Truth in the Barrel | This Week Unfiltered 05.01.25 Amy is joined by Pretty/Furious Cohost/Seneca Project Communications Director and FORMER MISS AMERICA, Mallory Hagan. In honor of The Kentucky Derby, Amy takes a moment to teacus how to make a mint julep correctly before going in on the dumbest “first 100 days” in American history. Amy and Mallory then weigh in on everything from Pete Hegseth, National Security and Columbus Day before getting to America’s new favorite podcast segment, “Quick Shots” 01:48 Whiskey Of The Day 14:40 Trump's Accomplishments So Far... 18:40 What Can/Should Do Democrats Do? 24:04 The Women Peace & Security Program RIP 33:00 Quick Shots About Truth in the Barrel: Amy and Denver are both military veterans, political junkies, and whiskey lovers who sit on opposite sides of the aisle but have one thing in common: they love the United States of America. Truth in the Barrel was born of Amy & Denver’s commitment to country, the Constitution, and a well-curated collection of the world’s finest bourbon. Join them weekly for deep dives into timely topics, interviews with recognizable guests, and a dose of call-in fun. Visit Our Website: www.TruthintheBarrel.com Subscribe to Truth in the Barrel: https://www.youtube.com/@TruthIntheBarrel Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0JQcSj5mwVyGDJ8DcXwlu9?si=5f2bd1d1b0c64e6f Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/truth-in-the-barrel/id1804092329 Instagram, BlueSky, Facebook, TikTok: @TruthintheBarrel
Chapter 1: Who are the hosts and special guests on this episode?
Hi everyone, welcome to Truth in the Barrel Unfiltered. I'm Amy McGrath. Denver is out this week for this episode, but we have a special co-host guest, former Miss America, who also ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and the State House in Alabama. Und der Host eines anderen tollen Podcasts namens Pretty Furious, mein Freund Mallory Hagen, ist Co-Hostin.
Danke, dass du heute mit uns bist, Mallory. Danke, dass du mich hast, Amy.
Ich bin wirklich gespannt, hier zu sein. Ich habe dieses Projekt von Anfang an genossen und freue mich darauf, meinen eigenen Twist zu öffnen. Ich bin kein Denverer, aber ich werde es versuchen.
Well, and listeners need to know that Mallory is a bit of a politico too. So she knows the ins and outs of politics. She's run for office herself. She keeps up to date with things that are going on. So I'm just super excited. And to have another woman be a co-host, it's going to be a fun show.
Yeah, let's bring a little different flavor to it. I heard that you're going to make something for everybody to see based on the Derby. What you got?
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Chapter 2: How do you make a classic Kentucky Derby Mint Julep?
I am. We are going to make a mint julep because the Kentucky Derby is coming up soon. Before we do that, I want to remind everybody to make sure that you're following us on all of the social media platforms, right? X, Blue Sky. Is it Blue Sky? I don't even know. Ich weiß nicht, was es ist. Und Blue Sky, Instagram. Danke. YouTube, du nennst es. Folgt uns.
Schreibt uns eine wertvolle Note oder eine Review. All that stuff matters for Truth in the Barrow. So on to our Whiskey Minute. Heute habe ich eine wirklich coole Edition von dem Woodford Reserve. Das ist der offizielle Bourbon des 151. Kentucky Derby. Es wird in Woodford County, Kentucky, Versailles, Kentucky,
Und mit diesem Bourbon werden wir den klassischen Kentucky Derby-Trink nennen, den Mint-Julep. Und ein lustiger Faktum über den Mint-Julep, es war ein Trink, der originalerweise in den 1700er-Jahren gemacht wurde. Es wurde der offizielle Trink des Kentucky Derby in den 1930er-Jahren. Und es war originalerweise ein Trink, das am Morgen konsumiert werden musste.
So, for all your morning bourbon needs, think of a mint julep. But basically, it's very easy to make. You take 10 to 12 mint leaves. You put about a quarter ounce of simple syrup in with... In a tall glass, right? With the mint leaves at the bottom, simple syrup. And then you fill it with ice. And from there, you press that together. It's crust ice, by the way.
And then you take your two and a half ounces of bourbon, your Woodford Reserve or whatever bourbon of choice that you have. You pour that in there, like so. And you stir it up. And then you garnish it with some mint on the top. Okay. And you must, absolutely must, drink it, Mallory, with a straw.
You must.
You don't drink it with like a regular drink. Okay. That's very important. And if you, you know, if I know that the current administration hates the paper straws, frankly, it doesn't matter what straw you drink it in. It's really good. It's called a Mint Jule. Do you know why you have to drink it with a straw? It's just tradition, but it's also because a lot of the good stuff goes to the bottom.
It's not shaken, right? Yeah, it's stirred. And I like my mint julep, I will admit. I like it minty and I like it sweet. Okay, now I love the bourbon, but if you're going to drink it in the morning, you're going to drink it in the daytime. I just prefer it that way. But there's your mint julep.
Und es ist wirklich auch wichtig zu bemerken, dass diese Woche nicht nur der Kentucky Derby ist, sondern der Tag vor dem Derby, Mallory, ist der Kentucky Oaks. Und das ist, wenn alle Phyllis, die männlichen Pferde, ihre Rennstrecke machen. Und jeder, der das betreibt, trägt rot. Und deshalb trage ich heute rot in Ehren des Kentucky Oaks.
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Chapter 3: What were the highlights and impacts of Donald Trump's first 100 days?
Goldman Sachs is now projecting that the United States will have the lowest economic growth and highest inflation rate of any developed economy in 2025, steering the economy to a recession. The stock market's first three months under Trump Republicans was the worst of any president since the Great Depression.
And he's managed to piss off all of our allies and partners in the process, which does long-term damage.
Yeah, I think one of the things that stands out to me over the course of these last hundred days is just we're leading with insecurity. And that might not be at the forefront of a lot of people's minds, but when you have a leader who says he's going to do something, signs the executive order, or...
Chapter 4: Why is the first 100 days considered an important presidential metric?
says tariffs are coming and then is constantly taking it back or getting public pressure and moving in a different direction it's just it's just being led by insecurity and we all know why he's he's a large tiny man he's he's a tiny tiny man but um but that stands out to me just we're on the world and global stage we don't appear to be very strong because how can you if you can't stand by what it is you said you were gonna do
Yeah, and that's such a great point, that leading with insecurity, because it's not just on the global stage where other countries have no idea what we're doing. We've gone from actively supporting Ukraine, a country that is fighting for its existence, a democracy against a brutal authoritarian regime that invaded it. We've gone from supporting them to like, Ja, genau.
Business owners don't know what to expect. We have the lowest consumer price. Consumer confidence is the lowest, I think, in many, many years. All of that stuff adds up. And the other thing that has happened that we've talked a little bit about in the first 100 days, but I think
is important to bring back up, is this Department of Government Efficiency, the chaos, the firings, firing veterans, firing our workers that work on our nuclear weapons that fight diseases overseas like Ebola and all of that stuff. It's just complete chaos right now.
I also think something that has marked the first hundred days is the attack on First Amendment rights. I mean, the attack on people who speak out against this administration straight out of an authoritarian playbook. The way that we have Senators, Senator Murkowski coming out saying that they're fearful of this administration and Donald Trump in particular. And you brought up Russia.
That makes me think about talking about First Amendment rights. We've got a president who's telling Putin to stop it online. What are we doing? But the attack on First Amendment rights is something that for those of us who are constantly talking about this administration, railing against them, calling for action. It's a little bit concerning.
But more specifically, when you've got people who are in public office talking about being fearful of the president, that's noteworthy. And another thing in regard to that, you mentioned the attack on veterans. There's also the attack on information, just in general, eliminating history from government websites and the removal of women from...
all of our military branches from the government websites. It's really concerning, but also... Problematisch.
Ja, auf der nationalen Sicherheitsfront, es war eine komplette Unkompetenz in meiner Meinung. Donald Trump hat gesagt, dass er die Kriege am Tag 1 in Gaza und in der Ukraine beenden wird. Und das ist eine Lüge. Natürlich ist das nicht passiert. Hier sind wir am Tag 100 und es hat wirklich keinen bedeutenden Erfolg in either one of those areas.
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Chapter 5: What are the economic consequences of Trump's policies in his first 100 days?
So in 100 days, half of the executive orders that he has signed are directly from that playbook. So it is concerning to see what might be next as far as that playbook goes. Yeah.
Yeah, we sort of knew this was coming with the executive orders. But, you know, the Republicans and Donald Trump have actually only signed five bills into law. And four of them were just funding bills. You know, you're actually funding Biden's old budget, you know, because they're stopgap funding bills. So four of them, you know, take those aside.
And they've only been one bill that they've actually signed, which is the Lake and Riley Act. We could have another segment on the Lake and Riley Act, but bottom line is it really doesn't do anything to make Americans safer at all, as we already detain and deport immigrants who commit serious crimes. So they really haven't done anything in law right now.
It's all been executive order, but it's been extremely destructive, especially on the tariff front. Yeah.
Well, and there's something to be said, though, for... How productive can our country be? How secure can our country be? If over half of the country is living essentially in fear, right? Every day they're worried about what's going to come next, how they're going to pay for the next thing.
When we've got Doge cutting government workers, people concerned about their jobs, we've got friends and family in the military worried about what's coming next, worried about... Reorganisation coming down from Pete Hexeth. You know, there's just there's so many things that are unsettling to the everyday American that are happening that really have a long term effect and a long term cost.
And we didn't even get into the defunding of things like health care, the defunding of research, which will have generations, generations of impact. Yeah. So There's just so much uncertainty and that uncertainty leads people to not be able to function as they normally should or could on a daily basis. And that in and of itself is a loss of productivity and a loss to our economy on a regular basis.
Yeah, I think, you know, there's no doubt that the first 100 days of the Trump presidency with Republicans, by the way, in charge of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate has been a complete and utter disaster for the country. But something that gets asked of me a lot is. What should Democratic leaders be doing right now?
And has the Democratic Party been effective in responding to what Trump is doing? So I really want to get your take on that, because there's a lot of people out there who, you know, they're very critical of Democratic leaders, as if Democratic leaders are going to be able to stop this somehow. What are your thoughts?
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Chapter 6: How have Democratic leaders responded to Trump's administration so far?
Yeah, Mallory, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand's doing.
I know, but that's also like you're crapping on the work that I just did for however many years to get this going.
My belief is that Marco Rubio could care less. I mean, he is a guy who has, you know, he was a supporter of Ukraine until he became Secretary of State. But I mean, this business of also Pete Hegseth saying, well, the troops hate this. First of all, it's not true. The troops don't know anything about it. But second of all...
Why on earth are you enacting policies based on what the troops like or dislike? You know, troops don't like 0530 runs either in the morning. We still do them, right? I mean, it's just, this is stupid. This is a program, by the way, that costs about 1 14th of the cost of that F-18 that just... We just sort of dumped into the Red Sea this past week.
So, I mean, it's a very low cost program and it's just dumb to get rid of it. But when people said to me, putting Pete Hex at the Secretary of Defense, how is that going to hurt our national security? You know, people would ask me that. This is a perfect example. This is a low-cost program that gives us a lot of bang for our buck.
We're able to engage 50% of the population in conflict areas in order to win wars and then create lasting peace. And he's just throwing it away because he doesn't like the word women. in the title.
Well, this goes back to what we were just talking about, these sort of long-lasting, potentially generational impacts of this administration and their poor decision-making and poor leadership. I just for a moment... would like to implore everyone listening to imagine that you are Pete Hexeth's wife or mother.
Two women who surround him when he is consistently talking about how women are incapable, they're not powerful, they're not worthy. Like, that is insane to me. I find the fact that you can come from a woman and be married to a woman and have daughters and still espouse this level of disdain for half of the population and be supported in doing so absolutely crazy.
Ja, für mich ist es ein Programm, das über Sicherheit geht. Es geht um Daten. Und viele der Dinge, die wir in den letzten 20 Jahren des Krieges in Afghanistan und Irak gelernt haben, und sie in die Zukunft einbringen. Und es ist niedrigkostig und wir werden von Idioten geführt.
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Chapter 7: What is the Women, Peace, and Security Program and what happened to it?
They're literally cutting spending on the backs of veterans. And those of us that watch this space, it's not surprising to us, but it's happening and people need to know about it.
And instead, what they might be doing with said money is, I think it's Trump who's requested a parade A military parade for his birthday? So that's where the priorities of this administration lie. Trump needs a birthday celebration with the military, but he doesn't want to support them when it's necessary.
Well, I don't want to end on a bad note. We've had a great episode and we always end with a cheers. Somebody or something that we really are excited about and want to drink to. So this week, I think we should have cheers, Mallory, to Mark Carney and to Canada.
for electing a prime minister from the center left, the Liberal Party of Canada, and in the process sending a big fat message to Donald Trump, who was clearly for the other candidate, that at least Canadians are not going to be bullied by this bully.
They're our neighbors, not our 51st state. Cheers to Canada. Cheers to Canada.
All right. Thank you for listening, everyone. Next week we will have another edition of Truth in the Barrel Unfiltered. We'll have another edition of Truth in the Barrel Devil's Cut. And we're so excited to continue this conversation every week where we distill down the issues of the week, the issues of the day. And if you have a topic that Thanks for having me.
Alright, see you next time, everyone.
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