Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 14 August 2026,

Episode Date: August 15, 2026

More MAGAT rats off the sinking ship. Between the coke nose-wipes and the flailing arms, the DUI Hire needs a drug test. Nitwit Nero says sailors aboard the Lincoln haven't been at sea long enough. That stinking coward would sh, (never mind: redundant) if he had to serve aboard any warship. MAGATS leave a children's cancer fundraiser at Maga Loco (shame on you, St. Jude's) to go to a strip joint and play "hot potato" with a sex toy. 

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CRMW.net. And now, from high in the hills of West by God, Virginia, here she is. Roxanne Kincaid. Well, howdy. And here we go, off and running on this 14th day of August, 2006. This is the horn. Head-on. Live is where you'll find us on the interwibbed tubes.

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where we keep the extraordinary ordinary roundtable, around which we gather each and every Friday. Hi, I'm Roxanne. And, well, Before I get into, in Medias race, every program here at the Horn begins with gratitude, and this program is no different. And so consequently, thanks go out to our 14th day of the month's subscribers and contributors via PayPal. Thank you, Matt, and San Francisco.

Thank you, Raps. Thank you, Paul. And, well, thanks. everybody who keeps this program going, keeps us on the air, and keeps this little conversation continuing. Thank you so, so much. The funding deficit for August so far is now, we've crossed the dreaded $2,000 mark, so that means that we're more like a week and a half unfunded. So, looking at the calendar, that means we're unfunded for all of this week, as well as last Friday, Thursday, and, well, last Thursday and Friday. So that's tough if we could somehow or another muster up a miracle and a miracle and a miracle and finish fun.

for last week, that would be grand. The number is 2165, and the bills they are awaiting. And despite the fact that some of these utilities here in the mountain fastness of Central Appalachia, have a real hard time keeping the juice on, they nonetheless are really good at demanding

their exorbitant, their exorbitant fees our rates are going up constantly because well we have to subsidize the coal industry as well as the data center industry and by the way Ralph's challenge is still on the table if we can raise

if somebody kicks in 25 bucks to go with Ralph's 25 we'll be down to 2115 and, oh gosh, if we could stay, at one point I was saying if we could stay under $1,500, if we could stay under a week unfunded, now I'm just, can we stay under $2,000? Of course, that would mean getting us all the way down. Well, that would mean basically raising $465 this evening. And I can, well, girl can hope.

Yeah. But anyway, that's where things stand in terms of just keeping. leaving the program going. It was another one of those lightning bolt dodging days here in almost level west by Cole Trump, Genestan. I told Brother Deacon Asa earlier today, I said, well, same different day. Here we are, dodging lightning bolts,

like something in ancient Greek mythology. the power blink frequently throughout the afternoon. I was like, oh, come on. Don't do this. Let's just go ahead and be able to have a full week's programming. So it appears we will, but the standard disclaimer applies. If the program disappears all of a sudden, you'll know that Appalachian Power has once again run under the bed

like a terrified chihuahua trying to pass a peach pit. Yeah. but let's see let's start on the lighter side shall we the password aid heyd

as in marital aid I don't set out to make this program focus on prurient issues but you're going to have that when you have an obscene, vile, filthy, disgusting, perverted, rapy, maladministration in power. And so it is that a member of the maggot administration,

Lynn Patton, who for eons now it would seem, has been a die-hard supporter of Marcus Horrelius. Well, there was a video shot by her buddy, a lobbyist from D.C. called, named Ryan Coyne. And here's the thing. It was shot after, just hours after. a black tie charity gala at Maga Loco that was held for a children's cancer hospital. And so apparently Lynn Patton was, and this is a complicated biochemical term, shit-faced. She's 52, by the way.

She was so drunk she was slurring, and they were playing a game of boys will be boys. They were playing a game of Keepaway with Lynn's Bob. You know, Bob, battery-operated boyfriend. And so they're tossing the electric d'clock. from one person to another as Lynn Patton squeals and screeches. Ashley, get it. Ryan, get it. Stop. Not any of us. Not any of us. Coen, meanwhile, is narrating the video, and he says,

Caroline's vibrators on the loose. So it wasn't Lynn's, I guess, it was Caroline's. Carolines? Caroline. No, couldn't be that, Caroline, could it? No. The Daily Mail, of course, that sleazy tabloid got hold of the video. And, well, just as an aside, I've always had warm feelings for what I thought was the good work,

angelic work, really, of St. Jude's Children's Hospital. in Memphis, maybe not so much anymore. Because that's who the gala was for at Maga Loco. It was hosted by a Dodge called Curativity. It wasn't always known as Curativity. It used to just be known as the Eric Trump Foundation. You know, another one of the Trump family's sleazy dodges. And of course, it all took place.

place aboard a yacht, uh-huh, explaining why what was going on was going on. Well, one of the people on the yacht said, well, you know, after, uh, they needed a pat. This is sickening. This is just disgusting. repulsive. They needed a pallet cleanser from kids with cancer so they decided to go to the strip club. Well, I mean, they're maggots.

So it's natural that the hearing about children would make them think about sex and trying to dodge bullets, as it were, when the Daily Beas, made inquiry of the White House, a White House spokescriep, said,

Lynn Patton consults with White House counsel to maintain all required ethical standards and is fiscally responsible for all her own residences. What's that got to do with playing a game of hot potato with a dildo? Yeah. And, of course, she's very close, Lynn is, with Eric and Lara by a vowel Trump. Jesus, these people. We needed a pallet cleanser after all those kids with cancer, so we went to the strip club.

Ew. I'm not being approved here, but... God damn. Well, you know, it's who they are. Sex pests, creeps. Every last one of them. So there's that. and I don't know how much better it's going to get as we

as we go through the program so shit-faced and playing with a dildo that don't get our faces on camera that was another part of it yeah and speaking of Trump's spawn well the

lawyers for the BBC and their process servers and particularly well they were interfered with by the fucking cops when they were trying to serve precious princess Awankah my daddy

Trump Kushner and Jared Kushner at their home in Miami the BBC was trying to serve Jared and I Wanka in relation to the $10 billion lawsuit that orange Julius Gieser filed against the beeb. It was a subpoena, a deposition subpoena and a subpoena, Dukas Takeam.

In terms of testimony, they want the testimony of Jared and Iwanka relative to what nitwit Niro's intentions were when he fired up his mouth-walking, knuckle-breathing base prior to the domestic terror attack on the Capitol of January 6, 2021. Because among other things, according to evidence uncovered by the January 6th Committee, both of those horrible human beings were with Geezer disgust us when he was writing his speech that he was going to give to the assembled domestic terrorists. And the other thing they want to get on the record is the fact that it was Jared Kushner who drafted the statement half-heartedly condemning the violence of that domestic terror attack.

They've been trying to serve them for months. Back in May, Secret Service lawyer Troy Epstein said, Uh, the United States Secret Service is an agency of the United States government is not authorized to accept service of these subpoenas for these individuals. Uh-huh. And basically, uh, people like Jared, Iwanka, Trader Tot, Eric the Dumber, uh, are all trying to evade service. The legal team won't accept service.

and now the cops are intervening at the Trump or the Kushner home. They're desperate to keep the BBC from being able to engage in, well, you know, discovery. Yeah. So eventually, because of these evasive tactics, the BBC will seek permission from the federal court to serve them by mail because they're, well, they're dirtbags and slime balls, who simply won't participate in a process that their own daddy began. Because, of course, the BBC runs a pretty good chance of exposing the entire filthy Dodge. Yeah. I don't know if they're trying to get

The Apparently they're primarily only after Trader Tott and Iwanka and Jared. I guess they're not interested in Eric the Dumber. Maybe he wasn't there that day. I don't know. The end of a week. Oh, and just checking in with some messages here.

Come on. There we go. And, uh... Oh. Oh. Thank you very kindly to Sylvie. Sylvie taking out some of Ralph's challenge. All who celebrate my imminent return, Sylvie says, donate ten bucks. All who dread my imminent return, donate ten bucks.

Surrealists, donate 40 quatlews. So we got $15 to go on Ralph's challenge. and, well, if we had a flurry of $10 contributions this evening, we might get, we could conceivably get down to $1,500 again. I mean, that's a lot. That would be $665, yeah. And Ralphs has another challenge on the table. So a total of $20, or a total of $50 in challenges of which

35 remain. Thank you, Ralphs. Thank you. And this latest challenge is in honor Taylor Swift coming out in support of Abdul El-Said. I'm trying to say that. I think I'm getting close and getting comfortable, Joy. Again, thanks for the heads up. But yeah, Taylor Swift has decided she's an

Abdul fan because he's awfully doggone impressive yeah the news story noted that he was seen dancing to a Taylor Swift song after

the White House pulled her music from their own sleazy videos he can actually dance too he doesn't do the double jack-off dance, said one person. He looks better than Trump, too. But, well, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it, it's, it, it's, it, it's, it, it's, it, it's, it, it's, it, it's, it, it's, it, he's getting to use her music and, uh, nit, wit Nero doesn't.

So, so, yeah, yeah, the video of him, of, of, of him, uh, bust in a move, as they say, is, uh, is, pretty fun. Thanks, Ralph, thanks for the challenge. So, yeah, $35,000, could we do that? And turn that into, well, all total. It would turn into $100, and that would get us down to, what, $2065? That would be grand, if we could. Thank you, Ralph, thank you so much. And let's see.

Ah, she dodged it. Cynthia writes in, jury duty, quote, you are released from jury duty at this time. Your service for this summons is deemed complete and you will receive a 12-month exemption. Thank you for your services to the court. Yay, now, don't get me wrong. Jury duty's important to do. Glad to serve the court when called and serving on a jury can be fascinating as all hell.

But yay! I think I'll go to Costco and buy a steelhead trout fillet and smoke it tomorrow. I haven't had one in the longest time, like last year. You go, girl, you do that. And that's going to be so, so yummy. and from uh... uh...

uh... uh... from sylvie from the committee for surrealism in everyday life your wish is my command i may begin begin having fridays off which means once a week i can once again inflict my wit and trenchant observations citations of surrealism and worse or i mean more wonderful it's i'm so glad to know you're out there sylvie

it makes the uh... it it makes you make the program more fun. You truly do. And I appreciate your wit and your biting sarcasm. Your puns, your wordplay. Yeah. And we talked yesterday.

Well, let me go back just a minute. I had a note come in from Billville Rick just as the program closed. Oh, and thank you to Frank Fab. Fab signed up over at Patreon as a subscriber. Thank you so much. Much appreciated, Frank. And there's the message from Billable.

Patriot Games. Why did Trump name this festival after the 1992 movie starring Harrison Ford. He has no original idea in his orange noggin. No, and frankly, he's getting further and further afield from anything in the present

witness's use of be cocked. He might have heard his illegal immigrant mama use that back in the day. Notice, the reason I say that illegal immigrant was because

She came over on a holiday visa. And then she started stippin Mr. Trump. And the next thing you know, it was a permanent holiday. Funny how that works, isn't it? And Leah in New York pointing out from the conversation we had yesterday, I just breezed past the USS Doris Miller being in about halfway completed. and affected by Nitwit Nero's screeching of that, I want them to put back the goddamn steam

for the catapults on the carriers. I predicted that Whiskey Pete Kegbreath would order the ship be renamed because Doris Miller. And, well, Leah in New York caught that right quick and said, I expect he doesn't know the sailor was a cis male. If told he was male, he'll probably rant about the transes. Yeah, I did know, but I don't count on the maggots to know much of anything. But you see, there's a couple of reasons that Whiskey Pete will probably want to change the name.

He was known as Dory. In 1942, he became the first black sales. to receive the Navy Cross and was nominated for the Medal of Honor, as was almost always the case in the armed services during World War II, particularly in the Navy. He wasn't allowed to serve in, what, combat positions, but he was, in fact, a mess attendant second class. and he was stationed aboard the USS West Virginia,

whose bell is still proudly displayed on the downtown campus of my beloved alma mater, Harvard on the Mon. And during the attack on Pearl Harbor, he carried wounded sailors to safety aboard ship. and then turned around and manned an anti-aircraft gun and managed to shoot down, one of the few that was, managed to shoot down at least one Japanese aircraft and quite possibly four to six. Admiral Chester Nimitz gave him the Navy Cross on May the 27th, 1942. A congressman from Michigan and one from New York, also nominated him for the Congressional Medal of Honor.

But Frank Knox, the Secretary of the Navy at the time, who was an unrepentant racist, who was opposed to African-Americans serving in the Navy in any combat role whatsoever, put the kibosh on the Medal of Honor. But that aircraft carrier will be named for him, at least as it stands at present, until Whiskey Pete can find maybe a, oh, I don't know, a Confederate general to name it after. Or maybe a Confederate sea captain. How about the Sims?

Yeah? Rafael Sims, wasn't that his name? but that that brings us back to a story that Ralphs made mention of Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona has decided to weigh in

on the catapult controversy it's not controversy nitwit Niro is just a stupid old man who's never been in harm's way in his life Well, frankly, I expect him to give himself the Congressional Medal of Honor or demand it from the Congress for his heroism in hiding out in a catering container back when he was fleeing Turkey when Psycho B.B. Netanyahu said, Oh, Donald, the Iranians are going to get you with one of their missiles.

Well, Mark Kelly said, I've launched off the front of aircraft carriers hundreds of times. I have a master's degree in aeronautical engineering, and I'm a test pilot, and even I wouldn't suggest to the Navy how to engineer specific systems on its ships. Donald Trump should stick to what he knows best, ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit. Ew!

Good for you, Senator Kelly. A reminder. As Shakespeare said, a hero dies but once. A coward dies a thousand deaths. And quite possibly, one of the... the one of the things that most dogs nitwit Nero, well, Peggy Nooner, who used to write speeches for old 666 himself, Ronald Wilson Reagan, says that one of the things that most unsettles Orange Julius Gieser

is what she called his real fear of boredom. the opinion piece was published in the Wall Street Journal where she said that if he looks as if he doesn't know what his next move is he's uncertain he doesn't look competent he's always had a hearty appetite for combat oh bullshit pegums uh maybe he's always had a hearty appetite

for uh gossip gossipy squabbles perhaps or are we are we counting pulling the hair out of his first wife's head as combat? He's always had a hearty appetite for combat, and there's no reason to believe that will change. Combat is his default political mode, but everyone knows a post-Trump world is coming about two years after the November election, and he already looks restless. He creates drama or a crisis, arouses a counter force, attacks this new age. enemy experiences fear.

Will my luck hold? Defeats the new enemy, feels relief, relaxes, then restless again, and on the prowl he creates new drama. Come on, Peggams! You're bound to have known people like that besides nitwit Nero. I mean,

that's just that's just a speed freak, isn't it? Right? Yeah. And she cites a quote from that prophet magnate. the book by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, where apparently he has a chit-chat with testicle-toasting Tuckio Rose Carlson ahead of his underhanded sneak attack on Iran,

where he told Tuckio Rose, I know you're worried about it that it's going to be okay, because it always is. Jesus, that's like the line from Shakespeare. fear and love. And it all works out. How do you know? How?

I don't know. It's a mystery. Right. An 80-year-old demented speed freak. Tell me how that works out well for this once

great nation. Yeah. As to fighter jets, Jeremy points out, many of the now recently retired fighter jets had an anti-collision system. that spoke to you if you got too close to the ground or too steep a dive. You think kegbreath knows they were all voiced by a human woman? That they won't be any more.

They'll be voiced by a man absolutely maxed out to the gills on testosterone. Pathetic. Didn't know that, Jeremy. Yeah. And Cuba Gooding Jr., Jeremy tells me, played Dory in the Pearl Harbor film. Yeah. But he isn't named.

Thank you. And from Cynthia. Just now back from Costco. So I missed everything up till now. I'll try to stream that missing part later. So make sure to post it. I always do. As Sylvie, Donald Trump's bravery,

he should receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for his headlong flight down to the bunker beneath the White House several years ago. Those stairs are slippery and oak clusters for throwing his shoulder patting himself on the back. Yeah. Jesus. What a hero. Absolutely.

And men now in England, a bed in England shall think themselves cowards that were not with us this day, this St. Crispin's Day. What, Krispies? I love Krispies. Rice Krispies? I like the Cocoa Crispy's best. More gossip over Caroline Real Pooh, leave it alone. The Daily Mail, there's that gossip rag again, saying that she wanted to get out and not have Nitwit Niro hate her

because some source, whatever that means where the Daily Mail is concerned, told them, First week back she realized she wasn't feeling it anymore. And feeling what? Yeah. Well, maybe the diaper nanny was feeling it more than she was. Trump really didn't want her to leave as he actually trusts her and doesn't like having to deal with new people in his circle

when he wants to focus on getting stuff done and his time left in office. Oh, please. He's run off to the Supreme Court saying, I want to build my ballroom, God damn it. Rubber stantly. like you always do, you bastards. So, Caroline, how can we miss you if you won't leave? But that's not the only talk yesterday about another member of the

maggot maladministration who's calling it quits, and now we have a third one. Today, White House Deputy National Security Advisor Andy Baker declared that he's bailing out, again posting the smarmy slimy what an honor blah blah blah this has been an amazing

journey I'm proud of everything we've achieved and of course I'm incredibly grateful to the president vice president and secretary and meaningful Marco and

Baker has been involved with the interactions with the Ron trying to extricate his orange daddy from the hell of his own making. He was involved in a group chat about attacks on Yemen, and apparently he was of critical importance to the JD Egg. And now, well, now he's going to bail. He's not going to stick around to be potentially national security advisor to advance presidency.

There's a bunch of them failing, really. Let's see. Former Deputy White House Press Secretary Abigail Jackson put wings to heal back in July. Leah Barden, formerly the Director of Cabinet Affairs, took off in April

to join a for-profit PR firm. So they offered up praises for Andy Baker today, the JD Egg, saying, Oh, Andy is an exceptionally gifted, deeply thoughtful advisors who served the president and me with distinction. He's been an indispensable member of our administration's national security team.

We couldn't have fucked up things half as badly as we fucked up without him. I added that last part. Yeah. Oh, and, uh, uh, some. activity in a federal court today, Dateline from the Associated Press, New York, in a hastily arranged hearing, Luigi Manjone,

added a guilty plea today to federal stalking charges for having killed United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson. and he marched right into court and said, on the morning of December 4th, 2024, I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan. I thought he shot him in the back. And he died. And apparently it has come out since then

that he had done some intel on Brian Thompson. He found out about the shareholder event by contacting United ahead of time, claiming that he was an investor at a multi-billion dollar firm. Yeah. They're going to try to put Luigi away for life.

Sentencing is set for December 18th. U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garnett presided. She asked him if he understood that he could be looking at life behind bars, and he said, yes. The Thompson family,

remember they were uh brian was living apart from his wife and kids they had separate matching mansions and uh his family said well this is an important step toward justice and of course he's still facing a prosecution in new york his lawyers have moved to

uh dismiss that one and in fact the federal murder charge was dismissed because, well, this DOJ fucked it up. There was no plea deal or anything. He just said, hey, I want to plead guilty. His lawyers are trying to get the New York murder charge thrown out on double jeopardy grounds.

And apparently, in New York, those double jeopardy provisions can take effect if the prior prosecution ends with a guilty plea. As for why, he did it, Well, he said to the court today that he had endured years upon years of severe pain from a broken back and had been destroyed by trying to negotiate the machinations and deliberately Byzantine processes of the for-profit health insurance. insurance system. His lawyer said that he believed the system had failed him and destroyed his life. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch felt like she had to get her two cents worth in saying,

To those who idolize Luigi Mangione, I say this, violence is not a cause. Moira is not a message, and a killer is certainly not a hero. Meanwhile, the competency questionable U.S. attorney said, Yeah, there can be no celebrity in assassination. The company, for its part, said, Brian Thompson's death devastated everyone who knew and loved him. We thank law enforcement for bringing him to justice. And I'm sure there are some blood-taxed.

thirsty assholes who are pissed off. I don't know. Maybe Tommy the Tuber down in Taliban's like, well, we need to bring him down to Alabama. We'll try him and then we'll put a bag over his head and choke him to

fucking death. Oh, war damn eagle. Ugh. Assholes. Micah with a note saying he was right. They do violence on us and yes, he is a hero so far as I'm

concerned. Don't blame you saying that. I did not know this. I'm getting an education on the female voice on the aircraft. Jeremy said they used a female voice I believe called Peggy maybe and no it wasn't Peggy. They did it because of years of research. They found that pilots when they were under stress needed to pay attention to immediately they were responded better to a female voice than that of a man. Lee pointing out it was only a problem for Kirk in the episode tomorrow is yesterday, where Spock explains that the computer had recently been overhauled on the female-dominated planet Signet 14,

who thought the computer needed a personality. Computed dear, signed Lee at Memory Alpha. There's a reason she's a woman, says Micah. the oral warning system, also known as bitching Betty, and the woman who voiced it at Boeing, recently retired. Pull up, needle dick, pull up! Just keeping the flyboys humble. And so we're approaching the top of the hour.

And let's see, 35 bucks is what we need to raise to complete Ralph's challenges. that would get us down to 2065. Every dime matters at this point. So thanks to anyone who decides to jump in. Much appreciated. And what's this? Yesterday, Whiskey Pete Kegbreath had an absolutely bizarre appearance before media, and they wanted to talk to him about the

USS Abraham Lincoln and he kind of lost it began raving and waving his arms we make sure that every ship every crew every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment Gavin

Newsom saw the carrying on and went over to what used to be Twitter and said he's delusional, manic, agitated. Is Pete Hegseth done a drug test lately? Why are the results not public?

Good question, Gavin. You decide. He was in Panama. Again, he can't find a necktie. He's got a blue jacket on and a blue and white striped Oxford collar. shirt. And I guess after the whole rubbing snot through his

hair fiasco, he's got a ball cap on to maybe keep him from doing that. You see, you have to keep these little puzzle pieces laying around so that you can put them together. Because as I noted, when we saw, well, when

I saw the video, maybe you've seen it since, of him rubbing the snot into his hair, I was immediately struck by the fact that that's kind of a classic Cokehead behavior. And after everybody who saw that cringed all the way down to their toenails, he shows up in Panama with a ball cap on.

The account over on X called Republicans against Trump noted, Pete Hexeth rejected reports of worsening conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, including a sailor going overboard and declining crew mental health, calling the reports, completely misrepresented. Completely misrepresented. Listen, we make sure that every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment. Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect. and gratitude for those sailors than anybody.

What they do in those high seas and those austere conditions with less port calls, it's incredible. Americans don't understand what it's like to do that. So as someone who's not been on a ship like that, but been on long deployments, I feel it. I want them home as soon as everybody else, too. I want folks rotating as quickly as possible. I want the best for them. My commanders know that.

Our service secretaries know. His commanders. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I've never been. Really, you provide everything that the sailors need, and why were they getting a half a cup of rice and two rancid tortillas and calling it chow? Is Halliburton in charge again? I'll take a Halliburton with the Hella Burger with cheese.

Oh, that'll be $29. You know that, the president expects that. And so to that crew and to all those crews, we're going to do everything we can for you. and we are so grateful for their dedication of that crew and others. They've held the line for the country, and they've done fantastic job. Yeah, no. I don't think there was a word of truth in that, but by God, he does seem a little bit.

He seems like he might be under the influence of some Bolivian marching powder, that's for sure. He's positively manic in that video. Of course, his ex-wife told the... FBI, he drinks more often than he doesn't. His colleagues on the couch over at Fox News TV, Radio Rwanda, said he stank of booze

before he'd go on air. And he swore he would get on the wagon if he got to be Secretary of Defense. Anybody believe that? I mean, buying a shit ton of crab legs

and lobsters, I actually was chatting yesterday with a woman who said, You know, I got to be careful. She said, do you ever go to Sheehan or T.Moo? I kind of nodded my little head. I don't. But she said, I got a package the other day, and I looked at it and went, when did I order that?

And she said, oh dear. Yeah, never T-Moo after midnight. I'll betcha. Never get shit-faced Whiskey Pete and start ordering lobster and king crab and booze for the Pentagon, that is to say you, when you are in your cups. And of course, part and parcel of why the sailors aboard the Lincoln are in the fucked up circumstances that they are is because, He told his orange daddy, Oh, we can whip that Iranian ass in no time at all, Daddy. We'll just bomb the shit out of him.

And then they'll just, like, give up, you know? Oh, dude, it's going to be so cool. Yeah. And, you know, the snot and the hair, and then boom. Jesus. And from Cynthia, unlike Brian Thompson, and Luigi didn't get to make a big handsome profit for his murder. Yeah, how many mansions does he have?

Like zero, I'm sure, versus... Yeah, but, well... Now, the Bible verse says, in my father's house are many mansions. I don't think Brian Thompson got a mansion. I think he got a little... sulfur and brimstone cubicle. How about you?

Then this. The trip off the rails just gets longer and further away from reality. Garden City, New York was the scene today for nitwit Nero to offer up some random ramblings. The David S. Mack Center for Training and Intelligence. Intelligence? I had no business there. And, of course, more barking and grunting and hooting about how, how, oh, Iran is just, they're losing.

Oh, they're losing so bigly. But in particular, one little item. And which is being very badly defeated. Iran, which is being very, being very badly defeated, when back in March he said they already had been. Yeah. And a few people, a few chuckleheads there in the crowd, it looks like a bunch of cops were clapping for him. And which is being very badly defeated. Pretty soon I'll be declaring the Hormoz Strait, 18.

territory of the United States. Essentially, that's what it. We have the blockade. No ships get through unless we want them to. And how about Venezuela? Venezuela was a one-day war. 25th Amendment, America calling.

25th Amendment, America calling. The Hormo's straight. He's going to be an American territory. He's just babbling. this point. The purpose for it all was to campaign for the Republican candidate for governor Bruce Blakeman. And I guess that's, I mean, that's why there were so many ACABs there. They're pretty little white gloves. So one wonders if that's like infrastructure week.

And of course, he looked terrible. another bad hair day for God well as that one guy on social media says it could happen at any minute

we know what it means from from Sylvie if Papa Trump had a warning system don't we wish Fred Trump could have used this a loud urgent female voice back in 1945

orgasm imminent pull out pull out Cynthia says I expect old whiskey Pete is drinking stuff like this on the taxpayer dime 1972

Glenn Grant 41 year old Tantalis by Duncan Taylor Spayside single malt scotch whiskey at $3,99 99 cents a bottle through a swirly straw

Mm-hmm Cynthia asking Why are so many Americans so fucking stupid? Well, it's by design. When you stop teaching the things that young people need to begin their adult lives, they become much more manipulable. Right. Okay, well, we are into the second hour of the program.

I suggest we go over the river and through the woods to the old, dollar tree that we sublet from the Keebler elves and see who's there for the conversation this evening. Okay, everybody into the room. Let's have a Jim Dandy this evening. Hey, Jeremy, how are you? Good yourself. Among the living. I say pretty good. I'm trying to keep upbeat nature, but I guess really good answer is woke up the side of the dirt, so I'm still winning, I guess, technically. But I'm trying to think. I confess, I'm ready for a weekend. I've got a long weekend coming in two weeks, taking my last week of the vacations for the year off. So I planned it well.

I didn't realize it, that school is back in that week, so there'll be no kids around. Most people have back to work, no school vacations. So I'll have the week to myself do whatever I want. So that'll be nice. I'm trying to think. I don't know. I'm exhausted. I really don't have a ton of updates.

We heard from Park lawyer about the tax problem, and he said kind of what I thought he was going to say. They filed 400 complaints to the town, and the town automatically said, nope, we're right, you're wrong, which was to be expected, and they didn't expect the town to fold saying we did something kind of shiasty right off the bat.

So he said this will probably take six to seven months, I'll probably end up in a superior court somewhere, unfortunately, or the tax more or something like that, and just said, unfortunately, that means keep paying your taxes as normal. And there's a lot of people that live where I do, not me so much. I mean, I guess I'm on a fixed income, but not like a retired person who lives on 1100 a month in Social Security, telling them they have to pay an extra, you know, $600 every two to three months for their taxes

is going to hurt them a lot more than it will mean. It's going to suck for me, too, but, I mean, it's going to hurt a lot of people. And I mean, my taxes went up as much as my parents essentially, and they have a four-bedroom house and own their land. So there's that. But why complain? Just pay them, and hopefully the lawyer wins. I think they will eventually. I think it's this wrong case.

But other than that, things are what they are. I mean, pretty burned out from the news cycle. I still think we'll do particularly well in November. I say that hesitating after what happened with Kamala, but again, it feels different this time in terms of seeing elections that are going on, my own personal elections here in this state, how a lot of the people who claim, you know, this person or that person ago, were soundly defeated.

And they're saying nationally, so far this year, Democrats are turning like they need to turn out. They're turning out in huge numbers more than they normally do. it's usually only like a big election than they do so we'll see we'll see if it carries through or if people get too cocky and figure we don't need to help anymore and i'll just sit home tonight hopefully it doesn't happen well i can even sense a little bit of that here in west virginia Jeremy and oddly enough the thing that seems to have really pissed people off is what i was talking about with the uh clothing vouchers there seems to be a groundswell of absolute disgust over it

and the maggot legislature is trying desperately to spin it anyway except where it would be it would put responsibility upon them it's a clothing voucher or a west virginia thing i've never heard of such a thing explain you uh please oh you must have missed it the other night um every fall for as long as i can remember uh families who qualify and it's income based, got a $200 clothing voucher per child so that they could go back to school shopping. And so that the kids could show up in school with clothing that actually fits

because kids grow. That's the nature of having kids. And the state government fucked up so badly this year under Faddy Patti the Pill Roll in Trent and Troll that the money wasn't there for everybody who needed it. And of course, you know, these are working families, Jeremy. These aren't just people, you know, laying around six to a bed like Charlie Bucket and his family and Willie Wonka.

There are people, you know, there are people who work at Walmart, who work at KFC, who, you know, work at Jiffyloob and whatnot. and still don't make enough money to get to the end of the month. And I'm sure there were Trump voters and Republican voters among them, because, well, we're particularly good at that here in West Virginia, voting against our own interests, as troublesome as that phrase may be. But people are pissed, especially in light of the fact that we dropped $2 million on a July 4th celebration that just to please, please knit with narrow, 360,000 of which Morrissey and said, well, that's all the

Ferris wheel costed was $360,000, you know, $360,000. Yeah. I'm sure $200 is a lot for people who have little and nothing. I'm sure it is. But me personally, I spend $200 a week at least on average on groceries, probably more. And that's not eating particularly. Well, that's, yeah, that's the whole thing. $200 is not a lot.

But, you know, socks, underwear, a couple pairs of jeans, a few shirts, probably at least $50 just for a pair of shoes to get through the year and hope that junior's feet don't grow again for a while, at least for the year. last year I replenished my shorts because they were slowly rotting away and that was before a lot of terrorists kicked in from out of the country and we'll sort of clothes remained in India and other places and I bet I spent you know somewhere in the neighborhood two three hundred dollars on about four pairs of shorts and I think some new socks I mean it was still it wasn't much I mean it doesn't get you much anymore it's really a piddly amount what you think about but at least it's something for families who have little or nothing to give to you to you their kids and they're, you know, don't have to go to school with holy clothes and socks like I do with holes in the toes because they're too late to buy new ones. But anyway, I'm going to probably go back to work because this is my first week in over a month and a half where I'm not going to have to work this weekend, so I'm going to enjoy it. And that is what it is.

So I'll let Roger take over unless I can think of some later. I'm pretty tired and worn out, honestly. I'm out of topics. I get it. I really do. I think I'm, I mean, I think I probably got a little burn out of my own. Desperately need a vacation. Can't take one. How can you not be when you're just like the rest of us, for the most part, in the fact that you're not someone who can't not be in the know. You don't have to know at all, but you know enough that you never fully dipped out of this, and it just burns through you. It really does, unfortunately.

It does. It does. Okay, Jeremy. Well, I'm sure you'll check in as the conversation goes on. I would never make another comment. I'll just be quiet from here right now. I'll never say another coffee. Yeah, right. Never. No, no. So let's see what Roger's got. Hey, Roger. Hello. Not a whole hell of a lot. I do have two ears of corn sitting in a 5% brine. had another two ears that I shaved off, also in the same brine, to see how this fermented corn's going to do. But I had to go buy them because I don't have any corn yet. But anyhow, it'll be interesting. They've started working.

I just put them down yesterday, and they're starting to show a little bit of activities. Did you blanch them? Did you blanch them or parboil them first? No. You wanted to do that. Oh, why? Because it makes them a little more tender and, you know, for eating off the cob. Well, my thought process was if I blanched him, I'd probably be destroying the organisms they need to, to get the fermentation started.

It always, it always worked, it always worked for my grandma. Okay, well, I didn't have any active sourcrap numbers going to inoculate the brine, so I was depending on the naturally occurring things to get the fermentation. We'll see what happens. Well, I mean, there are wild yeasts inside the germ of the corn. Well, we'll see what's happening. But next week, I won't be able to give a report. because next Friday I'm going to be down camping at Crater Lake National Park.

Oh, how cool. Another one of those out in the middle of nowhere, I doubt there'll be any reception. But we'll see. We're leaving on Tuesday coming home on Saturday. Oh, that'll be delightful. And interesting, you mentioned Crater Lake, because at the beginning of a book called When They Severed Earth from Sky, which is an examination of, of how myths actually contain a kernel of truth that when the myth is first promulgated,

can be understood within the culture that generated the myth. But eventually, like a few generations later, it's just an interesting story. A myth about how Crayter Lake came to be features prominently at the beginning of the book. from the indigenous people of the area. And it was such that, oh, gosh, I think back in the 19th century, one of the members of the tribe was able to explain to an ethnographer what the myth was and what it meant. And it's absolutely fascinating.

Well, one of the things about Crater Lake is it was a mountain that kind of did what Mount St. Helens did, but instead of blowing out aside, it just blew the whole top out and didn't blow out the side. And now Crater Lake is one of the clearest, cleanest bodies of water in the world. There is no outlet to Crater Lake. It's all been filled by precipitation that fell within the rim. and when the snow melts it goes into Crater Lake and

God I forget how deep it is something like 1,200 feet deep and it's now reached its equilibrium state where over the summer enough water evaporates out to allow for the water that melts in the spring into the lake so the lake level goes up and down a bit

but it's stabilized at what it is is now. And then after the first big explosion, a little bit of it, of the eruption kept going. So there's an island out in the middle of the lake. Well, it's not really the middle. It's off to the side. It's still an island, which is the last eruption was that island breaking the surface of the lake and forming the island. But it's an interesting. number. One thing we're worried about right now is any lightning storms that come through. If they don't come with rain, it's guaranteed to start more fires. And we've been lucky here. We've only

had a couple of days of smoke that's been bad. But we're keeping a real close eye on it because if there's a fire get started down there, I'm not going to go down to hazardous air condition. either find someplace else to go or just not go. But I'm looking forward to it. Oh, I'd love to see something like that. I've always enjoyed Crater Lake. My first memories of it are with my grandparents and my parents. And we went there on a trip one time,

and the lodge that's there is it something like 7,000, 8,000 feet? I forget exactly. And I wasn't planning on talking about it, so I didn't look. the shit up before I got on. But I don't know, maybe I was eight, nine years old. No. It was before I had polio.

So it had to be before 1953. So I was under eight. But we went there and granny and grandpa weren't feeling too good. And neither was mom. Anyhow, we ate dinner and they gave me a child's portion like you normally would for a young kid. And I think it was three baked potatoes I ate. in addition to my dinner because when Granny and Grandpa didn't want to finish their baked potato,

I volunteered. And the other one came from somewhere. So I didn't have any effect of the altitude sickness at all. But everybody else did. Mom and Dad just could not stop telling that story. And then when we first came up here to Oregon, Patrice and I went for a visit with her brother. And we've been back a couple of times. It's always beautiful.

it's always enjoyable and you always see something new. And this time, rather than just a straight down, I-5 and then over to Crater Lake, I'm going to make a circle trip out of it by heading east from here and then dropping south and come into Crater Lake and then from Crater Lake, go west, hit I-5 and come back up I-5. but it'll be a fun number with kids and grandkids and we're just going to have fun that sounds wonderful well just to give you something to think about while you're gone i did look up the book and the segment of the book uh that details the origin story of crater lake according to uh the indigenous

people the clamoth people in particular um and it'll take a couple of minutes but just to share because I find it so dagum fascinating. The story was recorded in 1865 and retold and examined by Clark in 1953. It just says, A long time ago, so long you cannot count it. And again, this is a tribal person recounting. The spirits of the earth and the sky,

the spirits of the sea and the mountains, often came and talked with my people. Sometimes the chief of the below world came up from his home inside the earth and stood on top of the mountain, the high mountain that used to be. One time when the chief of the below world was on the earth, he saw Loja, the daughter of the tribal chief. Loha was a beautiful maiden, tall and straight as the arrow would. Her eyes were dark and piercing, her hair was long and black and glossy. the chief of the below world saw her and fell in love with her. He told her of his love and asked her to return with him to his lodge inside the mountain. There, he said she would live forever and forever, but Loja refused to go with him.

Then the chief of the below world set one of his warriors to a feast of the tribe to plead for him and to arrange for a marriage with Loja. But again the maiden refused, and the wise men of the council would not command her to go. When the messenger returned to the middle of the mountain and reported the man, aden's answer the chief of the below world was very angry. In a voice like thunder, he swore he would have revenge on the people of Loja, that he would destroy them with the curse of fire. Raging and thundering, he rushed up through the opening and stood upon the top of the mountain. Then he saw the face of the chief of the above world shining among the stars that surrounded his home.

Slowly the mighty form of that chief descended from the sky and stood on the top of Mount Chasta. From their mountaintops, the two spirit chiefs began a furious battle. In a short time, all the spirits of earth and sky took part in the battle. Mountains shook and crumbled, red-hot rocks as large as the hills hurtled through the skies. Burning ashes fell like rain. The chief of the below world spewed fire from his mouth, like an ocean of flame it devoured the forests on the mountains and in the valleys. On and on the curse of fire swept until it reached the homes of the people.

fleeing in terror before it, the people found refuge in the waters of Klamath Lake. After a discussion, two medicine men, the oldest and most revered of the Klamath people, rose from the water, lighted their pine torches, and started toward the mountain of the chief of the below world. From the waters of Klamath Lake, the people watched the flare of the torches move up the long ridge on the east side of the mountain to the top of the cliff, which hung over the entrance to the below world. There the medicine men paused for a moment, watching the flames and smoke coming up through the opening. Then they lifted their burning torches high above their heads and jumped into the fiery pit as sacrifice. The chief of the above world standing on Mount Shasta saw the brave deed of the medicine

men. He saw that it was good. Once more, the mountains shook. Once more, the earth trembled on its foundations. This time the chief of the below world was driven into his home, and the top of the mountain fell upon him. When the morning sun rose, the high mountain was gone. The mountain which the chief of the below world had called his own no longer towered near Mount Shasta. The rain fell. For many years, rain fell in torrents and filled the great hole that was made when the mountain fell upon the chief of the below world. The curse of fire was lifted. Peace and quiet covered the earth. Never again did the chief of the below world come up from his home. Never again did his voice frighten the people. Now you understand why my people never visit the lake. Down through the ages we have

heard this story from father to son has come the warning. Look not upon the place, look not upon the place, for it means death or everlasting sorrow. I don't know it for a fact, I can't prove, but I just know when the chief of the below world got together with Miss Loja, first thing he said was below me. Juvenile delinquent, I will pull this program over. I will. Don't test me. Come on now, Robin. Come on. Come on. Come on. But it's a brilliant explanation that could easily be understood. understood for the volcanic eruption that it was by the people who were within living memory of it.

And then eventually it becomes less and less recognizable. But it's fascinating to know that there's a... And then you have to deal with the fact of how long ago that volcano exploded. and then you realize the power of myth and memory. So for anybody interested, again, the book is called When They Severed Earth from Sky. It's just a magnificent read that deals with myth in the Mediterranean, in the Aegean, which of course has lots and lots of volcanic activity over the years, the eruption of what was then known as Thera and is today known as Santa Rini,

somewhere around 1600 BCE. So now you've got an origin story to contemplate when you get to Crater Lake, Roger. Yeah, well, I just did a quick search. Crater Lake was formed some 7,000 years ago. Yeah. And so that's amazing. that that story could be transmitted generationally. And, of course, those people were there 7,000 years ago.

Yeah, well, there's also some very interesting geology, and I don't know what its date is, around Mount Shasta. I think it was a similar time period, maybe five, six, seven thousand years ago, when Shasta did a real blow-up, and there are rock fields still visible to this day, spread out from Shasta, the very upper reaches of Sacramento River, of when it blew and through boulders, 30, 40 miles, and those boulders are still sitting on the ground,

and from certain viewpoints, you can look out and try to see how they all, they've just laid out from the, the last eruption of Shasta that did a similar blow up as opposed to what we normally see from the Hawaiian volcanoes that simply pour out lava. And some of those boulders are the size of houses.

Yeah, and if you'll get, it's huge. And if you notice from the myth, that's evidence of the war that took place between the chief of the below world and the chief of the above world. Yeah. Because the chief of the above world was disgusted and came down and stood and battled the chief of the below world. And he took up a position at the top of Shasta. Absolutely fascinating.

Well, Eddie, I'll give me something to think about while I'm down there for breakfast and dinners for the kids and grandkids. And Jude just said, I'll be up at Lake Kino. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly. Q-U-I-N-A-U-L-T. An area is one of the remaining rainforests on this pale blue dot. And she says, enjoy, Roger. Oh, yeah, that's just gorgeous. There's nothing like the Pacific Northwest.

I don't know whether you heard it or not, the Timberline Lodge had to be evacuated there last week. it, but they evacuated it and had to fight fire around it. Oregon has had more acreage burned up to today than any year ever previously. And the fire season is just really getting started. Scary. And unfortunately, a lot of them are arson. Majority are lightning, okay?

The majority are all, you know, naturally caused. But there are people setting fires just for the hell of it. And I just, I can't understand it. Why in all these tender dry conditions, somebody intentionally start a fire? Stupidity. Well, it can't be like many, many years ago down in California, the California Forestry would hire people and pay them a pittance to be on standby. And once a fire got started and they'd get hired and off they'd go and they'd make good money.

And toward the end of the fire season, if there hadn't been very many fires, some of the people that were on that standby pay, as I say, a pittance to be on standby, they'd go start fires so they could get some money for the year. because they weren't being paid enough to make it through, but they couldn't take any other job because they were on immediate recall to fight fire. So getting toward the end of the season, they went out and lit a fire or a fire or two to make sure they got called up to put the fire out. I just don't understand it.

But then again, who knows? Anyhow, as to interesting stuff, let's see, Tomorrow I'm headed up to a little town called Oak Ridge, where there's a fermentation and pickling workshop. I'm going to drop in. I didn't really sign up for it. They don't know I'm coming, but I'm going to go up with my sauerkraut pounders. I've never been to the church where the classes go on up there in Oak Ridge. and I just, you know, go up and say, here I am.

If you need me, I can do it. If you don't, well, I'll just sit and watch and enjoy the day up in Oak Ridge, which is a, I think the population is something like 700, 800, 800 people in the town. So it's, you know, one of those little wide spots in the road as you drive around rural Oregon. And then Sunday, one of the local wineries is having a British invasion. and they've got a band that does Beatles and a few other bands that I'm not a music person so I don't know them all.

But anyhow, and so our little British car club, they're reserving a spot on the lawn for us to park our cars to be part of this British invasion for the library. Oh, what a blast. And well, we go down to that same winery. They have a cherry blossom festival, and we show up.

And we don't put on a mini car show. We're just all parked together in the parking lot and we'll come for the Cherry Blossom Festival, get to walk around, look at the cars, and all that good kind of stuff. And so that's Saturday, Friday, well, today's Friday, that's Saturday, Sunday. Monday, I don't have anything to do. Tuesday, I've got a meeting and then go to Crater Lake.

So I'm keeping busy in retirement. Oh, you sound like you may be more busy in retirement than you were working. Well, I'm still trying to figure out how I had time to go to work. Yeah. But I did do it enough years to get some retirement out of it. So, you know, I can't say that I spent all my life retired until I retired. But it keep your nose to the grindstone long enough. And it comes out on the other end for most of us, although I do have to admit I grew up.

and absolutely the best period of time to be able to accumulate some familial wealth and defined benefit retirement system. And thanks to Joe Biden, I'm finally getting my Social Security. So, you know, I'm not rich, but I'm able to not live on welfare. Well, comfort. That's, that's the key. Well, wife and I are comfortable. At least we have air conditioning.

So I got to know, have you gotten into the canned tuna yet? Well, we eat can tuna kind of regularly. Oh, okay. Well, you were talking about having done it recently, and it's... Oh, yeah, that was the August 1st workshop over in Mapleton. Well, by the way, what's really fun is we went over, I'll get to the tuna a second. We went over, but we got a campsite about three miles away from the school, so we didn't have to leave super early in the morning to get over there. I now have permission for any time I come over for a Saturday workshop at the school there, we're using an elementary school, cafeteria and that kind of thing.

I now have permission to park my trailer where the school buses gather and dump off kids. So it's kind of a wide, nice flat spot at the top of the hill. I now have permission to park my travel trailer there on Friday night to the workshop on Saturday. And so we'll just pull in. I don't have to worry about the next door neighbor with a generator to get the convection microwave oven going or keep the refrigerator cold or anything like that. And as long as I get there after school is out on a Friday. and don't dump my waste water on the ground.

Obviously, I won't do that. But I no longer have to pay a $30 a night camping fee to teach the classes. I can just arc on the school grounds, and you can't see it from the road, and off nice and isolated. So it makes it worthwhile. And if we want to, we can drive over to the coast for dinner and then that's about a 10-mile trip over the coast from from mapleton and go to a restaurant, eat dinner, come back, crawl into the little camping trailer and get up in the morning and

eat your class. As a matter of fact, we did 191 jars that day. And after they bought enough to make sure everybody got their tuna, all the people that signed up for the class. and when everything was all said and done, there were, I don't know, 35, 40 jars that we canned up extra after the class. And so all the people that went over to help teach it, we were asked who wants to,

there were $4.93 fish price for the contents. So, you know, $5 a jar. And so Patrice and I said, yeah, we'll take some. So we ended up with, I think it's eight jars of that tuna, which is just plain albacore. And I haven't opened any of them yet, but we will. Definitely will.

I have no doubt it'll be absolutely yummy. Oh, yeah, it'll be good, but it'll sure beat chicken of the sea or any of the other brands that you go down to your local grocery store to buy. Oh, without a doubt. So much better. Well, you got, I could say you won one time, I think. Yes, you did. And from the moment that I popped the top to the moment that we could see the shining bottom of the jar,

you probably need really sensitive scientific instruments to be able to measure. I mean, it was fast. Once people eat home canned tuna, they never want to go back to the store button. I just have to say when you liberal communists Marxists get your free parking spots ruining the world damn it you're not paying capitalism you're due 30 bucks you're ruining it for the rest of us

but wait now wait a minute the campground was a county campground so that's not capitalist I'm just just picking on you I know I know I know I'm just shoveling it back okay fair enough Fair enough. I know you're doing.

Well, now there was the $10 reservation fee because the county contracts with somebody else to handle the bookings. Whereas if you just show up, it only cost you $20 to camp, but you're not guaranteed a spot. If you pay the reservation system a $10 fee, then it's a guaranteed spot and reserve for you. So, yeah, I guess I'm cheating the capitalist out of a little bit of money, but then I'm sorry. What capitalism. Yes. Absolutely. Well, golly, I see that Christopher has joined in.

You're early to see with Christopher. Happy Friday, Christopher. Yeah, yeah, I got off our work a little bit early. I'm going to have to do a little bit later, but not much. So, yeah, it's a beautiful day out and get up my porch a little bit, my deck. I'm trying, something's wrong with my phone. It ran out battery. so I'm going to try to get a picture of Arlo.

He just got groomed. So the girls gave him... Huh? Do you clear skies, Chris? Yes. It's not... Well, it's a little bit hazy. What about by you, Roger?

How effect... Well, no, I have a question. How affected by city lights are you where you are? Are you out in the country? It's kind of darkish? Just south of Portland, so there's a lot of light pollution here. Well, if you can see stars, look up tonight because we're on the tail end of the Perseer media shower

and I saw a good amount of them last night This goes on until like Monday All across the country It doesn't matter where in the country All across the world We're passing through a hilly comet's tail We do whatever year this time of year Oh okay

Oh that's cool All right We'll do that So David and Michelle are coming over for game night So we're going to play some dice Play some Uno Oh fun Stuff like that

Yeah That should be a lot of fun pop in on the back porch and say hi. Good times. And say hi to David for us. Since he started his new job, haven't heard so much from him. That happens.

I hope things are going well for him. I think they are. I think he wants to get back in Multnomah. Maybe he's having a really good time in Salem, but that commutes hell. Jeez. Yeah, and commute to Rogers, but it's bad enough. And speaking of commutes, Cynthia also retired, said,

I sure as fuck don't know how I had time to go to work all those years ago and commute on top of it. How did I do it after all? How? Because Cynthia stays plenty busy now. How did we remember all the phone numbers that we had to remember? I mean, yes, you had a phone book, and you had a little personal, but most people memorize. like 30 40 50 phone numbers and now I'm lost if if my phone goes away so does well I guess I could recover it from the cloud but yeah spelling it should be a really good speller

atrocious now one way was I'm not sure about where you were but where I was the like McKinnellio numbers start all of them started Terrace 9 arcada numbers were all of them started Terrace 9 arcada numbers were all Dijk 2. Eureka numbers were all Hillside either three or four, H.I. 3 or H.I.4. So you really only had to memorize, if you knew the town they lived in, you only had to memorize a four-digit number. Here in Oregon right now, everybody has a seven-digit number. And if they are local to this part of Oregon, that are all 541. You still need to memorize seven. I mean, sorry, it's a 10-digit number.

You still need to memorize a seven-digit, the 123-4-5-6-7. So you need to memorize a seven-digit number instead of a four-digit number. And then there are people here in Oregon, like me, who moved here with a phone number that is not in the 5-4-1 area code. So now for somebody to memorize my phone number,

number, they need to memorize 10 digits. And so we weren't memorizing a 10 digit number for everybody. We were only memorizing a four-digit number in the town they lived in. It had it a bit easier because the phone was, you know, attached to the wall. And if you lived in McKinnellyville, it was T.E.9, which translated to 8-3, but 839. but Terrace 9 was Teres 9 was just seemed to be easy to remember and then four digits

and it was for a seven digit number Yeah, I never actually had to use those those alphanumeric designations but I think I think our phone number started with Atwater So I guess what, AT? A.T and then a number and then the four Yeah

and of course I still remember that number and then along so they moved to the three digit prefix and then of course added in the area code and then they changed the area code Alabama has three area codes now

maybe more since since last I checked West Virginia has two area codes but we have proven very very stubborn about adopting the new one I want a 304 area area code, damn it. And, you know, you see people walking around with T-shirts that have the outline of the state of West Virginia and says, you know, 3-04.

And so refer to the state as the 304. Modernity, modernity. And cell phone still 773. Chicago, both suburbs. I can remember my childhood phone number from House I moved away from almost 40 years ago at this point Can remember it like yesterday? Remember my grandparents?

I can remember my house I grew up in from elementary to high school But the one that gets me And this is the funny thing of all is my best friend His password for a long time Has been a mixture of The last four of my childhood phone number And his

And it still melts my mind As how he does it. I cannot figure it. It's still fucking ever if I'm trying to put them Or kind of put them together I cannot do it. Somehow he's done it easily. He remembers it. I remember it too.

And I also remember when, I don't know the exact year, but they had to expand to all different area codes around Chicago, the metropolitan area. Everything used to be 312. Then they had to split them up. So where we lived in the western suburbs was 630. I remember, you know, everybody got pissed off in the neighborhood. Ah, man, our phone numbers changed. The area codes changing. It's going to be paying the ass, blah, blah, blah.

California has 40 area codes. Holy cow. He's got a bunch, but on that many. We get about 10. I feel like there was a little bit. I feel like there was a little bit of hairy carry in that holy cow, Christopher. Yeah. Yeah, could be.

I told you that story. Running home after school to maybe catch their ninth, sometimes even the seventh. By that time, Harry was gone. Oh. A long drive way back. Might be a cubberatives. Those were great times. Me and my buddy, which in the Cubs.

And his son, his son Skip was a great one too. because he was down your way yeah skip skip was with the brave and he died he died way too young oh he's dead yeah who's the grand kid because he did the cubs and they did the braids

is he doing the braves now it's chip yeah chip yeah Harry stick and shit he wasn't bad either no skip was good because he was on the

super station everybody got to see him too Yeah, and And Skip Skip was a delight to I remember when he made a reference to Yosemite Sam He said Yosemite?

Yeah, yeah, yeah Whereas Les Nessman saying Chai-Chi-Rodriguez was just TV fiction Skip Kari actually said Yosemite Sam Sir Chai-Chi-Chi Say that again Chai-Chi-Rodrigui

That's fantastic. So good. Oh, God. Let's go Bears play tomorrow, so I'm going to the Bears bar. Yeah, what's... A hero in Portland. Yeah, what was that that went down with the stadium?

I saw a post from... They're leaving. They're leaving. Yeah. But I gather, I don't think it's set in stone 100%, but the city ain't gonna give any money and the state ain't either they're like cough more money than god we don't got a pot to piss in so go to hell well i saw where i saw where frank who listens to the program uh frank said why do they deserve a new stadium at all like

why should the taxpayers pay for that also maybe win a fucking super bowl in the 21st century then we can fucking talk about a new stadium and no shit exactly exactly so when i was down in Indy for the Indy 500, oh, it was all the talk. When everybody, when I met somebody and they found out I was a Bears fan, oh, there were squawking, squawking, squawking. Oh, we're stealing the Bears from you, yay. Well, first of all, Hammond, Indiana, it's not Central Indiana. Dave will tell you, you know, Dave will tell you all about it.

It's a different universe. Hammond is a different universe than Indianapolis. Oh, and, you know, I have a feeling they're going to run into issues with Superfunds, like, who the hell is going to clean that up? Because maybe they're not going to be able to build anything at the Wolf Lake until somebody cleans that up. You remember, I mean, that was one of the most industrialized areas of the United States in the day. And it'll be interesting to see how all that goes. So, yeah.

I mean, there's a train that goes down there. I mean, still, yes, pain in the ass to get to the stadium. But not, if they have, what do you call it, straight lines, you know. Yes, like an express. I mean, they can make that work. It wouldn't be too bad. I mean, there's casinos around there. Are they still going to be the Chicago Bears, though?

Or are they going to be the Hammond Bears? Or the Indiana Bears? I saw something on the crawl. The name will stay. I don't know who made the decision, whether it's from the owners, a vote by the owners. I have no idea. The commissioner. I want him to go back to be in the Decatur stay lease.

Yeah. Go there. Go to the other river. Yeah. Cater, go back home. That's a great idea. Oh, and by the way, I need to send out thanks to Rob. Thank you, Rob, very kindly.

Rob finished off Ralph's first challenge and got us started on the second one saying, Keep the horn alive. Thanks, Roxanne. Thank you, Rob. Thank you so, so much. It'd be great if some other folks would jump in alongside you. We've got $15 to go on the Abdul El-Said busts a move to Taylor Swift challenge yet. $15 to go on that.

That'll get us down to 2065 if we can get there. And Lordy, if we could get down somehow, and it would be a miracle, make no mistake, get down to just being a week behind, that would be huge. Because, well, I got car property taxes and tag stickers to pay for, and then next month I have to deal with the real property taxes and on top of everything else that keeps this. program going so thanks rob thank you so much thank you ralps for the first challenge and hopefully $15 more and we're done with the second one fingers crossed and again thanks rob oh what else i mean i i get it i get a sense that everybody well like jeremy said just exhausted me too and uh back here almost there back here in the bag yeah it's yeah it's here in the fabulous horn studios it's been positively swampy and tropical the past couple of days

and we won't we won't make mention of the attire of your humble oastus these like no no no the horror the horror my little engine that could my little tiny air conditioner unit here yeah it's it's struggling I think I need to get a new filter for it. Well, what we've got back here is one of those little floor unit heat pumps. Well, heat pump. Oh, okay. And it's, you know, it uses that flex hose, like with your dryer out the window. That's what I got, too, yeah. And it tries really hard, but the thing is, it's at the back of the room next to the, because the fabulous Horn Studios are also known at least half of it as the laundry room. so it's backed by the washer and the dryer and I'm in the front of the room

with the great big humongous windows that are facing south and just and you know now that we've got a tarp on the leaky roof it's black and it just well it just sucks up heat um

whoof yeah one of your problems with I've got a unit similar to that out here in my mother-in-law unit. If you go outside to where that pose goes out the window and put your hand there, yeah, it's going to be warm and all the rest of that. But it's also sucking a whole lot of air out of the room that it's in

to expel the heat to the outdoors. So when it's running, it is sucking a lot of air in from outdoors through the cracks and all the rest of it, which is at the higher temperature. So if it's possible, maybe someplace it is, so it isn't. If you could position it, I happen to have this little tiny hallway from where the door comes in, past the bathroom, along the kitchen, I can open up the window in the door and it's sucking warm air in through that, getting to the unit very quickly, and then goes through the unit and gets expelled back outside. Whereas the cold air that the unit is blowing, I have it

focused toward the center of the room. And I keep the part of the room that's getting cooled. I shut all the windows on that side and only have them open on the other side. So the warm air simply comes in, hits the unit, and gets sucked. backed out, but the cold air is blown into the rest of the room. Now, when the youngest boy tried to put one of those units in in his little, I don't know, it's an eight by 10 foot shack that he lives in, it couldn't keep just that eight by 10 foot shack pool because it was sucking so much air in that it just, it couldn't keep up with the amount of air it was sucking in to run the unit.

So there are drawbacks on those guys that having to do with air circulation that make them a problem for smaller cubic air units. I hope I made sense with that. I haven't had anything to drink. It did. It did. And honestly, it's cooler back here when I can open the door into the rest of the mansion. But we can't do that during the program because the golden one will come back and forth.

And while it's delightful, he would distract your umbelosis because I would have to immediately turn to, oh, that's a good boy. Oh, shadow is all. I love the shadow. Oh, what a good boy. And, you know, it doesn't make great radio. So that. Put a picture of Arlo in the chat. Oh, yay. Hi, Arlo. You know, Shadow wouldn't come in as much You didn't always hear you talking to the fucking background About a fucking little cousin and how cute he is

You wouldn't want to come in and confirm your love for him Don't misgender the cousins They're both little girls now quit that Anyhow, I see Chi Wu Put in an appearance Ah, Chi Wu's here Hey Oh and there's Naomi in the chat room

And Theo What's happening now Hey ChiW What's going on? Chris Chris How you doing, buddy? Going with the Bears, man.

The Bears moving? If they do, that would be a colossal mistake on their part because in three years when they realized they invested $4 billion in a place that nobody wants to go to, they'll figure it out. And then... Wolf Lake, Ray?

What I would. would do, if I was, if I was the state of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker and all of them, this is the blue state, so the DEM state legislature, all of that, what I would do is that land that they bought in Arlington Heights, I would start charging them millions of dollars in taxes right now. Make up your mind. Pretty good idea. That's a pretty good idea. Money talks. You want to move your ass-dust. Indiana head on out, but you already bought the land in Arlington Heights.

That's the Indian land, right? I think they can pass a law that would say if that, if you've got that land and it's not generating any revenue. They bought Arlington Park Racetrack. That's a nice piece of land. It burned down twice for the money. That's a nice piece of land. And they paid a couple hundred million dollars. for that land. It burned down twice

for the money. Is that that state farm lightning, Chihuahua? Right, right. Something like that. Yeah, yeah. Cigarette dropped out, you know, whatever. And then... This is the city of Chicago only burned one time. Yeah, but the stadiums, you know,

sports is a different thing. Sports is a different type of entertainment. It's a different type of thing. Sports, I mean, Look, man. United States of America fills up a $75,000 seat stadium on a random Thursday for college football. Stop it.

You know, sports is a different thing in America. What I want to ask Ms. Robin about, what's up with Blanche? What's going on with him? Which part? I mean, he's dirty, he's sleazy. He entered that, he announced that Office of Legal Counsel memo almost before the ink was dry on his confirmation as Attorney General. So now anybody that talks to Nitwit Nero is deemed by the AG's office as engaged in privileged communication, which is just absolute bullshit. So that's all finalized in.

I mean, that's official policy of the Office of the Attorney General now. I thought federal judges slapped the shit out of his ass. Oh, they are. They're still slapping him around like the little bitch he is. But he's the attorney general now. They literally confirmed him in the dark and still of the night before they bolted out of town for their month-long vacation. That's be nice. You're telling me that when Donnie's in the back. seat of the

car. They roll up on the McDonald's drive-through window. He orders his three Big Macs, two double cheeseburgers, blah, blood, and Diet Coke. And a giant diet Coke. That's a privileged

conversation. Yep, that's executive privilege now, Christopher. Chris, if you're going to make jokes, the drive-through. What? If you're going to make jokes, get the fucking name right. It's the beast. Not the car, the beast. The beast. The beast, okay.

No, that's what, no, no, Jeremy, that's what's inside the car. And it's preceded by the words, orange and shit. The orange shit beast. The diaper nanny is the beauty, so beauty and the beast. I see that pretty? I don't think I've seen a picture of her. Oh, she's in a, yeah, she's another bottle blonde. And she's...

They also call her the human printer because she walks around with a wireless printer and just prints out stories praising him from the few remaining places that are willing to do so. But, you know, I may she probably changes his dydies too. Did anyone hear, did anyone hear how Sparks really happen with this plain thing? How Sparks usually isn't too far from the truth when he comes over with his theories. he's saying that this C whatever it wasn't a C-130 whoever it was was specially outfit it was a medical plane he went on and saw his team of doctors because it was a C-30 so much yeah C-32 jet

and he's claiming it was a medical plane and Trump didn't want people to know that he was getting medical attention because all this fuck up with the G8 they're tuning him up so you went there for three hours before they give him for that time period and that's why no one knew about it yeah but the whole business the whole business about Bibi telling him, oh, Mr. President, the mullahs are going to get you.

I mean, it's redundant to say that he's shit his pants, but that was the motivation. And everybody seems to be in agreement that Caroline, real poo-poo, leave it alone, didn't take too kindly to it. And so she... He also did that, because he knew once Trump calmed down, he'd attack him again. But that also dovetails with the fact that now with this Office of Legal Counsel memo that we were talking about with Chi Wu, you got to understand, Tangerine Tiberius was calling Caroline while she was on maternity leave.

I mean, for all we know, she was pushing that little baby girl out. Yes, Mr. President. Caroline, I really need you back. My Diet Coke is warm, Caroline. And so now with this Office of Legal Counsel memo out, even with her out of the job and off the payroll, anytime he calls her, it's executive privilege. Let's say he calls and says, well, you know, Caroline,

I guess I can tell you now. Yeah, I really did fuck that 13-year-old little girl and slapped her around a little bit. And it's privileged communication. Tadda. The 13-year-old bit his little fun guy. Yeah, dingus. What did they ever figure out about the taxes?

Has that been, is that still moving along? Has that been resolved? Oh, well, the, the federal judge down in Miami has said that for the time being nitwit Nero doesn't have to respond to that part of discovery, but he also said that

that ain't necessarily going to remain the case. And then well like I said, I don't deliberately make this... Oh, thank you, Cynthia in the Bay Area. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

The rest of Ralph's challenge got met. We're down to 2055. Gosh, 56 bucks, and we could be under $2,000. And not quite seven days unfunded. So if we could get a little mini-miracle going here in the last hour of the program, it would be fan-free fantastic. And it gets some momentum going. Thank you, Frank.

Oh, goodness. We are now down to 2030. Thank you, Frank. That really does help because staring down the steering down the beady little

eyes of the terrified chihuahua is no fun. Thank you so much, Frank. Oh, look, oh my goodness gracious. There's a... David has... joined us. Hi, David. Oh, David's there. Yeah.

Hi, everybody. Hey. Hey, counselor. What's going on? I just hope that. Any witches down there? That's a bad joke. Yeah, that is bad. You know, I knocked a lot of flat out of her ass with that one.

There are some strange things that go on in Salem, Oregon. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't be surprised that there were witches. in uh... god that reminds me of the in the bathroom at work yeah in the bathroom at work there's a sign that says please don't summon demons in the bathroom nice you just reminded me of robert l services

the cremation of sam maggie the opening lines strange things are done in the midnight sun by the men who moyle for gold yeah That's strange, David, because I'm pretty sure I exercised a few demons in the bathroom before. You know, I was thinking because, like, as I'm sitting on the pot there in the bathroom, staring at the sign there, I'm like, I hope I'm not summoning any demons. Preferably expelling them.

Oh, my God. Shut up, Roxanne. Jesus Christ. I do. I need a vacate. But I got to share this with you guys. This is a clip from the bulwark. and it's about Brandon Herrera

Now this is the Maggot who is running to replace Oh, who was the sex pest That resigned from office Tony Gonzalez, was it, from Uvaldi? You know, we talked last week about and I mean the

the business with the dollar tree and and and and whiskey Pete running the snot through his hair and God there's and the testosterone

obsession of whiskey Pete keg breath well we got a new one with Brandon Herrera and again they they were talking about it you know these masculine men of masculine maga masculinity there's there's no end to how disgusting they are

and so Sam Stein and Tim Miller got to talking about it and I'm not going to do I'm going to not do much of a setup on this let's just say that Brandon Herrera is apparently really really really really disgustingly obsessed with his boy parts. Trigger warning, content warning,

sleaze warning, bodily fluids warning, gets a duct tape in the hockey puck. Can I ask Sam, since you spent some time on the forums? Yeah. Why do people want that? I did research into this, yes. Yeah, okay. What do they feel as deficient about their current,

you know, sort of ejaculate? I feel like they need to supplement it. Well, is it about impregnating women? Is it about, is it gay men or bottle? I mean, I don't feel so bad about this, about touching, not touching, about discussing these topics anymore because, you know, these guys are serious. They got real Jed Clampett walking around money. And they're talking about it because the bulwark is a real live, no kidding,

a fully funded media empire. But, yeah, I think you've got the idea of what they're talking about. Jesus Christ. Who just kind of like it? So I looked into this. I researched the medical journals. I did some, you know, perusing of medical news today, looked at how much your average ejaculate is.

And I got answers as to why people want to increase their volume. but also I did not know this. There's also a lot of interest in making your ejaculate travel farther. And mostly it's just psychological. It's basically... Showmanship.

Yeah, you feel like more of a man. Okay, so as a gay man, I'm going to have to turn to you guys for some expertise here, which is unusual. As I understand heterosexual sex, it's been about 23 years for me. So maybe the memory is a little fuzzy. you don't really get to see how far it goes you know because it's like in the shoot yeah that that's that's true i mean i guess if you pull out you do uh and if you're just masturbating you can you can

okay so oh so it's for it's for self-awareness and self-confidence uh they get into this a little bit uh they they talk a in in very vivid detail about because the maggot men of masculine maggot masculinity are out there having these conversations. And in particular, Brandon Herrera, congressional candidate endorsed by Orange Jesus, has a podcast in which he

discussed... Disgusts. Yes, he discusses. Discusses what he calls lock and load. Can I Can I... Do your do your do your do gondist. So this is

this is your for-profit media in late stage capitalism. Anything, anything, anything, anything to distract from the collapsing society around us, right? Like, they will talk about the most vapid, disgusting, crude, topics so they don't have to deal with the fact that our civilization is dying, right? And I'm not talking about the racist conception of Western civilization and the white man and and fucking European shit.

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about human civilization, right? Climate change is changing. It will change the way. humans interact with the very planet upon which we live. And they don't want to talk about the fact that it's the economic system under which we all toil, under which we are all currently being exploited that is causing the catastrophe. They don't want to talk about that.

And this is why we have such a vapid, disgusting, shallow, culture, it's because the media empires that have been built by the same billionaires that are killing all of us have decided that they don't actually want anybody to know that they are collapsing our planet. I can't, that is so fucking disgusting. And they're just sitting around. I mean, sure, it's one thing to, like, joke about that, you know, amongst some friends, you know, at a, you know, in, in private, but to do it in public when there are so many more, like, urgent things for us to be talking about, for us to be discoursing about. I mean, I'm not, I mean, I'm not, obviously, I'm not above the, the, the odd poop joke every now and again, right? But at the same time, there is, there is, that is so obviously a distraction, it is, and it's, it's infuriating me. That's infuriating to me. I, I get that, I get that, David, but I would like to offer.

I'd like to offer the counterpoint on that. Yeah, this stuff is goofy and it's repulsive, but that having been said, you know, you pointed out how civilization is collapsing in end-stage capitalism, with which I entirely agree. But I would say that this is, I'm not sure if this is a symptom of the collapse or a partial cause of it. because I argue it's a partial cause I think so too

because I mean how many years now have we been hearing about the male loneliness epidemic well I don't know why we have to focus on the male aspect of it

because what we have is an atomized society there was a time in this country where you knew who all your neighbors were. Now you're lucky if you know who lives next door to you, because we have been deliberately segregated one from another. We don't have any reason to leave the house. We can sit and watch the electric TV wall, and we wind up as engaged with...

I'm sure, David, that you've read Fahrenheit 451. You know, Ray Bradbury. I haven't, actually. Oh, okay. Oh, that's really good. No spoiler, but the protagonist's wife sits around her house all day, and the TVs are so large they take up entire walls, and TV shows are written such that they are.

interactive individually. And so with four walls of TV around her, she interacts in real time with the TV shows and has no real contact with the outside world.

And I would, I'm sorry. No, no, and so what we wind up with here and I wanted to go back in the clip to the relevant part about Brandon Herrera because I think I think it is causational.

And this obsession with grunting, barking, knuckle-walking masculinity, is going to prove our doom. And on top of it all, these guys with these fragile male egos running around, I mean, look at the fucking assholes. in ice. I mean, they're a classic example. But then this Brandon Herrera character who has a shockingly

frank video blog or vlog cast or what the fuck ever. And he's and the people who follow him are just eaten up with trying to enhance their masculinity.

I guess because what? Because they're terrified that they're not sufficiently heterosexual? I'm at a loss. I think it's... I think it's... I think it's... I think it's something else.

The reason people disconnect through the TV and through the internet and through and through the... The social media apps is because we literally do not have any disposable income because to do anything else. If you want to go to a baseball game, it's going to run you $100, 100. Yeah, we were talking about it.

If you want to go to the theater to see a play, the same thing. People just don't have the money to do anything other than sit around and watch TV. And then the people that have caused that, that loss of opportunity, are now exploiting the fact that people don't have anything. other anything to do with their leisure time, the little leisure time that they have left, when they're not being exploited by capitalists, that they're using, they're now using the mass media as tools of propaganda to further inculcate into the culture their supposed values. And people are disenchanted with that. And they're being made to feel like their, their lot in life is their fault.

When it's a systemic issue, it's an issue with our economic system. And so they're searching for meaning. And I'm not condoning what they're, you know, I'm not condoning the communities into which they have fallen. But at the same time, we have to realize that this is more, this has more to do with a failing economic ideology imposed on us by a bunch of rich white men, then it has to do with individual moral failings of the people that are just trying to survive day to day. I can buy into a lot of that, but I think in particular where the Brandon Herrera's and the whiskey Pete keg breaths are concerned and these guys who bark and grunt about, you know,

how manly they are. it's it's an attempt to redefine what it is to be American because you don't see I mean classic Hispanic machismo in place in in the in the in the Hispanic world is a thing and it has been for eons other manifestations of it, but you don't have movements like this, I don't think, in Europe and Asia. And here's the ultimate irony of this. I'm going to play another piece of this clip where they're specifically talking about Brandon Herrera.

But at the, let's see, at the 15 minute and 10 second mark of this broadcast. Oh, God. They have, after all this business about guys being obsessed with their ejaculate and taste and smell and whatnot. That's disgusting. I know. But at the 15 minute and 10 second mark, they break for an ad from HEMS. H-I-M-S. Of course.

Yeah. Mail enhancement products. Let's see. Go to Hems. slash bulwark takes to get a personalized affordable plan that gets you. Because apparently guys, you know, you got, you got, you got 20 and 30-something guys now who can't get an erection? Why? I mean, that's not, that's not, that's not a topic that I'm familiar with.

So just to say, I'm just, we're going to play just a couple of minutes. this try to if you if you have to scream scream it's okay i understand i've already done my screaming because i've already heard it i'm talking about this is that a likely member of con we discovered on our own research brendan hartnett pulled this up by himself was pushing a supplement to how did brendon come across this again okay he came across his google history well my google history now is off the charts. Brendan Herrera is the member of Congress. He's running in Texas.

Everyone knows him as the guy who's like a kind of a gun nut. A couple weeks ago, a video surface where he was going after Shannon Watts, who's a gun control activist and talking about what was the phrase? I don't even want to say. Come trophies. Yes, how children were cum trophies. So Brendan Hartnett wanted to look as Brendan does for other instances in which Brandon Herrera talked about come. And he stumbled upon a podcast.

episode for a podcast that Brandon, Brandon Herrera hosted called Unsubscribe Podcast, where basically they just riff on how these supplements are allowing Brandon Herrera's come to taste good and ejaculate a lot more forcefully and one more heft, so to speak. Yes. I totally said it was going to be a hefty podcast. Okay.

The supplement is called. I just say, I just, just like, I think it's important just for the context here. like Brandon Herrera is running as the Republican nominee in this house seat because he was running against Tony Gonzalez who had to resign Congress because he was having a lengthy torrid affair with a staffer who subsequently committed suicide. So that's kind of what's happened in the district. We're replacing Tony Gonzalez and his affair and the suicide. But this guy isn't... This guy isn't above... Okay.

So let's just get into it. That's the best of the big on. The setup here is they start the podcast, they crack open a white claw, they grab one that's pineapple flavored, and they talk about how their cum is going to taste delicious. Let's... And again, that's probably enough of that. but but but but there but there was there i appreciate the context there this is one of those masculine men of maggot masculinity manliness and they're they're they're apparently having

spooge tasting teas yeah i and and at i i'm in america what i'm trying to make is that the vacuousness of that conversation and the vacuousness of our society is not random. It's designed to be that way by the people that have decided that all that they want all of society's resources for themselves and fuck everybody else. That's the point that I'm trying to make. I get it. Yeah. And it's infuriating to me.

Yeah. Because I mean, they're talking. I mean, they're talking. Is that a left-leaning? No, they're right-leaning. They're right-leaning. Yeah, Sam Stein, Tim Miller, and whoever the other guy is, I don't know. Will Summer.

That makes a little bit more sense. But they're decidedly anti-Trump. Well, you know, I've never listened to the Woolwork podcast. But there are definitely things that we could be talking about, having a societal conversation about but this is what they choose to talk about for 20 years jumping off the Abraham Lincoln

the well but we said we're a little more than yeah we heard we heard that or the fact that we've got detainees in ice private prisons

that have things swimming around in their water yes where are the kids where are the children that they're betting that they're betting on who's going to commit suicide first.

Yeah. But what can you expect when you have a failed real estate developer who got elected as president of the United States is demanding that the U.S. Navy shit can 10 years of research on replace it with the new carriers that are being built, the catapult steam launcher with electromagnetic launchers because they're more efficient. can be more finely tuned to the different aircraft. They're using the aircraft carriers. But he's demanding they scrap the electromagnetic launcher turn to the steam

launchers. Here's a guy that has absolutely no knowledge of the forces and the needs of the Navy, demanding they scrap billions of dollars in research and now retrofit carriers that aren't even on the water yet. They're still being built in dry dock. You know what that sounds like to me, Roger? It sounds like a directive from the Kremlin. Yeah, it does.

Yeah. It certainly does, David. Yeah. Well, it will be. And frankly, it's also reminiscent if you take it in pari material. with the purge, the military purge that Kegbreath has undertaken. You know, in the 1930s, Stalin purged half of the officer corps of the Soviet Red Army. And so when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, they had no idea how to cope with it.

and hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers were captured in the opening months of that incursion. It's just an excursion. And we're doing the same thing. And yeah, it does sound like a directive from the Kremlin, David. It does. Isn't everything? Did it winero does? At this point, I'm completely willing to believe it, you know.

It's the entire treasury on the arch and the algae machine and the other fountain that's broken. And, yeah, waste the U.S. Treasury and all that shit. And to add into what Roger just said, yeah, they're talking about changing the catapult configuration for ships that are under construction, but they're also going to gut the electromagnetic catapult out of the Gerald R. Ford. which is already built. So that's money thrown away. And more importantly, it's operational ability that we will no longer have. And I mean, if you think about that, right?

Like the person that helped Donald Trump steal the election the second time, because I refuse to say that he was elected, Elon Musk, he had meetings with high-level Kremlin officials. And we know that Paul Manafort from the first campaign was in bed with the Ruskies. So it's like the entire, it's like a Manchurian candidate presidency. Well, then you have to take into account the capital bank shutting down 300 accounts because it wreaked of money laundering. Yeah. 327, to be precise, Roger.

327 Donald Trump accounts taken down by Capital One because of because they set off all the bells and sirens for money laundering and fraud. And his entire New York real estate program and both his sons admitted

they didn't need capital in the United States because they were getting all the capital they needed out of Russia. And of course, and of course the entire likely that we've been invaded already. Yes. Well, I mean, you think Pudi didn't remember the words of Khrushchev? We will conquer you without firing a shot.

That's when he took his shoe off and started pounding the podium at the UN, if I recall correctly. And then what just came to mind to me was from the first Trump administration, the media, he had with the Russian foreign minister in the Oval Office without any note takers or present. And the meeting he had with Putin and Helsinki with no nottakers

present. Right. It was a putty operation. We may be having our own little red dawn right here on the horn. We're the only ones. Wolverines! Hate Michigan.

Well, if it's any consolation, I think they were screaming that out in Colorado in the original movie. Yeah. And then the little dude in the Davy Crockett hat got machine gunned by a Soviet chopper. How it ended. We got no missiles left, right? I don't know what we're going to shoot anybody with. Yeah, we're really fucked if we have a problem. And, of course, everybody that we could have a problem with knows we have that problem.

right yeah we just had to extract a whole bunch of missiles from south korea is my understanding yeah and we just uh redirected the u s george washington from a tour in the south china sea to go and relieve the lincoln before everybody on the lincoln committed spookoo did you see that donald trump says they weren't that they weren't at sea for long enough did you see that oh no fuck no what canady Yeah, he said they weren't at sea for long enough. Let me see if I can find it. I saw it on the Guardian earlier. I know what you're talking about.

I have heard about that, too. I wouldn't really want to be Taiwanese right now. Those are lovely people. Well, you know, we have one of the longest standing members of the Horn family community congregation who lives in Taipei. That's Horst. Oh, and here it is. Come home. The Guardian, this is the Guardian.

Trump downplays concerns about sailors on board USS, Abraham Lincoln, amid record deployment. President said nine months at sea, quote, not nearly long enough, end quote, even his family's calls an attention to mental health crisis. Yeah, well, that's the Trumpian version of the beatings will continue until morale improves. Now, also consider that any time an air crisis. carrier goes anywhere, there are a tremendous number of support vessels that are part of what's called the carrier group, including three to four submarines, 15 or 20 other surface ships. So it's not just the 5,000 people on the aircraft carrier. There's probably another 15,000 people on other vessels.

Yeah. And none of those. Right, and none of those support ships can just dash off for a quick trip to Taco Bell to bring, you know, cravings boxes for 5,000. When asked by reporters whether family members were worried about the situation, the president claimed, quote, no, they're not, end quote. Oh, wow. It's a lie. Prize, surprise, surprise, Roger Carter. Hootie Hoot. Hootie Hoot.

And from Jude, David's perspective, a collapse, if I may, what is currently presented before us, yes, is a myriad of concerns. I'm intensely focused in the horrendous actions that this current government is releasing, affirming of ice thugs. Here in my city of Tacoma, Geo Group has a concentration camp next to a railroad track where a hunger strike is at this moment occurring. What to do? Go stand. Be literally on the soil of an ice camp. close to one's home. Maybe I can be heard, but there's work to do in our own cities. As we step outside our front doors, find issues we can place our bodies on.

It becomes profoundly real. And Jude says the boots are at Northwest Processing Center. What a statement in its title. And now we're going to give them electro-shock gloves. Yeah. Lovely. To pay for that. Well, we can't be paying for dental care.

no cow care no government's not supposed to be doing that we're all broke Donnie's bankrupting I mean I know obviously you can't bankrupt

the United States of America but pretty trillion in debt citizens though yeah that is happening 40 trillion paying what

over a trillion in interest every I don't know and where and where Where's that interest going to? The people that can afford to buy treasury bonds, the people that can afford to buy U.S. debt, the one percent of the people who's getting all the tax breaks. They're getting tax breaks to buy our debt and make interest off government operations instead of being taxed like it used to be to fund the operations of the government.

Now they're making money off the operations of government. It's disgusting. The simplest way to look at that, David, and there's a very simplistic way to look at it. If I had a whole ton of money and would have to pay a lot of taxes, I can loan that money to the U.S. government instead of paying taxes. And they keep it in the bank, so to speak, and then they pay me for borrowing it. So not only I avoid taxes by buying the bonds, I get paid money for avoiding money. the taxes that I should be paying. And that's their, that's their, that's their, that's their scheme.

That's the whole scheme. Yeah. That on top of the, if you're born with a bunch of stock, you take it down to the bank and you put the stock up as collateral and you pay three to four percent interest on that loan. And when you die, stock is appreciated. It gets re-evaluated. The airs sell off enough to pay for the interest,

that they don't have to pay any capital gain tax on the appreciated value of the stock. And then they turn around, do a rinse and repeat, and buy more bonds, and do it all over again. So I understand why people are frustrated paying taxes. Totally understand that, middle and lower classes. the way it's set up is that the one percenters paid to avoid the taxes

which increases the tax burden and those of us that don't own enough money or don't have enough income to avoid taxes. Right. We don't have the type of income to avoid taxes. Or the amount.

Because they have, have it all written the tax code in such a way that certain types of income are treated more favorably than income from work. So literally, we get up and we go to work and we get our paycheck, and we're getting taxed differently than the people who get up and move money around all day. They're getting taxed at a lower capital gains rate while we're getting taxed at the income tax rate and we cannot get ahead in the society and it's designed that way because capitalism needs a permanent underclass of people to feed to the mill so that the billionaires can continue to make their money and exploit everyone else.

That's well put. And then we get sold a dream about how if we work hard enough, then we too, we too, are going to be able to make a bunch of money and exploit a bunch of people too. Yeah. Right. Like, we're getting sold a bill of goods that if we work hard enough, then we too can be, quote, unquote, successful without ever talking about becoming successful in this society means literally stepping on the backs of poor people, literally stepping on the backs of people, literally stepping

on the backs of people who do not have intergenerational wealth and stepping on the backs of people who have, who come from working class backgrounds and whose family, for generations, have come from working class backgrounds. So we never discussed what success,

quote unquote, looks like in this country. And then we're, and we're being sold a dream, literally the American dream, that if we work hard enough, we too are going to benefit from the fruits of our labor when in fact, the only people benefiting from the fruits of the labor

are the owners of capital who are moving money around all day long. The top 1% owned 50% of the stocks. Crazy. And 100% of the working people wage workers in this country pay

a 15.2 or 15.4% of their productivity on every dollar from the first dollar up until $184,000 $189,000.

Whereas the person And in the meantime where hang on, whereas the person that makes 100% of their income from capital gains can make $89,000 a year before they owe a penny in federal taxes whatsoever. And in the meantime, because we are suffering from a revenue shortage,

because the billionaires refuse to contribute to the society that has made them billionaires, the services, the support system, what is so... derisively called the welfare state as being gutted so that there is no safety net for those for the same workers. And so the workers are pissed off because they're looking at they're looking at 15, 20% of their income going to fund a government that does not work for them. So I agree with you. People are rightly pissed that they're paying all these taxes and not getting anything from their government because it's been bought and paid for by the people who have. all of the money to begin with. And this is why the elite are so pissed off at Mandami right now is because he is

attempting to return to the taxpayers of New York City government services that benefit them. And the thing is, if people see government working for them, then that changes the nature of way people engage with their with with with politics in this country yeah because this is why this is why the one percent socialists and progressives so focused on bringing down mondani is because he's showing them that government can work for the people who pay the taxes breaking the Reagan cardinal rule yeah it's institutional democrats too but people have the people want the people want the cycle of exploitation to stop. That's evident in all of the people that voted for Trump,

fight what they believe on how best to make the exploitation stop. That's the driving impetus behind all of this. Behind the Democratic parties, in my view anyway, behind the Democratic parties, the base, the voters, shift to the left and the Republican Party bases shift to the right because the American people agree largely, I think, that the economic and the socio-political economic system that we are living, the political economy under which we are living, does not work for the vast majority of the American people. That's why they were, that's why they were so afraid of Bernie,

not just the Republicans, but the Democratic Party too. Oh, and in the midst of all of this, I wanted to add because Chi Wu asked earlier about Todd Blanche. He had a very, well, he didn't show up, but the DOJ had a very bad day in front of Judge Emmett Sullivan yesterday in D.C. Judge Sullivan had entered an order that commanded Blanche. Blanche himself to appear in Personam yesterday at a status hearing in the lawsuit filed by Katie Fang over the Epstein Trial's Transparency Act. Late at night before the hearing on Thursday, the DOJ filed a notice of appearance by some little pettifogger named Andrew Block, who showed up despite the fact that Blanche was seen. told himself to be present and

Fang said, and this Andrew Block lawyer from DOJ just stood there fumbling stumbling, stumbling, struggling with his words. He couldn't tell the judge how many pages of disputed FBI handwritten notes there even were

even though the judge had previously said, I want to know specifically that. And Todd Blanche all along the way, has simply thumbed his nose at the federal court. So, Katie Fang and her

counsel are asking for a thousand dollar a day fine against Blanche personally and a finding of contempt because at the end of the hearing yesterday, Judge Sullivan said, I will hold lawyers in contempt of court even if they're Department of Justice lawyers. That is not a threat. That's a promise.

And, you know, one of the things that was said during Blanche's confirmation shenanigans. John Cornholio and Bill Cassidy, you must be so fucking proud of yourselves. People said, listen, he's going to be confirmed as the AG, but the fact of the matter is he was and is and will continue to be Donald Trump's personal lawyer. because in particular one of the things that he's that he's absolutely dug his heels in on are the notes

I mentioned the notes a few minutes ago the notes from the FBI interview with the woman who said that when she was a 13-year-old little girl Donald Trump raped her and he absolutely will not release those notes to the court won't even say how many pages there are. And frankly, the only thing that's going to get that done is for Judge Sullivan to, and the reason Blanche didn't show up is he is fucking scared, because, well, upon a finding

of contempt, Judge Sullivan has the power to say, and bailiff, take the attorney general away and stick him in a fucking cell until he decides to comply with this court's lawful order, which is the only thing that's going to make a difference here and hell judge Sullivan may end up commanding someone to go and take Blanche into fucking custody meanwhile as I've noted before

John Mitchell is puffing on his pipe down in hell it's packed with the Virginia burly shit smoking away and going all I did was some money all I did was some financial shenanigans, and I'm down here and I went to prison, and that fucker? Sheesh! But that's a partial answer to Chi Wu's question.

God almighty. And, you know, at some point in time, Judge Sullivan's going to have to adopt the countenance of the tiger. Fang said The contempt I've been seeking in this case is against Todd Blanche. Let me be clear. But you do have these lawyers coming to court and doing things that actually violate the judge's orders.

Holy crap. A couple of emails along the way as we reach the end point of the program. Darrell in Houston, rich versus poor. Everyone's absolutely right about the rich subjugating the poor. This has been the fundamental problem in society ever since. since we settled in cities. Ooh, going all the way back to Sumer and Err, are you? Sorry, couldn't resist.

Those what have power and money do everything they can to keep it that way, usually with the help of religion to keep the masses in check. Doesn't matter if it's pharaohs, kings, or presidents, doesn't matter if it's mercantilism, capitalism, communism, or any other economic system. Until society teaches that this is the fundamental problem and never trust the rich or their religious helpers,

we will never get out of this rut. Hard to disagree. You're here. And we are almost out of time here. We're out of time here. David, I'm so glad you popped by because you always bring so much to the conversation. And I'm glad to know you seem to be thriving.

And this isn't aimed at you, but this is just... If we could bring in 30 bucks, we'd be down to a $2,000 deficit. And every penny matters while we sweat the power bill. So fingers crossed. Is work going well, David? It is. My nervous system is still disregulated, though, from, like, all of the stress,

from, you know, three years of law school and studying for the bar, and then everything I had to go through with the retrialization of the, of the character and fitness process and the fact that I didn't get paid properly as I left MDI and making, you know, shit money for a year and still being behind on everything. So I took today as a mental health day because I have those now. so I took today off and I didn't have anything on my calendar. But yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to get my nervous system to calm down so that I can actually sleep. Well, as the late great Hunter, as Thompson said, I hate to recommend hard drugs and alcohol, but they always work for me. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

And I wanted to say the judge from earlier this year, needs the eye of the tiger, right? Eye of the tiger? Yes. Okay. Actually, that's from Henry V. Imitate the countenance of the tiger. But yeah, I of the tiger would work.

Dump, dump, dump, dump, dump, dump. That should be playing in the courtroom as the judge walks in. That or enter Sandman. That would work, too. I just should have theme music. Hey, Roxanne. Wrestlers. Right, just like wrestlers.

Rasslers. It's really what they are. Serious, serious by the Alan Parsons project comes to mind. Hey, Steve. Hey, sorry, I'm so late. I was going to tell you, I'll do a $15 challenge so we can get that $30 taken care of. Well, T.J. just did that. Oh, okay.

Thanks for the kind offer. TJ just got us down to $2,000 to go in terms of our deficit. And we'll just keep plugging away until we've got enough for the power bill. And then we'll work on things like personal property taxes. I will, I'll do a $15 challenge anyway that I'll extend through the weekend. Okay, wonderful. Thank you. you, Steve? How was Rochester? It was great. The people were nice. The people were wonderful.

They treated me very, very well. I'm really hoping that that turns out. Great, Steve. Did you go to the Bat factory? Law firm? No, it's actually working for a small business. Excellent. Great. Yeah. I didn't get to go to the Bat Factory. I got to see a couple restaurants. Actually, went to a really good restaurant on Friday night, had some really great scallops and some really good chocolate cake. It was an Italian restaurant.

That was really nice. I went to a big brew hub, a brewery, not a brew pub, a brewery. A brew haha? A friend of mine, yeah, a brew ha ha, ha, yeah. A friend of mine who lives in Rochester took me to. And then I just did a little bit of just driving around to see the city a little bit. You think? You liked it? Yeah, I did like it.

Is Rochester right there on Lake Erie? No, it's it's kind of close to Lake Ontario. Okay, Ontario. Yeah, I'm Southern girl. I get my Great Lakes mixed up except for Superior. I never mix up the Superior in Michigan. I never get those from. Is there a river that runs?

for the city too? Yes, there is. I don't know which river that is. There's actually a couple waterfalls in the city. Nice. Yeah. A little bit of history, the Erie Canal is, runs near, not through the city, but runs nearby. Or what was the Erie Canal.

Is that the part of New York, that at one point in time, claimed, sovereignty over the area that is now Cleveland and hence the Western Reserve? No idea. I don't know. My hunch would be no because of the distance how far it is from Cleveland. But I don't know. I really don't have any idea. I always thought that was a weird little bit of American geographical history.

Because, of course, you've got Case Western Reserve University there in Cleveland. And once upon a time I wanted to know what the Western Reserve part was all about. And apparently it was a land claim by New York against the area that is now Cleveland. Huh. Since you're speaking in history, I have a little bit of history that happened here a couple weeks ago. It made national news, and my mom mentioned it last night because they went to the Maritime Museum, down of her gens, and they have the cannon there fully assembled that blew up on Benedict Arnold's ship when he was flee. from the British when he hid from them in, I can't think what the cove is here in Vermont,

but it hit in the cove in Virgins, and there's a can that blew up on that ship and killed one of the sailors, and it flew into the water. They just found it after 300 years, or after not 300 years, but however many years has been this in the revolution, like 100, what, like 80 years underwater? And that was the story that Josh Gates is part on a destination unknown. They're doing a special on it later this year, like a two-hour special on it. And that goes back to what we were talking about, what, yesterday?

about brass and nitwit Nero's new stupid tariff. Cannons were typically made of brass, and consequently often survive in underwater environments. It also survives here because our lake is so deep and so cold. Also, there's tons of shipwrecks down in our lake, too. They're covered up with zebra mussels now, but they survived because it's so cold down there that they don't rot like in the ocean.

Are the zebra mussels in invasive species? They're horrible. They're everywhere. Anything that stays on pipes or anything? It's a horrible thing in the sewer treatment plant. I mean, the breakwater out from the downtown area is just infested of the zebra mussels. They clog the sewer treatment plants outpipe all the time. They've gone to a couple of years and blast them out with like a hose or something.

Yeah, they're an invasive species. I thought so. Well, thank you for the challenge, Steve. If anybody on the way out the door wants to meet Steve's challenge, that would be handy, so he would know. I would know and we would be down under $2,000. We'd be at $1,970. So, and thanks for the help today.

Keep me posted over the weekend if it gets met. Oh, I absolutely will. Okay. You know, there's so many stories that never make it to the program. Like how Weak, Ronolama Ding Dong's mother helped make him a bit. billionaire with that whole sketchy doesn't work Alzheimer's drug. I do know about that story. Yeah.

And it's ugly. Yeah, it's really, it's part for the course for our STEAM class. And anonymously, we have had a match for you, Steve, and we're actually a little further down. and see what the new number is. Okay, cool. It is $1,960. So thank you, Steve, and thank you to our anonymous friend. Thank you ever so kindly.

And by the way, a reminder, the back porch will be taking place after I exit the live portion of the program. And it's a Jim Dandy rousing conversation. and feel free to pop in, especially if you're a little too shy to appear on live radio. You'll enjoy it. I imagine the regulars will be coming by eventually. Thanks, everybody. Thanks to each and every one of you who share your precious finite time engaging in the program in whatever manner you choose.

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One of the most obnoxious members of the Congress is a nasty maggot from Wisconsin named Glenn Grothman. And he was blathering in Troy, Michigan. with other maggot VIPs. The Independent reported that they started babbling about Nittuette Niro's big bilious bill and what the average guy, we don't even include Jane Sixpack anymore,

needs, and Groffman came up with this little gem, but please i hope this doesn't cause screaming david uh don't let anybody tell you that people running uh congress right now are looking out for the rich actually i think we should do a little more for them but you know right now uh we're doing all we can to help the middle class right this is also the same asshole who back in may say said that uh people who are on snap uh shouldn't be able to eat top of the line foods now that's the next step of this in our inner cities for far too long

lion race baiting Democrat politicians have traded black Americans food stamps and subsidized rent for their souls oh god we've been dealing with a lot of lightning around here lately a bolt or two wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing for Glenn Groffman

Jesus Christ and of course if nitwit Nero approaches is saying, Yeah, those suckers and losers avoid the Lincoln should have been on the water even longer.

Fuck them. I'll avoid him like the plague because he is. And always, always, always, Wayne and Gina, it's all for you. Have a great weekend, everybody. Talk to you a little bit, Victoria.

Later.