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Speaker 1:
[00:22] Yeah, welcome to Drinking Bros. Fake news, everybody. Bringing you the realest, fakest news of the week. Tonight, you can join us at 645 Central for the NFL Draft Special. Brought to you by mybookie.com, promo code Drinkin Bros doubles that first deposit all the way up to $1,000. Get off the couch and get into the action today with mybookie.com. Bets are in. If you're not a member of Drinkin Bros Sports on Facebook, it is a private group and you can see all the bet slips from MyBookie on there. Looking forward to it and also, D'Anthony, looking forward to the fact that the Falcons do not have a pick in the first round so I can just relax tonight.

Speaker 2:
[01:12] I hope they trade into the first round and make the dumbest possible pick.

Speaker 1:
[01:17] That's what I'm looking for.

Speaker 2:
[01:18] Otherwise, I don't even know if I'm going to do the show.

Speaker 1:
[01:24] You might walk out.

Speaker 2:
[01:26] Yeah, if we get to like, I might Burt Koontz it, if we get to like the 13th or 14th pick and they haven't traded in and taken somebody. There was an, I think it was season two of the league where they did their draft party or whatever. And one of the dipshits drafted a dude that wasn't even eligible, like he was retired or something. I hope they do that. I hope they draft Terrell Owens.

Speaker 1:
[01:49] Look, what would be awesome for me is if they draft me tonight. Now, yes, I'm eligible for the draft tonight. Not sure what's gonna happen, but they've got my stats from Arena League and everything else. We'll see. That's where the kicker from the Seattle Seahawks came. So look, I'm just as nervous as everybody else tonight. Okay, my parents are gonna be watching. I'll be live on air and my cellphone will be right next to me all night long. And we'll see if I get drafted tonight. The only one kicker that was drafted in the first round, Bob. You know who that is? Janukowsky. Sabo, dude. My boy. Love that guy. Worth it too, by the way. He ended up playing like 22 years.

Speaker 3:
[02:28] He had a great career.

Speaker 1:
[02:29] Great career. He was amazing. He was the first guy kicking 60 yarders. That I can remember.

Speaker 3:
[02:36] No, the Broncos kicker did it right before Janukowsky. Jason Elam.

Speaker 2:
[02:41] Oh, yeah. He had the record. It was 62, I think, before Janukowsky.

Speaker 3:
[02:46] He hit it obviously in Mile High.

Speaker 1:
[02:49] Mile High Stadium.

Speaker 2:
[02:50] That doesn't count.

Speaker 1:
[02:51] I don't think so either. Janukowsky was kicking off the dirt in Oakland for Christmas.

Speaker 2:
[02:56] Didn't Morton Anderson have a bunch over 55? I mean, he was up there. I just don't think you don't get the opportunities back then to kick from 60. He probably could have made it.

Speaker 3:
[03:04] No, Elam's record setter was as halftime was expiring.

Speaker 1:
[03:07] Yep. They were just like, it was 63 yards, that held up forever. And then obviously now people are doing their sleep. Brandon Aubrey for the Dallas Cowboys has signed a four year, $28 million deal as a kicker, highest in the history there.

Speaker 2:
[03:21] That's a crazy amount of money for a kicker. I mean, look. It could be the difference between games now.

Speaker 1:
[03:27] He's changing the game now. So yeah, it's worth it. I mean, you get the ball to 50 and he's scoring. So fingers crossed that he could draft tonight. We'll find out. Join us live tonight. A lot of drinks, a lot of fun, a lot of laughs and hopefully not at my expense with the Atlanta Falcons, but we'll see what shakes out. All right, kids, let's hop into the news, shall we? Then a quick reminder, I'll be with D'Anthony next week in Wilmington, North Carolina as we look at the new studio and all that other fun stuff and take measurements. So not too much longer here, zooming back and forth. Top story here is ICE and DHS were funded very, very late last night. Senate Republicans pushed their immigration funding plan forward early Thursday, adopting a budget blueprints after an all night vote series that sets up billions for ICE and border patrol while sidelining the Democrats. Senate Republicans adopted their budget resolution, which tees up funding for immigration and customs enforcement, aka ICE and border patrol, and effectively cuts congressional Democrats out of the process entirely. It's the first major step towards unlocking the budget reconciliation process, which Republicans are diving into once again, after Democrats refused to fund ICE and border patrol without stringent reforms. Despite Republicans largely being on the same page on the approach, Senator Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski, voted against the budget's blueprint. Look, I don't understand why we had this shutdown then. If this was your big thing, that we weren't going to fund ICE and everything else, and then you could just voted in separately, who fucking cared? Like, we could have caught all that bullshit out for the last three months.

Speaker 2:
[05:32] So in politics, sometimes you have to manufacture victories, right? Whether they're real or not. You throw a poison pill into a bill so it can't get passed and say, look, oh, they're obstructing, or you pick out one minor reason you don't want to do something, even though you know for a fact it's going to get done anyways and you don't have the votes to stop it. And you say, oh, look, we resisted as best we could and you fundraise off of it. That's American politics. It's really that simple. There's nothing else to say about that.

Speaker 1:
[06:03] Yeah, but it sucks for everybody else. And we've got to put up with this shit for nothing. Just so one side could have one story, and by the way, this happens on both sides of the aisle. So Republicans have done some dumb shit as well, trying to vote that Obamacare thing down now, obviously. On a hindsight, that looks really, really great, but they didn't have the votes, and that's the fucking problem here. Now, Elizabeth Warren had a fun little tweet last night because they had to work super late.

Speaker 2:
[06:34] Oh yeah, I've actually got a quote right here.

Speaker 1:
[06:37] Oh, go ahead. Oh, perfect, perfect, yeah.

Speaker 2:
[06:42] And that's all she said. I don't know, can we get a translate on that? Google translate?

Speaker 1:
[06:46] Yeah, I've actually, I'll get a, I got a guy back here who will do some smoke signals and then just kind of scream out, Moana.

Speaker 2:
[06:55] Yeah, but we need somebody to translate the smoke signals as well, because I don't know that language.

Speaker 1:
[06:59] I do, I do, I very well. Studied it in college. It was going to be my major for a while.

Speaker 2:
[07:04] But that's a Cherokee thing.

Speaker 1:
[07:05] Marching on the trail of tears. Cherokee. Right now, she says in the middle of Trump's war with Iran, Senate Republicans are keeping us here all night to vote on the most pressing issue they can think of, giving 70 billion more to ICE and CBP. I'm going to fight them every step of the way. You didn't, Liz, and you lost. Okay. You lost last night.

Speaker 2:
[07:34] Yeah. So did the Indians, by the way.

Speaker 1:
[07:36] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[07:37] No offense. You should have fought harder. Otherwise, you wouldn't be living on those fucking reservations now. Yeah. You can only blame yourself.

Speaker 1:
[07:47] Man. But look, as happy as I am about this, obviously because we support ICE and the border patrol and all that other shit and keeping the country safe. I just, again, I don't know why we had to go through this whole song and dance for three months to get to this fucking outcome.

Speaker 2:
[08:06] You know what I think is that Republicans should start understanding that the left plans on playing with fire here. Like, why are we delaying anything? This was always an option. As a matter of fact, Kennedy was trying to get, John Kennedy was trying to get SAVE Act, and a couple of other things added into this and a reconciliation, which you could have done, honestly, and it would have passed the House, but the Senate rejected it 4850, because Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and some other fucking piece of shit said no, right? By the way, this is something that 85% of Americans want. It is an unobjectionable piece of legislation, but Republicans refuse to use power. Now, power in general is not a conservative argument. You as a conservative individual should not be trying to amass power. But when the people elect you as a majority, it is your fucking responsibility to go to Congress and enact that majority into law. That is what a fucking constitutional republic is. And Republicans fail miserably every single time. It's one thing to seek out and weaponize government power. It's another thing to get elected and just do your fucking job.

Speaker 1:
[09:27] I just don't understand it. I mean, this is 85%, and that's CNN that reported that, of Republicans and Democrats that want the SAVE Act. They're not doing shit about that. And Nick Friedis, our friend, had a funny reply to her last night. Said, well, Liz, I'm just spitballing here, but it might have something to do with last night's vote of your party letting in tens of millions of people into the country illegally. So sorry you have to work late. Maybe next time don't sponsor an invasion of our country. That's the way that I feel. However, looking at why they're doing it and why they left the border open to get these votes and all this other shit and change the voting districts and everything else. I understand because again, I don't, I'll stand by this and I said this last year, I don't know what their voting base looks like. If they took away all this free shit, if they didn't have illegals, if you actually had to have an ID to vote. I don't know what any of these elections would look like. And then the thing with Virginia already got overturned by a judge.

Speaker 2:
[10:34] Now, we'll get to that.

Speaker 1:
[10:35] Yeah, we'll get to that later on. But why you're pissed off about this when you're literally just spending money to make our own country safe. The Iran thing, you and I have said the same thing. Look, you want to bitch about that? Fine. But this is for our own country, for our own borders and then people that are walking around the streets with us here. So what's the other argument? I just don't understand. Getting illegals out of our fucking country and then getting them off the tit of the government because we're giving them fucking free money is good for everyone. What's the argument?

Speaker 2:
[11:10] I mean, well, Barrasso summed it up pretty good. Today's Democrats are a rogue and radical party. You deserve better than reckless Democrats, you deserve better than hostage taking, you deserve the tools and support from Congress necessary to carry out the mission Congress has given you. Our country depends on you. It's really simple. There's some things you can make political, certainly. I don't think it's the security of the country is one of them. It shouldn't be at least.

Speaker 1:
[11:38] Yeah, it shouldn't be. But this fraud and waste and everything that is associated with illegal immigrants, you know, we've seen these stats over and over and over again. We played that clip on fake news, actually. What was it? Three weeks ago, where Homeboy read off the stats of like the amount of people that come into the country year one that are on welfare versus year 15. It's at like 62 percent. So it's not like we're letting in the best and the brightest, and they're actually contributing to society. No, they're just stealing our fucking money at the end of the day. And then I don't know if you saw this, because you probably stop watching the show a long time ago. Jimmy Kimmel, who again is no longer a comedian, had Tim Walsh on his fucking show last night.

Speaker 2:
[12:26] That's because Tim Walsh is about to be impeached.

Speaker 1:
[12:29] Is he? I thought they voted that down. I think I double checked that, Bob. I think they lost by one vote, actually. I know Republicans put it on the table and I believe they lost by one.

Speaker 3:
[12:44] It failed in a party. Yeah, it failed in a committee vote. It didn't even get to get out to the ledge.

Speaker 1:
[12:51] I believe it was one vote, if memory serves me correctly. This is a couple of weeks ago. But since we can't play this clip, we're on YouTube today and we'll get nuked, I'll just read this quote. This was Kimmel to Tim Walsh last night. Did it take a long time for you to know fraud was happening? Tim Walsh, his response was this. I'm not kidding, word for word. It happens in other states. Actually, you know what, play the audio, just don't play the video. Did you say it to me? Yeah, I will now because it's his voice saying this too, that you're just like, are you a fucking retard? I mean, the answer is yes, but man, this is a ballsy move, these fucking people going on live TV saying shit right now when these investigations are under way, and make no mistake, there is actually one finally happening for Ilhan Omar and her husband. But yeah, just press play, just don't show the video, that's YouTube will nuke it.

Speaker 4:
[13:49] In all of this is these multiple cases of benefits fraud that were happening. Now, I want to ask you, did it take an extraordinary long time for you to know that that was happening?

Speaker 5:
[14:04] No.

Speaker 4:
[14:04] Is that just something that has been spread?

Speaker 5:
[14:08] It happens in other states. We were going back to many of these people are prosecuted in 2021. He used it as an excuse because it was a perfect thing to do to say there was fraud. Imagine that, you know, coming from this guy, he would know fraud where it was at. He used it to demonize immigrant community, especially the Somali community. And I said what he was doing was the programs in Minnesota. Look, we are a generous state. We're also like California, we're a payer state. We pay more and then we get back to support red states that don't support their people. But they came in to try and destroy those programs. And, you know, that's again rich, destroy programs that don't help them by billionaires who commit this fraud. But no, it was an excuse for them to do it.

Speaker 1:
[14:48] It's always billionaires. It's always happening in other states. And the fact that he brought up California, which has more fraud than Minnesota has, this is all because of immigration. All of it is because of immigration. Now, is it going on with snap benefits and all that other shit? Absolutely. And we haven't even cracked the fucking cork of the wine on that one open yet. But dude, this is, it's just fucking nuts, man, to go out and say this that always, what's this going on in other states? And he's just using Somalis as an excuse. No, no, the fraud is there. And yeah, we're trying to keep these people out of the fucking country, trying to save some money, try to save some taxpayer money. Sorry, Elizabeth Warren, that you got to go in at three o'clock in the morning last night. What, they only work like what, 150 days out of the year? Isn't it something crazy like that?

Speaker 2:
[15:40] It's not much. Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's that much. I think it's 120.

Speaker 1:
[15:45] Okay, okay. So my point is this, with between Elizabeth Warren and Tim Walz and all these other guys, these are all people who want these votes of these immigrants in these other states. They don't want voter ID and everything else. This SAVE Act here, this, I was shocked, actually got passed, so that brought me, I would say my hope level, if I'm going with solo here, hope solo behind me, my hope solo level for them passing the SAVE Act might go to 15%, but that's about as far as I'm willing to max that out right now. But people are really starting to fucking pump up the volume against Thune. Do you think this will come to the floor here in the next couple of months?

Speaker 2:
[16:33] The SAVE Act? Yeah. Yeah, I think Trump will force it to the floor at some point. I think it'll get passed. I mean, it'll pass the House easily.

Speaker 1:
[16:45] I think it'll pass the House. The Senate is what I'm worried about. If Murkowski and Paul flipped on this bullshit, what does that tell you? Is that a bellwether for this vote then?

Speaker 2:
[16:59] It wasn't just them. It was McConnell and somebody else as well. I can't remember who that was. A fourth repube who voted against it. But you got to wonder, honestly, there's been no reasonable explanation from any of those four people why they would vote against this extremely popular, especially with the right. It's like over 95% with the right, but extremely popular bill. Rand Paul runs in a state where he's not going to lose, right? Yep. Let's be real about that.

Speaker 1:
[17:36] Kentucky?

Speaker 2:
[17:37] Same with Mitch McConnell. It's the same state. Neither one of those. Mitch McConnell is going to retire, but neither one of those guys is going to lose.

Speaker 1:
[17:46] Or he might die in office. Another one just died in office yesterday, by the way.

Speaker 2:
[17:50] Yeah, it'd be nice, but I wouldn't count on it. Murkowski is, I don't understand how she's still involved in politics. Like Alaska is not going to elect a Democratic senator.

Speaker 1:
[18:10] No, but, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 2:
[18:13] You don't have to tiptoe the line up there to get elected. It's not like What's-Her-Nuts over in Maine. I can't remember her name. Collins.

Speaker 1:
[18:22] Susan Collins.

Speaker 2:
[18:23] Yeah. That's a completely separate situation. These are deep red states. Now, Kentucky's got a governor that's a Democrat right now. Now, he also received a fuck ton of money from the SPLC, so we'll see how much longer he's operational. So did Warnock and who's the other?

Speaker 1:
[18:46] Oh, Warnock out of Georgia. Yeah, he's the other.

Speaker 2:
[18:51] There was one other senator who most people think is a moderate Democrat, but took a fuck ton of money from SPLC. They're getting investigated right now, from what I heard from people at the Department of Justice. So we'll see how it all shakes out. These Republicans in deep red states that are blocking this stuff is fucking insane to me.

Speaker 1:
[19:15] So I have their names.

Speaker 2:
[19:17] It makes me think that, well, it's Murkowski, Rand Paul, McConnell, and who's the other one?

Speaker 1:
[19:22] Tom Tillis from North Carolina, that old piece of shit who's retiring. You got-

Speaker 2:
[19:27] Tom Tillis is a piece of shit.

Speaker 1:
[19:28] Two people who are retiring, who are blocking this fucking thing.

Speaker 2:
[19:32] Yeah. You've got to wonder, it's one thing for somebody to have an opposing opinion from you, but when your entire politics is identified in a certain way, and you vote contrary to that, especially on your way out the door, somebody's bribing you or somebody's blackmailing you. I don't believe for any amount of time that any of these people are on the level, including Rand Paul, I think he's a fucking cunt.

Speaker 1:
[19:57] So do I. I want all of them out of there, but that is for senators. If they vote against the SAVE Act, it will not pass.

Speaker 2:
[20:07] That's right, but two of them will be gone soon. I don't know who's replacing them.

Speaker 1:
[20:13] I don't either, but it doesn't matter. You've got to get this through before November, or it's certainly not going through once Democrats win the House in November.

Speaker 2:
[20:23] I don't know that that's gonna happen, but we'll see.

Speaker 1:
[20:25] You still say no? I say yes, one, just due to history. Two, I've been looking actually at a lot of these people and a lot of these candidates. Bob, one of them is the one you like. He's out of my, well, he ran in my district in Georgia. Didn't actually live in the fucking district. That's John Ossoff guy.

Speaker 2:
[20:46] For what? Yeah, he's the other one. John Ossoff is the one, he's being investigated by the DOJ right now. That's not public information, but I don't give a fuck. He took something like 250,000, 280,000 bucks from the SPLC during this time period. I think he was the number one recipient of SPLC money as a political candidate.

Speaker 1:
[21:08] Yeah, but he, the polls just got released in Georgia. Some of my friends was chatting about it. So he's up over the Republican candidates down there. John Ossoff is. Although he's adamant he will not run for presidents, allegedly. So, yeah, everybody says that. I know. I know. They all fucking say it. But that's the only thing that gives me pause. Where if you got these four voting against Border Patrol and ICE, I don't know how you get them to vote for this. And if so, if these are the four that indeed take down the SAVE Act, eject them from the country immediately. Not only get them out of office, get them out of our goddamn country. Like, it just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Now, in regards to Thune, is there nothing that Trump can do to call John Thune and say, hey, motherfucker, like I will come at you with a force of a thousand tornadoes or whatever he says in True Social and get you out of office?

Speaker 2:
[22:14] I don't know that it's a one-way conversation. You don't know that Trump isn't satisfied with the way things are going either. I mean, this is why I think that all the discussion about the left taking the house in November is a bit premature. Because I think it's safe to say Trump has learned quite a bit from his first term in office. I think he learned quite a bit during his time off as well. Playing cards at the right time, like exposing fucking voter fraud, which has happened recently. And exposing all these other scandals that have been completely fake all the time and holding people accountable, should that happen. All this stuff will matter between now and November. I'm again, I've said this before, but I am told there are sweeping indictments coming from political figures, business people, media people, all sorts of stuff. TBD, if it actually happens or not, I don't know. I can't speak to that. But what I am told is they are all in progress and they are being held for the political campaign season, specifically to weaponize them during the season. So I'm not convinced that the House is going to lose.

Speaker 1:
[23:26] Is it involving voter fraud by any chance?

Speaker 2:
[23:28] Part of it is voter fraud. Part of it is Russia collusion. Part of it is the stuff that happened after Russia collusion, weaponization of the intelligence agencies. Part of it is censorship. The federal government demanding Facebook censor people. There's a lot of stuff going on. It's, again, a lot of accusations get thrown around. A lot of them get proven and then nothing ever happens. So we'll see.

Speaker 1:
[23:55] Yeah, I actually, shit, as of 36 minutes ago there was a Trump gave a speech on it. What are the chances here? God, he's everywhere. Bob, go to your Twitter and play this clip regarding the Save Act. Interesting. I don't know where the fuck he's at here. I don't recognize this background. He's giving a speech somewhere.

Speaker 3:
[24:19] You know, he's all over the place.

Speaker 1:
[24:20] He really is. Again, whatever cocktail that is, give it to me. Give it to me for the NFL draft tonight, for Christ sakes. Press play.

Speaker 6:
[24:29] We should also add on to this bill. And so what I've asked Mike to do is to draw a new one with these few things and get it. And let's go for the gold. Let's not just get one, like, voter ID. But, you know, it can be given to you by your daughter. You know, your daughter, she has to be of age, like above six years old, she's allowed to say. You had to see some of this stuff is so bad. They're doing everything possible because they know, if we get this, they'll probably won't win an election for 50 years, okay? And maybe longer. And they're going to fight like hell. But boy, do they get killed because even the Democrats, you saw the numbers today, Democrats voted 86 percent that this stuff should be passed. The Democrats, with Republicans, you're at 98 percent. But Democrats are at 86, except for the people that run the Democrat Party because they want to try and win elections illegally. It's the only the only reason you vote against voter ideas is because you want to cheat. There's no other reason. They come up with reasons. They say, it's racist. That's their number one racist. Then you have to explain it and they're just sitting there mumbling, they can't explain.

Speaker 1:
[25:44] Yeah, I saw actually a white woman on, I forget what state she's from in regards to this, where she said, it's not only racist, but it's bad for women because apparently when women get married, they've got to change their last name and they would have to bring a marriage license or something. Hate to break it to you, you got to do that anyways with the DMV as soon as you get married anyways. I don't, all these weird lies that are being told in regards to this make no fucking sense whatsoever.

Speaker 2:
[26:18] Well, I think we should eliminate ID required to buy a house or get a credit card as well, or open a bank account, because look, you get married and the woman changes her name, and now, what percentage of women? 80% of women get married at some point, so 80% of women are now disenfranchised. They have to take the time out of their very, very busy day to get their hands on their birth certificate and their social security card and order a new one, which is, I mean, it's impossible, because nobody ever figured it out before in 2026. You fucking dummies, god damn it.

Speaker 1:
[26:56] Remember that story we did about Jimmy's famous seafood a while back?

Speaker 2:
[27:01] I love Jimmy's.

Speaker 1:
[27:02] So do I.

Speaker 2:
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Speaker 1:
[27:12] No shit. All right. Yeah, we'll support Jimmy's favorite seafood. Absolutely. Not a sponsor. Just love them. But he had a great tweet about it. Said, you need valid ID to enter R bar and we're not a fucking voting booth. Like, yes, like I don't understand. But this is the big one for me. Get this one passed and I'll feel good about it. Even shit. The thing that got passed last night at 3.30 in the morning, this funds it through all of Trump's term. So he's good. Like border patrol budget, ICE, all the other stuff. Like he is good for the rest of his term. So he can keep going on business as usual. So I'm psyched about that. What were the final numbers, Bob? As I know, it was very, very close. For what? It was 50-48. It was 50-48? Okay. Yeah. It was close last night and I was surprised. I was like, oh, all right. It was close in the house too. I want to say it was two to three votes in that too, which is weird to me, but I guess it's the usual fucking suspects, whatever, man. Let's get the SAVE Act done next. And truthfully, I would be pretty fucking amped. And I think that would be the biggest bill that a Republican could pass in their presidency. I really do. I know no Democrat will ever pass that, but for a Republican, I think that'd be great. So we'll see. The clock is ticking, though. You know, I hope the Supreme Court comes in, too, without anything in June. On top of it, that'll bring us to our first sponsor. Talking about firstform.com/drinkinbros. It's a little box right here. If you don't believe that I take it, we got listeners in here in the studio today. Right now, you're getting five free meat sticks with any supplement purchase. I'm going to take the supplements live on air here. I'll talk about these microfactors. Best in the Biz. It takes the guesswork out of vitamins. 30 bags, one beautiful little box, and it's got the big six in it. Antioxidants, CoQ10s, multivitamins, fruits and veggies, EFAs, and the probiotics. You just walked by camera there, you know. Yeah, you know. I'm taking it live on air for Christ's sakes. I forgot to take it this morning. I was in a rush. Dan and I had some meetings earlier, but I'll take some live on air here. I take it every single day. Let's face it, I don't work out the way we need to or eat the way we need to on a daily basis. However, it is important to get the daily vitamins inside your body on a daily basis. Now, they're not just about micro factors. Dan, then either about protein. Tell us about the protein. Will I take my pills?

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Speaker 2:
[32:23] No. Let me look it up. It's either June 14th. There you go.

Speaker 1:
[32:28] Yeah. June 14th is when that is. And if you've not gone up to Andy Frisella's facilities, they're incredible. You're going up there on Monday, aren't you?

Speaker 2:
[32:36] Yeah. Me and Maj Torre are doing a real AF together.

Speaker 1:
[32:41] No way, dude. That's an awesome one. Okay.

Speaker 2:
[32:44] Yeah. Well, it should be a good time. It's live at 7 PM. I don't know if it's 7 PM Central or Eastern actually. I think it's 7 PM Central. Can we air it?

Speaker 1:
[32:54] Ask him if we can air it. I'd love to air that show.

Speaker 2:
[32:58] I think he livestreams on YouTube.

Speaker 1:
[33:00] Okay, perfect.

Speaker 2:
[33:01] Yeah, we'll see. I'll ask him for the key.

Speaker 1:
[33:04] Yeah. Ask Andy because a big fan of his podcast, the three of you guys together, that'll be an excellent show that night. I'm actually really looking forward to that. Next up in the news here, the 9th Circuit's support size. An appeals court on Wednesday blocked California from requiring federal immigration agents to display identification during operations, handing the Trump administration a legal victory over Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom. A three-day judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit found California overstepped its authority by trying to regulate, like Warren G. ICE agents, marking the last, excuse me, the latest flashpoints in a broader fight between blue states and the federal government over immigration enforcement operations. The panel of judges compromising, I'm sorry, comprising, Jesus Christ, Ross, comprising of two Trump appointees and one of Obama's appointees, found California No Vigilantes Act violated the Constitution's Supremacy Clause, which says that when a state and federal law are in conflict, the latter wins out. Their exact quote was, we conclude that Section 10 of the No Vigilantes Act attempts to directly regulate the United States and its performance of government functions. The panel wrote in an order, and Trump's ICE agents need to be reigned in and held to the same standards as any other law enforcement agency, said Newsom in a statement right after that. That fucking guy, man. I mean, look, he's getting killed left and right here as of late, especially for his wife and everything else. I'm actually stunned by this. That 9th Circuit, nothing ever goes through for a Republican. So that one was a shocker to me. What was the law that was conflicting there? I don't know what this No Vigilantes Act is.

Speaker 2:
[35:16] Basically, it was to unmask ICE agents so they can't wear a mask.

Speaker 1:
[35:25] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[35:26] And that is a, I mean, it's a violation of the Supremacy Clause, right? So Article 2, and it's expanded upon in other places, but the executive has the power to govern the country and to run the executive branches to take functions, even those granted to the Congress in Article 1 that have been created into an executive agency and perform executive functions, right? To be the executive of the country. Border Patrol is clearly one of those, like even defining citizenship to some degree, but at least in enforcing it, right? So unless there's some specific federal law preventing ICE from doing what it's doing, then local jurisdictions have no right in any way actually to stop them from doing it. That's just how it is.

Speaker 1:
[36:33] But I know you're not a fan of that, right? You say that they shouldn't be wearing masks.

Speaker 2:
[36:40] That's right, yeah. I don't think so. This is why process and procedure matter. There's a way to do things. It's the same argument I had for the abortion thing, right? That was bad case law. It's not right. If states want to decide that law, they can decide that law. I think abortion's wrong. I think it's bad. I don't think people should do it, but I'm not here to legislate morality either. I don't think that's appropriate. I think the better way to do things is to drive outcomes by incentivizing and not by criminalizing behavior. So this is why process really matters. It might be true in principle what California is saying, but it's not true in our Constitution, and that's what fucking, that's the law here, right? So there's a way to do this. What they should do is form a pack or something to put pressure on federal politicians to pass legislation. That's how you do that. This has to be handled at the federal level because it is in the federal jurisdiction. Things that belong to the states belong to the states, things that belong to the federal government belong to the federal government. If a state tried to pass some law that uniform members of the military weren't allowed to do X, Y, Z or whatever on post, like shut the fuck up. You got no jurisdiction there and the same thing is true here.

Speaker 1:
[38:01] Yeah, but right now, we're in a weird period, man, where the states are trying to grab federal rights. Some of those things get reversed. We'll talk about that Virginia thing in the baghead lady and all that other shit as far as the redistricting and all that other shit. It feels like this great divide, where states are literally against Trump and saying, fuck you and everything that you're doing here, and we're going to do our best to fucking stop you from doing whatever it is. I don't know that they care about the Constitution anymore, because right now, it feels like if they don't like it, they're going to fight back against it. They'll find some shit bird judge who will approve it, and then they want to drive this to the Supreme Court so that it'll go on for two to three years. And that feels like it's happening more and more and more over and over and over again, with every state, to be honest with you.

Speaker 2:
[38:59] Sure, but that's the reason we have a court system. We're talking about the 9th Circuit right now. Do you have any context for what that means?

Speaker 1:
[39:12] Yeah, is the 9th Circuit in San Francisco?

Speaker 2:
[39:15] Yeah, it is by far the most activist and liberal version of a district court or an appeals court that exists.

Speaker 1:
[39:25] That's why I was stunned by this.

Speaker 2:
[39:27] Between reversal rates, when their cases get elevated to the Supreme Court, 70 to 90% of the time, depending on the time period we're talking about, we're going back for the last, let's say, 20 years, about 80% of the time their cases get reversed. They have the highest reversal rate by far. No other appeals court is even close to them because they're super liberal and super activist. And still, this very obvious violation of the supremacy clause, they ruled in the right way. Right? So we have a court system for a reason.

Speaker 1:
[40:03] I guess. I mean, I'm stunned by it. I mean, how many times on the show over the last 11 years where I've said the phrase, let me guess, it was the 9th Circuit again, and then it's always the fucking 9th Circuit.

Speaker 2:
[40:13] Yeah. I mean, when I was in Homeland Security, that's where I worked. And we would not prosecute certain cases because if we did, the 9th Circuit would create bad case law. So we would just not prosecute them at all. Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[40:26] Because once that case law is in effect, and you can bring it up in other trials and all that other shit and cite it. Shit, it happened to me once, man. And I was like, there's no fucking way you let that slide. I'm not gonna say where it is because I'm on NDAs and all that other shit after the settlement. But I was like, that's the worst fucking case law I've ever heard. It was over copyright. But, you know, now it's into effect and you could do whatever you want with it because once it's on the books, it's on the books. And if you can cite it, you can cite it. And it's tough to go back and change. So I understand that. It's just all shitty, man. And the politics are shitty. However, they might be turning in California, which we'll get us into our next story here. California Debate was last night where all the top candidates took center stage because the primaries for governor are voted on in June. Now, after last night's debates, I'm not sure that you watched them, Dan. You were probably doing, I don't know, anything else besides watching that fucking thing last night. But there was a prediction that you had made maybe two weeks ago on this show that Katie Porter will drop out of this. Somehow magically before the vote in June. Sure enough, after her performance last night, they said, hey, Democrats are trying to force this woman out to get that Becerra guy in there because Steve Hilton did pretty well, Chad Bianco did pretty well, and California is one of those odd states, besides all their other bullshit where it's just the top two candidates. And there's a very good shot and potentially a likelihood that it might be two Republican candidates. You might get a Republican governor, which would be a huge embarrassment for Gavin Newsom, especially as he continues this never-ending run for president in 2028 for no reason, although he's still the governor of California until January. Now, Katie Porter, if you look up the word Karen in the dictionary, it'll be the exact height, weight, and haircut. Bob, let's go through some of her hits last night. To prove Dan's point here of why they're trying to get her out, you can play that first clip that I sent you in regards to what to tell parents about if your kid thinks they're another gender.

Speaker 7:
[42:48] Toby from Costa Mesa wants to know, do you agree with schools not notifying parents if their child identifies as a different gender? You have 30 seconds.

Speaker 8:
[42:58] It is between a parent and a child when a child chooses to have that conversation. The job of our educators is to teach, to teach them to read by third grade. That is a really important benchmark to help them make the jump from Algebra 1 to Algebra 2 which opens the door to higher paying jobs. These are conversations for kids and parents to have with each other and their healthcare providers. This is not a role for schools to be policing personal decisions.

Speaker 7:
[43:26] Ms. Porter, thank you. Mr. Mahan.

Speaker 1:
[43:30] Let's start with that one, Dan, and try to unpack this. That is fucked hard crazy, man. If a school was hiding that from me, from one of my kids as a parent, I would lose my goddamn mind. The fact that she danced around it, we already know what the answer is going to be there. Because apparently, that's what they love in that state. But my God, dude, I understand why the Democrats want her out of there. Why is this such a sticking point? This is what I can't figure out with a question like this last night. Why do Democrats refuse to answer this question? Gavin Newsom was the same way when he was on, I want to say it was Sean Ryan's podcast or somebody else's. Why do Democrats refuse to answer this question when, one, we all know common sense, that kids don't know what the fuck they're doing at that age, and they're not going to change their own gender on their own, and not inform the parents about what they're saying at school to their teachers. But also, it's not a big enough base voting wise to give a shit about this. So why is this such a huge sticking point?

Speaker 2:
[44:39] It is a huge sticking point because of postmodernism. Until like 1950, the word gender wasn't even used, or if it was used, it was synonymous with the word sex. There's a dude named John Money who started introducing the concept of gender role and gender identity. He was a fucking Marxist. Simone de Beauvoir and the Second Sex famously wrote one is not born but becomes a woman. It's just postmodernist drivel. Thinkers like Michel Foucault and Judith Butler and all these fucking assholes were postmodernists. They were Marxists, right? And they tried to use tricks of language to replace stable structures of independent interpretation with a constructivist world view. And as a result, the reality of life dissolved under our feet. And all these people that are talking about fucking queer theory and gender theory and all this race hustling bullshit, all of it is about taking control of the definition of things. They can't win on an even playing field. And it stems from the Frankfurt School. These assholes couldn't... They were reflecting on why Marxism failed. And they were like, the reason Marxism failed is because capitalism is too successful. It gives people too many creature comforts. So they're not going to surrender all of their property and all of their will and all of their agency to the state to administer back to them. So here's what we have to do. We have to eliminate the idea of reality. That's what post-modernism really is. They started to challenge what a human being is. But the reality is that reality exists independent of our perception. The human body is not incidental to identity. If you think about platonic forms like Plato talking about forms, you see a thing and you know that it's for something, right? Like you can tell by the way the thing you can tell, you can look at a man and say that's somebody who's designed to be violent, right? Somebody who's designed to lift heavy things or do whatever. You look at a woman, that's somebody who's there to nurture. She's got fucking big titties, right? I'm being I'm paraphrasing, obviously. Yeah. But this constructivism bullshit is what led to this thought. And it's captured more so people often say it's like, less than 1% of people are trans, why are we talking about this shit? That's why because even the trans thing itself, not even less than 1%, like 5 people are actually transgender. It's not even a percentage. And people are constantly talking about it because it is a Marxist infiltration of our fucking society. That's literally the only reason.

Speaker 1:
[47:54] But it's like 0.0008 of the population in, I think, the United States, let alone California. I just don't understand why this is the hill you want to die on here when it's not going to affect the votes. To be honest, I don't think, even for Democrats, for Christ's sakes. Go to the next clip, Bob, on Twitter, because she is just getting buried after this was over last night. And I'm real curious to see what happens here with her in the next, let's call it two months. No, actually, shit, you're about 45 days out from this thing.

Speaker 3:
[48:33] Which one, from Katie Porter herself?

Speaker 1:
[48:36] Yeah, go to...

Speaker 3:
[48:39] Or Eric Dottry or Libs.

Speaker 1:
[48:41] No, no, no, let's go to Eric Dottry next, that one, that guy. I don't remember who that is. Chris Blay.

Speaker 9:
[48:54] What grade would you give him on homelessness, and what, if anything, would you do differently? You have 60 seconds.

Speaker 8:
[48:59] I'm a notoriously tough grader, but I would probably give him a B on homelessness. I don't think this has been an easy problem to solve, but I do give him a lot of credit for calling attention to the problem. When he campaigned eight years ago, he was talking about housing when nobody else was.

Speaker 10:
[49:15] Well, by the way, I'd love to be in your class, Katie, if you get a B for what Gavin Newsom's done on homelessness, my goodness.

Speaker 4:
[49:22] What grade would you give him?

Speaker 1:
[49:23] That guy was on fire last night, that Steve Hilton guy. I don't know much about him, but he was pretty fucking funny. Then go to the one from Katie Porter herself, because she actually posted this clip, which was surprising to me. Very odd here. She's an odd bird herself, but whatever. Press play.

Speaker 7:
[49:43] Respond. You have 15 seconds.

Speaker 8:
[49:44] If you were in my class, Mr. Hilton, you would learn in my bankruptcy and consumer protection class, that the majority of homeless people in California are actually working. They're not just people on the streets. It's not just people with mental illness or people with drug or substance use problems. It's also families who are fleeing intimate partner and domestic violence. It's people who are double and tripled up. It's people who are living in their cars on our college campuses. Homelessness comes in a lot of different forms, and if we don't see the whole problem, if we demonize them from one perspective, we'll never be able to solve this problem.

Speaker 1:
[50:19] Okay, so by posting that on your own Twitter last night, that these homeless people are sleeping in their own cars on our college campuses and our own states.

Speaker 2:
[50:27] I mean, they're not homeless if they're sleeping in the car, right?

Speaker 1:
[50:29] No. Well, that's one. Two, that makes me immediately not want to send my kid to any fucking school in California. What the fuck?

Speaker 2:
[50:37] Well, I was already there, but yeah.

Speaker 1:
[50:41] I was already there as well, friend.

Speaker 2:
[50:43] But she's just a fucking dumb dumb.

Speaker 1:
[50:46] Yeah. And then the last one, press press play on this last one here. And this is in regards to people being able to speak English in order to get a CDL. And this was her response last night.

Speaker 9:
[51:04] Porter, same question. Do you believe that English proficiency, language proficiency should be strictly enforced for truck drivers? You have 60 seconds.

Speaker 8:
[51:12] I would absolutely fight the Trump administration because the job of the California governor is to protect Californians. And right now, that includes protecting them from Donald Trump. Protecting Californians also includes enforcing traffic laws. And we've seen sometimes a need for oversight in California. For example, we have seen that the Department of Motor Vehicles was not enforcing rules around DUIs and drivers who had convictions for that. I am stunned that Mr. Bianco would say to Black and Brown Californians and immigrants who are being terrorized and racially profiled that you have to get over racism. It's not something that you get over, it's something that you fight. And if he doesn't understand the importance of that, he has no business representing a state with the diversity of California.

Speaker 9:
[51:59] Ms. Porter, thank you very much. Mr. Bianco, I'll give you 15 seconds to respond.

Speaker 11:
[52:03] Yeah, again, that's not even close to what I said. What I said is Californians, and I'm speaking for them, especially from law enforcement, when I deal with persons of color every single day, Californians are absolutely sick and tired of our politicians making race the basis of everything. It is not. And this racial divide that they are pushing between law enforcement and the public, or Democrat and Republican, absolutely has to stop. And I'm telling you, we are sick of it.

Speaker 1:
[52:32] So, look, Dan, hopefully Californians are sick of it. But I said this earlier on Ross Patterson Revolution, Spencer Pratt is really fucking gaining steam in the polls for mayor. Of Los Angeles, there's a decent shot after last night. You might have two Republicans in there. The guy that they want to shove her out of the way for is this Mexican dude, this Becerra guy. He was pretty much boring and invisible last night. I don't see much of a shot for him to win here. Does California-

Speaker 2:
[53:03] I think they're.

Speaker 1:
[53:03] Yeah, I was going to say, is California actually going to turn the page finally?

Speaker 2:
[53:08] I don't know about all that. We'll see. But it was not a good sign that Steyer didn't rise meteorically in popularity, at least in the near term polling after Swalwell dropped out. Because that's what you hope for, right? If you've got a guy and Steyer is their guy, that's the one they want. You got a guy and then some other random dickhole that doesn't have a personality at all, not that Steyer does, but that doesn't have name ID, gains all the fucking Swalwell votes after Swalwell leaves, that's not a good sign.

Speaker 1:
[53:37] No, it was very odd and last night he was quiet, he didn't engage in the conversation and he didn't make himself stand out at all, so he did himself no favors. And then lastly, Bob, go to the last clip here of Katie Porter and you can scroll through to a minute and 19 seconds. Let's not forget this infamous clip of her, because this is who she really is at heart and it's like, look, we all know that Katie, we all fucking know. I'll get about a minute and 19. There you go.

Speaker 8:
[54:11] That we're gonna lose more than half a million Californians dying prematurely to air pollution and other problems. And the state could lose, get out of my fucking shot.

Speaker 6:
[54:23] I wanted to tell you that that's actually incorrect.

Speaker 12:
[54:25] It's not that it's electric vehicles.

Speaker 4:
[54:27] It's that if we don't make a commitment to any of our parents climbing their cord.

Speaker 8:
[54:31] Okay. It does. Okay. You also were in my shot before that. Stay out of my shot. Okay. I'm gonna start again with electric vehicles saving us money. Perfect. Okay.

Speaker 1:
[54:47] Oh God. I love it, dude. I love it. It's an actor. It's just an actor up there. And she knows when to start, restart everything else. And that's who she really is. She is the final boss. She's the final Karen. And that's it. And I think, I think after last night, she's personally done here. I think California is done with her. But we'll see. Your prediction might come true here because everybody this morning is saying, we got to get this fucking lady out of the race. So we're fucked. So yeah, it was interesting. Bianco and Hilton. Hilton came off the most likeable last night, by the way.

Speaker 2:
[55:26] He's a media personality. Of course, he did.

Speaker 1:
[55:28] British, funny, quippy. He had all the things, all the answers and he's rich. So he doesn't really care. I mean, it's kind of like a British version of Trump, and maybe that's what California needs right now. So I'm interested to see what happens in this race. Shit, we might even have to go live for that in June. That might be our first show back. And what do we, I think we're on air June 1st in Wilmington. So yeah, June 2nd when the primary is. I'd go live for that for sure, just to see what happens there. Next up, sponsor wise, got our friends over at Acre. I fucking love Acre. All right, this one came from my kids. Look, here's a question. What are you doing with 30 bucks a month right now? Probably nothing. You remember in six months or a year, Acre Gold lets you turn that into real gold. Pick a plan, your balance builds every month, and when it's the price of the bar, they ship you a 24-carat Swiss gold bar. Real gold in your hand at your house, and over time, you're sitting on something that's been valuable since the dawn of civilization. Now, here's where my kids came to get me involved in this. So they just released their extremely limited edition Hot Wheels collection. Only 3,500 bars are made and they're moving fast. Both my kids asked for this. Apparently, other kids had this at school and I was like, when Jax came home and told me this and he was just like, hey dad, I want this gold bar. I was like, what? What do you mean you want a gold bar? He was like, oh, there's ones with Hot Wheels on it or whatever. And I'm like, okay, cool. So I looked it up and it's this company called Acre Gold and I was like, oh, all right. Because when you look at the price of this, you're like, shit, yeah, that's a real goddamn gold bar. But they put you on a plan where it's 30 bucks a month and then they actually ship it to you. And then it's melted into the gold bar. So they actually paired up with Mattel. This is licensed with those guys in conjunction with it and whatever. And it's kind of to teach kids about money, savings and what to do with it and what she could potentially do with it. Also, they only made a certain amount of these. So it's a limited edition. Shit's gonna be worth a lot more in the future. And I bought two of them. I bought one for Jax and Jagger, both my boys. And yeah, 30 bucks a month, that's it. It's real, like shit. I see the charge on my card. It's on autopay. And while you're waiting for it, dude, as soon as you hit the number, boom, they just ship it to you. So while you're checking them out, claim your free entry to the Speed Club sweepstakes. 11 grams of 24 karat gold in Hot Wheels Collector Packaging, officially licensed by Mattel. That is up for grabs. Stack gold for $30 per month and enter to win at getacregold.com/db. That is getacregold.com/db. Subscribe today. Not only is it super easy, but shit, I did it in under two minutes for each kit. And it's just 30 bucks a month. And then as soon as I hit the mark, boom, they just send it right to your house. How many are left, Bob, of those?

Speaker 3:
[58:46] It was like 470.

Speaker 1:
[58:48] Yeah, but that was the other day. How much is it now?

Speaker 3:
[58:49] It's the same.

Speaker 1:
[58:51] Look, I'm going to hold you this, Bob.

Speaker 3:
[58:53] 433.

Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
[60:13] Yeah, it's a game that used to be on computers back in the day, where you click the squares, and if there's a number, it tells you how many of the other squares touching it are bombs. So if it's a one, there's only one square touching it as a bomb.

Speaker 1:
[60:30] Okay, perfect. Perfect. Who has this job and who's in control of it?

Speaker 2:
[60:36] Well, in the Army, we call it route clearance, and you just drive around trying to get blown up, basically. It fucking sucks. Now, in the water, they have detectors and stuff. I've got to be honest, I'm not convinced there are any mines. Bob, correct me if I'm wrong, but this has been going on two months now. We haven't seen, there hasn't been a single mine hit by anybody yet. No, I've seen it. No. Yeah, so I think that might have just been, not that they wouldn't do it. I just, where's the evidence? We haven't seen any mines collected or demoed or certainly not have hit any vessels. Do they even exist? But still, the threat is real and commercial activities won't commence in certain parts of that water unless they're demined, whether there's mines there or not. So that's something that's got to happen. Now Trump is doing what he normally does and making two demands at once. One, we're clearing the mines. Two, if you come near us, we'll fucking kill you, basically, right? Yeah. This is something that can be done while this ceasefire is going on. We can do what appears to be a defensive action, and if they attack us, then they're the ones breaking the ceasefire and we can light them up. So it might be bait. I don't know. It might be bait so we can hit some things as Tehran decides who they're going to become.

Speaker 1:
[62:03] Yeah. I mean, I don't know who's in control over there. I don't know if any of this shit is true, and to your point, so far, none of the boats have exploded or nobody's hit a mine or anything else, man, and that's the one thing I hate about this Iran situation is, we don't really know who's in control, who's making these threats, who's making these fucking statements, and I wish there was one guy that you could deal with, who is kind of sane, but I don't know how that shakes out over there. The bitch of it is, the longer this goes on, obviously, it's not great. Now, gas prices have dropped here. You're in North Carolina currently, how are they there?

Speaker 2:
[62:49] I don't know, I haven't been paying attention. I mean, crude oil is up, but the US is producing and exporting more oil than it ever has in its history right now. It's up like 800 percent since the spring of 2022 actually.

Speaker 1:
[63:08] Okay, because here it's down about 65 cents. I filled up a couple of different times, which is a lot. Just within the last, I would say four to five days, I usually fill up every four or five days, and something's going on. So I don't know whether it's what's happening in Iran or whether or not we're just producing more or whatever it is. But at the end of the day, I don't know if Americans will really give a shit about Iran as long as the gas prices are fine. And I know that that sounds like a fucked up thing to say, but it's true.

Speaker 2:
[63:43] No, why would it? I mean, yeah, you want, I mean, those are both concerns. Just because Iran is a threat and we need to fucking handle them doesn't mean that life doesn't go on here. Right. Right? Yep. I mean, shit. If the bathtub is filling up and your baby is in the water and you hear a noise outside, you gotta fucking tend to the baby first before you can go deal with the noise outside. That's how it works. So I think that's a reasonable complaint that people have. I think the better way to say it is that if things domestically were going the way they're supposed to be going, not that people would care less about Iran, but they would be more supportive of it generally, because it is good, but we're doing it, frankly. So I think that's probably the better way to say it. But yeah, I mean, the principle is correct. Politically reported Thursday that British military divers are preparing to carry out some mine clearing procedures around there, potentially with a multinational effort. I think maybe France is helping out with that. TBD on that, I don't know what capabilities they have. The British Navy has been pretty good through the years. The French Navy has been pretty good through the years. So they might have some stuff that's a little bit closer to the area in that regard. Then if ours are back in the US or South China Sea or something like that, and we've got, they have stuff here, we should welcome them coming in to help out with that problem, I think, even though they've been fucking pretty derelict so far.

Speaker 1:
[65:17] Well, the French are, the military are really good at giving up pretty quickly. So I think if you send them down first, they would jump out, they would pop up out of the water and just kind of wave their arms and then swim away.

Speaker 2:
[65:29] Well, I don't know if you can surrender to a fucking mine.

Speaker 1:
[65:34] I think you can. Yeah, you got to swim up to the top as fast as you can and get out of there and let everybody else know that there's actual work to be done. So I think they'd be really good at that. Also, let's face it, France has the best mimes on the planet as well. So if they did pop out of the water, you would be able to see it from the deck of the boat, and they would be able to describe it in a mime situation. Let's get some rope and pull this thing out of there.

Speaker 2:
[66:03] Yeah, maybe.

Speaker 1:
[66:03] I'm just spitballing here about what they're good at. But look, as long as gas prices are down, and we don't hear too much bitching about this, I think this situation will be fine. Although, I would love to get the fuck out of there. I just, I don't know how you do it, because all the reports that I'm seeing, and I don't know if you feel the same way on Twitter, are coming out of these, or Twitter, everybody else, these newspapers in Iran, whether or not they're real or not. That's the thing that I struggle with the most. So it's like, who is Trump responding to specifically? Who's the fucking guy right now? Because the gay kid is in a coma, missing a leg. And that's the one that's supposed to be taking power. So-

Speaker 2:
[66:50] Yeah, I mean, it's not him. The rumor behind the scenes is that the mullahs have been pushed out of power and it's all IRGC military running the show right now.

Speaker 1:
[67:00] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[67:01] Which could be good or bad, right? I mean, we'll see TBD on that. The mullahs are gonna be more, certainly an older, a much older man who is a religious zealot is gonna be more inclined to just go down with the ship than somebody who's in their 40s or 50s is, right? Yeah. So I think that's, people have been reporting that as some kind of negative thing. I don't know that I consider that negative. We'll see. I mean, again, it's the Middle East and it's foreign policy, so it's always we'll see. But it'll be interesting to see how that develops. I think there's always risk and opportunities when you do stuff like that. But yeah, I think from Trump's perspective, if we're negotiating with somebody who can't follow through on what they're saying they can do, I don't give a fuck about them messaging differently in public than they do in private. I don't care about that because that's how that process works. You say in private, you're having a decent conversation and then when you go back to your respective corners, you're like, yeah, that guy's a fucking asshole. I'm never gonna talk to him again. You're right back talking to him. That's just how it goes, but if I'm constantly gonna go... Look, if I was trying to do a business deal with somebody and they keep saying, oh yeah, I can do this for you, and then they go like, hey, I talked to my board, I can't do this. At some point, I'd be like, well, you guys, you're fucking nobody. You're a fucking peon. I need to talk to somebody that's in fucking charge, right? And I think we're getting to that point here pretty soon.

Speaker 1:
[68:33] Okay. Any truth to the rumors that Shadow Force is involved?

Speaker 2:
[68:42] Yeah. I hope so. They've got the black berets, but they ran out of those little glasses. So I think maybe there is a logistical issue.

Speaker 1:
[68:50] Bob, go to our Instagram on Drinkin Bros Podcast Instagram. I posted this guy last night. I went to a rabbit hole of this dude's videos.

Speaker 11:
[68:59] I'm a big fan of his.

Speaker 1:
[69:01] The amount of responses though, asking if this was real was mind-altering. Go down to that black and white video. There you go. Press play on this clip.

Speaker 13:
[69:13] Navy SEALs, the most elite fighting force?

Speaker 14:
[69:16] Not even close. Shadow Force.

Speaker 12:
[69:19] Shadow Force? What is Shadow Force?

Speaker 14:
[69:21] Basically, whenever you have Navy SEAL guys or Delta guys that are lost or stuck or something, you send Shadow Force in to save them. And the way you identify Shadow Force, whack away.

Speaker 12:
[69:36] So you're part of Shadow Force?

Speaker 14:
[69:39] Pleasure to meet you.

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Speaker 2:
[74:46] This will be his ruling will be struck down and reversed by the Supreme Court on Monday.

Speaker 1:
[74:56] So Virginia will have the right to add these seats? Why?

Speaker 2:
[74:59] Yeah, this is frivolous. His injunction doesn't make any sense. It says that the language was confusing. It was not confusing. Sorry. I mean, it's just not true. Also, this guy's an activist judge in a deep red county and he's done this once before and it immediately got overturned. He's the right wing Boasburg in Virginia. Look, it's not that I agree or disagree with the decision itself, but he went about it in the wrong way. Republicans lost the vote there. That's how it works. This is our system of government. A judge cannot go out looking for cases to overturn. This is not how it's supposed to work.

Speaker 1:
[75:41] Got you. Bob, check your Twitter DMs here. Let's pull up this map of Virginia. Have you seen this color-coded map, Dan?

Speaker 2:
[75:52] Yeah. I mean, look, it isn't to say that they're not doing stuff in a way that might be distasteful. I guess it's not illegal. Jerry Manning is not illegal. There's a fucking... Florida has the opportunity to add 10 seats right now, and they're about to call a special session, I believe, on Tuesday next week to maybe start that. Perhaps what I've heard, I don't know if they're going to go through with it yet or not or if they got other stuff going on. But they are working on it.

Speaker 1:
[76:21] I got a clip for you here right after this. But is this what we're going to be going through in every single state now? Because if you're looking at it, it was 6 to 5 last time. And what am I missing here?

Speaker 2:
[76:33] Well, here's the issue. This ballot measure that they just put up is not, that's not the problem. This should be struck down, but for completely different reasons. I think Nick Freitas actually did a whole bit on this on Twitter yesterday. The people of Virginia voted 65 35 to outsource their redistricting to a non-governmental agency, to somebody that has nothing, that's not an elected official, not what just happened, right? The government did this. And they passed this, they put this new thing on the ballot to get it passed. Maybe, who cares if the language is confusing or not? It's your job to know what the fuck you're voting for. But, you're basically using a ballot measure to overturn what was a 65% victory, which is essentially a constitutional amendment at that point. That's the issue. And I think it will eventually get struck down because of that. I think, well, at least there's a good possibility for it, depending on what the Virginia Supreme Court does. The Virginia Supreme Court has been very, very consistent in maintaining common law and precedent. As much as any state Supreme Court in the country. They've been very strict on that sort of stuff, regardless of how liberal the state's gotten. So I don't think, I think they broke some rules to get the vote in. That might be a problem, but this case was decided on by a guy that didn't know what he was doing. He's just an activist right wing judge. So it's going to immediately get overturned, which kind of waste time, to be honest. That's why you want to do things the fucking right way.

Speaker 1:
[78:07] Yeah, but when we went through this redistricting thing in North Carolina, this is what I hate, is I think it's a fucking cop out, which that's exactly what it is, is they hire these firms that are out of states to say, oh, hey, we're going to bring in from somebody from out of states. So it's going to be a fair and honest process. They got no influence here in your county, your district and all that other stuff. But my issue with it was, and I said this on air back in, what was it, 2019 or 2020, was you don't know my fucking district. You don't know one single neighborhood. You don't know anything about our district. And it was this firm out of Ohio that I tracked down. And I said, I know exactly where the fuck you are. And I go, you know nothing about where I live. Same with your town. I go, you've got one light in your goddamn town. So like, don't tell me about what your town is going through, and then come down to mine and make decisions for a place that you don't fucking live, that you don't know about. I hate shit like that. Now, if the judge is incorrect, the judge is incorrect, and he should know fucking case law, obviously. But as far as this redistricting bullshit, this is gonna happen in every single state unless the Supreme Court gets involved, I guess. Bob, go to this clip with Ron DeSantis. This was the clip, this is what you're referring to in Florida. Because immediately after this happened, DeSantis got on TV and was just like, cool man, we got some seats here we can fucking change next week if you want to. You can press play on this.

Speaker 15:
[79:39] Has compact districts. It's done in a way that makes a lot of sense. And the reality is, is if you look at like California, they're doing all this dog and pony show there now. Saying, oh, Texas, we've got to combat Texas. California is one of the worst gerrymandered maps there is. What they did, this is how they do. They're like, no, we're going to do an independent commission. So they do a commission. The problem is, it's like, if you truly were independent, it's like you would be immune to any type of partisan pressures. But that commission is comprised of liberal Democrats, liberal independents, and very liberal Republicans. I think one of the Republicans is from Berkeley, like not exactly a hotbed of Reagan conservatism. It's just, it is what it is. So they hotwired that independent commission to produce a map that was very much gerrymandered and was not something that was fair to Republicans, even at that time. Now they're saying they want to do even more by doing whatever they're talking about doing now. So don't buy this notion that if someone has a commission, that that somehow means it is immune from this type of partisan pressures. The California one was a left-wing commission. That's just the reality. That's what they produced. That's what they were supposed to do based on who appointed those folks to that commission. And so I just think it's better to just have the legislature do it. And if you don't like it, you know, you can vote them out. You put some commission in like California and then stack it. If you don't like that as a voter, those people will never appear on your ballot. But that's exactly what they did there. And they've done it in other states as well. And then Illinois, if you look at Illinois, you know, Illinois, like if Chicago wasn't in Illinois, it would be a red state. You know, there's some dots blue, but like most of it is red outside of Illinois. So if you drew compact districts, you know, you'd have probably six in the Chicago that would be like 90, 10 dem, right? But then all the other ones would probably be Republican districts and they didn't want that. So what they do is they go into the city of Chicago, they find enough dems and they draw a map.

Speaker 1:
[81:58] And where he's cut off there is kind of what happened in Louisiana, which that case is at the Supreme Court right now. Whoever filed that suit, I forget his name. Do you remember his name, Bob?

Speaker 3:
[82:07] No, but he's just explaining gerrymandering in every state. It works the reverse in Texas. They make sure to isolate the cities because that's where most of the Democratic voters are. It's just what you do. Yeah, literally just gerrymandering. You carve out the population to your benefit.

Speaker 1:
[82:21] Yeah, Bob, go to Twitter and play this. These districts are like three hours long. If you were to drive them.

Speaker 3:
[82:29] All the maps are insane.

Speaker 1:
[82:30] They're fucking insane.

Speaker 3:
[82:36] All right, let me get this guy.

Speaker 1:
[82:37] Is this Nick? Yeah. Okay. Nick was just on the show last week, by the way.

Speaker 16:
[82:43] This didn't violate the law when they decided to redistrict. Oklahoma didn't violate the law when they decided to redistrict. Virginia did. And here's what I mean by that. For those of you who don't know, in Virginia, whenever you try to change the Constitution, because, oh, by the way, in 20... What was it? 2020? We voted. We voted on a ballot referendum, just like the one that just got voted on. We voted on it to say, we no longer want politicians drawing the lines. And 65% of Virginians voted to say, we want an independent or a quasi-independent commission to draw the lines. So that's what we did. And the lines that were given to us were lines that probably slightly favored Democrats, but overall, they weren't horrible. They weren't bad, right? And again, it wasn't politicians drawing all the lines. And then you fast forward, and now Democrats are saying, no, no, no, now that we're in charge, we want to change it back, and we want to draw the lines, and we want to make Virginia the worst gerrymandered state in the country. Well, if you want to do that, you could, and here's what you would have done. During the normal legislative session, you would have submitted a resolution, a joint resolution, in order to offer a ballot referendum, and then that would have passed the House, it would have passed the Senate, and if it passed both bodies, then what would have happened is you would have had an intervening election, and then after that intervening election, you would have taken the exact same resolution with the exact same language, passed through the House, passed through the Senate, and then it would have gone to a ballot referendum that would have showed up on the ballot in November. That's what would have happened. So is that what happened this time? No, no, they didn't submit this during regular session. They actually called a special session, they pulled us back into a special session, and they submitted this legislation, this resolution. Now, you could argue, well, okay, is that still within their purview? It would have been shady, but theoretically, yeah, you could have legally justified that, except for the fact that we had already started voting in that intervening election, which is supposed to take place between the resolution initially passing the legislature and then being resubmitted the following year. Over a million Virginians had already voted in the intervening election. I'm sorry, that's illegal, that's a violation. It was Democrats that said, we wanna have 45 days of early voting. Republicans didn't say that, they did. And so we pointed out, it's like, okay, but the problem is, you're supposed to have an election in between, and that election has already started. And they just said, no, no, no, it's election day. The whole reason you have an intervening election is so that citizens can be aware of what their legislature is trying to do with respect to changing the Constitution, and they can let their voices be heard if they don't like it. But if a million Virginians have already voted, you arguably have races that have already been decided. And so we pointed out, this is a clear violation. They didn't care. We also pointed out that it is right there in Virginia law that the clerks of the court have to have 90 days before the intervening election to tell everybody what is going on. We were already within 90 days of the election when they decided to pass this. Another clear violation of Virginia law. And there was other things that were of concern as well. For instance, did you know that when you actually write the ballot question, you're supposed to use politically neutral language. You're not supposed to stack the deck in favor of one side or the other side. You're simply supposed to explain in very clear English what your legislation would do. But instead, they added this, hey, do you want to vote to restore fairness? Oh, so let me get this straight. Everybody who voted no voted against restoring fairness? You're not even, it is illegal to use that language. And yet they did it.

Speaker 1:
[86:43] So with this, by the way, Dan, I don't know if you know this or not, but DeSantis said they're, they're going to have a special session next week.

Speaker 2:
[86:53] And then on Monday, 9 a.m. Yep.

Speaker 1:
[86:56] And the New York Times is reporting that even with this flip in Virginia, that would still net six more seats for the Republicans if they decide to do this next week in Florida.

Speaker 2:
[87:10] Oh, yeah. Yeah. Plus, there's other places that are going to act as well. We'll see how it goes. But again, the judge who filed this, if he had filed a by the letter, the law says you have to use politically neutral language and you did. Not confusing. Not confusing. Use the foot. Just do your fucking job. If you're going to go out there and be an activist, at least do the fucking thing right. You wasted time. Now on Monday, it's going to be a victory for Democrats. They're going to overturn this shit because you did it wrong and you're going to look like a fucking asshole. Hopefully, they'll get it settled in the end at some point, but I'm not confident, to be honest. We'll see.

Speaker 1:
[87:54] The Supreme Court is the only one that can settle this. If they settle that Louisiana case, then that will be final and that's it. But if they don't do it in June, then what? Is every state just going to go through this and have a special committee that overturns all this shit over and over and over again? This will be what? Our fifth state this year? Fourth or fifth state?

Speaker 2:
[88:17] Yeah. Here's the thing though. The Republicans have not been doing this at nearly the same rate as the Democrats. If they escalate this, the Republicans will win it in the end. If they escalate it in this midterm right now, that's a huge mistake. Because maybe the Democrats win the House back this time, but if Republicans start going heavy in gerrymandering and the states that haven't done it, they're gonna fucking lose. The math doesn't work for Democrats if they do it that way.

Speaker 1:
[88:47] That's what I don't understand. And I think, look, I think DeSantis will go through this on Monday. I think they'll pick up those extra seats and then another blue state will try to look at their maps and try to change the same thing. Now, there was a very famous Democrats who had spoke out against gerrymandering in 2020. Bob, go to your Twitter and play this next clip. But then he changed his mind this year and I don't know why. Trying to figure it out here. Press play on this. This is in 2020.

Speaker 17:
[89:25] Gerrymandering means citizens' voices are being diminished. By voting yes, you have a chance to do something important. Not just for the Commonwealth, but for our entire country. Even a former president, who are joining together to end gerrymandering and ensure that our democracy is living up to its founding promise. By voting yes, you can push back against the Republicans trying to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterms. And we're counting on you to help ensure a reasonable, transparent redistricting process that honors our ideal of equal representation. Jerry Mandry.

Speaker 1:
[90:01] So even Obama himself in 2020 said, hey, this is all bullshit, so whatever. In my opinion, and this is me, because I'm sick of hearing it on both sides, if the Supreme Court does this ruling, it's over. So hopefully this is at the top of their docket in June, because I don't wanna go through all 50 states going through this fucking bullshit, which is exactly what's gonna happen. I mean, George is one of them.

Speaker 2:
[90:28] Yeah. Well, I mean, we'll see, right?

Speaker 1:
[90:30] You could redraw that entire fucking thing if you wanted to and just base it around Atlanta and then stretch it out to fucking Rome if you wanted to.

Speaker 2:
[90:38] Yeah. I'm trying to find where, yeah, you could isolate it or you could peel off slivers too. There's a lot of ways to do it. And it depends on what the state constitutions say about redistricting as well. So who knows? Concealed carry in North Carolina is fine. They have reciprocity with pretty much every, they don't have constitutional here yet, although it's in the works. Somebody asked in the chat there, North Carolina has reciprocity with pretty much every state that has a shall issue permit.

Speaker 10:
[91:11] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[91:12] Where's the 65-35 coming from, Dan? On surviving Commie Fornia, the 65-35 was not this last vote. It was the one that Nick mentioned back in 2020. It was a completely separate vote.

Speaker 10:
[91:25] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[91:26] Bob, go to your Twitter again, DMs and pull up this. We got some breaking news here. This is for everybody who collects cards and sells cards. Byron, this is you.

Speaker 13:
[91:37] I saw this earlier. I already know.

Speaker 1:
[91:39] Topps just released this. Helen Keller's one of one autograph card. Just sold for $3,551 on eBay. Why the fuck am I just hearing about this now?

Speaker 13:
[91:50] It literally was sold today. This tweet came out a couple hours ago.

Speaker 1:
[91:53] Why didn't I know about this days in advance so we could have bid on this goddamn thing? That's it, 3,500?

Speaker 13:
[91:57] It's a cut auto, so they just cut out a piece of paper she signed and placed it in a card.

Speaker 1:
[92:02] I don't give a fuck, dude. How did she spell her name right?

Speaker 13:
[92:05] Helen Keller, she didn't sign this. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1:
[92:09] She did sign this.

Speaker 13:
[92:09] This doesn't matter because a blind and deaf person didn't exist and didn't do any of the things she did. Helen Keller is a fraud.

Speaker 1:
[92:15] This is bullshit, dude. That's her signature right there. It's plain as day. It's pretty good, dude. That is a Tops one of one right there. That got sold. Somebody verified it. Who verified it? Who gave that certificate of authenticity?

Speaker 13:
[92:28] Tops did.

Speaker 1:
[92:28] So are you saying Tops is liars?

Speaker 13:
[92:30] I'm just saying Helen Keller didn't sign shit.

Speaker 1:
[92:33] She sure did, dude.

Speaker 13:
[92:34] I don't believe it.

Speaker 1:
[92:35] It looks great. I can read it. For Christ sakes. God damn it, dude. How was I not aware of this? You're a fucking card head, bro.

Speaker 13:
[92:44] Because it's a random eBay auction that went off today. I think it was a tweet about it earlier.

Speaker 1:
[92:49] Well, it was famous and we should have known. Okay.

Speaker 13:
[92:52] I actually showed Rob, by the way, too.

Speaker 1:
[92:54] I did a goddamn movie on Helen Keller.

Speaker 3:
[92:57] We could have fucking hit on it. I don't know why there was no press for this.

Speaker 2:
[93:02] All right. Hey, I did the math here. So if all states redistricted in favor of the party they elected for president in 2024, do you understand what that means?

Speaker 1:
[93:15] Yep.

Speaker 2:
[93:16] Everybody that's eligible redistricts in favor of the party they voted for in 24. Republicans would have somewhere between 230 and 260 seats in the House.

Speaker 1:
[93:29] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[93:31] As opposed to 215. Right. Or 16, 216. They would have a super majority in the House, possibly.

Speaker 1:
[93:39] So why not do that then? I mean, if this is where we're headed with all this bullshit.

Speaker 2:
[93:43] They absolutely should. They absolutely should. They should redistrict the shit out of it. Indiana should recall their fucking entire government and redistrict there as well. Indiana, if you recall, decided not to. They're like, we don't want to escalate. You aren't escalating. You're responding. Massachusetts hasn't had 40% of Massachusetts is Republican. 40% voted for Trump. Zero members of Congress, zero senators, zero in the House for 30 years.

Speaker 1:
[94:12] Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[94:13] Okay.

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Speaker 3:
[96:58] No, just one, unless they traded, which I'm not seeing.

Speaker 1:
[97:01] They're talking about it. God, there's a lot of rumors right now because we're getting close. We're getting fucking close, Bob. Can you feel it, dude?

Speaker 3:
[97:08] Oh yeah.

Speaker 1:
[97:09] Do you have an NFL team, by the way, after the Rams spurned you?

Speaker 3:
[97:13] No, no, I just watch. I just kind of kick back and enjoy it.

Speaker 1:
[97:17] Hey, just checking, dude. Just checking.

Speaker 3:
[97:20] I do have a soft spot for the Bears right now, though, because they have Luther Burden.

Speaker 1:
[97:24] Yeah, but I hate Caleb Williams.

Speaker 3:
[97:26] So, he's good, dude.

Speaker 1:
[97:27] There's that. He's not good. We'll find out about his nail polish tonight. Next up is weed reclassification has begun. President Donald Trump's administration is reclassifying state-licensed marijuana as a less dangerous drug. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch announced on Thursday, Blanch signed an order reclassifying FDA-approved and state-licensed marijuana from Schedule One, reserved for drugs like heroin, to the less strict Schedule Three. The Department of Justice is delivering on President Trump's promise to expand Americans' access to medical treatment options. This rescheduling action allows to research on the safety and efficacy of the substance, ultimately providing patients with better care and doctors with more reliable information. Blanch noted that the order does not yet apply to marijuana generally, but said the order initiates a new expedited hearing with said deadlines and to fully reschedule marijuana. So what does this mean for weed in the United States, Anthony?

Speaker 2:
[98:34] It means that it will be easier to get a medical classification and do medical research and shit like that. And it comes in conjunction with an executive order that Trump signed that deals with psychedelic drugs. A lot of our friends were involved in this. That's the more important of the two, in my opinion. The weed thing is what it is. But Trump, once again, demonstrating he's the most libertarian president in American history by a wide margin, by deregulating nonsense. Now this executive order expedites, does the same thing but for psychedelics like Ibogaine and psilocybin and DMT. And expedites the review process to use them as potential therapy treatments. Trump says the executive order I'm signing, we're actually signing the executive order today, is really a moment these treatments are currently in the advanced stages of clinical trials to ensure that they're both safe and effective for the American patients. Excuse me, in many cases, these experimental treatments have shown life changing potential for those suffering from severe mental illness and depression, including our cherished veterans. And the nice part is that we're actually doing this early, but it has been going on. Research has been going on for quite some time, but usually with things like this, nothing ever happens, blah, blah, blah. Basically, there's a couple of people, Marcus and his wife Amber Capone, who Jarred works with at Vets a lot. Wiz Buckley, Marcos Luttrell, who also works over there at Vets, Rob O'Neill, who's been deeply involved in this as well, have been funding research, raising money, and lobbying the government to get these treatments made legal for American veterans especially, but just for in general, because they're wildly effective. And then Rogan had something to do with it as well. Rogan texted Trump a couple of weeks. Because before that UFC thing where people are trying to speculate that Trump was chastising Rogan for talking shit about him on the show, what really went down was Rogan told him about Ibogaine and that it can end lifelong heroin addiction in one or two treatments. And Trump's like, really? And he's like, yeah. And he goes, well, what do you want? Do you want FDA approval for it? Because I can make that happen. That's basically what happened in that conversation. So yeah, it's about time is the point. I don't really care about the weed thing so much. But getting rid of these government regulations is a good thing. There's no reason the government should be involved in any of this shit. Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[101:09] Look, a lot of our friends were there and we posted a video as soon as this happened on Drinkin Bros Podcast, Facebook and Instagram on it. And I do want to thank Joe Rogan for being there. He gave a great speech as well in the Oval Office and helped getting this push through, because it does take a lot of people behind the scenes to get executive orders passed and shit like that. And it's not an easy thing. And if you don't have the right people and the right voices at the right time, this may never have happened. So shout out to Joe Rogan for standing up for this and helping push this through, along with Marcus Luttrell and Rob O'Neill and the rest of those guys who were there. So, thank you. And it was actually very cool to see. Because in my opinion, and correct me if I'm wrong on this, Dan, this happened in the span of less than a month.

Speaker 2:
[102:09] Yeah, it happened really fast.

Speaker 1:
[102:11] Really fast. And it shows how fast our government can actually work, if you allow it to work. And shout out to Trump for doing it. Mike Frable will talk about tonight, D'Anthony. We're going to be live at 745 for the NFL Draft. 645. Well, 645 Central, 745 East Coast time. And we'll kind of go over some of our hopes and dreams, picks that we made, all this other stuff. And then the Mike Frable story. Be curious to see if he is there tonight. I know he said he was sitting out the third day, which is weird to me. Couldn't have started your sex therapy class until Monday. That's odd, but we'll chat about that tonight. In the meantime, Dan, I'll let you go. This is the point in the show we get to the Drinkin Bro of the Week. Bob, go to drinkinbros.com right now and pull up all the new fun, flirty goodies here. The Bro Box, we got the chairs back, dude, but there's only a limited edition of these. I love these goddamn things and so do you guys. This is one of your favorites over the years. I use this at every single event that I have. I've literally got both of them out of my truck. I actually ordered an extra Bro Box last year because I loved it so much. And, but once they're gone, they're gone. So sign up for that and then we got a sweet t-shirt that you guys will definitely find hilarious in this month's box. I love it and shout out to Brandon for doing it. But merch is all stocked up. We got phone cases up there. I got the Crime Corner one on my phone. I actually got stopped by a listener last night who was listening to Crime Corner when I was getting out of HEP with RAS. Selter in my cart for tonight's show. And I took a screenshot of it. Bob, if you go to my Instagram at ST James, ST James, St. James Street James. By the way, the book will be out next, the audio book will be out next week. I talked to fucking Amazon today. I was unaware that it's a 10 day business process now. I was like, for what? For what? You guys are fucking AI run. This is stupid. There he is, right there. I ran into this guy in the parking lot last night. It was fucking hilarious. He was listening to Crime Corner as we speak. So got the Crime Corner merch up there. We got the Citizen merch up there. We got the Drinkin Bros merch up there. Those Hawaiian shirts we made are flying with the Drinkin Bros logos off of them. Bro boxes are on fire right now. There is a select number of those. Do we sell out of Rambo bags? Is there still like two or three left?

Speaker 3:
[104:41] I'm not seeing them.

Speaker 1:
[104:42] Scroll down, scroll down, scroll down right there. Yup, still there. All right, so there's still a few left of those. Those are on fire right now and you can submit for Drinkin Bro of the Week on there. It gets emailed to us live on air or the app. Drinkin Bros app is free on iPhones and Androids. All you got to do is reach on out to us and send us in. However, since we are leaving here, a lot of listeners have been popping by the studio, say goodbye, take some pictures, and give out some Drinkin Bros of the week in person. Come on down, sir. There you go. Someone is asking why I have the Ohio State hat on tonight. We might tie the record for most draft picks tonight. We'll see. Let's see what happens tonight. Looking forward to it.

Speaker 12:
[105:35] Look at you.

Speaker 1:
[105:36] You got the drip hat on, dude. You from Drip It Springs?

Speaker 12:
[105:38] Representing, yeah, buddy.

Speaker 1:
[105:39] Represent, represents.

Speaker 12:
[105:40] I'm a local now. I say drip. I don't say dripping springs anymore.

Speaker 1:
[105:43] I know you do. The drip, dude, is what people call it.

Speaker 12:
[105:46] That was actually right by my house, that HEB, like where you guys were at.

Speaker 1:
[105:49] I was right in the street. I was there last night, which was hilarious. I got stopped like four times in there. One was obviously from my coaching prowess.

Speaker 12:
[105:58] I saw that, dude.

Speaker 1:
[105:59] That's awesome, bro. It was a mom who stopped me and she was like.

Speaker 12:
[106:02] She couldn't handle it.

Speaker 1:
[106:03] She goes, my kid didn't play in her team this year and you guys won the championship. And I was like, well, sorry, I don't know that I can do about that politics, baby. It was one of those things where I've won so many over there. The commissioner finally hit me up and was just like, hey, we can't put all these kids on your team. And I go, I'm not asking for it. He goes, I know, but they are. They want to win the championship. And I was like, well, sorry.

Speaker 12:
[106:21] They want to rock with Ted Lasso.

Speaker 1:
[106:22] Yeah, we got another one. We got another one doing Saturday.

Speaker 12:
[106:25] That's awesome, bro.

Speaker 1:
[106:26] Jag got another one. So it was fun. Nine and one. How we fucking destroy this year.

Speaker 12:
[106:31] Soccer, right? Is that what it was?

Speaker 1:
[106:32] The only last wasn't me. I wasn't there. It was the assistant coach.

Speaker 12:
[106:35] Damn, dude.

Speaker 1:
[106:36] That's crazy.

Speaker 12:
[106:37] Well, shoot, man, I appreciate you having me on, dude.

Speaker 1:
[106:39] Absolutely. Tell everybody your name.

Speaker 12:
[106:41] My name's Brandon. I'm a local.

Speaker 1:
[106:42] Yeah, you are a local. Did you buy a house over there?

Speaker 12:
[106:46] No, we're probably going to buy. Okay, right on.

Speaker 1:
[106:48] I know where you're at.

Speaker 12:
[106:49] Yes, sir.

Speaker 1:
[106:49] I won't shout out your neighborhood, but we had looked in there, actually.

Speaker 12:
[106:53] It's a good little spot. It's a convenient spot, I'll say.

Speaker 1:
[106:56] It is. They got a lot going on in there.

Speaker 2:
[106:57] Yeah.

Speaker 12:
[106:58] I'm worried about the Founders Fest, though. I know that's just going to be crazy over there.

Speaker 1:
[107:01] This weekend?

Speaker 2:
[107:02] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[107:02] I got a flight. I got a flight tomorrow. I'm heading up to Penn State. I'll be at the... Obviously, we own Penn State for Hard AF, Seltzer. Their spring game is Saturday, so we're doing a bunch of events with fraternities and sororities and tailgates and all that fun stuff.

Speaker 12:
[107:17] That's going to go crazy, man.

Speaker 1:
[107:18] No shit. I was there last year. It was a blast. And then we got some other meetings up there for Hard AF in Philadelphia and New York. New York City. And then I'm going to hop on a flight down to Wilmington and check out the new studio and all that stuff and kind of size it up. So when we take our sets with us. So we appreciate you coming.

Speaker 12:
[107:37] I got to bring something by before you got like, I don't know if you can say on here, like when's like the last day?

Speaker 1:
[107:42] Don't know. I would, if I had to guess Memorial Day only because we don't miss, but there's an extra day off that weekend. So like I'm, I'll be the last one here. I know Coop is driving out the U-Haul of the Sets and then I'll have to drive back. And I think Ryan, you're going to drive back as well and kind of help set up.

Speaker 13:
[108:03] Yeah, that's what we talked about last night. I was just going to say June 1st. That's what we've been saying. That's our first official day at the new studio. So in June, we won't be here. If you show up, there will be no one here.

Speaker 1:
[108:12] But also it might be after Memorial Day. So like, I don't know, but everybody who's kind of texted us and stuff, I'm like, hey dude, if you're coming, I'll be in some of them in the next, well, shit, I'll be gone next week.

Speaker 12:
[108:23] Yeah, you'll be gone.

Speaker 1:
[108:24] I'll be in Wilmington next week, doing shows out of there, but the week after. So there's not much time left. So good that you came in to get Drinkin Bro the weekend, right at the wire.

Speaker 12:
[108:33] I didn't want to miss it, man. I was upset when you guys were leaving. I'm kind of bummed because it's nice to have you guys around, you know?

Speaker 1:
[108:38] Yeah, but you see what's going on. I mean, we can't stop the highway. So when we talked about it with Dan and I, and then obviously with the expansion of Hardy F, it's been the perfect storm of, you know, the Circle K deal happens in the Southeast, kept flying back to the Southeast. And I was like, do we just live in the fucking Southeast at this point? Because let's face it, you know, our live shows and stuff, it's usually around football season where it's SEC or Big 10. It's all on the East Coast. Texas is the, you guys are the only ones holding, propping up the SEC.

Speaker 12:
[109:08] Well, they're trying anyway.

Speaker 1:
[109:10] No, that's it. It's Texas and Georgia.

Speaker 12:
[109:13] No, yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1:
[109:14] I mean, for real.

Speaker 12:
[109:15] Everybody likes Arch, man. Everybody likes Arch Manning, dude.

Speaker 1:
[109:18] I don't know what's going to happen with him. He's got to fix that hitch in his giddy-up or he's fucked.

Speaker 12:
[109:23] Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1:
[109:23] You guys have two great wide receivers. But I'm not sure what's going to happen.

Speaker 12:
[109:30] I'm sure he's going to stick around. At least I think his uncles are going to tell him to stick around if they're smart. If he's smart, he's going to stay in the-

Speaker 1:
[109:35] This is his last year? You don't have a choice. It's either going to happen this year or it ain't. Because he sat for what, two years, Bob?

Speaker 12:
[109:42] Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[109:44] Did one year count as a redshirt though?

Speaker 12:
[109:46] I don't know.

Speaker 1:
[109:46] I'm not sure. All right. Because one would imagine if he has a decent year, he'll go pretty high in the draft.

Speaker 12:
[109:53] Yeah. I feel weird about college quarterbacks though, because I feel like they're all hyped up, and then when they get to the NFL, they're just duds almost. Like Johnny Manziel is the biggest example, I know for sure. Even though he had his problems. That's a tough one.

Speaker 1:
[110:07] Yeah. He had his own personal shit going on there. But as far as spinning the ball, fuck, that staying kid, and I'm not saying this because it's ISA, but the way the ball comes out of that kid's hand is wild. His only thing might be his height. He's 6'1, whereas I think Arch is 6'5. Arch is the prototypical quarterback. He kind of reminds me of what Trevor Lawrence was like.

Speaker 12:
[110:33] T-Law, Fabio.

Speaker 1:
[110:35] Yeah, but Dan and I were on the field with him in college, and he was a fucking Adonis. And I was on the field for last year's Texas-Ohio State game in the second half. And Arch is a big fucking dude, man. I mean, so he's got the physical size.

Speaker 12:
[110:53] Yeah, he can run too.

Speaker 1:
[110:55] I know, he's got all of it. He can throw the ball, which a quarterback has to do.

Speaker 12:
[110:59] Yeah, true.

Speaker 1:
[111:00] So we'll find out.

Speaker 12:
[111:01] Yeah, buddy.

Speaker 1:
[111:02] But thank you for popping in. Who do you want to give Drinkin Bros a week to?

Speaker 12:
[111:05] Oh, man. This is going to be a tough one. I'm going to give it to a buddy of mine. His name is Tim. I won't say his last name, but he was from around here, too. And I was talking to you before the show about the organization that I work with of at 12 Fox, the brewery. Yeah. So every Monday, the veterans in the community meet up there. We just kind of hang out and talk with each other and just, you know, just like a community, you know, hang out. They're closed on Monday, so it's just open to veterans. And Tim was one of the guys that was up there, and he passed away a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, he was a really good guy, really fun to talk to. And I just found out that like maybe a week after that or so, it was because he took his own life. Ah, shit. I'm sorry to hear that. It was really, really bummed. It's really infuriating, honestly, that, you know, it happens every day for veterans and stuff like that. It's really unfortunate thing. So I just wanted to give the Drinkin Bros of the Week to Tim, you know, a really great guy. And if you're a veteran in the drip area or Austin, come out to 12 Fox on Monday, 7 to 9. We're out there every Monday. We'd love to have you out.

Speaker 1:
[112:10] Great beer, by the way.

Speaker 12:
[112:11] Yeah, dude.

Speaker 1:
[112:12] We did an event with those guys for the floods. And we went out there, donated some clothes, water supplies, all that other stuff. And then I think all the proceeds that day went towards the victims. So yeah, they do a lot of great stuff out there. And the beer is excellent.

Speaker 12:
[112:31] They're working on a bee house right now, too, for bee therapy, beekeeping, and just apparently the frequencies that the bees put off is therapeutic for veterans, too. I don't know the science behind that at all, but that's just-

Speaker 1:
[112:42] I don't either. When we see Jason Statham moving.

Speaker 12:
[112:44] It's still new to me. So I don't know. What do you do?

Speaker 14:
[112:46] I'm a beekeeper.

Speaker 12:
[112:47] I'm the knee sweeper.

Speaker 14:
[112:48] I'm a beekeeper.

Speaker 12:
[112:50] I was like, all right. But yeah, you know, Tim, my buddy, Tim, Drinkin Bros of the Week.

Speaker 1:
[112:56] I'm sorry about that. Also, by the way, that was part of the reason why we opened up the app too, was forgive me. It's got a Facebook wall in there and so you don't have to wait for an admin. So like that, I mean, there was somebody in there the other night, it was just like, hey dude, I need somebody to talk to. We've got a group on Facebook on Drinkin Bros main, and we've also got the app. So like, if you're struggling and you need to talk to somebody, there's, you know, we have 35,000 subscribers to that app and that's why Dan and I paid for it. We made it free for that reason, where it's just like, hey dude, it'll be open. Somebody will be up somewhere. So don't do it and just reach out and talk to somebody for Christ sakes. For sure. And dude, like 16 people responded within, I don't know, 15, 20 minutes. Like it's awesome to see.

Speaker 12:
[113:42] I love that stuff, man. It's good that you guys did that. And that's the whole reason that they started the Fireside Chat Support Network at 12 Fox. They could prevent that kind of thing. So yeah, if you're struggling, get help and realize that you matter, really.

Speaker 1:
[113:54] Yeah. And that's why Jarred started this group. That's why he started Drinkin Bros in the first place. You don't have to drink alcohol, drink water or just have a cup of coffee with somebody. But as long as you have someone to talk to, to get you through this, that's what this is all about. For sure. And even though I didn't serve personally, my entire, basically my entire family did. And it's a different generation than it was then. Because my grandfather, one was in World War II, one was in the Korean War, and my great-grandfather was actually in World War I. And they didn't have suicide problems like this. I feel like it was after NAMM, which my uncle was in, but I feel like it was after that, and then the GWAD era in particular, that it really spiked.

Speaker 12:
[114:42] GWAD for sure. Yeah, it got way worse. And I've noticed that too, my grandfather was in World War II and he didn't speak much on that kind of stuff about people having those issues. He wouldn't talk about the war too much, you know, but.

Speaker 1:
[114:52] he never said anything about it.

Speaker 12:
[114:53] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[114:54] Unless it was a positive story. He loved the camaraderie and the funny stories. Yeah, but he never talked about anything else. So, yeah. I don't know, man. I don't either, but there is people that you can reach out to and say the name of that brewery one more time, in case you're up there.

Speaker 12:
[115:10] 12 Fox Brewery, Dripping Springs.

Speaker 1:
[115:12] Yes, and it is excellent. Dan and I have been there and we've worked for those guys, and what they do is fantastic. You're talking about that little bar, close, they open up the doors for that one?

Speaker 12:
[115:23] Yes, sir.

Speaker 1:
[115:23] That one's my favorite one.

Speaker 12:
[115:24] Yeah, dude, it's awesome.

Speaker 1:
[115:26] It's a huge piece of land.

Speaker 12:
[115:27] It's a good size property. They also do wedding venues and stuff too, but yeah, it's a good spot. It's a good hang.

Speaker 1:
[115:33] Well, hey, thank you for coming in, man. We greatly appreciate it, and thank you for your support.

Speaker 12:
[115:37] Oh, yeah, I love this show. I've been listening since 21, man. It's been really awesome. I used to have a really long commute when I lived in West Texas. I was working out there, dude, every morning I would throw this shit on. I had an hour commute, so I would just throw it on, jam you guys out, man. It was fucking awesome. That's how I became a big fan.

Speaker 1:
[115:53] Awesome. Well, thank you so much. We greatly appreciate you being here. Join us tonight live for the first round of the NFL Draft. We will be live here in two hours and 20 minutes. Holy shit. I'm going to go grab you guys some food, and then we'll be back live on air tonight. For the audio listeners and video, we appreciate you guys tuning in at home. Go to iTunes, rate the show 5-star and leave a quick review. Then head on over to Spotify. If we're free on YouTube, we are free on Spotify. So the video will be up here very shortly. For Danthony and Anthony Hollaway, I'm Ross Patterson. This is Drinkin Bros Fake News. Good night, everyone.