldberg
Thank you for the correction.
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Allison Gill
And thanks. Honestly, I only know that because I've seen my blue heaven 500 million times and it might not even be named after him, but that's how I know it. All of my. You know What? I bet 90% of my knowledge comes from movies and pop culture. Like somebody asked me one time in a trivia or something if I knew the six types of quarks, and I did. But not because I was a really good science student, but because I've seen the movie Roxanne again with Steve Martin. So I think I learned a lot from they Might Be Giants songs. So you know, I it's that kind of a situation. But I'd be interested to know where he got his name. James. And thank you for listening. Welcome. This will be like your like third or fourth episode. I'm so glad that you're here and that you that you found us and you can be our emotional support Canadian and if that's cool.
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Dana Goldberg
I love it. Do you want to take the next one?
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Allison Gill
Sure. From Lakin Pronoun. She and her hi beans Queens. I recently found you two through Blue Sky.
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Dana Goldberg
Nice.
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Allison Gill
Excellent. I post this shit for years on Twitter and Elon shoves it in a basement somewhere and nobody sees it. And we get all these amazing new listeners from Blue sky where third party links aren't buried. So this is such good news Lake and thank you. I wanted to share a funny story. I was baptized two times. Once with when I was born as Catholic and another at age 7 as a Baptist. By 12, I decided not to be part of organized religion at all and stopped going. My daughter's never been to church except for a wedding. When my daughter was five, I drive her to school. Along the way we would pass a fairly big and kind of fancy looking church. One day my daughter asked, what is that? I said, a church. She goes, what's a church? Me not knowing exactly how to explain to a kid who's not being brought up through church and religion. I say, well, God, Jesus and Spirit live there. And she thought for a few seconds and asks, does God damn it live there too?
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Dana Goldberg
Oh my God.
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Allison Gill
Anyway, I hope you guys get as much of a laugh as I did when she said that. Yes, I'm adding a picture of my daughter from when she was six during the presidential debate. Notice her thumbs up and thumbs down. Haha. She saw things so clearly. And a pic of my pup, Poppy. Can you guess her breed? No answer given in this submission. So every whatever we say is right. Dana, have a great day and thanks for making my days better with your podcast. This doggo is adorable.
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Dana Goldberg
So sweet.
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Allison Gill
And then look at the thumbs up and thumbs down.
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Dana Goldberg
Oh, I love that. I feel the same way. Same girl, same.
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Allison Gill
That is adorable. The dog. I don't know. What do you think? Like a skipper key and a.
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Dana Goldberg
It looks like a little lassie. Like a baby collie.
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Allison Gill
Collie.
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Dana Goldberg
I know that's not really a real breed, but I think it looks like some sort of a border collie mixed with like a chihuahua or a, you know, little. Little one.
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Allison Gill
Yeah, it's adorable, whatever this doggo is. But thanks for that. Thanks for the thumbs up, thumbs down picture. I absolutely love it, by the way. It's, it's, it's a photo of the Hillary Trump debate and this adorable little girl. Thumbs down in front of Trump's face and thumbs up in front of Hillary's face. It's pretty great.
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Dana Goldberg
So, so good.
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Allison Gill
All right, everybody, thank you so, so much for being in our ears. I know we'll see some of our patrons tonight at our gala. If you're interested in becoming a patron and supporting independent media, we're going to need it a lot over the next four years and we really appreciate it. It's only like 36 bucks a year and you get these episodes ad free. You get them the night before they come out and so you get them early and you get invites to our galas and pre sale tickets. If we have live events and we're going to have on December 20th a Q& A, a zoom call with patrons and myself where you can ask, ask me some questions if you, if we have time, we get to as many people, I think we, we get to have pretty much every question in, in the hour that we're together and we'd like share stories and have a laugh and try to, you know, microdose hope like we need to be doing. So that's going to be on the 20th. And if you want to become a patron and do any of that and Support us, it's Patreon.com Mueller she wrote. You also get to see all the photos that we talk about because we post them on Patreon. So in the good news. Thank you so much. Do you have any final thoughts before we get out of here, my friend?
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Dana Goldberg
Just a quick one. You know, I know some people make New Year's resolutions, some people don't. But if there's anything you plan on doing and starting on January 1st, start tomorrow, don't wait. There's no if this is going to benefit your life and make you a happier, healthier, more balanced person, start it today. Start it today. When you're listening, don't wait for January 1st. That's all I have to say. There's no reason not to get a jump start on these things.
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Allison Gill
Yeah, I love that idea. I always try to start things on rando days, too. December 9th or something.
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Dana Goldberg
You're like, I'm going to start a gratitude list on January 1st. Start tonight. Start your gratitude list tonight.
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Allison Gill
Yeah, that's a lot of pressure for January 1st. I think it deserves a day off. So I agree. And if you're starting a long term project, let us know about it. We would love to like track your progress and, and, and go along the journey with you. You can send that into the good news dailybeanspod.com yeah, it might be a.
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Dana Goldberg
News thing of like, what are your news resolutions? If you want to send in what you're going to be doing that's positive. The New year.
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Allison Gill
Yep. I love it, love it so much. All right, everybody, we'll be back in your ears tomorrow. Until then, please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental, mental health and take care of your family. I've been AG and I've been DG and them's the Beans. The Daily Beans is written and executive produced by Allison Gill with additional research and reporting by Dana Goldberg. Sound design and editing is by Desiree McFarland with art and web design by Joel Reeder with Moxie Design Studios. Music for the Daily Beans is written and performed by they Might Be Giants and the show is a proud member of the MSW Media Network, a collection of creator owned podcasts dedicated to news, politics and just justice. For more information please visit mswmedia.com msw media.