Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 27 March 2026, Friday-On-the-Front Porch

Episode Date: March 28, 2026

Y'know what? When the MAGATS and Centrists agree that bad things are gonna happen in the Persian Gulf, look for a soft place to land. Things are totally sideways among the MAGATS.  ...

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Starting point is 00:00:01 The password is chisel. Here we go, live from behind the corn phone curtain. It's head-on with Roxanne Kincaid. Three hours of cussin and discussing 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.
Starting point is 00:00:49 And now, from high in the hills of West by God, Virginia, here she is. Roxanne Kincaid. Well, howdy. And here we go, off and running on this 27th day of March, 2006. Happy birthday to my littlest. Happy birthday to the doodle. And she, my goodness gracious, she's 29 today. how the dot time does fly.
Starting point is 00:01:31 But yeah, this is the 27th of March, 2006. This is the Horn. Head-on. Dot Live is where you'll find us on the interweb tubes. That's where you go if you'd like to be part of the Merry Wacky Zany, real-time Madcap multimedia extravaganza. That is the Horn chat room in the three hours in which this program is live, Monday through Friday, 5 to 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 2 to 5 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
Starting point is 00:01:54 All times in between and the Great Globe round, and whatever time it is when you're listening to the podcast. For those of you who share your time with us via the podcast, thank you so much for doing so. I hope you enjoy the time you spend with us, and maybe you'll tell your friends, neighbors, and whatnot. Or even better, make sure you're subscribed wherever it is. You download the podcast.
Starting point is 00:02:18 And, well, leave us a comment now and then, a review, a remark. Like I said, wherever you download. and help build the community. Hi, I'm Roxanne. If you're listening live, well, over in the aforementioned Mary Wacky Zaney, that's just ralpsing me right now. Let's see here. I've got to do this again.
Starting point is 00:02:59 Well, I'll do, no, I'll do that later. A reminder, though, the old chat room goes away as of April 1st. So there's an invite link on the chat room page. Make sure you click it, fill it out. Sylvie, if you're out there, hopefully you've been admitted to the old holler tree now. So fingers crossed going forward, and we'll see how it works out. however is Friday on the front porch, our end of the week roundtable discussion that takes place in the old holler tree that we sublet from the Keebler elves, wherein we gather around the aforementioned extraordinary ordinary roundtable each and every Friday to cuss and discuss and head into the weekend.
Starting point is 00:03:51 Of course, tomorrow is no kings Saturday. I'm hoping the weather is cooperative enough and I get to go to. to the No Kings protest in rally, rally protest. But yeah, in Fayetteville, fingers crossed, like I said. It's at noon. You may have heard my conversation with Miss Addy in yesterday's program. I have a feeling there will be a decent turnout in Fayetteville and really hoping for decent weather. Yeah. But every program here at the horn begins with gratitude, and this program is no difference, so consequently thanks go out to our 27th day of the month subscribers and contributors via PayPal.
Starting point is 00:04:40 And that means thank you to, wait a minute, yeah, no, okay. So, right, there are no subscribers for the 27th day of the month. and that means that our fundraising deficit with three days remaining in the month of March to finish the said month of March fully funded is at $2,500. We finished up last night, $95 short of Charlie's challenge. What did Charlie over at APS Radio News say about? unmatched humor. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:27 There's $95 to go on that. Well, thank you, kind anonymous internet friend. Now there aren't. No, no, nope, that's been met. So, yeah, we'll take that. Then that goes down to $2,400. Mm-hmm. Yes.
Starting point is 00:05:52 Thank you. Thank you very kindly. So 24-5-3, that's 8. We need to raise $800 a program today, Monday and Tuesday. Tall order, but let's see if it works out. Jeremy asking, are you admitting if it rains or snows, you won't be at No Kings Day? It's because of your hair, just like Daddy, isn't it? No, no, it's more, well, you know, I'm so sweet.
Starting point is 00:06:20 If I get rained on, I melt. No. No, I just figure if it rains. Nobody else is going to show up either. I don't know. I'm looking at the forecast even now just to see what we can expect tomorrow. Let's see. Oh, well, noon tomorrow, sunny skies, 37 degrees.
Starting point is 00:06:48 I know we've just been through a brutal-ass winter, so I know how to bundle up and stay warm. So that's a good harbinger. I am, of course, back in the fabulous horn studios at the magnificent Kincaid Mansion, and I sure did hate leaving Parkersburg today and leaving Victoria. Miss her already. I think I started missing her as soon as I drove out of her house. But at any rate, at any rate, March is marching to a close. We'll see if it goes out like a lamb or out like a line.
Starting point is 00:07:26 I'd be really in favor of out like a lamb. And possibly, at least here, the forecast for Tuesday, is partly sunny skies and 77 degrees. And then, of course, April 1st, April Fool's Day, a 70% chance of rain. Oh, joy. But at any rate, oh, there's Chi Wu. and Ralph's, yeah, thank, yeah, yay.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Good to see you both. And for the challenge, yeah, thank you, Ralphs. Thank you very kindly. So, oh, the password. Well, and Lee says, I'll be at no kings. Rain will not keep me away. Despite rumors, I am not the wicked witch of the West and will not dissolve in water.
Starting point is 00:08:26 Yeah. Well, I was expecting Jeremy or somebody to say, hey Roxanne salt melts too I've come to there are certain things I've come to expect from the juvenile delinquent contingent of the Horn family community congregation
Starting point is 00:08:41 I bet yours will be a real big one Lee hopefully come Monday we can get a get a no king's report from you and from people all around the country and I mean I'm sure
Starting point is 00:08:57 for instance Cynthia in the Bay Air area will go to one. They will happen all over the, and like I said, talking to Adi last night, there were five million at the last one. I would not be surprised if there are seven or ten for this one, because it seems undeniable that the nation is turning on nitwit, Nero, and that brings us to the password. namely and to wit chisel
Starting point is 00:09:35 word has come out that once again norms mean not norm mean nothing to this gang of filthy fascists and so breaking with decades upon decades upon decades of tradition Scott Besant the Treasury Secretary
Starting point is 00:10:04 has announced that Daddy's signature will be on all the money that starts getting printed in I think June all denominations of paper currency will bear nitwit Nero's clan rally signature and the reason
Starting point is 00:10:27 for the password chisel is that I suggest you go out now and get your chisel-tipped sharpie because there may be a run on them. Tens of millions of Americans may go out and buy chisel-tipped sharpies or even the markers that you can. Do they still make those?
Starting point is 00:10:57 The ones that are like, oh, wow, you know, get you a little bit. They always gave me a headache. But at any rate, there's going to be a lot of defaced currency. I suspect, over the coming months and year, until we can rest control of the government away from these fascist ghouls. Hopefully send a bunch of them to prison. But get your chisel-tipped Sharpie now, so you can just take it and go and blot out NITWITNRO's name on the money.
Starting point is 00:11:41 It won't affect the value. And kind of hard to identify who's doing that. And after all, you know, people have been stamping things on money for a long time, Bible verses and whatnot, or warnings against, ah, I, the chem trails, what have you, yeah. So, yeah, get yours now before there's a run on chisel-tipped sharpies. That having been said, yeah, by the way, it is Friday on the front porch, and, well, in about an hour, 45 minutes or so,
Starting point is 00:12:31 we'll go over the river and through the woods to the old holler tree. And new voices are always welcome for Friday on the front porch. So maybe think about popping by. Okay, this is weird. Which show, Roxanne. I don't often find myself in agreement with that nasty Christo-Nazi punk Eric Prince, but, well, this is one of those at least concur in part, dissent in part sort of situations.
Starting point is 00:13:14 as I mentioned yesterday, the CPAC goons who used to meet in D.C. are now meeting in Grapevine, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. And things aren't going exactly according to Hoyle. Lee, well, back to No Kings for a second, Lee says, I'm going to McDonald Park in Forest Hills. It's not named for a clown. It's named after a World War I veteran. There was a sizable participation last time. Good deal.
Starting point is 00:14:05 Pictures are always welcome. You can even upload them at Discord if you want to and share them with the community. Jeremy says, I only get my Illuminati updates off of paper currency, especially the eye at the top of the pyramid, right? No, but back to this strange sense of accord. Things that I have talked about here
Starting point is 00:14:42 a couple of weeks ago, by the way, we are a full, four-week calendar month of our stupid, insanely expensive, illegal, idiotic, shameful war against Iran. Mm-hmm. Yeah, this is day 28. How about that? oh and back to the back to that signature tom and sunny san raphael says all the more reason to pay by card that too i'm hoping though that i'm hoping though that those things will begin circulating with his name blanked out of it just as a matter of civil disobedience and resistance and then if we can rest our government away from these filthy fascists,
Starting point is 00:15:47 we can Domnato Memorii the orange shit stain, and wouldn't that be fantastic? That incredible marker scent, hi Sylvie. Being visually impaired as a child, I fondly remember those markers. My teachers would rewrite my lessons in that heavenly aroma. contact high long before turn on tune in drop out i still have one in my desk door sanford deluxe permanent markers and wasn't another el marco wasn't that another brand
Starting point is 00:16:27 but yeah sanford was one long may they wave says sylvie yeah just don't operate heavy machinery after being around one of those things Woo. Billable with a note. Roxanne, stop making fun of Kim Trail believers.
Starting point is 00:16:46 It's well known that aliens from another planet regularly release chem trails into the atmosphere to terraform the earth into a planet more to their liking. Of course they do, Billable, Rick. Of course they do. You know, you need to come onto the front porch. It's been a long time since you were on the front porch, Billable.
Starting point is 00:17:08 But no, back to this weird sense of accord. I started talking about what a nightmare it would be for the American people. If one of our, say, nuclear carriers were to become a missile magnet, it only takes a couple to get through, and that would really screw up the stretch. Straits of Form moves. Can you imagine trying to clean up a nuclear accident site? Yeah. So that was me
Starting point is 00:17:54 two, three, four weeks ago. The fact that, yeah, you don't want Americans, well, not since the Second World War have we seen U.S. naval vessels go to the bottom of the briny deep. But now, you know, again, because here in this community we're so far out in front of the ahead of the curve it's like we're on straight road
Starting point is 00:18:20 some others are catching up and like I said I don't often find myself in agreement with a nasty little fascist like well Eric Prince but
Starting point is 00:18:40 there he was warning the attendees at CPAC and this you know this would have been unthinkable under any circumstance in Nitwit Niro's first term
Starting point is 00:19:03 but here's here are people openly and these are you know these are these are his people openly disagreeing with nitwit Niro's choice to go to war
Starting point is 00:19:16 and so Eric Prince in particular mentioned the possibility of trouble in paradise vis-a-vis the United States Navy. This is day 38th of the war. Eric Prince, what do we do now? 28. I counseled as loud as possible against doing this in the first place. We face a extremely difficult challenge. The Iranians learned their lesson from what happened to Iraq.
Starting point is 00:19:54 Decapitation of the leadership structure of the Iraqi army. The Iranians have done the exact same thing. There's 31 different military districts. All clear direction given to those 31 commanders is to continue to wage war against whoever they can with whatever they can. That's why you've had so many strikes across the GCC. That's all kind of entrepreneurialism. The only person that can counterman that order is the Supreme Court. leader.
Starting point is 00:20:23 Not the president, not their foreign minister, not their chief of the military, only the Supreme Leader. And we've killed the Supreme Leader now, his father, his wife, his sister, other family members in an ancient society. The dipshits actually applaud
Starting point is 00:20:43 for killing the Supreme Leader, his wife, his family, his children. Yeah, there's still a bloodthirsty bunch of mongrels, but they don't understand what Eric Prince is trying to get across to them. And how about that? So now we can add to the whatever remains of the Pentagon advising against doing this.
Starting point is 00:21:09 I think General Raisin may have done the same thing. Now you add the head of one of the largest mercenary groups in the world saying, I said don't do this. I said, don't do this. But of course, from what, last week, we remember that Nittwebnero said, Yeah, but Whiskey Pete here was one of the first ones to say, let's do it, dude! That's what happens when you turn over the Department of Defense in the Pentagon to, at best, a dry drunk. I think he's a wet drunk myself.
Starting point is 00:21:52 Society that understands blood oath. So I don't share the optimism of the administration that there's going to be a peaceful stop to this. They will burn it down. And my real concern is that if they try to put boots on the ground, force the Straits of Hormuz, you will see imagery of burning American warships in the next couple of weeks. And I don't think people are really prepared for that. the level the U.S. military
Starting point is 00:22:24 for two years try to bomb the hell out of the Houthis and to open the Red Sea and the Babelmandab and it didn't work and to think that we're going to force that on the IRGC that's prepared for this moment for the last 46 years I am extremely concerned
Starting point is 00:22:41 so I would look Iran doesn't have an independence day because they've not really been conquered since Alexander the Great I would stop with a very conventional approach and go to a very unconventional approach. There's a lot of doors that can be unlocked through the different ethnic minorities. For all the talk of regime change, there's never been a real preparation of an armed opposition inside the country, and a lot of ways to do that from the periphery that doesn't require U.S. boots. And you know what?
Starting point is 00:23:11 It's a historical fact that regime change, I hate that term. governmental overthrow has very seldom been successful when the United States has done it. We did it in Iran, and that's why we have the problem in the early 1950s, and that's why we have the problems with Iran that we have starting in 1978, 79, because we set them up to be ruled by a bloodthirsty monster, the Reza Palavi, the Shah, whom we placed upon the peacock throne, we tried it in Guatemala, and up until our coup in Guatemala,
Starting point is 00:23:57 a young man who came to be known as, well, his name was Ernesto, but he came to be known as Che Guevara. Well, he was a bit of a moderate up until Guatemala, and Guatemala hardened him into a revolutionary, which alongside Fidel Castro, the two of them, went on to turn Cuba into a communist paradise. I mean, compared to what we're doing to them now, it kind of was. Doctors, surgeons are now operating in Havana by the light of their cell phones.
Starting point is 00:24:43 Running water, electricity, fuel, nada. but we suck at regime change. And for Eric Prince to sit there and say, I beg them not to do this, well, that's saying something. And I don't like agreeing with Eric Prince. It makes me feel like I'm going to have to shower with a double measure of bleach after the program.
Starting point is 00:25:18 But he did note that Persia has not been conquered since Alexander the Great. and so credit where it's due I guess at least he has some sense of the long view of history that is shared
Starting point is 00:25:38 by that culture but it's not just CPAC, it's not just Eric Prince and no matter how vociferously the mouth-walking knuckle-breathing,
Starting point is 00:25:54 maggieing, maggot goons cheered there are being heard some discouraging words and that comes from that comes from the right but then this morning on my
Starting point is 00:26:18 filthy former filthy morning habit Jonathan Lemire was sounding like he could easily be in agreement with someone like Eric Prince. Hamann. The president, yeah, he wanted the quick victory.
Starting point is 00:26:37 He wanted to put another scalp on the wall. Like, you know, he wanted to have another win like Maduro. He's not got... Yeah, he wanted. He wanted, but little frogies want wings, so they won't bump their little green butts on the ground when they hop. Wanting and getting are two different things, Jonathan Lemire, LeMeyer, Tomato.
Starting point is 00:26:57 And now he's playing this game. There was very little surprise yesterday. ended the deadline again. He doesn't want to do this. He, in terms of that obliteration that he keeps threatening. And I think he was really spooked when Iran hit the Qatari LNG plant, because that showed him that they have a big say over energy markets now and potentially for years to come. He's looking for an off-ramp, but at the same time, keeps sending ground troops to the region, at least as a negotiating tactic, threatening he may go in with boots on the ground, which, of course, would be a real escalation, potentially very bloody for Americans.
Starting point is 00:27:35 Well, right, Jonathan. And you know, you mentioned that Qatari LNG field, the facility there, which actually just is worth dwelling on for two seconds just because it highlights the notion of how the long-term challenge that this war has imposed in terms of the economic cost of it. That single LNG facility in Qatar is, is now said to be, it is the largest liquid natural gas facility in the world. It provides a rather shockingly large percentage of the total liquid liquid-fied national gas in the in the world. And 20% of its capacity is now offline for the next five years.
Starting point is 00:28:20 So you could solve this war tomorrow and economic effects on prices, not just gas prices, but diesel prices, fertilizer costs, even things like generic drugs, are going to... Uh-oh. Shit's going to get real expensive, fairly quick, as Heilman points out. Oh, that's okay. The maggots will scream Joe Biden until their voices go silent. Imagine, imagine, dare to dream that we take the House in the Senate in November. I know
Starting point is 00:29:01 I know it comes with a lot of caveats but just imagine that for a moment and now imagine the massive maggot messaging machine screaming Democrat inflation yeah
Starting point is 00:29:20 and here we are back to Heilman be elevated because of what we've already seen in the war and to your point a second ago Donald Trump may want an off-ram But as we know, and Joe, I listened to the show yesterday. You guys had a very long discussion of this. The enemy has a say in this, right?
Starting point is 00:29:47 And it takes me back to that question, which is we always analyze this entire issue and the president's political and military and strategic objectives through the lens of the presidency, which makes a lot of sense. But we don't often or as often as I think is useful. this through the point of view of the Iranians. And although the president yesterday said, well, they're desperate to make a deal, there's not a lot that indicates desperation on the part of the Iranians. In fact, from their standpoint, in terms of the strategy that they've employed, they seem to be not exactly winning this war, but certainly not losing it. And I don't really
Starting point is 00:30:26 fully understand, if you look at it from the Iranian point of view, what it is that creates the kind of incentives that Donald Trump is facing, what it is that creates those kind of incentives. Of course they want the bombing to stop, but this is an existential fight from them, and the way that they're fighting it is succeeding on the terms that they've set. And so the question is, how do we get kind of an alignment in terms of interest here? I don't see it as clearly as apparently President Trump does in terms of the Iranians begging to make a deal. Well, see, John Heilman, that's because you have not spent an entire lifetime with a defective brain. Wittnero has.
Starting point is 00:31:11 And this is the product of being told, yes, boss, they come to me, they say, sir, a lifetime of that foolish obsequy. And suddenly the Iranians aren't saying, sir, and it's all falling apart around him. If it gets much worse, I don't even know if they'll go 25th Amendment the maggots. they might not even engage in that much of a political nicety five years of increased fertilizer prices
Starting point is 00:32:02 five years of increased grocery prices for things that the fertilizer helps to grow liquid natural gas I mean I mean that that with that we're talking about people
Starting point is 00:32:20 starving or freezing to death in the winter. Global fucking famine. All started by nitwit Nero, and if there's anything that we can prepare to do now, it is that. Prepare to remind anyone and everyone that he chose this war. He wanted this war. He started this war on purpose. I don't care how many times they say, 47 years, there's no president of a war. do it because the other presidents weren't fucking metal defectives with brains
Starting point is 00:33:01 Swiss cheesed by years of crank right yeah so that you've got you've got John Heilman and Jonathan LeMeyer neither of whom are
Starting point is 00:33:26 well they're wild-eyed centrist is what they are Eric Prince and then other things that happened at CPAC today. Enter Brandon Straca. Now, Brandon Strocka, Straca, whatever, don't care, is one of the terrorists from January 6th. He was sent away for three years of probation out of course.
Starting point is 00:34:14 course, then received a pardon. But he got to speak today as CPAC, and literally the first thing that he said was, the right is not all right. Yeah, well now. A walkaway campaign, Brandon Stroke. Thank you. Thank you, CPAC. It's always good to be here with people who still believe in this country, even when it is not easy.
Starting point is 00:35:04 because let's be honest, this is not an easy moment for our movement. There's energy, there's passion, there's momentum, but there's also something else. There's frustration. There's division. And there's a growing sense that something doesn't feel right, that the right is not all right. And if we don't address that honestly, we're doomed. I have become, for many people... Don't threaten us with a good time, Brandon.
Starting point is 00:35:42 People, a symbol of changing one's mind. For standing up for one's principles against trinical mobs of ideologues and for fighting for the truth. I am the former liberal who walked away from the Democratic Party and created the first and most successful national movement. National movement of former liberals walking away from the anti-American left. To date, over one million people have joined walkaway and over a hot. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. he was never what he said now. 100,000 people have shared their walkaway testimonials with us.
Starting point is 00:36:29 I walked away back in 2017 for many reasons, but the bottom line is that existing on the left became intolerable. Asking questions became forbidden. And in fact... Just asking questions, man! I wonder if he's been on Joe Rogaine. I'm listening to... I'm not going to say it.
Starting point is 00:36:53 I'll leave it to something. Someone else to tell you what his voice makes them think. In fact, often met with anger, contempt, and vicious backlash. Expressing support for somebody the left deemed to be canceled was a one-way ticket to getting canceled yourself. And daring to express an opinion outside the approved narrative and belief system would ensure that my former side would label me a racist, a bigot, or some sort of morally bankrupt submissive to the cause.
Starting point is 00:37:22 Uh-oh, there was the giveaway. He just said that they called him a submissive. It sounds kind of bottomy, honestly. Whoop, whoop, who, yep, there went to Gator, siren. When I came over to the right back in 2018, I was exhilarated. After years of feeling suffocated, stifled, and oftentimes bullied by my fellow liberals, I felt that I... Whom he sometimes had to pay to do that for him. I had finally found the Promise Land on the right, a place where I could
Starting point is 00:37:56 tell the truth, express my opinions openly, and disagree with others without being disagreeable, where a difference of opinion didn't turn into an attack on someone's character or the right to exist within the movement. What a refreshing change after being pushed out of a movement overtaken by mob rule of mindless apparatchiks who would gladly destroy anybody who questions the status quo. Anybody? That's how I felt from 2017 through 2020. So you joined the Nazi party.
Starting point is 00:38:26 Yeah, as Micah says, dude, the fuck party did you think you joined? But the truth is, I don't feel that way anymore. In the past year, a great divide has taken place in the MAGA movement. The movement has been split. This divide is ideological, it's tribal, it's fanatical, it's doctrinal, it's irrationally emotional, it's generational, and in fact, if you're getting most of your news from Fox News or Facebook, there's a good chance you probably don't even know what I'm talking about right now. But perhaps most distressing of all, it's personal. Every day now I watch as friends and former friends, colleagues, allies, and followers of mine participate in savage character assassinations of people who one year ago they considered heroes to our movement.
Starting point is 00:39:20 But even worse, there's now a demand that everyone must participate, that if we're truly moral, truly good and true patriots, we must take a side in this divide. Five years ago, the FBI raided my home, put me in handcuffs, and charged me with multiple felonies based on 100% false claims against me related to being outside of the Capitol on January 6th. On that day, my life became a brutal nightmare, and that nightmare went on for four years. During that time, at least... The nightmare of probation. Half of the conservative movement turned their backs on me.
Starting point is 00:39:59 I watched as the very same people who clamored to be in my spotlight, suddenly didn't know who I was anymore. And despite the fact that I was completely innocent, many Republican elected officials would no longer meet with me or take my calls. Many TV shows would no longer have me on. And suffice it to say it was a challenge to find high-profile people within our movement willing to support me and stick their necks out for me. I just feel like the goddess of irony was entitled, wrote this speech for him.
Starting point is 00:40:31 Now, to be clear, many people did stand up for me. Noble and honorable people, people with integrity, decency, and good character. No, they didn't because those people don't exist inside Maggotland. And when I looked back on that time, when I desperately needed friends, allies, and support, The two men of highest stature within the movement who did not close their doors on me, who had me on their shows and gave me a platform and a voice when I needed it the most were Mark Levin and Tucker Carlson. Uh-oh. Very, very tepid applause for Mark.
Starting point is 00:41:16 Voice made for print Levin and testicle toasting, Tuckio Rose Carlson. And now I'm being told I must choose. between these two men. I'm either Team Mark, which according to one group, would make me a war-mongering neocon and a shill for Israel, or I'm Team Tucker,
Starting point is 00:41:38 which, according to another group, would make me a rabid, Jew-hating anti-Semite, cried all the people with their torches and pitchforks. None of these assertions are true, and the truth still needs to matter more than slandering people's characters
Starting point is 00:41:53 to win political arguments. When I was going through my hell, I thought he was going to say when I was going through my grinder, but never mind. Only two members, elected members of Congress took my phone calls. Two, that was Lauren Bobert and Marjorie Taylor Green. Marjorie was one of the only elected members of Congress to visit J-Sixers in prison. She was the only member of Congress to sponsor the Matthew Lawrence Pernow Bill, named after one of the J-Sixers who committed suicide due to the brutality.
Starting point is 00:42:40 he endured at the hands of the United States government. Nothing about the brutality that he inflicted upon we the people. You know, more perfect union, et cetera, provide for the common defense, et cetera. No, he was brutalized by the American people. Oh, honey. Bitch go brush your hair. Thank you, man.
Starting point is 00:43:08 And a few years ago, she came to the walk away, booth at CPAC and held my hands and prayed with me while the media took pictures of us and mocked us. And now a directive has gone out that Marjorie Taylor Green is a traitor. And if you want to be a part of the in crowd, it is mandatory that you must hate her too. If I were to ask probably at least half the people in this room would say that they didn't like her anymore. And if I were to ask why, I bet the majority wouldn't even know themselves. When did we become the left? When did we become the left? when did we become hive-minded, mean, and tribal? Oh, you poor stupid little thing!
Starting point is 00:43:49 Fascists always eat their own eventually. Oh, wait, he doesn't know he's a fascist. He's a walk-awayer. Precisely, Micah says, if this guy was ever liberal and I grew up on the moon, beep boop. When did we decide that not only must we cancel those we disagree with, but we must control the people around us with intimidation, demanding that they think the way we think and join the cancel mob to or be branded themselves? And when did we allow some of the most toxic, nasty, and vicious people on the planet to become the spokespeople for MAGA and the arbiters of purity tests,
Starting point is 00:44:37 deciding who is and isn't worthy enough to continue to call themselves MAGA? but perhaps most importantly when did we decide that it was off limits to question our own government or the government of any other country you silly silly silly thing that's the most fundamental tentative magotry dipshit it's a cult of course they don't question daddy because then daddy might take his belt off he's not exactly raising the roof with the applause though, is he? Let me tell you something. If you call yourself a patriot, but you believe that it is your obligation to only praise and only worship your president,
Starting point is 00:45:32 then you must not be a patriot of this country because leader worship is how citizens behave in nations that aren't free. You can love your president, and you should. But it is your duty and your obligation as a free citizen. He really doesn't know what the maggots are, does he? No. ...of the United States of America to challenge and question your government every day, regardless of who the President of the United States is.
Starting point is 00:46:07 Cam Trails. To demand action, answers and transparency. In fact, the most unpatriotic thing you can ever do is go with the flow and give your unquestioning loyalty to the government and demand that others around you do the same. So no, I will not be choosing between markets. Levine and Tucker Carlson. I love them both. I'll bet you do. And they love you back. And both of them have political ideas that I strongly disagree with. And both of them have controversial beliefs that I support. And regardless of both of those things, they are both good and decent men. Every blurry and low vision...
Starting point is 00:46:50 Yeah, fuck the ad. I mean, I feel like I feel like we've gotten about as much out of this joker as we're likely to get. I mean, he's a relative nobody. That's why they gave him sometime early this afternoon. But yeah, let's go, Brandon. And he's upset about leader worship. You heard that. Leader worship.
Starting point is 00:47:31 Oh, and from Darrell in Houston, belt off. No, daddy, please, please don't remove your belt. No one wants to see your shriveled up orange rat-infested mushroom. Well, there went dinner and a Ramalama ding-dong at the same time. That doesn't happen all the time around here, Daryl. But look at you. And by the way, Daryl noted, and thank you, plus 27th. I couldn't let a noble number like the 27th remain butt-ass-necked as...
Starting point is 00:48:01 God bless you, Daryl, for speaking my language. but-ass-necked as far as recurring donations, so I set up a $10 a month on PayPal. Thanks for all you do explaining the stories behind the news and helping all of us in the audience keep up our hope for a better future. And everyone, don't forget the truth-teller-in-chief, the mighty, mighty Mike Malloy. It's impossible. He is, as I've said repeatedly, the godfather of progressive talk. Thank you, Darrell. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:48:33 So 24-90. Um, yeah. Yeah, I think. And I had a note from Ralph saying, after the challenge just met, I'll offer a $25 challenge for a Ron Hacking Cash Patel's email. Oh, yeah, I saw that. That's delightful. I mean, it's not, but, you know, these are the supposed experts.
Starting point is 00:49:09 These are the people. Oh, they were going to fix government. We weren't going to engage in lawfare anymore. Oh, my God. Yeah. So thank you, Ralph. If there's anybody else out there who would like to use $25 to celebrate the fact that Cash Patel can't, not only can he not secure the United States, he can't secure his own goddamn email.
Starting point is 00:49:34 Well, please jump in on Ralph's challenge. But that wasn't the end of it. I mean, it was a weird day at the CPAC Clavern. Matt Schlappy Schlapp got a little bit of a surprise earlier today. And this generally falls under the rubric of the old lawyer thing, never asked a question to which you do not already know the answer. Here was the moment. It doesn't take very long at all.
Starting point is 00:50:31 There's Matt Schlapp who, of course, apparently likes to. grab the crotches of young men who are driving him dead drunk, back to his hotel room where Mercedes, his one man, one wo man, Christian, upstanding, et cetera, et cetera. Wife wasn't. Are you sure you don't want to come upstairs? We could watch some Netflix. Okay, can I just check out your package?
Starting point is 00:51:05 I was just I was just wondering sometimes I wonder about things like that no this happened how many of you would like to see impeachment hearings no that was the wrong answer
Starting point is 00:51:27 I yeah impeachment hearings I mean they're cheering for impeachment hearings their dear leader. You know, Kim Jong-Trump. Matt Schlapp says, Emilio, there's an antibiotic for that now.
Starting point is 00:51:57 Yeah. That was the wrong answer. How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings? No. Wow, they must have been really hung over. Someone brings some coffee out for the... We've got to keep this House majority. How many of you agree with that?
Starting point is 00:52:27 And that's where the clip ends. How many of y'all want impeachment hearings? Well, you know, there may be a lot of people in the crowd there who were still, who still remembered how Nitwit Niro promised he would get to the bottom of the Epstein files, and they'd all be released. That's gone, by the way, side. No, that was the wrong. And this is after yesterday and the please clap moment.
Starting point is 00:53:13 It's apparently a very interesting time to be at CPAC there in Great Pine, Texas. Yeah, where Flavio, when's Flavio Bolsonaro speaking? But there's a rather significant amount of nervousness taking place. this also from CPAC because today Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanchie, the noble pleader
Starting point is 00:53:54 who got his client hung out to dry on 34 separate felonies which were then upheld upon appeal spoke to the hangover crowd where he said well people like him they're
Starting point is 00:54:16 a mite nerve Everybody's afraid that the next administration, if we don't win, we're going to all be investigating and indicted. Think about that. This is not a third world country. This is America. And the existing administration is afraid that they're going to get indicted. And why are they afraid? Because that's exactly what happened during the last administration.
Starting point is 00:54:37 All of President Trump's cabinet, everybody that worked in the White House, his secret service detail had to go to the grand jury. And, well, if you have a very much, you have a lot of the United States, he said, he said, he said, he said, As the saying once went, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. They got investigated because they're criminals. They're crooks. And, of course, he's just echoing what the man who looks like rancid hot dog water smells, has previously said,
Starting point is 00:55:17 if the Democrats get in, we're all going to prison. Because he knows they're all guilty. just like Todd Blanchie knows that he and others are all guilty. Fascist regimes are notorious for being massive criminal operations. Whether it be the Third Reich or Spain, pick one, any of them. So, you know, from your lips to God's ear, Todd Blanchy, hopefully you're wearing orange sometime soon right there along with your boss jojo blondeie with our law degree from a school named after a hat jesus so yeah strange times without a doubt
Starting point is 00:56:33 what is that not go okay uh so uh well let's uh go ahead and get the uh the gang gathered in the old holler tree to see what folks are thinking about I mean even even in a state like Florida which is this fascist a fascist state as exists within
Starting point is 00:57:14 this fascist country as it now stands even Florida people there are getting antsy the New York Times said a story Florida to sheriffs and police chiefs
Starting point is 00:57:31 who once upon a time bowed and scraped and cowtowed before Ron Monkey Up Go Go Boots De Clantis Well He's pretty much a lame duck now
Starting point is 00:57:50 Monkey Up is And people Well those aforementioned sheriffs and police chiefs And whatnot They're not so Not so fond of him monkey up said, oh, we're going to make Florida the toughest state in the country for immigration. Well, there was recently a state immigration enforcement council meeting down in Florida,
Starting point is 00:58:23 where the Republican sheriffs, the maggots themselves, raised issues related to ice running around and tormenting hotel workers, restaurant workers. construction workers um Grady Judd the sheriff of Polk County who chairs the council said there are those here that are working hard they have kids in college or in school
Starting point is 00:59:01 they're going to church on Sunday they're not violating the law they're living the American dream and Chief Cyrro M. Dominguez of the Naples PD said it's too wide a net and we're hurting people
Starting point is 00:59:21 who are not the target of this and so now there's a there's a messaging move on out of the Maggot Hor I mean White House in which Nitwit Niro is screaming stop talking about
Starting point is 00:59:43 mass deportations talk about deporting the really bad ones well they've been saying that all the along. The problem is it's not how you talk about it. It's what you do. The Monkey Up maladministration in Tallahassee is dropping a million dollars a day to operate what was once known as alligator Auschwitz. Monkey Up said, oh, the government will pay us back.
Starting point is 01:00:21 But, well, still no sign of the $608 million it's billed, among other things, because, well, Alligator Auschwitz is a giant screaming liability. Oh, monkey up. You had the, you had the temerity to challenge nitwit Nero for the nomination in 2024. And he doesn't forget that kind of shit. So he's lost a lot of the law enforcement in Florida. That doesn't mean law enforcement in Florida has suddenly become decent. It hasn't.
Starting point is 01:01:06 But they don't like having to... answer for what the ice goons are doing. And exactly, going back to that one sheriff or chief or who, we're hurting good, hardworking Americans. Micah says, no, you're hurting the people you voted for him to hurt. We tried to tell you, maybe don't vote for the leopards-eating faces party if you like your face, but what the fuck do we know? Right.
Starting point is 01:01:39 We're just a bunch of, a bunch of sissy liberals, right? Right. But back to Cash Patel. Crash Patel. Trash Patel. Yeah, he really did. He got his personal email hacked by an Iranian associated group. What happened to lock her up and butt her emails?
Starting point is 01:02:24 They didn't just hack his email. They published messages. The hacker group was 100. Dala Hack Team And they published photos of Trash Patel. They voted, they
Starting point is 01:02:43 released his purported online resume and they then they giggled. Patel will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims. How did they ever guess his password, though?
Starting point is 01:03:08 It's capital K, capital A, dollar sign H. that one individual on blue sky saying they must have been mad when they discovered his inbox is all about workout routines having fun and forwarding podcasts to other bros oh did you see me on TV man I was so awesome what a schmuck and Handala Hack said earlier today that
Starting point is 01:03:45 the $10 million reward for information on any of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence was what motivated them. They went on to say, the so-called impenetrable systems of the FBI were brought to their knees within hours by our team.
Starting point is 01:04:12 All personal and confidential information of Tash Fetel, including emails, conversations, documents, and even classified files is now available for public download. This is the security at the U.S. government boasts about if your director can be compromised this easily, what do you expect from your lower-level employees? Well, that's not entirely fair.
Starting point is 01:04:35 Because, see, Trash Patel is a chud. He's not a law enforcement professional. He's not an FBI veteran. He is damn sure not Robert Mueller. He's a podcaster. Max Blumenfall opined, specifically over, a handful of photos that show
Starting point is 01:05:09 trash on a trip to Cuba and Blumenthal said While U.S. federal agents harass Americans for bringing humanitarian aid to Cuba seizing their phones and subjecting them to interrogations at airports, photos surface of FBI director
Starting point is 01:05:29 Cash Fettel on a trip to Havana enjoying cigars, rum, and local culture. Yeah. The trash Fattel standing in front of one of those antique vehicles, photo of trash, sniffing a cigar. Let me see if that. I used to be a cigar, Thessianado.
Starting point is 01:05:58 I wonder if I can see what kind of cigar it is. Well, it's not a Cohiba. It's not a Pardigas. It's not Ramona Yonis. I wonder if it's even a, I wonder if it's even a real, uh, Cuban cigar. Oh, there's a picture of trash on the ice playing hockey. A picture of trash with a beanie on, apparently drunk around a bonfire somewhere.
Starting point is 01:06:58 Emails of travel plans. And you know that photo of Trash Patel with the great big googly eyes that is in every reference to him? I suspected it sometime soon. that'll be out there captioned Trash Fetel finds out that Iranians could figure out a password that's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 without a lot of problem. And then there's Brandon Carr who showed up for a chit-chat at the Clavern, and speaking to the audience of 1, declared that, Daddy is so, so awesome. To give you such a shout out. Look, President Trump, when he ran for office, he ran directly at the fake news media. So many other politicians and Americans simply gave way to the legacy national media.
Starting point is 01:08:06 They let the legacy media set the narrative, and President Trump smashed the facade. He said, you don't get to decide what we say, what we think, how we're going to vote inside the voting booth. President Trump took on the fake news media, and President Trump is winning. Look at the results so far. PBS defunded, NPR defunded, Joy Reid gone from MSNBC, Sleepy Eye, Chuck Todd, gone, Jim Acosta, gone, John Dickerson, gone, Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough, CNN has got new ownership as well. So we're not...
Starting point is 01:08:42 So this is significant. We're not at the point yet, you know, we're raising the mission accomplished flag, but President Trump is taking on the fake news media and President Trump is winning. yeah by by what extorting money from places like ABC
Starting point is 01:09:03 and CBS and shame on them for letting him do it by using the merger process as a means of wait what was that phrase that used to drive the maggots crazy
Starting point is 01:09:25 picking winners and losers consolidating media God, we've got so much work to do. So much work. Well, let's check and see who's hanging out in the old holler tree now. Well, okay.
Starting point is 01:09:53 Let's check in. Hey, Jeremy. Oh, Robin. How are you? You sound a little tired. It's Friday. It's been a long week, and I think I heard
Starting point is 01:10:08 a story you didn't cover and I suggest a lot of people before I tell this story you get a shot of something hard to drink because it's worthy of the shot and getting drunk over it's a disgusting story anyway I heard Bob Susque Cover it was
Starting point is 01:10:24 you got mixed in a jumble on the shit show we see every fucking day in this country now but remember former disgrace general Mike Flynn sued the government for $50 million earlier this year because of his prosecution for you know trading information
Starting point is 01:10:40 with other countries, you know, being a traitor basically. Spying. As a speaker for them. Plying. And then he can't lie about it. And then he was prosecuted by Trump's own DOJ. Trump's DOJ.
Starting point is 01:10:55 Well, two days ago, not yesterday, but I believe, Wednesday, so I went him two days ago, yep. Two days ago, the government settled with him for $1.25 million. That wasn't bad enough. They called it one of the most egregious prosecutions in American history. I guess we shouldn't be surprising he got his money. They're all going to get their money. All these just worthless piles of shit are getting paid for, you know,
Starting point is 01:11:26 their sufferance for doing dirty shit. If I sound a little cross, I am. I'm sorry. I'm a little more foul than normal, but I'm outraged. Well, it's not the first time. I mean, God. Look, how much money did we pay to, what is it, Ashley Babette's parents, mama, whatever? and I'm going to say this.
Starting point is 01:11:53 These are just my words, and I'm going to say them very careful. After thorough prosecutions and they're found guilty of other crimes, a jail sentence is not good enough for a bunch of these people. We're going to have to do something to make an example of these people. I'm sorry. I don't like to say that, but it has to be more than jail. It has to be more severe than that. You know what I'm getting at?
Starting point is 01:12:12 After a full prosecution, found guilty, cyanideore a motherfucker. Well, unfortunately, I don't think any of the crimes are statutorily, I don't think capital punishment is statutorily available for that. They could find a way they would, so I think we should try to. I'm sick of this, we have to be better than no. When we kick them in the balls, punch him in the face, and knock them out.
Starting point is 01:12:45 None of this would be go higher bullshit. It's worse gotten this last 12 years. I know. I know. I understand the premise of it, but keep getting sand thrown our eyes. And then laughed at it and said, we're the bad guys watching them get payouts. It's just, there's going to be a better. There'll be changed eventually.
Starting point is 01:13:06 But stories like this particularly piss me off. I mean, this is a guy who's educated. He's not dumb. He knew better. He's not fucking rude. And it's just, it's disgraceful. I mean, being in general is kind of like saying, hey, you're the CEO of this large portion of the company. Or this wing of the company.
Starting point is 01:13:28 That's how bad it is. So it's not like he's just a rude. off the street. Anyway. That was my good story. No, he was paid for the... Look, Tom Manho. I realize it's chump changed, but
Starting point is 01:13:45 50,000 bucks in a brown paper bag. And would have gone up. You know, if we had elected the smart brown lady instead of the mentally defective orange man. I want to come back down to a rational sense and say, I saw a message from Sylvie. Sylvie, you are definitely a member of the group.
Starting point is 01:14:10 It's hard to explain, but you were in the wrong tab. You need to click on the tab below the one you're in called the front slash back porch. That you in the audio chat. You were in a text chat we don't use as much. It was hard to explain to Tristan. Hopefully you'll find your way over here, but you are definitely a member and can join tonight if you wish. That would be fantastic. I'd love to hear from Sylvie.
Starting point is 01:14:35 Anyway, I'm tired, I'm cranky. I'll probably just keep saying filthy words. You better go to Roger for now until I call it in. Okay. Hey, Roger. Are you there? Yeah, I'm here. We're over on the coast, and I'm in charge of cooking dinner,
Starting point is 01:14:51 and times are going to be a little bit difficult for me, both being able to chat. I'm stepping into the garage, so I get away from family and kids. I hope that I'm still going strong because I left the laptop in the dining room and I'm out here to try and, you know, be a little more private. You're pretty clear. I have a prediction for tomorrow. And that is at sometime around noon, eastern time, we will get the announcement that boots are on the ground in Iran.
Starting point is 01:15:33 And that is to make sure that every network has to be following the boots on the ground story as opposed to the 10 million people that will be on the streets in every little town all over America and with multiple sites in every large city. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am. well i think i think it there's general consensus roger that we've already got spooks on the ground if not boots on the ground but i know what you're talking about uh maybe the marines land on hard island i mean honestly i i can't imagine a full-scale invasion of iran that's a huge country Iran has already called up something like 100,000 reservists to get on base ready for deployment.
Starting point is 01:16:44 And what is the total strength of the United States military? It's way less than theirs. But if this tells you anything, in the last two weeks, Trump administration has loosened the stringent, get in the military, meaning if you smoke pot, not that you can smoke it, but if you have, they'll probably still let you in. They've also raised the draft age to 40. No. They've raised the enlistment age to 42. There is no draft at this time.
Starting point is 01:17:21 You need to have registered for it when you turn 18, but there is no draft in effect at this time. And it takes at least eight to ten weeks. or run people through boot camp and i and then they're and then they're still and then even out of that they're still green as grass yeah and and and you the first of all is boot camp and then a i.t advanced infantry training and a whole bunch of other stuff that you have to go through before you're a member of the fighting force and my understanding i don't have the numbers in front of me and again i'm not at my computer to look them up my understanding is that the entire military is somewhere around 500,000 now.
Starting point is 01:18:14 Because on land bases, you no longer have cooks. You no longer have all kinds of things that the military used to do for themselves. They've all been divvied out to contractors. So it used to be that even people in the cow hall, had the basic tenets of being able to fight. Today, the people in the chow hall aren't fighters. All they do is feed them sea rats or MREs, meals ready to eat when they're out in the out in the boondocks playing. And so our actual fighting force, I mean, you can't call the average sailor on a ship,
Starting point is 01:19:03 seaman, seamen apprentices, even. your petty officers like radio operators and electronics technicians and signalmen and the rest of that, they're not part of any invasion force. The only invasion force we have is Army and Marines. And it's a hell of a lot smaller fighting force than what L. Trumpo thinks he has. We just don't have the fucking numbers. And remember, a poor little. country like Vietnam and a shithole country like Afghanistan were able to defeat the U.S.
Starting point is 01:19:46 Army, what makes Trump think that he's got a chance with Iran? He's nuts. Absolutely nuts. For a little shithole country, Afghanistan has defeated everyone since Alexander the Great to a T. Oh. And Iran's going to be no different. I mean, if people were upset about Vietnam, Vietnam, people were upset about Afghanistan, people were upset about Iraq, they're really going to get pissed off and going into Iran. All because he wanted to keep Beebe happy. I remember, sorry. During COVID, Ken Burns did that Vietnam DBS special kind of like the Civil War, the eight-part series, whatever it was. And I remember vividly hearing that as soon as a lieutenant showed up in the,
Starting point is 01:20:43 the nom theater enjoying their patroon or whatever, their insignia ripped off their shoulder because they would die first in the group because they were so green. Well, not all that a hell of a lot of lie lie of lieutenants got bragged back so to speak.
Starting point is 01:21:02 Right, yeah. One of those They would hide their insignia so the enemy wouldn't shoot at them. Yeah, one of those young second Louise that landed in Vietnam and expected to be saluted was none other than blast from the past
Starting point is 01:21:18 Judge Roy Moore who was a stickler for detail and military decorum. Yeah. I mean, we talk about this, but honest to God, Roger, Jeremy, I wonder how many Americans
Starting point is 01:21:39 could find Iran on a map. Most Americans couldn't find Egypt if you gave in the city of Cairo to find it, because they couldn't spell it. I mean, our geographical knowledge is pitiable. I mean, Iran's population is some 90 million people. In the neighborhood of 90 million.
Starting point is 01:22:14 Yeah. They're going to be, that ain't easy to conquer. I mean, even Alexander the Great chased the last great Akimid King. all over the country before one of his own subjects turned him in. I said it here a few times, and I think it was earlier this week you attributed Dave in the Blind for saying this, but it's actually been me many, many times. Sun Tzu knew 5,000 years ago that you would never overthrow a country from out. It has to be an internal movement.
Starting point is 01:22:57 It'll never be an outside force that can do it. Afghanistan proves that every single time. It has to be the people that want it. Any country proves that. Iran is the 7th You couldn't do it here Iran is the 17th largest country on earth
Starting point is 01:23:13 at 636,36,372 square miles Jesus Christ And one soldier for square mile isn't going to do it No No no no no That's
Starting point is 01:23:40 That kind of hard to Kind of hard to tighten up your lines at one guy per square mile. Anyhow, I'm going to go back inside and keep checking on stuff, so pass it off to somebody else. Okay, but I mean, I've been looking at the, I've been looking at the maps and Google Earth and wandering about and whatnot. I mean, this just, this would require planning
Starting point is 01:24:33 on like a D-Day level. They have not done that. And I don't know at the scale of the Google Earth image that I'm looking at. But there's a whole lot of the Red Sea that you have to traverse. No, that's not the Red Sea. There we go. The Persian Gulf that you have to traverse, you know, to get to Harg Island. Oh, there's 300 miles inside Iran's borders.
Starting point is 01:25:16 Mine's all over the place. Yeah, have a go. Why don't you try naming the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of America, nitwit, Nero? And I just wonder how the maggot mommies and the maggot daddies and the maggot grandpas and the maggot grandmas are going to feel about their kid aboard an American warship that gets sunk in the Persian Gulf. I mean, I was kind of shocked when I sat down to do my prep this evening to find that clip from Eric Prince. I mean, he's a, he's a, he's a, no-kitting, surefire, absolute 200-proof fucking villain who loves murdering and killing people. And this guy says there will be ships on, U.S. naval vessels on fire in the next couple of weeks. I mean, maybe he's the one who's scared,
Starting point is 01:26:32 who has scared Nittwit Nero Waterbald. Sir, he came to me, he said, Sir, did no one tell you? Nobody told me, Pete just said, let's do it, and we did it. Fucking Pete. This is just madness. Oh, but I wanted to bring up a little bit of trivia. and I immediately thought of our pal Tom and sunny San Rafael when I saw this the other day.
Starting point is 01:27:08 Maybe I mentioned it. Larry Ellison, also another real live no-kid in comic book villain, Larry Ellison has a $162 million yacht. that's a lot of yacht I mean the specs on it are absolutely breath-tate it's just
Starting point is 01:27:45 wow it is it's 15 years old it's got an overall length of 87 well 288 feet her beam is 45.6 feet
Starting point is 01:28:06 she's tied for 79th largest yacht in the world with her sister ship Fountainhead Oh dear God, who owns Fountainhead? And you know, well, David Norgan and I were Fountainhead. A.N. Rand.
Starting point is 01:28:23 That's some libertarian dickhead. Let's just find out who owns that one. It doesn't say, but yeah, it was named after A.N. Rand's idiot book, The Fountainhead. It was designed in the Netherlands
Starting point is 01:28:55 Ellison's yacht and for a full transatlantic voyage the yacht would emit about a thousand tons of CO2 from its twin 5.7 well 5,76 horsepower diesel
Starting point is 01:29:20 engines its fuel tanks hold 88,000 gallons its maximum range is 6,000 nautical miles and And it was recently visited by some anti-war protesters when it was, I forget where it was docked. I saw the video. They plastered a vinyl sign over it, some poor little crewman saying,
Starting point is 01:29:52 Oh, please don't do that. They did. I forget what it said. I can't find the video now. But here's the thing. Larry Ellison's $160 million yacht has a curious name. And this is one of those things where I read something
Starting point is 01:30:17 and some little brain seal goes, Dink! The name of the yacht is the Musashi. And the minute I read that, Wait a minute, what? Because the Musashi was the sister ship to the Yamato. The two largest battleships ever built.
Starting point is 01:30:53 And the Musashi went to the bottom of the briny deep in October of 1944 and was only recently rediscovered. She's just sitting, she's sitting perfectly on the bottom of the ocean. She didn't, you know, She didn't keel over her anything. She was, bloop, straight down.
Starting point is 01:31:20 But what kind of shitty, un-American creep names his $160 million luxury yacht after a Japanese battleship? Which, by the way, was sunk without a hell of a lot of problem. I think, yeah, it was Gary. Labor Man and I, who were. talking about the battle of Lady Golf in late 1944. That was then. Who does that?
Starting point is 01:32:06 I mean, what kind of dumbass would want to, because seafaring is a superstitious undertaking, to say the very least. What kind of dumbass uses a cursed name for a vessel of that size? I mean, my God, this thing has a zero speed stabilizers, an elevator, beauty room, spa, swimming platform, air conditioning, swimming pool, gym, outdoor gym, movie theater, basketball court, and a crane to launch racing boats. He who does with the most toys win. I mentioned that the other evening. He's still dead. I mean, it's un-American, but it's also.
Starting point is 01:33:03 really stupid. Further proof that being a billionaire is not proof of your genius. The Japanese named their battleship after a famous samurai, Miyamoto Musashi, and of course the samurai's were nothing but gunslingers with swords. This is just, I don't understand their... The creepy minds of these filthy billionaires. Going back to Balmer Bob, Hey, Bob, the long odds against justice,
Starting point is 01:34:12 how can we expect Todd Blanchie or Pam Blondie to end up in orange jumpsuits? I expect Trump to pardon his entire executive branch. I don't think you're wrong. I think that's a distinct possibility. But that will reignite. oh, everything, it's such a spider's web, Bob. That should reignite questions over the pardon power. Because that exact scenario was discussed during the ratification of the Constitution.
Starting point is 01:34:48 What if a bad, bad man gets hold of the presidency and uses the presidency to clear himself and his cronies of his own crimes. I think it was George Mason who raised that argument. And the sweet summer children, little Jimmy Madison and Alexander Hamilton and like, oh, that'll never happen. Wrong. Thanks for playing. So your point is well taken, Bob.
Starting point is 01:35:24 Ultimate punishment, Sylvie answers and says, Go for the clockwork orange dictator treatment. Eyes held open, strapped down between two massive martial amplifiers forced to listen to hours and hours of coronary Caligula's speeches until they lose their minds completely. As for Discord, Sylvie says it's far more complicated than either my cell phone, aircraft instrument panels or an electron microscope. I'll just stay off. I've been working with
Starting point is 01:35:53 without for three days with it for three days now with no success not to worry I'm still listening glad you are Sylvie but we love your presence in real time in the room during the program I mean I saw you in there
Starting point is 01:36:13 and I saw your message you were in there you got through so it may not be as bad as you think draft insanity Sylvie continues. Back in the Vietnam era, when the draft was still very much enforced, my friend Scott was called up.
Starting point is 01:36:33 He and his family informed the draft board that he had a very valid reason not to go to war. They insisted. He showed up to the Selective Service draft board, and they saw him and assigned someone to walk him through. He was a good height, fairly good shape physically, and his heart was sound, his feet, his back, etc. It was not until they brought him to the eye test. Can you read the chart on the wall?
Starting point is 01:36:53 Where? They turned him toward the chart. There. Sorry, no. That was what disqualified Scott from the Vietnam debacle, being completely blind from birth, is a really good reason not to carry an M-16. Here, here. And, of course, if a draft were to come along, I think I can confidently say that
Starting point is 01:37:18 the number of people, especially boys, well only boys only guys are in the draft the number of young men who would show up for their physical with a letter in hand attesting to the fact that they have a debilitating degree of gender dysphoria would raise the number
Starting point is 01:37:41 it might raise the number of trans people to like 10% of the country as compared to the usual 1% or so that we actually are just something to think about. Frank tells me Iran's geographic size is similar to that of Alaska. Good Lord. I think it's even larger than Alaska, though, isn't it? I know they say statistically or 1%, but I think that number's way off.
Starting point is 01:38:21 I think it's quite a bit higher. If you account for all the people who are bigoted enough to hate themselves for it and never admit it and beat on other people, it's way higher than 1%. I bet it's closer to 5 or 6%. No joke. Well, then it'll go to 10, 15, or maybe 20. Because I don't think there's a whole lot of guys out there that want to go and participate and potentially be fish food for BB Nett and Yahoo. I forget if he spoke last week, but I think he did towards the end. Darrell and Houston has joined us again.
Starting point is 01:39:04 Yeah. Hey, Darrell. Hey, Darrell. Hey, Darrell. You don't mute, Gerald. Yeah, it's a little, the discord's a little bit of a pain in the ass at first, but it does get better. Like I said, since Sylvie did respond to what you said, all she just do is click on the next tab down. She was literally one level above where she had to have been.
Starting point is 01:39:33 No, more click. But I think she's kind of disgusted with it at this point, but she's still listening. I think I'm unmuted. Yeah, there you are. Oh, great. Hello. Hi. I just wanted to agree with Jeremy's comment.
Starting point is 01:39:51 earlier. In fact, my theory is January 7th, Trump should have been arrested, and everybody that didn't vote to certify the election should have been arrested, and every one of them charged with treason. Would have suited me right down to the ground.
Starting point is 01:40:16 Of course, we had Merrick the Meek, so not so much. And when family guilty, do the exact same thing he's talked about for the last six years. what do we do to treasonous people or we're you reporters we don't like do it back to him in time sorry I don't turn it in the cheek for these motherfuckers
Starting point is 01:40:33 yep it's all they deserve and then there's Clint Eastwood deserving's got nothing to do with it I mean but yeah in this case they do deserve it and then there's
Starting point is 01:40:55 and then there's this question because I understand the the inherent pessimism that attends conversations like this, and I understand what Balmer Bob was getting at. But we're assuming, and I don't think it's a safe assumption,
Starting point is 01:41:18 that Mother Nature will, I mean, she bats last, and what if he's there not to pardon all of these criminals? J.D. Vance is going to do that? possibly not and then there's this little piece of audio courtesy
Starting point is 01:41:55 of RALPS from social media we know that Nitwit Nero decided he couldn't go to CPAC this year and considering how the audience is responding maybe we understand better now why he didn't
Starting point is 01:42:14 but instead he was blathering earlier talking about his war. And this, well, this is, I can't even, I can't even do it justice with my cheesy Donald Trump impression. You have to see it. It's very cool. Missiles launched. Missiles launching. They're launching.
Starting point is 01:42:39 Okay, we're ready. There's 101 missiles coming at him. All right. We have to have like 11 seconds to make a determination. And then at seven seconds, fire, fire, fire, fire. The most unbelievable thing, fire, boom, fire, boom. One of the time just knocked them out like they were not like genius. It's like unbelievable.
Starting point is 01:43:06 And yet we're not winning because we aren't winning. Clearly has a fascination of death of other people because he knows he's outlived them. It's very clear at this point. Yeah, I think so. but he's also and I don't want to put too fine a point on this fucking stupid
Starting point is 01:43:30 still too fine a point the man I know the answer the man's a goddamn dumbass okay Darrell go the answer to my question is what I wrote yesterday because they're a cult
Starting point is 01:43:45 but how can anyone not listen to this and not realize he's got the mental capacity of a six year old if that yeah I was going to say mighty bold of you to assume six.
Starting point is 01:44:02 I think everything shut down back when Mommy rejected him when he was just an infant, a toddler. And remember later in life with him as an adult, Miri Trump got caught talking to her creepy-ass, racist Klansman husband on an open mic
Starting point is 01:44:24 saying to Fred Trump my God what kind of monster did we raise unless it's been scrubbed you can still find that out there
Starting point is 01:44:39 I don't want to back up that statement Robin by divulging a little bit of personal information I don't talk about very much I have mentioned I'm adopted I'm adopted because my sister came along
Starting point is 01:44:53 as an afterthought for parents who couldn't handle me so at the age of one and a half when she was born I was subjected to a back room and locked in the room in my crib. Now, as a child, I don't remember this. But for all of my life going forward to this day, I feel most comfortable when a bedroom with a door locked behind me.
Starting point is 01:45:14 So, yes, you do stop developing this level early childhood when things happen dramatically as a child. So I can assess that could have happened to Donnie very easily. I mean, I've overcome it, but like I said, I still feel most comfortable in my childhood. bedroom the door locked behind me well it's been documented the the impact that it had on him when his mother just really didn't want anything to do with him i forget if she had an illness or what but raising him fell to his clansman daddy who i think we can say failed miserably in the
Starting point is 01:46:00 attempt oh uh from the camel cardinal uh larry super yacht. I'll have you know, Ms. Kincaid. Larry Ellison didn't work his ass off all his life spending thousands of sleepless nights on the floor of his software shop so that now
Starting point is 01:46:25 in his old age he'd have to put up with subpar broke dick yacht that doesn't even have a racing boat launching crane. You monster! Yeah, and I saw a photo of Larry Ellison. Jesus, these people
Starting point is 01:46:42 really, really are comic book villains. I mean, I guess it's I'm not supposed to comment on people's personal appearance, but this guy's a shithead who's trying to destroy America, so they're a game.
Starting point is 01:47:05 I'm looking now, Larry. There's always exceptions to the rule, Roxanne. Oh, oh, that there are Christopher. Hi, Christopher, happy Friday. Hi, happy Friday, everybody. I think calling these assholes comic with villains does a bad thing to comic with villains.
Starting point is 01:47:26 It's not fair. They're decent people. Yeah, Googly-eyed Patel, you couldn't even draw him. And by the way, Larry Ellison, yeah, he is, he'll be 82 this year. But he looks like, at 82 he, he dives his hair. more than anything else the first time I saw him I was like Jesus Christ
Starting point is 01:47:59 that's Dr. Smith from Lost in Space and by the way he owns 98% of the island of Lanai in Hawaii what a monster and of course he made his bones
Starting point is 01:48:43 doing creepy shit for the CIA Tada and he's bragged about how he was a drop out and yeah okay sure kind of quiet this evening you guys um i wonder where steve is what's steve up to did you guys just see what happened to tiger woods and those was way off topic but oh no i did he um he's been booked for suspicion of DUI after he rolled his car in florida non-alcoholic DUI oh this is his second bad crash
Starting point is 01:49:36 Yeah, he did on the West Coast Now he had to do it over on the East Coast Non-alcoholic D-U-I, Darrell Pills, right? They didn't say They just had suspected non-alcoholic on the Scroll at the bottom of ESPN Yeah, crazy.
Starting point is 01:49:59 Medication. I really haven't watched a whole lot of golf since he retired Or, well, I guess he never officially retired, but kind of just got bad. bad, right? Well, yeah, I mean, he doesn't even show up that much on the senior tour now, does he? I don't know.
Starting point is 01:50:26 Senior tour, is that 55 and older? I thought it was 48. Oh, 3? Oh, 48, your senior? Wow. I'm well into seniorhood then. Yeah, that used to be one of my really, really never going to happen dreams. I was going to be a shitty golfer until I turned 48,
Starting point is 01:50:54 and then I was going to really pay attention and join the senior tour. Oh, and you know the clip I had earlier where they were talking about the liquidified natural gas and the fertilizer and the long-term five years on effects of it, there's another one. There's another problem. Helium. Helium. Oh, really? Yeah, over at what used to be Twitter,
Starting point is 01:51:38 a virologist and professor at the University of Missouri named Mark Johnson said, I hope no one needs an MRI this year. The world's largest producer of liquefied helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got to notice that our citizens, supply for the year will be at least cut in half. No one could have predicted this unless they thought about it. So apparently helium plays a big role in MRI imaging. I did not know that. I did not either,
Starting point is 01:52:23 but, you know, everything always... I was trying to thought for sure. Whiskey Pete would know that, right? No, no, no. He only knows about the supply of whippets and poppers. Okay. At least you giggled, Christopher. No, there's a massive worldwide shortage of helium now because nitwit Nero was led by the nose by the psychopath in Israel, Baby, and his fascist cabinet.
Starting point is 01:52:59 You didn't have to correct your... You didn't have to correct us. You didn't have to correct us. You can make them up. Trump does it all the time. You just keep rambling on. So you're fine. Don't correct your stuff.
Starting point is 01:53:10 Well, okay. No, helium apparently has an extremely low boiling point, and that makes it most useful for the operation of an MRI scanner. It's also used in surgery and research. Not just for balloons anymore. No. Who would have noon? Who would a noon?
Starting point is 01:53:38 Exactly. and for those of you who watched Stick over on Apple, curiously enough, and that shows a year or more old now, there's a subplot about helium in it. Damnedest thing. But Professor Johnson said, we got a notification for our gas supplier
Starting point is 01:54:01 that they would be able to fulfill less than 50% of our regular consumption and a message from the University Hospital saying that this is particularly problematic. for MRIs. The helium shortage is real and there will be consequences because Cutter had to halt production of helium
Starting point is 01:54:19 because well Cutter foolishly allowed us to stick one of our air bases on their sand the Al-Udeid air base
Starting point is 01:54:34 it's the single biggest military base that the United States has in the Middle East. And so Nitwit Nero has screwed once again he has screwed his own if they need an MRI. But like I said, everything old is new again
Starting point is 01:54:57 and where history doesn't repeat it certainly rhymes from time to time. And so here we are, or there we were, anybody know off the top of their heads why the Hindenburg was full of hydrogen
Starting point is 01:55:20 I heard this before but I can't remember I know I heard this but well I can't remember you know hydrogen helium shortage hydrogen and helium are both lighter than air and so they're both useful for dirigible travel
Starting point is 01:55:50 but the problem was that in 1937 with Germany becoming more and more bellicose we had cut off, we had embargoed helium to Germany and so it was
Starting point is 01:56:14 full of hydrogen instead the principal difference yeah I knew you would Reverbo I didn't we wouldn't sell the Germans helium, exactly. And the principal difference between helium and hydrogen being that helium is inert and doesn't burn, whereas a mere spark and you get to Hendenburg.
Starting point is 01:56:48 Reverbo has a soft spot for lighter than airships. The silver pelican comes to mind from day. gone by here at the Horn. Damn it, Roxanne, just before you brought that up, I was going to suggest somebody needed to convince the grotesque orange dump to convert
Starting point is 01:57:10 Air Force One to a Zeppelin. Yes, and fill it with hydrogen. And fill it with hydrogen. And fly it through a lightning storm. That's a good idea if you ask me. I think it's a wonderful idea. They said, sir, you'd really like it if Air Force One was a Zeppelin. Yeah, just tell him it'll be gold-plated.
Starting point is 01:57:41 Yes. And in fact, just for the fun of it, and because the announcer for this was a West Virginia, I'm trying to, who was it? Yeah. It was Herbert Morrison for WLS in Chicago. It was not broadcast live. It was broadcast the next day. But, yeah, Herbert Morrison was a hillbilly.
Starting point is 01:58:22 And this is one of the greatest moments in the history of radio reporting. It's starting to rain again. The rain had flacked up a little bit. They backed motor for the ship, just holding it just enough. and keep it from. It's burst into flames. Get their shoddy. Get this shoddy.
Starting point is 01:58:46 It's frightening. It's driving. It's terrible. Oh, my. Get out of the way, please. It's burning, bursting in the flames, and it's falling on the mooring baths and all the folks that believe this is terrible.
Starting point is 01:58:56 This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world. Oh, it's just a flight of 20, oh, four, 500 feet into the sky. It's a terrific crash, ladies, gentlemen, and the smoke and it's slaves now. And the flame is rising to the ground. Not quite to the mooring mass. humanity and all the fans are just screaming around it. I don't do it. I can't even talk to people and spread around there. It's a, oh, I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honestly, it took
Starting point is 01:59:27 leg their mass and smoking wrecking. And everybody can hardly breathe and talk and screaming, lady. I'm sorry. Honestly, I can hardly breathe. I'm going to step inside while I can not see it. Johnny, that's terrible. I can't. Listen, folks, I'm going to have to stop for a minute because I've lost to voice. I've ever witnessed. Bless his heart, but he's a true radio professional saying I can't talk as he continues to talk.
Starting point is 02:00:03 It's only fair to play that if you search out the news radio parody of the Macy's Thanksgiving parade. No, that's W. Oh, is that, yeah, okay. No, you're right. No, you're right. It's not news. Yeah, you're right. It's the other one. I was thinking WKRP with the Thanksgiving turkey drop. It is KRP, yes, exactly. That's what I'm thinking of, which is a parody of that, yes. Okay, he wasn't from West Virginia, but he began, Herbert Morrison, began his radio career at WMMN in Fairmont, West Virginia. If I remember correctly, the coding on the exterior of the Hindenberg was being. basically thermite.
Starting point is 02:00:54 Might have been. And the funny thing is, well, there were thunderstorms expected. That's what delayed its arrival at Lakehurst. And of course, we all know that Indiana Jones was aboard. 35 out of 97 people died. 13 of the 36 passengers and 22 of the 61 crew. All because the Germans couldn't get helium. Now we don't have airships, but we do have MRIs.
Starting point is 02:02:01 And who knows how many of the Germans. people nitwit Niro will kill right here in the united states of america because of his sick and demented ego and his desperate need to distract from his presence all the hell over the epstein files good god oh and uh just a little note uh we're trying to we're trying to get down to uh within striking distance of finishing the month of march fully funded The deficit is somewhere around $24 to $2,500. Ralphs has a challenge on the table of $25. And if somebody kicks in $25, that'll double it.
Starting point is 02:03:01 Anything, anything, just to get us close and much obliged, much appreciated. This story, no surprise. Whiskey Pete pulled the names of four army officers from the promotions list. Four United States Army officers and the DUI hire
Starting point is 02:03:44 has been haranging the Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll to take their names off the list. Senior military leaders speaking to the New York Times. Well, the Times said earlier this month, Mr. Hegesith broke the logjam by unilaterally striking the officers' names from the list, though it is not clear he has the legal authority to do so. The list is currently being reviewed by the White House, which is expected to send it to the Senate for final approval. A few female and black officers remain on the list, military officials said. It is exceedingly rare that a one-star list draws such intense scrutiny from a defense secretary. The battle highlights the bitter rifts opened by Mr. Hegsa's campaign to reverse policies that he says are prejudiced against white officers. Among other things, Whiskey Pete's chief of staff, Ricky Burria, got into it with Army Secretary Driscoll. Buria chastised the Army Secretary for selecting Major General Antoinette R. Gantt, a combat engineer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. to take command of the military district of Washington.
Starting point is 02:05:11 The command provides security and performs ceremonial duties in the nation's capital, and its commander often appears alongside the president at Arlington National Cemetery. And here's the... Jesus God, this is so sickening. Mr. Buria told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a black female officer at military events. Driscoll, for his part, being a loyal maggot, said, Oh, well, I'm shocked. The president is not a racist or a sexist. Yeah, okay.
Starting point is 02:06:00 Yes, he is. He's the son of a Klansman. Senior officials in Mr. Kegbreath's office have been debating for months whether Mr. Kegbreath has the legal authority to strike names for a one-star list before he sends it to the White House. In his role as defense secretary, Mr. Hegeseth is supposed to review and approve the list, but to protect the military's officer corps from being politicized, he has only two options under military regulations. He can reject or accept the entire list. But then he'd be discriminating against some deserving white officers.
Starting point is 02:06:41 Yeah, and from Victoria. Yeah. Victoria says, nitwit, Nero doesn't care about health one iota. Remember people dying on ventilators during COVID? Or dying waiting for a ventilator during COVID? How about do we remember the million people he killed during COVID? Oh, it'll go away in the spring, it'll be gone by April. And oddly enough, I stopped at the holler dollar on the way home
Starting point is 02:07:18 because I needed to get some treats for the golden one. He was so very happy to see me, and I was very happy to see him. He's a very good boy. But while in there, I heard, and I was standing behind her in line at the checkout, talking about, yeah, there's a new variant out, and I've got to go get tested. Yeah, that new variant that's showing up in public water supplies, sewage tests, like 30% of the testing in Europe now, Ah, it's a variant that is apparently immune evasive.
Starting point is 02:08:01 So even if you're immune to others, you might get this one. Well, that's okay. Whalehead, Dead Bear Brain Worm Lamprey will be out there passing out Ardvark antifungal. And from Reverbo, going back to the Zeppelins. Trump and Whiskey Pete flying around in the Zeppelin. Just imagine. He'd probably name it. Wait for it.
Starting point is 02:08:28 Reverbo put this one out of the park. He'd probably name it the the golden gonad. We need all the giggles we can get. Truly we do. That was, buddy. The llama liked that one a lot. No, the llama got a big giggle.
Starting point is 02:08:48 I think the llama snorted it a little bit. Michelle just arrived, and so Arlo's going a little crazy. Hi, Arlo. Arlo is also a very good boy. Hi, Michelle says hi. Hi, Michelle. Victoria said earlier, my experience with the Republican president,
Starting point is 02:09:05 limited as it is, seems to be this. Pause all spending, skim a bunch off the top, rinse and repeat, and then celebrate the savings until we're all so miserable. We don't know if we'll ever see daylight again.
Starting point is 02:09:18 Oh, honey. You set a mouthful there. Trump wouldn't want to stand next to a black female. What did Jeffrey Epstein say? Yeah. Trump doesn't like black. women he calls them boogers hmm
Starting point is 02:09:48 funny how everything is like a five year old yeah but but but it's it's I mean those two are completely and entirely separate from one another and yet
Starting point is 02:10:03 there's the chief of staff to the secretary of defense confirming something that Jeffrey Epstein said about Trump 10, 15, 25
Starting point is 02:10:21 years ago? I mean, that sort of lends credibility to the Epstein files, doesn't it? It's all true, isn't it? As horrifying as it is to contemplate. It's all true. And Jojo Blondie has never tried
Starting point is 02:10:45 to interview the man who said he pulled his car over on the side of the road while Trump was discussing killing a girl. Of course not. Heaven forfend. And speaking of Jojo Blondie, well, earlier today, she showed up on Fox News TV Radio Rwanda
Starting point is 02:11:14 to explain how Daddy is focusing on, I'll let her say it. This is so dumb I don't want to even let it come out of my mouth. ...about their marriage to get in this country. You can't do that. Being a citizen in our country is a privilege. It's not. a right and Donald Trump is going to have
Starting point is 02:11:34 everyone in this country who deserves to be here who's a city. Oh, see you next Tuesday. If you are born in the United States, it is a right, Jojo. Although, I've got to confess, that's a nice new die job you got there.
Starting point is 02:11:50 You were getting a bit rudy, honey. Citizen, and yeah, sure, it could be faster, it could be easier, but I think we're moving at lightning speed, given what we're up against. I'm thinking about the old debate. I mean, other commenters caught the same line I did. Citizenship is a privilege and not a right.
Starting point is 02:12:21 I mean, that's true of something like a driver's license. You do not have a right to a driver's license. You know, it can be taken away for certain things. Like, I don't know, rolling your vehicle in a non-alcohol intoxicated state. I'm not talking about Florida. I'm talking about, you know. blood chemistry. Good Lord, she's dumb. Bless his heart. Keith Olberman said,
Starting point is 02:13:02 if true, get this disloyal anti-democracy moron on the first deportation boat for White Trash Island. You know, you listen to him and stuff, Jeremy. Has he stopped doing worst person in the world? Because I don't think, I don't think it could be limited to one person anymore. No. It's still a podcast every time he does the podcast. podcast, worst person. It's usually, if he does nothing else new, first story and worst person, then it's a repeat of, I promise not to tell, but it's always worse persons.
Starting point is 02:13:42 I would think he, I would think he's got a backlog going sometime into the, oh, I don't know, the 2090s. I think it's become painfully clear that he was a hard person to work with. He pretty much hates everyone he's ever worked with, to varying degrees. And he turns it into comedy in the new podcast, but yes, he definitely still has worse persons. Well, it's good to know that some things are still normal in the world. Oh, here's a fun one. Anybody ever heard of Minnesota State Senator Elliot Engen? Not content to be a state senator.
Starting point is 02:14:31 He's presently running for state auditor there in the North Star State. And he was instrumental. in founding a chapter of Toilet Paper USA at Hamlin University. That was before he went to the legislature. And not too long back, he ran over to X, and he posted an excrement as follows. The DFL, that's what Minnesota calls its Democratic Party, the Democratic Farm Labor Party, has been drunk at the wheel in protecting taxpayer dollars from systemic fraud.
Starting point is 02:15:13 well drunk at the wheel guess what the White Bear Lake Police Department said earlier today on March 27th 2026 at approximately 151 a.m. Central daylight time the White Bear Lake Police Department
Starting point is 02:15:37 conducted a traffic stop near the intersection of 4th Street and Otter Lake Road in White Bear Lake for observed traffic violations including speeding expired registration and an inoperable headlight. The driver, a 27-year-old male, identified as Minnesota State Representative Elliot Engen, was arrested for suspicion of driving while impaired.
Starting point is 02:15:58 Engen was transported to the White Bear Lake Police Department where a breath test indicated a blood alcohol concentration of 0.13. He then spent the early morning hours at the Ramsey County Jail and was released a few hours later after having been charged with DUI, driving under the influence, as well as driving while intoxicated, which under Minnesota state law are two separate crimes.
Starting point is 02:16:29 What did he say? The DFL has been drunk at the wheel. Oh, goddess of irony. I don't know what the war in Iran is going to do to rubber chicken prices, but she must needs have her sacrifices. It's always confession or projection, isn't it? Oh, and add to the list of our service personnel who have been wounded for Israel and nitwit Nero's stupidity. Ten, ten.
Starting point is 02:17:18 Members of the American military were wounded earlier today when an Iranian missile strike hit Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia. Two were seriously wounded, according to the Wall Street Journal. And the missile also dinged up several Uh-oh! U.S. refueling aircraft and
Starting point is 02:17:46 boogered up some of our drones. You know, for a country that Nitwit Niro said has been absolutely destroyed, They've been defeated. They have nothing left. Tell that to the worried families now, how about?
Starting point is 02:18:09 Yeah? Maybe, you think? And, of course, I know Jeremy thinks that the death toll is far higher, and it may turn out to be. Hey, Roxanne, how are you doing tonight? I'm good, Steve. How are you? I'll be better when it warms up again. I got on the road today with a lovely 41-degree spring day with I think the sky.
Starting point is 02:18:43 I was about maybe two and a half feet higher than the top of my head. It was grim and gray here. But apart from that, I'm okay. Good. Glad to hear it. Hey, I wanted to talk a little bit about this, the story you had earlier in the week about the U.S. being insolvent. Okay. Count me extremely skeptical.
Starting point is 02:19:10 I'm wondering what, and I haven't seen the story, so I don't know, what did they list on there as the actual assets of, the country? 6.06 trillion. But what were the assets? They didn't list those. They said it's 6.06 trillion in assets versus 47.58 trillion in liabilities without counting Social Security and Medicare. I'd like to know what they count as liabilities.
Starting point is 02:19:47 because I think this Go ahead, I'm sorry No, I was going to say one of the things that came out of that article was the fact that the GAO said, and I'm sure you remember, looking at the report, that they couldn't tell whether that was accurate or not because the books are so dummied up at this point. Right.
Starting point is 02:20:14 I mean, this isn't new, to be honest with you, but I will say this too, the notion that a country that prints its own currency can be insolvent is kind of ridiculous. Well, yeah, I get that. And Flavio sent me a question along those lines, too. We have a sovereign currency. We can never be bankrupt.
Starting point is 02:20:40 Yes, we can always pay our debts. The only thing that is kind of the wrinkle in that is currency, currency that the United States government prints is a liability to the government. It's not an asset. Right. So if we print money, that increases the liabilities. It strikes me that given the person who put this report out, Scott Bessent or Bacent or whatever his name is, the real purpose here is to, and I think you actually mentioned this in your conversation with David,
Starting point is 02:21:25 the real purpose here is to say, hey, look, Medicare and Social Security are really what's banked, really what's going to bankrupt this country, so we need to get rid of them. That's really the purpose of that article, or not the article, but the report, so to speak. Yeah, and it came from Fortune, so take that for what it's worth. Right. Which I think isn't Fortune a publication of the Washington Post? I don't know. I'm pretty sure that it is.
Starting point is 02:22:02 We can always ask the Google Machine. Google Machine would know. But I just wanted to chime in because I was very skeptical of the article and of the notion. I'd have to know what they were saying the assets and liabilities were because this country has, I mean, if you really want to get down to it, all of the roads and all of that stuff are assets. and I suspect that they didn't include the roads and the airways and all the military equipment that we have or all of the assets that the federal government has probably were not included in that count
Starting point is 02:22:50 that anything that comes out of this administration is automatically suspect in terms of its validity in other words they're a gang of liars that's a great way to put it yes I mean the the the authorship of the article is kind of what gave me pause a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins a member of the board of directors at the federal fiscal sustainability foundation that's Stephen Hanky
Starting point is 02:23:29 I know no please please no South Park jokes and then David M. Walker former comptroller general of the United States and chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation Now the name of that foundation
Starting point is 02:23:53 Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation you know you see a word like sustainable Steve and you think oh tree huckers no this sounds like some sort of third way bullshit you know what I mean
Starting point is 02:24:08 yeah it sounds like that or even I would even go so far as it almost has a Milton Friedman type of sound to it to me well it kind of makes me wonder who who is David M.
Starting point is 02:24:21 Walker former comptroller general of the United States under whom because that's always I was just thinking about that yeah that's that's that's always the question. David M. Walker.
Starting point is 02:24:39 Kind of a quiet bunch tonight. Yeah, it has been, hasn't it? Yeah, it has. Yeah, I'm still working, so I'm just listening. Let's see, born in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1998 to 2008, so he was under both Clinton and Bush. Yep. He was appointed by Bill Clinton.
Starting point is 02:25:21 David and Walker. But he was also buddies with Pete Peterson, the co-founder of Blackstone, Nixon's Secretary of Commerce. Yeah, we can't say anybody whom a Clinton appointed was actually a Democrat. Not with any degree of certainty. No hell no.
Starting point is 02:25:50 No, no. And in fact, the assumption, as probably if Clinton appointed him he was probably at least at the time they were considered moderate it's a moderate Republican Fortune magazine founded by Henry R. Luce
Starting point is 02:26:09 I thought that it was at least at one point that the Washington Post owned it. I must be wrong. Published by Fortune Media Group Holdings, a global business media company competes with Forbes and Bloomberg Business Week, Fortune 500, etc.
Starting point is 02:26:53 I don't think it's related to the post. I don't think so. It doesn't sound like it is either. It doesn't sound like it is. I don't think it is either. Well, if people don't start talking, I'm going to start singing myself. I encourage you to sing myself. Myself, myself. Are you going to sing this shlappy song, Steve? No, the shlappy song, right.
Starting point is 02:27:23 my god hey i want to ask you i i tuned in late who was the person that you were talking that you were that you were playing who claimed to be a former a former quote-unquote democrat or liberal uh that was a creep named brandon hold on here strock strack brandon strach brandon strach brandon strock that name is familiar no you're thinking of peter strock which is spelled s t r z o k this is brandon s t r a k a but i'm sorry he set the hell off of my gay gator he just did i was just going to ask steve that so as speaking for all gay americans um what are your thoughts on the gator i didn't um i didn't have it turned on at the time so what really wasn't looking for it i'd have to hear it or see it again you know lucky for you
Starting point is 02:28:33 here we are I'll give you play it again yeah play it again Roxanne yeah I'm a gonna Christopher I'm a gonna ladies and gentlemen
Starting point is 02:28:46 please welcome founder of the walkaway campaign Brandon Strock did three hard years of probation after attacking the seat of government of the constitution of the United States but here we go
Starting point is 02:29:09 thank you and I'll tell you I'm going to pre-prejudice this. Victoria and I have been watching Shrinking, which is a delightful series, and there's a gay couple in the story who have adopted a baby. I mean, the whole thing is just hilarious.
Starting point is 02:29:30 But I heard one of those characters when I heard him talking. Thank you, CPAC. It's always good to be here with people who still believe in this country, even when it is not easy. Because let's be honest, this is not an easy moment for our movement.
Starting point is 02:29:48 There's energy, there's passion, there's momentum, but there's also something else. I'm sorry, what? Gay. He's gay. He gay. I'm so ashamed. So maybe he'll have a full expose in the next edition of the gay agenda. Oh, but the thing is this CPAC, I mean, maybe Matt Schlappy is a little preoccupied.
Starting point is 02:30:27 I don't know if they've settled that lawsuit or not. I'm surprised he's still on the board at CPAC or even is allowed to have anything to do with it or be within 500 feet of it. but you know now that we have a former MAA guys are head of home and security I really think we have cage matches some of these people decide who's straighter I mean him Lindsay Graham a couple of people fighting together it great time sounds like a real party but but it's been it's been such it's been such a wild ride
Starting point is 02:31:01 because for some reason or another they invented Matt it they invited Matt it just Gates worse, the man with the largest forehead on earth and he spoke earlier today and said, I come from the wing of the Republican
Starting point is 02:31:21 Party that is only loyal to one nation and that is the United States of America and so while I may not agree with the likes of Mark Levine or Ben Shapiro or Mike Huckabee that we have some sort of near slavish loyalty to a country in a far away land a country and a far away land.
Starting point is 02:31:39 Well, how about a far away? I'm sorry, I'm editing on the fly, I can't help it. I would walk across hot coals arm in arm with those individuals to stop the Democrats turning America into a more transsexual version of Venezuela. Hey, a ground invasion of Iran will make our country poorer and less safe. Never mind the grieving parents. and then he said with the you know even a stop clock you know twice a day
Starting point is 02:32:11 I'm not sure we'd end up killing more terrorists than we would create so he's not on board with daddy either there's a lot of not on board with daddy going on down there you know what maybe there was some sort of secret plan whereby only liberal only liberals and progressives are on grinder in grapevine, Texas right now, and they're having an impact on these poor maggot minds. Hide your husbands, hide your sons.
Starting point is 02:32:53 Seapacks in town. But I'm glad that speaking on behalf of the entire gay agenda, Steve, you could confirm my suspicions, because my gaydar is not that good. My transistor, however, impeccable. Uh-huh Yeah, he's He's gay Poor guy
Starting point is 02:33:17 Poor gay Yeah, poor gay Poor gay Poor firmly in sconce in the closet Having to stand there And constantly looking out Afraid that people will find him out
Starting point is 02:33:30 That's sad Well, I mean Let's see if he's out and proud I thought his I remember that guy's name I thought his actually, I thought actually his last name was pronounced Straka. But I remembered this guy. I did too, but they introduced him as Brandon Strock.
Starting point is 02:33:57 Oh, no. Just look him up. Images of Brandon Strock. They had a change his name was originally Brandon Stroke. Okay. Jeremy, that was. No, his, his, earlier photos
Starting point is 02:34:16 yeah that's that's a grinder profile photo if I've ever seen one got his little chin dipped his hair is a little bit stringy and hanging over his left eye yeah well let's go ahead and just ask the machine the question
Starting point is 02:34:38 is gay oh dear that didn't take long gay mega power duo's friendship explosion into nasty online spat. 10 June 2025. Nearly a week after the dramatic breakup
Starting point is 02:35:09 between President Donald Trump and his former first buddy Elon Musk, another bitter spat has erupted in the MAGA world. I do love the way the Daily Mail abuses language sometimes. Gay right-wing influencers Scott Pressler and Brandon Strach were once comrades proud to take on the
Starting point is 02:35:30 the battlefield alongside each other, but last month everything changed. Strock, who previously gained notoriety, yada, yada, made a 14-minute video blasting Pressler for allegedly
Starting point is 02:35:47 faking his voter registration totals and running a massive propaganda campaign. He was pardoned by Trump earlier this year. Pressler 37 is a GOP activist credited for winning Pennsylvania. And meanwhile, Strach, who claims to have bent over backwards for Pressler, grew to stardom after launching the walk-away campaign,
Starting point is 02:36:18 a group that encourages disgruntled Democrats to follow in his footsteps and join the MAGA world. You've been over in what direction again? Backwards. Oh, I've seen this. I've seen this Pressler. Oh, yeah, my transistor is... Beep, be, be, beat, bit, bit, bit, bit, bit, Pist, Titch, Tid, Tep. Presler has
Starting point is 02:36:43 long, straight, brown hair down past his shoulder blades, and I swear to God, somebody may be sneaking a little estrogen. Oh, dear God. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:37:07 Well, we didn't have to go to all that speculation after all. Turns out that. That was an easy one. So, congratulations, Steve. Your GADAR is pitch perfect. And my transistor may be in pretty good form, too.
Starting point is 02:37:30 Micah, if you're there, you want to look up Scott Pressler? I want to go back to talking about the man with the largest forehead that we can use to bounce satellite signals off Jupiter with. Is anyone shocked That in his first three sentences He wrote up transsexualism Is anybody shocked That man right there screams things to me too
Starting point is 02:37:58 He's very very closet It just is I mean look what he did to his face Slash or his CPAC Looks like a fucking fucked a vampire Well facial surgery takes about a year to resolve There's a lot of swelling Even when you think there isn't
Starting point is 02:38:13 No excuse No excuse me can't protect this down, Robert. You just can't. Come on that. Am I protecting? Fuck, no. I'm just speaking fact. Oh, and thank you, Mark, behind enemy lines down in Florida. Ralps' challenge has been met, so we'll call it
Starting point is 02:38:31 you know what, no, I've been missing, we'll call it 2350, 2350. So thank you, Mark, thank you, Ralphs. Thank you both so very, very much. That's so helpful. So we're going to have two days to knock out 2350. or as much of it as we humanly possibly can.
Starting point is 02:38:56 Thanks. Well, remember, you know, when it comes to Matt, it just gets worse. No, he's super straight, Jeremy,
Starting point is 02:39:07 because he was talking on the, on the floor of the house about how he, he would snort Viagra and drink Red Bull so he could thick all night long and talked about
Starting point is 02:39:19 which of his maggot lady colleagues there on the floor was the hottest. In fact, remember, he showed it to Mark Wayne. We all know. Jesus Christ. This is like tough guys. Real tough guys don't tell you they're tough.
Starting point is 02:39:41 Real straight guys don't run a screaming house straight they are. Jesus Christ, it's just, oh, I can't take it sometimes. Has anybody ever seen Matt Gates and Nick Fuentes in the same room together? And if they were, was there a crowbar involved? Sorry, I'm doing best I can. not out there and you can't you can't fill in the gaps that
Starting point is 02:40:11 left when Matt's not in here. You know Matt is Matt is the official Chief Chief of Snark Chiefs
Starting point is 02:40:25 what chief snarkerating officer of the horn I don't know if you've been promoted Matt that's all I'm saying oh and here's a funsy because we're We're almost out of the program. The World Meteorological Organization, which I'm sure we've pulled out of as well,
Starting point is 02:41:02 published its annual State of the Climate Report today. You know, it's just a couple of days ago we were talking about the fact that just the Iraq War, Iraq, I'm sorry, I'm old, the Iran War in its first two weeks equaled the carbon output for a year of several small countries combined. That's not a pretty picture. Well, the annual State of the Climate Report issued today says that we've just experienced the 11 hottest years on record. 2025 was the second or third warmest in global history. There is a record amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, 50% higher than pre-industrial.
Starting point is 02:41:51 levels. The second or third warmest year on record, like I said, 2025. The average temperature is about 1.43 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average. And that's
Starting point is 02:42:08 even with a slight la Nina during the year. And it tends to create milder, wetter conditions and has a cooling effect on the global average temperature. But even with the lanania, planet stayed hot.
Starting point is 02:42:32 Oh, and this is always fun. The amount of Arctic and Antarctic ice is also well below average. Sea ice extent, a measure of how much ocean is covered by at least some sea ice, is at or close to record low levels in the Arctic. Those poor fucking polar bears. Now that she doesn't have anything to do, I wonder if, I wonder, Krusty the nasty Nazi gnome will go out and shoot polar bears. the face.
Starting point is 02:43:06 Most of the devastating extreme weather events of 2025 were made worse by human-driven climate change, heat waves in Central Asia, wildfires in East Asia, Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean, just being three examples. And curiously, Australia's per-person carbon dioxide emissions are among the highest in the world. They're right there with, you know, us. You said Australia? Yeah. Australia? Yeah. Why would that be? Why would that be? Do they burn a lot of coal there?
Starting point is 02:43:50 I think they do. They certainly got a lot of open pit mining. I was talking about... They smoke a lot of cigarettes. Do they really, Amelia? I just made that up. Yeah, I know. I know. Do you know what it looks like when you go to... First of all, if you try to buy a pack of cigarettes,
Starting point is 02:44:14 in Oz, it's going to cost you a lot of money to buy pre-produced cigarettes. Secondly, you know what a package of Marlboroughs looks like? In Australia, it's a white package with black lettering and a great big skull and crossbones on it. Not kidding. Seriously? Yes. You're not kidding. You can't package, you can't have any attractive packaging on tobacco products in Oz.
Starting point is 02:44:46 clearly they have no freedom there none one so well i mean they can't own submachine guns or or have a classic marlborough package they are laboring they are laboring under the hell of non-freedom non-freedom what are we going to say amelia some countries even put like pictures of lung cancer and nasty things on the package oh no no they do that yeah they do that in Australia, too. You get a skull and crossbones on one side and a cancerous lung in full color on the other. Hmm. I bet you that looks a lot like RFK Jr.
Starting point is 02:45:33 The llama had to think about that one for a minute, Christopher. Yeah. Rinkled, leathery, brown, dirty. Oh, God, I don't know when it aired, but I saw a second. Saturday night live sketch of saying, if you like the pit, you'll love Mah Hospital, M-A-H-A-S-P-I-T-A-L. And at one point, one of the Maha doctors was saying, give that woman an eye, and a bag of IV raw milk stat. And eventually they brought on one of the cast members as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. naked from the waist up wearing a, you know, a padded muscle body suit.
Starting point is 02:46:27 Disgusting. He really is. What grossest people? Oh, he is. They're both just utterly disgusting. And, I mean, it barely raises eyes. You know, the story about the new COVID variant barely raised any eyebrows. But, again,
Starting point is 02:46:57 if something goes sideways, we're fucked. I mean, really? Well, we have people who are anti-science and people in power who don't care about using government for the common good. So, of course, we're fucked. I mean, we're fucked as it is.
Starting point is 02:47:23 But we're super-duper-fucked if something like that happens. I know. So how was everyone's weak? I had a not so good week. What is everyone's week? Well, I want to know what it was wrong with your not so good week. And let me say thanks to Henry. Henry jumped in as well, so we're down to 2275.
Starting point is 02:47:54 Thank you, Henry. Thank you so much. Let's just, I'll just leave it at that. It was not a very good week. It turned out, it was supposed to be a really good week, and it just kind of turned out not to be as good a week as I was hoping. I'm sorry. You need, you damned well deserve one.
Starting point is 02:48:16 And it's common. It's coming. I sure fucking hope so. I sure fucking hope so. Well, we haven't really talked since Victoria and I went over to Nelsonville, Ohio. Oh yeah, how was that? The concert was fantastic. It was, you know, it was nice to catch up with Patterson Hood. He's such a nice.
Starting point is 02:48:43 guy and such a talent, a real poet, and, you know, just has this wonderful presence on stage, and it was fun for me because he was sitting there telling stories about my hometown, stories similar to the ones that I've told here, and at one point he said, yeah, the public schools where I grew up, you were either lazy or stupid, and I'm pretty sure I wasn't lazy. and I don't know yeah okay it's a long if it had been a discussion if it had been a discussion I would have said
Starting point is 02:49:21 well there was lazy or stupid or queer because I never got accused of being lazy or stupid but I started getting called queer along about third grade wonder why I never got called any of those names ever because you were just normal and also you were not going to you were not going to public school in alibaba
Starting point is 02:49:47 Bama. Bight your tongue. Normal. Did you just accuse me of being normal? I'll take it back. I take it back. Although I went to, well, yeah, I mean, it's kind of interesting.
Starting point is 02:50:05 I never got any of that stuff. Only thing I ever got was people said I was completely asexual. Well, they were calling me queer in the F word before I knew what either one of those meant. And those were, those were tough. Afternoons for my mama when I could, because I knew I could trust my mama and I'd always just come home and say, Mama, what does blank mean?
Starting point is 02:50:30 Why? Well, that's what they called me at school today. And I could see the blood rise in my mother's face and the, and she said, and she always had the same answer. Well, you know, some people are just ignorant. Okay, Mom. Yeah, Mom, but what do those things mean? Yeah, we weren't going there. Ah, I got it.
Starting point is 02:51:01 Yeah. Just know that the people who say it is ignorant. Where did you... I got you. And it was, well, where did you hear that word? Well, somebody called me that at school and said they were going to beat me up. Like, how old were you when this first happened? Ah, God.
Starting point is 02:51:21 Second, third grade? Oh, wow. Certainly by fourth, fifth, sixth. Went on. Robin knew who she was long before I did. Long before it. at me. I had a player onset of it. Robin knew from the get-go it sounds like. Yeah, yeah, I did. People could see she was different as a kid, even though they couldn't put their finger on it.
Starting point is 02:51:47 Well, but, but, but Jeremy, that term was also used for anybody who was out of the ordinary. Right, exactly. No, I heard. I heard it before. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't sound like a redneck. I didn't speak with the local dialect. My people, my, my, my, my family was not Alabamian. Hell, the other thing I got called besides the F word, the Q word was the Y word. Yankee. What's the Y word? Yankee?
Starting point is 02:52:16 Ooh. I still get calling that word. I laugh when people call me it. Yeah, so we kick your ass. We'll do it again. What's your point? I like that. I like that a lot.
Starting point is 02:52:27 Yeah, don't make us burn some sense into you again. Yeah. But, no, Nelsonville was fascinating, Steve. and I'm kind of repeating what I said on Wednesday's program. But I always love to learn when I go somewhere new. And so I learned about something I had never heard of, the Great Hawking River Valley Strike of,
Starting point is 02:52:53 coal strike of 1884, 1885. Yeah, remember you're talking about that. That was cool. And it's just really captured my imagination because it seems like, You know, things run in cycles. So men who only 19 years before had been fighting to preserve the union and end slavery, came back home and 19 years later they're in a gassy pit dying like flies for some wealthy coal baron in Columbus or Cincinnati or Pittsburgh or Wheeling or New York or Philadelphia or Philadelphia or Wheeling or New York or Philadelphia.
Starting point is 02:53:38 Philadelphia, even London. And, you know, they thought they were somebody, so they organized a union, an early union. And damned, this is the part that got me, is the coal companies responded by consolidating all the coal companies into one big coal company. You know, the industrial workers of the world, the IWW, the Wobbles used to talk about one big union. Well, that's exactly what the coal companies did. And they brought in scabs, immigrant scabs, to do the work of the striking miners. The miners' union couldn't support them. They broke the strike in 1885 with Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, now in office.
Starting point is 02:54:33 Chester A. Arthur had recently completed his only term, serving after. to the assassination of James Garfield and Ohio. And having broken the strike, they said, okay, well, the first thing they did was they shit on the immigrant scabs. And they brought the other miners back, and they said, yeah, you didn't like it when we were paying you 60 cents a ton. We're going to pay you 40 now.
Starting point is 02:55:05 How you like that? Yeah, boss. Okay, we're going in. But that whole area is fascinating to me now. The Hawking River Canal. we were digging canals you know in the mid in the mid 19th century
Starting point is 02:55:22 um really yeah and and the venue I'm just absolutely enamored with the venue was the Stuart's opera house it opened in 1869
Starting point is 02:55:35 before that strike happened and you know they had the typical entertainment of the day I'm sure it was one minstrel show after another and some like early vaudeville type stuff and of course dancing girls and there's probably a little bit of prostitution going on but one of the more fascinating aspects of it was the fact that the guy who Stuart who built and opened the opera house before that and i had not seen this word in ages he had a showboat you know you hear showboat now you think about somebody like maybe an athlete
Starting point is 02:56:18 who, you know, engages in self-aggrandizement. But it was literally a boat that was an entertainment complex and just went up and down the river and, you know, the Calliopee. Remember the Calliope? Yeah. And again, drinking, gambling, prostitution, dancing girls. and minstrel shows. So I need to look at a map and get a better handle on that area because it's still Appalachia.
Starting point is 02:57:05 So the showboat is an actual boat? Yes. Either a sidewheeler or a stern wheeler. Okay. So what river did it go up at the Hawking River? I'm supposing, yes. okay and the hocking of course the hocking and the olentangy are both tributaries of the ohia that would be west virginia's river by god don't forget it uh-huh and i don't forget it and
Starting point is 02:57:35 it's so funny you know when you go to cross it the minute when you're on the bridge all of the bridges over the ohio into west virginia the minute you are no longer overland on the Ohio side, that's where the welcome to West Virginia sign is. The minute you're over water, not half and half, it is entirely West Virginia. And I think it's awfully damn nice of us to share it. Uh-huh. What other, I was thinking there's another river that runs through Columbus called the Ceyota River. Do you know if the Ceyota River is also a tributary of the Ohio?
Starting point is 02:58:23 I would expect, you know, maybe not. I mean, could that maybe... There are a few squirly rivers that flow north. I don't know about the Sciota. I remember crossing it, visiting Columbus and thinking, wait, that's a river? It looks like a culvert. Because, you know, it's all concreted in,
Starting point is 02:58:51 kind of like the Los Angeles River. I'm such a nerd. I can't help it. I apologize, everybody. I love your nerdiness, particularly talking about my home state. Of which I've become surprisingly fond, at least the parts I've seen. I love you. It gets a little dull and boring the closer you get to Columbus.
Starting point is 02:59:15 Columbus is a great city. But, you know, where I was, that Hocking River Valley and everything, you know, that's hill and valley geology. And, you know, that's not where, like, you know, the Mennonites and the Amish set up housekeeping. That's out there in all that flat, rolling land. No, there were lots of Mennonites and Amish near where I grew up. Oh, yeah, they're all over the place. I mean, people talk about the Amish being in Pennsylvania.
Starting point is 02:59:57 No, they're all over. There's a huge community in Virginia, a huge community in Virginia, a huge community in Ohio. And there's an Amish community just north of where I grew up in Alabama, up in Tennessee. And we tend to think of them in terms of, oh, you know, primitive. These are some ruthlessly sharp business practitioners. I was just going to say they are very sharp business practice. I was just going to say that.
Starting point is 03:00:36 And in fact, during the great recession of the late Otts, it never touched the Amish and Mennonite communities. Because their money wasn't in the market. Their money stays within the Mennonite and Amish communities and goes into... Well, you know the scene and it's a wonderful life where George explains, your money's not here, your money's in Fred's house down there. And your money's over in Mary Ellen's bakery.
Starting point is 03:01:10 Mary? Uh-huh. Well, that's really how it is. So they weren't touched. All the Amish investments were local, stable, and collectible. Intangible. Yeah. Yep.
Starting point is 03:01:30 I mean, it's brilliant. And, you know, it comes out of it. It comes out of the German Anabaptist movement, which is a fascinating study in its own right. So those dummies didn't have any Bitcoin then? No, no, no. And when the Bitcoin bubble goes kerflop, Emilio, the Mennonites will be just fine.
Starting point is 03:01:56 Because, well, you be careful among those English. My favorite line from Harrison Ford's movie Witness. My two favorite movies about the Amish, witness with Harrison Ford. And what's the one with what's the one with Tim Allen? Goodbye, brother Munson. Goodbye, whore.
Starting point is 03:02:21 Which she is. The prayer scene. Thank you, Lord, for sending us Brother Munson and this whore, which she is. I knew you said witness, but it came across my headphones in a funny way. I could have sworn you said Harrison Ford's movie Wetnuts. And I thought to myself,
Starting point is 03:02:39 that can't be the movie title. when you said witness i don't think god i heard it wrong um i'm not sure your brain's all right jeremy i swear i heard it that heard it you know you take enough of uh certain medications and you can hear all kinds of fun things sometimes you can see them too but y'all it it has been a uh it's been a good friday on the front porch i don't know um roger remember roger has roger had a prediction as of the beginning this program. About noon tomorrow when the No Kings protests are kicking off.
Starting point is 03:03:22 Well, Roger says he expects news to go out that we have put boots on the ground in Iran. Just to try to get people, to try to get the multimillionaire for-profit media, not to cover no kings.
Starting point is 03:03:45 And of course, after Larry Ellison gets done, you know, and David, his creepy son. they're all creeps, gets done with CNN. There won't be many places where you can get coverage of something like no kings. Isn't that scary? The only place you'll get mentioned over to somewhere like here, where we, you know, struggle just to keep the bills paid.
Starting point is 03:04:18 So over the weekend, if you're getting caught up on the podcast or whatever, Yeah, we're about 2375 for the fundraising deficit. And if anybody would like to jump in or, you know, really do something hyper, you know, hyper amazing like Auntie Kat did earlier this month and Charlene. Feel free because it's what keeps all of this going. and remind me to tell you my sofa story at some point in time. No, it has nothing to do with J.D. Vance. This is a case of straight-up consumer fraud, and only your humble-ozed us.
Starting point is 03:05:09 But at any rate, thanks everybody. The back porch will continue after the program goes off the air. Feel free to jump in if you're a little antsy about being on the air. It's a rousing conversation. every time. Thanks to each and every one of you who share your precious finite time engaging in the program in whatever manner you choose. Thanks to our all-volunteer staff. Thanks, Roger in the chat room.
Starting point is 03:05:39 Thanks, Roger and Jeremy in the old holler tree. Thank you to our news ninjas. Thanks, Micah, for the showpost over at Blue Sky. At headon. Live at Blue Sky. Thank you again, Micah. you, Brother Deacon, Asa, head on. Live, keeping the stream streaming and the packet's passing.
Starting point is 03:06:01 Aisa said a little bit ago, back to the landmass comparison conversation earlier, Alaska is larger than Iran by 4%. Wow. I don't like our odds there. Thanks, Brother Deacon. And remember, the Brother Deacon doesn't enjoy it immensely when he sees reviews, remarks, comments on the podcast. It makes him...
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Starting point is 03:07:02 subscription here today so that the 27th won't be a goose egg. Like I said, Venmo Cash App, U.S. Postal Service. I'll be trying to get to Beckley this weekend to see if there's anything other than Echo in the mailbox. Thanks to the hardest working, bravest people I know, the folks at Coal River Mountain Watch, CRMW.net, over a quarter century
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Starting point is 03:07:57 babbling something about, citizenship is a privilege, not a right. God damn, that law school did. did fail, just like Justice Sotomayor said. Well, avoid her like the plague, because she is. And always, always, always, Gina and Wayne, it's all for you. Talk in a little bit, Victoria. Sure do you miss you.
Starting point is 03:08:27 Later. Have a great weekend, everybody.

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