Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 15 May 2026, Friday-On-the-Front Porch

Episode Date: May 16, 2026

Poor Jadey! That poor egg couldn't deliver an applause line with a FedEx (unpaid product placement) 747. And then Thing Leer pits the two of them against each other. Save me, Livy! Thanks to everyone who matched the gifts that got us funded out of April.

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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 15th day of May, 2006. This is the horn. Head on dot live is where you'll find us on the interweb tubes. That's where you go. If you'd like to be part of the Merry Wacky's Annie Realtime Mad Cat Multimedia Extravaganza.

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Hi, I'm Roxanne. And we, well, we're at the middle of May. Isn't that just the darndest thing? And come Monday that will see us move into the downhill side of May. And every program here at the Horn begin. with gratitude, and this program is certainly no difference, so thanks go out to our 15th day of the month, subscribers via PayPal, contributors there as well. So thank you ever so kindly to Robert. Thank you, Robert. Thank you so much for being a partial sponsor of the program. Thanks again to Auntie Kat in

Ohio for her good golden boy challenge yesterday that got met and now we've got just today to finish off the fuck the Watertown Wisconsin School Board Challenge courtesy of Vince in Arizona Stan Vince you may recall from yesterday and his correspondence Vince being an alumnus of Watertown High School where the maggots are terrified of music. Ha! And we thought footloose was just a movie. No, no.

No, decidedly, no. So thanks, Vince, for that challenge. We've got $482 to go on that, and it would be fan-free fantastic if we can knock that out and get after some of the rest of the deficit. I did some, I did some ciphering before airtime to try to get a handle on just exactly what finishing that challenge would mean. And for starters, it would mean we were done fundraising for April, halfway through May. Yeah.

but overall what it means is that we would actually be here on this 15th day of the month we would be finished with fundraising funding we would close the funding deficit for April and we would actually get fully funded for the first day of May leaving us only May now 15 days of it to catch up with before dear God June gets here So thanks in advance to everyone who jumps in to help knock out this challenge. And, you know, let me say just again, fuck the Watertown Wisconsin School Board. And good on the people who spoke up and pushed back against that maggot embarrassment. Yeah.

Thank you. Routts getting us started this evening. For Watertown and Vince. And Jeremy, always seeking to complicate matters. Well, we are down to, let's see. So $457. So $451.451.451.455. $451.455.

45 because Jeremy is one of the quadrum weary of the juvenile delinquents of the Horn family community congregation. So, yeah. So, yeah. So we are at 40. Damn it. Let's just start all over. 43, 51, 455. Jeremy hit that button so quick, I think, I feel like he was already plotting that.

Yeah. So it's Friday on the front porch. That goes, well, it doesn't go without saying because, well, you never know when there's a noob around. But Friday on the front porch, we gather together in the old holler tree that we sublet from the Keebler elves, which we keep tucked away on Discord. There's a link at the top of head-on.com. Live that will carry you there over the river and through the woods, etc., where we keep the extraordinary, ordinary roundtable,

around which we gather each and every Friday. New voices are always welcome on the front porch, and I look forward to hearing them anytime a new person makes our acquaintance. Thank you. Thank you, Steve. Okay, I'll check that out. Maybe while Victoria and I have some time together. Remarkably bright creatures on Netflix, Cynthia suggests.

And she said, and yes, I cried, bawled my eyes out like a little baby. Sometimes that's good, and that's cleansing. I cried, oh, Buckewerex. at the end of the good place. Thank you, Steve, New York. $10 challenge there, so that becomes, Steve will turn $10 into 20 if anybody wants to pop in on that.

And that would get us down to $2650 once Vince's challenge is met and Steve's challenge is met. Fingers crossed. And Ralph's noting, come on, people, don't make me sick Taylor and Teagan on you. And Ralph says, oh dear, care of me. I know, I know. He and his fellow members of the Quadrum Weary bring to mind the words of that ancient sage, Jed Clampett. Someday I'm going to have to have a long talk with that, boy. Yeah.

But at any rate, we've got a fighting chance. So thanks Ralph's for getting us started. Thanks to everybody who, I hope during this program will meet that challenge, because it's done, it's done as a close of program. Jeremy, with a warning, be careful. Rand Paul's son could pop in under a false name and scream. You know, he's something like, this is all because of these Jews and the gays and I don't care if they all die

you know nice and drunkenly like that I don't think he's going to be sneaking in because according to his post the next morning he was apparently going to because Rand Paul has the maybe he's out at the same place that flush flimball went to when he had to get over his or appear to get over his addiction probably out there talking to the horses at a grippy sock hotel. Mm-hmm. Yeah. But I also trust the Quadrum Weary to manage the old holler tree with extreme prejudice.

Maggots don't get through. That's the nice thing about this program. It's a safe place where we don't have to hear from these mouth-walking, knuckle-breathing, goons. Yeah. Now, where to begin? Okay, well, I think as good a place as any is with our password. The password, you may recall, was Lear. No, no, no, I'm not talking about the disgusting gaze of nitwit Nero

as he sees some 13-year-old in a pre-adolescent beauty pageant. No, no, no, no. It does have to do, of course, with Canckel's Collegula, but no, the references to Lear as in the Shakespeare character, good God, this is something. And while I'm not inclined to be approving of the mad right-wing maundering of someone like Frank Luntz, ill um he uh he sat down for a chat or came in for a chat with cnns brianna keeler uh oh wait what

leon in new york rush is not done with addiction i believe it is shifted to pineapples yeah he's got he's got a pineapple jones oh a pineapple no singing where it's a deep damn hole what are you thinking saying, damn it. But no, Breanna Keeler talked to Frank Luntz, who has had for most of this century

a reputation as being the the real genius of messaging and framing from over on the fascist right in this country. And they were talking about something that

Nitwit Niro recently did, which Frank Frankly, well, you know the story of King Lear, right? King Lear has three daughters. And instead of leaving his crown to one of the three, he decides to split his kingdom up among the three daughters, only one of which is actually a good person. Now, that's where the comparison with Cankel's Caligula ends,

because there are no good people in his orbit. They're all goddamn monsters, freaks, pedophiles, and the like. But nonetheless, he seems determined to split his base. And that was the topic of conversation between Ms. Keeler and Frank Luntz. It's only 2026, but Trump started the week polling a Rose Garden audience on whether Vance or Rubio should head the 2028 presidential ticket. Here's the moment. Who likes J.D. Vance? Who likes Marco Rubio?

Marco. Sounds like a good ticket. J.D. It's a perfect, that was a perfect ticket. By the way, I do believe that's a dream team, but these are minor details. That does not mean you have my endorsement under any circumstances. What do you think of that moment? I just, I asked a single word. Even Frank Luntz seems a bit flabbergasted by it all.

They were clapping because they had to clap. They have love for only one person. And that's their orange Julius Gieser. Word. Why? Why do you want to create division in your own administration? Why do you want to create competition at the very moment that he's trying to unify the House and Senate for some of the legislation that matters so much to him? Don't do this, but there's no one around him is going to say, no, this is foolish.

I understand he's provocative. I understand he likes this tumult, but there are better ways to govern and more effective ways to govern, and he's going to want to get serious, going to want to get focused over the next few months because his house. Jesus, Frankie, you think it's because he likes chaos and tumult? God damn, youngen. It's because he's not there. He's just saying whatever the Spirochetes shrieking each to each between his ears, his totally perfect ears, tell him to shriek.

Oh, God. It's kind of pitiable. because apparently Luntz thinks that this is still politics as usual. But remember what I mentioned about the conversation, not that he's a pundit or anything, or has a crystal ball or even a magic eight ball with a cracked screen that always says answer hazy ask again later. But remember what I mentioned yesterday about Colin Jost saying on a podcast that he thinks nitwit Nero will have a third term? I thought that was rather ill-informed insofar as Colin Jost was assuming that this shambolic wreck of a human being who can't even stay awake in a meeting,

whose mind is so far gone that he spends all night tweeting from the triping from the toilet. that Colin just thinks that he'll live to see January the 20th, 2029. I think, well, I don't know what calci or predictomatic or whatever those betting markets are. I wonder what the odds are. I wonder if anybody's betting. I wonder they'll let you bet on insider trade. rating what have you, but I wonder if anybody's actually placing bets on the survival of nitwit Nero. Because, you know, we've talked about possibilities.

We've, you know, potential eventualities. We've talked about, for instance, January the 21st, 2027, which is the magic date for the JD Egg. that's the date at which he becomes eligible to run for two terms of his own should he have to take over for nitwit Nero as a result of his coil shuffling but if you are nitwit Nero and if your mind is hollowed out and basically reduced to just

a greasy puddle somewhere north of the north and back of the sinuses, then the reason you do that is because you want to say, well, I asked them there in the rose garden. It's not really a rose garden. I got rid of those goddamn roses.

Now, it's obvious. Nobody, they don't want anybody but me. See how it works? if you had any idea the amount of brain bleach that it takes to wash those kinds of thoughts out of my mind ah it's bad and center majorities are at stake and they will not be strengthened by playing around like that frank lutz uh thanks for joining us really appreciate it yeah sure these poor fools playing around with so-called conventional wisdom Jesus.

Hey, thank you, Miss Micah. Miss Micah just took us down by another half a C-note. We are now down to, I've confused myself. Yeah, so what? Yeah, we're down to 401.55. 40155 to complete the Fuck the Watertown Wisconsin School Board Challenge courtesy events. Ms. Micah with a note, let's get this party started. Let's try not to leave money on the table.

That's a great idea. That really, really is. Thank you, Micah. Thank you so much. And speaking of which, because, well, the J.D. Egg. He keeps having these Jebia Bush moments. And he had another one. Earlier today, he was speechifying.

And I think he's because nobody actually takes him seriously. He admitted long ago in that bullshit memoir appears his, he admitted that he's a liar, and he'll tell whatever lie is necessary to try to advance his own career. some you know i believe because of confirmation bias like the fact that he said that when he was a teenager he was questioning his gender until some gospel sharp told him that jesus would have a big old sad if he continued to do that yeah but uh he was speaking at the annual national peace officer's memorial service which happens during National Police Week.

Something vaguely disturbing, unsettling about having a National Police Week, the idea of the very phrase, National Police, well, it just gives me like, I don't know, 88 shutters. So in his remarks, there was something that was supposed to be, an applause line and it landed flatter than piss on a plate. ...violent criminals in prison as opposed to letting them out of jail. Please clap. I mean, let's see.

How is that an applause line? That's what we do already. We are the most incarcerated nation on earth. For instance, a woman in Alabama is suing Houston County. whose county seat is Dothan. She, and Alabama has a predilection for imprisoning pregnant women. It's disgusting, and pregnant women are treated like garbage in, in Alabama. Not that anyone is treated particularly well in any of our vast carceral institutions from C.E.

to shining shining sea but no uh sherry well oh no that's i'm sorry that's a different alabama story um there she is um yes there are multiple alabama stories because it's a it is a fertile field when it comes to maggot excesses no uh tiffany mackleroy interesting because yesterday we had a story about Judge McElroy in Rhode Island. I don't think there's any relations here. Heck, I went to school with a girl whose last name was McElroy. But Tiffany McElroy was pregnant, and she was hauled in to the county jail there, quite pregnant. She was 26 years old at the time.

And, of course, being jailed in Alabama is a lot like being jailed in, I don't know, it may actually be worse than being in a Turkish prison. But the bottom line is Tiffany McElroy's water broke. And she was way early in her pregnancy. So, and this happened in 2024. Of course, Governor He-Ha-M-M-A-M-A was still, as she does today, had Alabama in her shaky iron fist. But, yeah, May 2024, her water broke. and generally speaking

a pregnant woman knows when her water breaks so she informed the sadists in that county jail's staff she said my water broke a guard who had no medical training to speak of

and no expertise either remember this is Alabama where they love the precious little fetuses and they're all pro-life? Well, a guard checked her in the morning, in the morning

back in May 24, and said, that ain't nothing wrong with you? You just done peed on yourself for sympathy. Get back in your cell. Well, her water had in fact broken way early.

She was at extreme risk of harm, but hell, they only care about fetuses if they care about them at all in Alabama. Most of that's just talk. You remember that Attorney General Ken? I love Jesus in Alabama. I guess he wasn't there to tell her to Aloha snack bar her way all the way back to the Middle East or nothing, her butt. Right.

And so the jail staff continued to ignore her, and it got so bad. Her agony was so profound, the negligence of the screws so, so gross, so willful, so wanton, so reckless, that all the inmates began to beat on their cell windows and bang on tables as a plea for help for this young woman. so apparently there was a jail nurse or two or paramed i don't know but what did they do to help tiffany mackleroy they brought her a a diaper and some Tylenol oh jesus well it was twenty twenty four so they they didn't have uh whalehead dead bear penis raccoon penis brainworm lamprey to tell them not to give her Tylenol And she continued to be absolutely hammered by the most agonizing pain. Speaking to NBC News, Miss McElroy said, it was such a strong sense of fear. It just overtook me like I was completely out of it.

And in case you're wondering if there's a happy ending, no. No. Because eventually another inmate. helped her deliver a little baby girl who was not breathing. Two of the women in her pod midwifed for her, sucking mucus from the baby's mouth, and rubbing the baby until she began with the first breath of life and the first cry of birth.

Well, we know about all this because the lawsuit is, now filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. Ms. McElroy has representation from a non-profit group called Pregnancy Justice. She's also represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center. And also speaking to NBC News, Karen Thompson, the legal director, said, Ms. McElroy was basically being tortured over the course of hours, and that should really make all of the hairs stand up on everybody's necks, regardless of what people think about people who are incarcerated.

I think we can all agree this is not the way to treat a pregnant person, and this most certainly is not the way to treat someone in labor and delivery. And one of the defendants in the lawsuit, Kathy Youngblood, who no longer works for the jail, but is presently being sued, said, the entire thing was barbaric. I tried to help her, but I was told I was going to be fired if I did help her,

so I could not assist. That would set up your basic respondeat superior scenario. Let the employer respond. The whole reason she was in jail was because she had been accused, as is so often the case in the shithole that is Alabama of endangering her unborn child through substance abuse, to which she later entered a guilty plea. That is worth mentioning because the purpose of the bill,

supposedly when it was enacted by the Alabama legislature, those solons of maggot conservatism, It was supposed to be used to protect the unborn whose mothers were, well, they were in close proximity to say a meth lab. But now the Alabama Supreme Court, that same Supreme Court, whom, as we talked about previously, that same Supreme Court ruled that the same Supreme Court that said that, an embryo is the same thing as a living, breathing child. Well, they said that the law intended to protect babies in utero in proximity to meth labs could be used, in fact, to prosecute women accused of using drugs and in this case drugs writ large.

Everything from pot to pills to meth, you name it. And of course now here in this year of our Lord 2026, shit, that may also include Tylenol, thanks to this maggot gang. It's a horrifying story. But yeah, I mean, It goes back to the JD Egg standing there trying to look macho or butch, or at least vaguely masculine. That's what the beard is for.

And declaring, what was it again? Yeah, here we go, yeah. Put violent criminals in prison as opposed to letting them out of jail. Please clap. And the only people clapping were the JD eggs extended hillbilly family. Them's cousins, you know. God. And Micah notes, let's be honest.

If the maggots had their way, every pregnant cis woman would be imprisoned immediately until they gave birth. Yeah. Well, look, Micah, that's not that far from the old barbaric notions of pregnancy. The English language even contains terminology for it, talking about when a woman entered a pregnant woman, entered her confinement. Or widows of kings who would basically be under house arrest until, oh, 10 months or after the death of said king to make sure.

that she didn't give birth to an heir. Pure barbarity. But have no fear, America. Nittwit Nero's going to protect the little fetuses. God, almighty. If he wasn't such an odious piece of shit, you'd almost be tempted to feel sorry for him. But you don't.

No, no, no, no, no. No, no, you don't feel her. let's see yes Ralph's in answer to your question yes and thank you and from Sylvie a great idea

eventually I'm going to have a stamp made reading child molester so that when the bills come out of the treasury with P. Donald's face or signature on them stamp sending the message out to the world with every dollar I spend Oh, that is a lovely idea. I wonder, well, I wonder if your local print shop would make such a stamp. You could probably, yeah, you could probably get, at the very least, I'm sure you could get one made on Etsy.

Lee in New York pointing out, Pollymarket, Trump out as president before 2027? 10% chance. This market will resolve to yes if Donald Trump resigns or is removed as president or otherwise. ceases to be the president of the United States for any period of time by December 31st, 2026, 11.59 p.m. Eastern Time. Otherwise, this market will resolve to know. Ah, but there's the, see, that's the thing. We are ahead of the curve on that. The magic date is January 21st, 2027. The text that Lee provides says, An announcement of Donald Trump's resignation removal before this market's end date will immediately resolve this. Okay. Only permanent removal from office will qualify.

Temporary removal, e.g. temporary invocation of the 25th Amendment under Section 3 or Section 4 invocation, not sustained by both houses of Congress, or impeachment without removal will not count. A sustained invocation of the 25th Amendment, Section 4. if both houses of Congress by two-thirds vote, uphold the vice president and cabinet's determination of presidential inability, will qualify for a yes resolution. The resolution source for this market will be a consensus of credible reporting. Hmm.

But again, I guess that's as close as these prediction markets can get. The fact of the matter is, J.D. Vance wants him in office until no earlier than January the 2nd, 21st, 2027 for obvious reasons. And frankly, that wager has to do with removal from office or resigns or otherwise ceases to be the president. But it's an ill-advised. It's an ill-advised wager because if there's going to be a resignation, it'll be timed out again to January. January 21st, 27.

Thank you, Ralph. And Jeremy asking, if he makes it to January 21st, but we take the House and or Senate, what makes you think he'll have the number of votes for the 25th? I don't. I'm simply speaking about what happens if Mother Nature plays her hand. That's all. But then again, if you think about it, Jeremy, if the house, If the House goes Democratic, it's almost a certainty that he will be impeached again, maybe again, but again, maybe every time he farts he gets impeached at that point.

And then it's a question of what the Senate does. And if the House goes to the Democrats in November, they still have to have 67 votes to convict. actually 68 because of course Kirsten Mansion is there in the count among Democrats but if he's that

but if he is that weakened it may emboldened it may emboldened that cabinet and people with greater ambitions may decide to take a hand and remember the way

the way the 25th Section 4 the 25th Amendment operates the process has to be begun by the vice president. Section 4 says the vice president and a majority of the cabinet or principal officers of the executive branch.

Not two-thirds, just a majority. And if he is in such dire straits at that point, they may decide, but it's the time to save their own hides. Okay? And I suppose, well, we talked a little bit about the communique coming out of the Chinese side of the

trip by nitwit Nero to Beijing in which dear leader Xi Jinping being portrayed as some sort of brilliant statesman said that China and the U.S. had to avoid or, you know, can China and the U.S. avoid the Thucydides trap? And that's a reference.

oh dear, to ancient history, Lucidides, his history of the Peloponnesian War, which he said came into being as a result of the nervousness brought on by Sparta at the rise of a new power, namely the Athenian Empire. Well, huh, it's not really applicable. In this case, Xi Jinping sees China as the new emerging, power. Are you kidding me? China has been civilized from times when just about everybody who isn't

indigenous or Asian in this country's ancestors were squabbling with the buzzards for what the wolves didn't want. But then again, there's all. So I think Thucydides is out the door. but on the other hand stupidities may well rule the day witness the fact for instance that absolutely out of

freaking nowhere and for reasons not yet immediately clear the DUI hire Defense Secretary Whiskey Pete Kegbreth shived our European allies and in particular Poland by canceling

the deployment of 4,000 members of the United States military to Poland as a buffer against any ambitions that Pouti might have. For Poland. Poor Poland. You know, this is Poland. Not exactly a raging liberal democracy and, you know, bastion of DEI and wokeness. This is the same Poland who, when, when nitwit Niro visited them early in his first term,

showed up and waved the devil's diaper, waved the Confederate flag for him in his honor. And it came out of nowhere. And there's been no explanation forthcoming. Yeah, the stupidities trap. Equipment for these troops was already being deployed in Poland. It had been shipped from Texas. The troops were to have a nine-month rotation.

But now, no. And Poland has a right to be concerned because the very nature of the landscape makes rolling tanks across Poland an attractive idea. Politico reporting on the entire affair, said we had no idea this was coming and said that on both sides of the Atlantic

Americans and our European counterparts are scratching their heads what the fuck and additionally it's worth noting that Orange Julius Gieser has said that while he shits on Germany while he shits on the Netherlands

while he shits on England and France and Spain and Italy. Greece, even though Italy has a fascist fucking prime minister, all along he said that Poland is a modeled ally. It's probably because he remembers those Confederate battle flags. And here we are. Of course, there may be a perfectly rational... Well, no, that's the wrong word. There may be an explanation

because you might recall that clip from a couple of days ago of a conversation with a long-time the State Department diplomat in which he said it's looking more and more like we're going to wind up with and there's that tired old phrase boots on the ground somewhere

involved in this fool's errand of war that's one possible explanation another may be that Poody simply told nitwit Nero not to put those troops there. I wouldn't want them to get hurt or anything. You know, when the barbarian hordes of Mother Russia roll through Poland. Maybe on down through the fold of gap in Germany. Why not?

There it is. The stupidities trap. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Christopher. That's so kind of you. Christopher just said stupidities trap and laughing emoji worth every penny of course thanks for the laugh thank you Christopher and so we are now down to where we were we were at uh 475 dollars even I'm sorry 375 $375 even to meet the

Fuck the Watertown, Wisconsin School Board Challenge, courtesy of Vince. 375 turns into, no kidding, $375 more dollars between Ralph's Challenge and Auntie Katz Challenge and Vince's Challenge and Steve's Challenge. We'll get us down to halfway, well, it'll get us down to unfunding. for everything since May 2nd, but we will mercifully be done with April. And that's $1,670. Those next $375 will make happen. Thank you again, Christopher. Flavio says, you can get a stamp kit at Office Depot for $40.

Includes one four-line and one-seven-line traditional stamp with tweezers, two sets of characters, and black ink felt pad. Ooh, you can be a printer's devil? Of course, you'd have to think in reverse and be a Spiegelman. You know what I mean. Otherwise, you know, because if you put it in there and you can read it on the stamp, it's all going to be backwards when you stamp it. But then again, Sylvie's plenty sharp in that regard. And speaking of Sylvie,

a name for that ugly golden statue. In the spirit of the poem, Osamandias, we should call that hideous golden calf agro-memnon. Ah, I like it. So, again, the stupidities trap. And there's more. Talk about a stupidity's trap. This is embarrassing. The ongoing toilet swirling of, see, BS news,

it continues apace. we had the clip of Tony Do Couple who is the pet news anchor of a fascist favorite Barry Weiss she being a wholly owned

creature of Larry Ellison and his repulsive Nepo baby son and Skydance Media as an aside oh my God I saw the clip of Stephen Coles

Bear and David Letterman throwing things, dropping things off the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater and that was delightful and cathartic. I think it ended with David Letterman saying

fuck you, CBS. But Mr. Turr, because Tony DuCopal is married to the worst anchor on any outside of Fox News TV Radio Rwanda, namely

Katie Terrible over at MS Now. Well, he had a bad time with the summit. Tony DeCopal did. Yeah. First of all, see, BS News is so hollowed out and fucked up that

they don't have a logistics team that could get a broadcast permit from the people's Republic of China. Who tend to be, you know, being as how they're an authoritarian state, you know, fascist state, they're might picky about who they let do broadcasting from inside their country. And see, BS News fucked up and couldn't get one for Tony DeCopel and his little gang.

then Tony DeCopel's cameraman fucking keels over during the broadcast, that it turns out, C, BS News, was making from Tony DeCopal's wait for it hotel room. Now, there's nothing necessarily wrong of broadcasting from a hotel room. Your humble hostess has done that on a number of occasions. recovering from various surgeries or traveling for activist purposes. But I ain't see BS news. We're just an humble little independent, progressive, commercial, free, non-capitalist broadcast attempt that has hung on for into 23 years. not the gem in the crown of the Tiffany Network.

But here we are. So he couldn't get a permit. So he had to broadcast from a thousand miles away in Taipei, Taiwan, which was problematic for the fascist leadership of, you know, the People's Republic of China, who may soon decide to slaughter everyone on Taiwan and take it over by any means. necessary.

But then, oh my God, there in Taiwan, the hotel manager, according to the publication status, was appalled by the way that Tony Dukopal talked about Taiwan live on air, even as nitwit Niro was engaged in existential conversations about the future of Taiwan. and having been appalled, the hotel manager came up, knocked on the door and said, oh, you cannot use your hotel room as a broadcast studio. So they had to pack up all their shit and go wandering out into the streets of Taipei, finally winding up at a place called Liberty Square, where he tried to explain away

the utter ineptitude of this network now run by a nepo baby and a fascist trying to sound like a serious network news talking head he said the threat of China's felt all over this island one woman slapped her husband's arm when he started talking to us about independence

another woman asked that her words not be used telling us, we cannot speak freely. And even at our hotel where, after seeing our broadcast last night, the manager told us we can't cover anything political on their property. Maybe it was intentional. I can't be certain. Maybe it was. Maybe this was entirely a matter of, you know, Larry Allison and his disgusting nepo baby son.

and Skydance, just deciding to destroy CBS News. They had no compunction against taking off the air the single most popular late-night talk show in broadcast. Yeah. Oh, such are the vicissitudes

of life in a state or in a country that has descended into fascism. By the way, see, BS evening news is really in the toilet. Poor old Tony Ducopal, Mr. Terrible.

You can't even scrounge up 4 million viewers, which, according to people who follow that sort of thing, is kind of a death knell. On May the 8th, he only did 3.4, million viewers. My God, out of a population of some 350 million human beings?

Yeah. Well, if it's not intentional, then the only real answer is, huh, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Yeah. And then, well, then there's Fox News, TV, Radio, Rwanda. You know, I'm so old that I can. remember when people mainly on the maggot right, but no small few of the Sparkle Fart Propeled Unicorn Cavalry Purity Patrol, would hoot and grunt and carry on all as to how they couldn't stand Hillary Clinton's voice, and she had a bad laugh, and then lo and

behold, a different woman ran for president and had to sort of. same problem. Can't stand her. She's got a voice that I just hate, and I can't stand her laugh. Curious, huh. Right. Well, I've got a clip here, and it features none other than Maria Bartaromo of Fox News TV Radio Rwanda. And I got to tell you, she is a shrill, shrieking shrew. A genuine harpy. You want to talk about unlistnable? She sounds like a reject from a casting call for voiceover work from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. And she got into it on air with Representative Rokana, Democrat,

freaking out over, you know, her orange Jesus. and yelling, shrieking, absolute stupidity about, oh, who else, Barack Obama. She knows where her bread is buttered. But, of course, we did litigate this, and we already went through this before that President Obama Act. Yeah, yeah, too sensitive. Mm-hmm.

She sent Iran money, as opposed to actually President Trump trying to stop them from having a nuclear weapon, but I want to get your take on what China said, because the president is making news right now. He just spoke on air... So just to be clear, the maggots can tolerate that, which frankly makes me want to borrow Mike Malloy's ice pick and just drive it through my eardrums, but they couldn't stand to hear an educated black woman

or an educated white woman speak. I can't stand her voice. I can't stand her voice. I'm going to go and listen to the dulcet tones of Maria Bardo. Yes. She sounds like a... She sounds like a sad cat in the rain. And then there's the content. First one to reporters, and he said that China agreed to buy 200 Boeing planes

with the potential commitment of buying 750. jets. And all of those things probably were never said by Xi Jinping or anybody else, but instead were shrieked, there we are with the shrieking again, by the spirokites that are the only thing left between the ears of nitwit narrow. He also said that China agreed to buy soybeans, and he said that he would consider lifting sanctions on Chinese companies purchasing oil, but no decision has been made yet. Now, the president's that he did get a commitment from Xi Jinping that China would buy oil from America. We don't know if they're going to keep that prime.

I mean, did they just have bad microphones at Fox that you have to scream into? I think they're pretty well provisioned with technology. Is someone in the booth EQing her in such a way as to make it sound like she's gargling razor, blades. Gosh, he makes Marge Simpson sound like June Allison. Oh, now there's an ancient reference. Probably nobody under 60s going to get that one.

He said they're going to send Chinese ships to Louisiana and Texas to buy American oil. And then on Taiwan, there were other things said, but let me get your take on those deals right now. Yeah, that on Taiwan, other things were sad. I wonder

what other things were said on Taiwan. Well, that would be a little embarrassing for Maria Bartaromo Because Xi Jinping told nitwit Niro To not lift a finger when China went after Taiwan Oh, sure, that's okay, yeah, oh God, yeah, I love you, sir. We're friends. What is your assessment of this trip?

Sure, I just have to say, for the record, my view is the President of Wallet didn't give money to Iran, he unfroes Iranian assets, but we can have that conversation later, Representative Kana, because it's no longer a matter of factual dispute. It is an article of faith among the maggots that Barack Obama. Barack Obama just gave them a bunch of billions of dollars for free. He said, hey, you want some billions of dollars, Iran, and by the way, you can make it all the nuclear weapons you want. And no, really, Emory and Marvelline sitting in their matching barclamor loungers there in the single wide at the Ballerina Swan Lake, trailer court, and country clobberlorn. Yep, that's exactly what happened.

Conversation is some other time. Let me say on Boeing, I'm glad that China is buying their Boeing planes, but they're only buying. But, Congressman, wait, why on freeze assets? Why give Iran the leading state sponsor of terrorists a $2 billion so that they could go give that money to the proxies that they support? like Hezbo and Hamas. Why unfreeze money? It was Iranian money. Yeah, see, now he's going to try to wander around among facts when that's entirely a fact-free zone.

I mean, honestly, it's kind of pitiful. That was unfrozen, were 97% of enriched uranium to get out of the country. President Trump pour that deal up. Now there's tons of enriched uranium. They never made a commitment to stop building a weapon. So why send them $1.7 billion when you didn't even have a commitment to stop building a weapon? You yourself said you don't. Does this make you want to just eat dirt and run rabbits like it does me?

She's just completely made the JCPOA not exist. Unfreezing the Iranian assets was a show of good faith. which nitwit Niro couldn't do, it couldn't even spell, if you spotted him everything but the H in faith. It successfully pushed back any possibility of Iran having a nuclear weapon by a decade or more. Those are just facts. But again, over at Fox News TV Radio Rwanda, it's a fact-free zone. God almighty I want Iran to have a nuclear weapon

We're just over fact And then it gets their Why would you Iran to have a nuclear weapon? Nobody said that Boom Don't He didn't send their money

It was their money that was unfrozen I acknowledge it was unfrozen What we got out of it is You say it was their money Other people say it wasn't their money It was stolen money But that's fine Let's say it is their money.

Why unfreeze the money? You never got a commitment that they would stop building a nuclear weapon. Why are you sending them $1.7 billion so that they could go give it to Hamas? He got a commitment for 15 years, 97% of rich share in the amount. Instead, what did we get? We had them having 60% in richer in him when Trump tore up the deal. We had 13 American service members dead. We have Americans paying four bucks at gas.

We have food price. Let me just finish. Let me finish. Please. Are you talking about the botched exit from Afghanistan? When we lost service to do with Iran, that was Joe Biden. That was Joe Biden. That was Joe Biden.

Another invidious misogynist stereotype, Sylvie points out, remember that along with sexism, fat shaming, the accusation of being controlled by our hormones, attacking a woman's voices and nasty slur on women because our voices are higher than men's. It's part of the evil witch trope. If a woman's voice is too high, she shripping. hill to loud. She's bitchy, read upity, to low, she's trans, to wit Michelle Obama, among many others, and so on. Let's not feed the stereotype. I'm not. Neither Kamal Harris nor Hillary Clinton sounded like this varago.

That's probably a problematic word, too. So is Harpy. Shakespeare himself in Henry V's speech before Harfleur referred to your shrill-shrieking maidens. Well, under those circumstances, you know, being pillaged by barbaric British forces, I imagine there would be some shrillness and some shrieking. This is simply a critique of someone who should not be on air. the same way I describe Mark Levin as a man with a voice made for print. I don't think I'm engaging in sexism here. This woman is unlistenable. I certainly haven't said anything along those lines, Sylvie, about Brianna Keeler,

or for that matter, some of the attack blondes over at Fox. but the combination of her willing mischaracterization of the facts, alongside her apparent belief, and it's that toxic American concept that, well, if I just yell it louder, they'll understand me more. Uh-uh. She's horrid. And honestly, a bad voice.

is a bad voice is a bad voice. Maybe she started out as a print journalist. She should have stayed there. But look at the facts here. Because Trump tore up the deal, Americans are dead, Americans are paying more for food, Americans are paying more for gas,

the Strait of Formosa. That's not true. Well, yeah, it is. There's at least 13 Americans dead, and they're probably hiding more dead because he did tear up the deal. but she's not even engaging in any kind of intellectual argument at this point she's just gainsaying whatever rocana says

is less secure and the war is unpopular 70% of americans don't want this war even republicans are defecting but nobody wants war but we also don't want a nuclear terrorist we don't want a nuclear terrorist to have a nuclear weapon okay i love that part in particular of this clip Well, nobody wants war. Nobody wants war. She said it twice.

That is the beginning, and you will never convince me that she doesn't know it, that is the beginning of a very famous quote. Mm-hmm. There it is. Well, of course. Okay, okay, here's the giveaway. I'll do it. with the accent.

Why, of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor swab on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the vest he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war, neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter, in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determines the policy, and it is always a simple matter

to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism

and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. And there she is. Maria Bartaromo! Fox News TV Radio Rwanda. Quoting Herman Gurring.

I guess that's the biggest, that's the most gigantic non-surprise of the evening. And Billable Rick says, I agree, Roxanne and I agree with you that Maria Bardo is impossible to listen to. I'd get a headache if I had to listen to her. The sponsor

of her show must be Advil, who sails Skyrocket among listeners to her show. I remember, says Clarence. Are you talking about June Allison, who was in the movie Strategic Air Command alongside James Stewart? Great movie, great actress. The very one.

Oh, there's another one of those words. Termigant asks. Flavio? Yeah, no. So, oh, I have accidentally filler oxured well into the second hour, the program. Again, we have, what did I say, $375. Yeah, $375 to go to finish. Vince's fuck the Watertown Wisconsin School Board. Also, fuck the Goslings, challenge.

As Mike have said earlier, can we please just not leave this on the table? I'd be greatly appreciative. I think we all would. Because remember, you know, when you help out help keep the horn on the air, you're helping people who can't do that, unable. And so that makes it all the more kind, all the more generous. Oh, dear God, I had no idea. Flavio says she had a feature or still has in the Reader's Digest. Is there still a Reader's Digest? where she styles herself

the money honey as Flavio notes can you imagine I try not to because I like my little brain but again here we are caught in the stupidities trap I will be absolutely

I mean I used to enjoy the readers digest it pays to increase your word power I almost know I'd almost always knew all the words humor and uniform this American... No, that's an NPR program. No, the humor pieces were good, and every now and then...

I haven't even seen a reader's digest at the doctor's office in an absolute age. Well, we've got a bit of a controversy going. Tamara says, I haven't made it to listen for a bit. I think I agree with Sylvie, though. I think if she were a man, we'd say argumentative or whatever. we say about Alex Jones, his voice is not as high, but it's just as grading. Yeah, and I make equal fun of that, too.

I'm equal opportunity where that's concerned. I mean, there's a reason to do the Alex Jones voice. And, again, Mark Levin, if you go back in the history of this program to like its very origins, yeah, a man with a voice made for print. That's been his marker. That's been the way we've described him. It's the combination, with regard to Maria Bartaromo, Tamara, it's the combination of her combative stupidity, her absolute commitment to upholding fascism combined with her god-awful voice.

I mean, I compared her to Marge Simpson, but I compared her to Marge Simpson with the favorable part going to Marge. And in point of fact, we used to refer to Alex Jones as the loved child of, I forget who the guy was, but the mother was Selma Diamond, who was a wonderful actress and had a unique and brilliant. performance voice. I am capable of making mistakes, though, so I'll acknowledge that. Oh, well, thank you. Blavio says props and I run a london a ding-dong for the stupidities trap. Blal.

Well, thank you. For two, three days, I've read about, because, you know, the multimillionaires of the for-profit media. Oh, Xi Jinping referenced the Thucydides trap. I've read Thucydides. I know what the Thucydides. But calling it the Thucydides trap, that was a book published in 2007 by a political scientist. The fact of the matter is comparing Sparta and Athens to the current relationship between China and the United States is, well it's pretty ill-informed really

because again to presuppose that somehow the United States is Sparta really and China is democratic Athens I don't think anybody's ever going to accuse China of being democratic

and Athens was trying to expand their empire their coalition as it were and Sparta wanted no part of it. But Sparta was far from non-aggressive. So, I'm not sure it works. But anyway, let's run over to the old holler tree and see what's going on. Hey, Jeremy. Talk about Gene Piro's voice or any of these fuck sticks.

Once they show me who they are through their actions and their words, they died to me quite literally. So she can talk anyway she wants. She can sound like a fucking AI robot. I would not care because she's trash. But anyway, enough about her and the voice contrary. fucking cares. Roger said, listening,

he can't talk. So he's listening, he just can't talk. So he's put it on a message. Okay, hi, Roger. I have two quick points other than that. Number two, forgive me, because you and Bob Seska quite often merge your topics,

whether you know it or not. But I think you're the one that put out the story about Cash Patel's little diving expedition. That was me last night. I don't have words for the visceral anger over that story. That and hurting kids, especially vulnerable kids, are two things that have put me into orbit.

And then people's response to it about, oh, I'd do that if they ask me to do it. I would have words to the anger that creates under me. You know, what is it, 900 war dead? Yeah, their bodies aren't there anymore. It's all a lot of ago. But it's still a war grave. It's a solemn place. Not a place for fucking tourism or some drive room.

Yeah, you don't walk into devil. den at Gettysburg with a bottle of your cash Patel-branded bourbon and you'll and you know upend it and you'll see you in Valhalla brother

man I just just for people that out there oh I do that if they ask me to do nothing wrong with this I saw comments like how is this a story of my local news I said because it's a fucking wargrave you moron that's why it's news how can't you see this

but anyway that story's over with I have a I have a gun story for you from last Saturday. I was invited by a friend to a local town. The town had cordoned off one of their streets and put up a performance stage and a rock concert with a cover band, covered a bunch of stuff from the Stone Temple Pile to the Rolling

stones and back and forth. They were pretty good. Well, in front of us, there was a gate-off area for adults. They could bring their kids in there, too, but it was an area to contain booze. Well, there was two younger mothers in front. front of us. And it seemed like they had 20 kids with them. I know it was only four, but they were running around so fucking fast. It kept seeing the same one six times a second, so it felt like 20. That was bad enough. But one of these mothers drinking, thankfully they weren't nursing the

baby, so they weren't in contact like fucking junior did from his mom. But all the kids weren't in nursing age, but they're both drinking. One of these girls, no body shaming here, was wearing spandex. She bent over. and in front of her kids and about 40 other people, her holstered gun fell out to the fucking ground. You're kidding. No, it slammed out of a smack. So loud people turned out of solid metal hit down.

A pink holster, pink 9mm, hit the ground in front of everybody. And I thought to myself, well, that was lock, meaning it didn't go off and kill somebody or shoot someone on the foot or, you know, kill our kids or something. And my buddy who's with me, he strapped, He's done it for 20 years.

I ask him why. I've tried talking about whatever. I hope the day if it comes, he'll defend people and not hurt somebody. I really hope it happens for him. But, and he's very careful about it. But, I mean, it fell out completely the ground. And I gave him a look like,

even I knew he would be mad about this. And he said, that's fucking ridiculous. He said, if you're going to wear spandex, don't have a holstered pistol like that. He said, the only good news is, and he said, there's a good chance there is nothing in that guy. I said, what do you mean? He said there was no clip in it when she picked it up.

Well, it could still be one in the chamber. And he said, yes, it could be. But he said, more than likely, there's nothing in that. Yeah, most semi-automatic pistols won't fire with the magazine out and one in the chamber. I happen to have a pistol that will. Right. But that's nothing to hang one's hat upon. But it was still enraging.

I mean, the look in his eyes, he's one of these guys that doesn't pose very often. We're opposed politically viewed, but I grew up with him and I die for his kids. There's no question about it. So I try to not, try not to mess our politics together because it just creates frustration because there's no give either way. He's hardheaded and so am I. But anyway, even he was displeasureed by this and said, you know me. I rarely post on Facebook.

This may became a post. He said, I'm so mad at seeing this happen. Just the carelessness of this, especially in her waistband, just falling out of her spandex. He said there's ways to do it with spandex. She didn't have the right holster, obviously. Well, usually those stories wind up being what our pal of Joy in Ann Arbor long ago, dubbed oops blam prey.

Exactly. There's so many stories, you know. The gun just went off. or look you mentioned the pink holster that reminds me of something from years ago the dipshit who borrowed I guess he couldn't find his own freedom protector so he borrowed

I guess he borrowed his wife or girlfriend's lady Smith and Wesson pink pistol and proceeded to stuff it in his waistband and come damn near shooting his Johnson off. You were telling us stories. You told a story years ago.

It might have been in the before times of a woman in Walmart who had a gun in her purse. Yep. And her left and her. Either killed her or killed someone. No, her toddler blew her away. Pulled that out and shot her. Okay. And then there was the woman in Michigan, a Republican politician, who got a brand new concealed carry bra for Christmas

and went to holster her pistol and shot herself through the heart. It ain't funny. No, it's not funny. It was enraging to see, especially with all those kids and all those innocent people around and just the carelessness of it. And I looked at him and I said, that right there is someone who should not have a weapon in the possession. And he didn't say anything just slowly nodded, said, you're not wrong this. Jesus.

But anyway. Oh, no, no, there's nothing else. No, I can't think it was those two. I was going to tell you that later this week, but we're all done with that. But still, is Cash Patel's story? I actually had to tune out for a little while. I go listen to music because I said this kid. I actually re-rewound the live broadcast because my phone stores in RAM

what you said for up to like a minute. I rewound it. I said, she couldn't have said that. There's no way she said. I must have misheard. He did something else. And by the second time, I went away for a little while because I went somewhere into the stratosphere with things I want to do, which we won't talk about publicly, but

that kind of stuff does not build well with me. Never has, never will. No, and you're in good company because last night, later on after the program, Cynthia out in the Bay Area, still waiting on her kitchen to be done, sent me photos of her grandfather and her father both sailors both of whom

sailed in and out of pearl and as I mentioned my father two of my uncles Navy and my father would have howled in fury

he might even have been shrill he might have shrieked and he would have done so with just at a story like this, but the damnedest part of it is no one, including the Navy, who described it as a VIP snorkel, can tell or even knows who authorized it, which almost certainly means that it was done at the behest of the DUI hire, Whiskey Pete. was you know who just made and we had the clips yesterday who just made hung cow the acting secretary of the navy because i don't think he's that i don't know maybe he'll get confirmed by the senate you know there's always there's always um you know kirsten mansion out there to vote with the republicans to

confirm anything that comes that comes down the pike or you know through the sewer When it comes to diving on the Arizona or any of those wrecks, it does happen. They survey them. Sure. The main reason is because the Arizona sells 800 gallons of diesel fuel in it. And they've always put off removing it because they thought it'd be too costly to do, plus the risk of having somebody go terribly wrong and not leaking in the ocean. So they've always kicked the can down the road to the day when they have to do it with no choice.

That's why they do it. Also, which for the last time, I think it was done around Christmas, maybe around New Year's, The last veteran of the Arizona died was cremated, and his last wish was interred with his brothers who died there. Exactly. So there was someone recently put in there. That's what really made me mad about Cash. But at the end of the day, I mean, I refer to him as Trash Patel, but it ain't just him. It's Whiskey Pete.

It's Todd Blanchie. It's the whole filthy cadre of them. They're all trash. human 100%. Yep, right? I mean occasionally

I saw another comment somewhere about the people in his cabinet and stuff and someone was just figuring out obviously they don't pay attention to politics

just figuring out that Linda Bingman was a secretary of education and the only question was how does she qualify well no shit no flying shit how does she qualify

she doesn't have a teaching degree it's because of her They're still married. Her husband's role in some of his fame. It was around the same time as The Apprentice. I think The Apprentice pushed him over the top,

but his wrestling stint with Vince. Two fucking kid touching child molesting pieces of shit, as far as I'm concerned. But anyway, I see, Kristen is joined early, since he doesn't fall asleep. We'll let him talk.

I have nothing else. Roger can't talk. I'll just listen. And thanks for the enraged me yesterday, but it was well served. I mean, I don't feel comfortable saying my pleasure, but, you know, and thanks for the loose change. We got back to a nice, we got back to a nice round number. Please leave it alone. Okay, here's the admission. You know my financial situation. I have a ton of money.

I do it for the entertainment to put a little... Oh, I know. It's all I do it for, for the laughs and the harassing. I know, I know. I know. So, anyway, okay, I'll leave it alone. You'll touch Tristan now. Okay, you take care of Jeremy. Hey, look, thank you for your outrage.

Sometimes outrage is merited, and that's one of those instances. Well, you may not know this, and I don't widely talk about it because there's a cup of coffee. It wouldn't exist if you looked it up. But I did do time in the Navy, a very short time. I never made it a basic because of medical problems, but I was in the Navy. I was enlisted. I signed up, so it was a personal and raging story, because of that. So yes, there you go.

You wore the uniform. That's what matters. Yeah. Damn right, I did. All right, Jeremy. You have a good evening. We'll look around here and take a peep in the room and see who's roundabout. Yeah, there's Tristan. How are you, Tristan? I'm okay. I just recorded a video not too long ago. We'll get to that. Um, uh, Daphne is at the vet now.

She's, it was a hell of a time getting her under her crate this morning. Oh, I can imagine. Did you have help from your mama? Nope. Nope. Who? Um, how scratched up are you? Uh, not too bad.

Just on my lower arm. There's a little bit of blood when it, but, uh, it's not too bad. It's not too bad. She was not happy. but once she got in she was she calmed down and yeah it's one of those low-income spay-neuter clinics and so um had to get her in a crate by 6 a.m. so we could get her to the clinic at 7 dropped her off and now she's uh the pickup time is actually coming up pretty soon should be in about an hour or so about 4.30 Pacific.

Because, you know, they have to do a lot of cats all in a row. It's kind of a cat assembly line. Yeah, but they seem to take real good care of them. And, you know, they don't do these low-income clinics very often. So, like, I filled out the interest form, like, last month. And as soon as I got the appointment, I jumped on it. and so we're going to get that, we're going to get our vaccines, her microchip, and all that other good stuff, which they also do. So, yeah.

Good deal. Good deal. Yeah. We're rooting for a speedy recovery for little Dapney. Yeah, we're going to, I'm going to put her in my room for a couple days, just keep her away from the cat tree and things. but anyway, um, on to other interesting news. I don't know if you heard this,

but there was a guardian story. This is a story I covered. There's a guardian story about how Airbnb and booking.com are basically letting, uh, illegal settlers, uh,

rent their homes out to guess. In the West Bay. What? What? What? Yeah, this is according to the Guardian, the booking.com and Airbnb have allowed illegal settlers in the West Bank to rent out their homes. Well, they're illegally stolen homes to guests.

Who are the owners who are doing the renting? They're illegal settlers. You know, is the Israeli general. Yeah, oh, okay, okay, yeah. Colonizers. Yeah, yeah, colonizers, thieves, looters and pillagers, that sort of thing. They're, you know, they're taking these people's land. There was one guy who had three generations of his family were living on that plot of land that was stolen from him, farming, growing vegetables and things like that.

and now it's being advertised as having a scenic view for all of the family, and booking.com is like, well, we can't really tell people where they can travel. It's not our place to take down posts like this, because then we would be restricting people, and that's not what we do. Yeah, but what about the fact that they have been judged by the international community as, you know, thieves Yeah I know

The so-called settlements And their colonies, not settlements, are illegal Yeah, oh yeah, no, that was brought up And Israel's just basically, well, when we conquered the West Bank in 1967, it wasn't a part

of any sovereign territory up to that point. And so it's not, doesn't apply. The international criminal court or international court of justice doesn't apply. The Geneva Conventions don't apply.

And there are some organizations. There's a U.S. There's a European human rights group that's going after booking.com, which is headquartered in the Netherlands. And

they're basically saying it's money laundering because it is. And, you know, who knows what that ruling... I don't have a lot of hope, to be honest, but that is just so awful. That's the shit that enrages the fuck out of me. With good reason, yes. It's just... I can't imagine what it's like to be somebody, a Palestinian,

who's a third-generation farmer, whose grandfather probably lived, and died in that house whose father probably was born sorry not live but was born and died whose father

was probably born and died and who's now exiled from the place that he's called home and now has to go somewhere else that may or may not receive him

or he could come here and get his ass detained by ice God I hate to say something so callously but fuck I understand. So, you know, that was, it just, it just floors me that we are, you know, there's nothing but bad news, and I have to cover it because, you know, I, it's still, yeah, not to, not to, not to go pogo sticking up on the cross, but you're getting a little taste of what it's like here. Oh, sure. Yeah. I don't ever compare myself to, to, to you, but because you've been.

I'm comparing. No, I'm telling you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have to engage in a certain amount of self-care. Yeah. Whatever, whatever shape that takes.

Yeah, today was key lime pie. See, that's that, yeah. Yeah. Frozen key lime pie, that's the only thing that they offer right now. Well, the bakery doesn't make them here. So, but one of the things that my mom and I are going to do is make a thumbprint cookies with blackberry or raspberry preserves and, uh, navy beans inside the cookie batter. So that's, yeah, it's going to be, it's something. And you're, you're right.

So what, I mean, how do you deal with, when you go off the air every night, what's, what's the feeling that you're getting right now? Some nights are worse than others. I could be flippant and quote Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, who said, I hate to recommend drugs and alcohol, but they've always worked for me. No, I kid. Sometimes, you know, I like to do my grocery shopping at night just because the stores are empty. So sometimes I'll just take my grocery list and go across the river and down to the settlements for provisions. and sort of walk it out behind a grocery cart.

Grocery therapy, that's acceptable. And don't, you know, don't sell that frozen keyline pie short. I have partaken of it myself, and it's pretty darn good. In fact, I think it was unpaid product placement. I think it was the Marie Calendar brand, but they had little, individual portion-sized key lime pies, which are good for me as a diabetic, because otherwise, well,

it would not be the first time that I've ever just sort of, you know, wrapped my arms around the key lime pie and gone tiptoeing off to the bedroom and just, eh, eh, eh, eh. So those little ones, when they're frozen harder than Babylonian arithmetic, it turns out you can pop them in the microwave,

for like 15 seconds and they're perfect. They're still cold but they're manageable. Yeah, I've had those before. I got Murray Caledars today and I know exactly what you're talking about. I had an experience

like that. My eating has gone to shit. I'm not going to lie to you. Trying to get it back, but but you know my preferred brand, Marie Callender's is not tang enough for me. My preferred brand is called Edwards.

I don't know if you guys get it out there. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I've seen it. Maybe this was Edwards. I don't know. I could be rough. Yeah, well, I've seen both of both, individual little, you know,

pizza slices, pie slices type things, from both places. So who knows? I just really like Edwards because the cream that they put on it is thicker and the tangier and the crust is thicker and got to make myself

sick just talking about it because I just had a shit ton of key line five yeah I get I can get pretty worked up about the I love the crust too it's just it's just a perfect combination yeah and you know I think what I want to do for my birthday next month is get a little some heat bars not that not the toffee baking bits I'm talking about full-sized heat bars and mix that with gram crackers and You know, make a key lime pie with a coffee, gram cracker crust. That could be a little. That could be yummy.

Of course. Yeah, I mean, look, the key lime pie, the recipe is not that complex. It's basically Eagle Brand milk, key lime juice, and gram cracker crust and whipped cream on top. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. And that's condensed milk, is that right? Yeah, sweetened, sweetened, sweetened, sweetened milk, not regular, like, not regular. or condensed milk. Right, right.

Okay, that's what I thought. Yeah, yeah, no, and it's not hard. And I want to spruce it up with a little bit of, I don't know, Grand Manier or Quantre. You know what, Contro? Oh, oh, oh, oh, no, no, no, no, no. Limechello. Lemoncello.

I don't know. What is that? That's a lemon-flavored liqueur. Okay. I'll track it down. Fairly low alcohol. I think it's like 30 proof or something. Yeah, yeah, no.

Yeah, that'll bring it out real nicely. Hell yeah. Absolutely will do it. Something else you might use to take it up a notch from just a little bit of vanilla extract. And I think it's Spanish in origin. A liqueur is simply called 43. 43, okay. I'll have to track that down at the wine shop or something.

God, you know, Washington has a really fucked up tax system. And our liquor taxes are fucking ridiculous. Like, I bought a bottle of Johnny Walker Black like four months ago. You know, it's pretty fried. I see is $67, but with the tax, it was 80. Now, that is a significant syntax. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. And because we don't have an income tax in this state, or in this state, we've got a sales tax. And actually, if you go deep into the Washington tax code, we actually have one of the most regressive tax. tax systems in the country. And all these fucking billionaires are complaining because our governor signed a billionaire tax. No, we're going to leave. Bye.

Don't let the fucking door hit you on the way out. Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you. Yeah. You know. Interestingly, I saw a story coming out of Washington State that I found interesting. Apparently, some LGBTQ plus organizations there. have asked the state to take steps toward declaring a civil state of emergency. They're not being assholes, but they're saying that all of the support mechanisms are completely overwhelmed

because of the number of trans people who are fleeing shitholes like Texas and Alabama and Florida does. and going to Washington State. Yeah. And that the social safety net is developing holes. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I saw that too. I think it was in like the Seattle Times or something. And like it also doesn't, it doesn't help that all of our hospitals now have been bought by religious organizations.

And so like Providence and, uh, uh, uh, let's. Oh, Providence is God awful. Yeah, yeah. They're getting sued, I believe, by, I don't know. I think it was Providence I heard of the subject of lawsuits in New England for absolutely garbage care. Yeah, I don't know if they're connected, because I'm sure there are multiple organizations called Providence, but maybe they are. And it's not only that here, but, like, staff are treated god-awful. And there are, I believe, it does very low-level sort of subterfuge to get them to stop organizing to form a fucking union.

So it's, yeah. And so all of our hospitals, all of our, you know, clinics where you get care are religious. It's just, you know, at this point it's just a matter of trying to find somebody who doesn't let the religious bullshit get in the way of their work. That's hard to come by. Yeah. Well, in Washington, it's a little easier, just, you know, but I'm not, you know, I'm not, you know, I'm not some. who has had to deal with that kind of thing. I'm not, you know, I, I'm not a member of the LGBTQ plus community, and I'm not, um,

I woman trying to get an abortion. So, you know, but I do hear that it can get somewhat dicey. Um, you can get the fucking religion out of our goddamn health care. Out of bad, out of everything in our lives, really. It's a non, it's not important. It's an evolutionary hangnail. Yeah, yeah. But it's kind of shocking for a state like Washington that mandates gender affirming care and the state pays for it.

Yeah. Give Tristan the cowbell for mandatory hang bell or hang nail. That was hilarious. It made me laugh. Okay. Thank you, Jeremy. Thank you, thank you, Jeremy. I appreciate it. You beat Billville Rick to the punch. Thank you, Rick. No, but, you know, this just goes to show you there is no such thing as a safe state. Never has been. We have problems just as much. Well, yeah, that, you know, what was it yesterday, the day before?

I was talking about the murder at the apartment complex that's affiliated with Udub. Yep, yeah, I heard about that. Yeah, it's awful. Fucking horrible. And it was just a month or so ago that a guy was finally convicted for just walking up to a trans woman and punching her in the face and beating the shit out of her, you know, for breathing air? Yeah, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. yeah we got we got problems here too you know it's not a fucking paradise people people you know it's not as madcap as the is the right wing fuck sticks seem to think it is but it's it's mad

because of them that's the problem yeah they're still you know just because we haven't had a republican governor in 40 years doesn't mean we can't and it doesn't mean they're not still out there in the state legislature, lobbying for their policies and sometimes getting them. Yeah, and I read a, it was a highly speculative story the other day, but there's one lone member of the Washington state congressional delegation who's a Republican, and the talk, the talk was, well, you know, keep playing stupid games. lose that one too yep

yeah this is yeah yeah it's absolutely right and uh you know well there was

there used to be more if you remember Kathy McMorris Rogers oh Lord yes she's from Washington she's not in Congress anymore but well but wait wasn't the wasn't it the Labor Secretary

who just got shit canned? Wasn't she from Oregon? Yes. And actually, Joe Kent, if you remember that piece of kid. He ran for Congress in Eastern Washington. So he's from there, and he's going to do it again. No doubt. No doubt. In fact, I saw his, his, um,

His campaign page is already up. Like the day after he resigned, I said, you know, Facebook algorithms giving me shit that I would rather not see. And everybody's like, yeah, Joe, you're awesome. Channing up to Trump like that. Or he want you back in the Congress. Grunt, grunt, grunt. Yeah. They're out there, folks.

But, I mean, I, yeah. I don't really have a ton of else to say. I well Roger's here he's muted I don't know if and Tracy's here so I'll let go with Tracy talk or Roger talk Okay so hey y'all hey Tracy how are you Hey hey I am actually I only have one kid right today So I am actually almost home and I'm almost I'm rejoicing Are you are you saying your D-U-N D-D-D-B? I'm off to 405 and I'm in the canyon

And I'm like, according to Mr. Google or Ms. Google, I'll be home in 10 minutes. So, and I, so last night I kicked because I've been, you know, I've been cooking a lot yes lately. And so I was going to cook yesterday, but I'm like, you know, I'm too tired. But what I did was so I'm making luta kebabs and I marinated the meat. I prepped the meat last night. And so, you know, with the ground beef, and I got, you know, sumac and cumin and turmeric and coriander and Greek yogurt and red pepper, red chili powder. And so then I have to put some of the black skin on it. So I got some little lari and some adobe.

And I'm just fairly excited about that. And I'm going to also, and I was too tired. I meant to do it last night to do a salad with, you know, red onions and cucumber, you know, Persian cucumbers. Yummy. Red onion, Persian cucumber. And I decided even though it's not quite Mediterranean. Well, so, and I got some, I hadn't thought about it until I went to a Mexican or Hispanic grocery store today. and got the most beautiful avocados.

Like, didn't we just had this conversation today? Oh, shut up, yes. And are you ready for how much they were? Do tell. Three for five dollars. Hell. And they weren't harder than Babylonian arithmetic? That's a win.

Not harder than Babylonian arithmetic, no. And then I'm going to also do a turmeric. garlic rice. And I'm doing a potato cheese flatbreads. So it's going to be some, and I'm going to do a garlic, a garlic yogurt sauce for the meat. So yay. And I was going to make a dessert, but I'm like, no.

But I am going tomorrow, so I'm going to see this movie, is God is. It's about these two these twin sisters who, black girls who are going on a revenge journey to kill the father who set them on five,

you know, they almost killed them and their mother. And for that, I am making Carmel popcorn. And yes, I'm taking it in the movies because my caramel popcorn will be so much better than anything I would get at the movie.

I have no doubt whatsoever. That part. And Tristan, so I was listening to you talking about the key lime pie. And by the way, hi. I don't, there's so, I don't know if you have, you know, you're going to the wine, the liquor store, what have you. Check out, they have a key line pie margarita mix. And it's heavenly. And that might be something you might want, you know, because there's not, there's no alcohol. But it is really good.

And it might, you know, elevate your Kline tie. Just saying. Any of the top of your head, can you, do you know the brand? No, but it has some, it looks like, I think it had a white guy in a, in a, in a very much so Hawaiian shirt. I don't, I think it's the only brand that I've ever, I've never, I've only seen that one brand. And I did buy it at like, what do. I get it, like total wines and more or whatever. So, yeah, and it was really good.

Especially if you like he liked pie. And make your own whipped cream. Oh, Lord, yes. Yes. Make your own whipped cream. It is a must. If you can, don't, you know, do too much. But if you can make your own whipped cream,

chef's kiss. chef's kid. And by the way, all this food talk, I should let everybody know, all this food talk is driving poor sister Cynthia, whose kitchen is still a wreck and she can't cook. What's wrong with her kitchen? Oh, she's getting it redone. Oh. And she said, y'all are making me hungry, damn it. No, I'm sorry. She said, but to be sure, I love the food porn on the program. It helps take a bit of the edge off, you know. Right. I mean, it's because I've been, I've been in a state of just disarray. Like yesterday, my mom, I called my mom yesterday and she was out. My, my middle brother's stepdaughter graduated from high school yesterday. Class delegatorian, no less.

Nice. And yes, but they were at a restaurant and it was all this noise. And I'm getting, I'm having issues lately with sensory overload. And there was just so much going on. And I'm like, Mama, I'll talk to you later. And then I'm like, she's like, okay. And then she called me back. And I'm like, I said, you know, call me when you get home.

But I can't, I can't handle what's happening. And with all that noise. It's really fucking with me. And I just been in this state of perpetual overwhelming, you know, being overwhelmed. And I, you know, because just with all the attacks on black women and just that the latest horror, the Kevin Hart roast, that. I heard something about that, but I didn't, I didn't hear it relative to black women. but oh honey huntie

huntie it was I'm sure it was vile it was they called Cheryl I can't I can never think of her name

but she's a Republican anyway so but any that's still no so like Steve but it's Pete Davis called her

something the Babacook or something like that and it was just vile and they you know um

the shit that they were saying to Kevin Hart. It was just, but the attacks, you know, it's like one of these, I guess it's, I don't, again, I don't know these people's names. And the fact that there's always, wasn't, wasn't, didn't Pete Davidson engage in some really, really vile homophobia toward Kevin Hart too? It was pretty much everybody, right? Pete Davidson told Kevin Hart that he was at the Diddy Party, but because there was so much baby. charges never stick. The heinous one was the white, gay, Nazi. I do mean that.

Gay Nazi. Can't think of his name. He looked at Kevin Hart and said, my last joke was so funny. Forgive me for that. He said George Floyd, not he didn't say forgive me. He said George Floyd is in hell. Laughing.

He can't read. He didn't say in the hell. He just said looking up, saying I can't breathe. Okay, he said looking up. Still, that was the most vile thing I heard that night. I did watch some of it, But that was gut wrench.

It was just the, because see, you know, there's, what's the point in that shit? Can somebody just answer that for me? What's the point? And then they do this, oh, we're just being, you know, it's comedy. We're being subversive. No, no. You're not being subversive. You're, what are that?

Because I said, you're being, you're in league with, because if you're being subversive, you know, if you're being subversive, to the, you know, to the, um, to the dominant, you know, to the, to the ruling class or whatever. That's what, when you're being subversive, you know, when you, but when, isn't it? But when you are. Isn't it more of a form of passive aggression? It's this fucking racism. Race, it's racism, but it's still like passive aggression. Yeah, I mean, definitely racism.

And so Pete Davidson, Pete Davidson gets to, uh, claim a pass because he's like, I'm like bipolar, so I do fucked up shit. No, no, no. Fuck you. But there was this one thing, you know, this one, this, this, this, this really legitimately racist motherfucker said, you know, that just goes to show when black people, you know, about, about something on a private plane. And I guess there was a ruckets. It's like, it just shows that no matter how much, and he says, ninjas, this, this white man said ninjas, you know, no matter how much. you know, no matter how much money

ninjas have, they still don't know how to act right and Oh, really? And then, oh, baby. Baby, it was. And just the attacks, you know, there's one thing, so this, this concept creator, young brother

was talking about this one thing, you know, like he said, you know, when you do a roast, cruelty, you know, but you go after a person's character, their business decisions or things, you know, what have you in their lives or what have you, but you don't intact the entire race. And that's what these motherfuckers was doing. And so you then you juxtapose of in 1977. There was so, you know, I don't know how many people know, but in this 1977, Richard Pryor had a brilliant, albeit short-lived television show.

I remember. And so at the end of the show, they did a roast. Okay, so you had Paul Mooney, John Witherspoon, Robin Williams, Sarah Bernhardt, and a couple of other people that I didn't really know. but I guess they were like cast members on the show. And, I mean, and you know, you got to take, and you can find it on YouTube. I would love for you guys to watch it. And if I, on the show, if I, you know, they're around next Friday, give me your thoughts. But yes, there was some homophobic stuff and stuff like that.

But then you got to take it into context. It was 1977. But see, the difference between the people that were roasting Richard, prior and the people who roasted who were roasting kevin heart there was a love and affinity and a respect for richard prior yeah and let's add into the fact let's add in the fact that those people you just mentioned were freaking legends who right not to put too fine a point on it were actually funny funny that part the the people who show up on these modern roasts i mean No.

Like the D. Martin roast? Who, whoever, okay, I'm about to enter deep into that land where I'm going to be accused of yelling at clouds or something. Whoever told Pete Davidson he was funny? White people? Fair. But since you did bring up those racist aspects of that roast, I don't guess you were. listening yesterday, but in fact, I thought

of you when I was talking about it yesterday, Tracy, because I remember all the way back to when we had a conversation about people throwing a fit because there's no way Idriselba can ever play James Bond. James Bond. Or what else was it? There's no way Idriselba

can ever play a Scandinavian god. Right. Oh, yes, right. Remember that one? Well, we got a new one. Oh, no. But he did play a Scandinavian god.

That's the irony. Well, yeah, they went ahead. They went ahead and cast him, despite the bitter protestations of the grand wizarder, actually it was, you know, that's far enough back. It was probably people like Rush Limbaugh and Hannity and, you know, that that little troll who wanted to rub a woman down with falafel. Oh, what was that?

O'Reilly. O'Reilly. But now they're mad at Lupita Nyango. Oh, who is she playing? She's playing Helen of Troy. Helen of Troy. When I saw that, I'm like, oh, shit. I said, oh.

And I love Lapita. Because if it was, you know, full transparency, if it was Cynthia Revo, I'd be like, you know what? Frash her ass. But I like it to be lipido. So, yeah, Cynthia, Enrivo is one of those people, you know, African people from Britain and Africa who feel that, who feel that they could talk shit about American black folks. And she's played, like, she's played, like, two Americans. What about Lupita Nyango isn't beautiful?

Couldn't be the face that launched a thousand ships. You know, in an imaginary time. Right, right, right, because that shit didn't. Well, remember how they lost their ship when old girl played Ariel. Black people can't, you know, and remember, black people can't be mermaids. But wait a minute. Well, no, no, no, no. You can't stop.

Black people can't be mermaids. They can't swim. They can't swim. Right. Jeez. God damn it. There's a book that I'm reading, and I think it's called the Conchering of America, Mojo's Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women's Magic.

And there's actually a whole chapter. Let's see. It's called Part 2, the Voodoo Queen's Mermaid. And there's actually a chapter. Why Can't Disney Ariel be Black? And it's like, and it's about Juliet and the Voodoo Queen talking about how Bermain started. And then mermaid history. And, you know, like especially like Oshun and, you know, and the African water deity are mermaid.

So there is actually, let's see, so this one chapter, why can't Disney Ariel be black. Juliet and the voodoo queen. Mermaid history, conjures, fuels rebellion, Oshun, Mamiwata, and the pantheon of African water deity, the gris

of the death. So it's a whole section, a whole fucking section in this book about black, you know, and how especially on the myth of the mermaid, guess where how, When's Christian Anderson got his idea for the mermaid.

African pissed. Oh, fuck y'all. Mm-hmm. And no grief. It's just, I know. But I'm just, I'm on what? Well, this is kind of like the assholes who said that we couldn't have a black man play Hamilton, which went on to become one of the best-selling plays next to cats in Broadway history.

I wouldn't appear anything like cats, but I get you. I'm sorry. I was dragged off to see the touring Broadway production of Cats. That was a very long time ago. I saw it. I mean, you know, maybe it wasn't so much the book. I saw the musical, and then I thought I got off of redemption. Oh, the movie.

The movie ruined the reputation of Cats. It was paid. I mean, except for, you know, Jennifer Hudson's performance, because Jayhud but so yeah no I

I saw because I've been trying very hard and it's been very difficult for the last you know I don't know I just feel like we've been in this

administration for 10 years and it's only been how many months I but so on the high point because I've been like I said just feeling awful and so I did something

that I would never do I went you know how they have all these advertisements on on Instagram for with these different apps for like you know the final therapist and stuff like that

and fortunately for me I have very good insurance and so they take my insurance So I was going through and I was, you know, going through the rounds, you know, you put in your, you know, what state you live in and your insurance issue, you know, the therapist that will take your insurance. And I found a black female therapist. And today, and it was actually really cool because they pride themselves on having enough therapists that you're not, you're not, not waiting, you know, weeks, you know, months, you know, or a week for a therapist. I I went on the app what was today, for I, I went on the app on like Monday or Tuesday, and I

had my first appointment today. And he's everything that I, I didn't know I needed. She's Black-Dee, Black, Black. And she's one of those, she's, she's basically me if I was a therapist. If I was a licensed therapist, you know, I'm going to love on you. I'm going to pour on you, but I'm going to call you out with your bullshit, you know. And I think I found somebody. And this is, and the best part was because my appointment was at seven. And, um, but I, you know, my first pick up in the morning is at seven point and a little bastard even to come to school. That's all another. But anyway, I told her, I said, you know, um, because this. This was her only opening was 7 a.m. But she wants to do the full hour. And I'm like, you know what she says? She's like, can we, if you want, I can start earlier and I could do 6.30. And we're talking 6.30 my time.

And just the fact that she's willing to accommodate my schedule speaks volumes. And then she says something that I really appreciate it was she's like, you know, on the app it says I have to, you have to cancel within 24 hours. But she's like, I know life be life. And she's like, my cancellation policy is a minute before your appointment. How about that? How cool. She's like, because life be life and you may be fine up until that appointment. And you just don't, you know, feel like it.

And it's like, that's fine. You can cancel. Again, the fact that she's, you know, going to, you know, get up. I mean, she's on the West Coast. And she's a seat. An alumni, alumni. I'm like, hey, hey. Yes. And she got, and she double majored in Africana studies in sociology, right?

And I told her, she's like, well, who is your favorite? And I said, you already know who my favorite was. And she's like, Dr. Gamish. I'm like, yes, Dr. Marquita Gamage. Yes, badass sister. And just one of those, she's one of the main reasons, because you know I get into my deep depressions and I can't function, you know, even no matter how brilliant I am. I just, I shut, and you know me for over 10 years. Shit, I think I'm going on, what, 15 years now, sis? Yeah. Okay. Every bit. So, you know, I did.

Huh? Every bit. Okay. And so, you know how I, I shut down and all the things. And Dr. Gammich was not going to let me self-sabotage. I was, it was like the end of the, like, the semester before my lap, you know, it was this fall of 2021 and I had a project that I had to, you know, that I hadn't really finished. And I had my computer with me.

She called me and she's like, no, no. I was on, she was on the phone with me. I'm in the backseat of the Subaru on my computer finishing up my project. And she basically talked me through the whole thing, you know, two out, like for two hours on that ride to Vegas. Because she's like, I, you, I am not going to let you fail. in spite of you. I'm not going to let you fail.

That's the kind of teachers. Those are the kind of teachers I had when I was at Cal State Northridge, well, in Black Studies. That part. So anyway, but, you know, I'm just, I am home. I am going to go in the house and start cooking. But you guys enjoy your- Sounds like a lovely idea. I am very, very excited.

it. I had Jan, because I did the, I did the, because you had to mash the potatoes and stuff for the potato, you know, flap, you know, potato cheese, flaprette. Oh, that's all going to be so good. I was going to, I was going to ask you before you go, do you have the big broad skewers to do the kebabs on? No, what I'm going to do is I'm going to cook them in the oven. I do have the skewers. I do have those skewer. Actually, I do. But I'm going to make it easy on my seat. So what you do, like I said, you get the meat and then you put it on a baking sheet and spread it out. And then you score the meat, you know, how you score for, you know, the Lula Kabab or what have you, and then you bake it. And then, you know, halfway through, you turn it over to bake it on the other side. And then at the last few minutes before it's done, you know, you turn on the broiler to give it a nice char. Oh, yeah.

I'm not trying to go do anything extra. I'm trying to work smarter, not harder. And considering that I start, I basically wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning my time. And the fact that I'm even considering coming home and cooking, yeah. We're not doing all that. No, no. I will break out, dust off the grill. And it is, well, it's pretty much barbecue season year-round here because, you know, L.A.

Yeah, until the El Nino heads. Yeah. And it's so crazy because do you guys have May Gray out there? What? So it's called, okay, so in L.A. is called May Gray. And it basically stays overcast all day into the morning. I'm into the later. And so, like, right now, it's gorgeous.

It is, um, sky is blue. It is clear. But, so we have June, blue and May gray. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I don't know that we have a name for it, but, uh, um, it was, um, 48 degrees yesterday morning. That's some bullshit in May? Yeah, yeah. After Mother's Day. wait a minute

this sister her name is Karen Hunter she went to Chicago the other day she got an honorary doctorate at Chicago State which I did not know was an HBCU in Chicago did you know it was a HBCU in Chicago I did not

Chicago State apparently and so she said because it was you know pretty I guess it was pretty chilly in Chicago and she said how does she put it um that winter was treating spring like he was like it was like it was a sexual assault victim like only letting the peak spring peek out or something the way she said it it was like she was holding her you know hostage you know spring was being held hostage and was only allowed to peek out every so often and they had to go back into the basement i'm like oh that was vicious. That was diabolical.

It was, speaking of diabolical. Holy shit. Did you see? And I'm going to really go after this. I'm pretty, I don't, let me see if I could find it. Oh my God. This, because I saw it and I've been in my feed

for, let's see. Hold on. Let's see. The young man that the the young man that spoke in front of the Louisiana Senate and you know

had on the shirt had that says that Trump was wrong about everything and the Louisiana senator I don't know which you know said your hat says that you know Trump was wrong

and you were wrong and the young man just his laugh is diabolical sis and he's just doing that you know the clap and stuff like that And then he says, who wrote that for you? Pam Bondi.

Ooh. I'm going to send you the real. I'm going to, I'm going to, I, because this, that, that was, you know, you know, you know. And so I'm going to, I'm sitting it to you now, Instagram. I'm going to sit it to you now on Instagram. And the young man's just laughing. He, I mean, you, it, hopefully you could find a whole, the whole speech, but he, He ripped in Louisiana Senate a new one.

He called them racist and just he did not hold back. He did not hold back. The only problem is what's happening in Louisiana is there's this young man. His name is Gary Chambers Jr. And every single day, he talks about the numbers of people, of black people going to the polls and is abysmal. Do you know there was like 900,000 black people in Louisiana? Registered voters.

And those are, you know, eligible, and I think less than 100,000 showed up to, you know. So it's like I don't, you know, I don't like pointing fingers. Yes, I do. But, you know. Point them. Point them. There's enough black people in Louisiana. I'm not even saying all of them showing up.

Because I think Landry won by, he got 51% of the vote, but I only think like 300,000 people showed up to vote. So if only 300,000 people showed up to vote, if less, if, you know, 20% or if whatever percentage of black people showed up, he would not be the governor of Louisiana. But they are doing a recall. Well, they're trying. They're trying.

They're trying. They've got 90 days to come up with a shit ton of signatures. Well, there is a concerted effort. They have, like I said, look Gary Chame, you know, when you get a chance, I'll send you his page. But Gary Chambers, Jr., and he's a, he's a native guy. He just, he's a. And actually, he raised. And I forget, I don't remember where he ran.

I think he ran in Louisiana for, I forget, but, you know, he called out not only the voters in the state, but mostly the Democratic Party. Fucking DNC. He's like, because he's like, you know, it does not take a lot of money to get airtime and stuff into Louisiana media markets and stuff. And he broke it down. this was a couple of years ago, broke it down about what a low buy-in it would be if the DNC would put any kind of money. And, you know, like in Louisiana, Mississippi, and all these. And you know what? You're going where you're going back to, and I remember railing against this 15, 20 years ago, there was a book.

And it just made me crazy. and it was back during the blue dog remember the blue dog Democrats you know that the ones that we'd elect and then they'd go up and behave like Republican light right the name of this book and the thesis of this book was

Democrats just need to entirely ignore the entire South just don't even bother and the name of that book was called Whistling Past Dixie and I remember when that thing was being pitched to me and I actually got a review copy, I read it,

and I thought it was the dumbest goddamn thing I'd ever read my life. The nerve! The nerve! Oh, just ignoring an entire part of the country because somehow the people aren't worth it. Right. And that's still a problem. And that's still a problem.

And so long as we think, we can, so long as Democrats think that they can rely on New England, Michigan, Minnesota, and the West Coast with alongside, you know, New Mexico, Maryland, Virginia-ish, sometimes Pennsylvania, you know, Illinois. We're going to keep winding up with 5149 races, and 5149 races are the very definition of stealable races. Right. So as of last week, he posted, and I sent you, today is the last day to early vote in Louisiana. Only 7% of the state has shown up to the polls.

So that means 93% of the state still hasn't voted. somebody you text somebody you work with somebody in your family somebody's reading this right now still hasn't gone don't just consume the content do your part if you haven't voted go vote if you have call or text somebody else and make sure they

they go so this was last week and you know and it's just so there's what 1.7 1,719,675 right remaining voting

and black remaining 857,766666. And the problem is compounded in Louisiana, Tracy, because remember, they canceled their primary. Right, they canceled the primary. So what are you early voting for?

Who are you early voting for? There were ballots that had already been cast when the Calais decision came down. Right. And wasn't that part, isn't that part that they can't, you know, this is when I need,

you know, you help me out with shit. So, wasn't there like a rule? And I think to Tangi, Patagie Brown Jackson said, wait a minute, you know, you can't do this within, you know, months of a re-election or something like that, but.

Yeah, but one of the, one of Micah's favorite phrases to use now is Calvin Ball. And that is. If you recall Calvin and Hobbs, the comic strip. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, the Calvin Ball. You know, they, They'd play a game, and the rules would just change arbitrarily through the course of the game.

Right. And so it's Calvin Ball. No, the rules say you can't do this. Well, we're going to do it anyway. The same thing happened in Alabama. Right. With the carefully, you know, and they battled over this map until a second majority African-American district was created. and blessed by the court, the Supreme Court, they blessed it.

Yeah, they blessed it. And said, and don't come back. And then they issued the Calais decision, and Alabama went running off to FAPI, who said, yeah, let's go ahead and do what we told you not to do. Go right ahead. You're good. You're good. There is a sister

I forget her name I think called John Wood Oh what's her name I have to look her up She called Clarence Thomas A Straw Dog That's being kind

Well no she No It was There was other words said Um Let's see What's her name Um

Let's see because I couldn't, because I had been hearing about her. But I, I, you know, and it was a black woman and her, and I'm like, her name, her name,

Juwanda Lynn Yvonne. She called him all sorts of things. But, but, I'm not going to, I'm just going to tell you to spell it. And she's an Alabama state rep. And it's Joond, J-Wondaland is J-U-A-N-D-A-L-Y-N-G-N-G-I-V-N. She's also running, now she's running for Mayor of Birmingham.

Yeah. she she was not because when she comments when she all the things she's a lawyer the whole thing yeah and called the man a straw boss well we got a note from billable reg he yeah hi Tracy and Roxanne she's talking about the Purcell doctrine in which the Supreme Court rule that no changes should be made to election procedures less than six months before an election. Right. That's the one. Yeah.

Well, listen, you get in there and get busy cooking and enjoy all the, enjoy all the yummy stuff. Yeah, I'm going to go getting and get busy cooking. I'm excited about it. Oh, and one more thing. So remember, I told you that I went to the Mexican cook. And, you know, because I love pineapple, right? And I hadn't planned on it, but the pineapple were right on the other. Let me just tell you, these pineapples, so I could, I,

could smell the pineapple. I had to buy the pineapple because I, you know, because I get, I, it was like, okay, I've never been, you know, I've, you know, I've smelled some pineapple. But when you are on, you know, like a couple of, you know, a couple of sections down and you can smell the pineapple. It's time. You got to buy the pineapple. Yeah, you do. Yeah, you do. You have, you have to buy the pineapple.

Okay, folks, I'm out of here like a thundering herd of turtle. you guys take care and everybody have a good rest of the weekend. You too. You take care, Tracy. We love you. Okay. Love you too. Bye. Bye. And, well, let's see. We've got about 20 minutes left in the program and I have some good news.

An anonymous listener from an anonymous planet, no less, has taken the challenge down to $75 to go, $75 to turn it all into $1,660. So hopefully we can do that. And thank you, anonymous listener from the anonymous planet. Much obliged. Thank you so kindly. And, again, $75 knocks down not only

Vince's Fuck the Watertown Wisconsin School Board Challenge but also Stephen New York's challenge and gets us down to $2,900

at present. 2,970 which is basically everything from May 2nd to this date. So thank you. Thank you. And that means there's going to be some bill paying. Fingers crossed.

This is doable, I hope. Let's not leave a challenge on the table, please. Thank you. Ralph says, yay, yes. Yay indeed, and thank you, Ralph. Roger, I see you're in the room. I don't know if you're available for conversation or not, but if you are, feel free to.

chime in. Anything? Bueller? Yes, he's not. Guess not. Well, I'm still waiting on Miss Daphne. She's definitely out of surgery now. My mom's at the vet, picking her up, so. Yep, I moved everything into my room. I'm going to keep her in my room for a couple of days,

just so she doesn't, you know, use the cat tree prematurely or anything. Right, no, she... Hopefully, hopefully the cone of shame will keep her from getting too frisky. And we'll deter her. Yeah, well, and anesthesia will do it too for a day or so, but... So, you know, got to leave no stone unturned when it comes to smart cats like her, because they don't really... They know not what they do.

Um, but yeah, what a, what an interesting week it's been, and, uh, uh, I don't know if you saw Fetterman was on some reason, he was on some libertarian podcast earlier this week. No, of course. Yeah, and he was just basically, basically he said the base of the Democratic Party, basically the fuckers that elected him are anti-American, anti-patriotic, and they stand with Iran,

Cuba, and Venezuela. God, that stroke really did hammer his brain, didn't it? It must have. Well, and he's, if you've noticed, he's sounding more and more like Trump every time he talks. I mean, I was reading it, and I was having a hard time

reading it, because it's just a run on sentence with weird pauses and commas where they shouldn't be and he's he is he's starting to sound more and more like trump in the syntax of his grammar jesus crime and he yeah um well i wanted to i wanted to mention this before we run out of time um did you know that when nitwit nero ran off to China, that he took one of Epstein's friends with him? I'm not talking about Trump himself. They went after this on the view, and God, and there's more Epstein stuff after this, too. Yes, you do.

You don't have to clap for yourself. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is still looming large over this administration. This week, we've found. finally saw a transcript of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik's closed-door testimony, who's still trying to get his story straight about his relationship with Epstein. We also heard emotional testimony from the victims, a couple of them, who testified for the first time at a public hearing in West Palm Beach. Hey, Steve, in Georgia, Georgia, Stan, somebody finally mentioned it besides you.

Yay, joy. Watch. When institutions prioritize protecting the powerful. and their enablers over protecting victims, abuse becomes normalized. If we continue down this path, the question isn't whether abuse will happen again, but who will be the next Jeffrey Epstein? The fact that he could commit those acts made justice feel impossible to me, and it took my ability to seek for help.

I kept my identity protected as Jindot. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times. This story's not going away so fast no matter how much they would like it to. Yeah. So do you think that this new, I don't know how, this new sort of upsurge and information, the girls talking, etc., you think that will have any impact on the situation? I mean, I think keeping it in the airwaves is the most powerful thing because it was often the outcry of the public. It was so many voters who said, oh, we're going to get these Epstein files. And then...

Including MAGA voters. Yeah. And here we are. But it was some people plus those victims speaking over and over again saying don't stop talking about us. The really sad thing about Rosa, the one that was just talking with the dark hair, was she also testified that she was raped multiple times by Jeffrey Epstein around 2009 when he would have gotten out of prison the first time. Oh. So the serial nature of this pedophile. is just disgusting.

But he's a rapist more than a pre-file. He's all of the above. Let's just give him all the titles he deserves. But what I stand by is the talking has to keep up. So Galane Maxwell never walks out of that prison because the talks of what she might have agreed to or what this administration might have allowed for, she should never be out of prison.

We don't have Jeffrey Epstein because he's now dead. But you cannot let go of Galane and uncover the other people. Yes. To your question is whether there's something ever going to happen, whether there will be changed. I think that if Democrats regain the House and or the Senate, and they are then in charge of the committees with oversight, you will actually see real hearings. And they will be open to the public and there will be transparency. But there's something I want to shed light on because it's really bothered me this week and it's been grossly underreported. So, as we know, Trump is in China and he's had a delegation of U.S. business leaders with him.

And among the people in that delegation, the official U.S. delegation, is Brett Ratner. Now, Brett Ratner is a director and producer who was featured prominently in the Epson files. There's at least two pictures of him with Epstein in the files that have been released so far. there were incredibly disturbing, serious allegations against him of sexual predatory acts. He was basically banished from Hollywood back in 2017 during the Me Too movement. He was brought back in now and is being rehabilitated because he's the guy that was the director and producer on the Melania documentary that Amazon allegedly bought for 40 million. Now he denies all of these allegations. He's not been convicted of a crime.

He's never been brought to a hearing to testify and ask questions, but I find it appalling and horrifying that at the same time, Epstein victims are crying, giving their testimony. A man who is featured in those files, a man who was canceled by Hollywood for sexual predatory allegations is part of the U.S. official delegation traveling with the president of the United States to China. That is gross. I had not heard of this. Wow. I don't know why it's so on that notice. You get more attention. That is disgusting. He can't join last minute reportedly.

I don't understand what his role would be other than maybe he's working on another documentary about the Trump's. Apparently he's scouting out places in China for his next movie. It is just, you know, the lack of accountability for this administration is despicable. It is disgusting. The one, I don't trust this administration to release all of the files. We know now that there are about six million of them. Half were released. Todd Blanche, the Attorney General, claims that the three million that were withheld were either duplicative or, you know, there were certain exceptions. And so they couldn't

be released. Duplicative meaning there are two of each. They're two of each. So I don't really believe that. But I will say this. When I worked at the DOJ... Oh, but if there's two of each, release them and let people see it. Yes, release them all. That's what I think. And I think, Alyssa, you know this. I mean, when I work for the DOJ, the GAO, the government accountability office. It's an independent agency. And I always trusted that office to investigate the Department of Justice.

And my understanding is that that office is investigating the Department of Justice right now. And they are investigating the Department of Justice's handling of the Epstein-related records following the allegations of these excessive redactions that we're hearing about

and the failure to follow the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was a bipartisan legislative legislation. So I think more information, to answer your question, Joy, I think more information is going to come out eventually, not only after the midterm elections, which I think there's going to be a democratic sweep, but also with the GEO. Well, and Sonny, a reminder that there were heavy redactions, but not where it would have mattered. Correct. It's a survivor's.

They didn't redact the survivor's names, but they redacted the perpetrator's name. That's why I don't think anything is going to ever happen. And therein lies the rub. Will anything ever happen? Well, it turns out there's more information. A journalist, Elisa Valdez Rodriguez, writing, said that back in 2009, a woman said that Donald Trump had knowledge of what Epstein was doing and his, quote, sexual desire for minor girls. and Ms. Valdez Rodriguez said, this has been available to law enforcement for 17 years.

And it came from a set of written answers from a woman who said that she was abused by Epstein when she was a child between 2002 and 2005 at his home in Palm Beach. Okay? She went on and said that, well, she was asked to list the names of all persons who are believed or known by you to have any knowledge concerning any of the issues in this lawsuit. These are, in other words, interrogatories. And between her and her lawyers, they came up with a list of more than 50 names.

Again, all persons believed are known by you to have any knowledge concerning any of the issues. issues in this lawsuit. Number five on the list was Donald Trump. Jesus. And in that list, she was also asked to note what was the nature of their knowledge. She said that one woman arranged for underage girls to go to and from Jeff's Island. Another was Epstein's house manager during the time our client, the lawyer said, went to him. Trump, for his part, was said to have knowledge of finances and Epstein's sexual desire for minor girls. She said, I was made to touch the defendant, trigger warning, I'm sorry. I also observed sexual acts and had sexual acts perpetrated on me by defendant Jeffrey Epstein.

At various times, I was unclothed, as was the defendant and others. At all times material, I was a child under the age of 18 years. The defendant also used me to bring him other minor girls, and he controlled and brainwashed me into believing this lifestyle was healthy and normal for a girl my age. She went on and said she was paid $200 after each instance of sexual abuse and $200 for each minor girl that she, quote, brought him for the purposes of him engaging in sex acts with them. God Almighty. The horror. The horror.

She also said she'd been interviewed previously by the FBI. She said at the time that she was interviewed, she was represented by an attorney paid for by Epstein in the first criminal investigation that started in 2005. It just happens that there's a 2007 FBI interview with someone named Jane Doe No. 2 that matches almost perfectly

with the $200 per allegation. And then there's Epstein himself. It turns out that with the 2019 indictment looming. He was frantic to try to turn Zorro Ranch into its own municipality with its own governance and possibly even its own law enforcement. That's also from Elisa Valdez Rodriguez

reporting today. She's digging deep into Zorro Ranch. She said he apparently worked with a golf resort developer turned lawyer to turn Zorro ranch into a town with its own legal identity. There's only one problem. People living on the land.

Under New Mexico law, if you want to be incorporated as a municipality, the area has to have not less than one person per acre. And not less than 200 qualified electors. And those are signatories to the petition

for incorporation. So we get a new name, Gerald Barton. That's the golf resort developer and lawyer who told Epstein about a workaround that he used in Oklahoma Stan. In an email of April 26, 2018, before Barton died of melanoma, three months before Barton died of melanoma, he said, Well, we were moving several people to the site to live in mobile homes. They would have no idea what we intended to do with the property, nor would the governmental authority.

I'd assume that New Mexico law would be similar to Oklahoma's, and we would be able to choose those who would live on the property and be the spokesman for the new town. God. And it gets even sicker. Apparently, Zorro Ranch was integral to Epstein's twisted plan to cede the human race with his DNA. That sounds like somebody else we know of, doesn't it?

Doesn't that sound like Leon Scum? You suppose they ever talked about that? Leon Scum has never had an original idea in his goddamn life. And yet here he is trying to cede the world with his DNA. All we can hope, and hope is a very thin read, is that no one ever lets go. And that this hounds nitwit Nero for the rest of his unnaturally born days.

Oh, and thank you, Sylvie. Sylvie said this comes out of the rent. Fortunately, I have a few days grace on payment due to good record and rapport with our landlord, but it's the last I can do this month. I can't do a challenge, but I can ask, folks, toss in a fiber if you can for me. Thank you, Sylvie. I kind of wish you hadn't done that. I do wish you hadn't done that.

I can shoot it back to you. Thank you. Just let me know. So that takes us to 70 to go on the challenge. And hopefully we can knock it out in the next couple of minutes because time grows short. One bit of good news to wrap up the week. There's been a bit of coverage this week over Nitwit Niro's IRS

considering rolling over and playing dead and paying off the $10 billion lawsuit he filed against himself. Well, the court hearing the case appointed lawyers to address the issues, and they filed a document with the court earlier this week in which they wrote, this case is unprecedented. A sitting president seeks monetary damages for alleged harm to his personal interest from an executive agency that he can,

controls. And as a consequence, the rollover may not be quite as simple as he had hoped. And the brief filed asks the judge, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in the Southern District of Florida, who has already pointed out the jurisdictional problem and appointed the lawyers in question. she asked, what measures, if any, have they taken to ensure that defendants and the DOJ lawyers assigned to this case are free to exercise independent litigation judgment? Well, the answer is nothing. This is supposed to be an inside job.

But the lawyers, the appointed lawyers, are flat out asking the U.S. district court judge to throw the case the hell out and i hope the judge does and then let it go up to the eleventh circuit let it go to the supreme court let's let's at this point in time let's just have case after case after case showing the abject corruption and illegitimacy of this gang of six punks and thugs on the Supreme Court. I'm game. Sylvie wrote back and said,

no, please don't return it. You're my lifeline. I need to hear you and your listeners. Many of my neighbors are trompanzis, and you're an oasis in a desert of red. Oh, Sylvie, I love you, sis. And you're an amazing woman. And thank you, Billable.

Billable said, mark me down for 70. Amelia check. Then, hey, we have a miracle. In the last instant. And so we are down to, let me get the brown paper bag, we're down to 2970. So basically, hallelujah, hallelujah, thank you community, thank you family, thank you congregation for a community made miracle. April's funded. We'll get the Lupine, the Appalachian Power Lupine pest off the porch.

and see what we can do about coming up even with May. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And that's the program. I presume that the back porch will continue in my absence once the program goes off the air this evening. And feel free to jump in if you've never participated either in the front or back porch. It's a darn good time.

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