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Last Call with Emma Foley: would-be Assassin-turned-folk Singers & Pesky Green Texts | 3.22.24 - The Grace Curley Show Hour 3

Emma Foley joins the show to explain the lawsuit against American smartphone giant Apple and why Biden's DOJ believes SMS-green is a stigma-inducing color. Plus, if you're wondering whatever happened to the man who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan, he's walking free and on the journey to becoming a folk singer...if only cancel culture weren't so effective!

Duration:: 37m
Broadcast on:: 22 Mar 2024
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Today's podcast is brought to you by the Eden Pure Thunderstorm Air Purifier Bogo offer. This offer expires Sunday, March 24th. To order yours today, go to EdenPuredeals.com and use code GRACEBOGO. Live from the Ibiba Tratria Studio, it's the Grace Curly Show. But get a bring in a new voice, a young voice, a rising voice, Grace Curly. You can read Grace's work in the Boston Herald and the Spectator. Especially Grace, Grace Standup. Here's the millennial with the mic, Grace Curly. Welcome back everyone to the Grace Curly Show. This is our last hour on this gorgeous Friday afternoon. We thank you all so much for joining us. A big announcement from the Royal Family Princess Kate has released a video detailing the information surrounding her cancer diagnosis. Not a ton of specifics, but she does have cancer. She is going through chemotherapy and it explains why she has been MIA for the last few months. And it's really wild how her absence has sparked conspiracy theories and kind of really unraveling on the internet. I thought it was bizarre not that the internet is going to do what the internet is going to do. People are weird, people have way too much time on their hands and they're going to come up with all these things. But then one celebrity started getting involved, like Kim Kardashian, for example, post this photo of herself and she goes, "Go and find Kate on the lookout for Kate." Everyone just started to get in on it like it was a joke. And I remember saying, Jared, I don't know if I'm just too soft, I'm too sensitive, but in the back of my mind, I kept thinking, "Well, what if it's something serious? Aren't you all aren't all these companies that were making jokes about where's Kate? Aren't they going to feel kind of bad that she's going through something and that it's not one of your giant conspiracy theories?" And if you've ever or if you even know anyone in your family who's gone through chemotherapy, you know how draining and painful it is for that person. And so to think that not only has she been dealing with this and she said on the video, you know, we're trying to process it and we're trying to explain it to our children, which is very scary, especially for young kids, but for any children when you find out your parents are dealing with something like that. But to think that she's dealing with that and then also at the same time that the entire world is coming up with all these things and laughing at them, I don't know. I'm happy we didn't really dive into it too much because it's a very serious thing. And I think a lot of people today probably feel maybe bad. You don't think so, Jared? No, there's there's no shame or regret anymore with anybody. Nobody feels bad. Like if I if I had made a big joke about it on the air today, I would feel bad. But maybe that's just me. Maybe I'm just again too sensitive. Emma Foley joins us now for last call. This is when she wraps up all the stories we may have missed this week. Let's get to it. Last call time now for your end of the week wrap up with Emma Foley. It's last call. Last call. Last call. Last call. Last call. Last call. Let's go. Last call. Everybody. All right. Emma Foley. What do you have for us today? All right, Grace, I stumbled upon this headline and it's it's a mouthful, but it's it's all true. John Hinkley Jr., who once tried to kill Ronald Reagan claims he is a victim of cancel culture after concert nixed. So John Hinkley Jr., who attempted to assassinate President Reagan in 1981, has now turned to a folk singing. I had heard that that he's a musician of sorts of sorts. So we do have a little, um, oh, we have we have a little sample. Oh, okay. All right, we'll see you next time when we get to the end of the week. Well, I don't know what is wrong with this world. I want to see some love. Everybody's fighting here and there. I want to see some love. Can't we get along all day long? Okay. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Um, you know what that sounds like? That sounds like a song that you sing to yourself when you're just making up a song while you're like running errands and it doesn't actually, you know, you're like doing the dishes and you're like, but it wants to be some. Don't forget your lunch on the way to what type of thing you're making you're making it up as you go. Exactly. Yeah. But I'm guessing he wrote that and thought about it a little bit before he put it out there. Yeah. He's got a lot of a original tour though to, you know, to a degree, some of the comments on his YouTube channel now that this is going viral. I have a feeling it's going to increase some of the comments. This guy is criminally underrated. Dude, you actually killed it this time. This could become your second biggest hit. Is he liking the comments, the fact that people are or is he trying to move past? Well, here's the issue. He keeps trying to get in person concerts and the venues keep canceling on him. He's saying this keeps happening to him. Oh. So the 68 year old was the weapons policies was scheduled to perform at Hotel Huxley in Nagatub, Connecticut on March 30th, which happens to be 43 years to the day after he attacked Reagan, but the gig was postponed indefinitely. So he believes he's a victim of cancel culture. Yeah. I feel like the cancel culture term, like people railing against cancel culture, it's it's not a one size fits all, you know, like some people get canceled. Sometimes you need to be canceled. What was his background? Did he do it too? Was he the one who tried to impress Jody Foster? Yeah, I think that's what yeah, I think that was yes, I think that was the reasoning behind. Yeah. And it was it was like right after Silence of the Lambs or something, right? No, it was it was before that after like freaky Friday or something. I don't know. Oh, okay. One of one of her earlier films. So Hinckley, he was he's never spent any time in prison. He spent about 30 years in a mental hospital. Oh, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. True. And he was released under supervision in 2016 and then was released unconditionally in 2022. So he is he walks free, he's able to make YouTube videos and now he's trying to appeal to the public in a positive way. Well, you know what's weird is the earlier I was talking about some of the funding in this bill and it says 1.2 it's a $1.2 trillion spending bill and they're giving $368,000 to this podcast. John Federman, you know, is supporting this podcast. It's called the built by us podcast is for like business owners or minority business owners and women and they're getting $368,000, imagine if the Grace Curly show got a federal grant for $368,000. We should because we're doing so much for mankind. Who could we lobby for this? I don't know. I'm not in a lobbying game. You know, we'll ask Aaron Chadbor when he feels in next week. Sounds good. He's got a lot of connects. 578,000 person to say it was worth a shot, John. You're just setting Jared up for these. All right. What else you got? All right. Next up, the US government is suing Apple, but not for any big tech reason that we might want them to sue Apple. It's because they've created a walled garden that includes the Apple Watch, the chargers that you can't use on anything else. So basically they've created a monopoly and they're going after them with antitrust suits. But this article out of the New York Post points to a certain thing that iPhones have that makes them especially unappealing to text Android users. So the green text is part of this lawsuit. Okay. Yeah. And if you text someone who doesn't have an iPhone, their text will show up green. Right. And it's purposeful. So the Apple execs all sat down on the table one day and they said, what color are we going to make the Android text and make it extremely unappealing? And so they picked this green color that has a low contrast with the white text. So the blue when you're texting another iPhone is very appealing. The green is extremely unappealing. Can we go back to the charger situation? Because I do notice this. It's like they'll phase out these old chargers to the point where you can't like you have all this stuff. I have a whole drawer of wires that I don't need anymore. And they were expensive at one point. They were expensive chargers and now they don't work on anything. And I really, I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but this whole idea of like, they're only going to allow these things to work for so long. And then all of a sudden you have to get a new phone, you have to get a new charger. I am buying that. Like I'll have something. It works totally fine. And then one day poof doesn't work anymore. And then they move the the earphone jack. They remove that completely. So you buy the AirPods and now everything is the charger. I have all these. And I like the wires. I like the headphones with wires because if I have the ear pods in, I forget. I forget about them or I lose them. And some of us don't have ear canals that work for those. Very discriminatory. That's, that's a real issue. Some of us don't have light ear canals. Maybe you would side with the US government here. They say many non-iPhone users experience social stigma, exclusion and blame for breaking text chats where other participants own iPhones. And the effect is particularly powerful for certain demographics like teenagers. Well, if somebody searched, try me into a group chat with the green text and then all of a sudden I'm getting separate texts from a group chat because of the green text. I just take that as my out, like my unsubscribe, leave conversation. You also can't send them videos. Any video from a green text is going to be very low res, very pixelated and you can't face time them. All purposeful tactics, smart, highly competitive. There's nothing else the government could be suing Apple Store that feels like small potatoes. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So yeah, several states have signed on to this. You would think that, you would think that Merrick Garland would have something better to do. Yeah. Yeah, I would and I wouldn't. All right. Emma Foley, we thank you so much for joining us today on Last Call. I want to read this text. 617 says, nobody could do a better job than Mike Johnson. That's what you said about Kevin McCarthy. Hey, 617, I'm going to guess that when I was talking about Kevin McCarthy back in the day that you were the one telling me that we needed to get rid of Kevin McCarthy so that we could bring in Mike Johnson. And guess what? Things aren't that different with Mike Johnson. Are they 617? Now we're in the same predicament that we were in Kevin McCarthy. And I don't want to spend two weeks finding Kevin McCarthy 2.0 or Mike Johnson 2.0. I want to win more elections. If we have a bigger majority, we can affect more change. But I don't think you're going to find this magical unicorn speaker who's going to be able to do all this. And I just don't want another circus 617. So text me in your great idea. But don't just comment me and say, well, you didn't like Kevin McCarthy or no, I'm sorry. You said the same thing about Kevin McCarthy that you're saying about Mike Johnson. Yeah. And I was right. Are you texting in to say that I told you so? Because I did. I said, I hope Mike Johnson works out better for everybody. I hope that he's way better. But I don't really see it. They don't have that much power when they're dealing with such a slim majority. And by the way, Mike Gallagher just announced that he's going to resign soon. And so the thin majority we have just got even thinner. And you know who's loving this today? You know who's loving it? George Santos, the only the person getting the last laugh and all of this is George Santos. It is a high George Santos. We will be right back. We'll take more of your calls. Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton or formerly Kate Middleton diagnosed with cancer. She came out with a video today. She talked about how she's going through chemotherapy. That's why she hasn't been around for her royal duties. They did tell us this that she was going in for an abdominal surgery and she wasn't going to be back till after Easter. I think that they originally didn't find anything and they thought she was in the clear and then they did find cancer. Fox right now is running with this coverage there, but it's mostly everything I've heard so far from them is speculation. So we're not going to spend too much time on it. But this is a huge story right now. The Princess of Wales diagnosed with cancer 844-500-4242. When we come back, we'll talk Bob Menendez. We'll talk more about this budget bill and we'll take your calls. Don't go to her. Follow Grace on Twitter @g_curly. This is The Grace Curly Show. Welcome back everyone to The Grace Curly Show. Thank you all so much for joining us. You know, I should mention here, I get that people were curious what was going on with Kate. I'm not going to lie and say I wasn't texting back and forth with people and trying to figure out what it was, where was she. But the thing that surprised me more about this is that you had like Stephen Colbert and other media figures making jokes about it and kind of insinuating in some cases that Prince William had an affair and now the woman that they said he was having an affair with has come out and she's kind of getting lawyers involved. And it just seems as though people really are, and it got me thinking actually last week way before this, for people who are just tuning in, the Princess of Wales has been diagnosed with cancer. She says she's on the mend. She had preventative chemotherapy. So we're very happy to hear that it looks like she's going to be okay. So last week I was thinking about this and I was like, I wonder what this is now in our society where you have all of these people who are dying to be on board with a theory or, you know, some sort of big story all at the same time. And I think it's partially not so good to deep. I think it comes from a lot of loneliness. Like I think people need something. We don't really have religion anymore. People want to feel like they're involved with something. And so this filled a void for people for a little bit of time and they'll all move on to the next thing, the next theory, but now we know that the Princess of Wales was diagnosed with cancer. Today's poll question is brought to you by JJ Manning auctioneers, whether residential, commercial, or land, JJ Manning can get your property sold now. To learn more, contact Charlie Gill at 800-521-0111 or go to jjmanning.com. Jared is on the board. Jared, what is the poll question and what are the results thus far? Today's poll question, which you can vote in at gracecurlyshow.com, is which issue is going to hurt Biden the most come election time? Bidenomics, the border crisis, handling of the Israel Hamas war, hunter family corruption or the her report. I'm going to say the border crisis. Border crisis is at 76%, 19% for Bidenomics, 2% each for Israel Hamas and hunter corruption and 1% for the her report. Yeah. This is from CNN. It says representative Mike Gallagher to leave Congress in April, giving GOP an even narrower majority. This was announced today again, not a great day for the GOP. If you're just tuning in, Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate Mike Johnson as the speaker of the House and this spending bill, this $1.2 trillion spending bill that Republicans should not be happy with. I mean, it's very rare that there's any sort of spending bill that is a win for us has passed the House, which is what incited this motion to vacate from Marjorie Taylor Greene. I've got mixed feedback on the text line. Some people think, yeah, you know, this is a good idea. Let's find a new speaker. Other people are saying, no, we don't want to do this right before an election and makes us look disorganized at best. Let's go to Lisa. Next up on The Grace Curly Show, go ahead, Lisa. Hi, Grace. I want to make two quick points, but I'm just so upset about this Marjorie Taylor Greene thing. I like her, but this is absolutely bonkers. He doesn't have control of what happens. He has, listen, we barely have the House of Representatives. We do not have the Senate. We do not have the White House. What does she expect him to do? Like magical tricks or something? It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. Well, the other thing now, Lisa, that I just want to point out, because Jared, you brought this up and a lot of people have been texting this into me, is that now we're actually risking. And this is, we talked about this possibility when it was Kevin McCarthy being ousted for Mike Johnson, but it's an even more potential. It's an even riskier possibility now that Hakeem Jeffries becomes the speaker of the House. If we don't play our cards right. Joe Manchin, Ken Buck right now in the Joe Manchin seat is going to get a vote for. He may be like, yeah, you know what, Hakeem Jeffries, sure, I'm on my way out. As a final leap, you and a final, like, I want to be like, Rhoda McDaniel, get my spot on MSNBC. Yeah, that's an actual possibility now, Lisa, which is scary. Go ahead. Finish your point. I'm sorry, honey. I wish Princess Kate all the best. I just wish that she would have done something different in the beginning and just said, this is what happened after she talked to her husband and explained it to her children and the palace. I think she should have just come out and said, this is this and this and that's it. Well, I would you can't get the British press any, any breathing room there, they're maniacal. They are maniacal. You're right about that. Lisa, I'm sure that if she, you know, can Monday morning quarterback that she probably would have come out earlier, but I also think that Princess Kate is a really old school classy person and she probably gives people the benefit of the doubt that they're not going to act like deranged lunatics when she takes a break for a couple of months and she probably wishes she could have a little bit of privacy. And also, I just, I think when you're grappling with something like this with the diagnosis, you know, we all think we're going to react in certain ways and sometimes you don't know how you're going to react. We'll be right back. Before your calls on everything that's going on, don't go into it. Live from the Aviva Thratria studio. Welcome back everyone to The Grace Curly Show. Thank you all so much for joining us. We have a lot of sound that we haven't gotten to just yet. So I think this last segment we will play a few, play a few cuts for you that you may have missed. The big news right now is that the Princess of Wales Kate has been diagnosed with cancer or they found cancer after her abdominal surgery a few months ago. She's on the mend. She's having preventative chemotherapy and it had created a bit of a whirlwind on the internet. Everyone was, everyone was freaking out trying to figure out what was happening with her and now we know. And so of course, of course, our prayers are with the Princess of Wales, 844-542, a lot of people were enjoying that back and forth between Senator John Kennedy and the skier who was at this hearing to testify about climate change. And I don't think when people go in front of the senators for these hearings, they think they're going to get real questions. I think they're probably used to getting questions from their supporters who say, like, you know, tell me about yourself, you know, you're so brave. They think everyone's going to be like a Greta Toonberg asking them questions. And then you have people like John Kennedy, who I don't agree with everything, the way he votes all the time, but he's very good in these settings. He's very good. He's got a great disposition for these kind of back and forths. But he's a little bit jared, he's kind of a sweet guy, or at least that's how he comes off at first, so you can be disarmed by him. And then you start to realize, and you can kind of see it switch when the person he's questioning realizes, oh, I see what this guy's doing, he's going to make an ass out of me. And then they get a little panicky. So let's play a little bit more of this because it's pretty amusing. Let's start again in case anyone missed it with cut 15. What is carbon dioxide? I went to high school, but that's carbon dioxide is a gas. OK. I'm not a professional to talk about carbon dioxide so much, but. Well, you want us to abolish it, right? No, there's always going to be carbon dioxide. Right. So what is it you want us to do? Let me back up, because I'm one of them. I mean, you're here as an expert. Tell me more about what carbon dioxide is. I'm here as an expert cross country skier who sees the changes in my winters and the landscape that I live in in Alaska. And so carbon dioxide is what I see it as is, you know, it's a gas that exists in our atmosphere and. Is it the major part of our atmosphere? It's a huge part of our atmosphere, yes. It's actually a very small part of our atmosphere. Oh, you know, you're really not helping yourself if Senator John Kennedy's asking you questions and you tell him I'm not an expert on this. Then it just becomes a cat and mouse game. Then he knows that he's got you. Let's have the next cut Jared cut 16. You want us to abolish fossil fuels? I never said that. You never have said that? No. What do you think we ought to do with fossil fuels? What will we do with fossil fuels? Yeah. Should we make any changes? I would like to see a decrease in the use of fossil fuels. I think there's a possibility to use more electric generation over what period of time? 10 years, 50 years, 100 years. That's not I would like to see it come as fast as possible while continuing. How fast? Sorry. How fast? I'm not, I don't have a good answer for that. No. Yeah. You should have some good answers if you're there to testify. You know, if you're there to answer questions, do you think there's any prep work that goes into this? He's not a judicial nominee and he's actually doing a better job than most of them do when it's their time to go through these question and answers, but still. Now speaking of climate change, I want to mention this. This is another big story today from the post. AOC and progressives revived $234 billion Green New Deal for housing, targeting gas stoves and CO2 emissions. The bill would invest up to $234 billion over the next decade to further the goal of expanding and transitioning the entire stock of US public housing into zero carbon homes. These sound very cool, very futuristic. This includes replacing appliances, relying on fossil fuels such as gas stoves and hot water heaters, adding solar panels and deploying electric vehicle charging infrastructure for public housing residents. Shouldn't we start with deploying electric vehicle charging infrastructure period? Because I'm pretty sure Joe Biden got billions of dollars to do that and nothing new has been built as far as that infrastructure goes. Do we tackle that first? What happened to all of that? That was a lot of money that could have gone into a podcast that John Federman could have given the thumbs up for. Think of all the podcasts that could have been funded with those billions of dollars that are just sitting there somewhere, waiting to be used, waiting to be turned into electric vehicle charging stations. Also renewable energy rooftops. So lots of cool things. The amazing thing about the Green New Deal, Jared, it's evergreen, pun intended. This was an idea that was put forth. How many years ago did we first hear of this? I don't even think I had a show at the time this was first brought forward. And remember they launched it, they launched it too quick, they put it on their website too fast and everyone got word that there were stuff about CalFarts and then that took over the conversation and she came out and said like, no, it doesn't say anything about CalFarts, but it did, but they just released it too quick and got leaked online. But this thing gets revved up every like six months. There's a new threat that the Green New Deal is going to come back. So this is the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, which has the intention of building more public housing and slashing CO2 emissions by targeting things like gas stoves. Just don't tell Kamala Harris. I mean, this is going to affect the beautiful people. They can still use gas stoves, right? And gas stoves on their private jets. And and I know this story is a few days old, but it's still important for our main listeners because it's good news at least on this front. I don't like to be the bearer of bad news all the time. This is from Fox News, Maine's top environmental regulator rejected a proposed state electric vehicle mandate in a surprising vote, bucking climate concerns voiced by eco groups and Democrats, the main board of BEP that's environmental protection turned down the so-called advanced clean cars program after receiving overwhelming opposition from stakeholders and citizens. People don't like, you know, and there's a lot of people who are on board for the green, you know, for the green revolution, but the mandate part of it is unsettling for people. If all of this stuff is so great, you know, if we're all going to be driving around in these electric cars and using these electric stovetops and everyone's going to be happier, then why the mandate? Why do you got to force all this on us with a gun to our heads? Why not just let it happen naturally? Let the market decide. So I'm glad that even in states like Maine, people are rising up to this. Another big announcement today, I hope I can find the story, Jerk, so I'll be satisfied if I misplaced it. Did you hear about Bob Menendez? Gold bar, Bob, you can't keep him down for long, that gold bar, Bob. He is, he made a big video announcement day. He made a video announcement yesterday, actually, that he would be, he's all filing for the Democratic Party. So for the primary, they're out on Bob Menendez, like that's clear, right? So Bob Menendez, way back when he made it clear that he wasn't on board with the Obama, Biden, Iran, you know, goals, and he was vocally opposed to a lot of the things they wanted to do with Iran, play footsy with Iran, basically, and he wasn't on board with it. And that kind of put a target on his back. I'm not saying that everything else he did, gold bars, you know, the stashes of cash and stuff, all that's true, the Mercedes, the convertible, all that's true, I'm sure. I'm not sure, you know, it's alleged, but I don't have any doubt that he's made mistakes, but I don't think any of this would be happening to him if he hadn't gone against Joe Biden. So now the Democrats are all out on Bob Menendez. They want him to step down and resign. What he's saying now is that he won't file for the primary, for the Democratic primary, but what he's hoping, Jared, is that he will be proven not guilty. The accusations will not hold up. And then after his exoneration that has to, by the way, take place before the summer. So clock is ticking on that, that he will then pursue his candidacy as an independent Democrat in the general election. Talk about high hopes. A lot of things have to go the right way for Bob Menendez for this to play out the way he wants it to number one, being the exoneration. I would think that's the, the toughest hill to climb right now. And then after he's exonerated, he's going to pursue his candidacy as an independent Democrat in the general, I don't know. I don't think the odds are good for Bob, for gold bar, Bob, just my take on it. Now, when we come back, we will talk to how we car. There is so much going on right now for him to discuss. And obviously this $1.2 trillion spending bill that passed the house. And now there's talk about a motion to vacate. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed it today. And I'm curious where how he stands on this. I do think it's going to be another side show for the Republican party that we cannot afford right now. Before we go to break, let's go to the callers and you're up next. Go ahead, Ed. Hi, Grace. I just think John Kennedy's persona is that of like the kindly PD attrition you'd love to take your daughter to, only his syringe is filled with cyanide. Wow, that's, that's quite the description. Yeah. Well, he definitely, he definitely knows what he's doing. I think he likes to play it, like he's just asking questions. And then he likes to make the people answering the questions seem dumb. And it's not hard. Like he doesn't have a hard job here, plus it's a really brilliant tactic just to ask simple questions, you know, because he, you can't get mad at him for asking the basics. And this has happened to Republicans before too. Like somebody I follow Bethany Mandel. She's really great. She's, she's great. But she was on a show once promoting a book and she was talking about wokeism and they asked her like, what does that mean? And she had a bit of a brain freeze. Like she couldn't think of it. And it became a very effective way to criticize her on social media, because it looked like, well, if you can't answer this simple question, but sometimes if a question is really simple, that's when you really start struggling. And that's what happened with this skier, who was being questioned by John Kennedy. 844-542-42, when we come back, we will take howie car and we'll talk to him. So don't go anywhere. This is the Grace Curly Show. All right, so we're hearing a lot about all of the earmarks, the pet projects that some of this $1.2 trillion spending bill is going to go to, including training for diversity, a podcast called built by us, social and emotional learning. And naturally, Republicans are very upset and their voters are very upset that this has passed the house. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate speaker Mike Johnson. Joining us now is howie car, howie, I would love to get your take on this and this move by Marjorie Taylor Greene. No, no, Gallagher from Wisconsin announced today that he's going to be leaving too. So what is the house majority for the Republicans now, like one or two people hanging by a thread to put it mildly? I mean, you want to give Hakim Jeffries, the guy who's, you know, a racist anti-Semite and he lied. He lies a lot on top of everything else. You want to give him the gavel, if it comes down to nobody has 270 electoral votes in the house of representatives, if, if no labels or Bobby Kennedy Jr. somehow grabbed some electoral votes and you have him counting the votes. I don't think so. Well, howie. Now all the people who during the first circus where they were kicking out Kevin McCarthy for Mike Johnson, all the people who were mad at me and saying, like, you think this is a circus? This is the best thing to do. Now all those people are saying to me, Mike Johnson's got to go and I'm sitting here going, I thought you won. I thought Mike Johnson was going to be the answer to everything. Who is going to be this unicorn speaker who's going to be able to accomplish all this stuff with such a slim majority or worst cases you pointed out, we get Hakim Jeffries. Well, I think the worst case is the most likely scenario at this point. If they get rid of him, it's just, this is great. Ken Buck's already announced and I'm going to get into this at the beginning of the show anyway. I don't want to talk about it for long, but, you know, Ken Buck already said that he wasn't going to be the last one to go. So now another, another shoe has dropped with Gallagher. So again, and they got rid of Santos for no good reason in my opinion. By the way, Jerry, didn't you have an update for me on Santos during the break? George Santos has left the Republican party. He will be running an NY one as an independent. An involvement. Oh, yeah. I was going to say, yeah, I mean, are they going to hold events together on the George Washington bridge? That, you know, that is a no labels ticket I can get behind. Yeah. Santa's Menendez 2024. Hey, Howie. One other story I wanted to ask you about. I know you'll you'll talk about this during your show. I want to play a cochier. R.F.K. Jr. was on a podcast with the nine. Oh, I love this. I love this. Let's play cutting for Howie. The reason that we have pressure Democrats about the way that they set up Biden and about Republicans about the way that they set up Trump is because of that very fact, because of the fact that most Americans do not want these two options. I guess I'm asking you a separate question in New York Times Democratic is essentially an instrument of the Democratic. I understand you're making institutional argument. I'm also I'm asking about the work that we do. I'm posting a question to you. You've been making institutional arguments against me since this started, you know, you are your instrument of the DNC. And of course, you're going to try to, you know, get people your job as, you know, doing what you're doing is to try to spend it in some way that it's going to help up Biden and hurt Trump and get rid of any threat to you to, you know, to that. So Howie, we have a Kennedy calling a reporter from the New York Times an instrument of the DNC. Did you ever think you'd see the day? Well, actually that just reminded me of something. I guess the night he was assassinated, Bobby Kennedy was looking at a copy of the New York Times in his hotel room in L.A. and he saw some story about the Catholic Church in the New York Times and he turned to one of his aides and he said, said, you know what's a great story for the, that the New York Times loves more than any other story? More nuns leaving Catholic Church and you know what? So he is his father's son and his father was right and Bobby Kennedy's junior is right all these years later. Yeah. And he really is. I think the more they go at him, he's having a little bit of a Trump effect to a smaller degree where the more the media goes after him, the more people are curious. It's like the barber strides in effect. You're going, why do they hate this guy so much? You know, what is he saying that's so crazy and then people are going to find out more about him? Yeah. I think it's just that they think he's going to take away votes from their hero, Joe Biden, you know, where Joe has completed his, uh, his, uh, destined, his mission of destiny to destroy the United States of America. And he's, and he's making strides every single day. Howie Carr is coming up next. He's got a great show planned for you guys. As I mentioned, I'll be off next week, but we've got Aaron Chadburn filling in. I talked to him yesterday. We were kind of going through some of the things that he's hoping to do. He's got some really good connects. So he's going to have some great big name guests, especially for the people listening in Maine, WGAN, you guys are going to be in for a treat. Thank you all for tuning in. I'll be off for a week, but you'll be in good hands. Enjoy Howie show. He's coming up next. He's got a lot to get to, so don't go anywhere. [MUSIC]