Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 1 July 2026

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

There's always a surfeit of madness, evil, and stupidity on this rotten timeline. Regardless, some dates have more gravity for me than others and that gravity exists outside the vulgarities of the present. This is one such date.  More times than I can count, people have said to me, "write a book." There's never been enough time. Once in awhile, though, the waves of memory crash on the shores of my present. As Mrs. Lowman said, "Attention must be paid." Still, make no mistake, we live in a time dominated by evil, venal, hateful people. We've got them here, too. 

The password is flop. It's showtime. Here we go, live from behind the corn phone curtain. It's head-on with Roxanne Kincaid. Three hours of cussin and discussin, with America's only liberal transvilly elitist right here, right now, on the head-on radio network. Brought to you in part by Cole River Mountain Watch,

who invites you to be part of the uprising against Mountain... top removal, CRMW.net. And now, from high in the hills of West by God, Virginia, here she is. Roxanne Kincaid. Well, howdy? Yeah. Here we go, off and running on this first day of July, 2000. Gracious, why are my cans turned up so high?

First day of July, 2006. This is the horn. Headon. Dot Live is where you'll find us on the interweb tubes. I'm just double checking to make sure it's the first day of July. Jeremy's gotten into my head. But it is. It's the first day of July, 2006. This is the horn.

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but out of the stupidity here in the time of this upcoming Cusquah Bicentennial. yeah i think that's right of the united states of america more on that in a minute but thank you for for joining in via the podcast if you're listening live thank you so much for being here and sharing this time with us and sharing your thoughts what have you during the program calls emails discussion over at the old holler tree in the distort channel it's easy to get to just go to head on dot live and click on chat room and it'll take you right there where ralps is waiting a couple of pieces of uh well not pieces of but a couple of

a couple of things to make mention of it's the beginning of the program first and foremost uh happy birthday to none other than the godfather of progress talk radio my dear friend and yours Mike Malloy today's Mike's birthday I wished him happy birthday earlier today and he said just another Wednesday but you know that's Mike but I certainly hope he has a

wonderful day and maybe has something some sort of cool and refreshing libation and secondly a note from Flavio that I wanted to share. Flavio's gotten some tough news, and you know what? This community, more so than any other effort in broadcasting in which I have ever been involved, and that goes back to 1979, this community cares about its own,

cares about its members, its friends, its family, the congregation it is after all prayer meeting Wednesday. I got a note from Flavio earlier today. And Flavio said on Monday, I received notice of non-renewal of my lease. I was informed that I have to be out of here by August 30th. The company that now owns my building informed me that they had secured a social worker to help me find new digs. I'm meeting with her on July the 9th. They will provide $1,500 to help me with my move and my security deposit. I've lived here since June of 2004, or 22 years.

My God, Flavio has been living in the same place since the inception of the horn. Wish me luck, Flavio says. I won't be online as much. I have to take care of this. I'm crestfallen, but I understand, nothing's forever. The owners of this building inform me they no longer want to deal with rentals. I hope I can find a new place. The social worker believes she can get me into senior housing.

We'll see. Flavio, I read that and just a pit formed in my stomach. Other members of the community, as you well know, Dave in the Blind is dealing with a similar situation. And please know, Flavio, that you are loved, you are cared for, and every member of the community will be rooting for you all along the way. And I hope you do find new digs that are to your satisfaction. I hope you find a place that's better than where you are now.

and no, before the juvenile delinquents can jump in an acute... No, I don't mean I want Plavio to go to a better place, you damn juvenile delinquents. But no, good luck in apartment hunting. But, oh, God, they no longer wish to deal with reddles. You know how that... You know what that translates as. We're turning it into condos.

For the love of money is the root of all evil. And by the way, having heard from him for the first time in rather a long time, we're going to hear from Paul from Parts Unknown this evening, if everything works out, sometime in the second hour of the program. and I'm looking forward to it. Paul always has a wealth of information and is a joy to talk to. So we'll get updated on all of that. But every program here at the Horn begins with gratitude,

and this program is no different, so thanks go out to our first day of the month, subscribers and contributors via PayPal. And that means thanks, thanks ever so kind of. to Mark, and thanks as well to Joseph. Thank you, Khalil. Thank you all for being partial sponsors of the program. And, well, we are at the beginning of a new month. And for years now, the new month has meant the arrival of Bruce and Terran's Memorial Challenge.

They live forever in my memory. dear sweet, wonderful people and supporters of the program. They are long since gone. Bruce went first, his lovely wife Karen, went afterward. And so that said, the program is going to open this month with an entirely new and hopefully inspiring first of the month challenge. and it comes courtesy of one of the people who was a longtime sponsor of Bruce and Karen's Memorial Challenge and by that I mean Ralphs and this is a big deal

we had the biggest miracle closing to close out the month of June we have had in forever and it took that miracle to dig us out of a hole that we have been in since at the very least April well here we go like I said this is a big deal and thank you Ralph's thank you so very much indeed it is the first day of July 2026 and on the table

is the $1,500 no more holes challenge courtesy of Ralph's so what we're hoping do by matching this challenge is to make sure that the month is halfway funded before we get anywhere near the halfway point of the month. So that that way, maybe, just maybe, we won't be digging out of a hole to finish the month of July. Thank you, Ralph. Thank you so much.

I can never thank you enough. That is so very kind of you. And it will make such a difference if we can get that met. So there it is, $1,500 waiting. And if you want to, if you want your money doubled to keep this program going and keep it on the air, keep the lupine passed away from the horn's rickety front porch, and keep them from circling around to the back where we're still looking for a roofing contractor. I have real hopes for a contact that, well, a conversation that I had last night.

And, yeah, waiting. But it's a chance to get the first half of the month of July fully funded. And who knows? Maybe we could finish the month of July with a little bit of fundraising-free radio. I know I'm being optimistic. A little bit of fundraising-free radio. that because it's so pleasurable, so enjoyable, and it was wonderful to have a few days of fundraising free radio for the end of June.

Thank you. Other things relative to the first day of July, this would have been, goodness gracious, my parents' 65th wedding anniversary had they lived? And, you know, I talk about them quite a bit on the program because all things being equal, they were the finest people I've ever known in my life. And I just want to take a moment to memorialize them. They were married on the first day of July, 1961, here at the mansion.

The local Baptist minister showed up and married them. you know it's funny when you're when you're a kid your parents look old no matter their age or at least it's always seemed that way to me my father was 37 my mother was 36 and i didn't i didn't make a lot of mention of it but friday the 26th of june well the 26th of june is always difficult for me um and this past 26th of june was the 55th anniversary of the death of the boy, who I was told was my brother, but, well, he was part of my family.

There's a lot of dark stuff behind all of that, but on the 26th June, the phone rang, I picked it up. A male voice said, here's your daddy home. He identified himself. his name was Sergeant Nykirk of the Atlanta Police Department. And I said, no, sir, my daddy's at work. He said, well, is your mama there? And I said, certainly, let me get her.

That was very formal little kid. And covering the mouthpiece of the phone, as we once did when phones looked like phones, I said, Mama, there's a man named Sergeant Nykirk of the Atlanta Police Department on the phone for it. you. At that point in time, my brother had been missing. We'll just call him my brother for the sake of simplicity. He'd been missing for several days, and he had disappeared in the company of another boy, a boy named Mike Bame, I think it was B-O-E-H-M. His parents were, we were told we never found out much about them wealthy resort owners from Hot Springs, Arkansas.

But they also had a lovely home there in northwest Alabama in the town where I grew up. And my mother came to the phone, and I handed her the handset with a quizzical look on her face, but also one of dread. And I stood there all of eight years old. and watched the blood drain out of her face

and the tears begin running from her eyes as she received the word that no parent ever wants to hear and I always felt bad for Sergeant Nykirk of the Atlanta Police Department as he explained the circumstances as he understood them in which my 16-year-old brother had died. I can remember every moment of that afternoon, like I'm watching a movie.

And with shaking hands, we had one phone in the house. With shaking hands, she replaced the phone on the hook where it hung on the wall in our kitchen and I had never seen my mama cry more than once or twice with the passing of her sister and the passing of my grandfather, her father-in-law. But she was openly weeping, and she said, go get Dr. John. Dr. John was a PhD professor at the local. university who lived two doors down. I never really understood why. He was a Vermonter,

by the way, but he had come south for a teaching position at what became the University of North Alabama. He took an interest in me because I was a curious kid, and I guess he was was in his, uh, maybe late 20s. Brilliant, intelligent. And later on, when, uh, when, uh, the PBS series Cosmos premiered, I remember thinking how much Carl Sagan reminded me of Dr. John. Dr. John would, uh, for instance, tell my mom and dad, uh listen i'm getting the i'm getting the telescope out tonight he had a oh gosh i guess it was maybe a five-inch

newtonian and he said uh saturn is the the skies are clear and saturn is going to be absolutely beautiful tonight would it be okay uh if robin came up in the middle of the night so i could show him saturn and my mama said absolutely and we did that he taught me he taught me about plants and trees and there was an old orchard that had gone to

seed up on the hill across the street from where I grew up and one day we tromped up the hill and dug up some peach trees and he planted one in his yard and brought another one down

and they were just saplings and planted it in our backyard they never they never yielded up a peach that was fit to eat they were harder than babylonian arithmetic which he probably knew by the way probably the smartest man i've ever known but uh he had a wife and a little daughter and for some reason mother said

go get dr john because she was i guess he was the first person she could think of just to have on hand in case she fell apart. And news like that spreads quickly. I don't know about anywhere else, but in the deep south it spreads quickly. But I mention all of this because, like I said, today would have been their 65th wedding anniversary, Kenneth and Margaret. And they spent, so, you know, the next day, the two, 27th, we lit out for Atlanta.

There was nobody to leave me with, and my parents and I did everything together. There was a time when I was a child, and we were traveling between West Virginia and Alabama, and they were just intensely curious people, and the route took us through Bardstown, Kentucky, on the Bluegrass Parkway. And that, of course, is smack dab in the middle of... of the distilling, the whiskey distilling region of Kentucky. Neither my mother nor father had any interest in booze, but they were fascinated my dad with industrial processes.

And so they pulled over, took the exit, what have you. And we were going to tour the distillery, and we took, and I still have images in my mind of that trip. that tour but they said at the end we reached the end of the first part of the tour and they said the rest of the tour um children can't go on because it's potentially too dangerous and too hot and uh my parents just and they said but you know we have a we have a we have a child care center here I guess we'll just use that term. That seems a little modern, but you can leave your kid here.

And my mom and dad looked at each other and said, no, that's okay. This was enough. And, well, if it's something he can't see, pronouns, the rest of us won't either. Like I said, the most amazing kind of. the most decent people I've ever known. So, like I said, on the 27th of June, it was off to Atlanta. We got there.

The 28th of June met with Sergeant Nykirk. I wasn't supposed to see it, but I saw the Polaroid photo they took of him as they brought him dead on arrival into the emergency room at Grady Memorial Hospital. This is grim, and it's Southern Gothic, and I apologize. And so, bless their hearts, the 29th of June, they took me to six flags over Georgia. Because everybody was concerned somehow about me, because I had just lost my big brother. Nobody knew what I knew. and what I kept to myself for decades upon decades upon decades.

Nobody knew the beatings that I endured, the whippings, and everything else that will not delve into. The day the news came, one of the men that my father worked with, he was off and my dad called him and said, go to the house, it's bad. and so he and his wife came and they're both gone now and took me to an ice cream shop

in downtown Florence called Trow Bridges which is still there to this day and has been since 1917 and said get whatever you want I got a banana split I was a foodie even then and at one point in time they said you know what's happened

it's okay to cry because I had just been more or less stone-faced through the entire thing my only concern being for my mother and father at the tender age of 8 and so on the 30th of June

we came home and it was as hot then as it is now the height of summer in the deep south parents never have plans for where to bury or if they're even going to bury bury their children. But, of course, there's always someone at the local funeral home who knows someone who has a

plot at the cemetery. So my dad then bought three plots. One for him, one for my mother, and one for him. His name was Kenny, named after my father. And so it was. And this only dawned on me in the last week or so, because I started running the numbers in my head and I realized 65th anniversary,

that sort of thing. My parents spent their 10th wedding anniversary July 1st, 1971,

burying their deeply troubled son. My mother was his stepmother. My father had raised him as his son even though he knew that his first wife who had abandoned all three of her children, leaving my father to raise them. My father raised him as his son,

even though he knew he was not. For you see, my father's first wife was what was simply referred to up here back then as a whore. I don't mean that she went out stepping out on the marriage. Oh, she said, no, she was a working girl. And was a working girl when he met her. But my, I suppose, somewhat naive father didn't catch on to that. And had three children with her, or thought he did. But when Kenny was born, Kenny required a blood transfusion.

And that's when the cat got out of the bag. Because neither my father nor his mother were a match for a blood transfusion. So it had to be gotten from someone else for that newborn infant. And that's when my father figured things out. But he didn't say, well, by God, no. He soldiered on. He did his duty. And he stood by her, went to work, came home,

And after everything had settled out, his family and friends said, listen, every day when you went to work, as soon as you were out of sight, she had a lamp in the front window of the house with a red light in it. And she turned it on. She's dead now, too. Again, Southern Gothic is hell. And if I ever write that book, it's going to make Angela's ashes look like Forest fucking Gump. But that would, imagine that, spending your 10th wedding anniversary.

You've made it 10 years and you spend it planning your child's funeral. Jesus Christ. But like I said, they were the best people I've ever known. And this would have been their 65th wedding anniversary. So wherever you are or aren't, Mom, Dad, I'm awfully glad you decided to get married and I'm awfully glad you took such joy in each other's company for the time that you had together. They made it 37 years together before my mom passed. So that's the first day of July for me. Micah said I remember getting that call from my brother. I was the one who,

who had to relay the news. Maybe that's why we're the friends that we are, Micah, a certain affinity. But, of course, we were friends before that, but I remember when it happened, and I know how hard it was. I really do know. So, now that I have completely ruined the opening of the program, we can move on to more delightful topics, but thank you for indulging me that. I always think of them on the first day of July, because, well, had they not made that decision,

you would not be listening to me. We would not be engaged in this long-running conversation. So thanks. To a certain extent, this program has been a little bit of, over the years, a little bit of an autobiography, a little bit of an audio memoir, and that's one of those moments. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Jean.

$65 in memory in honor of your parents. Thank you. And that goes to Ralph's No More Holes challenge. Thank you. Okay. All better now. I mean, I wasn't bad in the first place,

but, yeah. again this isn't just some radio show this is this is a community this is a family this is a congregation of sorts and we share we share the moments of our lives with each other unlike any other broadcasts that i know of anywhere thank you now like i said back to our regularly scheduled madness The juvenile delinquent, there's no way Jeremy was not going to comment. Lib Talker says on air, she does in fact not want a dear listener to go to a better place on that great getting up morning. Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy. That's four, so that's not a gimmick infringement.

I wonder how Ron and Rale is. I thought about him often. I think about a lot of people a lot. I should note that I am today, here comes the heat dome, I am broadcasting live from the fabulous horn studio sauna and it is pretty miserable in here and the poor little heat pump is doing all it can all it can but it doesn't have much of a chance against this south-facing and southeast-facing corner. so I'm going to try to get through three hours, but if it gets to the point where I'm absolutely drenched in sweat,

probably going to try not to do heat stroke. That was not on today or any days. To-do list. Oh, dear God. Let's get the first Ramalama Ding-dong out of the way. Obligatory police reference. apologies for this obvious lyric says lea new york raxan you don't have to put on the red light someone lee says had decided guilty is charged book em dano well you know what that's the thing

even if i did put on the red light well that never get busted you know the rest of the joke So about that password, flop. As Lee says, as in the description of many of nitwit Nato Niro's business ventures. Yes, that's true. Okay, that's another way of going about it. Lee serving as the horn ad hoc, what's the Latin word for that period of time department. Semi-Quincennial is the correct term. It means half of 500.

Sorry that the anniversary people are making you do math. Semi-Quincentennial. Because I know Siskua-Sentennial means 150. I think. Centennial is 100. Oh, well. Semi-Quincennial. Thank you, Lee.

Thank you. I'm a little smarter now. Jeremy, kindly... doing a public service here says, we'll warn you if you seem to be heat stroking out and babbling more than normal. Oh, what's normal, Jeremy? But flop.

Yes, flop. Not curflop, just flop. That little four-letter word can only mean one thing. We're talking about the great-and-marian can state fair

that no one's going to because it's an absolutely dipshit dumbass idea I have a little bit of I have a passing bit of familiarity with D.C. It really is built

on a swamp and I imagine the humidity there is somewhere just short of like breathing and walking through a sop and wet hot sponge. But Nitwit Nero is so lost in the shattered remnants of whatever used to pass for his mind. And he is such a dark triad narcissist that all he could think about is wanting people to come and see me and see. The problem is he said,

oh there were tens of thousands of people for my opening speech went i think we covered that here when in fact at best the park service said ah maybe there were a thousand and a lot of them were walking away when he started just rambling as you know pito grandpa does yeah well according according to nitwit nero it's uh uh the fourth of july saturday will be the most unforgettable edible birthday party any country has ever seen and i'll get two scoops of ice cream and two pieces of cake but uh the cnn is reporting that his his his toxic ego has him absolutely furious the social media team for Cankel's Collegula had to scrub

their sites of photos of the Great American State Fair because the aerial photos made it abundantly clear that people were staying away in droves. CNN said he was infuriated to see that there were only

a thousand or so people who could actually be counted you know, no. Barack Hussein Obama He manipulated the photos. I know he did. And then, of course, there's all the so-called, I don't know, Legacy One Hit Wonders who bailed out.

And then he gave a 30-minute stem winder in which he praised himself incessantly. But he's so, he's so unaware that only after the aerial photos came out did he realize that there was no one there the CNN story said the visual enraged him the sources said and multiple white house officials because this white house leaks like a sieve who had posted the photo deleted their posts the revelation led to a defensive trump lashing out on social media claiming that the crowds were back to the brim because he thought people would just

show up because he did it. This ain't field of dreams, Orange Julius Gieser. And so now they have triple-digit heat, humidity, like I said, like walking through a hot, wet sponge.

On top of it all, because this is a deeply paranoid maladministration, they have broken with Fourth of July tradition of years past, Democrat and Republican, and said, no one can bring a cooler. You'll have to buy your drinks from one of the concession stands. And, of course, I get a cut.

And, of course, the schedule goes way into Saturday night. If you want to be there, you'll have to get there early. You'll have to sit there and swelter in the heat. You won't be able to bring ice or anything with you to keep you cool. one of the one of the one of the sieves

in the White House said I do not understand why we're doing this so late I'm really not sure who thought this was a good idea really

you don't think you don't know who thought this was a good idea ask the bleach blonde lady who carries around his diaper bag who thought this was a great idea

she'll tell you it's the man she loves daddy. And so they're scrambling. They're in full-on desperation mode. So rather than expect people to just show up and sit in the viewing section, which at least might have gotten some sort,

no, they've implemented an online ticketing system. CNN said the tickets are free uh-huh well you know how this is going to go right people all over the world um with curious names

are going to secure their tickets and then not show it'll be very likely incredibly sparse the fireworks aren't due to start until midnight.

Nitwit Nero is insisting it's got to be the biggest fireworks display in the entire world. So they're setting off so many fireworks and I feel so bad for the puppies and the kitties and the birds and the squirrels and everyone anywhere near that obscene

display. They're not going to start till midnight. Twelve hours in that god-awful heat. all to set a record in the Guinness Book of World Records and beat out a fireworks display from somewhere in Asia and so pitching

Saturday's event your favorite president will be speaking so please show up please clap so please show up because if we have two empty seats you know what's going to happen

the fake news is going to say he didn't fill out the arena um there's no arena no. And, you know, this is a typical tactic of his. It's 2016 all over again. Well, if I don't win, you'll know it was rigged. 2020.

I didn't win. That means it was rigged. Right? Yeah. And while I have a great degree of reverence, like I've talked about previously, thinking back to the bicentennial, I have a great deal of appreciation and love. for that celebration

and well at least we made it to 200 we sort of made it you know let's just say we made it to 240 years because there's nothing to celebrate on this weekend that has

anything to do whatsoever with the principles of either president's Republican or Democrat or Whig or Jeffersonian Republican or federalist that came before. I still haven't snapped a photo of that scientist down the road. America

1776 to 2006. It's a fucking epitaph. God, a mighty that's great. Yeah, I saw that. Micah says, they cropped a picture of a performer because if you zoomed into his sunglasses,

you could see there was like two people there. I saw a reel from former CNN anchor Jim Acosta, who was sort of wandering around the grounds there, who said, ah, and for this performance, and it was some sort of big band, lots of trumpets and trombones and what have you, clarinets. And he said, yeah, there are about 12, I counted them, there are about 12 people here, and one of those people was asleep. and Micah says it's not because they're paranoid it's because they're greedy and maybe paranoid as an excuse Rye noting it's crazy

that she's so creepy that even though I despise Trump I also fear for his safety around that that woman Natalie Harp the bleach bond don't no no no no Rai don't don't it's okay they're telling him that she's his executive assistant I've seen a couple of people on mine suggesting,

and these are health care professionals, suggesting that she's his hospice nurse, and that she will never leave him. No, because he's going to leave her and the rest of us. And, well, I dare say, and it has nothing to do with the 250th birthday of America, I dare say, and this is not scientific, but I dare say there is more champagne chilling

all over the United States of America right now than perhaps at any time in America's history. Even the end of the Second World War, because champagne was kind of hard to come by. I don't know, was Andre making champagne? back then? Corbell, you know, the undrinkable domestic stuff.

But I've seen post after post and we've talked about it here. People chilling champagne. And I'm not the only one who said, hey, make sure it's on its side so the court stays wet and make sure you get the good champagne that has a cork and not the stuff with the plastic pop top.

I'm not sure how sales of sequined red dresses are going. Do you think melanoma will wear black. I mean, I always wear black. Blah! Says Melanoma.

Ooh, lovely idea. If I still partook, I would have, I still have some Cubans in a humidor. Rye says, I have a fine cigar for the occasion. Yeah. Micah says, I have a purple

sequin dress ready? I have a red dress. The one I got during the winter, of course, is entirely inappropriate. Talk about a heat stroke. Sweater dress. I confess, I've been on

that great big site named after a river in South America looking for just the right sequined red dress. Rye says, No, she'll reprise.

I don't really care, do you? And I could be entirely wrong. But I just, something feels a bubble off plum. And I don't think it's my sinuses, although, ooh, Jesus, I got a whopping headache. And no, I didn't drink any cheap champagne last night. But no, I, it just feels terminal.

And I think here in America, it's still, it's still okay to, talk about things like this. Okay, Wave. From Wave in Deerfield, I need a shout out to Panera in Deerfield. Tell Ms. Love, hello. And tell her that Wave is a wonderful human being.

He is. And definitely doesn't want to sell your kidneys on the dark net. Right. No ice baths. No, no, no, no, no, no, No messages in red lipstick on the mirror. Call 911. No, none of that.

None of that. No, Waves a totally nice guy. Good guy, Ms. Love. Wait, wait, are you, are you, are you romancing a girl at Panera? Wave. So at least we got the, we got the password out of the way. And now this. Oh, dear.

We've got a, let's see here. Hold on. because we've got a story that comes before the story. We go, oddly enough, nice segue wave to Florida, where, and this kind of dovetails with another story about nitwit Nero, and of course, whatever he says he wants, he gets, nitwit Nero wants a midterm, national maggot convention. He wants that convention to take place

in Texas this fall before the midterms and the spire keats shrieking each to each between the thin gray settlings that yet remain betwixt his ears are shrieking

that this will be a good idea meanwhile well let's let's check in CNN got their analysis from the one and only joke toad who may have rather like the blind hog that occasionally finds an acorn

he may have gotten this one right also in Colorado the demo I was going to say as the setup to that that was from Colorado following their primary on Tuesday in which Michael Bennett you can't get much more establishment than Michael Bennett Senate really took it on the chin in the governor's race to Phil Weiser.

Democratic primary for governor saw State Attorney General Phil Weiser defeat Senator Michael Bennett. Weiser has recently rebuked his own party for granting clemency to an election a denier in the state. Here to discuss the host of the Chuck Toddcast, Chuck Todd. Chuck, good to see you. When we look at the way things are shifting here, some people are writing off New York City and Democratic Socialists as a very New York City event. Democrats have long billed themselves as this big tent party and sometimes struck to their detriment because they have a hard time picking a lane.

These younger anti-established candidates at this point, are they forcing the party into a lane? It's clearly not just New York City. So I don't know if the answer is that yet because I think the bigger takeaway I have from Colorado is because if I... Now let's make sure we're aware here. This is joke toad. He might get part of this right. but he's going to have to do some licks fiddling for the

establishment middle of the road types New York City and in the video I find it interesting that as he prepared to answer the anchor's question he rolled his eyes upward and to one corner like he had some sort of internal

robotic display that he was but not uh anyway take it away if you look at what happened in the first district and also see it through the prism of the two statewide races you you highlighted the governor's race but um there was a senator on the ballot as well not just michael bennett but the other state senator is he's in cycle he got less than 60 percent against somebody he outspent nine to one. And there was the exact same argument that Kieros made against the Get, that Wiser made against Bennett, and that Julie Gonzalez, who was the candidate against John Hickenlooper made, which was, you guys don't fight hard enough against Trump. And in fact, the direct hits on Bennett and Hickenlooper that appeared to be the most effective were you

even confirmed some of his cabinet members. How is it that you're not standing up and fighting? And so, look, I think the New York City races were a bit more, I think, ideologically driven. It is, I mean, Mom Donnie made it so, right? He leaned into it. Mom Donnie made it so? What? Make it so, number one. What?

It was as much about him and his movement there. This, you know, yes, you have a DSA candidate finding. success in the most liberal part of the state in Denver but I think the real lesson is if you're not seen as a real fighter against Trump the Democrats are going to throw you out and go find somebody else hold the fuck on joke toad if we assume that there's anything left of the

Constitution see yesterday's program nitwit Nero is only going to be in office for one year and five more months or so, and then he's gone. That seems rather a simplistic

analysis. It's not that, I mean, sure, you're not fighting hard enough against Trump. You rolled over and voted for some of his nominees. And it's not just some of his nominees. They rolled over and voted for some of his worst nominees. There was no reason for any Democrat in the Senate to give Nitwit Niro a single fucking vote for any of his cabinet appointments. Whiskey Pete?

Madam Skunkhead? Gone but not forgotten. Jojo Blondie? How's the cancer gone? Uh, Krusty the nasty Nazi gnome? how did Michael Bennett vote on Mark Wayne Mullen? I mean, those are all valid points. But the larger point here is that nitwit Nero's gone no later than January the 20th,

20, 2009. If he's not gone before then, by any of two or three different methods means, the leading one seeming to be at present, natural forces, natural causes, for an unnatural man. Consult your Shakespeare for what unnatural means. But the larger, I think these candidates, these progressive candidates, I'm still waiting for a joke toad to call them commies or something, these candidates are looking beyond Trump.

they know that the corruption doesn't die with Trump or with Trump's exit from the White House. They know that the avarice, the stupidity. More on that in a minute, doesn't end with Trump. The maggot cult is the rank and file, the base, are dumber in the head than a hog is in the ass, while the top of that pyramid scheme is being run by evil billionaires, like Leon Scum, Peter Thiel,

Scott Bessent, Al, Inter-Awl. And that's the fight in the future. It's bad now, and it'll get worse, and it does not matter who his heir designee is, who his Octavian is. There has to be forceful pushback, which is what, it seems, that people, well, people who aren't in Confederate states want. And I think that is the animating force right now.

That doesn't mean that there isn't some openness to socialism, and we're not seeing all that. But I really told you there's not some openness to socialism. Hey, joke toad, have you ever driven on a public road? Or do you just use the powers of your mind that you were consulting when you rolled your eyes up into the back of your head to teleport from one place to another? Are you like that Trump administration official guy who teleported to a fucking waffle house in Georgia? Do you have your own private water supply, or do you depend on socialized water? Do you breathe the same air that the rest of us do?

Because that's socialized clean air, dip shit. Do you have a support-the-trop, sticker, joke toad? Curious that he has a podcast now. I guess that means he's unemployable by the multimillionaire for-profit media. Do you have it? Because our military is socialized. it's a socialist military yep

did you ever do a story when you were there at NBC joke toad about oh I don't know social security yeah I know I mean there are some aspects of socialism I really think the prism of Colorado was about fighting

and that the Democrats there were considered not tough enough so if that is I don't know if we're also at a point where that would be a broader party message, but if in fact it is, right, you're not fighting hard enough, the establishment that people who have been here for a while are not doing the job that we need them to do. Is that seen as a winning message across the spectrum of the party?

Well, I think that's going to be the challenge in a general election. Like, you see it in a primary. Hey, you weren't there. You're not standing up, right? And in fact, you know, it is, so I understand how that was effective. The question is you have a party base that is exhausted, that is tired of losing to Trump, right? This is the impact of losing to him a second time. You can write off once as a fluke a second time, and you have responsibility for this.

You were there, Michael Bennett, right? You were there, Diana DeGat. You were there. I think that's going to be what is the general election message that brings in. It's easy to fire up resistance Democrats, anti-Trump Democrats, to, get fired up and raging and show up to the you'll notice they're raging um

the joke toad that's the democratic base honey not the people you swan around with and and and and eat wine and cheese with nothing wrong with wine and cheese but the difference in a swing election okay whether it's we're talking Michigan Senate

Iowa Senate Ohio Senate Ohio Maine, you name it, is that last slice of voters. What do they want? Do they want more fighting with Trump? Do they want just more? Do they want more capitulation to Trump? Do they want more ice goons roving their streets, abducting people regardless of their citizenship? Do they want what that one maggot said targeting women of child-bearing age for deporting?

just because they're terrified that America's getting browner. Do tell. Or accountability. I think the corruption message, you guys, I think this, you know, the amount of money he's making off the presidency potentially can resonate, especially in this era of affordability. You think that can potentially resonate, do you? That's part of the whole opposing. Trump thing. God damn.

And they give these people money. Speaking of which, a quick reminder, we have a $1,500 challenge on the table to start the month of July, courtesy of Ralphs. It is now down to $1,400 and

$35. $1435. Thank you again, Ralphson. Thanks for getting us started. Jeremy says, Cal Bell, Romala, ding-dong, as you said it,

I was thinking at Horn Hive Mind, Patrick Stewart, make it so number one. Make it so number one. I know. The Horn Hive Mind is a powerful thing. Lee in New York says, Midterm Convention, I love this idea.

Republicans will have less money for campaigning. No candidates will be nominated for office. Conventioneers will also get the chance to walk out as POTUS rambles and mumbles on and on and on. Shines a light on the noteworthy Senate candidate who was involved in a biblical divorce. Obligatory Oliver Twist reference. Please, sir, can I have some more? Yeah, that's...

I think that's the general consensus. That's my curiosity is what is the general election message. This is an easy message to fire up a base on. How do you get over that voter that maybe he was open to voting for Trump and maybe did in 24 and would like to not vote for them again, maybe they don't like socialism, what else are you going to offer them? It would be interesting to see it to your point,

as Kristen was just speaking to, the report about... Ooh, God damn it, I'm going to go out in the yard and eat dirt and run rabbits. Oh, they don't like socialism, but maybe they don't want to vote for Trump again. They can't vote for Trump again, joke, Toad. Thank you, Jeremy.

We're now down to 14. 1331.81. 87. Thank you so much. Thank you. The billions, right, that President Trump has made, whether that will fire people up and up. It's also interesting, the RNC announcing

that they're doing a midterm convention in September, in Dallas. Do you see this as an attempt to boost enthusiasm or to, in some ways, put Trump on the ballot? And if so, which party does that benefit? Now, after all the stupidity that's gone before, here, he may actually have a point. Let's find out. Oh, I think the Democrats will help pay for this convention.

I think they would love to see this race as nationalized as possible. Midterm elections, the more nationalized they are, the worst that is for the incumbent party. History will show that. Recent history shows that. So doing this, the way. that Trump wants to do it, making it about him, making it about you're either with Trump or you're against Trump. That's the frame, frankly, Democrats would love to go into the general election with. So now, I understand why there are some that argue inside the Republican Party, knowing that Trump is

unpopular with the middle that says, this is a turnout election. We're not trying to persuade anybody. We've got to find ways to fire up the MAGA base, and the MAGA base has never shown up when Donald Trump hasn't been on the ballot. So this is an attempt to do that. I'm skeptical this is going to work, especially at a time when he's more unpopular now than he has been at any moment of his sort of of his of his stranglehold on the Republican Party. So I just think this is again, Democrats will help pay for this. He couldn't say chokehold because that reminds that that rhymes with joke toad is saying

invention if they promise to nationalize this message and make it all about Trump so I think it's highly risky I understand the rationale you know among strategically the only shot in some of these are red states that Democrats have to win to win the Senate Texas Iowa Ohio Alaska Nebraska so the the Republican argument is

if they just get their own voters out they can hold those seats I just think it's highly risky. I do, and I think it only helps Team Blue more than they think it will help Team Red. All right, Chuck, appreciate it. Yeah. We are all now dumber for having heard that.

But, yeah, I'm with you, Lee. Bring it on. Which takes us to representing Randy Fine who is crazier than a sprayed roach this guy is a genocidal maniac

he doesn't think Israel has slaughtered enough Palestinians babies in their crib and whatnot but now over on news muck Randy Fine declared and trying to figure out just exactly who he's talking about

Randy Fine has declared that there's a battle for the soul of the maggot party between the good maggots and the crazy maggots. My only question being, how the hell can you tell the difference? Oh, for pity's sakes. Well,

let me see if I can find that somewhere else because this is good. By the way, Nittwitwit Nero blathered in front of a bunch of people in cowboy gear today. Ah, yeah. Come on,

please be there. Oh, well, never mind. We're gonna... We'll just do the reader instead. Randy Fine, like I said, said... When these people surfaced decades ago, they didn't take them seriously.

They were so determined to gain power. They said, we'll take anybody into our tent. Now those people have taken over the tent. That's why we got to fight them in my party and the Republican Party and not let crazy people take over. Because if we do, we're done. I think what we see happening to the Democratic Party, at least he said Democratic.

It may be good for Republicans, but it's terrible for America. And this from, you know, one of the actual fucking crazy people. So now that brings us to this. Was it Greg Stuby? Greg stupid wasn't he the maggot that nearly upended the Republican majority at one

point in time such that the speaker had to say hey listen please be careful out there don't ride any bicycles or do any dumb stuff wasn't it Greg stupid that decided he was going to I don't know drink a couple of six packs of butt lat and clean out the gutters

and then tumbled off of the ladder and wasn't able to go back to work for a couple of... Yeah, that was him, wasn't it? Well, him, he, and Randy Fine... Yes, Leon. Was he the fourth stooge? Was he Larry's brother? He might be Larry's great-grandson.

No, Larry was a decent guy. Greg Stuby, Greg Stupid, and Randy Fiends. are big mad Why? Why? I mean, they're from Florida. Florida is an absolute

maggot wonderland. I mean, they're giving away gasoline in Florida. It's free. Nobody has to pay for food. It's just maggot paradise. You don't have to worry about

seeing anybody any trans people or anything like that. Oh, oh no, wait a minute. What's that? Oh, oh, we have a brewing crisis in Florida. Yep, Randy Fine and Greg Stupid. Back on June the 24th fired off a letter to the organization, the international organization,

headquartered in Ireland with one of those I'm going to fuck this up. On commission Le Rensi Galacha. That's the governing body for Irish Dance. They sent a letter also to the Irish

Dance Teachers Association of North America. You know where this is going, don't you? Well, they're hosting the North American Irish Dance Championships in Orlando.

And in that letter, well, the competition starts tomorrow and runs through the 7th of July at the Rosen Center Hotel. That's been confirmed by both the Irish Dance Teachers Association of North America and the official website of the championship. and Randy Fine and Greg Stupid,

neither of whom will ever be accused of being fit enough to even attempt Irish dance are all hot and bothered because they can't stop thinking about whatever may be between the legs of one of the competitors. Because there's a trans girl in the dance competition. and maggot men can't stop thinking about trans girls and trans women. The Florida Attorney General, James Uthmire, go to the Uthmire cut-up and get out of your car and cut off your Uthmire. He's going to sue the Irish dance competition. He said that, uh, your policy allowing.

competitors to enter divisions based on gender identity may violate Florida law. And Greg Stupid and Randy Thiened say that, well, even if you hold it in a hotel or a convention space, you've got to reserve your girls and your women's divisions for people what was assigned female at birth by an exhausted doctor who took a quick glance between the legs and said, this is your problem, not my. It's literally your baby, you bath it. At the center of the controversy is a girl, and she's participated in regional Irish dance competitions,

and she qualified for both the national and world competitions. Neither of which any of these assholes have any jurisdiction over. James Uthmar said, the upcoming North American Irish Dance Championships. And Orlando currently allow men who identify as women's to compete in and earn recognition as women. Florida law protects fair competition for actual women's and girls. Sex-based categories are rooted in biological reality,

not ideology. My office will take appropriate legal action against any failure to comply. You do that, Jimmy Uthmire. You do that. The folks in Orlando will love you for it. Why don't

you just shut down the whole competition? Yeah. And then everybody who came there for the competition can sue the state of Florida. Check in with your boss there. You know, Ron Monkey Up

Go Go Boots Declantis. See if he's all keen to have all that revenue go by-bye. Yeah, it's pretty damn rich. Oh, and he wrote a whole two-page long letter. And the maggots, the maggots are right there. It's time to show the Irish that they don't make the laws in this country, and they follow the laws of this country. Since these furriners have already admitted to come in here and ignoring our laws, they should have their visitor visas revoked. Really? That's the real Georgia Peach 3, Kimberly

2.0. Now, this, by the way, has been in the planning state, has been in planning for well over a year. But, you know, who's counting, right? Stupid, stupid, stupid people.

Uthmar said, my office will not tolerate these sorts of policies and will take all necessary steps to safeguard rights and interest of Florida's female competitors against CLRG and IDT ANA's unjust policy because I can't stop thinking about what's between

a teenager's legs. That's what it boils down to. You're goddamn perverts. Every last one of them. Can't bring themselves to condemn a man who was confirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States to be a sexual predator,

but they're thinking about the genitals of a child. Good for you, James Luthmyre. Good for you, Randy Fein. Good for you, Greg stupid. Go go get up, go climb the ladder and clean your gutters some more. That's where your mind is after all. And of course, this is all an astro-bunch of astroturf bullshit. It started with the Concerned Women for America, who started trying to lean on the Irish dance folks who by the way coming from Ireland which is a not a part of the United States

and over which the Attorney General of Florida has no jurisdiction and who have every right to tell Greg Stuby, stupid Randy Thiened and Jim Bob Uthmiyer

to go pound sand they have laws preventing discrimination against trans people which they're probably going to follow. In fact, the organization said, we're committed to preserving and promoting Irish dance in an environment that is inclusive and free of discrimination and harassment.

And we want our dancers, our families, our teachers, and our volunteers to feel safe and respected, regardless of age, ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, income, race, or sexual orientation, opportunities to learn and grow as dancers and people. That's a very polite way to say, fuck off! Yeah, word that Europeans use a lot and Australians use a lot,

and we don't use in the North, in the United States. Hook off, you see you next Tuesdays. And apparently it's going to start tomorrow, and James Uthmire and Greg Stupid and Randy Fiend are just going to have to get used to it. but interestingly this is not the first time that some good god fear and upstanded Bible believe in Christ-centered evil jellical gundominalist ammo sexual Christian Republican

has tried to insert themselves into Irish dance nope in point of fact and this was a few years back a young woman, cis woman, because see all this anti-trans hate is just a starting point.

It's the Baltic and Oriental Avenues on the Monopoly Board of Maggot Hatreds. A few years back, a woman displayed some real talent for Irish dancing and conservative

Tibbs had a conemption, saying, well, she can't do no Irish dancing. She's black. Black people can't Irish dance, because they're black. They ain't Irish. Because there's not a single black person on the entire Emerald Isle. Well, the, I think it was the,

Tausik? I know, butchering the word. I'm going to fire up my duo lingo, Irish, and see if I can get past some of this. It's hard to pronounce. It doesn't sound the way it's spelled. But, no, the Prime Minister of Ireland said, Oh, what a lovely dancer you are.

You're really good. Why don't you come over here and dance with river dance? And then they went on tour in the United States of America, and the racists just had to die mad about it. So, same, same. Wow, we're halfway through the program. And it would be great if we could dock out a big, or a substantial chunk of Routts's No More Holes Challenge this evening.

Anybody wanting to help out? Much obliged. And I know a lot of you already did. Oh, and you know what? I made a mistake. Colin jumped in last night So we're actually at Let me

Let me We are at 1331-81 87 I apologize Colin I was I was remiss What's that Tom in sunny San Rafael

Red dress I got to wondering what Jady might wear on the day it finally happens Or late that night with the blinds closed But that last part, the parenthetical part, Tom, gets a ramalama ding-dong. Do you think they might put on a red sequin dress or perhaps a pantsuit? What I want to know is what the sofa was wearing. And I said at the top of the program that I was expecting a call from Paul from Parts Unknown about this time.

Paul, if you're out there, let me know if we're going to, if we need to reschedule. Lee, in New York says, so confused about the international competition, those Scots in their kilts made him faint. Like every real man would, he got the vapors. And the Scots are still in the World Cup. England held on to beat the Democratic Republic of the Congo earlier today. The United States takes on Bosnia and Herzegovina

starts up about the same time that the program will be closing. But right now my attention has been captured by Erling Hayland of Norway. Six feet, five inches tall, blonde, got a neck like a bull 200 pounds and people are saying that he is like the Vikings like unto the Vikings of old

and I think Sunday the 5th is when Norway faces Brazil and I got to admit I'm rooting for the Norwegians because they haven't had that kind of World Cup success in a very very long time And I'm all about underdogs. I'm actually surprised at how engaged I am by this, but I've been watching a good bit of it. I watched Mexico finish off Ecuador last night from El Esteka Stadium. Who knew that Mexico City had a stadium named after one of my favorite Mexican restaurants in Parker, Curiouser and curiouser.

Now the Mexican side looked really good. I would really like it if the Mexican fans could stop hurling homophobic slurs at the opposing team, but well, maybe that's just a bit too much to hope for it. Lee in New York says, J.D.'s sofa. You know it'll be wearing a slip cover. No self-respecting sofa wants to wind up all sticky, Lee. But, oh, the JD Egg?

Well, sort of a dual use of the password. He flopped as well today. Speechifying at Naval Air Station, Oceania in Virginia Beach, Virginia, earlier today. He was trying to make a joke. Biden joke. And nobody laughed. This was that moment. It's amazing to be here. You know what I'm thinking as I'm coming down the steps is

don't fall and bust your ass in front of all you and in front of all these cameras because they would never let me live that one down. You know, the previous president, I'm trying to be nonpartisan. You ever seen these old cartoons where you've got the angel on the shoulder and the devil on the shoulder. Well, because I'm speaking to all of you are great patriots and service members, I've got the angel on my shoulder saying, JD, don't be partisan. We're going to make this nonpartisan. And then I've got the devil. Oh my God. He called himself Jady. A level on my shoulder who wants to talk about every time that Joe Biden fell up or down the stairs.

And the media didn't care about that, but if I did it one time, if I did it at one time, it would be a major, major story. Well, I mean, was it a major, major story when the photo came out of you in drag back at Yale Law School before the tiger mom got hold of you? Jimmy Dick or Jady or whatever names on your birth certificate or whatever you're calling yourself these days? Now tell another good one, like the time that your orange daddy went up the steps of Air Force One with toilet papers stuck to his shoe. that's a real knee slapper. You'll notice nobody is laughing. Let me just say to all of you, first of all, I'm so proud of you.

I'm so proud of you. Where the hell are you from? I'm so proud of you. I'm so old. I can remember when the maggots and the, well, back then they were teabaggers and birchers and whatever, had a connoption when they said that, well, well, and you know what, I think they said it about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton back in 2008. Well, they, they change their, they change their voices when they're depending on who they're

around. I'm so proud. I am so proud of, where are you fucking from? You sound like Sarah Palin, you little dumbass. Have you ever met Brian Nome? Does anybody know if J.D. and Brian know who have ever been seen in the same room together? And if not, is anyone surprised

that no one saw them in the same room together? Hmm? But that wasn't all there was to it. No, no. No, no. Because, well, there was this. As he pointed his fingers, finger at the troops. I was a member of the military trapped in that hangar.

I would be less than comfortable worrying about where that finger had been. But what we must never do is drop bombs just for the sake of dropping bombs. And that is what the president will never ask you to do. He'll ask you to go to war, yes. But when he asks you to go to war, he'll tell you exactly what you're going for. And I think that is what you should expect out of your political leadership. That's, that, is that working for you there, Jimmy Dick? Because I feel like it's, it's really not.

Not a lot of it. I mean, he, that, Nero did tell us why he was going to war. At first he was going to war to stop Iran from getting the nuclear weapon that BB Netanyahu told him that the Mullahs would have in probably 10, not 10 minutes no no 8 and a half minutes and then it was regime change and then it became to open the Straits of Hormuz and now they get to keep their

nuclear dust what a monumental dumbass and then there's this representing Mark Alford showed up on C-SPAN today and was having a hard time answering questions. Mark Alpert is a maggot from the show-me state. The question came up.

What about Nitwit Niro's all of his crypto profiteering? Congressman, he did mention President Trump cashing in. I'm sure you're aware of the articles this morning, the Washington Post being one of them, Trump's income soars on crypto venture windfalls. It says that the president reports more than $1.4 billion in 2025. Will the Congress be looking into that at all? I have not read that article.

I am not personally involved in any crypto trading. I filed the Pelosi Act, which would ban stock trading by members of Congress, individual stock trading. We do have 401Ks. and some other investments that are more in general. But look, personally, I can only tell you about me personally. But I don't believe that we should be getting rich while we're in office. In addition to that, would that apply to the executive branch?

Because the idea of stock trading in Congress is you guys have inside information, which would be unfair for you to be trading on that information. The same would apply to the executive branch. Well, the executive branch, their Article 2 authority in the separation of power, should not be imposing laws on us. And I don't think Article 1 should be imposing laws on Article 2 authority. I don't think that's the job of Congress. All right. Congressman?

I think the Article 1 legislature imposes laws on the Article 2 president all the fucking doing. What the hell are you talking about? out. And just one more moment. Another question for Mark Alford. This is a short one that you can probably guess why. You know, there are 40,000 people died at the hands of the Iranian government because they were wanting freedom. We are providing somewhat of a pathway to that in making sure they never have a nuclear weapon, making sure that their Navy has been destroyed, that their ballistic missile capabilities have been destroyed, that their ability to fund Islamic terrorism has been destroyed. We have some work to do, but it is opening a pathway for normalcy in the Middle East

and the rest of the world. And I, you know, hello there. Hello in there, Congressman Alfred. What color is the sky on your planet? We're preventing the Iranian regime from using a nuclear weapon on their own people in their own country? Woo! You just can't make this stuff up. In the words of the great Yosemite Sam, not light, but great, although imaginary, to paraphrase, whew, maggots is so stupid. And let's run over to the stress line because I suspect we have Paul from Parts Unknown on the line.

Is that you, Paul? Yes, we're, Roxanne. Am I coming off in okay? Yeah, you're great. It's so nice to talk to you. It's wonderful to hear from you. That's great. I'm on Bluetooth and sometimes that's a bit dodgy with your system.

Yeah, it seems to be okay for the moment. All right, well, let me know if it goes down and I'll switch to the phone. I'm just at the house walking around. Watching dog. How are things? Well, it's kind of a loaded question. I'm just trying to think how long it's been since we talked. End of April of last year.

Wow. The beginning of May. Late April, early May of 2025. Yeah, okay. I will get into that. Here at a moment, I did want to say about your pending autobiography, making Andrew's ashes look like Forrest Gump. I was lifting in the car when you said that

and I just went, damn. So that's, that's probably, that's probably, that's probably unfair. That's probably unfair. I mean, Angela's Ash is A, the massive bestseller and B, awfully sad. But, yeah, there,

there's some Southern Gothic. Is that the, is that the right word? It's a heck of a hope for your book. book. Well, yeah, and to a certain extent, I'm just giving it away for free over the course of a 25-year-long occasional audio memoir. Gotcha. So yeah, for me, life has not been great. Let me reverse the death of Yvonne I'll let you know that everybody's okay, everybody's doing fine, everybody's a lot. But

everybody's not as doing as good as they were a year or so ago, which should probably be applied to everybody but the president. Well, he's not doing as well as he was a year ago either. I mean, he's down to the point of you know, his brain's

a rancid oatmeal. Yeah, but he's trying to be richer than creases on his way up the door. And it will avail him not. So what happened? No. So what happened to me was when I called you last April and May,

it was from the road heading home. And I was up there last year because my dad had a massive coronary. Luckily, he was in the hospital when it happened, and he was dead for about 45 seconds. And so I went up at last April in the beginning of May to, help out my mom and do some stuff and be supportive and just, you know,

get things done and help with a smooth transition. He's doing great. He's fully recovered. Everything's fine there. But yeah, so basically this all starts April of last year with my father's medical emergency,

not necessarily related to it, but basically companies being corporations, And the economy and our liberation day from the tariffs forced my company to do a bunch of layoffs, including two people in my department. And we've been working overtime ever since to catch up. And so I've been working 55 hour weeks, rarely with a 40-week hour week off. I call those weeks off. when I did the convention last August

at the end of August I worked the Saturday before that weekend at work and then every Saturday in September so I've just been working as hard as I can thankfully I'm paid by the hour but it doesn't give me much life to do anything I'm not going to conventions this year I can't get me writing done I'm just work guy

and family and family death that's it and that's a lot, but there's just no breathing room. And it's hard to focus on anything else. And that's compounded with the fact that Claire's bio-dad got laid off last May, June, and my wife got laid off on December 19th at the end of last year. They were nice enough to tell her on the 13th of November, though. So she had a full five weeks to kind of prepare. And so it's good that I'm making extra income because it's all going to the deficit of people that don't have jobs.

Oh, dear God. That's so much pressure. Yeah, yeah. It's hard to join in on the conversations at work about this place sucks, and maybe we should form a union and that kind of stuff or have a sick day out. because it's just me. If I lose the job, then who knows what happens next. So I say that to kind of go anecdotally, or I guess personally, but also to say that

I feel like I'm just, maybe all of us feel this way, living in two realities, the reality we're living in and the reality, the administration seems to be living in. Because I'm tired of hearing this is the hotest, country ever in its history or like I'm not saying it so I'm just sort of like I don't know what he's talking about and it's it's frustrating and then you know lastly my work a a you know about a you know, about, about end of 2024, November, December, of 2024.

We got a new director of operations at our site. And, yeah, it's been fun. He's looking to improve the numbers, as you always do. And kind of like lawyers in the manufacturing industry

I work in, we kind of bill hours. So in an eight-hour day, you know, They wanted six and a half hours of that to be billed to work orders. And then, you know, you got two on-page 15-minute breaks for seven hours total. And then got last hours for meetings or trainings or things you're not working on and everything else. And what that director did is just dial that from, and that's an 80-20 split, 6.5 out of 7.5.

So that's an 80-20 split. All he did is dial us up to seven-and-a-half hours billable. all day. So all he did was whip crack is from 80% to 100%. And wow, the numbers look great. I consider myself a business genius. So

that's where I have been doing. No time for phone calls, and work. To the horn, no breaks or nothing, just groaned. I doubt now if my director ascribes to this particular business idea,

but have you heard of the Sesame seed idea of management. No, I have not. A friend of mine who works for Amazon told me about it because it was for Amazon to do it. They're hiring on these programmers to do stuff and work them like crazy hours and pay them a lot of money over the course of like four years. And then lose them like bleed. And the idea is we're going to put a lot of pressure on you pay a lot of money, but we are going to extract you. like you extract oil out of the sesame seed.

We're going to press you and grind you until you are a husk. And then we're going to toss you and find a new seed with oil. And I feel like that's what this guy subscribes to as well, except minus the extra cash. You know what? That is, that's one of the best analogies for predatory capitalism I've heard in a long, long time. and they say it. They're like,

it's their ideas. They're saying they're proud of it. Like everything else that they do, that the powers that be due, they say horrible, like incredibly bad things and, and it's a business goal. And it's just like,

ah, so that's been my life. Grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, survived and, and, and, uh,

that's just then where I've been, just trying to put one foot in from the other, and people roof over everyone's had and all the bills paid. So, what's, not, not, not,

not diminishing anything that you have just described. As you said, I feel like, I feel like what you've done, what you're talking about, uh, is within certain broad parameters. Ah,

it's, uh, it's kind of an every man thing here. in the greatest country on earth right now. You know, you're the hottest country in the world. How do you define hot? I mean, climate change is definitely hot. Climate catastrophe.

I think an artist will define the world by what's going on with them. He is doing awesome. Therefore, the country's never been doing better. Right. And of course, of course, it does, you know, It doesn't matter to him if a brisket costs $121. That's chump change. No, no.

That's the entire nature of, well, of economic regressivism. Yeah, the oiliest gas is less than $10 a gallon. What's your problem? Yeah. I mean, this is the let them eat brioch presidency. Yeah. No kidding. So to finish up on the personal side, for those of, I know it's been a long time for those of the home family that don't know or don't remember. One of the things that we've been doing at the house here since the beginning of that pandemic is we've been a foster home for a local dog rescue out here in parts of them.

And we started volunteering with them in May of 2020 and taking on dogs. And it's a great rescue and a wonderful program. Through a series of odd events, I can't go into detail due to legal NDA reasons. My wife, who has been unemployed for a while, has now is the executive director in running said rescue. So that life aspect has changed. So I've been doing my best to work the hours and support her and the dogs, take them for walks, I feed them. I'm dating them right now while she's

doing adoption events. We've had as many as 21 dogs in the 1,100 square foot ranch house with gouts but a big backyard. And we currently have one mama dog named Summer and five puppies. We've got our three dogs.

And we've got Mama Kay, a St. Bernard Pyrenees mix who is still with us after she gave birth to a litter of 10. We've adopted out all of her durable puppies, but not her just yet, simply because we're trying to find a non-city

a doctor for her. She's a big-time barker and, you know, noise complaints. You kind of want to, you know, she's got that fast and have guard-going. Everything else is sweet. She's not aggressive. She loves cat's coes, like spawning a walk. It's very smart. She just protects her territory. And when she had a pet and puppies here,

she was barking almost non-stop at anything. We put a barking collar on her to shock her for the first time we had to do that dog. And she did not care. protecting my pen puppies. She would bark into that battery to rain. So. Oh, my God. That's our new life.

Yeah. Yeah, tenacious. Yeah, what was the term from so far, so many years ago? Mama Grizzly Energy. Yeah, well, not aggressive. Just these are my babies back out. For me, absurd. Monservis.

You know, but I will not be stopped by your nuisance. I have 10 puppies. certain percent. And she's, we're training her now. The puppies are all up and out. We're training now. She's getting better.

The caller's not part of the equating. You know, she's, she's learning. Aw. It's just, uh, she's a sweetie. So that's the, uh, well, you're doing, you're doing the work of the angels, uh, in that fostering. I have to ask you, because I remember a story from some years back. Uh, was it geese?

You're talking about honky? Yes. Yeah, I mean, no news on that since he got deported to Canada, basically, so he wouldn't come fly back to my neighbors. And honky never came back. Well, here's three talks. They captured him once and kept a middle, local, put it to transfer them to a local bird sanctuary, local being within that county. I mean, you know, at least 25 miles ago. And he flew back.

Then they captured him again and shipped him. and shipped him to another county, two counties away, like just, you know, 100, 100-some-up miles. He came back, and then they just shipped into Canada. So he found his home, and he did where it was. And he finally got the message. Hey, it's nicer up here. Yeah, or just so far away, I can't find my bearings anymore. So, yeah, so as we transition to politics and science and stuff, just to let you know, too,

one, I may commit a couple of DJ crimes during this conversation and by definition of that, I'll let you be a judge Roxanne since you have the DJ history is

I will say things like you know, the Trump administration is every day it's just a constant refrain from that wonderful George Michael song of freedom. All we have to do now is take these lives and make them true somehow.

Oh, well played. Well played indeed. Yes, but you know, I feel there's a DJ crime involved with completing the wonderful George Michael with Donald Trump. Oh, you're not, you're, no, you're not even,

you're not even approaching some of the crimes that I've committed, so I, you know, I think you've got a couple of freebies coming. All right. I do pretend, I do, I do intend to sing for about 15 seconds later. Also a crime, and I know about your rules of singing in the radio. No, that only applies to me.

Well, I think I've got a voice worse than you. So I guess the other thing I wanted to tell you, I wanted to write a letter to an email to you to tell to the show about my experience on Friday, March 13th of this year, which is a very unlucky day. But it was a good encapsulation of how much my life could change in the past year. I'm going to detail, but part of that were two things. One, the morning meeting, again, we don't have time for meetings,

and we need to do as much billing hours as possible during the day. But we spent 45 minutes on that Friday. Half of that meeting was instructing us the right way, to empty the trash out of our labs into the main trash bins in the hall. And again, this is nationwide. So it's not just us at our site. I worked for a national company, national company. So that the cleaning crew that comes in, the company doesn't have to pay the hazard fee for stepping in the lab and emptying the trash.

And then the other half of that 45-minute meeting was talking about why we were constantly coming in so short on our numbers. And it's like, well, I don't have 45-minute meetings, maybe. And then on that same day, one of the things I've had to do is put my wife Leah and Claire on my health insurance because my wife got laid off and lost her job. I was on attempt number four on March 13th to make that happen. It took me eventually six. I was already an advocate for

Medicare for everybody but after trying to put two people on my insurance for another company and taking six tries, I believe it's absolutely mandatory because that was a mess and ridiculous and cost me so much time just to get them freaking health insurance

transferred over. Oh, that sounds positively Byzantine. Yes, and part of that, again, just letting people that don't know or are forgotten because it's been a while. I have autism. I've been diagnosed. I got diagnosed a couple years ago

when I was 46, 47. So, you know, lately a midlife late life diagnosis. And understanding that I have a visual processing disorder as part of my autism and what that means. And basically, what a

visual processing disorder is for me, in my experience is it's a lot like having dyslexia in pre-writing language times. You don't know you have a problem, but let's say when you're 15 in prehistoric times, suddenly writing is invented, and everyone now needs to know to read and write by the time you're 30 to function society. You don't know you have a problem, and you don't know why everything is so difficult with the reading and writing and why everyone picks it up. I'm in the same boat, but with the internet. Look at these websites. Look how they change format from website to website.

There's no structure. So it's a little bit like me saying to you, every time I tell you a sentence, Roxanne, I'm going to say a third of it in Japanese, a third of it in English, and a third of it in Russia, but we're changing it from Russia to Turkey because Turkey's more cool.

So we're going to do Turkish now. And every few years they change something, and I'm constantly at, you know, I can't keep up because it's overwhelming, which is one of the, and by Vidal POSSI's order is why I took six tries to transfer over and so four.

Two of those are my fault. Good God, I mean, you just, I mean, I'm sure you didn't mean to, but you kind of did. You just opened up a whole a whole avenue of conversation because you know what happens anytime

anybody mentions the ancient world to me. I'm often gone. You just mentioned dyslexia and the ancient world and the invention of writing. And I know what kineiform looks like. It's like a series of arrows pointing in different directions. If you think dyslexia is bad with the Roman alphabet, that. Try kineiform.

Holy shit. I mean, just look up some kineiform and try to imagine that your brain transposes things that are pointing left to things that are pointing right. When almost the entire language that has letters and representations that are entirely defined by which way the arrows point. Holy crap. So when I encounter this stuff, I don't know how much given my, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm quickly approaching 50, probably 49 next month. I don't know how much of this problem is visual processing disorder and how much of this is old man getting to the point where he can't program a VCR.

Ah, the, yeah, otherwise known as blinking 12 o'clock syndrome. Yes. It's like how much of this is that's when I'm getting old and it's not my generation and it's just not my generation and not my thing and I didn't learn it when I was young and now much of this is the visual processing disorder, you know, junking me up. You know what? That's an interesting inquiry because you're not alone in being bamboozled by the way that, and no offense by using bamboozled. because I live in a state of not West Virginia, but the state of bamboozle. I thought it was a state of well chumped. No, we live in the nation of well chumped.

I'll give you that. You know, whether it's, you know, the way that websites now have become more adept in hiding out. how to get rid of the ad because they really want you to screw up and click it? Yep. Sometimes I need a mega fine glass to find the X

in an upper right corner that's sometimes not in the upper right corner. Well, exactly, you know, and I thought it was bad when I was merely annoyed by scientists hate it when you do this one thing.

It seems like it's infinitely worse now. Yes. Yeah. And so that's kind of personal stuff. As we move on to more science questions and politics, please understand that I'm highly stressed and frustrated by our current events, so I'd have a better term. And I may sound angry on occasion.

My general emotional state when talking about this insanity, from a scientific point of view is similar to forgive me, Roxanne, what is the name, is it of the Mark Twaintee? The Farmers Omelmanac, where the main character

is someone with all the authority and no knowledge of farming stuff. Oh, how I edited an agricultural journal. How I edited the agricultural journal. My general demeanor is that of the character from that story. that comes into the main character and goes, read that, read that right there.

I may go insane. That's my demeanor. At which point, he said, I may now die in peace and leapt out the window. Right, yeah. Yeah. And you mentioned our last phone call was late April, early May of 2025. and as we sort of move into the more broadly, you know, scientific policy sort of discussion,

good God, whalehead, dead bear, brainworm, raccoon penis lamprey had only been secretary of DHS for weeks. Now we're into over a year, and you must I mean, I talk about eating dirt and running rabbits. That must be your entire

lifestyle and diet at this point. Yes. A moment here. Sugar warning, whatever, you know, there's going to be some horrible, apocalyptic subset

to the rest of this conversation. If you're having a bad day in the middle of the week, please listen at a later day when you're more calm. Yes. You're talking at this point, at this point, Paul, at the very best, you're talking about telling people to listen in 2029.

So fear not. I feel that, but like, it's, I don't know how bad it is, but it is absolutely awful. It is, one way to look at it is, I would submit to the world that during the first year of this administration, the damage that he's doing to science, reputation, politics, diplomacy, morality, and we could, you know, go on and on, will take this country six months per month he's in office to fix. And I think this year, it's a year for every month he's in office. So if that equation holds, it will take 18 years to fix this after two years of his presidency. I don't think that's a wild-eyed crazy estimates.

Am I wrong? No, I don't know. No, no, no, no. I don't think you're wrong at all. You know, I've talked about in general terms, we're looking at the work. You know, it's so much easier to destroy something than it is to build it. And your buddy Rick Smith has been to show many, many times. idiot with a hammer can tear down a house, but you need someone, you know, with skill and craft to build something.

Exactly. And so the damage done over the course of what will be eight years will be generations in correction. I think of, God, how long did it take to rebuild Germany and Japan and the rest of Europe, for that matter, after the Second World War? well all of that damage was done in well you know at best I'm not count I'm not you know from the start of the war not the U.S. entry into it 39 to 45 Japan was destroying

China earlier in the 30s and that's a relatively short period of time that took a generation to correct yeah I would I would say that I mean we marveled the American's empire rides post-World War II, and a lot of that is the fact that a lot of their competitors

were, they've been bombed into oblivion. And we don't see, we start seeing Toyota's and Hamas out of Japan in the American market being successful in the late 70s. I mean, it basically took them 35 years to be competitive, you know, just to enter the game. Is that that right? It's a little bit before my time. No, that's right.

you absolutely are and so we may have so if we do the math and let's just be nice and say 35 years from 2030 for ease you're talking about 2065 2070 yeah

and that's it's kind of what I was talking talking about last night with regard to that one odious Supreme Court ruling you're going to have to be a way more specific well the

well all the all the all the rulings and all the laws and all the legislation against the existence of trans people you know and by the way does the Supreme Court due to you giving your cup of coffee in law school what what what their decisions against science are doing to me like this is not how you do this

no it it it drives me absolutely bananas because this is entirely contrary to everything I was ever taught about how the law is supposed to work, especially at the Supreme Court level. And it's been going on

since the first term. To a certain extent it was going on before then. But, you know, just turning... The fact that you've got justices who, in their confirmation hearings, openly and blatantly perjured themselves.

You know, there's a, I think it was both Brat Kavanaugh and the handmade who each said that Roe versus Wade is settled law. With,

with, and in fact, I can't remember which one of the liars it was that said, oh, that's a super precedent. Well, I guess they figured they had some, I guess they figured they had some kryptonite to apply to that super precedents that rendered it absolutely, you know, powerless. And, you know, that's just one.

100-year-old precedents have been thrown by the wayside in the name of appeasing Donald Trump. The very idea, I'm sorry, I don't mean to, I don't mean to just go off, but the very idea of, the very idea of, the very idea of, the very idea of, a shadow docket uh... that it by by which the court will uh... preliminarily

telegraph their intentions and let manifest evil proceed apace until they can you know fully brief it and argue it and everything and then come out and do what they did on the shadow docket

that is not that is not what was contemplated for the Supreme Court of the United States. No, they're just making shit up. They're making it as much as they can get away with. That's exactly. That's exactly. Yes, you said it better.

Yeah, they're just making it up as they go along. They had a to-do. They had a to-do list that was handed to them by the Federalist Society, and they're just checking off boxes left and right. they haven't gotten around to some of the things that they most desperately and dearly want that that laundry list can be found in uh... Fappy Thomas's concurrence to Dobbs where he says bring me every case having to do with substantive due process

and we're going to kill substantive due process except for the substantive due process that protects his marriage to gin-soaked Jin Jin. Yeah. No, I mean, it is, I mean, I don't know if you went into the deep into the argument that was the, that was against birthright citizenship. But the short version is the exception they're focusing on was about children of invading

armies. Obviously, if I'm invading the U.S. as a part of an enemy army and have children on its soil, then those children are citizens. And that seems to be a reasonable exception in my. mind, but they were trying to equate immigrants crossing the border for an invading army. And you saw through it.

That's exactly because that's the language that the Stephen Miller's of the world have been using for years now. We're under, you know, he tried to declare a national emergency saying that we were under invasion, and that's part of why you know, you had Operation

Midway Blitz and Metro Surge, and you've got Renee Good dead and Alex Prettty dead and 51 dead in concentration camp custody Yeah and you have to look past Seeing right through it

That's not my reaction My reaction is what the fuck are you on What drugs are you taking? Like this is nonsense Is you submit this? Well I Hate and bigotry and racism And xenophobia

All of the things that this court majority are is a terribly terribly powerful drug Paul and they and and I mean they're so hooked on it that they're scratching they're scratching like a meth head

oh hey well before I forget because I had a lot to say just a little gem from a friend of mine to get some insight in the horn community I was talking about to the phone catching up and I've known him for over 25 years and he spent almost all of us professional life working in elderly care homes being an orderly and then being a supervisor and

working his way up. And so he's got years of experience with people with mental issues, physical issues, aging, health issues. He knows the entire thing. So I have some of the conversation, you know, politics aside, your experience did Joe Biden have Alzheimer's? He's like, yes, Joe Biden has Alzheimer's. I just, the experience, like, you know, when I saw him at the debate, I'm like, yeah, he's sundowning, like, this is all time. for sure, like everything. And they're like, okay, so Trump has Alzheimer's too. He's like, nope, Trump does not have Alzheimer's.

And I'm like, what does this deal? I don't know what this deal is, but what it reminds me out is 1980s guys that did a crap load of cocaine for a long time and then their brains have been altered and now they're 75 and I'm dealing with them. And they're asleep during the day and they're not taking drugs. It's just what their brain has done from decades of snort and nose candy. they're asleep through the day of all energy.

At night, they're up and they're angry. They're two in the morning, angry, yelling. It feels a lot of dementia, but it's just chronic drug use and what happened. And it's the common factor. And so he's been doing, so my friend's opinion of Trump's issues beyond all the other psychological ones, this is just a guy who's been doing nose candy. He's with snow, an adoral, cocaine, or whatever, for a couple, for a few decades. and whether he stopped or not, his brain has been altered,

and this is what I see when people did that with their lives. And, you know, we talked about that in another light back during the reign of error, Paul, when we talked about the fact that Bush was a dry drunk, you know, when you, when you, when you just, when you just, when you get allegedly sober by stopping drinking without any kind of support behind it, you wind up a dry drunk. And I have no problem believing that Nittwit Nero has probably been addicted to stimulants. I mean, you know, I've talked about the go-go 80s in Atlanta and everything. You know, at one point in time, I don't know if you know this, it got so bad.

McDonald's used to have, Jesus, the things that, McDonald's used to have little stirrers for their coffee that looked like tiny little spoons and the cocaine community went well how nice of McDonald's that's perfect for a little bump yep and the little surdustraves that are kind of like two small straws

glued together they're like two little older and then the bridge and yeah but but it got so bad that McDonald's stopped providing those little tiny spoons and then they they provided things that looked like, you know, just little, they were flat instead of spoon-shaped.

And I don't think it slowed the Coke heads down too much. But McDonald's was getting shit for it. It's kind of like the same way with the apple pies and the coffee. But nonetheless, yeah, I think, but I disagree with your friend. I don't think Biden had Alzheimer's. I don't think he has it. I don't think he has dementia because I've seen too many. clips of him engaging in perfectly cogent, coherent,

coherent conversation at all hours, not all hours of the day and night, but morning through nighttime, I saw an address that he gave, I can't remember where the other day, but it was nighttime, and he was given hail Columbia. The man, that debate, and the response to that performance in the debate,

was fueled by people who wanted him out of the way. You know, the idea that George Clooney would call for him to step down because he didn't remember who George Clooney was. The President of the United States doesn't remember George Clooney? Oh, my God, the country's in crisis. No, bullshit. And the fact of the matter is he was at a rally after and a rally the next day, and he was perfectly on point. and if you compare nitwit, Nero talking on the same day that Biden talks, the distinction could not be more clear.

What it boiled down to is that you had a lot of bad faith members of the media who were perfectly willing to trash and shame on them for it, a man who everybody knew and had known for a generation or more grew up dealing with a stutter. And we all know that kids with stutters have been tormented as being mentally deficient. It's axiomatic. But I want to take a minute, Paul, and share a couple of notes that you've gotten during our conversation. uh first of all tom tom in sunny san raphael says sending honky to canada going all the way kudos to paul speaking of honkeys to canada i found that i'm probably eligible for canadian citizenship my great-grandmother was canadian her ancestors in virginia were loyalists and fled the revolution and with the recent change to canadian law if i can document everything i can get a certificate of citizenship and then a passport it's a bit of work to do and lawyers to hire but i'm going to get going on it uh signed tom in sunny san rapel perenn, honky, close, perenn.

Get after it, Paul. I mean, Tom, get after it because you can't be too protected in this era. Jude, meanwhile, writes in from the great Northwest and said, this is Paul from Parts Unknown, very glad to hear him, and what he brings to us his expertise. Thank you, Jude. And Matt in San Francisco, Fix

with the current Supreme Court, I think your estimates are quite optimistic, Paul. I'm a very positive guy. It comes with being a scientist. Yeah, and be optimistic. Well, yeah, and, well, isn't there a constant dynamic tension within science between optimism and realism? No, just optimism. The realism part is you're optimistic that your experiment's going to work,

But you're realistic about the results, and you have to accept that the results show that your hypothesis was incorrect. So, and you usually said about it because it's something new. For scientists, being proven and being disproven are typically the same reaction. Excellent. Let's, like, it's wrong. Let's find out what's right. Like, this didn't work. Optimism is what gets you through crap.

optimism is what Edison Inventing of the light bulb Optimism is what gets you through 1,200 attempts to invent the light bulb as Edison If you're pessimistic or realistic I figure you give up somewhere in the 700s

That's great In the 700s Yeah And you know if you Hey you try Every day Go ahead The 700 is every day

The 700 get being the 700, it means you try it at least once every day for two years straight. That's a lot. That's dedication. And then, you know, the flip side of that coin is the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. Science doesn't do the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. You have a hypothesis. You trust it.

It doesn't work. No, no. Nope. Nope. Scientists do the same thing over and over again, expecting the same result, which is the basis of science. Scientists Paul says if you mix chemical A and chemical B, you get chemical C, raise the paper on it, and scientists for X does the same thing, taking chemical A, taking chemical B, and making chemical C. And then science instruct Van writes, hey, use Paul's recipe, it works. So science is the opposite of the standing.

It's about doing the same thing over and over again, expecting the same reason. because everything it's based on. And the idea of scientist Roxanne is absolutely hilarious to me, so thank you for that. Dry humor. You're welcome. But just for the science part, the damage that is done to our science community at a global but much more damaging to our national level, is unquantifiable.

I would mistake this administration. Don't forget what was done to the science. Don't forget pulling out the detection monitors from under the ocean. Don't forget canceling H-1B visas and pissing off

international students that come to learn science from us. Don't forget these things because, I don't know. Let me do some math. Let me pull a number, Roxanne. I don't know. I want to say seven years from now six seven years from now

the country's going to be in a real total state and they're going to be a bunch of Republicans in 2032 going wow the country's horrible it must have been those awful Democrats and not Trump 10 years ago that just killed everything

and now we're seeing the not root of that wound of those investments The damage is massive. And from the scientists being let go, the government with Doge and everything else, like, we, in a 21st century world, your scientists and your technological innovators are what will keep you going. And if you just burn all that, you won't innovate, we won't grow in technology, and you'll be out. case by China and India and everywhere else that is investing in science and and aiming for

a 21st century that looks like our sci-fi future rather than burning every last cup of oil on earth. So that's what I mean by just and and you know how many scientists I mean and and the thing is the other countries know what they're getting by by by by what we're throwing away how many how many scientists have accepted positions with labs and academic institutions in Europe, in Japan, in Australia, in South Korea? But South Korea, not so much, but Australia and Japan and China are rolling out the red carpet to American scientists. Come on down. You know, just like China is. I don't even think he's stepping over dollars to pick up pennies.

I just think he's stepping over dollars. Just tossing, you know, tossing USA aid off and cutting all that and having to go, we'll test that up if you're dumb enough to drop it. We'll gain the brain. We'll be the heroes of the world. Absolutely. If you're just going to quit and be a bully out of frustration. And they'll never admit it, and it will be 20 years from now that they can prove it historically.

wait, but I submit that this second administration has single-handedly ends the American Empire if we know. We're no longer super coward. We're a job. It's not, we're not dead yet, but we've just taken a huge dose of radiation, and if time goes on, we're just going to fall apart and wonder what's wrong

and not tied back to this idiot administration. And they're going to, you know, just like with the 2008 crisis, you know, putting pressure on Obama in 2012. It didn't work, but it was like, why haven't she, you know, this wasn't their ad, but it was basically why haven't she cleaned up our mess fast enough yet? We want to get in there and make a new mess. Hurry up and clean up.

And that's, I think, what's going to be a repeat. We're going to give us four years to clean up their mess. And in 2032, they're going to rock right back in and go, who made this mess? Must be the Democrats. Vote for me. I can fix it. Well, as is so often the case, Clinton comes to mind, Obama comes to mind. it usually takes two terms, Paul, to clean up the mess

and to get the economy right, get a little bit of money back in the treasury. It takes two terms. I agree. Before there's enough worth stealing for the Republicans to, or, well, I mean, let's be realistic, the maggots now, to want to, you know, I'm just so old. I remember W.

sitting there saying, hey, it's your money. I'm going to give it back to you. And then I'm going to bust your ass on your taxes, but I ain't going to say that part out loud. He tried to kill my daddy. And I agree. It takes two terms to clean it up. It takes two corners to clean it up, but they start

complaining about the next after one. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's the setup. But I have so, I have so many questions in the time remaining to us, Paul. Go for it. One observation, and I'm curious to see how much integration there is in scientific spaces right now,

because I saw an article the other day saying that Ford Motor Company has the highest, within some time parameter, has the highest number of recalls of any of the major automakers, and it's because they got rid of a bunch of human engineers and decided that AI could do automotive

automotive engineering just as darn good. Yeah, there's a lot of magical thinking behind AI. A lot. I mean, they just haven't stopped this through. I know one's asking the questions I have. You know, like, okay, you're going to have a bunch of AI engineers, make a bunch of AI to replace their jobs, and then you're going to have AI and a whole bunch of unemployed

and I can't hear their test. And nothing bad will happen, like they will create a virus for the actual program they created to mess with you in revenge. Or my personal favorite, the giant super intelligence computer you're trying to build Elon

will take orders of magnitude energy beyond the production capacity of the world. And their answer to that is, and the AI answer to that is, What we're going to do is we're going to build a giant machine that uses all this energy that's super not going to work, but it will then tell us how to build a better version of it uses less energy because it's smart enough, and then we'll turn that old one off, and there'll be no problem. And it's just like, have you thought about this?

And then lastly, if you get an artificial intelligence, a true artificial intelligence, that's in the word, that can absorb all the data of humankind. there are two problems. One, we have a long list of of sci-fi movies where we kill the AI, Terminator series, a whole bunch of stuff, Dune, do not

make a computer in the shape of a person's brain, all that stuff. And for those of you, we're trying out of children in an age, there was a fun censorship rule that basically said, you have to be very careful when hurting people, but you can do

whatever you want to robots. So for my childhood, I have watched hundreds of hours of robots being this matter of torture blown up and destroyed with impunity while humans remain safe. I'm just saying if they absorb those two factors, they're going to have an opinion about that. I think you're right. And some of this is so old. I'm trying to think. Heinlein published The Moon is a Harsh Mistress around 1959, I think. I don't think so, Dave.

And the moon is a harsh mistress is the entire predicate of it is that a computer has so many peripherals attached to it that it eventually reaches what the nerds now call singularity. In other words, it wakes up, it becomes conscious. Oh, I thought singularity was like being able to map out. human brain and put it in a robot somehow basically merging organic and tech into one well you're you're sharper than eye on this you may well be right but i understood singularity to be that moment when uh when a computer like the like the like the massive computer in the moon is a harsh mistress wakes up and becomes its own consciousness yeah i could i i could be wrong but you know that that

that was Heinlein's treatise on, the computer was kind of off to one side on that. That was Heinlein's treatise on libertarianism, which is a lot more palatable, for instance, than anything written by A. and Rand. No offense, but aren't all of Heinlein's book a treatise on libertarianism? Not necessarily. There's a stranger and strange land is. Yeah, I mean, that's, yeah, personal liberty and, Yeah, but I think Moon is a harsh mistress is the one that really enunciates it largely through the teachings of Professor Bernardo de la Paz, who was, of course, a political dissident who was shipped off to the moon for his rational,

he calls himself a rational anarchist. But I think AI is a piece of the puzzle, and every time I read about some new godforsaken pathogen or disease and I mean this with all the respect in the world Paul every time I think of a new plague I think of you yeah and indeed I would want to work

family to and the community to think about the mutation lottery because that's what we're playing with all these these diseases yeah we're by you know leaving the WHO during during you know during the pandemic you talked about buying lottery tickets. The virus was buying lottery tickets.

Yeah. It's a one in 300 billion chance that it's going to evolve to something yes. What happens when 300 people are infected? What do they also look like for something to do that happen? And so reducing the who and cutting the crap out of the CDC, not not reducing who you left it, we left it, we left the world health organization. And cutting the crap out of the CDC, it's got Ebola happening in Africa.

a different strain. I forget the name is social, the B, it's like B, B, B, something, but it's mutation lovers. Our vaccines that we trip for don't work on this. And, you know, basically it's a difference of an order of magnitude, okay? With the who in the CDC on stuff, when people start getting sick, let's just say, for the sake of argument, they limit it to thousands of people being infected or exposed. That's a thousand lottery thing, not a big chance of winning the lottery.

But in Africa, when the crew is not active and on board and funded, those thousand people that get sick, spread to more people, and we don't freak out about it until it's 20,000, 30,000. That's 30,000 tickets, not a thousand tickets. And if it really gets out of hand and we miss a beat and something slips past, now we're hundreds of thousands of tickets. And now we're off for the races. But we're seeing pockets of tickets come because of things happening. There are stories of squirrels being spotted in a few states with, like, big pus nodules all over their body, and they're labeling them zombie squirrels for the media. Just a quick reminder for those of you ever remember, when I was looking for originally,

one of the places I applied to was a lab in Ashland, Washington, that part of the job, which has been perfect for me, really enjoyed it, which should be half the time you're doing that job, you are backpacking, in the Pacific Northwest wilderness looking for dead animals to collect pathology samples to test for bavonic plague, rabies and stuff and keep things to check.

And then the other half the job is taking those samples back to the lab in Ashland, processing them, getting the results, and then if there's an infection that we don't like to speak close to human habitation, engineering plans

to stop the spread, to knock out the population, or to send them, you know, there are lots of squirrels, so we might have a whole bunch that have disease. There's 100 miles away from a city deep in the force, 50 miles away, and the force you might just release like 100 feral cats.

Yeah, the cats are probably going to be a little sick, too, but they're going to predate on the squirrels and get rid of them. I don't know. The plants might involve using sterile male flies to get rid of the parasites. They have these wonderful ideas. ideas and ways to do it to solve our problems

and keep up in civilization. And a good way to look at it is a lot of government worker are like cash collectors. Every week we come by and collect the trash. It's the same thing. But if we don't come for other weeks, the city fills up with

trash very quickly. And that's what we're going through this. The world is filling up of diseases very quickly. Because you fire the trash collectors. Well, it's interesting. You mentioned sterile flies because here we are with... Yeah, screw worms.

Yeah, screw worms. And we had it managed. It was... It wasn't getting any further north than, say, Panama. And we were working on that. Yeah. Because we had a holistic understanding of life on this here planet. and we understood that when diseases emerge one place,

they naturally, and let's, you know, theory of evolution and everything, try to seek a way to survive. We've had that conversation over the years. And I think the best way to describe this administration's tactics of how it sees the world to paraphrase them old saying, they are million dollar smart and trillion dollar foolish. Ain't that the true?

They're really great at saving you a million dollars. But like the, yeah, the screw worm thing, it wasn't novel, it wasn't new, it had been working for a really long time. And we're going to have to pay 10 to 20 times what we saved by cutting that program to reinstate it. Yeah, penny wise and pound foolish. So what it... Yeah, that $1 million-dollar wise, that $1,000, $1,000,000

that $125 that I've been talking about, well, I wonder if America will be greater when it's a $375 brisket. It's the same brisket. Yeah, it's just in price. And again, everyone I know, and I do live in a little area, but even like, you know, conservatives that I know are not happy with it. You know, 10 miles out of parts unknown is definitely Trump country. And I've got a friend that lives up that way and going to visit him, they're a lot less, you know, you know,

2024, there was like driving in a Trump country. Every other house had some sort of Trump banner, Trump flag, Trump sign, something. And now there's like three people on that same road. They all took, a lot of them took them down for, you know, it's farming country. Not hard to figure out why they, why they, they, why they did that. Even how they did screw. Right.

And while we were talking about the screw flies, I had that clip on the program, what, a few weeks ago, month ago, of the Texas, mind you this is important, the Texas Agriculture Commissioner,

saying, well, we're going to start doing our own thing down here with the screw worm, the screw worm flies, because the federal government isn't doing dittily. And whoever the reporter was says,

well, why aren't they? And he says, I don't know. And it's kind of one of those moments where you want to take the Texas Agriculture Commissioner and give him a good shake and say, yeah, you do. You voted for this. You put on your little red hat and you went and you voted for screw. And that's the thing. I don't know how hard it is to get across to people.

You voted for $5 a gallon gas. You voted for screw worms in the beef. You voted for. Yeah, and I have to read. Yeah, go ahead. And I have to restrain myself from saying, shut the fuck up. Anytime I hear a commentator or the two times I've just heard people in passing in public,

say it would have been worse than common that was elected. And I'm just like, shut the fuck up. How? How in your mind is that real? Well, you know, the transies would have been playing girls' basketball, you know, without so much as a peep. And then where would we be? damn it if gas is $2.60

on an average friends and girls can be in the teens washing cars next to gas station for all I care I'd be surprised how cute some of them can be but yeah and I mean

I got a clip here there's always a clip this is from one of those unwatchable right-wing networks You're going to love this. So, nitwit,

Nick Witt Nero, I said earlier that he was speechifying in front of a bunch of people, a bunch of fellas dressed like cowboys. I was wrong. He was at the Roosevelt Library, and he was making no sense whatsoever, and he was speaking in front of a bunch of cosplayers dressed up as rough riders.

So that's... explains that. And so over at whatever unwatchable right-wing network this is, they had some crew sort of crew-cutted, high and tight hair-nazi kind of hair-cutted guy

with a square jaw and masculine man of masculine masculinity. And this happened because high comedy He seated in this next Congress. Congressman Stubi, I'd like to talk a little bit about a Supreme Court ruling with transgender. I mean, it's interesting. Oh, my God, it's Greg Stupid that I was talking about earlier.

I'm sorry. Well, now we're going to find out how he earned his name. And the attack blonde who's doing the questioning, you'll notice she says, the ruling was regard to transgender. Not transgender people. Transgender. It's transgender. Yeah.

Just what? Okay. Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library. We know how tough Teddy Roosevelt was. Biological man, real man's man. And for some reason now we have to talk about men who want to play in women's sports, and it wasn't even unanimous. But they did say states can keep men who are born men and want to be trans,

but they can't play with the girls. They can't play with the women. We know that you have introduced a Protect Women's Sports Act. Talk to us about what other work needs to be done as well to make sure no young woman is facing a man for injury or little girl in a locker room. Never mind the fact that there are thousands of girls playing boys' sports across the country who are facing injury from boys in boys sports. In fact, Fappy Thomas even had a footnote. I think it was Fappy talking about this thing. Of course, this doesn't apply to trans boys.

Trans boys can play anywhere they want to play. What? I really want them to continue to support that statement when not if, when a trans boy like wins with gold medal in something or wins national championship as a quarterback of a football team. Somewhere with national, national attention, Eisenhower Trophy, anything goes,

I was born and girl. Watch what happened. I wait for that moment. Right, because for the time being, well, of course we'll let the little ladies who think their boys play with the boys because the boys will kick their ass and then they'll go home and put on a dress

like they're supposed to in the name of Jesus. Yep. But I love that line. And we know how tough Teddy Roosevelt Role was. Biological man. Real man's man. Oh, this is so good. It's not quite over yet.

Boy. Go for it. Yeah, back to Newkin the filibuster. The only way that bill passes the Senate is if you have a majority of Republicans voting for it. There's no way that Democrats are going to vote for that. Even though 79% of Democrats

believe that there shouldn't be biological men and their daughter's locker room for different sports. So we've passed that bill twice now on the House side in two different Congresses, and it gets stalled in the seat. Meanwhile, of course, they show a picture of Leah Thomas, and they show a picture of some, I don't know if this is a trans girl or what, but somebody wearing some sort of form-fitting athletic gear who doesn't have done, ginormous breastuses and that's supposed to mean that that's a trans guy never mind it's all stupid uh but uh bradley moss a lawyer said i've never in my life felt insecure about my masculinity but these dudes

seem to need to have it reinforced every five seconds or they worry they might be gay and that's the bottom line every every one of these conversations involves some pervert some some perverted maggot who can't stop thinking about children's sex organs. And... Yeah, I very much feel that vibe from office space when the efficiency expert, the company hired, start asking the bosses, so how much time do you spend on these TPS reports?

You know, how much time do you spend thinking about children's private parts in a day? well exactly and and it's worth remembering i didn't even mention this yesterday except to the extent that i mentioned there's one girl trying to do the shot put in west virginia one girl but the fact of the matter is there are less than a dozen trans girls playing NCAA college athletics versus hundreds. Like nationally? Yeah, nationally. In the whole damn country. Okay. As compared to hundreds of cis girls

running profound risks of having the living shit stomped out of them by a big old biological male in high school football, 350 alone in Michigan. And they're not all punters. And by the way, punters are at greater risk than just about anybody, any other position in American-style football. It's so monumentally stupid. The center takes kind of continual function.

But at the bottom, at the bottom of it all, it's all a political and economic calculation because it gets money into these 501C3 Christian tax-exempt grifts, just like we used to talk about, and it still is, but the anti-abortion industry was a billion-dollar industry. It was, in the words of the late great prophet Bill Hicks, piece be upon him, a good dollar. And so the political pundits keep telling on the maggot side, oh, keep running the anti-trans ads, that'll keep their minds off the $5 a gallon gasoline. and the funny thing is it doesn't work in elections.

I thought you were key enough. They were replacing abortion good dollars because Roe versus Wade had been over there and they're trying to replace that in some part with trans good dollars. You're absolutely right. No, that's a good place to go because it's true. They had to have a new boogie man

because among other things there's substantial economic power in the gay community both gay men and lesbian women and they leverage that shit going all the way back to we're here we're queer get over it

and started putting their and started putting their money where their lives were and whipped and whip the whipped the tea-baggers, Republicans, conservatives, Christians' asses all over the place, culminating in, among other things, Obergefell and the right and marriage equality and the ability of gay couples to be able to have the same rights as cis, as a het married couples, and they lost their ass on that, and that's why they're still butt-heard about it.

And that's why, as I mentioned earlier, Fappy Thomas was writing about it in his concurrence to Dobbs. He's desperate to overturn Obergefell because he wants those good dollars to come back into Republican coffers. But in the meantime, the tiniest, most powerless, most fragile minority in the country is going to be their whipping girl, their whipping boy. and they're whipping non-binary person. And I agree with you. And let me add, and also as a warning to all my neurodivergent brothers and sisters and givlings and whatnot, uh, that autism is the next dollar.

It's going to go from abortion to LGBTQ trans to autism. And, uh, my argument for that is, uh, autism conversion camps were brought to you, by the same people that made gay and lesbian conversion camps. You're absolutely right.

And in fact, that goes hand in hand with a story that I've had sitting in the stack for about a week or so, Paul. Namely, that the maggots have now decided that anyone with a disability does not have a right to live in polite society and needs to be institutionalized. And then stack that. I appreciate folks trying to flee to Canada, but that was something I learned when I got diagnosed with autism by two months after. And I'm sure this, I hope this wasn't applied to me, like I hope I can feel in a form, but many countries will not let you emigrate to them legally if you're artistic. I'm not at, I'm not at all surprised because, and look, we need to, I think within this context,

we need to talk about because God knows the maggots and the so-called gender criticals and the transphobes do they think that transness because there are a lot of autistic people who are in the

trans community they think that autism somehow causes transness and that if you prevent an adolescent from transitioning and test for autism and treat their autism first, and they won't be trans anymore.

It's, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, God, it's. Wow, do you hear that? I hear grasping of straw. Yeah, and, and the whole thing is, I'm trying to, it's apples and oil tankers, okay? There's, there's no connection. There's, there's no rational basis, but it's a, it's a great way to get a two-fer. Attack two marginalized groups with one attack.

Very efficient of them. I know it's past your time. I just wanted to do two more quick things. One, and feel free to pass on this. If it's not too personal on time, I wanted to ask you a quick question about your condition. Absolutely. I don't need to be offensive.

No, please. I'm not offended. As we've covered, we work with a lot of dogs. with a rescue. And dogs and animals in general have a definite reaction to females that differs from males. I would say that like 40% of the dogs that I've encountered in the rescue have sort of a fearful negative reaction to males and me that takes some time to get over. And a very positive reaction to females. And about 45, 50% of dogs just generally don't care either way.

and about 10% of the dogs really like men and don't like women that much. Did you find that animals treated you the same or differently? I mean, obviously your animals treat you're saying because they know you, but I'm just out and about. Well, no, that's a fantastic question, Paul, because the golden one is a rescue. He came to us. He came to us from what was not a great situation

that may have wound up in his own demise. Anybody who listens to this program knows he has my whole heart. And he doesn't like men at all. Yeah. But he lives with two women, and he's the happiest dog in the world. But let a man show up here, and he's not a sweet boy anymore. No, I haven't ended that myself. I just wanted to leave with one...

Oh, sorry, go ahead. No, no, no, no. And I was going to say, and it's largely the same for the kitties, too. So I just want to leave with one thing, and I'll send you the link to the song after the show here. But just going into the nerd world, for those of you familiar with Dungeons and Dragons-type games, there's alignment like good neutral evil on one axis and chaotic neutral and waffle on another

other access and I'm I'm generally chaotic good I don't really care about tradition or everything I'm always thinking outside of the box and I'm generally a good person I don't really care about the law like emotionally I don't need a law that says don't steal from people people that tell me not to steal from people or a Bible, I don't steal from people because it's not nice. And that's kind of what they're good in. But I'm living in the opposite, a lot of evil universe, with Trump. And so it's very stressful me. But the song that I want to live.

That's a perfect analogy. But yes, on closing with the entertainment portion. Yeah. The song I want to lead you with, that is a great description. for the administration is called chaotic stupid forever. It's a D&D song. And while the lyrics are very nerdy,

the refrain the refrain applies to the administration. The song is complaining about a group of players that are just causing chaos and blowing up you know, throwing, saying the pound on fire and just doing stuff. But one of the refrains is

you know, we see everything on fire and call it clever. Another one is we break everything in call it better, which I think very much described this regime. And then the littlerous way I wanted to sing was, for the song was, So Raise Your Mugs, All You, Villains and Swine, to all the bad ideas that shine. No plan, no fear, no thought, no tether. Gayotic, stupid, forever.

And that's what we're living in. No plan, no thought, no fear, no tether. dietic stupid forever dear god never in a million years would I have dreamed that we're living you know they they say that the universe may be the dream of a sleeping dog and consequently let sleeping dogs lie

never in a million years did I think that we were in some some psychotic dungeon masters scenario but god damn Paul here we are I'll email you the far I'll email you up to show at home, and we did a lot saying we did foster fail, and we took on a third dose, so we had $3 on, say, too, and we have Ennis, and I'll send you a picture of him at 2.5 pounds with him. And a picture of him at his year birthday last October, where he's 55 pounds. Oh, my, yes, I can't wait. Well, Paul, it has been an absolute delight.

I hope it's not another year. Yes, they say it for me. Pardon? I said, stay, stanchard community, be excellent to each other. Yes, yes indeed. Take the words of Rufus to heart. Be excellent to each other. And I hope it's not another year and a third before I hear from you,

but I understand how busy you are. But pretty please, take a moment. No, I'm going to. Even if it's just a couple of lines or two, if you see something that we need to be paying attention to and watch out for, please. please please let us know sure

I'll just leave you with this stop voting for ailing pedophile criminals how about that that's a lovely idea Paul take care and my best of your family and all the wonderful little

doggies thanks my best of you and yours and my best strong community you have a nice thing all right thank you bye now oh So wonderful to hear from Paul from parts unknown.

What a wonderful conversation, gracious. A little good news, I guess. According to the Hill, thank you, Micah. Nitwit Nero said today that he's going to, by the way, on July 4th, it's going to be approximately 107 degrees out, and I'm going to go, and I'm going to make a really long speech, just to show that I can do anything. That was at today's appearance at the Teddy Roosevelt Memorial Library.

It was about two minutes into his diatribe earlier today when this transpired. And starting with the man who put the library in its first funding, he did so much, he raised so much money, he did so many different things. He really did. He had a very complete life. when you think. He was a real man of many forms of genius, and without whom it would never have been possible, Secretary of the Interior. And I'll tell you what, I thought he was an oil man, and he wasn't. I saw him on a debate because this guy was actually going against me. Can you believe it?

But I thought he was very impressive. I thought his wife, Catherine, was even more impressive, to be honest with you. God, he can't stop creeping on women. But then a little insight into his personality relative to, well, just listen. Tell me his brain isn't a fucking oatmeal. Theodore Roosevelt, and that's the man who I have long admired, he's one of the few, I don't admire too many people, I have to tell you. It's not a lot of people out there. He doesn't admire too many people because there's not a lot of people out there.

And, of course, a famous conservationist, John Muir once said to Teddy Roosevelt, when are you going to stop being a conservationist and grow up and start being a preservationist? And here, beneath the wide open sky of the badlands, they go to the badlands. they said, what's that all about? It's a pretty cool. It's a pretty cool name, I have to tell you. On the steps of the Burning Hills, we dedicate a living monument to a legend,

a statesman, a soldier, frontiersman, and a true American hero. Yeah, what? They're colored the bedlands. What's that all about? I have a feeling we're going to be playing. and that song that Paul mentioned. And he stumbled and bumbled his way through the entire address.

It could barely read his teleprompter. It was at Maduroin of North Dakota, the newly finished Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, which he has now defamed. And, well, like Aaron Rupar said, just a couple of minutes into his speech, Trump sounds like he's getting winded and is having trouble reading the teleprompter. Jesus.

This is, according to Mike, not a Rothschild. Rothschild. This is painful to watch. He's struggling to read the teleprompter, starts riffing off a word he recognizes, then loses his place in the riffing, trails off, and goes back to the teleprompter. Heights led directly to Roughriders. victory at San Juan Heights led directly to... Yeah, he is having trouble.

It's not San Juan Heights. Jesus, it's the charge up San Juan Hill. The Rough Riders victory at San Juan Heights led directly to the collapse of the Spanish line. Ah, the Spanish. You're members of NATO, but not very good members of NATO. They say, no, we don't want to help other people. What are we doing, huh? They are not behaving nicely.

I'll be here all day. Shoot the veal. Don't tip your server. But they will learn soon after they relinquish their grip on Cuba and Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. What? The Spanish will learn soon after they relinquish their grip on Cuba and Guam and Puerto Rico?

He apparently actually thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. Like I said, I get this sense that this nonsense is not going to continue a whole lot longer. I could be wrong. I could be wrong. I hope I'm not. I have never wished for anyone's death. But as Clarence Darrow said, I have read several obituaries with real pleasure.

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