DB 9-4-23

All right, I'm going to try this in audacity today. So this is the beans for Monday, September 4th, and let me get to my pre-roll. In two, one, big shout out today to Helix Sleep. Take their two-minute sleep quiz and they'll match you to a mattress that will give you the best sleep of your life. In honor of Labor Day, Helix is offering 25% off all mattress orders and two free pillows for listeners. Go to HelixSleep.com slash Daily Beans and use code HelixPartner25. Intro in two, one, hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Monday, September 4th, 2023. Today Clarence Thomas has finally updated his financial disclosure forms. A Trump campaign aide told Capitol Police officers to go hang themselves during the January 6th attack on the Capitol. After crying in front of Judge Kelly at sentencing, a proud boy yelled, Trump won, as he left the courthouse. Governor Brian Kemp has assembled a commission to determine whether a fake Trump elector should be suspended from the state senate. A judge has rejected Ron DeSantis' congressional map for diluting the black vote. Trump's true social could become insolvent this week, and Missouri residents, you have access to free plan B. I'm your host, Allison Gill. All right, three, two, hey everybody. Dana's out today. I know, I know, I promised patrons over the weekend bonus episode that she'd be back today, but some last minute travel came up. She'll be traveling tomorrow. She'll be back Tuesday, but later in the show I will be talking with the co-founder of Run for Something. You can check them out at runforsomething.net. Her name is Amanda Litman, and we're going to have a great discussion about the work that they're doing. And a patron, Jen, wanted me to alert residents of Missouri that you have access to free plan B, and we will have a link in the show notes for you, so I just wanted to put that information out there. All right. We have a lot of news to get to today, so let's hit the hot notes. Three, two, all right. First up from Ryan Riley in Barnes at NBC, Dominic Pozzola, a Proud Boy who smashed a Capitol window with a stolen police riot shield, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Friday. Pozzola was the only one of the five defendants of the Proud Boys who was not convicted of seditious conspiracy. Prosecutors sought 20 years for him. They got 10. Judge Kelly has been coming in at about half the recommended sentencing. Now Ethan Nordean, the former president of the Seattle Proud Boys chapter, and one of Pozzola's co-defendants, was sentenced to 18 years in prison later Friday, tying the record for the longest sentence to date with Oath Keepers founder Stuart Rhodes, who, like Nordean and other Proud Boys, was found guilty of seditious conspiracy. Prosecutors sought 27 years in prison for Nordean, who was also convicted on five other felony charges earlier this year. Speaking to the court before being sentenced, Nordean apologized for not being more responsible as a leader of the men he commanded on January 6th and said, there's no excuse for what I did. Quote, no matter how we all try to individually slice January 6th, we must conclude it was a complete and utter tragedy. That's what Nordean said. And he went on to say, it's my humble opinion that there is no rally or political protest that should ever hold value over human life. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who's a Trump appointee, handed down Pozzola and Nordean's sentences. On Thursday, he gave two other Proud Boys prison terms of about half of what prosecutors sought. Joe Biggs, former InfoWars correspondent, got 17 years. Excuse me, former InfoWars correspondent. Let me take that again. Joe Biggs, a former InfoWars correspondent, was sentenced to 17 years on Thursday. And Zach Rail, a Philadelphia Proud Boy, was found to have peppered sprayed officers. He got 15 years. Pozzola took the stand in his own defense at a trial in April, calling the charges against him fake and bringing up conspiracy theories about Ray Epps. We all know January 6th participant and, you know, is not a federal agent. Extensive video evidence documented Pozzola's actions at the Capitol on January 6th, including a video he filmed inside after leading the breach. He was found guilty of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers, as well as stealing the police shield and other charges this past May, quote, knew we could take this motherfucker over if we just tried hard enough. That was what he said in his own January 6th video. His father said he acted as a soldier in a civil war he had envisioned. It boggles my mind, Kelly said, of Pozzola's actions during the riot, including smashing the window out and filming a video of himself taking a victory smoke in the Capitol crypt. During Friday's hearing, Pozzola's longtime partner, Lisa McGee, reiterated what she said on the stand at trial, that Pozzola was a fucking idiot. She said her daughters have had to suffer and have been bullied at home due to their father's actions. McGee, who testified that Pozzola was getting drunk and watching Fox News before January 6th, said she'd already canceled cable news at their home, quote, I truly believe if he could go back and change that day that he would. Now, McGee and Pozzola's mother both spoke before the court through tears, and Pozzola could be seen holding his head in his hands, wiping away tears. He was bawling while they spoke. His 19-year-old daughter remained stoic during her statement, telling Kelly about the positive impact her father has had on her life. I am everything good that my father has done that you have not seen, she said. Prior to his sentencing, Pozzola told the judge, I stand before you today as a changed and humble man. I have never denied what I did on January 6th. This was the worst, most regrettable decision in my life. I am truly sorry, he said, promising he would never again do anything that would land him in a courtroom. But while being let out of the courtroom after Kelly had departed, Pozzola turned toward the audience, raised one fist, and shouted, Trump won. Another January 6th participant, Danny Rodriguez, also yelled, Trump won, after he was sentenced to 12 1⁄2 years in June for driving a stun gun into former Washington, D.C. police officer Michael Fanone's neck. And in other great, wonderful people at January 6th, from John Allen and Ryan Riley at NBC, the number two official in the New Hampshire, in New Hampshire on Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Let me try that again. I'm going to try to move this so I don't have to keep toggling back and forth between audacity. It's not going to let me, is it? No, it isn't. Try this. I just want to see that clock. There it is. All right. I'll start this over again, three, two. And from Jonathan Allen and Ryan Riley at NBC, another story of a wonderful person that was at the January 6th riot. The number two official in New Hampshire on Donald Trump's presidential campaign told police to kill themselves in an expletive-ridden January 6th video shot close to the Capitol. That's according to a recording posted this month by an ex-account, that's a Twitter account, associated with sedition hunters. That's a group of online sleuths who've helped authorities identify hundreds of people present that day. Quote, if you're a police officer and you're going to abide by unconstitutional bullshit, I want you to do me a favor right now and go hang yourself because you're a piece of shit. That's Dylan Quattrucci, the deputy state director of Trump's campaign in New Hampshire. That's what he says on the video, go fuck yourself. Four officers who responded to the riot on January 6th later died by suicide. The Justice Department determined this month that one of the officers, Jeffrey Smith, died in the line of duty as part of the process, and that awards the survivor benefits to his widow. Two people familiar with what Quattrucci confirmed to NBC News that the man in the video is him. The video shows him wearing the same outfit he was wearing in tweets that he posted that day that were first surfaced by WMUR-TV of Manchester. While the Capitol is in the background behind him, there is no evidence that he entered the building. U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, who testified in October at the Oath Keeper's Seditious Conspiracy Trial, praised his former colleagues on Thursday and called Quattrucci a failure. Quote, I hope Dylan Quattrucci will take the time to comprehend that four members of Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police Department did die via suicide and that the efforts to stop the certification of duly elected President Biden failed in part because of their brave heroics. You are a failure. Those men will be remembered for service to their country, and you will be remembered as the guy in the cheap suit during a failed insurrection. And from Patonsey at the Bradenton Herald, I love these local news outlets, a state judge struck down North Florida's congressional district Saturday, rebuffing Governor Ron DeSantis' open defiance of anti-gerrymandering protections, finding the governor's map illegally reduced black voters' electoral power. DeSantis had wagered that the state's Fair Districts Amendment against the U.S. Constitution, arguing mandatory protections for black voters, violated the Equal Protections Clause. Second Judicial Circuit Judge Lee Marsh, J. Lee Marsh, flatly rejected that gamble, rendering a decision that could reverberate from the halls of Tallahassee to the streets of Jacksonville, paving the way for a new Democratic district where Jacksonville's black voters have more influence. Marsh refused to bite on DeSantis' claim that the state's Fair Districts Amendment violated the Constitution, saying DeSantis' secretary of state and the legislature didn't even have standing to make such an argument. Marsh's ruling was limited to North Florida, after plaintiffs abandoned claims that other districts also violated the state constitution. The ruling could restore a district similar to the one the Florida Supreme Court ordered last decade that stretched from Jacksonville to Tallahassee and Gadsden County. That district previously elected U.S. Rep. Al Lawson, a Democrat. A joint agreement between the states and plaintiffs should ensure a quicker-than-normal appeals process and potentially allow a new map before 2024. The state must file notice of appeal by Monday. Both parties intend to request that Florida Supreme Court hear the case directly, skipping the usual step of going through the lower appellate court. It will also propose a schedule to allow the state's highest court to decide by December 31. Now, typically, an appeal pauses trial court rulings, but thanks to a joint agreement made last month, the state has committed to requesting the court lift that automatic hold. That would allow the court to proceed with a remedial process for a new map while the state appeals the court's decision. The legislature will get a first chance at drawing a new map, which the plaintiffs could challenge. If the legislature doesn't draw a new map, both sides agreed to accept a district that spans from Duval to Gadsden, similar to the legislature's initial proposal. Last year, DeSantis rejected the legislature's proposed congressional plans and drew his own. Right? So we revert back to that one if they don't make a new one, the one that he turned down. His version removed a district that would have given black voters in Jacksonville a better chance to elect their preferred candidates, replacing it with whiter, more Republican districts. DeSantis conceded his map did not meet the state's non-diminishment standard, which mandates that new districts must not undermine the voting power of racial minorities. He admitted to that. Last year, DeSantis rejected the legislature's proposed congressional plans and drew his own. Oh, that is a repeat. 1228. Three, two. Now, if the Florida Supreme Court sides with DeSantis, it could have national implications. That means the court, a majority of whom DeSantis has appointed, would go further than the U.S. Supreme Court has in advancing a legal argument pushed by many conservatives that it's inherently wrong to take race into account, even if it's done to preserve the political voice of black voters. The old reverse racism argument, DeSantis' veto of the initial map and the GOP-controlled legislature's decision to adopt his new one sparked a historic protest in Florida, in the House, where Reps Angie Nixon, a Democrat of Jacksonville, and Traveris McCurdy, a Democrat in Orlando, led a sit-in to disrupt the proceedings. After that protest, DeSantis vetoed all of Nixon's appropriations in the current budget and legislative leadership put her in an office in the basement in the Florida capital. And from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Governor Brian Kemp appointed a three-member panel to assess whether a Georgia legislator who served as a fake elector should be suspended after he was charged as part of what prosecutors call a vast criminal enterprise to overturn Trump's 2020 defeat. The governor on Friday tapped Attorney General Chris Carr, House Majority Leader Chuck F. Strachan, and Senate Majority Leader Steve Gooch to review State Senator Sean Still's case. Still and the three panelists are Republicans. They all are. So is Kemp. We know that. Still is one of the 19 defendants, including Trump, in the indictment brought by Fulton County D.A. Fonny Willis that alleges former President Trump led an illegal scheme to reverse Biden's victory. Still is one of the 19 defendants, including Trump, that the indictment brought by Fulton County D.A. Fonny Willis that alleges Trump led an illegal scheme to reverse Biden's victory. Still was one of the 16 Republican electors who convened to cast their ballots for Trump in December of 2020, even as the state's official Democratic electors met to cast their ballots for Biden. He later won a Senate seat in 2022. Now, the indictment charges that Still and two other fake electors, former state GOP chair David Schaefer and Kathy Latham, charge them of impersonating public officers, forgery, false statements and attempting to file false documents in connection with fake electors. Each has said they did nothing wrong. All three have asked for their cases to be removed to federal court, arguing that because they were contingent electors, they are somehow federal officers. Under Georgia law, Still could be suspended from the Senate while the case is pending. The commission is required to provide a speedy hearing under state law and produce a written report within 14 days. If the commission determines the indictment relates to or adversely affects the administration of Still's office and the public is adversely affected, Kemp is mandated by state law to suspend the public official immediately. Still's indictment has added to a fraught environment in the state Senate, where normally congenial GOP colleagues have been engaged in a bitter back and forth over efforts to punish Fonny Willis for bringing the charges. So, who thinks these three Republicans will suspend this one Republican? They might. I mean, the majority, it's not like they have a slim, slender majority there. So, we'll see what happens. And from Harwell at the Washington Post, when former President Donald Trump's media startup announced in October 21 that it planned to merge with Miami-based company called Digital World Acquisition, which I will refer to DWAC from now on, the deal was an instant stock market hit, with the $300 million DWAC already raised from investors. It had already raised $300 million. Trump Media and Technology Group, creator of the pro-Trump Social Truth Network... Whoa! Whatever. I should just read it as is, right? Three, two. With the $300 million Digital World already raised... 16, 52, 17, 08, three, two. With the $300 million that Digitally World... Fuck. 17, 15. Three, two. With the $300 million Digital World had already raised from investors, Trump Media and Technology Group, creator of Truth Social, pledged then that the merger would create a tech titan worth $875 million at the start, and depending on the stock's performance, could be worth up to $1.7 billion later on. All they needed for the merger to close was that thing, was a process that Digital World in a July 2021 preliminary prospectus estimated would happen within 12 to 18 months. They just needed the merger to close. Quote, everyone asks me why doesn't someone stand up to big tech? Well, we will be soon. That's what Trump said in a media statement that month. Now, almost two years later, the deal faces what could be a catastrophic threat. With the merger stalled for months, Digital World is fast approaching a September 8th deadline for the merger to close and has scheduled a shareholder meeting for Tuesday in hopes of getting enough votes to extend the deadline another year. Now, if the vote fails, Digital World will be required by law to liquidate and return $300 million to its shareholders, leaving Trump's company with nothing, nothing from the transaction. For Digital World, it would signal the ultimate financial fall from grace for a special purpose acquisition company or SPAC that turned its proximity to the former president into what it once was of the stock market's hottest trade. Sorry, this is just poorly written, three, two. Now, for Digital World, that would signal the ultimate financial fall from grace for a special purpose acquisition company or SPAC that turned its proximity to the former president into what was one of the stock market's hottest trades. Its share price peaked in the first hours at $175 per share. It's down to about $14 now. Digital World's efforts to merge with Trump Media have been troubled from the start beset by allegations that began its conversations with the former president's company before they were permitted to under SPAC rules. Then, in the past year, its issues became more pronounced. Its chief executive was terminated by the board. A former board member was arrested on charges of insider trading, and the company agreed to pay an $18 million settlement to resolve charges that it had misled investors and given false information to the SEC. Trump Media has blamed the SEC for the deal's troubles, saying in a statement last year that the agency had worked to sabotage the merger for political reasons with a bureaucratic black hole of inaction, but the SEC, which requires SPACs to meet disclosure requirements and other closing conditions before permitting a merger, said in July that it had investigated Digital World and found it had made material misrepresentations to investors. It lied to investors. And now we hear that potentially $8 million of money that infused to hold this thing up probably came from foreign bad actors? In filings dating back to its September 2021 IPO, Digital World executives said they had not participated in merger discussions with any companies, and that turned out to be a lie. In agreeing to pay the $18 million settlement over its lies, if the merger closes, Digital World said it would revise its registration statement, known as a Form S-4, to correct the inaccuracies. The company has yet to resubmit that revised document. In a separate filing, Digital World said it was also not ready to file two required quarterly financial reports covering the first half of this year, saying it couldn't complete them in time without unreasonable effort or expense. It has sparred with its former auditors in SEC filings and letters over who's to blame for the missing information. Now Digital World also is late in filing two required quarterly financial reports with NASDAQ Stock Exchange, adding that NASDAQ has given the company until November to file the reports or they'll be delisted. Now True Social has attracted a relatively meager following, though Trump media projected in 2021 investor presentations that it would have 41 million total users by the end of the year. Usage estimates from SimilarWeb, that's a data firm that analyzes web traffic, suggests it's a long way from reaching 41 million users. According to SimilarWeb's estimates, about 500,000 monthly active users in the United States visit True Social via Apple and Android in July, down from 600,000 in June. That's nowhere near 41 million. SimilarWeb's estimates of how many people in the U.S. visited True Social in July from either desktop computer or their phone's web browser totaled just over a million, down nearly 20% since June. Now there is some overlap given that users can access the site on both their desktop and their phone. Three times as many unique visitors in July visited the websites of the old Farmer's Almanac and the Denver Gazette. Three times as many people went to the old Farmer's Almanac than True Social. And from Jordan Rubin at MSNBC, in what should have been an unremarkable act by a government worker, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas filed his required annual financial disclosure form. Of course, what makes the filing noteworthy is that it comes after investigative reporting by ProPublica revealing years of lavish undisclosed largesse to Thomas from GOP billionaire Harlan Crowe. Even still, Thomas' lawyer put out a pouty statement in connection with the disclosure that paints the life-tenured justice as the victim of political blood sport for people having the gall to question his questionable behavior. Fellow Republican appointee Sam Alito, who has come under scrutiny himself for undisclosed private jet travel from a conservative billionaire, has also filed his disclosure after receiving a 90-day extension. The financial disclosure process should never be weaponized against any justice simply because any organization or anyone disagrees with the way a justice thinks, writes, or votes. Wow! That's part of the lengthy statement on Thomas' behalf. That's true enough as far as axioms go, but it doesn't do anything to address the justice's case. One could just as easily point out the opposite, that no one should ever defend a justice's unethical behavior simply because they agree with the way the justice thinks, writes, or votes. But that, too, wouldn't answer the question of whether Thomas has violated the law by failing to disclose past benefits from Crowe, that's the megadonor. That's an open question that still needs official resolution and, if necessary, legal consequences. In the meantime, it's worth emphasizing that Thomas' 2022 report not only lists Crowe's funded private travel, meals, and lodging, but the justice also attempts to address prior nondisclosures, including the real estate deal in which Crowe bought Thomas' mom's house. Thomas' form says he continues to work with Supreme Court officials and the Judicial Conference Financial Disclosure Committee for guidance on whether he should further amend his reports from prior years. His form further cites personal bank accounts and his spouse's life insurance that were inadvertently omitted from prior reports for the covered period of 2017 through 2021, his spouse, of course, being Jenny Thomas. The justice said bank information was inadvertently omitted in prior years due to a misinterpretation of the rules. A Supreme Court justice misinterpreted financial disclosure rules, but is totally fine interpreting the Constitution. At the risk of engaging in political bloodsport, I might point out that that sort of tough-on-crime judging practiced by Thomas isn't overly indulgent or rule-breaking. In the end, for all the hand-wringing from Thomas' backers over scrutiny of his prior nondisclosures, the justice apparently concedes there's some merit to the idea of reviewing his prior behavior and perhaps making amends, even if doing so half-heartedly and unconvincingly while continuing to play the victim. All right, well, that is what's going on there, and I wonder how much stuff we don't know about. We'll keep my eye on ProPublica for that information. All right, we're going to be right back with co-founder of Run for Something, Amanda Littman, so stick around. We'll be right back. Mid-roll. Three, two. Hey, everybody, it's AG. I never knew what good sleep and true comfort was until I started using my Helix mattress. It feels like it was crafted to my exact specifications, because it was. 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Actually, we both like both. A shout-out to a loved one, shout-out to an adoptable pet in your area if you can't pay a pod pet tax, or a shout-out to yourself. I want to hear what you're doing that you're proud of. We'll be stories, what the mutt, what the hequine, find the cat, whatever you want to send to us. You can do it by going to DailyBeansPod.com and clicking on Contact. All right, from Jen, pronouns she and her, two years ago, I decided to get my MBA while working full-time and taking care of my family. A year ago, I took the step to end my marriage and reclaim my happiness. Today, I'm a divorced MBA graduate with a 3.94 GPA and in a promoted role at work in a great relationship, but most importantly, I am happy. For any Beans listeners who doubt your strength to make uneasy changes, it's like Nelson Mandela said, it always seems impossible until it is done. Jen, high fucking five on that. All of those things, the MBA, the divorce, in a great relationship now, I love this so much, in a good role at work, it's like, it's very familiar to me, so congratulations. And you're right, it always seems impossible until it's done. Now, Devin, pronouns they and he, hello Beans Queens, it's your friendly non-binary rat lover swinging in with a correction this time. Last week, stated the Nashville shooter was a trans woman, unfortunately, this is a misconception that was widely spread through news sources due to the reporting officer not understanding the terminology with a side dish of transmasculine invisibility in the media. The shooter was a trans man. He was shown to use a masculine name in his social media profiles. As a transmasculine person, it gets really frustrating that the media pretends that trans women are the only type of trans people that exist. I know you didn't intend to make this error and I appreciate all the hard work you do to uplift and support the transgender community. Yes, Devin, we were just reading from this story. Thank you for this correction. Lightening up the end of my submission with some pet tacks, another one of my beloved rats, this little heart thief is Lothric, pop tart box for scale, seen also, squishing him in that box, is Patches, the best of friends. Oh, big babies, oh, so cute, dude, now I want a pop tart, oh, look how adorable, look like my rat, Maleficent. Thank you for sending that in, Devin, I really appreciate that correction. And I'm going to actually go find the article I used to source that and let them know as well. All right, next up from Anonymous, pronouncing him, greetings, Bean's leaders, and welcome to the 91 felonies, Age of Schadenfreude. Last year, I sent a pic of our shaggy white doodle, which the awesome iNaturalist app incorrectly identified as a lion's mane mushroom, according to my wife, who took the photo, our dog found Jesus tonight, oh, so great, there's like a, if you can't see this photo, it's an adorable dog, but there's like a light, a sunbeam coming in through the window right into the dog's face, oh, yeah, you just can hear the choir singing, so wonderful, thank you for that, Anonymous. Next up from Jake, pronouncing him, I'm a kitchen table listener, first time writing because you put the call out for good news, thank you, Jake, this is for the comic book nerds out there, I'm a huge comics fan, and I made comics and animation for a while before I became an art teacher in New York City, well, during the pandemic, I called up an old inker pal who also teaches art, and we decided to revive a sci-fi project we were going to collaborate on 20 years ago, I love this, but this time, we had the idea of doing it on a podcast where I pencil and he inks in split screen, how cool, we launched the first episode May 2022, and have met weekly for an hour to draw and ink as we chat about the details of the story and the art and the larger world of comics, the podcast now has over 70 episodes online, and we also started a second series called comics that influence, where we gush over the cool comics and artists that inspire us, so the good news is, we recently completed our first six page sampler, and now have something printed and available to promote the project, which will eventually become a comic and then a full graphic novel when it's all done, we have also realized that we seem to be the first and only ones making a comic live on a podcast, and would love to see others do the same, the comic is called Turbo Pit Fighter, and it's about a strong female in a dystopian 23rd century after a multi-trillionaire family conquered the government and obliterated all the big cities, that sounds eerily possible, haunted by specters from her past, quote, a rare mutation takes Turbo immune to the radioactive contamination, growing into a fiercely pumped scrapper who survives the post-apocalyptic wasteland one death match pit fight at a time, but when a rigged match turns into a deadly siege, Turbo rescues the stunning trophy girl, and the unlikely duo make a harrowing escape, evading marauding berserkers at every turn on their way to the ultimate showdown, as they uncover the horrific truth behind the fall of humanity, awesome, this is the cover art, would be happy to send you the mini comic if you like, this is amazing art, now I also want to know where to find your podcast Jake, do we just look for, do we just look for Turbo Pit Fighter, or does the podcast have a name, send that to us, because I want to watch that, this art is incredible, love this, alright next up from Lillian G., pronouns she and her, years ago my brother brought my beautiful sister-in-law into our family, and she and I became friends, listening to music one day a yes song came on, and she sang to the lyrics, in and around the lake mallards come out of the sky, and they stand there, I'm a duck lover, and the visual of these lyrics conjures just so charming, and now I can't remember what the actual lyrics were, I was waiting for you to tell me Lillian, because I don't know either, does anybody know what this could be, in and around the lake mallards come out of the sky, and they stand there, anybody send it in to us, dailybeanspod.com, click on contact, what is that, what is the actual song, next up from Penny, pronouns she and her, and Mark, Dear Beans Queens from sunny Canberra, Australia, I hope I'm saying that right, thank you so much for all the beans team for all you do, keeping us newsed and enthused, I love it, newsed and enthused, I'm writing that down, perfect, this is some shit Australians say, two bits of idiom from Australia for you, one, no wuckers, you may know Australians say no worries, which roughly means that's okay, or all fine, or you're welcome, I say no worries all the time, that's like my go to, no worries, or don't think twice, naturally it gets embellished and turned into no fucking worries, and then spoonerized into no wucking fories, and then shortened to no wuckers, naturally, no wuckers, also, cunding futs, I have an idea, boy this one's simple and fabulous, it's just funding cuts, spoonerized, but I love the way it sounds, sweary, and actually isn't, for a pod pet tax, I offer this picture of our beloved bunny Nate, he's a healthy eight and a half year old, that's like a mid 90's person in years, about nine pounds, but small for his breed, who used to be black and is now a distinguished charcoal color, he's a Flemish giant, oh I love Flemish giants, he loves pets, carrot peelings, and the enrichment toys my lovely husband Mark makes for him, from used boxes, and his treat pellets, we should have called him Argon, for he is both noble and inert, good, good, anywho, thanks for keeping us alert and up to date, and may these idioms sustain you, I love this, we haven't gotten new idioms in a while, no wuckers, and cunding fuzz, look at this Flemish giant, he's beautiful, hi big ears, hi baby, so I guess they lighten up over time huh, so cute, and so last week we were given a bit of a puzzle by a listener named Jane, she named the hummingbirds that came to her feeder, the acronyms B.O.Q. and T.E.W.Y., and Dana and I did not get it, but shout out to Kim B., Alice S., and a couple of anonymous submissions for getting it correct, stick around for the sign off, for the answer, because it dawned on us after this was pointed out to us, and it's just so obvious that B.O.Q. is blue over Q, and T.E.W.Y. is take everyone with you, so let's get to that, I'll be back tomorrow to bring you more news, God knows what's going to happen, fuck it, tomorrow on the news, my Jesus, it's just coming a mile a minute now, but at least it's good news, it's not a fire hose of shit anymore, it's not scandal after scandal after horrible thing after horrible thing, it's justice, so I'll be here tomorrow to report it to you, Dana will be back on Tuesday, until then, please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health, vote blue over Q, and take everyone with you, I've been AG, and them's the beans.