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Episode Date: April 23, 2026

Sorry about yesterday, but . . .  Today was still even weirder still. We don't have a Secretary of the Navy when the Navy is committing piracy on the High Seas? Poor Admirals Halsey and Nimitz and the rest, their names besmirched by a gang of pusillanimous salute-snappers. 

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

who invites you to be part of the uprising against mountaintop removal. CRMW.net. And now, from high in the hills of West by God, Virginia, here she is. Roxanne Kincaid. Here we go, off and running on the 22nd day of April, 2006. That would make this the 56th Earth Day. I've been around for all of them. Happy Earth Day. We've got Earth Day on our hands. We've got Earth Day on our hands. and I wonder if we have any business celebrating. Oh, well, don't start out a little ray of sunshine, Roxanne. But, no, it's a happier day. This is the horn.

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prayer meeting Wednesday. We got some prayer meeting Wednesday material out there. Sorry about yesterday. I started out in plenty of time to get back here to the fabulous horn studios at the magnificent Kincaid Mansion. But shame on me, it did not necessarily occur to me that, well, this is the time of year in West Virginia when the orange barrels bloom on the highway. And so I crawled on home and got through the door and was just absolutely zonked. but I tell you what, I'm glad I came in yesterday instead of today because I probably would have been trapped on the highway in Canaw County

because as Ropes and Kim have already seen, well, we have a little chemical problem down in the Canaw Valley today. It was a bad chemical problem. There's a reason they call it Chemical Valley. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Welcome to all of those of you who are listening live. I'm awfully glad to be in your good company. If you want to participate in the aforementioned chat,

the old holler tree is open and awaiting your arrival. And there's Ralph's, yes, Roxanne's going to be live. And there's, that was, no, that was yesterday. Oops. But anyway, pop by the chat room. There's, yeah, there's Ralph's and Squeaky. and Theo and Hey gang, all capably moderated by, well, I don't see Roger, but Roger may be, yeah, this is teaching day for Roger, so, yeah, enjoy yourselves. I'm there too, mm-hmm, but no, another day in the sacrifice zone. It's just horrifying.

There was a chemical emergency, a shelter-in-place order at basically the line between Institute and Nitro West Virginia. Yes, Nitro. Nitro West Virginia is a real place, Kim. And they used to make nitroglycer in there. You can make just about anything in West Virginia that you'd like to make. is horribly dangerous to the continued existence of human beings. Institute is where, is one of the, well, at the time of the Bhopal disaster, the Cunion carbide manufactured methyl isocyanate at two places on planet Earth.

One was Bhopal, which they killed in India, and the other is, well, there we are, Institute, West Virginia. Yeah. this apparently was hydrogen sulfide i think and the plant was actually as best as i can understand it being closed when uh and and being prepped to being closed hydrogen sulfide yes they mix the wrong cleansing chemicals and well bad things can happen when people do that In this case, hydrogen sulfide is pretty awful because what it does is it gets in and coats the lining of it is a, oh, what's the term, a pulmonary antagonist. Because it gets inside, coats the lungs, and prevents oxygen from being able to get into the bloodstream to be pumped around by the heart. So at least 30 people were treated at hospitals in the area.

An area-wide shelter in place was in order. Yeah, you know what I mean. And two people are dead. And I'm not going to be okay the next time that some member of our brain-drained maggot legislature here starts barking and grunt it, or for that matter, on the federal level, starts barking and grunting about job killing regulations. Well, how about people killing chemicals? Because, I don't know, maybe if there had been a regulation in place, maybe there could have been a signup that says, don't mix this and this. I mean, what is it that you're not supposed to mix as far as like household cleaning, uh, yeah, bleach and ammonia?

that's killed a few that's killed a few people in their homes I don't like that bathtub ring here's some bleach and here's not all to do yeah but this is after all the sacrifice zone and it's pretty much okay to do anything you want to to the hillbillies here

and I should note that in a statement the governor of this state pill pushing fatty-patti Morrissey, the Trenton Troll, said, our first duty is to take care of our citizens.

And that just rubbed me the wrong way. Is it rub you the wrong way? I don't like the possessive. I mean, for all that they run around barking and grunting about pronouns, nobody abuses them quite like the maggots. do. Our citizens. Well, our citizens.

Okay, fatty-patti. And by the way, that's not me. That's Whalehead, Dead Bear, brainworm, Voschvair, Lampere, yeah, who called him a fat ass. Yeah, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. did. Our first duty is to protect our citizens.

Who, Patty? You and I'm trying to think of something ugly enough, not a mouse in his pocket. You and that handful of deer ticks in your pocket? There's no real good argument for deer ticks on planet Earth. That's more of that intelligent design. It is after all prayer meet and Wednesday. Our citizens.

So the people who aren't citizens, you don't care, Patty? they can just fucking die? Yeah? Is that it, Patty? Or do you mean that you own us? Yeah, it's a double-layered problem. Happened around 9.30 this morning at Catalyst refiners near the Institute exit off of I-64. Some of those who were sent to the hospital were, in fact, first response.

Bonders, seven of them, to be precise. And the chemical that got spilled was actually called Bondurite. Gee, I wonder if they knew any more about the effects of Bonduride on human beings than they did about methyl cyclohexane methanol. 35 to 45 people were decontaminated at the scene. The spilled chemical contained nitric acid, but it was mixed with another chemical. Bondurite contains nitric acid. Meanwhile, useless as a screen door on a submarine, West Virginia's senior senator,

Shelly Moore Capito, Arch in a bad wig, her daddy having been the biggest criminal ever to occupy the governor's mansion at the very least in this state, Arch said, and I quote, I'm aware of the chemical emergency at the Catalyst Refiners Plant and Institute and am closely monitoring the situation as it develops. I'm grateful to our local first responders and energy personnel who are on the scene working quickly to contain the incident and keep residents and workers safe.

In the meantime, my office is staying in contact with state and local officials, and I encourage those in the affected area to follow any and all guidance from officials as we continue to learn more. she will of course at the next opportunity vote the maggot line when it comes to some job killing regulation and my heart

breaks for everyone everyone harmed and especially those killed what a pity we don't have a government that cares about them as much as well we do yeah incidentally

her daddy arch was convicted of extorting money from coal companies in order to let them have their way with West Virginia. As he neared the end of his life, he asked the West Virginia State Bar to give him back his law license, and he said, I want to dial West Virginia lawyer. And at the time, I said, well, if you take off the A West Virginia lawyer part, you've got the consensus of the vast majority of this state, Archie. No, as I mentioned, Faddy Patty, the pill rolling Trent and Troll, said, the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security's Emergency Management Division,

Department of Health, and the Department of Environmental Protection, coordinating closely with Kanawha County, is that how you say it, Kanawa? Canawa? Oh, no, I wasn't born here. Knawa County Emergency Management to address a chemical incident at the Ames Goldsmith Catalyst Refiners along the border of Nitro and Institute. EMS personnel are currently stationed at the county's command center to provide direct operational support, and DEP is providing decontamination and disposal assistance. State emergency leaders continue to monitor.

of the situation and remain ready to deploy additional resources. Anybody got any gababagool? I added that last part. Our top priority, you know, him and that handful of deer kicks in his pocket, is the safety and well-being of our citizens. Huh. We awaken around the clock with local officials to ensure this incident is contained, and that all necessary state resources are on the ground to protect the community.

Yeah, nice. What's that, Brother Deacon? Start in trouble already this evening, I can tell. Methinks thou doth protest too much, Kincaid. Years from now, we'll find out that Roxanne was a major shareholder in both freedom industries and catalyst refiner's ink. Don't worry about it. I have the Colombian spy on the case. He's digging up the dirt even as we speak.

Well, if you find my stock portfolio, Mr. Colombian spy you, do please let me know I could use the help. And by the way, every program here at the Horn begins with gratitude, and this program is no different. So consequently, thanks go out to our 22nd and 21st day of the month subscribers and contributors via Pellon. PayPal. So thank you to Felicia. Thank you, Felicia, so very

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And that, well, that's a bad sign. Yeah. Any help is great help. And if we could, you know, 2,475 remains to get halfway funded for April, and that would be a ginormous accomplishment in its own right. Clarence with a note, so thank you, everybody. Thank you so much for what you do to keep all of this going. Clarence, like I said, with a note, nitro incident.

I'd like to know if any truck drivers at the pilot truck stop were exposed to the toxins. I've spent many nights at that truck stop, which is right off I-64 West, Hope All's Well. Well, it was at the intersection. If you know that area, and you do, then Clarence, it was at the intersection of First Avenue and the Institute exit on I-64. The shelter in place, apparently, at least as of this hour, no one reporting any more exposures or injuries, than what happened mainly at the scene. Jesus. Ha, ha, says Jeremy.

Your beloved governor said, Our first duty. You know, it's nice to have things in your life that you can count on like the sun coming up in the east in the morning and going down in the west at night. And add to that, the beloved juvenile delinquents of the horn chat room, saying the things that one would expect of a beloved juvenile delinquent.

No duty. Yeah. You know, I guess, come to think of it, Lee and New York pointing out, the orange, I mentioned the orange barrels sprouting on highways around West Virginia. Orange travel obstacle, Lee, in New York says, Can we blame the United States Secretary of Transportation, Sean P. Duffy? Oh, do, lats. these are actually much-needed repairs however last summer

US 19 that passes through my neck of the woods here got a complete a complete spa day it was actually months on the south side of the new river gorge bridge that's that's the right side of the river and we were left to pound sand and at this point

US 19 especially southbound north of the river Gorge Bridge. Might as well be gravel road. But it looks like they're going to pave some little bit of it, so yay, take the win. And know about the dangerous chemicals? Lee says no one in this administration can pronounce or even spell any of them.

Well, us hillbillies had to learn about them. Methyl cyclohexane methanol. Hydrogen sulfide. Yeah. It's just a pity that... I'm not going to say that. That's too bitchy even for me. So, yeah.

Well, somebody got the, you're fired treatment. They're having some internal shakeups over to Trump Media. Devin Nunez, who at one point in time was a Congress creature from California, moved on to become CEO of Trump Media, which is the parent company of Tripe Social. In a statement yesterday, they said Devin Nunez would be succeeded by Kevin McGern, who's been an advisor to the troubled company,

and no reason was given for Devin Nunez, who was trolled by a... and tried to sue a Twitter account called Devin Nunez's cow and lost spectacularly. Well, he gone. Trader Tot, who sits on the company board, of course, and oversees a trust holding his father's shares in the company. I want to thank Kevin Nunez for his dedicated service to the company over the past four years and congratulate Kevin McGurn on his appointment as interim CEO. Kevin brings deep experience across media technology and capital markets,

as well as a strong understanding of Trump media's operations and strategic priorities of being nothing but a bunch of goddamn bots, Russians, and Iranian and Chinese spies. And, well, it's the Trump media. hemorrhaging money. In 2025 alone, they reported a net loss. Uh-huh. $712 million on revenues of, wait for it. 3.7 million.

So that's a net negative of 708.3.3 million. Yeah, I did that ciphering on the fly. God, I hope it doesn't hurt too little. And Trump media shares are basically garbage. They've got the ticker symbol, DJT. And on Tuesday, at the market closed, they quit at $9.82 a share. that's a 75% nose dive since the day that nitwit Niro managed to not get burnt by the Bible when he was sworn in on January 20th, 2025. Jesus.

Yeah. Oh, and, well, I'm not sure how old Trader Todd is. I think he's nearing 50, but good news at least for maybe Eric the Dumber. new rules came out, new enlistment rules for the U.S. military, and now one can enlist in Trump military. I'm sure he'd love to have it called Trump's Army, Trump's Marines, Trump's Air Force, Trump's Navy, and considering the grossly disgusting behavior of the United States Navy right now, I'm more than happy for it to be known as Trump's Navy. but military the military enlistment age has been raised to the tender age of 42 oh sylvie i'm so proud of you

that might take in eric the dumber so maybe there needs to be a national program everywhere eric the dumber goes someone with the enlistment papers needs to follow and say would you like to sign up for your daddy's ward asshole? Yeah. And make sure that big old boron gets one too. Of course, we all know, he's too tall for the silence service.

Well, if he has a brain to damage, he'd probably get it trying to wander around a modern nuclear submarine. I remember, well, down in Mobile Bay in Alabama, They host the USS Alabama, a World War II era battleship, and I remember touring it as an adolescent. And even then, my dad looked at me and said, huh, you'd probably get a concussion trying to serve aboard this ship.

You're too tall. And then next to it is housed the, USS drum, a World War II era diesel submarine. And the only thing I got out of, well, I luckily got out of it without, you know, a concussion. But my takeaway on that was that those guys had to, must have been really short. Tiny little living space. Okay, Sylvie. Off and running with Miss Sylvie today.

Please do not cipher on the fly. the ink stains his little wings and it takes hours for him to clean it off. Oh, that's adorable. Yesterday, when I got home, I saw a bumblebee. They have a predilection for hanging out back here at the studio door. Some people have fans that hang out outside the studio door. I get bumblebees, which is cool. But, oh, she was so heavy-laden.

She looked like a tiny little minion. She was just covered in dandelion pollen. She must have been exhausted because she was just barely one foot after another until she got to the step, and I checked her later, and she'd made it about halfway up. And I'm like, you just stay there as long as you want to, and hopefully nothing will get you, and then you can fly away home to your nest, and everybody's going to be so proud of how much pollen you brought in today. Yes. and that's less pollen for me to breathe,

so I just want to let you know. I appreciate you. I know. I know. I talk to the little critters. I can't help it. There was a little squirrel running in front of me, and like I said, it's been a tough spring for the squirrels.

And I opened, I rolled my window down, and I said, Hey, Arlene, don't stand there in the middle of the road. There's assholes around here that'll hit you for fun. Get, get, go on, move, go. And Arlene looked at me and went, Oh, okay. And scampered. I said, don't forget to use the steps. And long to hold, she went up the steps to the house that I was passing. It's a lovely little world. It's Earth Day. And the first one was April 22nd of 1970, forever fixed in my memory, because that's the day that my beloved purple bicycle got stolen. Yeah. Probably just as well, because I had wrecked it about a month before and entirely smashed the fuck out of my face. My dad with his sense of humor said, oh, just go to school tomorrow and tell him your old man beat you up

because you brought home a B. And so I did. My first grade teacher was horrified. And she said, your father would never do something like that. Why would you say something like that? Because he told me to say it. Yeah. No, I did not juvenile delinquent, Jeremy.

For those in the back, Robbins just admitted that the Golden One isn't a fan of the show. He doesn't hang out outside the other studio door like a lot. the group, he just bumblebee's as studio fans. No, he's in cool, air-conditioned comfort in the front of the mansion. In fact, he just said something to me. Maybe it was because of the bumblebee remark, Jeremy. I don't know. But long about 8 p.m., he'll bark and tell me to tell me it's time for me to clock out.

And he wants a treat. I was only gone Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and got home yesterday. but oh he was so happy to see me and early this morning he was at my door tippy tapping outside and I opened the door and he bounded in and he was like you're here

you're still here yes oh he was happy what a boy but moving on here and there you know Monday okay Thank you.

And that was an odious task, Ralph, I appreciate you. Serving as the Horn Ad Hoc Trump Spawn Research Department, Ralph says Trader Todd is 49, Eric is 42, and Iwanka is 44. Yeah, Iwanka is the middle kid. You know, she's so hot. She wasn't my daughter. I'd probably be dating her. And he said that about her like when she was under age.

How do you forget something like that? That's a confession to everything. More or less, that's a confession to everything in the Epstein files. Yeah. So maybe they raised that enlistment age to 42 just for Eric the dumber. Put pegs in hole. Remember the Jetsons episode? And he puts the guy.

the guy next to him puts the square peg in the round hole or vice versa, and they take him away and say, Officer material. No, I did not say April 20th. I said April 22nd, 1970. Randy Radar. Sylvie, meanwhile, now concerned about the poor humble bumble. If the bumble bee is still there in summer,

the hardest things for bees to obtain are watering places. Bees cannot swim. Place a shallow dish near the bee with only a, a quarter inch of water so she can drink or place waxed paper down and spill a few drops of water on it so the bee can crawl over and drink. I have bee waterers set out deeper dishes

with water and smooth white stones for them to alight and drink safely. You know what? I'll actually do that. Sylvie, thank you for that. I appreciate it. And from Cynthia in the Bay Area, Food for Thought. Well, as you stated, today is Earth Day

and so it got me to thinking about the mostly Biden tax credits I received to install my solar panels, full house battery backup heat pump HVAC system, and heat pump water heater. In all, I received about $22,000 in tax credits for those projects, which I fully realized off my taxes, and that helped me make it possible for me to install all that stuff. I couldn't have done it otherwise.

The result is that my house now generates more clean, non-polluting energy than I use, and the rest goes back to the grid, and I get a credit. That would be money. for that unused power too. My system rocks. And then I considered roughly how much it would cost the government in tax credits to help do this for every single home like mine in the country.

Google says there are perhaps 86 million single-family homes in the country if you gave all of them that same $22,000 in tax credits for projects like mine. It would cost almost $1.9 trillion a lot, yes, but only a bit more than the $1.5 trillion Trump wants for his wars for oil, not to mention the destruction and lives lost. What do you think would be the better investment as if I had to ask? Oh, no need to ask. I know what the answer is.

I understood the assignment. But we can't do that, of course, because, well, who would take care of the poor little struggling coal-fried power utilities with their little noses pressed up against the frosty window pane looking at you inside your house, Cynthia? I know. It sounds creepy, doesn't it? As you sit there enjoying clean energy and the coal-fried utility executives are no longer snacking away on their larks vomit canopy and their hummingbird tongue hors d'oeuvres. See? Yeah.

And it's interesting to me that, as it turns out, the highest rate of homeownership, well Appalachia and the states that comprise it have the highest rate of homeownership in the country but the problem is most of the homes are well like the mansion here generally in a state of ever advancing decrepitude oh I confess I have solar panel lust I'd love to make

well that 54 75 fundraising goal that includes you know $300 for the electricity and it sucks and well until we bring it down some more I don't know what I'm going to do

because when we finally caught up with March that paid March's bills but well fingers crossed and of course Cynthia is enjoying a kitchen remodel how's the remodel coming Cynthia are they already in and out and done or

are they still working at it Cynthia is going to enjoy that so very much and well it's apropos of nothing the the barbecue went over very very well

and I posted it on my Facebook page I made a pulled pork croffle that's where you take croissant dough and you put it in your waffle maker and you that way and it made for a fantastic barbecue sandwich so i can't wait to do that again and i made it uh while i was up there made a big batch of the uh northwest alabama hot slaw and it is mighty tasty nothing better on one barbecue uh kevin uh if you can find a little more detail please feel free to

share virginia a republican judge just vacated vacated the election results that would be the election results in which Virginians chose to redistrict the state, the Commonwealth, I'm sorry, and get rid of maggot members of Congress.

And I'm sure if it had gone the other way that the maggots would have gone shrieking and screaming to the Supreme Court yelling, emergency! Emergency! And after the story we had about old balls and strikes John Roberts on Monday.

You can pretty well guess how they would rule. Jeremy asking, so if solar panel lust is enacted by certain people, could it be called the electric slide? Jeremy. The llama. The llama just punched herself in the head, hoping to become unconscious. Shame on you. Oh, it's bad.

That's so bad. That's a gner, if ever. And a very tepid one at that. Well, you know, Bill Bill Little Rick, the fact of the matter is you don't use Alabama sex clams on barbecue. They are their own standalone delicacy. And if you're going to sauce them at all, you want your Alabama white sauce on that. It goes best with chicken and seafood. Well, thank you very kindly to a kind anonymous internet friend.

We just went down to 5175. Helping with the power bill. Thank you very kindly. Yeah, there's the story. Thank you, Kevin. Virginia Republican judge strikes down election results. FBI investigation. The Tuesday night election results were thrown out, putting them on hold while an appeal moves forward.

It went near, of course, they said, oh, that election was rigged. Who's the mail-in ballots? Who knows what excuse he used? And Aaron Parnas pointed out, this is just a restaurant, well, cesspit quality hypocrisy, from, of course, the Washington Post pointing out two separate stories, Parnas does. One called from August the 20th,

2012, titled, or slugged, The Texas Jerrymander freak out, What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy. Yeah. It's definitely a Jeff Bezos joint. But then,

from yesterday at 908 p.m., Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss. The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats, voters went along with it. You lie in sack a shit. I wonder which reporters were actually willing to put their names to that tripe. Texas started all of this in a desperate ploy to try to hang on to the house this November. But we know that. California told him straight up, you do it, we'll do it. And then when pressed, Virginia followed suit.

So repulsive. But it's so on brand for Dick Rocket Jeff Bezos. Cynthia says the remodel is disruptive as all hell. And they've barely just begun. Monday they fully demolished the old kitchen. Yesterday they ripped open walls and ceiling. Today the electrician is running a new line to the kitchen and doing all the electrical. I believe tomorrow they'll do the plumbing,

and then at some point they'll have to stop and wait for the city inspection and sign off before they can proceed further. So there will be dead time in it, and it's expected to take a good six weeks to complete. This is not a quick job. Oh, my God. That's... We don't foal around with things like inspect.

here in West Virginia, you just find somebody. Yeah, I've done electrician work in the mines. Well, come on in. How many times you get electrocuted? Too many times to count. In fact, I can't count real good after all them electrocutions. But I can wire up your water heater. Most likely won't blow up.

Yeah. As far as a big old boron being too tall, Lee points out that David Robinson at seven feet and one inch considered leaving the naval academy after his second year before incurring an obligation to serve on active duty. He decided to stay after discussing with the superintendent the likelihood that his height would prevent him from serving at sea as an unrestricted line officer, which would be detrimental to his naval career and might make it impossible for him to receive a commission at all. As a compromise, Secretary of the Navy John Lehman at the time allowed Robinson to train for and receive a commission as a staff officer in the Civil Engineer Corps. As a result, Robinson was commissioned in the Naval Reserve and was required to serve only an initial active duty obligation of two years.

After graduating from the Naval Academy, he became a civil engineering officer at the Naval submarine base, Kings Bay, and Georgia. He was regularly featured in recruiting materials for the service. Seven feet, one inch. Welcome abroad, Boron. Yeah, we could find you a job. I think Boron would make a great Marine at that high. probably could really protect his fellow Marines that way. Partisan gerrymandering, Billable Rick says

when Texans complain about the actions that California and Virginia voters took in response to the Texas legislature's first shot in the gerrymandering wars, we should say, Santa Ana kicked your ass. Not least initially. What is it, the Treaty Oath? The Treaty Oak after the Battle of San Jacinto.

A woman I once knew in law school, there's a famous portrait of it. She said, what that is right there is that there is, is, is, is, uh, general Sam Houston. And he's talking to General Santa Ana. And, uh, and, and, and they got a piece of paper on the table. And he's saying, General Santa Ana, you can either sign that there document or hang from that there tree. Yeah. Santa Ana kicked your ass David Crockett begged for his life like a little bitch

and that's probably true by the way Oh and also Also in the stack today You know On Monday we talked about this business of Right-wing men You know 62 million visits or something to motherless in the month of February alone.

Disgusting. Creepy. It still gives me the shudders. But we need to remember that it's not just magam men. It turns out another member of the Trump maladministration is under investigation. Remember, three of his members of his cabinet have been shit-can.

They are all women. and according to the Daily Mail earlier today, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism, Julia Varvaro, I'm just going to leave that alone. She's 29, filed a complaint in which he said that he spent $40,000 on her

during a relationship they had that lasted some three months. They met on the dating app. hinge and he said that she used a sugar daddy platform under the pseudonym alesia a l-E-S-S-I-A according to the story in the mail and remember that's that's the same publication that outed Brian Crystal Gnome so apparently they're knee-deep in the Sleaze and they found somebody who has who's left a breadcrumb trail somewhere. Robert has made an official complaint with the Department of Homeland Security's

Inspector General, revealing she had a profile on the Sugar Daddy website Seeking on the page, seen by the Daily Mail. She called herself Alessia and offered seductive sophistication. And she even used the same photo that's on her Instagram. and of course her official photo for the Department of Homeland Security, and why do we even have one of those? She's sitting in front of an American flag and a Homeland Security flag, and, of course, she has the most dainty little cross hanging from her neck,

because, of course, she's a Christian. Yeah. Meanwhile, Varvaro said, We were together in an exclusive relationship. We went on vacations. I don't know what's the problem with that. Robert B. went on to say that, well, we smoked a good bit of dope together.

Meanwhile, I did not want a sugar-dady prostitution relationship, Robert went on to say, after spending $30,000 to $40,000 for vacations, Cartier jewelry, expensive handbags, and various shopping trips, she told me that she does not have college debt because sugar daddy's paid for her college education. She also told me directly

that the $40,000 worth of jewelry on her wrists and ears are all trophies from her sugar daddies. I believe she's under financial stress and that her actions pose a security risk. Ooh, not a security risk. E! And so now,

she's been placed on administratively And apparently it's not just one man, but men complaining about having dumped thousands of dollars on her, even while she was serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism. And Alessia, Alicia, is trying to brazen it out. I didn't know it was bad to go on vacation with your boyfriend. Oh, keep digging, Daily Mail. Keep digging. Maybe you'll find one of them who, maybe you'll find out that one of them looked like Brian Nome. Shame on me.

Yeah. And it gets better. Oh, it does. This is just, it's too good to be true, but it's true. We talked about all this creepy men who like, who want to do things like, um, poison the women in their lives. lives, often their wives, and then have anonymous men come in to rape her. In fact, I had a note from Joy in Ann Arbor about all of this in which she said, and this is fair. Regarding the Rape Academy and our culture of toxic masculinity, women as a whole are 50% responsible. Whoa, she said,

calm down and hear me out. And she makes a compelling case. As long as cis-straight women continue to date, fuck, and procreate with toxic men, toxic men will continue their patriarchy, they're raping, their pedophilia, their violence against women, violence against children, violence against the environment, and their wars. Please, cis-straight women, only date fuck and procreate with the good ones, or don't date fuck or procreate at all.

Maybe we can breed out this persistent trait like we did our tails. Although, no, no, it'd be way too much fashion trouble. Never mind. But that having been said, well, here we are. Yeah, this is classic, this is predictable. And it's also, in its own way, funny as hell. Out there in Magaland, you would not know. about this because you don't go

waiting around in those kinds of swamps and neither do I but maga men especially older maggot men with disposable income kind of like Robert B there with

Alicia Varvaro her name this maggot influencer is Emily Hart, H-A-R-T, and she put up bikini pictures in like American flag bikinis, and she's young and beautiful and blonde. And she'd post things like,

Christ is king, abortion is murder, and all illegals must be deported. And she posted daily. And within a very brief period of time, She had a gazillion followers, and they were creepy old maggot men who were digging deep into their wallets to pay her, because she seemed so, so mega, so wholesome, so Christian, and so hot. Her profile said she was a registered nurse, but that wasn't the draw. What was it? The draw was the pictures of her ice fishing in a bikini, chugging beers, shooting guns in support of the Second Amendment,

and being hyper-patriotic. Yeah, one picture of her with the gun had the, if you want a reason to unfollow Christ is king, abortion, and his murder and all illegals must be deported. She had another that said, P-O-V, you were assigned in, intelligent at birth, but you identify as liberal. Well, here we are.

Wired. Found out who Emily Hart's real identity is. And Emily Hart's real identity is that of a bunch of zeros and ones inside a server farm somewhere or a data center. Because she's not real. No, I guess it could have been worse. It could have been some skeevy middle-aged man, but no, it's a computer. She's entirely AI.

And the maggots, the dumb, horny, old maggots fell for her lock, stock, and two stinking barrels. Because Emily is actually an Indian dude, a 22-year-old orthoped. pediatric surgeon in training who told Wired that he was strapped for cash and hustling and he was just looking for a way to get through law school ironically

one of the photos of her muddy blue jeans and some muddy tennis shoes and you got a red cup probably supposed to have beer in it well virtual beer in there

beautiful blonde locks trailing down over her shoulders while she's wearing one of those red hats. She said, we should accept illegals into our country. They could end up being a doctor. Now apply that logic to the unborn, Emily Hart. Well, Sam, Sam's ultimate goal was to save enough money to immigrate to the United States after he graduated medical school. so he decided to use AI to invent what he thought would be the perfect image

of an American hot girl and aim it like a heat-sea-seeking missile at the maggots and being a smart guy it was just based on it was based on numbers data statistics in which he learned that older maggot men had higher disposable incomes and were intensely loyal to the movement and were basically sheep to be shorn

and he said every day I'd write something pro-Christian, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, anti-abortion, anti-woke, and anti-immigration and he got 10,000 followers in just a month there was another she's in a gold puffy coat her red hat

her sunglasses uh one two three four they even got the hands right and she's holding a can a miller light Trump should tell all the illegals he'll give them citizenship

if they vote Republican and see how fast Democrats want them out of the country ha ha laughing laughing face and uh he sold maggot t-shirts Sam created an account on Fanview where he created AI porn for money, paid subscriptions.

And eventually, he was raking in thousands of dollars per month. I was spending maybe 30 to 50 minutes of my day, and I was making good money for a medical student. I bet. Unpopular opinion, people who don't respect America. should be kicked out of our great nation. Drop a flag emoji if you agree, an American flag emoji. Sam went on and said, in India, even in professional jobs, you can't make this amount of money. I haven't seen any easier way to make money online.

And, of course, using, what else, Grock. He made photos of Emily naked, as opposed to naked. We know the difference. and he put him on Fanview and then he'd only let people see them if they paid him money to see her. I was basically doing nothing and I was just flooded with money

and another photo of her wearing her nitral gloves and giving the peace sign as she sat in a hospital room with her scrubs on and the stethoscope about her neck the MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people and he said I went after him because they're super dumb they fell for it but then the punchline was that he

tried to make a liberal version of Emily 2 but it didn't work he said Democrats know that it's AI slop so they don't engage as much eventually Instagram pulled the profile for fraudulent activity Sam, on the other hand, channeling the spirit of P.T. Barnum said, I don't feel like I was scamming people, but eventually I would have had to stop anyway because I need to actually pay attention to my studies. And the fun part is screenshots from social media. Bro, I was this close to sliding into her DMs with my stimulus check.

Thank God for the New York Post saving my wallet. Another saying, Mag is getting scammed by AI now. Damn my expectations from them were low. But this is holy fuck. Another saying, the liberal version not working is the funniest part of the whole story, and nobody's going to want to talk about it. It's easy to fool Magut members because they're all supporting Trump, which shows their low IQ level.

He scammed them out of their dignity and money at the same time by revealing his own scheme and calling them dumb at the same time. And it makes you wonder, If it happened once, how many other times has it happened? This is good. That can't be true. She's been messaging me, and we really hit it off. We really have something special.

She likes my personality. I sent her a few thousand dollars because that's what people in love do. And then this observation, nothing screams alpha mail like sending your paycheck and American flag emojis to a pixelated thirst trap run by a dude in India. You didn't just lose. You're literally paying a man to catfish you and asking for seconds. But there's always somebody out there who wants to spoil the fun. For instance, this comment, hot take.

This isn't a story about dumb people. It's about an unethical scammer exploiting lonely men. He calls his victim stupid, yet he's the one stealing from them and manipulating algorithms to pay for his life. Who's the real villain here? I mean, of course it's unethical. It's AI. AI has no ethics, especially Grock.

But Jesus, it says a hell of a lot more about the maggot men who think that, I mean, it's the same thing that happens with creepy old men in strip joints. Yes, the stripper will say that she just loves you. you're so intriguing. Oh, that's so interesting. And she'll give you a lap dance or maybe a hot tub thing or a shower or whatever for the $500,000, whatever. But dude, come on. It's transactional.

I guess it just goes to show you. Magad dudes, they think what their dingus is, so-s-s-s-s-s-o-s-s. Flavio says, you know, I'm so tempted, unethical scammers. Is there an ethical scammer? I could do it, but my conscience would kill me. But, God, I'm so poor and I need the money. God knows, but the ghosts of my parents who raised me well would follow me to the ends of the earth. Yeah, yeah.

That's kind of like this program. All you need to be Alex, Alex Jones, successful, is just to have no morals, no ethics. whatsoever. And just get on the air every evening and lie your ass off. Today we're going to talk about the human jellyfish hybrids of the wet markets of old Calhoun. Big Pharma is transing the frogs. Don't forget to pick up some of my chocolate chicken bone paleo diet beverage. was it 60 minutes that finally got him to taste it

and he looked like he was drinking poison and you know because Flavio because you don't have the PT Barnum heart you couldn't succeed at this yeah I'm sure it's apocryphal but you know one of the scams attributed to PT Barnum was of course this way to the egress he did not promise

anything that he did not deliver he was simply praying on the likelihood that the people who were coming to visit his circus would not know the meaning of the word egress and in the gendered language of the time would think that that maybe meant female eagle or something a lioness egress it's a quirk of English I suppose but this way to the exit is what

it meant. They'd charge him a nickel to get out and charge of another nickel to get back in. I wonder how many of them were maggot types for the day who would then pay yet another nickel to see the, who must have missed the egress?

And of course it's also part and parcel of something that is canon law here in the Cathedral of Common Sense where we worship the goddess of irony. And that is the three commandments of

W.C. Fields, William Charles Duncanfields. You can't cheat an honest man is the first commandment. And I submit that that still holds. Never give a sucker an even break is commandment number two.

And third, most importantly, don't smarten up a chump. So apparently Sam there, in India. I presume it's a pseudonym. Sam's got plenty of money to get him through law school and probably enough money to set up

housekeeping if he can get into the United States. Of course, given our immigration rules right now, he might have a hard time getting in because the only people the Trump administration wants to let into the country are white South Africans. I wish that was not true, but it is. So, Flavio, you can't even buy a can of beans on your ethics or anything, but at least be glad that you're not that.

And here's the fun thing to ponder. Sam's a pseudonym, I'm sure, and that means he's sitting on the money, that he made off of maggot rubs. And so when it does, does come time that he hopes to emigrate to the United States, his scam probably won't follow him. And so he'll just come over here and set up shop and probably some medical desert

and be the beloved orthopedic surgeon who resets a broken leg when Bubba Jr., breaks it in a football or basketball or basketball. basketball game or what have you. Fascinating, isn't it? Jeremy tells me Grock has largely been defanged. It will no longer create images or movies of real people.

Unfortunately, Jeremy says there are other platforms to create AI trash. Oh, yeah. And taking issue with my naked-necked dichotomy, Leah in New York says, not naked or naked. The AI female image exists

only in hardware. She is in uncovered or bare metal signed Lee at the keyboard. Yeah, but she was definitely conveying it was definitely conveying some naked vibes, Lee.

I think we can agree there. And since it's prayer meeting Wednesday, Jeremy says, let's get something damn straight hornies. You didn't never have a tail. You're born in God's image, and he ain't never had no tail, or maybe it's because you left his worship your true God's Satan.

Now, he does have horns in a tail, and one hell of a pointy rod. You left out the clove and hooves, Jeremy. Like I said, plenty to work with this evening. And of course, this being prayer meeting Wednesday, it wouldn't be, well,

prayer meeting Wednesday, unless we had a high quality story of faith in action yeah this one this one comes out of Wilmington Ohio and it concerns a

a pastor by the name of Silas H. Shilton and he would preach and rail in the pulpits and in school board meetings and whatnot and I mean he He showed up at a school board meeting at one point,

upbraiding the school board there, saying that pride flags are disgusting. And called for a book, and books like it, a book called Heart Stopper, which is an LGBTQ plus story. They said, my daughter's seen it.

They're in a skew book fire. That was in 2023 at a school board meeting. And he was one of those persistent, fearless campaigners against godless homer sectionality. I'm sure, including the transas. Well, there's always a punchline with stories like this, and you already know and you already see it coming. He's entered a guilty plea to three third-degree felony counts of unlawful sexual consequences. with a minor. It was a 14 to 15 year old girl

who attended his Blanchester Community Church there in Ohio. Yeah. And it went on until he was arrested, well, until just before he was arrested, in October of last year. He was scheduled for trial this week, but entered the plea deal just before the trial was supposed to start.

So now he's looking at three to 15 years in prison, and whatever the outcome, he'll be required to register as a Tier 2 sex offender for 25 years under the terms of the deal. According to prosecutors, he used his position of authoritative to groom and manipulate the victim with the indictment indicating incidents occurring in multiple locations over several years. He gets out from under with his plea to these third-degree felonies. He gets out from under multiple charges of rape and sexual battery. And the name of Jesus! Ain't God good?

And that's just one. We could do oodle. more. Speaking of perverts. Update on Trash Patel. We talked on Monday about his lawsuit for

$250 million against the Atlantic. At the time I shared with you the remarks of Rick Wilson saying that his pettifogger is not very good at defamation. law. Probably not good at much law at all.

But in those suit papers, he made reference to a pending lawsuit in another venue, another forum. Well, the day after

that lawsuit was filed, the current one against the Atlantic, the the lawsuit he referred to in his own complaint, well, got dismissed. A federal judge, U.S. District Judge George Hanks Jr., on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Tikesass,

issued a 10-page ruling Tuesday the very next day after he bragged about the suit and his suit against the Atlantic. Oh, my God, his pettifogger really. is terrible, isn't he? It all had something to do with a remark made by Tom Faglusey, or Frank Faglusey, sorry, wrong Faglusey. In May of 2025, Faglusey showed up on my former filthy morning habit, where he said, reportedly, Cash Fattel's been visible at nightclubs, far more than he's been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building. at the time MSNBC said,

well, that was a misstatement. But nonetheless, Jesse Benal filed suit for Trash Patel in which he pled that Fugluzi had crossed the legal line by fabricating a specific lie about Director Patel. And the judge yesterday said, and and and and this stings because it goes right to the heart not of the pleadings but of the petty foger benal himself saying a person of reasonable intelligence there's that reasonable man the problem child of the law a person of reasonable intelligence and learning would not have taken his statement literally that director patel has actually spent more hours physically in a nightclub than he has spent more hours physically in a nightclub than he has spent to be able to be a

physically in his office building. By saying that Patel spent far more time at nightclubs than his office, Fickluse delivered his answer, quote, in an exaggerated, provocative, and amusing way. Oh, good, good. The judge got a giggle out of it just like the rest of us. Cool, cool. Employing rhetorical hyperbole,

this court finds that Fagluzi's statement is rhetorical hyperbole that cannot constitute defamation. and asked for comment, lawyer banal, great name. It only would be better if his first name was petty, or hyphenated, Petty Bonal. He said, The court ruled that Mr. Fagluse's statements were rhetorical hyperbole. He was successful because he convinced the judge

that he's not a serious person. While we disagree with the court and will appeal, but holding effectively eviscerates anyone's, including the Atlantic's ability to treat his statements as reliable facts. No, it doesn't. How did this Chud get out of law school? All he does is lose. I wonder if he's charging by the app and by...

You know, if I was as bad a lawyer as this guy is, I'd charge about $250 a minute for that level of bad lawyering. And meanwhile, the Atlantic never mentioned Frank the glues. at all. Woo! Maggots. Can't live with them. Can't put them on a one-way trip,

rocket ship trip to Mars. Moors the pity. Yeah. By the way, I'd forgotten to fire up the stress line if you've been trying to get through. That's why you haven't. It was turned off. It will be

paired to the... the roadcaster here momentarily. Kevin telling me, Sam Donaldson at 630, YouTube with Jim Acosta, that looks good like to hear from Sam. I know Sam was still alive. And poor Trash Patel thinks that the Atlantic will just roll over for him, but he's not Trump. And there's no upside to knuckling under in this case.

get the pairing taken care of and there we are we're fully connected so we're near the we're at the halfway mark of the program and if you've got something you'd like to talk about feel free to join in the conversation the stress line of course is 844 843

4676 that's 844 the horn and the line is ready when you are, as is, of course, the old holler tree Discord server. You can always get in that way as well. And this is a, well, I guess it's a lot to say it's a weird story. It seems like they're all weird stories anymore.

But, yeah, I know Flavio, but everybody else calls him Fuglusey. And apparently he calls himself Faglusey, so there we are telling me Flavio does. It's Italian from the southern region of Edelousie. Italy like Calabria, patronymic or familial name, filio, which means son in Italian, it's Phileas in Latin. The suffix Uzi is little son of Uzi. Utsi is a personal name of Hebrew origin, meaning my strength, thus the surname likely originated to denote the descendants of,

or family members of someone named Utsi. Associated names can include filio, filiola, and other variants with the Feeley prefix. You'll have to just live with it because any time you see him on TV, I think they pronounce him as Faglusey too. I mean, languages change. Languages evolve, words evolve, Flavia.

Well, the case in point, I mentioned earlier, Gaba Gould. That's a mostly New Jersey permutation on, and this is a real mindbender, C-A-P-P-I-C-O-L-A, Capacola. You say Gaba Goule in Naples, and they're going to look at you like you got three heads. In New Jersey, they'll just make you a sandwich. And, of course, it's delicious. The spicy cured ham.

Uh-huh. No, but this is a Mike creepy. I don't know if he's just attention-horring or if there's something more to this, but earlier today, after he had a phone call with his orange Julius geyser, little maggot troll Lindsay ladybugs Graham well do you I hire whiskey Pete

keg breath was on the call to our stupid and by the way illegal blockade of the Straits of Hormuz or as our treasury secretary Scott Bessent calls it the strait of Vermuth

I don't know if I should just put that into rotation, just call it the straight of vermouth from here on out. But they were having a call about it, why Lindsey Graham would be included. I don't know, except that he's really good at being a butch war troll. And as I noted on Monday, we've shot at and disabled Iranian tankers. Well Nitwit Niro yesterday said I'm extending the ceasefire

When there's really no fire to cease All we have to do is stop Making this illegal war on Iran And ta-da But after the call Lindsay Ladybug's Graham Ran to X and posted the following excrement I had a very good call this morning

with POTUS and Sec War, Pete Hegseth, about the way forward regarding the Adran conflict. I think the President's decision to leave the blockade in place is very smart. It's having a strong effect on the ability of Iran to continue to be the largest state sponsor of terrorism, which they appear intent on doing. I not only expect this blockade to stay in place

until Iran shows a commitment to change their ways, I suspect the blockade will be growing and that it could become global soon. To those assisting are thinking about assisting the Iranian regime in distributing its oil which provides resources for terrorism, you do so at your own peril. Well done to President Trump and his team.

This is the best chance since 1979 to change the behavior when I was just in knee-breeches, y'all, to change the behavior of the regime, and I hope this can be accomplished through diplomacy. What? Yeah. And meanwhile, a reminder from CPAC 2026. I didn't know he was there.

Mostly we got the weird clips of various maggots saying, please clap to those assembled. But lo and behold, International Shitbird, Prince Reza Palav. who would very much like to be put back on the peacock throne in Tehran like his daddy was, said, The Islamic Republic cannot reform itself.

You cannot reform a snake. Venom is in its DNA. Put me back on so I can have me a nice secret police force that can work hand-in-glove with the Israelis, and I can disappear people in the middle of the night, because the Palavi regime did work hand-in-glove with the Israelis. So the blockade will be global soon? Okay, I'm no military strategist, but how would that work? I don't think we've got the Navy to do it.

But it's also worth noting that it has expanded. We, with no legal justification whatsoever, by the way, and, hey, can we disbar the Navy lawyer? who are interpreting the rules of engagement so as to allow piracy on the high seas. At the very least, yeah, we committed piracy on the high seas in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday. But Robert Barnes, a trial lawyer and political commentator with several hundreds of thousands of followers on X, said, someone cut off this lunatic from the White House. if Lindsey Graham is happy, then expect more war.

That's Robert McCartney, formerly with the Washington Post. And Ron Filipkowski, meanwhile, said, Graham being happy is the most accurate indicator that something bad is about to happen. Well, as I've said previously, we're not away from the brink. we're just taking a breather until BB finally convinces him to use neutron nuclear weapons on Iran the fools the mad fools

I was speaking earlier wait what's this Lee how can a bad lawyer get paid $250 an hour simple Roxanne the lawyer offers bad lawyering for $250 an hour and good lawyering for $450 an hour anyone willing to pay $450 an hour

anyone willing to pay $450 50 is told that there's no time currently for the client, the clients who select bad lawyer and get what they overpay for. That seems reminiscent of the prices quoted to Groucho by Chico, I think, in what, day at the races maybe? Or Groucho's hiring a ban, and he says, yeah, we get 50. $50 an hour. That's if we don't practice.

What do you... No, no. I'm screwing up the joke. If we practice, we get $50 an hour. Oh, what do you get if you don't practice? Oh, you can't afford that. There we go. Still botched it, but you get the idea.

It's been a long time since I watched the movie. Thanks, Lee. But speaking of lawsuits being thrown out, Bad day for Laura Looney, the so-called Trump Whisperer. Well, she had sued down in Florida, no less. She had sued Bill Maher. And I generally don't root for Bill Maher. Just a cranky old dude bro yelling at clouds.

Well, Mar had said on air, I think maybe Laura Loomers in an arranged relationship to affect the election because she's very close to Trump. She's 31, looks like his type. We did an editorial here a few years ago. It was basically who's Trump's expletive. Because I said, you know, it's not nobody. He's been a dog for too long, and it's not Melania. I think we may have our answer this week.

I think it might be Laura Lumer. I'm guessing, bitch, was the expletive that was deleted. So she sued and said that it caused me reputational harm and made it hard for me to find a job. But senior U.S. District Judge James Moody wasn't having any of that, either any more than the judge in Houston was having any of trash Patel's whining. As defendants contend, plaintiff has not identified a single individual who believed that she was sleeping with President Trump because of the episode or a single relationship that was damaged as a result of the episode.

She's not offered any expert testimony quantifying her reputational harm. She's not introduced income statements or tax records from the year of the episode or after. To prove a decline in her income, these are all things that are called evidence. So she just went and pissed and moaned to the court and expected, you know, at the time, Time Warner, to roll over and give her a check, just like they do for Daddy.

No. The record reflects, the judge continued, that to the contrary, Lumer testified that her income increased in 2024 compared to prior years and that she continues to speak to and meet with President Trump. He continues to solicit her opinions,

and she continues to receive invitations to the White House. Now, I presume this came from, well, Discovery. And she, and, and a good lawyer, which apparently Time Warner had, and she didn't, I wonder if it was the same pedigogger that brought suit for her. No, no. Kind of sounds like that. It sounds like it, though. Doesn't it?

Mm-hmm. If you're going to claim reputational harm, you've got to put forward some kind of kind of evidence that shows it. If you're going to talk about financial harm, economic damages, you've got to put forward some evidence to show it. But she didn't. She thought she could just cry. Judge Moody continued and said, plaintiff's remaining evidence of alleged damages associated

with lost job opportunities is entirely speculative. Indeed, the record reflects that prior to the episode, plaintiff failed to obtain certain jobs because of her public remarks about controversial topics. Tadda! I'm sure she's screaming. We'll appeal. We'll appeal to the 11th

United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and they know I'm right. And if nothing else, we'll go a run and a whine into the Supreme Court yelling, emergency, emergency! And I know that old balls and strikes will say, we'll recognize what an emergency

this here is. Honey, if anything's kept you from getting jobs, that Magaloko face. Never take advice from Kimberly Gargoyle again. Not Lee in New York, noting Bill Maher, he did get Donnie's birth certificate in court. Donnie used it to prove that

Donnie's father was not an orangutan. Donnie sued Mar for $5 million. FYI birth certificates do not list species. Maybe Mar was correct about the orange oaf? I'm not an orangutan. Arangetan, you Words are hard And

From something bad's about to happen with Based on what Lindsay Lady Bugs Graham said Those are just my little old ladybugs You don't mind do you Well A couple of folks chatting on their podcast

Namely Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Willants decided to do a deep dive into melanoma's press conference of a couple of weeks back. And Sidney Blumenthal said her speech was a can of worms that the Trump Mal administration really doesn't want to deal with asking, why is she so scared? That's the only question I have. Why would she do such a thing?

The Epstein files have been off. He's blown up in the Middle East in order to avoid the Epstein files. and here's melanoma, coming out in the middle of nowhere, saying, I had nothing to do with it in the way that you described. Something's bugging her. She knows that something's coming. Obviously, something must be coming, or she wouldn't have done this. And he went on to make a godfather reference.

You know, the godfather comes in handy, noting that it reminded him, her speech reminded him of the scene where Frank Pentangeli denies the existence of the mob. Well, I thought this was sorted out. I thought we knew what was coming based on what's their name, Andrea Ungaro. Oh, and I had this a couple of days ago, didn't get to it on Monday. TMZ, the gossip website, but nonetheless, every now and then, you know, vinehog, acorn, have found out that

the wife of the man with whom Kurtzian Kirsten Cinema began a romping That's Appalachian for fucking Heather Ammel Well she's suing Curtsy and Kirstie and Kirsten in North Carolina Stan

for destroying her marriage And has testified that she was watching in real time when her ex-husband or her husband Matthew was taking messages from curtsy and Kirsten. One she saw, showed Kirsten wrapped in a towel showing her bare back and what looked like bruises from cupping. Oh, what is, is that, oh, there's a Japanese word for it. No, it's not Teppaniaki. But anyway,

there was another message, and we reported on this months back, but Kirsten told Matthew, bring some MDA, MDMA with you so I can guide you through a psychedelic experience. Uh-huh.

You can ask just about anybody who's familiar with that. that, well, that type of, that drug. That's a sexy time drug. And Heather Amel had had enough when she saw a message saying, I miss you, putting my hand on your heart. She grabbed the phone and wrote back and said, Are you having an affair with my husband?

You took a married man away from his family. Since then, Certsey and Cirston, has admitted the affair, but she's trying to have the case thrown out of North Carolina saying, well, I never fucked him in North Carolina, that ain't the right venue.

Wrong accent. I know, but still. Gosh, she's sleazy. Oh, Kirsten Hill hath no fury like a woman scorned. And since we started out the program with some West Virginia news, oh, wait, what's that, Micah?

Yes. I get it, Micah. I do. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. No, since we started out with some West Virginia news, why not, yeah, why not go here, too? Thank you, Frank. Sent this along to me. Jesus, how can...

Joe, how can we miss you if you won't go away? There's a fierce election battle waging up in Maine. Pepperidge Fam, remembers. where two Democrats are duking it out for the Democratic nomination, one being the present governor of Maine, whom I would be far more inclined to trust than the other dude, the other dude being Graham Platner, the guy with the Nazi tattoo who had a Nazi tattoo for years

and didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, who is kind of, I disagree with me if you will. but he gives me a case of the fettermans because he's out there talking a whole bunch of progressive this and progressive that at the same time that he's got problems you know the Nazi problem I did not see that coming never mind

and you know he's a combat veteran and he got tattoos Nazi tattoo it's the shitstaffel isn't it and i don't think you can say well no that's an unfinished tattoo they just did the two s the two lightning bolt s is from kiss and i never got around to get in the k and the eye put no but uh he's going around at main bragging about his on the ground team and he said uh uh we got we got more people working in main than zoron did in new york not saying but the funny

thing is I heard that in the form of a clip in which I swear it sounded like he said not Zoron but and I heard Sauron that's on me but leaping into the fray comes

Joe to the mansion born oh yes Lord Jesus yes and he formerly endorsed Susan Collins for reallens for reallax

saying And talk up Okay, the case, what was it, Texas, it was talking about hyperbole? This here is some hyperbole. If you lose Susan Collins in the United States Senate, you've lost the soul of America

what it's all about, and I mean that with my heart. I believe that. Oh, Joe! Please shut the fuck up and go the away. Nobody's buying what you're selling, buddy.

I wonder what he has to say about John Fetterman now. Now that John Fetterman has taken up his mantle in the Senate and to the point that we refer to him here now as Kirsten Mansion. The soul of America resides in the body of Susan Collins? Susan Collins who's been

deeply concerned about the activities of nitwit near O'Bitt can never quite bring herself to vote against her Orange Daddy that Susan Collins is the soul of America if the soul of America resides in Susan Collins y'all we're fucked I know I know Lee in New York

saying Joe Manchin is concerned? Yes. But who among those, I mean, granted, granted, and I say this with love, not derision, apparently Maine is New England's answer to West Virginia. Maybe

he thinks he's got some traction up there. One individual responding to the tweet that Frank sent me said, they fucked, didn't they? Oh, I don't even want to think about it? that? I just heard the sound of something slamming shot.

Another individual saying, Incredible, I didn't realize the Republic's spiritual continuity was being held together by Maine's senior senator and a handful of carefully worded statements about being concerned. Just a wildly efficient system we've built where 330 million people hinge on Susan Collins continuing to be very troubled in a bipartisan way forever.

Oh, the responses are precious. to any Dems still saying we need mansion in the tent, this is why we don't. Bought and paid for fossil who washed out endorses bought and paid for washed out fossil. News at 11. And the thing is, she's going after her sixth term as Maine's senior senator.

If she wins, that will mean that when she's done with that term, she will have served in the Senate for 36 years. and I'm no fan of term limits, but I am a fan of moral limits and self-limits. Susie, that's enough, honey. That's enough. As Cromwell once said, for all that you have done, in the name of God, go. Yes, yes, I have, Randy Radar. Oh, you haven't looked at the current two senators from Pennsylvania. Yes, they are. They're nightmares.

Again, that's why we refer to John Fetterman. as Kirsten Manchin. I'm well aware. Susan Collins, Kevin writes in and says, someone should seriously ask Susan Collins if Trump has finally learned his lesson. And by the way, yeah,

Manchin is big here in New England with Maga and NeoLibs. I can't stand him. Oh, Kevin, that may be the most depressing thing I've heard all day that Manchin is big with anybody anywhere. Ew! yuck just wrong bad

I mean I appreciate the knowledge but oh Kevin you just made your humble hostess terribly terribly sad Jesus everything with Joe Manchin is the soul of the Senate if he doesn't get his way

you remember when he and Certsey and Kirsten stood there and grunted and barked about how the Senate wouldn't be the Senate without the filibuster I mean, he was wrong. I'm glad it, you know, it's one of those, you're glad when you're in the minority that you've got the filibuster, not so glad when you're in the majority.

Think of how many things have been stopped, you know? But, and by the way, as we enter the third hour of the program, we are at $5,175 for the April deficit. That's rough. Really rough. and thank you to our kind anonymous internet friend who did a have a show on me. So to make it to the halfway mark, halfway funded,

here with eight programs remaining in April, to find the month halfway funded, we'd have to knock off $2,175 bucks. That's a lot. But it's been a rough year, without a doubt. Let's run over the stress line and see who we got. Hey, welcome to the program.

Well, hello, stranger. She's alive. Oh, shut up. Yes, you know, I'm alive. I mean, you've been looking at my stuff that I posted when I made. Well, no, I didn't post the spoon bread. Oh, spoon. Wait.

Oh, no, no, no. You made spoon bread? You made old school Kentucky spoon bread? Well, I don't know if it was Kentucky spoon bread. bread, but I make, let's see, let me see, the ingredients are cornmeal, flour. Yes, ma'am. Cream corn, old corn, whole kernel corn, egg, condensed milk and sugar. You said cornmeal in there somewhere, didn't you?

Yes. Uh-huh. Yeah. If you look up the Daniel Boone Hotel at Berea College, You will find that the Daniel Boone Hotel's signature dish is old Kentucky spoonbread. Okay. And it's the best thing. I, because there's this, these black women on Instagram that I've been following,

talking about recipes that have disappeared. And I'm like, okay. So, and I've been looking at it. And I'm like, you know, I'm going to try it because, like, you can use that as a dessert or you can, you know, use it. I always thought of it as like, I mean, when I've had it, again, down at Berea, it's more like a, it's almost like a souffle, isn't it? I mean, it's comfy and light. It depends on how many eggs he use. Yes.

And so what I did with it, I did kind of. to do it with a dessert, but mostly because I was hankering black eyed peas. I understand the hanker. And so I was hankering and I'm trying to get it. You know, it's been really tight. And so we, I've been cooking basically from my pantry. And I'm like, okay, what do I have? And I have black I peas.

I had not ham hucks, but ham shanked. Good enough. And there's a good. difference. Oh, there is. I prefer a ham shank over a ham hawk any day. Well, hey, there's more ham. And so that part, that part, that part. And so, and then I had, you know, bell pepper, I had onions, and I had celery and garlic, and I do a saute with the blackout peas and a hamshank and then do, you know, with the chicken broth and, and, you know, know, bouillon and all that.

And I'm like, I'm going to do the spoon bread. And it was one of the easiest dishes I have ever done. And it was so fucking good. I mean, I think next time I want to try it, I mean, because I like sweet, and I know how, you know, you frown on sweet cornbread. But if God had wanted cornbread to be sweet, he would have called it cake. Here we go. But that's, that's, spoon bread is a different animal. and of course

we both know who probably came up with the first with the first batch as a matter of fact so legend says that it was one of Jefferson's enslaved folks is cook

that's you know that's what legend says but you know it was probably something body and more likely somebody enslaved that was you know making the best out of what they got And if it wasn't someone that Jefferson had enslaved, she was someone who Washington had enslaved. In fact, this is a little bit of a divergence.

But when I was growing up every now and then, and this was back when the lunch ladies actually cooked in the schools. He cooked? Oh, my God. This kids today have no clue of the wonderful food that came out when the cafeteria lady actually cooked. Oh, no, no, no, they'd flip out. You know, there was an episode of Bourdain where he went to Leone in France and showed what the kids eat for school lunches there. And, you know, they get, and we're talking about public school,

and these kids get cuisine-level cooking. And Bordane sat down and ate with them. They're like, yeah, we love this food. Are you kidding me? We're French. But once upon a time, once in a time, kids, I don't know about anywhere else, but kids in the South got real live Southern cooking on their lunch trays. Yes.

And the whole point of this diversion is to point out that, and I was just a little kid, and I'd never heard of it, and the lunch ladies would make us a dessert every now and then, and then it was delicious, called chess pie, C-H-E-S-S-Pye. Okay. And I came home, and I, you know, because my mother was my solicitor. of information for all things. Some of the things I asked her about,

which I know she was horrified by. But we had open lines of communication. Mama, what's a queer? Why would you need to know? Because somebody told me I was one today. Because somebody told me I was one today. That was not a, no. I'm sure she cried herself to sleep that night.

but no this day was more anodyne and so I said Mama what's chess pie and she got this big old smile and she said why? Because that was always the first why? I was it because we had chest pie at school today and

I want it forever and she said I don't blame you I love it too and she explained to me that George Washington's cook and you know you can and if you think about it you can imagine that george probably had some elocution problems what with the teeth thing with the teeth thing and so his cook came in and said what would you like for dessert tonight and maybe george was in his cups or maybe george was just too busy with something else

or maybe he'd been smoking the product from his own farm. But he just sort of waved her away and said, just pie. But she heard it as chess pie. And she went back into her kitchen and looked at the folks in her kitchen and says, What in the Sam Hill is chess pie? What's that old white man want? And all the folks in her kitchen said, I don't know. and so she got busy made pie crust and then whipped up a kind of a custard poured it in the pie crust baked it served it to him and he said whatever is this delightful pie and she said just like what you asked for is chest pie and that was the origin of chess pie and i only mention this because

you know in the last couple of weeks especially thanks to j d vance the jd you know, whatever. Oh, my head. I know, I know, I know. So there's been this thing where he decided to unburden himself of his authoritative opinion on the Roman Catholic concept of just war. Did he have, what was his eyedliner at least straight when he did it? Ain't nothing about that boy is straight, honey. You know that.

I mean, was it applied correctly? Let me rephrase that. Was it, you know, was it? I'm waiting for, I'm waiting for the Ramalama ding-dong on that one. Ain't nothing straight about him. That was a good one. Yeah, that was good. Chess war.

It's just war. That's what, yeah, that's what he, that's what the old saint was talking about. It's just war, makes more. So, sorry. I just, I just completely derailed us. at least I didn't take us into the gutter. No, no, much, much, much. No, no, you did not.

No, no, you did not. I mean, it's just, I've been, I've been living in a constant state of fear. You know, you've been talking about, you know, it's been a minute. But, you know, we're going through our own existential crisis here in California with the governor's race. And if the Democrats don't get they shit together and get behind. I, you know, at least just one candidate or what have you, we can literally have two Republicans running for the governorship of the state of California. Yeah, and sometimes, yeah, sometimes that jungle primary can bite you in the ass.

That part. So would you be okay? Would you be okay with Tom Steyer? Not, I know, old white man. I know. It's not even the old white man. at this point, but it's just a fucking billionaire. And, what if he's, what if he's used his billions in the right way?

I mean, he's poured a shit ton into environmental causes. He has, and he has acknowledged and, you know, acknowledged and, you know, as much as a white, rich white man could apologize for investing money in private prisons. And, I mean, look, at this point, I would vote for, you know, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, tell you the truth, Robin, I really would rather have Javier Besetta, but, and he just began to search in the poll since, you know, Swalwell has left the chat. Wait a minute. That's left the chat.

That's precious. No, do please continue. No, no, but it's just, and that's a whole, I was on, um, on Sirius XM the other day, and they, you know, they were asking for people who live in California to call in about the current, I was all Urban View. And it was right, well, there was two times. The first time it was when, you know, it hadn't heard any allegations about Swalwell. And I really still haven't, you know, picked anybody at this point, at that point. because I was like at that point there was eight motherfuckers,

eight, eight, uh, Democratic, you know, people, you know, Democrats running, you know,

for, and I'm thinking to myself, at what point do you stop thinking about yourself and actually think about the constituents and just say, you know what, I don't have enough momentum to beat, I mean,

to beat anybody. And so let me just step down and get behind. somebody is so fucked up that even the California Democratic Party has not endorsed anybody. That's just how bad it is. And then we have, you know, the mayor-oil race. And it's just, I mean, it's constant, I mean, I know who I'm voting for for the mayor in the primary.

And it's Ray Wong. and she's as close as a Mondani as we can get. But, and she, you know what, and she would have had a chance, had my city council person, Nitha Rahman, who I, you know, campaigned, I worked for, I canvass for her, you know, and we had like four progressive members of,

on the city council. And then she decides at the last Bennett to jump into the mayoral race. And so then she, so it's been a mess. So then she spoke, she split the progressive vote on people that were going to endorse. Ray, you know, it's a mess. It is. But the one good thing about the only saving grace about the L.A. mayor mayor, mayor,

is that we don't have to worry about a Republican because this is Jerk, what's his name? he's a reality TV star. And he's like, you know, he's buddy with Joe Rogan and all that. And the only reason why he's entering the mayor race is because his house burned down in the palisades and he wants to blame the black woman. But it's just a mess. And I was really, because Ray would have had a chance at Nitha and Rahman not got into the race. and I've been trying, I've been going to events to ask Nithia a question and my question basically is, or would it be if I ever got a chance to ask the question, would be, you know,

you know, councilman Brahmin, you know, I worked on your campaign and all this, and you're my council member, but in fact, would you, if you do become the mayor of Los Angeles, what is going to happen to our CD4? Because she still has two. two more years on her term. Well, at that point it would be a year she won, which means, you know, in LA's broke, so that means we have to spend millions of dollars on a special election. And we would be, you know, CD4 would be vulnerable to a, you know, a Republican. Because like the guy that she ran again, he was, you know, allegedly a Democrat, but no he wasn't.

So he has name recognition and we have the chance, you know, to lose the strides that we are making. on city council, especially since we had the chance to add two more progressive council members, which would have meant a voting block of six on a 15 member city council. And we could have pulled, you know, other, you know, moderate Democrats over the more progressive, you know, policies for the city of Los Angeles. But now, so, yeah, it's this whole thing right now, but I think I'm more. terrified with what could happen with the Republican

Party. And I know you've been, I know because I know you are who you are, you've been, you know, the one guy, Hilton, who is, you know, he's a maggot. Well, he, I think he, let's see, Hilton has, has been endorsed by, you know, the orange shit

thing, but then the sheriff of, now, of Riverside County. Yeah, with the stunt, with the ballots, and he got his, he got his shit-handed, ass-handed to him subsequent. Yeah, that guy. Yeah, that guy. It's just. Mike's something, isn't it? Bianca or, you know.

Yeah, Bianca. It's one of those things I don't, Bianca, I don't even want to know his name. But I don't know what, I'm just, you know, because it, because of the general, primary, I would vote. I mean, if I wasn't in fear of, I can't do a throwaway vote. You know what I mean? It's like when Barbara Lee and Katie Porter and everybody was running for senator, I voted for Barbara Lee knowing that she wasn't going to win, but I knew a Republican didn't have a chance. Right. This is not, this is a different circumstance. And let me, let me clear, let me get something clear about, because, you know, you hear jungle primary, jungle primary, jungle primary.

But it's just one vote. It's not ranked choice voting, is it? No, no, and I wish it was ranked choice voting. Because that would... But it is not. Yeah, that would make it a little less terrifying. I mean, you know, the... From what I understand, and bear in mind I'm reading local media,

you know people are saying you know Katie Porter might be good but she's apparently hard to get along with yes she is that is that I mean is it was on a is is that true it is it is so it is so true to the point so I'm on a couple of I'm in a couple of clubs right right and we had I was in on Zoom um endorsement thing you know and we interview well I didn't but I listened to, you know, they had set questions, pre-approved questions that we sent to the candidates for governor and it was Katie Porter and all, and the answers that she was giving. So somebody brought up the video of her being horrible to her,

whatever, her staff, right? And instead of taking on it, you know, okay, people have a bad day and you, because I've said things and who hasn't said horrible to, things. It's like, but then you hold yourself accountable. You make a man, you do what you got to do because nobody's perfect. Okay. And we got to get out of this, this idea of a perfect person, perfect politician. Absolutely. But I am curious. I'm sorry. No, she's awful. No, she's awful. She's Amy Klobuchar bad, you know, throwing food at people. Yes. And then,

And I just want to say this because, you know, I'm kind of deeply invested in the idea that a lot of white and even brown and black men need to just step aside. Just sit your ass down. And let the women have a run at fixing this shit. Running thing. It's fixing this shit because it won't be fixed by men. I mean, there are some good men out there. Like, oh, God, my brain is just, there's a young brother that's running for lieutenant governor. And he's amazing.

He was the young, he was the mayor of Stockton. He actually, now this is a black man who became the mayor of Stockton. And if y'all know anything about Stockton. And I don't. then it's like it's basically Stockton is in the Central Valley and not known for insinversity if you get my drift

yeah okay you know you got farm you got farmland you got cat you got ranches cattle and the whole thing this man now he ran and won on what is it universal

what is it? income. I always get it mixed up. UBI. And, yeah. And he won. And he's got universal basic income. Speaking of UBI, that's amazing. Speaking of UBI, this is a day for taking note, do you know who the last president was who suggested UBI?

No. Richard M. Nixon, who died on this day in 1994. Richard Nixon's dead day, Tracy. Dead day. Oh, gee. I haven't called it on a month. Well, I call, oh, I never forget. As a matter of fact,

you know, so when he died, true story. So it was right out, he died right to a couple, I had just moved to the valley, right? And so when he died, my neighbors, I was like kind of rejoicing.

And, of course, I had Republican neighbors. and they were just, it wasn't like I was, you know, throwing parties and all that. I was just like, oh, well. And my neighbor was like, how dare, you know, just got her panties in a bunch about me not caring, not being upset that Richard Nixon was dead.

And see, this was before I became the Tracy that I am now, because if I was the Tracy that I am now, I would have read off a litany of things why Richard Nixon was problematic as far as, you know, as black people, you know, with the strategy and all the things that I now know that Richard Nixon did.

You know, aside from Watergate, that's the only thing I knew about and I didn't know enough about Watergate back then to even, you know, say anything other than was, shouldn't he have been in jail or something like that? But I didn't go there. I just let her go ahead and do her rant. But I cannot believe, 1994

that scene. Yeah, I remember. I remember it primarily because of the disgusting display that American for-profit media put on in marking his passing, and the glowing eulogy of him given by none other than Bill Clinton. But, you know, there's tapes out there in the Nixon Library, for instance. He and Reagan were not fond of each other. But, really?

Yeah. Well, they were both power mad Republicans, you know, from the same state. Yeah, it's true, too. Yeah, worth remembering. Nixon was... California. California threw and through. Yeah.

But there's recordings that Nixon made with... I left. There's recordings that Nixon made in the White House talking to Reagan, and I just happened across him a couple of weeks ago, and it was just nauseating, in which they discussed a recent delegation of leaders from recently freed in terms of autonomy, self-determination, non-colonialism, African countries. And Nixon and Reagan stood there and just guffawed over those men

and made every disgusting racist trope that you can imagine. And just when I read the transcript, and it's disgusting, the first thing that popped into my mind was, well, of course Ronald Reagan opened his 1980 campaign for the presidency not far from the dam in Neshoba County, Mississippi, where the civil rights workers were born. buried after being murdered. Of course he did.

Of course he did. And then he came to the home of the clan in Tuscumbia, Alabama. I mean, these weren't dog whistles. These were full-on foghorns. Foghorns. I just, you know, I've been doing a lot of reading. Well, mostly this be, so I've been going back to the library and using this app called Libby. So here's the thing about in the state of California.

Well, first of all, in the county of Los Angeles, you can go to any library if you're a resident of the county of Los Angeles and get a library card from any of the county, any library in the county of Los Angeles. So we have several. So we have, you know, LA Public Library than the LA County Library. And then we have independent libraries like Beverly Hills and El Salvador and stuff like that. And so there's this wonderful app called Libby. And so you upload, you know, once you get your library card, you go on to Libby and add your library card to the app. And then you search for the book that you want to read. And so, like, for example, I just finished.

Ooh, candy store for me, yeah. Right. Have you heard of a book called Jane? No. It's by, oh my God. So you read, okay, so it's based on Huckleberry Finn, but instead of the N-word Jim, the brother's name is James.

And so you have a whole new take on Huckleberry Finn. And for somebody like you, who I know loves Park Twain, you have to read it. So basically the story is, What if Jim, if Inword Jim was a very highly intelligent black man who knew how to read and write? But we're only, so when he was enslaved, you know, and living around his other enslaved people, he would teach them how to read. Was he clean too? And he was clean, too.

Sorry, you brought that on yourself. I brought that on myself. But so, but when he was around the white folks, he would do, well, yeah. and all that, but when he's around his, you know, his people, he would teach him out of read. And it was just, there's this whole cold switch, he'd think. But it's basically the Huckleberry Finn story told through the eyes of an intelligent black man. So you have, there's stuff that he adds to it, but they did. I started reading that book and I couldn't put it out.

Does he, does he, does he capture the Twain vibe? Huh? Does he capture that whole Twain vibe with the 19th century English? And, yeah. Mm-hmm. And by the way, Reverbo just messaged me and said, I read this. It is outstanding. It is out.

And it was, so the brother that wrote the book, his name is Percival. That's a horrible name to give a black man. I'm like, Percival. But Percival Everett. And he wrote the book, so he wrote this book, Eresher, which they turned it to a movie. Damn it. What was the name of the movie? I just had it on it.

I came out a couple of years ago with our boy, Jeffrey Wright. It was about a highly intelligent black professor who, you know, writes these amazing, you know, academic books that nobody reads. And then he runs into another black author who writes the stereotypical book about black women and stuff. and he's like, well, you know what, if you want that kind of book, I'll write that kind of book. And he was just joking and made up, you know, and people ate. So he wrote this book that he didn't think that it was, that he would, nobody would ever read. And, of course, everybody read it.

It was just, why can I think it's, just look up a book, one of Jeffrey Wright's latest movie, because he was, I think he was actually nominated. It came up the same year with the book, the movie, the movie that came out with our boy, Paul Giamatti, the left over the people that were left at the, at the school in the 70s, the boarding school, the leftover, I can't remember, but anyway, I knew that neither one of them were going to win. I said, well, if Jeffrey Wright doesn't win,

at least as long as Paul Giamatti wins, I'll be fine. But, of course, he didn't win. I think he went to the Irish guy. Oh, yeah. But anyway, the holdovers, the holdovers, the holdovers, the holdovers. Why can't I take it to book? But anyway, Percival Everett is, and if you get a chance to read it. But anyway, so how Libby works.

So say you put a book on hold and then you see all the different libraries that have that same book, and you put it on hold at each library. And whichever library comes up first, you get the book. It is the most wonderful thing. So they have, you could do audiobooks. So what I've been doing, because I have all these books that I haven't read, but they have the audiobooks. And so for me, I read along in the hardcover of the book or the, you know, the hard copy of the book

and listen to the audio book at the same time. And so at this point, I've read, just this week I've read two books. I read this book called The Vanishing Half About two black women that were born in Louisiana In like the 40s And one passes as You know It decides to pass this fight

And the other one decides to stay black That was an amazing book And then there was the book that I just finished Called If I Rule the World About So what I've been doing, I've been reading books primarily about by black women or just black authors in general, but mostly by black women.

Because I'm like, I've read so many white authors. I'm like, I wanted to vote this whole year just to read about, you know, black women, about black liberation. I've been reading a lot of James Cohn and just about queer liberation. I'm trying, I'm trying to stay sane right now and try to, you know, because everything, I'm trying not to be that person that the whole world is going to shit, but it's kind of hard not to be that person and I've been doing a whole struggling with my faith. And plus a bitch is turning 60 and I really don't feel like I've really done a lot with my life.

And I think that's probably a lot of what's going on with me. I just can't seem, you know, as 60 years old, you think that you should know what you want to be when, but do it the rest of your life, but I don't really, I still haven't figured that shit out yet. Well, let me just say, you know, as a child, we start asking kids, what do you want to be when you grow up? And kids feel this pressure to, you give some sort of an answer. I want to be a fireman. I want to be a nurse. Yeah, I want to be a mommy.

it's okay. Someone should tell the little ones it's okay to say, I don't know, because you're six. I don't know. And you know what? It's also okay to say that at 60. Well, you know what?

Since I've been reading more that I've had in years, I've actually, I'm actually starting to do more journaling. And I've been starting on my book. Good. And so I'm like, okay. And I've got like two, chapters.

Because I'm like, I think the best thing for a person to do is just when you can't, you know, say the words that just, what is it just right? And you know what else I've been doing? Because I just start talking in a stream of consciousness and just dictate. Because sometimes I can, I can, my brain talking works faster. than my brain writing. And, you know, when you, especially for me, when I start to write, I get, you know, oh, is that, am I selling the word correctly?

Or am I doing this? But it's been, you know, dictating a lot of stuff. Because I'm like, I am actually, you know, I don't know if I'm scared about turning 60 or what it is, but, I mean, how did you feel when you turn 60? It may just be nuts for me to say this, but my birthday falls in the dead of winter in West Virginia. Okay. Most of my birthdays are spent trying not to freeze my white little ass off. And then here I am, crybaby birthday in July.

I mean, you'll get to complain about the heat. You'll get to complain about the heat. it'll be hot as fuck but it's a dry heat but it's a dry heat it's a dry heat right okay now this is a math thing

aside from the winter you know it's aside from the fucking winter in West Virginia which I can't even wrap my head around I find snow and cold disrespectful in a halfway

serious answer to your question 60 was not a big deal because that still meant I was in my fifth decade of life. Right. I was still, I'm sorry, I was still in my sixth decade of life before Lee in New York corrects me. 61 means you have entered your seventh decade of life. Yeah, because nobody starts counting at zero. That's right. So you got one more year.

Make it count. Before the crazy sets in and, you know, but aside from that, enough of the pity party. But no, I mean, it's okay to do that kind of self-examination. I heartily believe in it. It's, well, you know, Plato said the unexamined life is not worth living, and that means there's a lot of people out there who don't have lives worth living because they never think about it, you know. It's the old joke.

Like the Republican Party? rich white men? Yeah, well, yeah, especially the billionaires who haven't figured out that they don't hook U-Hauls up to Hurses. Leon Scum, Peter Thiel. Hell, Peter Thiel thinks he's the second coming of Jesus. Yeah, doesn't he think, yeah. Motherfucker, you are not getting up after three days in the dirt. No, you are not, bitch. No, boo? And by the way, you got a note from Jimmy in the Great Northwest.

who said, I'll be 64 in June, 60, the new 45. Okay. And you know what, it's true, if you look at old photos of 60-year-olds, 60 years ago. Ooh, baby. Even in color, they are ancient. You know, and I have to say, when I tell people, you know, that I'll be 60 this year, I get this look like you're going to be how old?

Yeah, because I'm black. You don't look at. No. And when I think about I'm like, yeah, bitch, you're going to be 60, but I don't have near a wrinkle, near a wrinkle. And I think that's one of the things because I don't look 60.

And no one in my family has ever. Well, my grandmother, my dad's mom, it looked her age. But then again, she was born during the Great Depression, you know, and all the things. And I've been, I look in the mirror and I'm like, I don't look 60. I don't look anywhere near 60. Even in black people's years, I don't look 60. but it's it's it's it's hard you know because you know my mom's been calling me

because I was going to do this whole cruise thing and all the things but of course you know finances and all that so my mom's been calling me so what are you going to do for your birthday and I'm like I don't know I don't want you to apply not doing anything but but then I'm like you know what I'm going to keep it simple I have a friend her name is Monique and what she's been doing she turned 40 this year so she was born in 1980s No, but she's been, you know, she's an introvert, but what she's been doing is pretty much every, not every day, but she's been just planning events for the whole month of April. Like the other day, we went and saw, they will kill you, which was amazing.

We went to this, this event at this movie theater, and it was called, it was, it was, the greatest, you know, black TV shows in the last 30 years. And they chose, like, even though Grace's Anatomy, but they chose Grace Anatomy because at the beginning it had a lot of black folk. And it was Shonda Rhimes and stuff. But it was Martin, the First Prince of Bel Air, Abbott Elementary, girlfriends, holes, one more show. And so you had to defend, so the two shows went head to head.

and you had to defend it. And then the person that, you know, that won over the crowd, they went on to advance until we crowned the best show in the last 30 years. And believe it or not, it turned out to be posed. But it was just so, so we did that, we've done, there's just so many things that, you know, we do. And I'm like, that's bigger what I'm going to do for July. I'm going to find a bunch of events that I want to go to.

And if anybody wants to join me, they can do. but I will That's a great idea That is a great idea Yeah So that's what I'm going to do I'm going to go You know

And If I were you I would treat I would treat myself All month long Go to all the plate Go to all the eateries

That you love And that's what I'm going to do And that is what I'm going to do So for my birthday There's a Mexican Restaurant Calaveras And they have a very

Amazing Sunday brunch that is not overpriced. It's like, so I think if you don't, and what I like about them, if you don't get the unlimited mimosas, then it's like $25 for the grudge. What is the,

if you decide to get unlimited, yeah. Huh? I was going to say, what are the unlimited remotions take it to? 40? Huh? Like 35, 40?

Yeah. It's that. I think 35. I just, and so. Unlimited mimosas, you know, I love Mexican food, but if I've got unlimited mimosas, I'm raising the odds, and well, there goes dinner in the Mountain Daylight Time Zone. I'm raising the odds of seeing it again. Well, that's why you have the option.

That's why I like the fact that they have the option, because a lot of places, it's the same amount of money regardless of whether you get the mimosas or not. and they have a really good bar, and they have some of the best margaritas. Mm-hmm. They just, and they do, like, they'll have, you know, they have the hot food, but then one of my favorite things that they do, they do, you know, fresh chilaquilis to order, and then they have the taco bar and just all the things.

Oh, hurt me. really just just really good food and the staff is amazing and I'm like, okay, I'll just do that.

I'm going to start this. So my birthday's on the 21st and of course it falls on a Tuesday. So I'm going to just plan it for the 19th. And just like I said, just do things throughout the month of July. As a matter of fact,

my friend Monique, She is one of the things that we're doing. We're going to go see this play. And she is her treat for me. We're going to go see this movie, not movie, I'm sorry, a musical called Mexico. And it talks about underground railroad, the Mexicans that help black people escape into Mexico. Oh, wow. Thank you.

So we're going to go see that. So now I'm just going to decide. Talk about it. Talk about an untold history. Everything Underground Railroad is we're going to get you to Canada. Right. No, we're talking Mexico. And I'm very, very, very, very excited about that.

I just, I know I need to celebrate me because it's very, I find it very difficult to celebrate me. And I have been in such a state of just like I don't give a fuck. but then I started cooking it in and I, you know, I'm pretty sure you saw my first attempt to make bread and even though it didn't rise as high as I wanted it to rise, that shit was still good. It was still, yeah, yeah. Didn't wind up in the trash or thrown out in the yard, no.

Oh, by the way, on a somber note, I don't know how much you've been listening, but I wanted to pass this along because I know it'll matter to you. We can, well, two weeks ago, I found out much to my grief that Sister Carol Baker had passed on. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. Carol was a badass.

Wow. Oh, man. No, I hadn't hurt. And I haven't really been. Wow. I get it. No, I just thought, I figured you'd want to know. And didn't mean to bring the conversation around.

No, no, no. I mean, Carol was a force to be reckoned with. Anybody with the nerves to start a, anybody with the nerves to start a blog calling herself opinionated bitch? Yeah. That part. So what is she, you know, what happened? Was it an illness or? She got a, she got a really horrified, and this is all secondhand, but she got a truly horrifying.

but she got a truly horrifying case of shingles and went septic. Oh, my God. So get your shingles vaccine. I don't care if it makes you feel like shit. I haven't, but I got to get. I don't care if it makes you feel shitty for a couple of days. Get your shingles vaccine. No, no, no, no.

I literally just got a thing from my pharmacy saying that even though I got the shingles. that even though I got the shingle vaccine when I turned 50, I guess you need another one now or something like that? Like a booster or what have you? This one is a two-stage. It's not a booster. I got the same one you're talking about, but it doesn't, it's not as effective.

And this two-stage one is like 90-plus percent effective. I don't care what whalehead dead bear brainworm, whalehead dead bear Voschbear brainworn Lamprey says But along those lines Just a little piece of news Because Jesus Christ The DUI hire Whiskey Pete Kegbreath

Has zeroed out canceled The requirement that members of the United States military Get the flu vaccine The fucking flu vaccine Tracy Oh, my God. You know, my brother Solomon, you know, he did his, he was in the Air Force and he did his full 20 and was going to reenlist to do, you know, he had basically planned on staying in the Air Force forever, right?

Yeah. But when they were going to send him back to, I think I told you this years ago, so he was, he sent, he's a contracting, right? and so they sent him to Iraq he was in one of Saddam palaces and he got up to go smoke a cigarette

and just as he walks out but IED and blows up his desk and had he not gone out to smoke a cigarette we would I would not have a brother today

right and so when he was, you know, because he was thinking, you know, they would either put him in recruitment or, you know, whatever. And they were going to send him back to Iraq. And he's like, fuck you very much, I'm out. And because it's, let's see, he left the military, he left the airport in 2006. And he was, more than likely, he would have still been in. and when all this stuff

started happening with, you know, the drunken loser um, I, every day when we talk, not every day, but whenever we talk, I'm like,

I am just so glad that you are no longer than the military. Because, baby. Yeah, well, this is some straight up crazy shit, some news broke during the program,

Tracy, that, But John Phelan, who is a businessman and doesn't know the bow from a stern of a seagoing vessel, Nitwit Nero picked him to be the Secretary of the Navy, got confirmed by the Senate and everything. And lo and behold, just a few minutes ago, an hour or so ago, he got shit canned. The Secretary of the Navy got shit canned and has been replaced by this. and I mean he's a nut job is being replaced

in an in an active or in an acting capacity a Virginia dude named hung cow and he ran for office in Virginia and I mean nuttier

nuttier than a Christmas fruitcake among other things back when he was running for Senate in Virginia, he gave an interview in which he declared that your beloved state, Californiae, has been taken over by witchcraft and the Wiccan community. And so what? I mean, there's the so what of it, but also have they shut down all the churches? And it's just a bunch of women walking around, you know, smudging the entire state of California

with burning sage in an act of profound cultural appropriation from indigenous groups? No. Right. No. No. So that's your acting secretary of the Navy, the guy who thinks California has been taken over by witches. At what point are people going to say enough? At what point, and I know we have the midterms coming up, and, you know, there's been some decisive wins for Democrats. and I'm excited about that.

How for never. The bottom line is the Democratic Party needs to do more than, well, we're not Trump. That's not enough. Get people out there who, especially, you know, I'm not talking about the, and stop wasting time talking to maggots.

You know, we need to be, you know, it's not going to get, how many people did not show up to vote at all? Was it 98 million people? Oh, it was hard. some horrifying number but that's you raise a valid concept stop wasting wasting time talking to maggots the hardcore cancer is not of them whether it's 25% or 33% are never going to give up you know like that story i had at the beginning of the program all those maggot men who were horny maggot men opening their wallet sending money to a mag a beautiful young maggot girl who would

send them dirty pictures of herself and she turns out to be an AI she turns out to be an AI run by a medical student in India to the tune of thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars

so you know better minds than mine will sort this out but I mean you know where I live and and it there's some real cognitive disconnect for me.

I know people who voted for Trump, and they'll give you the shirt off their back. That's, you know, my mom and I try, you know, because you know where my mom lives, she lives in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and, you know, and those people, she goes to an evangelical church with the white folks. She's the darkest thing up in there,

and they just love my mother. and I point out to her, I'm like, you know because you're one of the good ones, right? Yeah, it reminds me. It reminds me of the generally sweet, salt of the earth, genteel, southern lady who grew up next to. And when I first brought, and, you know, she took me to church and everything. and when I first brought my young family home, she came over, wanted to see me and all that, and introduce her to, you know, that and the kids.

And at one point she said, well, you simply have to come to church. Do you know, I mean, we have black members now. And she said it, she said it. And they clean, wait. And they clean to. Yes. And she said it with such innocence, you know,

You know, I mean, all my talking over the years about dinner down in the fellowship hall on Wednesday evening, come from that church, and I mean, that food was fan-fucking-tastic. And I just, do you let them eat in the fellowship hall, too? I mean. What did I got to go around the back? Yeah, round the back. If you're smart, you'd be letting them cook. That part.

I mean, spoonbread. Just five. Boom bread. Cepi. Come on now. Now you've got to look up a recipe for chest pie. But the thing is... I'm actually going to try to make pie from scratch.

Go ahead. Ooh, girl, you're going to make your own pastry dough? Yes. Okay, so you're going to do one of two things. You're either going to go to a kitchen store and pay a Princess Ransom for the pie crust. They're like little marbles. and when you blind bake your crust before you put the filling in it, you put that in there to keep the crust from popping up.

Or you can do the hillbilly and other po-folks way, and you can get you a one-pound bag of brown beans or whatever. Don't soak them or anything. Put them in there, and they'll do the same trick. And you can... I'm going to go with the pole. Yeah, you can use them over and over again. Just put them in a container that says do not cook.

Because brown beans that have been used to blind beans that have been used to blind bake pie crust do not. Oh, they do not soak and cook up well at all. No. Because I'm not a big fan of apple pie, but Jan is. So I'm thinking of doing, you know, the apple pie with a crumble. what is the french apple now i will fuck up a french apple i love french apple i'm thinking about me but you know when you're going when you're going to that trouble

if there's somewhere where you can go and just get it and you know it's going to be better than you can make find a recipe that you know that you're going to be able to make as good or better than something that's for sale in a restaurant for instance chess pie look it up chest pie i will so here's an article to this pie up in my feet with Swalwell's scandalous implosion, Xavier Buffetta surges in race for California governor.

This is by CalMatters. Ten days ago, Congress member Eric Swalwell, was getting very close to becoming a Democratic candidate for governor of California, but then he imploded amidst sensational accusation of sexual harassment and assault. Within hours of the revelation, Swalwell abandoned his campaign and then resigned from Congress and it's now under criminal investigation. Ooh, does that remind? I mean, I guess we died to bullet.

I'm thinking of John Edwards. Yeah, I just, yeah, I just don't, I don't get it, Tracy. I mean, it's not like, okay. What's not supposed to these motherfuckers bet it? I'm going to say, I'm going to say, you know, I got my feelings hurt with Swalwell because I had respected him because he was one of the first to sign on to the Appalachian Community's Health Emergency. Act, the ACAC Act.

Oh, yes, she was. And so I'm like, okay, you get it. You care about, you care about marginalized communities in Appalachia, you know, that you don't find that every day in Congress. You don't find from California at that.

Come on. But at the same time, it reminds me of how we felt about Bobby Kennedy. Oh, he came down here and blue smoke up our skirts and and told us, you know, I'm going to go and tell that Barack

Obama that he needs to stop this mountain top removal. It's in the movie that we helped him make, he says that. Right. Oh, and didn't he tell, he hit on everybody with a skirt on or would have hit on you if you were wearing a skirt at the time? Well, I mean, not at the time, but yeah, fair enough. He hit on people that I know and care about, and it was gross and creepy. But, yeah.

So it looks like, you know, we were talking about, so check this out. The latest tracking post, the Democrats, we released on Monday, revealing that the two Republicans, former TV commentators, Steve, he tells us, yeah, that makes him, you know, a great candidate for choice for governor. And Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco are still leading the pact, 16 and 14%. However, the big news was that Bassetta has shot up from 4% on April 5th

to 13% popping all Democrats. Both Steyer and Porter gained slightly in the post-Swallow wealth shakeout, but Bassetta rise is nothing less than phenomenal. Why? He'd be a good one. He'd be a good one.

I mean... Have Swahwell disillusion supporters too? Yeah, no. Yeah, yeah. He would be, he would be an amazing governor. So now, okay, I'm feeling a bit, boy, you know, if that I will feel comfortable. But vote, we're casting my vote for him on, you know, because our ballots for the primary come,

we should be getting them on like May the 5th or so. I was hoping that we get them on May the Fourth, so May the Fourth be with you. Yeah, I know, I know, I know. I'm not, I can be kind of a nerd, you know, what does they call it, a blurred? Yes. Anyway, for those who,

I forget that I'm talking to smart people, so I know y'all figure that out. But, but there's still, you know, there's still things because we still, you know, we've got to worry about, we still got to worry about these Republicans. So what I guess I'm hoping is that more people, so at this point, I'm going to donate to, because like I said, I wasn't going to vote for Katie Porter. And if I had to choose between Porter and Steyer, I was going to vote for Steyer.

Didn't want to. Because the thing, so, you know, the problem with Steyer is he, he was, part of, you know, and, you know, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to, you know, I've heard because, you know, I'm still relatively new to LA politics, but definitely the California politics. But apparently at one point, Zaire backed a lot of progressive candidates with his money and stuff like that or what have you. And so there's the people that are upset within the community that instead of him running for governor, he should have just put his money behind, you know, progressive candidate.

Quite possibly, yeah. Yeah. I want to go back to that dude. I want to go back to that dude hung cow for a minute. Hung cow. Is he Asian? Yeah, he was born in Saigon. Okay.

Okay. You know, Ho Chi Men City now. Eventually became an American citizen, served in the U.S. military. as enlisted personnel, foreign nationals are not allowed to actually be officers in the United States military. I had no idea. But one of his buttons for his profoundly failed Senate campaign read, Hung Cow, U.S. Senate,

I want my senator to be hung. So that kind of... Oh, no! That kind of tells you that this guy's probably a creep. And I mentioned the quote earlier, I want my senator to be hung. And that doesn't mean... Because, you know, there's a grammatical difference

between hanged and hung. Exactly. Hanged is the past tense of hang, as in execute. Exactly. Hung is a colloquial reference to a man's junk. And the size thereof. In Blazing Saddle, they said you were hung. So we've actually got the audio here, Tracy, of the witch's comment.

And that's so crazy, you just kind of want to play it so people can know that no, that he'll be. that hillbilly elitist didn't just make this up there's a place um in monterey california called lover's point yeah the original name was lovers of christ point but now it's become they took out the christ it's lover's point and it's really monterey is a very dark place now yeah a lot of witchcraft and the the the the wican community has really taken over there and we can't let that happen to virginia virginia is i mean especially down down in roanoke they're god-loving people right richmond too and and Virginia Beach, and we just need to mobilize Christians across the nation. Well, the Christians apparently didn't mobilize, Tracy,

because he got his ass handed to it, to him. But then he got a cushy position as assistant secretary of the Navy. And there's an open question whether he's even eligible to serve in the role as Secretary of the Navy. But the thing that's disturbing out of this most of all is that, You know, John Phelan was a dyed-in-the-wall maggot. You know, what daddy wants, daddy gets. And if he left because of the illegal acts of the United States Navy, and they are, we're committing piracy on the high seas.

We have for a while now. Right. That tells you something when even the maggots are going like, no, I can't do this. But this is also after Whiskey Pete. got rid of the secretary of the army because he's got a hard on for every for all branches of the service because of the fact that he got written up when he was a commissioned officer in the united states navy he got written up as being a a possible domestic threat to the president

of the united states oh my god okay yeah but i got to get out of here Um, your dog's barking. I just, I just heard the gold, I just heard the golden one telling me to clock out. Right. And I, and I, and I, and I, and I'm so good to hear from, it's so good to hear from you. So, so good. Yeah. It's good to be heard from.

And, you know, um, like I said, I'm going to bake something this weekend. I've been baking every weekend. I just didn't do a pulp picture of the, of the spoonbread. But, um, I, I'm either going to make a pie or a lemon cake. Oh, any dessert with lemon in it. I'm there for it. I did a thing this weekend. I'm kind of proud of this.

Last Friday, I did my first pork shoulder of the new barbecue in season. Came out fantastic. Nice. And then I got hit by a bolt of inspiration, got some croissant dough, and put it in the waffle iron, and made, get this, pulled, pork barbecue croffles. It's. I know, right? Seriously?

Yes. Well, before I go, forget. So I made a corn, meal, lemon pout cake. Ooh, that sounds dirty. Well, because, like I said, there's this woman, and I'll send you her Instagram, and so she's

all through Black History Month, she was making recipes that were lost, you know, because we're fortunate that we have big mamas, you know, and all this, but this upcoming generation, they don't have big mammas. You know, they don't have great grandparents and grandparents that were born during this depression and handed down recipes, you know, because everybody, a lot of people don't write down recipes. It was just by taste and feel and stuff like that. So she did all through Black kids three months. She found forgotten recipes that were, you know, in the black community.

And so, you know, because cornmeal was cheaper than flour. And so, you know, you use what you have, they date. And I did it with a lemon glaze frost. Oh, my God. Yeah. It was probably one of the best things that I've made in a long time. So, yeah, every weekend I've been baking. I think this weekend I'm going to make bread.

and the next thing. And I'm going to make my own lunch meet. Yes, absolutely. Well, hon, you have a wonderful evening out there. Are you still driving and stuff? I'm actually. I just got home. I pulled into my driveway.

I am going into my house and I'm going to read whatever book that I'm reading. And just chill. I've been reading so much that I haven't been watching television, which is shocking for me. That's kind of a cool thing. Yeah. Yes, it is. That part.

Well, the Odyssey is coming out on July the 17th, so I've been steeping myself in various analyses of the Trojan War. Ooh. Yeah, nerd girl. Oh, that's like that is coming up. Yeah. Okay. Nerd girl. 30.

Nerd girl. All right. You take care, Tracy. Bye. Wow. So good to hear from Tracy. It's been a while. Thanks, everybody.

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