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Welcome back everyone to the Grace Curly show Eric Swalwell the man who's most known for once crossing the street to go to a

Starbucks that wasn't in Trump Tower and for farting on television in an interview

I think with Chris Matthews. I believe it was hardball

He's in the news today for a whole different reason

So he's running for governor of California. You may have seen him. He keeps going on TV

He keeps talking about how he's not gonna help fund ICE because they keep executing people

I think that's the way he's putting it and he has a lot of problems for someone who

thinks Trump is after him because he's gonna be governor of California

First of all the polls don't support that at all the polls actually should suggest that Democrats could be locked out of this

gubernatorial race in California because the two top candidates are Republicans

So that's where the polls are showing but beyond that you may also remember

He has mortgage fraud allegations from the Department of Justice. So he has that as an issue

But I would say that Swalwell's biggest problem

Besides the fact that he makes lame ass TikToks

He dresses like a slob

He is polling very poorly in California. He has mortgage allegation fraud again

mortgage fraud allegations against him and he's just overall not very charismatic not very likeable and not very not very effective

The big big big big big problem for Swalwell his north star of problems is Fangfang

the Fangfang

Has never really gone away

And I wanted to before we get into the latest and why he's big mad at cash but tell I wanted to remind you

I've a really funny interaction that happened a couple of weeks ago when well, I guess actually it happened

At the beginning of the Iran conflict. So it happened five weeks ago

Dave Portnoy the founder of barstral sports put out a tweet

Essentially calling out people with TDS for immediately

um

Going after trump for this decision

He said, you know the Iranian regime is terrible and we should all get behind this and he also peppered in some stuff about being

Proud of the United States of America and proud of the military which all of that stuff does not sit well with Eric Swalwell

Okay, he's got he's got indigestion. He might he might let one rip when he hears when he reads that tweet and so he put out

A post back to Dave Portnoy being like you might want to sit this when I'm paraphrasing for the sake of you know

brevity and speed here. He's a you might want to sit this one out leave this to us

Kind of kind of like the markway in moan. Okay, plumber. Why don't you leave the the real business to us experts

Like me in my quarter zip with my afternoon shadow beard and my you know

Leave it to me. I know what I'm talking about. I'm Eric Swalwell. You're just Dave Portnoy

What have you done besides create a business that employs hundreds

Probably thousands over the years of people and give back millions to small business owners

What have you done besides that you don't have as many accomplishments as me. I'm Eric Swalwell

And so anyway

Dave Portnoy admitted that he didn't know much about Eric Swalwell

So he did a quick google search and he wrote back

You were literally removed from the House Intelligence Committee for having your office

Infiltrated by a Chinese spy named Fangfang

You can't even make this up maybe sit out the national security lectures politicians man

And I have to think that that interaction and maybe this has been in the works for a while with the FBI

But I would hope that because Eric Swalwell is so full of himself and he thinks he's gonna dunk on Dave Portnoy

He thinks he's gonna win that battle

There's a few people Taylor. I wouldn't I wouldn't pick fights with Portnoy would be one of them

But he really thought he was gonna win that like oh, I'm gonna dunk on it. I'm gonna go viral for this

I hope that that came across the desk of someone at the FBI and they said you know

That reminds me

Speaking of Fangfang

Why don't we give people more information about that because it's always been shrouded in classified information and mystery and like you know

It's been alluded to and you know

It's been confirmed that she infiltrated his office, but we don't know the extent of the relationship or at least the kind of details

I would be interested in knowing

Well now

We know more

Swalwell sent a cease and desist letter to FBI director Cash Patel

Warning the bureau would violate federal privacy law if it moves ahead with releasing records

Regarding the congressman's decade-old relationship with the suspected Chinese spy named Christine Fangfang Fang

Well, they have Fangfang in quotes Taylor, but if you read it all together. It's Christine Fangfang Fang. Oh

I thought there were three fangs now. No, no, no still still just two fangs

The way this is being written is really emphasizing the decade-old relationship

I just want to let people know that for me

This is still fresh for me

This is when you have a love like this

This is once in a lifetime

So I don't care if it's 10 years old. I don't care if it's 20 years old

To me this is it feels like just yesterday

These are just too young

Brilliant minds who met and fell in love. I want to say this is like the beginning of a hallmark movie

Okay, he's the congressman

She's Fangfang

She's a honey pot

He's looking for some honey. I don't know if they bumped into each other of the coffee machine

She scatters her papers everywhere

He helps her pick them up. She comments on his quarters up

In his stubble who says

Stubble

Hey, Hubble your stubble looks nice. I like that look you're going for it

And then they just you know fireworks. I don't know. This is the stuff. I want to know. I want to know

The details here of the greatest love story of our time

Eric Swahwell for someone who has been all about releasing everything release the files release the phone call

Release the transcript release the video release this release that

Now all of a sudden

He wants things blocked off he wants us to be in the dark transparency

Is not at the top of his list now that it comes to his files

So he wants to release the files with Epstein and I'm on board with that

He wants to release the files with everything else, but when it comes to his Fangfang files

He doesn't think that those should be released now. I'm not going to get into whether or not they should as far as legal concerns

I'm not going to pretend to care about that

Okay, I know people like they'll be conservatives who argue for this stuff and they explain to you

I will you know, we really shouldn't do this because it's unprecedented. You know if we start doing this

I'd be lying to you guys if I said I cared

Release the Fangfang files. Please

I mean unless there's pictures in there of him wearing prosthetic breasts

I really don't think there's anything to be afraid of right now

To be afraid

Yeah, yeah, well, yeah the bar is so pretty high thanks to Brian. No, but I am just curious

The nature of this relationship because I think he's gotten away with Taylor

And this is what I don't like he's gotten away with kind of making this out to be a nothingburger

Like oh, she was just in my office like he never actually responds to the accusations

He just brushes them off

And I would like to have some concrete detail that he asked to respond to but I think that

What tells you all you need to know is how he's reacting to this on CNN. So let's play

Representative Eric Swalwell

This is cut for

To try and smear a political opponent. It's just absurd. It's absolutely absurd

But it's my lawyer one of our lawyers told me today

And this really kind of stops you right in your tracks

He said if they do this it'll be the greatest abuse of power by an FBI director

Since Jay Edgar Hoover and and so those are the stakes that we would allow the FBI to just go after the president's

political enemies

Wow

It would be historic

We know trouble loves to do historic stuff

We know he loves to do unprecedented stuff. Don't make it seem so cool my my friend

You're you're just tempting like we want to release them. You don't have to sell us on it

We want to release them now. There's another this is clearly his line like he gets his talking point

The same way here starmer and other leaders today. They're talking point is it's not gonna be easy

You know the straight-of-war moves. They're all going around saying the same thing about the conflict in Iran

He also has his talking points from his lawyers

This is what you're going to say when you go on TV

I earned the quarter zip and get ready to deliver some fire lines

So he does the same line again on CNN can I get the next one Taylor?

So we expect more will come other nonsense from the administration, but we don't trust them

One bit and it's also absurd just absolutely absurd as somebody who was on the intelligence committee oversaw the CIA

For eight years that they're so out to interfere in the California gubernatorial race where we're leading

That they would work with the Chinese. I mean, it's just absurd and

Probably the worst abuse that we've seen since the J. Edgar Hoover days

J. Edgar Hoover getting the second mention from Eric Swalwell in 24 hours. I just want to say he doesn't trust

This administration

He doesn't trust them

The about releasing these files and he thinks it's an abuse of power and he just he's very very

concerned about that Taylor and he's very skeptical and doesn't want to trust the administration

I just wish he would trust them as much as he trusted Fangfang and if we're if we're being fair

I don't know if you're the guy we go to to find out who we should trust

Is that a fair assessment? Is that something that we can all agree on that the guy who was infiltrated by a

Chinese spy honey pot

Maybe doesn't have the best picker or the best radar when it comes to who's trustworthy and who's not

Like now you're gonna lecture us

What's next you're gonna lecture me? I'm not farting on national television

I don't think that you have a lot to go on there

I don't think that that's the mantle you should be taking up as Eric Swalwell is lecturing people on you know

Intelligence and secured information and this is confidential. This is classified and this information has to be

Okay, once I get infiltrated by a Chinese spy

Once I get honey trapped is it honey potty Taylor? What's the verb honey?

Honey pot. Yeah stuck in the honey

Like poo bear Taylor can you give us a little poo bear please just for the

Fangfangs at it again

One more

Hey, you don't know why okay. This is the scenario. I'm telling poo

About the situation between Fangfang and Eric Swalwell and he is gonna have to break the news to Eric Swalwell that he got honeypotted

Oh, Father

I think

Piglet is a rumbly in my tumbling and I must tell representative Swalwell

Oh

My god, who's really uh, he's desperate in there. He's getting tired

He needs to start doing some lifting or something. He's I'm getting nervous. I just give it my calisthenics routine this morning

Yeah, but so Eric Swalwell wants to lecture us on this. I'm like who what can be released?

What can be released? I now I think the follow-up for Swalwell if there was any decent reporter would be

If you found out that

Trump's team

Or that Trump was having a

Relationship with the Chinese spy

Would you think the American people deserve that information that intel because we got intel on Trump getting peed on by hookers

And that was all fake like there's no limit to the fake stuff that we deserve to know about Donald Trump

But the real stuff about Eric Swalwell that's where he drew that's where he shuts the door and locks it and says no

No, not for your eyes our eyes only you don't need to know anything about this and the funniest part of this whole thing

That he can actually say with the street face

Is that Donald Trump and the FBI are trying to interfere with the gubernatorial race

This guy isn't even a contender this guy is traveling behind

Talk about having a high opinion of yourself

This is like when people convince themselves. Oh, they're there. They're only being mean to me because they're jealous of me

And I was like no, no, they don't like you because you saw

It's not that they're jealous of you

They just don't like you

This is him. He said they're coming after me because they're afraid a afraid of what afraid you're gonna come in fifth in the gubernatorial race in California

Yeah, they're shaking in their boots Eric. I honestly think the FBI just wants to release this for for for fun

To give the people something to see here and to understand what a jackass you have

Who's not only allegedly lying about his mortgages in his place of residence his place of domicile

But he's also getting hoodwinked by Chinese spies. I think it's kind of a beautiful

summation of a DC politician

It's very emblematic of all the problems we have in DC that this guy goes around lecturing us on how bad Donald Trump is and how he needs to be exposed and then meanwhile

He doesn't want to talk about his own dirty laundry

One of my favorite quotes. Why don't you focus on your own gay marriage while well plenty there to keep you busy

We'll be right back

We'll talk more about Eric Swawa and I also have you know yesterday. I'm really glad. I talked about

The budget problems yesterday Taylor with Mayor Wu and we talked about how she's over budget

They got this big budget gap and because they're they're

Excuse the dog ate my homework here is well. There's a lot of snow removal this year and other things

But mainly the one that stood out to me was a snow removal which didn't get great reviews

Oh, even if you graded it on a bell curve people were giving it like a D as far as removing snow well now

Amidst this budget crunch

There's a story in the Boston Herald that the south Boston high school baseball team

Had to be gifted caps amid the city's budget crunch

Community leaders had to step up over the weekend to buy baseball hats for a south Boston high school varsity team

Due to a budget crunch at the Boston public schools which led to criticism about the city spending priorities

Yeah, we're building these massive stadiums. We're spending money on illegal aliens. We got money for everything

But the baseball hats for the southe high varsity team not so much. Sorry guys

We couldn't we couldn't work it out in the budget this year. We're crunching the numbers

We can't make it happen for you. We'll talk about that when we come back stay with us

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What I do is I fight the court to look at the intervening step which is the enactment of the civil rights act of

1866 and there they didn't say sub to the jurisdiction thereof there

It says not subject to any foreign power now if you go back to blackstone in Calvin's case

They say it does not matter if you are subject to any foreign power if you are born in the king's domain

You have this indefisible duty of allegiance to the king at any time

So there's a clear repudiation in the civil rights act the civil rights act is this breakwater

Which makes it very very clear that they are not thinking about allegiance in the terms of like the British common law

They've adopted the Republican conceptions of allegiance

So it's from not subject to any foreign power and then the debates just a couple months later

Make it very clear that they're recodifying this same conception

They were dissatisfied with the potential ambiguity in the phrase Indians not tax and they adopted

Subdictive jurisdiction thereof and one of the strongest statements of this is

Senator Trumbull statement that quoted at the beginning where he says there

He's asked what does that mean subdictive jurisdiction there is and he says it means not owing allegiance to anybody else

That is what it means

Yeah, and the argument and again that's Sean Sauer the U.S. Lister general making the case for the Trump administration and Trump the Barbara but the

argument or you know

The part of this that I think goes without saying is that we have a lot of people millions of people

Thanks to Joe Biden who are here who do not have allegiance to the United States of America in any way shape or form

But then just have children here who become citizens and

It's an amazing thing Taylor because you hear that phrase subject to the jurisdiction thereof and I always am

Astounded at how much the framers put in like caveats or

You know the way they phrase things to

Work out in certain situations like they knew that things were gonna get complicated

They knew a lot of the ways that we could veer off track and so they put in

these kind of guardrails and they were very

They were like soothsayers in a lot of ways

But I have to say

They also didn't

They couldn't have predicted

That Joe Biden or that the president the leader of the free world would welcome in millions of people unved it

And they'd also like half the country would be lobotomized and lose their minds

They couldn't have predicted that common sense would go so far out the window

And they couldn't account for everything unfortunately we'll be right back

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I was thinking about this and I think they

There are various sources that say this that you can have you obviously have permanent allegiance

Based on being born in whatever country you're from that's what everybody recognizes

But you also have local allegiance when you are on the soil

Of this other other sovereign and I was thinking you know, I'm I'm a US citizen and visiting Japan

And what it means is that you know if I steal someone's wallet in Japan

The the Japanese authorities can to rest me and prosecute me

It's allegiance meaning can they control you as a matter of law

I can also rely on them if my wallet is stolen to

You know under Japanese law go and prosecute the person who has stolen it

So there's this relationship based on even though I'm a temporary traveler. I'm just on vacation in Japan

I'm still locally owing

allegiance in that sense

Okay, and then do you also get to call yourself a citizen of Japan and you know

I don't know how many programs they have in Japan

You know like welfare programs and things like that or you know

It's funny how her picture of a visitor to another country

Immediately breaks laws. It's weird. I know. I noticed that to Taylor. I'm like, why is that the scenario

Oftentimes when I'm talking about well, and the other part is when illegal aliens come here not all the time

But you know, there's a good amount of the time where they're going on these different programs as I said Medicaid Medicare welfare and

I just I don't think that argument holds up

I at the beginning of this and this is when I called Amy Swearer from the American

Freedom foundation. I said and I told the booker beforehand

I said, dude, it's full disclosure. She can be as basic as she wants because I sometimes get lost in this stuff trying to understand these

these different arguments and

I don't I get tongue tied, you know, because I don't want to say the wrong thing listening to Katanji brown Jackson throw that out there

And it seemed like she was making it up as she went

I shouldn't be so hard on myself. Yeah, I should just kind of go for it

This is a radio show, you know, if I make a mistake I make a mistake

But if the Supreme Court justice is up there and she's coming up with these half-baked hypotheticals as to if you steal a wallet in Japan

You then become you know a citizen of Japan or you know, you consider yourself

Japanese doesn't

Seem like something that was that she was up all night preparing for this um definitely a low IQ person

I would also add in here Taylor that

When I'm reading

About these arguments or listening to these arguments that are happening right now and as will be Goldberg explained to us

Donald Trump delivered the two-hour arguments today

He must be exhausted, but you know, it's a good thing. I was trump Taylor because anyone else that'd be that'd be a crazy morning

And that would take that would take it all out of you

But for Trump that's just another day. It's like talking for two hours. Give me a challenge here people

But something else I was thinking of is and I kind of alluded to this or I mentioned this earlier in the show is that our framers they

When they were writing the Constitution they really did anticipate a wide range of contingencies possible scenarios

You know dire circumstances weird circumstances how things could get mixed up how you know human nature

Could corrupt things and you know power hungry people could get out of control hence, you know

They put in so many different guardrails and contingencies

But I just don't think that in their wildest dreams like forget the robot dogs and everything else that's happened in the year

2026 that we have now

I think for a lot of these guys if they had a crystal ball Taylor and they were looking at us today

The things that would shock them the most it wouldn't be like the technology

It wouldn't be anything like that transportation. It would just be

How far away we've all drifted from common sense

And this is an example of it because I really do agree with Amy swear where

It's pretty obvious that they want putting this in there so that anyone could just cross over the border and have a baby and that baby becomes a citizen

Um, I don't think they ever thought that that was going to be welcomed by one political party

But also going back to the Supreme Court hearing about men and women's spaces

I think they would have been shocked that we've kind of dumbed ourselves down to the point where we have to bring this

Sort of argument to the Supreme Court where we need someone to give us a hard and fast ruling on men

With penises

Compete against women in a swimming pool or walking in with women in a locker room

I just don't think that they were able to foresee that level

Of insanity and I can't blame them for that, you know

You can only predict so much then you then eventually you just have to say okay. This is as far as we can

We can plan for

And they plan for a lot just a reminder they plan for a lot

But the left just outdid them on that

Okay, so I wanted to read you all oh, you know what tell it first

I want to do the poll question because you know me and I will forget our poll question today

Is an interesting one it is April fools day

And I just don't want anyone

To get tricked

I don't want anyone to be like jar rule at fire fest. I don't want you to get bamboozled

So our poll question is brought to you by local silver mint located in where new hamster silver table work with you directly

So contact him at local silver mint dot com

Taylor cormiere

Is on the board

What is the poll question Taylor and what are the results thus far today's poll question which you can vote in that grace

Curly show dot com is which day is the worst valentines Halloween or April fools

April fools

28% say April fools 25% for Halloween 47% say valentines is the worst

Wow a lot of valentines today haters valentines today. I could see being the worst if you're in a relationship with someone who is

Very high maintenance. I think if you're in a relationship with someone who expects like real gifts for valentines

I say I don't consider it a real gift holiday

I consider it chocolates in a card and you're all set and in fact if my partner

It's such a my Gavin Newsom's wife partner if my husband got me anything beyond the standard chocolates maybe flowers and a card

I think I would be a little bit

Thrown off by that. I think I'd be like okay. Well, why'd we go crazy with this now? We're buying each other gifts

It feels a little over the top now

valentines day

I don't have an issue with I love chocolate

Halloween. I love chocolate and Halloween Taylor. I have a new appreciation for now that I have children

It's so fun to me Halloween. It's like you really do have it. It's a totally different game once you have kids April fools day

Still stinks April fools day just not about it. So I'm sticking with April fools now. I just is not chocolate chocolate chocolate chocolate chocolate chocolate chocolate

Speaking of how he he's gonna join us in the next segment. It's an April fools tradition. I like to hear about

that time that

The new stations thought they were doing a very obvious April fools prank

They didn't realize how good of a prank and that's the that's the problem with April fools

If you do a really good prank

You oftentimes get in trouble because it's too good and people don't know you're joking and then chaos erupts

We'll talk about it

I wanted to read this though. Yes, straight. We talked about the budget in Boston and how there's this 48 million dollar budget gap

um and mayor Wu

Is blaming it and the city's blaming on snow removal and other projects and oh, you know, we didn't account for ex-winesy

Well, this is an interesting story

It's from the Boston herald and it's about this guy Bob Ferreira

He got a call last Friday

That left him beyond disgusted the school district

This is in south Boston hadn't delivered hats baseball hats to the excel high school team ahead of their opening day game

Which was scheduled for monday

Ferreira soon learned that the hats wouldn't be coming on time if at all from bps

Which in January pause hiring and spending to try to close a 53 million dollar budget gap for the current fiscal year

Which ends on june 30th the school district has proposed a budget with more cuts for next fiscal year

And i'm just gonna skip down here

He says i've been coaching youth sports and high school sports for a long time in the city

So this is a disgrace

You put a team that you know has nothing and send them on the field without baseball hats on that's bush league

That's unacceptable then he adds in this one which i like for the kicker

The mayor is spending a hundred and thirty million dollars helping a private entity with a soccer team

And they can't come up with money to make sure these kids have hats on time

Ferreira was referring and i've been meaning to talk about white stadium for a while

But this gives me a nice excuse to the city's three hundred and twenty five million dollar public private plan to rebuild white stadium

For a professional women's soccer team that has taxpayers coughing up a

Copping a hundred and thirty five million dollars now keep in mind we were at first told by mayor

Michelle john carry woo

The this stadium was going to be a bargain. We were told we were gonna get this it was projected

At 50 million dollars who's doing these protect projections and celtzer from the iowa polls

50 million dollars and and the actual the actual final line is a hundred and thirty five million

And that's probably lowballing you too

The taxpayer cost was initially projected at 50 million when the project was announced two years ago

Now Ferreira

Said he made a call to a south-boston fixer

And then that fixer

Robert Pachiti

Called his friend David Moynihan

Who owns the spot a southee store that does clothing printing and embroidery and

Moynihan this guy Moynihan. This is just a story full of heroes here local heroes making good

David Moynihan offers to make the hats for free

Because he's also probably in shock

That this is what's happening

To the southee high baseball team

I just tailored this is what I know this is a small story. I know it's not going to get a lot of coverage

But it says so much to me

It's like okay, we have all this money to flush down the toilet

And where do we cut corners where do we decide that's not going to make it into the budget this year that

That's where we cannot

Of forward to spend one more dime the high school baseball teams hats

So they have to go out on the field and what what are they going to do put the glove over their eyes

Bring oh, they're all gonna have mismatched hats like bring your own hat from home and we'll put maybe a uh

uh

A little piece of tape over it

It's pathetic and by the way they got their hats on time this guy

Ferreira runs the hats out to the baseball players like in the nick of time he he ends up getting it done

So you can tell he's not a politician because he's just way too efficient and he was able to actually fix a problem

So I I hate to break it to this guy Ferreira, but you have no future in public office because they just can't they can't deal with that kind of stuff there

Um, I was gonna send her a mega hat

Yeah, that would have been my solution

Get a mega hats we need 25 mega hats, but really this story I agree with with Ferreira here. It's disgusting

So you have all this money and then you wonder why people feel as though and you know who put this

I hate to give him credit trust me. I hate to give him credit

but there was a

Democrat on with John Stewart recently and

I didn't wash the interview, but I took note of the way John Stewart phrased it when he was talking about

high taxes and how people aren't

Aren't able to really see what their money is being spent on um hold on

I want to find the exact quote here because I I thought that's the exact problem that all these

Oh, he said Democrats and I think this goes for for all politicians

He said Democrats have trouble connecting the money that they're asking to raise through taxes to the value

It's providing to taxpayers and I think this just goes it goes on to everything where it's like you have so much money

And there were very few ways that you show us how it's being spent now

I would argue that you know 20 baseball hats that's something I can actually see with my own eyes

That's something that I can actually see where I go. Oh that that's what the money was being spent on

That's what the budgets used for baseball teams and filling in potholes and I don't know what else

But anything that you could actually look at and connect to the money they're not interested in they're interested in like

projections for stadiums and and all of these pet projects and oh this mental health

Organization that actually doesn't exist now. I'm talking about New York City

But it's the same story you know different fonts and all these places anything that you could actually

Understand anything concrete. It's like it's not cool enough for them. They don't care enough

It's not big enough. Why don't you focus on the small stuff focus on the small things that you can do for your community

And then worry about the big things like solving global warming and turning men into women and everything else

Why don't you focus on the baseball team getting hats

And try try to fix that

Instead of it goes to this guy Bob Ferrera who kudos winner of the week Bob Ferrera great job

All right, we'll be right back how he's going to fill us in on the April fools prank that

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I'm getting some inside scoop now from southe

People who either lived in southe or currently live in southe in this case my mom

Said is it bob Ferrera

Yes, it is mother and she said great guy does so much for south Boston grew up with him. He's awesome

Well, yeah, he is awesome. He's the one who got those kids there the the baseball team their hats

If it was up to the politicians in in Boston. I don't think they would have had them joining us now

Oh and speaking one other thing about southe here. We've got a request. He says grace. It's my aunt's birthday

Doddy from southe Doddy Landry happy birthday. Doddy now joining us howie car is here

This is a grace curly show tradition. He's going to tell us the story of the April fools prank that went wrong for channel seven take it away howie

Well, there was a there was a volcano on the on the mainland of the United States

Which was when within this easy traveling distance of TV traffic helicopters Mount St. Helens

It was in Washington state

So the it it had blown up a couple of days before April fools

They and the and all every TV station the country had all this amazing video and you know

It was burning a hole in everybody's pocket

So most people just how I wish we could use this

So a channel seven running last as always in the ratings. They John Henning was the anchor. They called him the prince

He was the father of Greg Henning who ran for a DA unsuccessful against Rachel

So the prince came up with the idea so why don't we just say that there that the blue hills have have exploded into a volcano

We'll show all this lava coming out of Mount St. Helens and everybody said oh, what a great idea

That's we'll use that as the kicker for the six o'clock nodes

And so they said they said Jan Harrison this sort of you know

Run of the mill reporter down there to do the story and then they said it's been a terrible thing

This volcano has erupted and they cut away to the footage from Mount St. Helens and then they have

Then they have cuts of you know

Jimmy Carter the president and Ed King the governor, you know announcing a you know a hurricane or a blizzard or something

saying this is really serious

And then they they came back and they had and you know

Henning or somebody held up a sign that said April Fool's go

Fool's day, but it was too late. It was too late. Hey specifically how what do you mean? It was too late like what were people doing in response to this?

Well, the one I always remember is there was this old lady in Melton who had a horse farm and

She she loved her horses and they were rescue horses and she ran outside in the dark and opened up the barn and

And opened up the stalls and let the horses run free to escape the

lava and they ran up onto route 128 and it was a miracle to know what none of them were killed

And people were just panicking and caught the Milton police department got like a hundred calls

And they it was just crazy stuff and they had to apologize and and you know

They always say in these situations grace, you know, there's an old joke

Heads will roll

But what they really mean is deputies heads will roll

So they didn't fire the Prince John Henning or the reporter Jan Harrison

they fired the

Executive producer of the six o'clock news got him skipped ceil he became the scapegoat for the whole thing

He was just

He was the only guy who got fired

What an amazing story. I remember the first time like 10 years ago how he told me that I said

Know this and Milton of all places my hometown how we car coming up next things how he don't miss it