Glennis Meagher: [00:00:00] The polls are broken. The stakes are unprecedented. I'm Glennis Meagher
Brian Derrick: I'm Brian Derrick, and the vibe's this week…
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Glennis Meagher: And the details on the bipartisan border deal hashed out in the Senate are out and the political showdown has been
Rep. Troy Nehls: Congress doesn't have to do anything to secure our southern border. Why would I help Joe Biden?
We'll also give you an update on the presidential nomination contests in South Carolina and Nevada. A quick stop in our group chat, and we'll send you off with a good vibe. Let's get into it.
Glennis Meagher: beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Breaking news!
breaking news, the vibes this week are breaking news as of today.
Brian Derrick: The vibes this week are breaking, literally. We just got some news in about Donald Trump. What did we find out, Glenys?
Glennis Meagher: Well, we found out the federal appeals court rules that Donald Trump does not, I repeat, does not have presidential immunity in his election case, which is major.
Brian Derrick: are not the father. [00:01:00] That's what that was giving. Yeah, it is big news. This is a really big deal. So this is a major update in one of the two ongoing federal criminal cases against Trump. One is about Mar a Lago. One is about him trying to stay in power after he lost his re election. And this is about the one, the election interference one.
And so, three judge panel in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, so the D. C. court, all agreed unanimously that President Trump did not have immunity and does not have immunity in, in doing the illegal, unconstitutional things that he did to try to stay in power.
Glennis Meagher: Try to steal the election. It was a 57 page opinion and they wrote, this is a quote that's sticking with me for the purpose of this criminal case, former president Trump has become citizen Trump with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant.
Brian Derrick: get her Jade. That is a legal smackdown.
Glennis Meagher: [00:02:00] Yes,
Brian Derrick: it sounds like to be backhanded by the court.
Glennis Meagher: And they continue, they continue, Brian, but any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as president no longer protects him against this prosecution.
Brian Derrick: Boom. And so basically what they're saying is he absolutely can be charged with crimes that he committed that he is not immune in the way that his defense had claimed he was. If you remember, we talked about this on the podcast a couple of weeks ago when his lawyers claimed that the president could order a SEAL team to assassinate a political opponent and he still could not be charged with a crime.
So. They were taking this like super extreme view of of immunity and basically saying because the Senate did not convict him after he was impeached the second time that they can't charge him with anything. And the court is saying, heck no, you do not have immunity and jail, straight to jail, not literally.[00:03:00]
Glennis Meagher: The court has made it completely clear. The law applies equally to everyone. So whether you're the former president or not. You're a citizen and you're going to be held to the court of law. So more to come there. And just to note to all the listeners, there are many, many, many, many cases in which Donald Trump is involved.
It's overwhelming. But we'll be keeping you posted here as things develop on all of his cases. But really the, the ones that, matter.
Brian Derrick: Yeah, absolutely. And we should always remind people, we are not lawyers. I did talk to a lawyer just to get the skinny on like what was really in.
Glennis Meagher: You got the tea from a lawyer. You're not a lawyer, but you got the
Brian Derrick: I have lawyers in like different areas on speed dial, like when the Supreme Court does something crazy, there's somebody that I call.
When something happens in like a criminal situation, there's somebody that I call. And so, yeah, I do just want to reiterate that the word that was used to me to describe this opinion was like, eviscerated. This court eviscerated [00:04:00] the Trump team and their claims of immunity and I think went out of their way, according to my sources, went out of their way to cite Supreme Court justices at previous decisions in this opinion.
So in this 57 page ruling that we just got, they cited Kavanaugh.
And so they're saying like, according to you guys, what you guys have said. Is that when it comes to executive authority and the powers of the office that these people are not kings, that these people do not have superpowers, and that they cannot break the law or violate the constitution in order to do things like try and stay in power.
Glennis Meagher: That's right. They said I'm going to quote them one more time because I do really, really love this opinion. Presidential immunity against federal indictment would mean that as to the president, the Congress could not legislate, the executive could not prosecute and the judiciary could not review.
So if they ruled in any other way, this would completely dismantle. Democracy as we know it. So,
Brian Derrick: what happens next?
Glennis Meagher: Well, Trump is [00:05:00] what? He plans to ask the Court of Appeals to appeal.
Brian Derrick: this was an opinion from three judges on the U. S. Court of Appeals in, in D. C. He's going to ask the full. Court I, I believe he's gonna like pursue an en banc decision there, is what that's called.
Glennis Meagher: En banc? I'm sorry, can we just take a peek? I know you're not a lawyer, but what's an en banc?
Brian Derrick: En banc? Okay, again, not a
Glennis Meagher: It sounds like a hot new club I'd want to go to. Are you going to en banc tonight?
Brian Derrick: I think there are 11 total judges that could hear this case. And so if three of them decide in a way that you don't like, you can appeal to have the other ones also hear the case, and then they all decide together if they grant your appeal. And so that would be an intermediary step before this goes to the Supreme Court.
And again, Trump's. strategy here is not to win. It is to delay, delay, delay until it's like too close to the election or even after the election when he thinks that he can, again, advance this idea of immunity that I'm the [00:06:00] president, you can't do anything to me. And so he has 90 days to appeal this and he's probably going to use all 90 and we might not have updates on this specific case for you for a while.
Glennis Meagher: right, but you could watch the entire season of 90 Day Fiancé in the interim.
So yeah, watch this space more to come more to come
Brian Derrick: Okay, Brian, let's talk about a really frustrating
Oh boy.
Glennis Meagher: the border deal, the aforementioned deal that we talked about last pod, where we had no idea what was within this, legislation, it was revealed on Sunday, the big reveal happened. And what happened immediately, literally, it was a move that bus.
TLC clip: Now I'm just picturing the, the clip of that woman. We got to roll. We got to bring that clip in What the f k? Hell to the no.
Glennis Meagher: So good. Yeah, absolutely. So we now have the legislative text of the border deal. Remember, this is what Democrats and Republicans have been working on together for months [00:07:00] in the
Brian Derrick: Senate to figure out what a compromise could look like,
Glennis Meagher: exactly, and I just want to make one note for the audience. The reason why we did not know, no one knew, except for the bipartisan group that was, you know, working on this bill, is because the minute someone else outside of this working group knew about what was in the bill, they would immediately try to hijack it.
So no one knew, everyone was waiting with bated breath, and here we
Brian Derrick: Totally. And before we dive into like what's in it, let's just cover the high level dynamics at play, right? So you have Democrats and Republicans in the Senate who have come to the table and ironed out a deal that includes As we're going to talk about a lot of conservative wish list policies. This is what they've been pushing for all along.
Now you have the house, even before they have heard what's in it already saying it's DOA and that they will not vote for it. And that is being explicitly pushed by President Trump, and he is saying that we can't do a border deal before the election, essentially [00:08:00] because it would be bad for his chances, exactly, because it's, it's good politics for him to have chaos at the border.
Glennis Meagher: Brian, confirm for me the whole reason that this bill not only includes border security, it also includes Ukraine and Israel, you know, financial packages is because Republicans demanded that the border be included in any bill in which we gave aid to Israel or Ukraine. So they got what they wanted.
They got this three tiered bill that included Border security. And they're saying actually no, because it's not going to, it's not going to help Donald Trump, so we don't want
Brian Derrick: Yeah, that's exactly right. There was a push and conversation at one point to do a supplemental as it's known. So this additional funding for Ukraine, Israel, et cetera just as a standalone, and Republicans like demanded that the border be part of it. And now are, are. Running away from that, which is a common theme as we're seeing throughout this entire thing, and they're really being more transparent about it than usual.
you have [00:09:00] people like Lankford one of the lead negotiators in the Senate, a Republican from Oklahoma, coming out and saying, The only reason Republicans are opposing this is because of the election cycle and not because of the contents of the deal.
So, like, they're telling on themselves, you know?
Glennis Meagher: Totally. They're saying the quiet part out loud and it's really, really, really frustrating. It's really frustrating. We have a solution here and it's not the best solution necessarily, but the politics at play. are infuriating. Tara McGowan, who is the founder and publisher of Courier tweeted, it's the do nothing Republicans that they're doing nothing.
Brian Derrick: Ooh, turn the tables on them. Cause it's accurate because that's like the tea. So let's talk about what's in it. Yeah. It's,
Glennis Meagher: because you already texted them and I need them again, It's too dense.
Brian Derrick: It really is a huge bill. And there are a lot of pieces to it. So let's cover the important parts. I think that the through line for me is that it includes. Upwards of 20 billion [00:10:00] for additional shelters, transportation for deportation, 4, 000 asylum officers to process asylum claims more quickly.
It includes more border agents and more funding for anti fentanyl trafficking efforts. There are also some policy changes in it. One thing that's getting a lot of the attention is like what we're going to call a border failsafe. And so.
Glennis Meagher: Right. I was reading about this. It's like a trigger, correct?
Brian Derrick: And what that means is that if border officials encounter more than 5, 000 people in a day, on average, within a week, or 8, 500 individuals on any individual day, then that initiates this trigger
Glennis Meagher: What's again, super, super frustrating to me is that We have, we being this bipartisan committee or, you know, bipartisan group of lawmakers has presented a bill and Republicans are just [00:11:00] putting their foot down and saying it's dead on arrival. It should be so frustrating for every single American, especially Americans in border states or in states where, you know, Southern governors are sending migrants.
Looking towards having some solutions here, and because it's an election year, we're dealing with a stalemate on this issue Do your
Brian Derrick: Totally. Yeah, and it's easy to get sort of bogged down in the intricacies of it, and that's Their job, right, is to figure out exactly how to write this bill to make it as effective as possible, but the baseline is we're seeing huge numbers of people present themselves mostly with like asylum claims at the border, and we don't have the infrastructure, the funding, the people, the system in place to process those claims, and so what this bill is pushing towards is putting a system in place that can actually on the merits assess Who has a valid asylum claim and will be let into the United States and [00:12:00] granted work authorization so that they can support themselves and any family that they might be with if they meet the criteria for an asylum claim, and if they do not, then it does not grant them authorization to remain in the United States, and it Deport them, and it sends them back to, to where they had traveled from which, of course, I think the other part of this that we're not addressing right now is the legal immigration route, which this bill also speaks to, and I think that Democrats in general are trying to create a pathway for legal immigration
to say, like, if you follow these processes we are going to bring people into the country, and that's good for our culture, and our economy, and for all of these things, and like, that's true, right? There's plenty of research to show that.
but, you At the same time, Republicans are not only trying to block out all illegal immigration and asylum claims, which are perfectly legal they [00:13:00] are also trying to shut down the legal immigration as well,
Glennis Meagher: Yeah. I want to touch on that for a second because we're seeing some Republican responses to this, this bill. And my impression is that it's wildly xenophobic it's. very white supremacist. And more people should be talking about it.
They're saying all of these things out loud. And I think we should all be shocked that this is how they view America, which is in fact a multiracial democracy, but they're scared of it. And it only helps Trump's chances at winning, and he knows that, and that's why he's really trying to leverage this, this bill in this political moment.
I don't know if you saw some of the stuff Trump's been saying about the border, which has just been like wild conspiracy theories.
Donald Trump: I believe we're going to have a terrorist attack 100%, 100%. You know, during my term, I had no terrorist attacks. You know that, right?
Glennis Meagher: I know every one of the leaders of the countries for the most part, the presidents, the dictators. I know them all. I know the kings, the [00:14:00] queens. I know them all. It makes sense that they're taking people out and sending them up in caravans to the United States. And it's not just South America, it's from Africa, from Asia, from all over the world.
Donald Trump: They're sending people for the most part that they don't want, and they're putting them into caravans. I know that because they've tried it with me, but I turned back the caravans. I had all sorts of bans on people from certain countries. I had bans all over the place.
Brian Derrick: I mean, he is the ban guy. People should know that, right? Whether it was the Muslim ban, or the trans ban, or his next abortion ban. Like, he loves to ban stuff. It's just A huge violation of our constitutional rights every time.
Glennis Meagher: when I think of Trump being divisive, I think of how he talks about immigration more than anything else. It's very intentional, and it's extremely and unnecessarily inflammatory. When he says things like immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country, he's like directly trying to pull, as you were saying, white [00:15:00] supremacists, like far right, alt right white nationalist people into his coalition, which is Gross for all kinds of reasons.
Brian Derrick: It's always wild to me that there are people on the right who want to call liberals divisive for calling people in by, by like naming the thing and being like, yes, we're for LGBT people and people of color and like all these different things. And they think that it's divisive to even like say that, right.
Glennis Meagher: Totally.
Brian Derrick: Whereas
Grouping entire nationalities and different ethnicities and people coming from very different experiences, walks of life, different religions, different races, all into this category of like, they're here for your jobs and your daughters and like, just like this really gross implication,
um, is obviously like as divisive as, as it gets.
Fear mongering works and he's doing it. He's going to keep going for it. And the political circumstances that we're in right now with the border are only fueling his fire and giving him more [00:16:00] talking points. And he's going to keep
Right. And so now he's onto the CCP and trying to mix up his China talking points with his border talking points.
Maria Bartiromo: I'm told that the Chinese are paying 35, 000 a head, 50, 000 a head to come to the southern border. They're paying the drug cartels this money. The number of Chinese nationals, and they are military aged men, you're right, up 1, 100 percent year over year. Are they being directed by the Communist Party to come here?
Donald Trump: I believe so. I believe so.
Brian Derrick: Very reminiscent of the Psy Op Fox News segment, where they're like,
Glennis Meagher: Believe
Brian Derrick: We have no evidence of this whatsoever, but we're going to state it as a question, and then we're going to start talking about it like it's a fact.
Glennis Meagher: Totally. It is absolutely unhinged. It really is. He also looks horrible and all of that matters, but he looks. It's awful
Brian Derrick: And also he just makes things up all the time. We're seeing that with the, with the deal, you know, people he supported, Republicans he supported. He goes back and says they're [00:17:00] awful people for being a part of this border bill. One example of this is Senator Lankford. He's a senator from Oklahoma, a well known conservative senator
Glennis Meagher: Trump endorsed him in 2022 and said that he was super, super strong on the border. So Donald Trump, the receipts on Donald Trump and how he feels about Senator Langford are love the guy.
He's super strong on the border. He's my man cut to
Donald Trump: Well, just to correct the record, I did not endorse Senator Lankford. I didn't do it. He ran and I did not endorse him.
Glennis Meagher: the receipts on a truth social post in 2022, September of Trump said many, many things of like pure love and admiration for Langford.
James Langford is strong on the border, tough on crime, and very smart on the economy. It is my great honor to give James Langford my complete and total endorsement. Donald Trump, get out of here. Get out of here. You are full of, you know [00:18:00] what?
Brian Derrick: Yes, we do.
Glennis Meagher: the National Border Patrol Council President, Brandon Judd, he came out in favor of the
Brian Derrick: The whole union.
Glennis Meagher: The whole union, the whole union,
And here's Fox's Steve Doocy. Doocy? Challenging Tom Emmer about the bill.
Steve Doocy: I know a lot of Republicans are against it because Donald Trump is against it. But here's, here's the problem for you guys. Uh, the border patrol union came out and the acting CBP chief both came out and said they're not, it's not perfect, but this is the best thing we've seen in decades. So are Republicans going to say that the border patrol union and the acting CBP chief are wrong?
Well, look, they can have their perspective, Steve. It's their jobs, Tom. We've got a lot of respect.
Brian Derrick: Corner him.
100%. Yeah, they're getting taken to task, for real. It's indefensible.
so, to close it out the Senate is wasting no time in bringing this to A vote. Chuck Schumer has said [00:19:00] that today, when you are listening to this podcast, there will be a vote on this bill. So as of the time that we're recording, we are expecting a vote on Wednesday. And we do not think, we do not know that it will pass the Senate.
We do not know how many Republicans will come out in favor of it. Even if it does pass the Senate right now, it looks like the House. That's the actual problem. So we'll see if it gets sent over to the House to be honestly sacrificed to at the altar of Donald Trump, like a lot of our values and dignity.
South Carolina. Okay. So the, the breaking news there is that. Joe
Don't call that breaking news,
Glennis Meagher: dominated, I know, I was being
Brian Derrick: the slow movie.
Glennis Meagher: dominated, yeah, the, the, the slow moving primary of South Carolina, Joe Biden, he dominated with 96 percent of the vote,
There was a lot of discourse talking about South Carolina and black Democrats in South Carolina.
why do you think that there was so [00:20:00] much media discourse
Is it just people want to write stories about non starters just to get people clicking and paying attention? Is it polling? Is it,
Brian Derrick: Well, I think that the media has learned the wrong lesson. And that is that any thing about the presidential is more important than the most important thing about something happening further down ballot. And that's like a Hill that I will die on is that the media just wants to make the absolute most of a presidential election.
Cause it's really good for clicks for them. There is a narrative here around like polling has showed that. In particular, non white voters, the Black community especially, have, like, had pretty dismal numbers for Biden, that his approval has dropped in those communities, that his support, and who plans to vote for him and turn out in November has dropped in these communities, and so because South Carolina was that origin story, for Biden in [00:21:00] 2020 and the black vote in South Carolina is what gave him the juice to get the nomination.
I think that there has been like this repeat narrative of, oh, how things have changed in four years. And then suddenly he puts up 96 percent of the vote in the primary showing that he actually has a lot more strength there than people expected. So it's undercutting that narrative.
Glennis Meagher: I will say that, you know, black Democrats tend to save America when the time comes, but. This really, I think, was a message testing opportunity for Democrats.
Okay. Can we talk about Nevada?
Brian Derrick: talk about Nevada because
Glennis Meagher: So there's, there's a primary and a caucus happening. That's kind
Brian Derrick: Nevada caucus and now they have a primary and they were like, that's not confusing enough. Let's have both. And so now they're going to have both.
So basically what's happening is Nevada used to have a caucus.
Glennis Meagher: and then after 2020, they switched, and they passed a law in 2021 to switch to a primary. Primaries are widely agreed to be more accessible. [00:22:00] You don't have to stand there for like hours at a time.
Brian Derrick: You walk in, you vote, you leave. And so they switched, but the Republican party stays mad and they're like, no, we're still going to have a caucus. And so essentially the Republican party is hosting both a caucus where Trump is running to win all of the delegates in the state. And there is a primary that is being hosted by the state because that's now part of state law where there are no delegates up for grabs.
And Nikki Haley is the only. Like mainstream candidate running. And so Nikki Haley is guaranteed to win the Nevada primary. And Trump is guaranteed to win the Nevada caucus. He will get all of the delegates. It's a meaningless victory for her. But at least she'll be able to say she won something.
Glennis Meagher: Yeah, cool. Good for her.
Brian Derrick: Oh, okay, Brian, it's giving. We're going to talk about Nancy Mace.
Nancy Mace: this bill keeps the border wide open. There are so many loopholes in this bill, it'll make your head spin. [00:23:00] And any Republican that supports it supports open borders because it's going to allow Secretary Mayorkas to have full discretion on who comes in above that 5, 000 limit.
It lowers the standard for those that are seeking asylum. And look, the American people are tired of being an ATM machine. For the illegal aliens that are coming across our border every single day. And the more that I read language in this bill, the more frustrated I get with it. Because it's not what we're being sold.
I think we're all
Martha MacCallum: trying to figure out this bill. Have you read all 370 pages of this bill? We are, we are working
Nancy Mace: through it. It's not good for the country,
Martha MacCallum: quite frankly. Well, they say exactly the opposite. That's why I'm, I'm asking.
Glennis Meagher: Brian is skiving didn't do the required reading and is doing a presentation.
Brian Derrick: It's giving Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's lies. It's probably lies.
Glennis Meagher: It's also giving like, babe, You're the ATM. You're taking our taxpayer salary. And you're doing whatever you want with it. She's definitely getting hair and makeup. That's for sure.[00:24:00]
Brian Derrick: who are you? A press secretary in the Trump administration? Like, it, the lot, truly just nothing she said has any relationship to the truth or reality of the legislation whatsoever. And so she's very much there to do a, political hit job on a piece of legislation that Trump has let her loose on to go sink.
Glennis Meagher: But she's not even doing it well. Like, You know what I would love to see? A celebrity deathmatch. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Nancy Mace. Claymation. Baby.
Brian Derrick: I think that Nancy Mace would destroy her,
Glennis Meagher: Oh, for sure. Even though,
Marjorie Taylor Greene and her like, CrossFit videos?
Brian Derrick: I'm not interested in the CrossFit videos. I'm sorry. Um, but you know, who's going to destroy Nancy Mace is Kevin McCarthy because she voted to oust him and he's now made it his entire mission in life. He retired. Imagine if someone literally was so obsessed with seeking revenge on you that they were like, I have to retire.
I have to [00:25:00] leave my job so that I can full time focus on ruining your life.
Glennis Meagher: I can effectively compose my burn book on Nancy Mace. I need to retire.
Brian Derrick: Exactly. That's literally what happened. And she's,
Glennis Meagher: Oh my God.
Brian Derrick: I would be scared if I were her.
Glennis Meagher: Well, Nancy, I'm sure you're not listening to vibes only, but if you are, you heard it here first.
Kevin McCarthy is coming for you.
Brian Derrick: Absolutely.
I want to apologize publicly for being offline for the week and not being involved in our group chat. I just said one thing. I literally had an ounce of service. On a glacier. And what did I send you? The Lance Bass, Marianne Williamson, Instagram Live. Is Lance Bass okay?
Glennis Meagher: Question mark. And I said that.
Brian Derrick: we're both here. Welcome to our tick tock live Mary Ann. Thank you for doing this with me. And the answer is absolutely not.
Yeah, you have been sadly absent from the group chat, but it's been happening without you. There's a lot of stuff going on this week. So yes, [00:26:00] we did have Lance Bass is officially team Marianne. And hosted Instagram live, TikTok live, whatever, all the lives with the Marianne Williamson team.
Which felt very out of left field for me.
Glennis Meagher: It did. Me too. And that's why I felt so compelled to touch base with my political touchstones to check on the health and well being of Lance Bass.
Brian Derrick: Wait, you have to cut this dead air out. I'm looking up is, is bye bye bye an NSYNC song or a Backstreet Boys song?
Glennis Meagher: Oh my God, Devin, do not leave this out. Bye Bye Bye is an NSYNC song. It is so insane to me that you don't know pop music.
Brian Derrick: I, I, I do! I do!
I'm
Glennis Meagher: so let's talk about Sorry, sorry, you're what?
Brian Derrick: I'm a Warped Tour kid.
Glennis Meagher: So am I. I, my Actually, mom and dad, if you're listening, you know I did this, but I did forge my dad's signature in, like, high school to get out of school to go to the Warped Tour.
Um, sorry. Uh No. Yeah. I like had a
Brian Derrick: Or was it a [00:27:00] funeral? Yeah,
Glennis Meagher: a filling or something. I don't know. but speaking of pop music and not just pop, all music, the Grammys were this past weekend. I did my, my group chats, my pop culture chats were blowing up with Grammys women dominated, which is really nice to see.
Brian Derrick: Miley won her first Grammy. She won two actually. Kylie Minogue won a Grammy. I love Kylie.
Glennis Meagher: Joni Mitchell performed. It was beautiful. SZA, one of my favorite artists. Her album blew my mind. She performed.
anything else popping off in your chats?
Brian Derrick: yeah, there's been a lot of lesbians on the internet this
Glennis Meagher: Wait, I saw this on
Brian Derrick: Some, yeah, some serious lesbian drama. Um, this straight woman went into the cubbyhole, which is this tiny little lesbian
Glennis Meagher: Tiny, tiny bar.
Brian Derrick: yeah, in the West
Glennis Meagher: West Village. Yeah.
Brian Derrick: and brought her straight, I don't know if he's like her boyfriend or her friend or something. And I think that somebody was just like, yo, like what's, what's the deal?
Straight Woman on TikTok: [00:28:00] Friday night I went to my first lesbian bar. I was about to go home early, but then my friend who's a lesbian came over to the bar at the restaurant we were at and said, I'm gonna go to this bar, do you want to come? And I was like, absolutely, why not? We got there and I was having so much fun, everyone was so nice, the music was all like Renee Rap and I was living my best life.
Until one of our guy friends wanted to meet up with us and he comes into the bar for quite literally two minutes. Literally wanted to come in and say hello and leave. Girl approaches him pretty soon after he walks in and goes, What are you doing here?
I'm That Lesbian TikToker: So that video is actually about me. I'm that lesbian. So I just wanted to provide some context on what happened, uh, from my perspective. So I was at cubbyhole, been going to this bar for Eight years since I moved to New York.
I actually met my wife there. Um, I was waiting in the bathroom line, minding my own business, and there was a dude standing in front of the bathroom. Um, I tapped him on his shoulder. I was like, excuse me, you know, you're kind of in the way, whatever. I was not trying to start conflict, anything like that. He turns around.
He seemed a little bit grumpy, [00:29:00] so I was like, Okay, dude, uh, are you even here with anyone? Like, what are you doing in this bar? and he points to his friend, a girl who seems pretty queer to me, Uh, not the girl who made that other video, And she's like, he's with me. I'm like, okay, cool. I turn around, um, continue to wait in line, Really had to pee, and um, then, This guy comes to me and he goes, Well, if I wasn't here with someone, would that be a problem?
And I say, absolutely, like, yes, it would be a problem.
Brian Derrick: What are
How do you feel? I'm a, I'm a straight person. So how do you feel about straight people in gay bars? Is that a problem?
I don't feel good about you in gay bars. Other straight people is fine.
Glennis Meagher: LOL.
Brian Derrick: you definitely need to get that permission slip signed by your dad before attending for sure. Um, no, no, I've like, of course I brought like, I've brought girlfriends to gay bars and stuff before, but I will say that. there are way more male dominated gay bars than there are bars that are catered to [00:30:00] lesbians.
They're like very few and far between, and so I do relate, it resonates that like, there's literally limited square footage here, and people don't go. It's like a Marie's Crisis situation, like people don't go because it's full. And so like, every person is taking up somebody else's space. All straight people just decided to start going to cubbyhole.
It would not exist as a lesbian bar
anymore.
Glennis Meagher: hole would not be a thing. Yeah.
Brian Derrick: totally it's, it's not like a policy, right? No one's saying no straight people are allowed here, but I think that it's sort of like a respect kind of vibe of like,
Oh, respect the intention of the space. And like, let some ladies meet each other, you know, if that's what they're trying to do.
so yeah, I'm just like, I'm rooting for all lesbians. Of
Glennis Meagher: Me too. Vibes only is rooting for all lesbians. That is our official
Brian Derrick: Official policy of the pod.
there is some drama. Uh, this is important to me as a RuPaul's Drag Race stand [00:31:00] between Bob the Drag Queen and Maddie Morphosis, who's from season 14, who, Bob made fun of Maddie's wig and it spiraled from there because then Maddie did a diss track against Bob.
no.
Glennis Meagher: Okay,
Brian Derrick: facts straight if you're gonna come into this. Maddie went on the pit stop and read Bob out of the blue and had Bob's name in her mouth.
Maddie Morphosis: wish, I wish I could have done like a, a reverse, a musical girl group writing stuff. I like writing stuff. You could do what Bob the Drag Queen does, sometimes she will release her own verse of these songs. I think it's corny.
Brian Derrick: And then Bob does a diss track to Maddie
first and is like,
Glennis Meagher: Okay, dude, get the body bag, toe tag, and imagine the drag queen getting dragged by a straggler.
Bob The Drag Queen: So bro, if you want to go. Let's go, I'll take a man down and it's on no homo. Pencil's right, I could be the bard. Wig's so bad, the hairline is hard.
Which was very good. I
Brian Derrick: It was wonderful. I mean, I'm a huge Bob fan. And then Maddie responds [00:32:00] with her own diss track.
and
Glennis Meagher: which was awful. I
listened.
Brian Derrick: for non drag race fans is that Maddie is the only straight male drag queen to ever participate in RuPaul's Drag Race, the show. And so that added a whole layer of Identity politics to these diss tracks that was really interesting.
Some solid verses. Some
Glennis Meagher: yeah, look that up. And if you're not watching RuPaul's Drag Race, you should watch it.
Brian Derrick: And that was the group chat this week.
Glennis, let's send them out on a good vibe. Bye. Let's make Fox News do it for us.
Fox News clip: The 353, 000, that's how many jobs the economy added in January. That number completely obliterates the 180, 000 expected in the unemployment rate. State staff, 3. 7 percent is pretty close to a historic low. Now. I know many of my conservative friends are trying to drill holes in this report, but you know what, folks, it is what it is.
It's a very strong report. I mean, you've got [00:33:00] the Dow up now 106 points, the S& P gaining as well, and all it needs is three points, and here we are, S& P up about 22 points at the moment. We are climbing and climbing. So, I mean, the Biden team can say, well, if things are so bad, how come the stock market's on a roll?
The economy is receding in importance among the voters because it's good. And the messaging from the RNC has been way off base. Interesting.
Brian Derrick: It is what it is.
Fox News says it is what it is. We have to deal with how good the economy is, guys.
Glennis Meagher: Thanks to Demsmite, that online creator who does some really fun pro, democratic messaging online. That is a good vibe. That music. Rock and roll, baby. America. We got jobs here. We got jobs.
Brian Derrick: thank you guys for joining us this week. Those are all the vibes
for the week.
Glennis Meagher: Those are the vibes.
Brian Derrick: