Some More News - Even More News: MAGA Enraged, Seriously, Over Democrats' Stephen Miller Insult

Episode Date: May 29, 2026

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Hi, on today's episode we talk about the will they, won't they, Iran deal, the Democrats tweet about Stephen Miller that's making the freaks clutch their pearls and America's Freedom 250 celebration. Hi, hello, how's it going? Welcome back to even more news. The first, the only news podcast, zippity-doo-down. I'm Katie Stoll. Our hearts America. Hey, I'm Cody. Hey, what's up? Did you say Katie stole our hearts America? I did say that. Nice.

First, I was like, offended, and then I was not. Jonathan's also here. Hi. Oh, boy. I think I've started saying, oh, boy, too much after hi, for some reason. And I don't want that to become part of it. Oh, heck. Line in the sand right now.

I'll say hi, and then stop talking. I'll say, oh, boy. We already printed. Not the shirts, Jonathan. I know. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Good grief, as I always say.

Are there any holidays today? World Passion Fruit Martini Day, so. Is Passion Fruit in season? You don't know. Couldn't tell you. Is Passion Fruit in season? Why did we ever stop doing this? Passion Fruit is available year round.

February to June. All right. Get yourself a Passion Fruit Martini. I don't think that was helpful. Shall we talk about the news? The news right now, which will be old news when anyone watches or sees this, but what we know right now is that we're finally, it's really happening close to a deal, they say, with Iran,

what we know is that, or what we know from what the people who are manipulating everything are saying, is that there would be a tentative agreement, to extend the ceasefire by 60 days. And what a ceasefire it's been, huh? All that ceasing of firing. And then in the future, we would negotiate over the nuclear program, even though Trump has repeatedly said that any deal we come to would require the destruction of the uranium right now.

Whatever, this appears to be what Iran wanted, a deal, and then kick the can down the road on everything. Or as Scott Jennings says, We get everything we want. But again, going through the details of this right now is kind of pointless because we don't know what's happening. We're waiting for the big guy to weigh in. On and on we go.

Yeah, even the framing of it is, I mean, Scott Jennings is such a fraud and a liar. But like, even the framing of this possibility is that there would be a 60 day, some sort of ceasefire for 60 days, and all the nuclear stuff. that was the point of this war that we started is going to happen down the line, which means that we don't get everything we want because we started the war for the nuclear stuff, right? Yeah.

I think the one victory would be that under this ceasefire, the straight would reopen. Which it was before. Right, obviously. But both sides would need a way to clen. that they're actually controlling it or the U.S. would need to say no one's controlling the straight. It's open and Iran would need to say actually we are controlling it, which they like de facto are because they are the ones who could shut it down. Then the traffic would get moving

through there. And I've tried to figure out what's happening to the people who are on the ships trying to get out of the strait. They're just sitting there. Do they run out of food? What's going on? I've been thinking about that a lot too. Just what's the vibe there? Someday there's going to be some sort of movie made about this point of time set on an oil tanker and the crew is just like every day what is this i mean what a fucking terrible situation for everybody the other thing i wanted to bring up about iran was that they regained at least limited internet access and uh we're starting to see more snippets of what the reality of life is like there for them and it's horrendous, you know, economically, I mean, the destruction that's happened, their inability,

the cost of just basic goods through the roof. Also seeing videos shared for the first time that I hadn't seen POV videos of just the destruction and the bombings happening in the first month or two of this. And it's just so just horrific. We spend so much time talking. We spend so much time talking about the fucking straight and forget about what has happened to the population there. We really are all very similar because so much of what the chatter has been on social media now that the restrictions have started to lift is how expensive food is over there. The Guardian says 300% increase in vegetable oil, 190% increase in chicken, 170% increase in chicken, 170% for rice. So, you know, we think our food prices are bad. They've been going through a lot over there.

And everyone's upset with their government because the food's too damn expensive. That seems to be a very consistent through line. And it won't be getting less expensive for a very long time, you know, is another thing to keep in mind. And just, we talked about this as this conflict started, that yes, we will feel this, but not in the same way or as extensively as other places. And again, it's just so easy to forget as time drags on the human cost and the real effects on people's lives, even outside of what we're experiencing here. So, yeah. I'm sure over there they're calling it a Democrat hoax as well.

Probably. Just waiting for their savior, Papa Trump, to come rescue them. Yeah, it's just the kind of thing that's like, well, they said that and then it's never the thing that they say. And so we just have to every single day just be like, update, no deal. But even though they say, probably not, but maybe, but probably not. The ceasefire, such as it is, which has not ceased firing. It's not one. It's not one.

But especially in Lebanon, you know, Israel continues its expansionist goals, you know, has ordered the inhabitants of Navita. I hope I pronounced that properly. To leave, this is about 100,000 people. Just people all over Lebanon, just being displaced, more deaths every day. Israel's go-to, if they're like, we're losing control over the ability to keep Trump engaged in this war, well, let's just batter Lebanon as much as we can before we're maybe forced to stop. But even then, Nanyahu's said, like, we're not going to stop.

Yeah, they'll do their deal, but we're not a part of that is basically what he said. I directed his military to take over 70% of Gaza earlier today. It's just going to continue and we'll have our little deal that's not a deal over here and the destruction will continue. Again, underscoring, not a ceasefire at all. So we'll see. It just does not, again, this does not suggest to me that we're close to a deal. but hey, maybe we are finally. Maybe Scott Jennings is right.

Maybe Scott Jennings is right. He's got his sources placed all of his friends. Yeah, all of his sources' fingers are in his fucking face. We should talk about the real news. Yeah, the real news. The huge scandal of the Democrats lately who have, I mean, you know, the party of civility here. So Stephen Miller wanted to go at James Tala Rico,

the Texas Senate candidate for the Democrats who, you know, maybe has a chance now that Ken Paxton's the other guy and quote tweeted

a Democrat post, you know, fired up, ready to go, it's time to take back Texas. He wrote the very cordial and not

at all vitriolic the Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender Senate candidate. I guess their attack line is that, he's a little fancy boy or something.

That is all it is. It's all they have. He's a fancy vegan boy. Is it because he's like boyish looking and has like a neatness to? Well, and he spoke out about gender and he's talked about trans kids. He's talked about how God is non-binary and all this sort of other stuff. To them, it's just, oh, look at this young little boy is what they're. they're saying there's a Megan Kelly clip. We don't need to watch it. But she's like,

and he comes out here and he's just this like, he looks like this like small little child. And then you hear his voice and it's like that that voice is too deep for that small child. And it's just like, who cares? What are you talking about? What? Who cares? Shut up. Megan? I thought you joined the resistance, Megan. So the real insolity came after Stephen Miller's attack when the Democrats, like the social media account for the Democrats replied to Stephen Miller shut up you ugly fuck you could decry the loss of

civility in our politics it certainly came out of nowhere is sad it's a far cry from when they go low we go high never seen anything like it before the reaction from the right the like cry baby how dare you

from the party of everything I don't even go through the list every single thing they've ever said yeah is is laughable. And I don't know if you want to jump in. I can go through some of the reactions

from these people. Yeah, it's pathetic and weird and stupid. We can get some of the reaction. There's pearl clutching is what I'm saying. Yeah, there's pearl clutching and I don't even I do lament the like the loss of like general

decency. I don't like that like we're like, fuck you, you fucking piece of shit. No, fuck you, you piece of shit. That's not good but where did it come from and you know

if we're all in the gutters okay we're all sewer people now I also just wanted to say like oh you numbing your first transgender senator instead of like being like

fuck you you fucking piece of ugly fuck so what if we did so what if what if James Taylorico is trans who gives us fuck who cares he's not but like i understand the shut up you ugly fuck i understand it that's how we all feel um i certainly i agree with the way you phrase that like yeah i lament that this is where we're at but also it's the thing i care about the least especially when taken against all the things

we say on a daily basis i believe it's katie miller on a fox news called it violent political rhetoric. Come on. Your little baby. You're a little baby. Yeah. You're a little baby. What are you talking about? Give me a break. What are you what are you talking about? I think most people are onto this. I don't think it really works. The people the people who are paid to do this and who benefit from acting like this are going to do it. But like most people like what? Violent political rhetoric. What are you talking about. The reason we're even talking about it today is that it gained so much traction

and sucked up so much oxygen in the room that it's so frustrating. It's just so frustrating to do this every fucking time. So Democrats have to hold themselves to a much higher standard lest the conversation be polluted by this bullshit. Instead of talking about, oh, God, damn it literally anything else Trump threatening Oman with a bomb you know also like there's an element of it where it's like fine tweet great go for it

fuck that ugly fuck you're right what an evil piece of shit and but then there's also this sort of disconnect with like oh a person running the Democratic Twitter account called Steve Miller an ugly fuck okay but what's the party doing to like match

that energy. And it would be great to have a little more like oomph behind it other than like yeah, we made everybody mad by this angry tweet. Yeah. Right. And like there are you know a few

Democrats and centrist accounts like really criticizing this and saying this isn't who we are and they should take this down and things like that. And I'm sure there will be think pieces and things in like the New York Times. or the Atlantic, well, like, anonymous Democrats, we're furious, blah, blah, blah.

Like, that's all going to happen. And which is kind of what Katie Miller and all the rest of them want, is to take attention away from the obvious point, which is like, no, your guy is the one calling entire races of people garbage and dumping AI shit on everyone and calling the first black president and first lady of the United States monkeys. and calling people Piggy and ugly and fat

and scum and bitch and terrible person and making jokes about violent attacks on Democrats and celebrating when people you don't

like die or are murdered come on but he's just the president he's just the president and she's not wrong in what she called him there wasn't a lie

yeah and it's just like and I understand like this like but like if we're you start, you know, attacking people about their immutable characteristics, then then you're attacking everybody who, whatever. And it's like, I don't know, he's, they're Hitler's. There's a bunch of, like, there's just a bunch of stupid Hitler's. I don't, ah, it's, it's, they make it really hard to, uh, care about that stuff and, um, you know, try to, you know, live up to that,

that sort of, uh, standard because they don't. And they never will. And they're going to pretend to be upset and they're going to pretend that this is violent political rhetoric. Hey, Katie Miller, quiet piggy. Shut the fuck up. But then I feel, you know, then I feel like, well, I'm not, I don't want to engage in that behavior because I think he's a disgusting, monstrous man. So I don't want to echo what he's saying and, and act like he does because I think he sucks. So I understand the tension there. But to make this a story and to be like, oh my gosh, this is not who we are. It is who some of we are, some of us are. So fuck them. All this time it comes down to, yeah, everyone's like pretending to be mad about this fucking tweet that says the F word and calls Stephen

Miller an ugly person like a bat, like an ugly human being in his soul, um, what he is. And meanwhile, they're all like, look at this trans vegan who's just a tiny little baby girl. And it's like, what like, so you're denigrating everybody. like all these people in all these different ways and using them as insults. So you're insulting so many people by adopting these attacks on this one man, who I don't even think is vegan. And it's just like you only have culture worse stuff. You're only like, he doesn't know who he couldn't name a linebacker.

He wants to be a senator. You get fuck get the fuck out of here. Right. He couldn't name an obscure wide receiver from the 2000s. Like, do you want to know how all those obscure wide receivers in the 2000s are voting or the people? Like, this idea that all of, like, anyone who's a sports fan has to be on the right. Yours is the side that, like, burned all your NFL gear and said, you weren't going to have anything to do with it after kneeling 10 years ago. You had your own Super Bowl.

You pretend to, you pretend during the, like, it's absurd. So stupid. All of this and everybody jumping on the bandwagon. to make their comments, take their shots, bash Tala Rico. Honestly, I thought Tala Friko was really good. I would endorse that. Yeah, get your Tala freak on.

Get your Tala freak on. Bleen into it. Wonderful. It's because they're threatened. Because he has a real shot. And that's wild. That alone is so wild to wrap your mind around. But here we go.

I don't know if he's going to be able to pull it off. but he's got an actual shot. Yeah. And they know, they know that the success of Paxton in the primary is not representative of the general election. Now people are going to come out of the woodwork to show what they really think of this administration. And they're going to do anything they can. And this bullshit, I guess, plays to the base in Texas.

but I don't I don't think that the Trump endorsed candidate is going to do as well as you think in Texas even. Yeah, I mean, clearly they're scared. They immediately pulled the rip cord. Jesse Waters was like, emergency, emergency show. We have to get Benny Johnson on to call Tala Rico gay. Okay, Benny, thanks for the news, breaking news from Jenny Johnson. Not that to give her more oxygen, but did you see Ashley saying, Claire on Hassan talking about Benny.

Yeah. We don't have to, we don't have to dig in to it. I saw that she went, what's the, the gals? I've had it. She went on, I've had it. Yeah, Jennifer. It's all, it's, we all know. It's obvious, whatever.

Benny, just like, live your life, like, be yourself. Ashley, come here. To Mercia. It's okay. Benny, it's okay. I'm sure she would, and I just don't know what, like, because what I'm interested in with her is not what people are asking. and I get that, like, because now she's acting.

I want to know how, what politically do you believe? Did you always think this was bullshit and you were never like actually MAGA? And was it like a switch that flipped? Are you pretending now because it's just the ways you're shifting? But, you know, I don't want to insult someone. But like I'm not that interested in it. I think those are reasonable questions. and it doesn't have to be phrased ultimately,

insultingly, but... Well, two things. One, yeah, I agree. I think healthy skepticism with stuff like this is valid and necessary. And all the stuff she's saying seems true because it's stuff we already knew. It's all, like, most of the stuff she's saying is like, oh, I already knew that. It's nice to have somebody be like, yeah, behind the scenes, it's true, but I already know. That Benny Johnson used to be able to take work trips without his wife and now he,

Yeah, we all know this kind of stuff. I know that, oh, there's like group chats where they coordinate their messaging and they all post the same stuff. I know. But, you know, it's still funny. Yeah. It's really funny that she went on Hassan and was clearly like really, really flirting heavily with him. And then Ian Miles Chong posted about it and then Elon immediately unfollowed him. That's really funny.

That is very funny that Elon unfollowed Ian Miles Chong over even the suggestion. that like they were being flirtatious or that something happened. It's extremely funny. Very funny. She's obviously being flirtatious. I mean, maybe she's doing it to piss off Eelon, but I don't know. Which, again, is extremely funny. I was reading a Greg Sargent in the New Republic was writing about the potential pathway

for Tala Rico to win. And, you know, it's still like a long shot. You've got to do a bunch of things right. He's got to win back all the Latinos in the southern part of the state, which seems to already be happening, right? Because a lot of these people who shifted to Trump are now shifting back because of all the stuff Trump did. And you've got to do, you've got to like run up the score in all of these cities in Houston and Dallas and Austin, San Antonio. You've got to really run up the score. And you've got to like pull off enough white people in the suburbs and the exurbs who are just like done with the Trumpiness.

of stuff and how Paxtony, I guess, like, you know, oh, this guy's just a corrupt criminal scumbag. He's the swampiest. He's the swampiest. You got to do, I think they say, like, in the 40s he's got to do there. And then you, like, have a shot. But it's still like, it's a red state. It's tough to do this thing.

But the good thing is that even if he loses, now the GOP is scared enough that they have to funnel money into that, which they wouldn't have funneled as much because corn would have probably won. It's impossible to know, but he was running, he was pulling a few points higher. So now they got to take money out of Ohio, out of Iowa, out of all these other places to try to make sure.

Because it's also, even if, you know, there's a blue wave, it's also especially embarrassing for them. If they lose a statewide seat in Texas, they do not want to do that. They would rather let Mary Peltola in Alaska get in. That's not as embarrassing

as losing a seat in Texas. It would be so sweet to get that Texas seat, though. It would be so nice. It would be so nice. It sets 2032 up for real disappointment. Sure, but the stuff that you get a good chunk of time, a good solid chunk of time. Yeah, just make him so mad and it would help so much for that period of time. I did want to briefly talk about, since we're talking about Texas and Ted Cruz and all the vegan,

all the vegan problems. Vagans. Just, yeah, just some of the stuff they're going for is so bizarre. Because they'll like, they're like, oh, he's a vegan. And then you show him, like, eating like a turkey leg. And then all the comments are like, that looked like a big black dick to me. And it's like, where's your fucking mind? You fucking freaks.

Like, why? You can't be normal for a second about anything. So, like, that kind of culture stuff, I feel like is just kind of a waste of time. They're really latching on to this God is not. non-binary thing. And he's even walked it back a little bit and like I misspoke or I miss my words or whatever. I think that's not a great idea. Don't walk it back. It's fine. I think even leaning into it is like we don't need to talk about God's gender. Like what a waste of our time, I think. But now they're talking about it and now they're mad about it. And now Ted Cruz is like

God's not non-binary. God's a man. Everyone's like God is a man. And I just really need a reporter to walk up to Ted Cruz and say, so you know God is a man and all that. would you suck God's dick if he told you to would you do that Ted? I'm gonna get you some press credentials God's a man so clearly he's got a big godly dick

would you suck it Ted? What does he use it for? Why does he have it? Which also gets into the whole like That's how we create rain. Man was creating God's image. I can think of two things. Three if you include the film American pie.

I cannot think of more things to do. And if you watch the clip that the Senate Republicans are sharing that his this God is non-binary thing, you can see what he's not, he's talking about how God transcends gender.

God is male. Yeah, it's fucking male. God is that, you know, yeah. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary. And I want to credit Parker Malloy for

for digging this up is what Charlie Kirk said on his surrounded when he's debating with one of these young guys he acknowledges well he says he in the Bible but yeah you could have said her you could have done anything because God transcends

gender of course of course God is there's no it weighs no sense it's so stupid it's so stupid also and it's like well because God is a man because man is creating God's image well actually

were the freaks. We were second. The X Y, XY was second. X, X, X, X was first. So it doesn't even make any sense. You guys, again, this is because James Tala Rico is doing so well. And

he is religious. And literally, I know you guys love it when I do this. Religious people here in my mountain community have brought up Tala Rico as a very interesting person as a very interesting person.

Yep. I heard the word refreshing. So how about that? And granted, these aren't people that are going to be voting in the Texas. But the fact that people in California are paying attention to Tala Rico a little vegan transgender. He's not even vegan. Sorry. I'm just saying that all of that shit doesn't matter.

I know. Exactly. And now there's pictures of him. Yeah, that hot dog, whatever. And I, like, so many, like, headlines, the, while Benny Johnson was like, he's secretly gay, on the bottom was like eating a turkey leg with a napkin. Is this who we are? Is this how we're, is this what we're talking about, how he eats something with a napkin?

He's not going to get his hands messy. Like me, a man. Like, weren't you talking a year ago about how. how Mom Donnie eats with his hands and that's disgusting. Pick an opinion and leave. Do you guys know the indie, like the musician and DJ Jamie XX from the band The XX? Yeah. Oh, yeah, sure.

James Tala Rica, they should call him Jamie XX. That would be funny. No one in Texas would get it. They're like, oh yeah, the thing from decades ago, the guy, whatever. Not positive Tala Rika would get it either. But they should He should play one of those shows You know how the

Democrat artists get all the best Democrat artists Democratic politicians Get all the best musicians I don't know I heard Millie Vanilli is going to be Playing at a big celebration

Okay that's pretty good But who else Surely you're not getting in anybody On par With Millie Vanilli They're not They're all saying it's not They're also, well, we haven't heard from C&C Music Factory and Martina McBride yet.

Wait, CNC Music Factory. I didn't even know about that one. The Freedom 250 concert series leading up to and going past July 4th, y'all ready for this. The listed performers are Martina McBride, Young MCC, C&C Music Factory, Vanilla Ice, Millie, Vanilli, the Commodores, Morris Day in the time, Flo Rida, and Brett Michaels. and within 24 hours of this coming out, Morris Day and the Time and Young MC both said, oh, no, we're not in. And I think what they said was we were booked for, yeah,

like 250th Celebration of America concert. And then once we found out it was like a White House Trump initiative, no thank you. I called my agent and I said, I'm out. And members of Millie Vanilli, who are not the two guys you're thinking of, thinking of when you think of Millie Vanilli and to everyone younger than me, Millie Vanillae was like this pop-arm in me back for the early 90s that was lip-syncing

their songs, whatever. Like that's not a good name to advertise regardless, but it's not even those guys. But the members of Millie Vanilli are now saying that we weren't asked, we have no idea what this is. So that's different seemingly from the young MC Morris Day and the Time. situation and who knows what dominoes will fall next. All of them. Maybe not Brett Michaels.

Maybe he'll stick around. This is, it's just the kind of, first of all, freedom 250, called America 250. They're like, they just use the word freedom too much. And that's not important, but it bothers me. But clearly this is just like, yeah, you're desperate. you have no like cultural power at all. You're like, you're not, you're just like, we won, we got it.

And you're doing your own halftime show. You're doing this. You're doing that. If someone appealing, your approval gets lower every four days. And people are already dropping out. This will end up being just Kid Rock. He's not even on the list, but he eventually will be, because everyone's going to drop out and like, okay, Kidrock, can you do it? Can you do it? Kidrock, can you just do it?

This event is the same thing as the UFC event? It's not. Trump is trying to do like a month of celebrations, but the UFC fight outside the White House is on June 14th, which is Flag Day and Trump's 80th birthday. I'm sorry to distract from the clowning on the, I just needed clarification on that because the images of the White House right now, and I don't really. care that much about the White House. I mean, I care about the attempts to build this fucking ballroom and how much money they want to spend, you know, but I, but woof, when you see the aerial pictures of just the demolished East Wing over the monstrosity and even that paved area, which I guess is good for entertaining purposes instead of the lawn, but no, it just looks bad.

It looks so bad. It's like, it's astonishing. Also, like, generally, you know, I get it, but it's better for entertaining purposes. I don't care. It's the White House. It's the White House. I don't care if it's better for entertaining purposes. Yeah, I mean, obviously, there's so much to resent about everything they do.

I do resent that they are making me care about that kind of thing. Yeah. It looks like shit. I thought we all agreed to let it look. the way it's looked and to not tarnish its reputation with crap like this. Yeah, it's really cliche and old hat at this point. Trashy. But like somebody shared an image of the White House in the film Idiocracy.

And it just, it's just one to one. It's just like it looks like garbage. This UFC event is, it is related because it's Freedom 250. It's like a whole, it's like this big. They're not going to, it's not, you're not going to, unfortunately. you won't be able to watch the UFC fight and then watch Millie Vanilli, unfortunately. But ultimately what I was going to say is that if it was merged, it would probably be better for the attendance of both events.

I alluded to it, but I now have the official statement from Millie Vanilli, and I can read it. So this says, so there's the guys you think of as Millie Vanilli, which are the guys lip syncing. Then there are the people who were the vocalists in that band who are for all intents and purposes, Millie Vanilli. They said, the original slash real vocalists of Millie Vanilli, Jody Rocco, Linda Rocco, Brad Howell, John Davis, and Charles Shaw

will not be performing their hits live at the Great American State Fair. Others using the name Millie Vanilli that appear on the advertisement should be considered a tribute band with no association vocally or musically to our sound or songs. So, hell yeah. Unbelievable. Awesome. They're getting a fake lip sync band to cover the fake lip sync band. This is so funny.

That's so funny. But honestly, it's more in line with the OG milly-vinilly. So maybe that sells. Oh, it's art. It's what a beautiful performance art they're putting together inadvertently. That's amazing. I hope everyone's a cover band. I have to get a kid rock impersonator to do it.

Charles Shaw really went on to have a great career in winemaking, so he doesn't need this shit at all. I don't know that the Kid Rock did so good for the alternative halftime show, though. I don't. You didn't like it? You didn't know. But I think that their target audience found it bad as well. Oh, well, I mean, it goes back to how they have to pretend constantly that they're winning and happy.

We got Kid Rock, folks. We got Kid Rock and the divorce. Great. And you like that? You're happy about that? You have to pretend to like Kid Rock now? Yeah. And also, like, what they would rather have than control of the entire United States government

and the ability to make laws is the cultural victory of being able to make and form culture. And it's clear that they've lost that. It's been pretty clear for six to eight months now that they lost. People still like their woke Netflix. shows, Disneyland's expanding its Juneteenth celebration this year.

No one watched their stupid halftime show because no one actually likes Kid Rock. Like they lost. Yeah, no one watched anti-woke Lord of the Rings. Yeah, they'd trade the Supreme Court.

They'd trade it all to be like Hollywood, to be respected in Hollywood. And to, yeah, to be in it. Oh well, not going to happen, folks. You there, boy, what day? is it?

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do a great job in that sphere, what if we talk about Barry Weiss and her journey to the bottom. God, and she is just, who boy. Ooh, boy. Yeah, Jonathan, what's going on? So what's going on is after her extremely successful shakeup of the CBS Evening News, she's now doing. Well, you know what?

You know what? Depends on what you mean by successful, because she did shake it up. Oh, yeah. She successfully shook it. You know, she shook it up, whether or not that is a successful business move is a different conversation.

But she did successfully, like, take the shaker and mix it up. Yeah. They never did those debates, did they? No, they just didn't do the thing that nobody wanted to watch. There was, like, a whole thing. They were like, we're going to do these big, big debates with all these people.

They never did that. I think they stopped it after an evening with Erica, Kirk. And they, right. And she- start with that. She successfully shook down CBS evening news's ratings by like 60%. And successfully shook Tony DeCopal to Taiwan instead of China because they couldn't get

him the right visa to go to China for the Trump summit. That wasn't her fault, but it's funny that they screwed it up. But anyway, now she gets to shake up the flagship. CBS News Magazine 60 Minutes. Like the gold standard, still the number one most popular broadcast TV news magazine show, the envy of broadcast journalism, yes? For now. Sharon Alfonzi, who is the reporter who did that Seacot report that got pulled by Barry Weiss many months ago.

Her contract was not renewed, and when her agent called them, they just didn't respond. so she's out and then the executive producer was let go and she hired a guy to be the executive producer of 60 Minutes named Nick Bilton who was a tech correspondent at the New York Times before he became a features writer for Vanity Fair he wrote the big Theranos feature from 2016 so he has a big part in that story

he wrote a movie that apparently Martin Scorsese is directing with DiCaprio, Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson so he's a right you know he wrote for that show the Idle on HBO. What's he doing executive producing 60 minutes? Right. He has no broadcast news experience whatsoever. Seems like he's a good writer.

Yeah. I know things are bad in Hollywood, but you seem to be making deals, dude. What? I mean, I'm sure he agreed to do the thing she wants where we are, well, we're just, like, we're doing the masses who are in the center, the 70% of Americans who are in the center, wink, wink, we're basically pivoting this whole thing to the right. and, you know, we're going to, we'll criticize Trump or really look into his stuff a little bit here, but maybe it was wokeness that made him do it, that kind of thing.

With Alfonzi, yes, she is technically still employed with CBS, though, but just no contract. And she's basically like, I'm just not, I'm not going to resign. They're going to have to fire me. Yes, that's what she said. The quote, I'm not resigning. If they want me gone because I did my job, they'll have to fire me, is the direct quote. So we'll see what happens. This is just very symbolic.

I mean, it's more than symbolic because millions of people still watch 60 minutes every single week. And we'll probably stop if it seems like the journalism sucks now. Yeah, exactly. Because they do journalism there at 60 minutes. Yeah, the first Erica Kirk piece they run is maybe going to start to. Well, that's the symbolism of it. If they're first, if it's Leslie Stahl, like, we sat down with Erica Kirk. Everyone's favorite person, apparently, we haven't gotten the memo yet.

how off-putting she is? No. It's very symbolic of like what's happening in media overall and that the billionaires running it don't actually care if fewer people are watching. It's more about like crafting the narrative that they think reflects best on them regardless of what it is. Yeah. It's not about money at all.

Watching the Post all these places. It's just no, we're going to pump money into them to get our message out there. It's not like, well, we need to, we're pivoting to this because of the, views. You know, there's the, is it Washington Post or the New York Times? It has that terrible podcast now. Washington Post. Make it make sense. Like that. They're not doing that because it's getting views or making them money. They're doing it because it's an ideological project to them and to the people who are pumping money into it. And it's, it's interesting because we talk about frequently, oh, all we need to do is just like do a hardcore right wing pivot and that's where all the

money is, right? You get money pumped into it. But doing this kind of wise and centrist thing, it's got to be a good gig. Because these people for, you know, going on a podcast and just saying, America is a net good in the world. We should all love America. Great. What was the one that everyone was clowning on a few weeks back? Gavin Newsom giving diapers to kids is bad, actually, because it's stopping him from fixing the homelessness problem or whatever. He could be giving those diapers to strangle criminals or whatever. Like, that's a lane, too. If you can get in with the free press crowd,

no one likes them, no one watches their stuff, but there's just like an endless amount of billionaire money that Bezos and Ellison and I'm sure others would love to give out. America, I think is a net good. I think it is too woke. I think that whatever. the diaper thing is, I agree. Bezos, are you listening?

Whatever it is. Whatever you want me to say. Sure. Whatever it is. Whatever it is. Whatever. Whatever. I mean, I haven't even watched this. I just pulled up their post of their latest short, and it just says America is Annette Good. We can watch this. Oh, another one of their videos up for four hours with literally zero likes and eight comments. Yeah. Like, I mean, a bunch of people, like, obviously, Cody and me follow this account. You gotta keep up on it.

80 followers. Followers. So one 44th of all their followers are me and Cody. Why are you guys following? Because I want to see this shit. I want to, whenever this pops up, I got it. This is your version of me, like, listening to flagrant or something. Oh yeah.

I'm gonna force us to watch. It's 36 seconds. Whatever this is, we're watching it. The United States is not the root of every single problem in the world. What would you say to the Americans who are guilt-ridden about America's role in the global politics. They should actually travel a little bit more. The more you see in terms of innovation and technology in the United States, it ends up

across the world. And it comes from phones to computers to other things. That's actually a lot to be grateful for. And having a successful America means also having other countries that can benefit from it. I agree that Americans should travel, but not. to see American products in other countries. And also, are you assuming that other countries don't make products or innovate? I don't understand.

It's just, well, it's just like the question was about, like, how do you respond to people, like, with, like, issues with, like, America's position and effect on the world globally and, like, their politics, how they, how we affect other nations. And she's just like, I mean, we got iPhones out of it. I, but what about all the bad stuff that he's alluding to? And I don't know, it just seems, it's just like an empty kind of. Yeah, no, no, no. That's not anything to question or addressing the point of the question. And also, we're actually not doing the things that you're, like, praising. We caught all this fucking cancer research, all this stuff.

The way the right always says, well, that's just the hate America crowd over there. The hate America crowd, like, agrees with this and wants it to be true, wants us to be the best version of ourselves, where all those things we're doing are helping people and all that stuff. Like, no one wants to believe that that's impossible, but that's not really what we're doing most of the time. And you can't point to that and ignore the big column of other things that are actually, like, being, yeah, asked about. And also, what's the point of pumping the sad?

Like, okay, great, yeah, America's, like, oh, they watch our TV shows and stuff. You know, great, okay. What am I supposed to get out of this? What point are you trying to make? Are you hosting this podcast? Nothing. That's why no one's engaged with that. No one has engaged with that clip for a reason because it's a big fat.

Nothing. Well, a bunch of people who are making fun of it on the comments. And then like all the stock photos they show are like one like generic like, man with test tubes, which again, we like cut all the research. And then just kids watching TV and staring at phones. I don't like, what do you? Well, they are concerned, I think that a lot of people do want America to have cultural relevance around the world because that makes Americans money when American TV shows or products gets sold. That is nothing to do with the point of the conversation. They're scrolling on Twitter now.

Look, we got all these kids scrolling on Twitter. Also, and this is probably not true, but whenever they post a clip like that, I'm like, did you script this and film it? and that's it? Or is this actually a 30 second clip from a larger episode because it doesn't seem like it. It seems like we're like, we want to do like an America's good thing.

All right. So I have them ask that. We'll toss up some test tube image and call it a day. Well, I think that's going to do it for us here today. Folks, oh boy, I do. Boy, oh, boy. Oh, boy, oh boy.

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