Prepare to be captivated as we celebrate Beyoncé's historic moment, becoming the first Black woman to simultaneously reign over country and Billboard 200 charts. While basking in her success, I don't shy away from sharing my personal preference to LaToya Luckett's compelling vocals and pondering the 'what ifs' of her career trajectory with Destiny's Child. We also dissect Beyoncé's presence in "Dreamgirls" and the raw power of "Listen," connecting her on-screen performance to her real-life journey. Stepping into a more personal realm, I weigh in on the authenticity of her country tunes, inspired by her Houston upbringing, and the fervor set off by the "Texas Hold'em" line dance craze.
As the episode progresses, we navigate the murky waters of Trump's legal challenges, where the public's grasp on the intricacies of his trials is as elusive as a straightforward answer from a politician. We discuss the confusing intersection of Trump's celebrity and legal standing, dissecting his controversial self-comparisons and the tactics employed to delay his trial – a bizarre circus of claims and posturing that seems more fitting for reality TV than a courtroom followed by an explosive racial reveal from one of our hosts.
In our conclusive segment, we take a hard look at the financial ramifications of Trump's appeal and how the court's decisions could shape the political landscape. We examine the ripple effect of an insurance company's financial woes on Trump's potential liabilities and the implications of a reduced bond. This episode isn't just a rundown of events; it's an impassioned rally cry for democratic participation. I share my fervor for the act of voting, the urgency to be politically engaged, and the importance of recognizing the consequences of political apathy. So, grab a seat and join in as we tackle these high-stakes issues with the intensity they demand.
Prepare to be captivated as we celebrate Beyoncé's historic moment, becoming the first Black woman to simultaneously reign over country and Billboard 200 charts. While basking in her success, I don't shy away from sharing my personal preference to LaToya Luckett's compelling vocals and pondering the 'what ifs' of her career trajectory with Destiny's Child. We also dissect Beyoncé's presence in "Dreamgirls" and the raw power of "Listen," connecting her on-screen performance to her real-life journey. Stepping into a more personal realm, I weigh in on the authenticity of her country tunes, inspired by her Houston upbringing, and the fervor set off by the "Texas Hold'em" line dance craze.
As the episode progresses, we navigate the murky waters of Trump's legal challenges, where the public's grasp on the intricacies of his trials is as elusive as a straightforward answer from a politician. We discuss the confusing intersection of Trump's celebrity and legal standing, dissecting his controversial self-comparisons and the tactics employed to delay his trial – a bizarre circus of claims and posturing that seems more fitting for reality TV than a courtroom followed by an explosive racial reveal from one of our hosts.
In our conclusive segment, we take a hard look at the financial ramifications of Trump's appeal and how the court's decisions could shape the political landscape. We examine the ripple effect of an insurance company's financial woes on Trump's potential liabilities and the implications of a reduced bond. This episode isn't just a rundown of events; it's an impassioned rally cry for democratic participation. I share my fervor for the act of voting, the urgency to be politically engaged, and the importance of recognizing the consequences of political apathy. So, grab a seat and join in as we tackle these high-stakes issues with the intensity they demand.
On a side note, David just texted me. Beyonce has become the first Black woman to hit number one on the country billboard charts.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, while she's also number one on R&B right, she number one on two billboard charts at the same time she like Michael Jackson. Can I say something about Beyonce and I don't want to be like taking his hate I am really a big fan of Beyonce's voice. I will admit that she's talented and her songs are obviously popular and I root for her success. But also as a singer, even out of the group of girls, I wasn't necessarily big on Beyonce's voice. I was more of a LaToya Luckett girl. If LaToya Luckett had stayed in the group, latoya Luckett would be what Beyonce is right now, except maybe she wouldn't be married to Jay-Z Maybe or maybe the movie Dreamgirls was extremely apt for Beyonce and her life.
Speaker 3:
I don't know if you saw the Dreamgirls was extremely. Oh God, I actually Beyonce Love. I don't know if you saw the Dreamgirls movie D.
Speaker 2:
When I play like listen. That is one of my favorite songs because I get it as a survivor of domestic violence.
Speaker 3:
When I don't know the song.
Speaker 2:
Which is this from girls? Yeah, when she uh the song listen, it is um amazing like but, it was an analog for fiance's life right?
Speaker 3:
sorry, I'm gonna keep getting us back on track here yeah, no actual movie where she was singled out and picked, even though she wasn't the best and she was the cutest, which actually happened to her anyway yeah that's that pretty much some yes it's, it's a perfect uh.
Speaker 2:
The song is the perfect analog for beyonce's life but you know, like when I see people and we um david has, because I love country, um'm more of a 90s country girl, but David likes. But he played that song when we were having our Geiger Easter, which I have coined Geiger Easter.
Speaker 3:
I don't get it, but fine you do you.
Speaker 2:
But his sister was like oh, when he played it and I was like she's from Houston. Like you know, the Houston rodeo is the biggest rodeo in the United States rodeo in the united states and it is also the black rodeo at the houston rodeo is the biggest in this united states and beyonce's from houston. So I'm like why isn't this country, why isn't she country like?
Speaker 1:
well, that's the thing she is like. She from texas, not from texas.
Speaker 2:
Exactly, she's from texas exactly she's legit and they have like fucking cattle roping and all of the fucking yeah bull riding, all that shit yeah yeah, it's, and it's been for 20 years yeah, this idea that she's not qualified to write a country album or some shit, it's, it's absurd.
Speaker 1:
Now I will grant you that if you've actually listened to the beyonce album, uh, one of the conclusions you can draw from it is is actually not not a country album, it is an album, uh, that features Beyonce doing a range of things. That happens to include quite a number of country songs. So I guess, like, how many songs does it take to get you to a country album? I don't know, but the thing's got like 27, 28 songs on it. So, like that it's got enough songs to make it a country album. Doesn't necessarily mean it is. Anyway, and that's not me nitpicking, like what I'm saying is I wouldn't, as someone who, I mean, I wouldn't call myself a music aficionado, but I wouldn't categorize it as a country album.
Speaker 2:
But I okay, I respectfully disagree. I do Because I love, like this is Texas. Hold'em is one of.
Speaker 1:
But that's not what I'm saying, because Texas Hold'em is a country song.
Speaker 2:
It is and a line dance song and there hasn't been and it's a banger. There has not been a line dance song that has been this fucking popular in ages. And I go to the country bar and I love it. Bar and I love it, and my um obsession right now is like watching the TikTok videos of people doing the challenge, I guess, and I love to fucking see it.
Speaker 1:
I think it's. It's not that it like okay, how many songs on there aren't country songs is a good question, Cause it's quite a few.
Speaker 1:
And I also, but it's not a bad thing. I'm just like I'm nitpicking, like delineating between what is and isn't in the country. So anyway, it's a banging album. It's okay for you to support Beyonce. It's great that she's number one in multiple charts. That's not even the point of this podcast. I don't know how we got on this topic. Beyonce ain't trying to overthrow the government and become a dictator in 2025. So maybe we should get back to topics more in line with that.
Speaker 1:
Yes, One two, three, four. So Trump is set to go to trial here on at least the jury's election in his New York Hush Money election in a finished trial set to begin next week. But he has made numerous attempts here to attempt to delay that trial. Those attempts have fallen flat. For instance, on Monday a state appeals court judge denied his emergency appeal to delay his trial based on arguments that an impartial jury cannot be selected right now and this is a quote from his lawyers it can't be selected right now based on prejudicial pre-trial publicity pre-trial publicity that he is largely responsible for creating by constantly railing against the judge and the judge's daughter and the indictment and the entire process and ranting and raving and have created a series of issues and committed a series of crimes over a number of years, resulting in people thinking poorly of him as he's dragged off to court for those very crimes exactly so the the judge in that situation was like dog, like you're responsible for a lot of this shit and you were agging it on.
Speaker 1:
We, like we can't allow you to be get off the hook here legally, cause you create, not least, fucking problems. Get the fuck out of here. But but realistically, though, in a lot of high profile cases, especially in New York, like everyone's going to make that argument if, if they're a high profile figure and is going to make that argument if they're a high profile figure, and it never succeeds, because the remedy for that is not to drop the charges or dismiss the charges or move the trial. The remedy for that is taken care of in the jury selection process, the voir dire.
Speaker 3:
And I think everyone underestimates how, how many politically ignorant people there are, even in you know Manhattan. They could just be like who? Oh, I don't really follow politics. There's plenty of those still.
Speaker 1:
You know what, carol? That is a totally fair and accurate point. I haven't even, I hadn't even given it any thought, but you're absolutely right. There's so many people who just like, oh yeah, trump's going to trial. Who knew?
Speaker 3:
I don't really like to talk about that stuff.
Speaker 1:
It is a very New Yorker thing to be New York centric, although I would imagine, like a lot of these people, even if they're not following politics closely. Even if they're not following politics closely, and obviously you know Trump's going to have 100 percent Dame recognition. But you know, a lot of these people might only know Trump just from him living in New York for a majority of his life, or from the Apprentice, or just that he was president and don't know anything about the specifics of the charges or the case. Like, not everyone is buried in the internet, such as myself and ty and carol. You've you've unplugged here a lot recently and I'm proud of you for having some kind of level of self-restraint in that regard. I have ocd about the potential ending of our democracy, so I can't unplug, but kudos to you.
Speaker 3:
I kind of have. I'm just on doing stupider things. Well, you know games looking at paint, that's sometimes using the paint that might actually be more productive than what I do.
Speaker 1:
So again, kudos to you, uh. And then on tuesday here, like literally the next day, trump lost the last-ditch appeal to delay the trial, where his lawyers argued at a hearing that the trial should be delayed to give him a chance to challenge the gag order in this DC court in that case. So once that withstood an appeal in DC, I feel like Merchan going out of his way to limit the family of court officials, including Richon Stoddy here, given that the ranting Trump was doing on social media was totally out of line with the facts. There's a lot of work for Democrats and Trump was saying that that means the judge is biased. But, like, if that's the case, well, trump appointed Judge Cannon in Florida. Well, how was she not biased? Because she wouldn't have her job.
Speaker 3:
Like, you see the math we're doing here and also those sorts of things don't need to see. That doesn't matter. They just keep throwing out things like how you talk to a child, and they keep just pitching a thousand ideas, thinking maybe you would find one of them plausible, even though the very listing of all of those different ideas at once is evidence that they are not in fact credible and their ideas are not plausible.
Speaker 3:
Bingo, but you can't blame them, I mean, I guess you can blame them for trying, because the judge again was like hell, no son. I was just taking that from my experience with my five-year-old over the past couple days Okay.
Speaker 1:
I wasn't even talking about Trump. I was, but I don't know if that's like I can solve his master plans by by, by tuning into what a five-year-old thinks. Okay, yeah, I didn't know if you were comparing Trump to a five-year-old or you were commenting on how your five-year-old is is more like Trump than he should be.
Speaker 3:
I always wonder that myself, but no, my child acts like a child should act.
Speaker 1:
Well, that's, that's a positive. The strike in the pro-life column, anyway, nevermind. I was going to say I wonder if the Trump, if Trump mom and Trump dad had had access to abortion, would, would they have to anyway? They could have saved us a lot of headache down the line here. And it's ironic that Trump is is making all these legal filings trying to get his case delayed in court or get his charges dropped in court. Or get his charges dropped, given that over the weekend he was saying that it would be a great honor for him to go to jail for violating the gag order. Like that's a direct quote the great honor line.
Speaker 3:
It's very stupid, he's very, very dumb. I mean, I do wish one of these judges but maybe that means he's coming to terms with it or he, like he, must be pretty afraid and think there and think there might be a real chance, if he's even going to recognize it as a possibility.
Speaker 1:
That's exactly what's happened here.
Speaker 3:
He's acting like he has a choice.
Speaker 1:
He's gone beyond the line and he knows it's a possibility. And this is how he deals with the insecurity of the fact that he could possibly be locked up, despite the fact every judge in existence seemingly giving him the benefit of the doubt at every turn in all of his various cases. But a direct quote on that, uh, from his untrue social posts if the partisan hacks want to put me in the clink for speaking in this city, he said clink, it's just put me in the who's gal for him for speaking the open and obvious truth. I I will gladly become a modern day Nelson Mandela. It will be a quote, great honor. Well, that's all one quote he also posted. Quote we have to save our country from these political operatives masquerading as prosecutors and judges and I am willing to sacrifice my freedom for that worthy cause. He said he want to be Nelson Mandela didn't he post like?
Speaker 1:
he can do the going to jail part nelson mandela was a national hero I know who nelson mandela was, just so we're clear I was, but I was saying like nelson mandela and like his imprisonment led to his election as the first black president of South South Africa in an event that led to the end of apartheid in South America, trump wants to do the literal opposite of ending apartheid in America. Nelson man, fuck it, get the fuck out of here. Sorry, was on tony micha's podcast earlier.
Speaker 2:
Fuck him um no, it was such a good episode d like I appreciate that you were awesome, like I do good I do good work sometimes you know many of times now.
Speaker 1:
If only I could be as awesome on our podcast as I am on tonal michael's show um but he's already telling people like I will.
Speaker 3:
You know, he's priming people to be ready to give up their freedom for, like his stupid bid, it's like let's try it again.
Speaker 1:
I mean, I don't have the military's behind me this time as much as I. But you know, just get to your problem. So he can't engage in a coup to stay in power. He would have to somehow manage to make sure that Biden is removed from office, and there's no real feasible way to do that. And also like an attack on the Capitol, that won't work again, because he doesn't control the military.
Speaker 1:
You know the way he installed was it Chris Miller, his acting defense secretary, to hold off on the national guard, like he doesn't have that power. So like there won't be a multi-hour delay in response to attack on congress. That's not feasible. Like in sending a mob to the capitol well, okay, great, you tried that once. They're gonna be ready for that, so're going to have to come up with some new shit. You're going to have to go like plant bombs uh, designated survivor, designated survivor style in the capital, uh, days or weeks ahead of the joint session of congress, to kind of take them out.
Speaker 1:
But again, this leaves a problem. Biden's still at the white house, like you. There's no way to solve for all the. The coup won't work unless you already have the power where you can declare some kind of emergency and then try and remain in power and then fingers crossed that you don't get removed by the military or some other law enforcement. There's not a path for that. So in like bigger picture again, given the state of affairs. Look, look, what's happening in Florida and Arizona binds up in the polls here. Trump campaign ain't got no fucking money. They didn't get no. They don't have anybody on the ground.
Speaker 3:
Biden's open and all the money that they're making up getting that doesn't count. So what did you say? You made50 million, something dollars at a fundraiser. Does that count? If you say you made it, do you have that money?
Speaker 1:
Well, it's funny you bring that up, carol, because Trump has made absurd claims over the weekend about his fundraising prowess rather about his fundraising prowess, rather, saying that he raised $50 million in one event.
Speaker 1:
I guess this was like in an attempt to counter the Biden campaign, raising $25 million from that joint fundraiser with former well, I guess we don't have to call him former president obama and the other dude that we don't really kick it with no more. Uh, that other former president, you know, the one with the awesome wife that we all love uh, they raised 25 million dollars, which was more than the trump campaign raised in all of february. So I guess, of course, trump was like I refuse to be outdone by Joe Biden, but yeah, whatever the number is, double it. And then, of course, a guy who's a lot about the value of his properties and a lot about the net worth of his company and and a lot about every single thing possible couldn't possibly be lying about raising 50 fucking million dollars in in one fundraising event, especially if you saw the pictures of this shit. Did either? Did either of you see the pictures?
Speaker 2:
that thing looked fucking empty, ain't no way, I mean, I guess like what I posted, like it was limited to a hundred attendees wait I don't think a hundred people were there from the pictures eight hundred thousand dollars to be there well, I don't think it was a hundred, I don't think a hundred people actually arrived.
Speaker 1:
Just from the looks of the picture it was like bear, there was no one there. I mean there were, there were people there, but it was like 20, 30 people maybe, if you, if you don't count trump and his family and like his cronies. Um, and then again, like it's totally plausible that he lied about raising that much money because I mean, I guess maybe you could get him the benefit of the doubt and maybe he's talking about 50 million dollars between you know his super PAC and his campaign and the RNC. Maybe you could give him. But like, why would you give him the benefit of the doubt on fucking anything he says? Dude, just lied and said democrats want, wanted to ban abortion or wanted wanted roe v word, roe v word. It's been a long day ever recording this at night roe v word.
Speaker 1:
So yes, english is difficult when it's your first language and it's like 11 o'clock at night and you're fatigued and it's been a crazy day, um. But yeah, so it's totally possible that he lied about that. And then, while he was at it, uh he, he made remarks to the crowd there, his wealthy donors, that he would be promising them more tax cuts if he was re-elected and also proposing the idea of whiter immigrants.
Speaker 3:
Whiter, not wider. Yes, whiter, as in like complexion, oh okay, I recall he didn't say shithole this time, but he used a series of artful euphemisms.
Speaker 1:
Yes, he would prefer more Aryan immigrants.
Speaker 2:
Trev. What did he say? Like I was listening to your pod today and he's like why, can't they come from Norway or Sweden? Well, it's funny you say that.
Speaker 1:
I have the exact quote here. According to an unnamed source, trev was saying quote there are people coming in from because you know how there are people they're coming in from the prisons and the jails. They're coming in from just unbelievable places and countries, countries that are a disaster. And then, oh, and he's like and when I said, you know why can't we allow people to come in from nice countries?
Speaker 1:
Because, of course, like the nice countries are more Caucasian and the shithole countries are in Africa, as he's previously alluded to. And I'm trying to be nice, nice countries, you know, like Denmark, switzerland, don't we have any people coming in from Denmark? How about Switzerland? How about Norway?
Speaker 3:
Oh, why would any of them want to come here? To our shithole country yeah, I wouldn't leave any of those places for here I don't know.
Speaker 1:
I mean, if I was black baby, I might want black oh shit, did you not know? Well when you put it that way. If I were living in any of those countries, I might be tempted to come here and be closer to my people no I'm actually really drunk yes, I'm surprised you're still upright at this point.
Speaker 1:
Uh, kudos to you for not killing over. I respect you for you know, just hanging in there, staying in the game, not totally clocking out, cause I was worried, but yes, once I knew you were taking shots, I was like, oh, this podcast is almost over and we hadn't started yet. Um, but yes, audience, if you didn't know, I am black, fucking surprise. Hope you enjoyed that reveal. A lot less people died than like a gender reveal party, so at least we got that going for us.
Speaker 3:
So last week we were talking about how Trump finally came up with the $175 million bond.
Speaker 2:
Oh, yeah, but I love that they denied that.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that's exactly what happened, actually Shortly after it was posted. I'm happy, guys. I'm excited for you. I'm glad you're excited to be a part of the Part of the Insurrection podcast. If only we could make everyone as joyful about this occasion as you are now. I know you're excited about your husband, but I would like to take credit for everyone's joy. Um, yeah, so the court rejected that filing shortly after it was posted due to missing paperwork, including missing a current financial statement. But that may not have been an accident, as it appears that an insurance company may not be financially solvent enough to cover um to cover the judgment should trump lose the appeal the full 46464 million, I think.
Speaker 3:
And then it stipulates somewhere that, like they don't, if he loses and they don't have the money, then he'll pay the rest, or some bullshit.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, so we'll get to be in the negative position, like if they were somehow able to liquidate all of their assets, some of which are-.
Speaker 3:
Are truth, social, I don't know. Wild speculation.
Speaker 1:
But so if they've?
Speaker 1:
got things yeah, if they've got things like municipal bonds and shit, maybe you could kind of get rid of those.
Speaker 1:
But like stock options and shit, shit that's hard to liquidate, like even though it may be a particular number on paper trying to sell that off in a short amount of time, and shit that's hard to liquidate, Even though it may be a particular number on paper trying to sell that off in a short amount of time in order to cover this judgment, it's likely impossible. So this company may not even be fit financially to cover the bond. And then, more importantly, as you just alluded to, after Tish James raised questions about the sufficiency of the bond and noted that they haven't been admitted into new york, uh, like she requested that they prove the bond by april 15th or it won't be upheld again. That's the same day as the beginning of trump's trial, or at least the jury selection process. And then, as part of the, the filings that the night insurance company put forward. Like there are some specifics in there about how, should Trump lose the appeal, that night insurance won't actually be paying the judgment, it'll be Trump's responsibility.
Speaker 2:
Yes, they said responsibility. Yes, they said that. Yeah, they said that.
Speaker 1:
That is the whole point of the fucking bonding company.
Speaker 2:
If it goes to the judgment, we won't pay it.
Speaker 1:
That's the point, that's the whole point of the bonding company to put the money, to fucking put the money up and pay in case trump loses the appeal, and then, like, the bond will be paid to the state of new york because they won and they won the appeal and they'll have the right to their judgment and it's on them to collect their money from trump. And then, if some of the shit that the that hanky's been saying in public it doesn't even seem like he took anything from Trump is fucking collateral, yeah, so he didn't have any assurance Sketch yes.
Speaker 1:
This seems like another scam to delay the enforcement of the like. It seems like a scam to delay the enforcement of the judgment. Like a scam to delay the enforcement of the judgment, but more than that, it's insane that the appeals court lowered the bond amount from 464 million dollars to 175 million dollars, given that, like what has trump done to warrant that? Because the last thing that happened between the end of the trial, the, the setting of the judgment amount, and the appeals court lowering the judgment amount is that what's his name? Oh, allen Weisselberg committed perjury in a fucking trial. That's the only thing. So you're rewarding this dude for his star witness going back to prison by letting him off the hook to the tune of 300 million dollars. What are we doing? I?
Speaker 3:
mean that judge is probably scared for his personal safety and that of his family no, the appeals court. There's multiple judges you don't want to be the one who puts him in jail for like violating bail or no, no this this is the civil case. Yes, this is enforcing that. For a second I know it's a civil.
Speaker 2:
Like they are. The stochastic terrorism that they're doing is to keep people like, to make them like. I don't want to be on this jury.
Speaker 1:
Well, this not a jury. In this case the appeals court gave them a break. But yeah, I mean I guess theoretically the appeals court is like is like, hey, we don't want to be targets of trump's shit either. But and it's just man, this is crazy and like it's ironic because this fake bond the night posted like maybe you missed it, but the, the saudis brought live golf down to trump's property in florida this weekend. So there's no telling how much money they dumped off into his pockets over the course of that event. Like if he hadn't posted this bond, leticia james could have went down there and seized that golf course before the saudis got there. Live golf would have been paying to stay in new york to use that golf course.
Speaker 1:
Like the fact that this dude manages to continuously pull out these fucking scams and schemes to just, by the skin of his teeth, get out of this shit, it does get fucking frustrating. So I totally understand people's frustration that he's not ultimately held accountable in such a way that it spells doom for him. But I mean we're getting ever closer, like we're. There's no more delay in this trial in new york. Like that's coming to. I mean that that is coming to a head. That's definitely going to to begin next monday and that's inevitable. Like I know, people like to poo-poo it and the charges, but again, like, if you look at line number one from, like, the opening statement, it's basically saying Trump uses company to illegally launder money, to hide payments to a porn star, to illegally affect the outcome of the 2016 election is right there, election is right there, and it's that we wouldn't be dealing with all of these things today, in all likelihood, if Trump hadn't committed this initial fraud on the American people.
Speaker 2:
That is true, and that was something like when Neville said that this is unprecedented because there hasn't been a I'm sorry, I'm drunk, but A president that has exhibited this behavior, president that has exhibited this behavior before. So when you say, like, when they're like, oh my god, this is, this has never happened before, etc. It's like, yeah, because you know we haven't had a fucking president that has done this before.
Speaker 1:
So here we are here we fucking are, and then all you can really do at this point is vote for joe biden, because I mean, that's really your only option. Or do you want a dude who's out here trying to overthrow the government and stay out of jail and keep his fortune, uh, so he can bring doom and misery and rain it down upon the entire world.
Speaker 3:
It's not your only option. It's only your only option if you want to have an option again after this one.
Speaker 1:
Exactly. All right, kids, time for our shithole of the week award. Do you by any chance happen to have any nominations that you would like to submit?
Speaker 3:
I don't know. Arizona Supreme Court.
Speaker 1:
Oh, four out of six of them.
Speaker 1:
I got an even better one. I have Governor Ducey, specifically for saying that this ruling from the Supreme Court is not the outcome that he would have preferred, in saying that lawmakers should heed to the will of the people and address the issue with the policy that is workable and reflective of our electorate. Uh, well, first of all, those supreme court justices who issued the ruling today or, as you're listening to this, it will likely be wednesday or th, we recorded this on Tuesday. He appointed a number of those four out of the six, I think. So, bro, you largely responsible for this and this idea that you want, like the lawmakers, to heed to the will of the people in the state. Uh, if you just go look at a poll from last year, 62 percent of residents of arizona believe that abortion should be available in most or all circumstances. This motherfucker ain't listening to no will of the people. This is total hypocrisy. Get the fuck up out of here.
Speaker 1:
You, sir, are hereby awarded the shithole of the week award. Yeah, tired of these dudes. All right, ty, since you're drunk, I'll let you go first. You got any closing thoughts you can decline? All right, we'll wait until you're sober next time. Carol, do you have any closing thoughts?
Speaker 3:
You know I'm always the same Pick a cause and do some concerted action to it. Even just a little thing you can do Write a couple postcards.
Speaker 1:
Well, can you tell us what you're doing? So you have a position at the farmers market.
Speaker 1:
I'm the board of my town's farmers market and I'm going to get a nonpartisan voting rights organization to come to a vote organization table at least once before the election, and I'm excited about that hey look, taking taking your online passion and bringing it to real life, where you can make a difference and potentially get people in a position who might not vote otherwise, to register to vote and show up on election day, november 2024, regardless of who they're voting for, because the more people that, the better it is for our democracy. Regardless of your chosen candidate, except for in this particular set of circumstances, you do need to vote for Joe Biden. I'm sorry, just is what it is. If you want to continue voting, I will say I'll circle back.
Speaker 2:
I will say, like North Carolina is my home state, it's where I was born and raised. It is so fucking I can't say like disheartening on so many levels. Like my family is very apolitical and that disappoints me in a lot of ways. But I need them to get out and fucking vote, Because this is who the GOP is putting up. Who are, in their mind on Earth, fucking two the best fucking candidates.
Speaker 2:
Like someone who is a misogynist and a woman who has advocated and said publicly that Obama should be executed. Like I don't understand it. I don't need to wake the fuck up, because this is, this is now. Like they cannot sit back on the sidelines anymore. Period, Period. We are fighting for our fucking lives at this point in ways that I never fucking thought that we would be in this position of. I cannot understand, I cannot reconcile that. This is where we are, Like seriously, Seriously, like, seriously, seriously. Like my heart breaks every fucking day to look and see where we are and I don't get it and now you understand why Ty had to have shots before we started the podcast.
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And that concludes this episode of part of the insurrection.