Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 3 April 2026, Friday-On-the-Front-Porch

Episode Date: April 4, 2026

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

who invites you to be part of the uprising against mountaintop removal, CRMW.net. And now, from high in the hills of West by God, Virginia, here she is. Roxanne Kincaid. Well, howdy. And here we go, off and running on this Good Friday. You know if you're Jesus, Jesus was real. I'm guessing they would kind of look at this day and say,

what's good about it? Do you know what was happening to me on this? This Friday. It wasn't really a Friday. It was Thursday. Never mind. But anyway, yeah, this is the horn. Headon. Dot Live is where you'll find us on the interweb tubes. That's where you go for all your podcasting needs as well as to find the Mary Wacky Zainty, Real Time Madcap Multimedia, extravaganza. That is the horn chat room of 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. All times. in between and the Great Globe round, and whatever time it is when you're listening to the podcast.

And if you remember the podcasting contingent of the Horn Family Community Congregation, thank you so much for joining us that way. And thanks for reaching out and sharing your thoughts with me. That's so very kind. Oh, wrong you are, Camel Cardinal, Brother Deacon. Today's password, didn't realize Ben Shapiro was going to be headlining the show today. Curiously enough, it has nothing to do with Ben Shapiro or his slammed shut wife. No, the password is there for an entirely different reason, which will become clear.

Did I do the high on Roxanne part? Because I am. It is Friday on the front porch, and if you're listening live, well, join us in the Old Holler Tree chat room. it's up and running and fully functional and i can't wait to see who all pops up i have a i have a question for the uh for the group um oh log in uh do i have to do this every time now i'm still getting used to it too so don't anybody feel bad if you're having a little problem problem negotiating uh yeah oh fuck what's my password god damn it well i'll do it later but uh um anyway pop on by There's no list now where I can tell you who's waiting to see you and greet you and meet you and everything.

So it might be there if I could, you know, log in. Maybe after the front porch starts, I'll remember what my password was. Ah, Jesus, never a dull moment. But anyway, pop on by, it's Friday on the front porch. We're going to have a wonderful conversation. Well, I don't know. Wonderful. We will have an interesting and compelling conversation.

we're saving wonderful for the day it finally happens. Yeah. Okay, Brother Deacon, Acese, don't worry about logging in. You can post messages in the chat room as a guest. Okay. Here, let's see. Nope. It wants me to log in, Brother Deacon.

Never mind. But anyway, I need to not get lost in all of that. Every program here at the Horn begins with gratitude, and this program is no different. So we say thank you to our third day of the month. month subscribers via PayPal. And so that said, thank you to Ann across the pond. Thank you, Sylvie, and, well, thank you both for being partial sponsors of the program.

Thank you so very much. The fundraising deficit is manageable. It's at $855, not quite three full broadcast days. So basically we are, this is the 3rd of April, and now we're actually working on April's funding. We are $5 into funding for Wednesday, April the 1st, and then yesterday and today. Hopefully we can keep that knocked down so that we stay away from the dreaded four-digit deficit. So thanks everybody. And what, Jeremy?

On behalf of Billable Rick, stop telling us what kind of chat we'll have when we go to the Discord chat room. Glad to say, you know, I love the fact that you have each other's backs. That's just fantastic. Yep, very happy. No, no, I'm just a little ray of sunshine. But I wanted to start out the conversation with something that I received from Mike in Cascadia. I mean, I love the correspondence I get from y'all. Sometimes it just touches me so deeply.

And Mike wrote as follows, I go for a daily 25-mile. bicycle ride here in Bellingham, and I listened to the previous day's podcast on my ride. Yesterday, I listened to the Wednesday show with the live broadcast of the Artemis II launch. My ride is hilly, and I bundle up with layers and a balaclava for the chilly and wet northwest Washington weather. So yesterday on the broadcast, I was peddling up a long hill as the launch pole was conducted. I found myself crying, and within a few minutes you asked, why am I crying? Then others corresponded to you the same. Today, while working, I watched the launch, and I cried again.

The hive mind is alive and well, and it recognizes profound human achievement. The courage of those astronauts is beyond comprehension for me. It was indeed a touching moment and a nice counterfactual to our Republican and billionaire-sponsored descent into hatred and cynicism. So many what-ifs. So sad. I have the Artemis II tracker on now in the background, and they're continuing to race to the moon.

They've traveled nearly 140. 14,000 miles and they are 152,155 miles from the moon. Thanks for sharing the broadcast, Robin, and also always thank you for your words and the community congregation's words. Signed, Mike, peddling in Cascadia. That was just beautiful, Mike, and when you hear this tomorrow or Monday, whenever you go for your next ride, please know how much I appreciate correspondence like, how much it mean, how much, how much it shows how connected we are, even though we are atomized all over the planet, how much of a profound connection we maintain to each other.

And I think it's just fantastic. Because you know what? Joe Rogaine, Pink Shrack, doesn't get notes like that. Fat, dead, flush flimball never got notes like that. The Hannity job, the life support system for a haircut, doesn't get notes like that. And neither does a little nut. Meg, of course, Santa Claus's white, Kelly, get notes like that. And, well, I guess he found his way into the program after all, Brother Deacon.

Little Benny Dry Wife Shapiro does not get notes like that. Oh, no, no. I mean, I could go on. Nick Fuentes does not get notes like that. And I don't know how many people working our side of the aisle get notes like that. It's what makes this conversation so incredibly special. The staying power, going into 23 years, hanging on from day to day and month to month, and at the center of it all is a core of essential goodness and decency.

And so, Mike, thank you personally for that note. And thanks to all of you who reach out during the show and outside of show hour. Thank you. Now, so much to talk about this evening, but we'll start with the password, desiccate, or desiccated. It means to dry out, to make absolutely, to make absolutely, waterless, compare favorably dehydrated. Well, where the password comes from is a recently released piece of information that,

well, we weren't told about when it happened last month. I guess they were afraid too many people would be cheering. But, no, it turns out that last month, Sammy Bad Breath Alito decided to go to a swera for the Federalist Society in Philadelphia. Yeah. And he was there swaning around when, well, all we basically know is that he fell ill. They took him to the hospital where he was treated for dehydration and sent home. I guess they gave him a bag of fluids and sent him on his way. Well, it feels kind of Soviet that we only know that a month after it happened.

More, no, more, more, more. Comrade Samuel Alipo is at peak of health, at tender age of only 76 years old. Uh-huh. Hmm. So, yeah, they sent him home the same night after giving him a bag of IV fluids. When they say home, I don't know if he means home to New Jersey, where his wife flies that weird-ass flag, or home to D.C. from Philly. It seems like home to Jersey would make more sense in that particular scenario. But it had not been previously reported until CNN broke the story earlier today.

Maybe they're actually trying to do some meaningful journalism at CNN before Larry Ellison and his creepy nepo baby son come in and ruin that institution as well, not to say that it wasn't already having problems. But, you know, it's a hard habit for me to break because I was totally. I was so terribly proud when I started to work there. And so were my mom and dad, which was big with me. It was a place to be proud to work. Ted Turner still owned it. We saw the boss every so often.

He'd come wandering through the newsroom and glad-handed and back-slapping and telling people telling us that we were doing a great job and we were changing the future of journalism. He was right. He just didn't know how we were changing the future of journalism because, well, about nine years or so, after that, Bill Clinton would sign the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law, and, Tadda, Fox News, TV, Radio Rwanda would begin its task of perverting and twisting the civics and body politic of this nation. But anyway, back to the original story. Sammy has been telling close friends for a while, and he's thinking about stepping down.

Don't you dare. No, no. Oh, no. No, you shitbird. It's a lifetime appointment and it's a sentence you don't get to quit. You and Fappy have to stay there taking your little gifts from Har Har-Haw-Kro and Lili-Lio and doing their filthy fascist bidding and you croak on the bench like the good little fascists that you are. That's when you will become, in fact, good fascist.

because I really want him, I want him to feel, you know, him and fappy. I want him to feel really, well, dedicated, totally devoted to Orange Jesus. And then hopefully in 2029 we get a Democratic president. I know, I know, there's all, but there are all the, there are lurkers out there. There's not going to be an election in 2029. And Steve Bannon said that Trump's going to be president. for a third term, daggom it. And they're not even going to have to amend the Constitution to do it.

He's going to use his special orange powers. I've got to have something to hang on to. I suspect most of us do. I've been touting Jack Smith for Attorney General of the United States under an incoming Democratic administration, if there is one. But I'm wondering if he might not be better on the court. Nah, I think I want to see him burning Pam Bondi to the ground. Yeah.

But, no, you stick around. Sammy Bad Breath, who, by the way, was absolutely just savaged over his comments in the birthright citizenship case, United States versus Barbara the day before yesterday. Remember, it was so bad we know now from the clip we had yesterday from the head of the ACLU that Nitwit Niro was fidgeting and squirming and wanted to move seats and then eventually got up and and stomped out in a huff, or a huff and a half, when the brilliant Asian lady started speaking. Yeah, it was too much for him to put up. And, of course, he didn't like the fact that the justices were highly receptive to lawyer Wang. But Alito spoke up as well, and it didn't work out well,

because at one point looking at Hacksaw Jack Sauer, he said, Yeah, what we're dealing with here is something that was basically unknown at the time when the 14th Amendment was adopted, which was illegal immigration. You motherfucker, it was all illegal immigration. Ask the Native Americans. Yeah, well, sour, Hacksaw Jack, agreed with him. And constitutional law professor Anthony Michael Christ responded to it all, saying, Elito's arguing that foreign impressments somehow undermines our sovereignty and the Constitution. The founding generation would throw rotten food at him in the streets for such a statement.

I endorse the idea. Rotten tomatoes, rotten rootabegas, rotten pumpkins. Meanwhile, a financial analyst named George Perks said, So my naive key leaf reading is that this was a pretty disastrous hearing for the Trump administration, and anything worse than 7 to 2 would be a real shock. My personal hope is that Thomas decides to side with the majority and give Alito a full stroke, which seems less likely than 7 to 2, but possible. Hope endures.

Ellie Mistal at the nation said, Oh, Alito's now bringing up Iranians. He's basically asking about sleeper agents, the conservative belief that babies of immigrants can be raised as Manchurian Americans who will somehow turn on us when they're activated at a later date. I don't think that was true before, but by God, it might be now, because Iran is going to think in terms of some retribution, some revenge. writer Jay Willis, and I thought about this too during the,

because I remember how much I loathed. You know, I've talked about the fact that I missed a lot of television during the early years of this century. Something about, you know, being completely busy with a young family. But Jay Willis said, Sam Alito asking an extended hypothetical question about whether members of an Iran and sleeper cell would get U.S. citizenship is only lending further support to my theory that season four of

the TV show 24 pickled the brains of an entire generation of Republican voters. Well said, good sir. Well said. To the extent that their brains were not already pickled. But I remember how I despise 24 and the premise of it

and it was the idea that well, sometimes you just have to torture the information out of someone. Another wag said, You know, Alito and Thomas used to take turns at being the worst, but recently Alito's just smoked him. Yeah.

And I love the computer nerd humor. Alito times out and gives a 429 error at about 25 seconds, I assume. But I guess him not feeling so good lately. Wow, Sammy, bad breath. Tough it out. Har Har-har and Lili want you to stand tall and pull yourself up by your good conservative bootstraps. Be strong. But ever so much, ever so much going on today, but desiccated.

He had to go to the hospital because he was all dried out. And, you know, not in a good way. And was he practicing working on some self-mumification? I don't know. I don't. But check in the mail here as the program begins. From Ralph's, a $25 challenge for the story that, well, you know how we talk. yesterday about Mohammed bin Bonesaw quietly screwing Nitwit Niro over after having a room full of his people told by Nittwit Niro,

Yeah, now Mo has to kiss my ass and be polite. Well, for starters, say what you will. I mean, and there's a lot of negatives, but those cultures tend to be unfailingly polite, you know, before they cut your head off. or, you know, various other forms of torture or what they do to women. Right, but they are unfailingly polite. I mean, just think about George W. Bush, dim leader with the Saudi king visiting him back in the early aughts down in takesass, and they went walking hand in hand through the bluebells.

I still wish we could get bluebell ice cream up here. Sorry, brain glitch. But, yeah, they're just holding hands like the... the sweet, like the sweetest little friends, you know, like, you'll see that. You'll see that among like five-year-olds in kindergarten. They're just happy. They like each other, their friends, and they're just walking hand in hand. And yet, somehow that's too much for nitwit Nero.

And so that relationship is trashed. And apparently now, Sir Keir Starmor, the transphobic prime minister of the UK, you'd think they'd at least have that in common. Well, Nitwit Nero mocked him, and in the now infamous Easter speech, said that the UK is not our best ally and mocked his speech. I mean, I do radio. I do all kinds of voices, so, you know, from time to time. We have a bit of an impression of the occasional British Prime Minister. God knows, we mocked the living beat Jesus out of Tony Blair for being.

and Bush's poodle. But Nitwit Nero says that the UK has old aircraft carrier. I wouldn't want them attacking Iran with us.

Their aircraft carriers are so old. But they've got steam catapults, daddy. And so Stama in typical stiff up a lip

British fashion, waved it away and said, well now, whatever. But the thing is, observers, diplomats,

and the like are saying, nitwit Nero has trashed his relationship with the septre d'isle beyond repair. And he said, I asked you K, who should be our best. In fact, the king is coming over here in two weeks. He's a nice guy, King Charles. But should be our best, but they weren't our best. I said, you have two old broken-down aircraft carriers. Do you think you could send them over?

I would have to ask my team. I said, no. I said, no, you're the prime minister. You don't have to. No, no, no, no. I have to ask my team. My team has to meet. We're meeting next week.

But the war already started. Once again, there's that passive voice doing a lot of heavy lifting. The war already... But the war already started. Which is... Makes it sound like it's just something that happened. As opposed to... But I already started the war.

Next week, the war is going to be over in three days. And so there goes another ally. And it's not just King Chuckles that's... coming over. But his spawn will is coming as well as his spawn's wife Kate. Are they bringing the

littleest winters? So thank you Ralphs. Thanks for the challenge. We will get down to 8.05 if someone ponies up 25 bucks, kicks in 25 bucks. And we'll be down to 805 and that much closer

to not having a four-digit deficit come on. more on Monday. Thank you again, Ralph. Lee in New York, they have old aircraft carriers, but their bathrooms work. Ooh. Yeah. What's that, Randy Radar?

There are multiple science fiction stories that go something like this. We're a very advanced alien society, but we're afraid we have to put you to death. Really? I mean, I've got this theory that this arm of the galaxy, or maybe the whole galaxy, has like construction barriers in space all the way around it and signs that say in several alien language

including norblap ease abandon hope all ye who enter here that's a literary reference and that they come here they know at their peril because this is the death planet this is the place where everything died no matter how good

I know this is Roxanne Little Ray of Sunshine territory but I don't contrary to what big giant forehead, Matt, it just Gates worse, said, No, I don't think there's any alien breeding programs. I think that was probably just a punk job on Matt Gates to get him to have sexy time with J.D. Vance in an alien suit. Or maybe Brian Nome. I mean, multiple candidates now, right? From Jeremy.

Just because Cousin Eddie doesn't have to walk around on British. carriers and say, Shitter's full, doesn't mean they are superior. Oh, now you're being a little bit catty, Jeremy. Yes, Amelia, wars were made. And Jeremy said, I heard from several sources that Trump was sleeping during the Supreme Court hearing as he has so often done. Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me.

And, you know, when you startle awake like a baby does, you know, it can look like the baby's fidgeting, but in fact, it's just startling awake after a little after a little nap and Good Friday the homepage wants Cyrillic says Lee in New York Putin has invaded FYI Artemis 2 has four

cosmonauts signed Lee with Ensign Chekhov just outside Moscow I should have capitalized as shown on the live stream Good Friday with the backwards Russian R somebody's being playful just seeing if anyone's paying attention but really

I think about this every time this time every year Would Jesus think good Friday's good? Because the timing never worked out for me. I think the sturging was on a Wednesday. The crucifying was on a Thursday. So that's into the tomb Thursday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. And then rising on Sunday, that's three days.

Because it doesn't work if Friday's the day. It's not three days. Math, you know me. Son, you're ready to go back down? Are you kidding me? They're still walking around. They're walking around my murder weapon around their necks. Have you seen that bleach blonde in the White House?

Yeah. So, well, to get a little philosophical, I don't just think about one crucifixion at Easter. I think about the thousands upon thousands upon thousand of crucifixions that the Romans perpetrated against enemies of the state during the empire. And the Republic. and Caesar crucified some pirates. They promised him he would, and he did.

Pompey crucified folks. Marcus Likinius Crossus, the richest man, probably in the entirety of human history. Well, he crucified a shit ton of them after the Spartacus rebellion, and they all died horribly. It was a specifically gory death. You know, the Romans could have just lopped off heads,

but it didn't have quite the, well, didn't have quite the emotional force, let's say, of a good crucifixion. A hell of a way to go. From Dave in the Blind, birthday, irony of ironies. Roxanne, goddess of irony has me and her hot little clutch as my birthday's on the 8th of April, as many of you know. However, my father's birthday is one week later. Now, drum roll, please.

My baby sister, Jennifer was born on April 1st. My baby sister is an April fool. How great is that? I just found out today, your buddy, Dave and the Blind. A very dear friend of mine has an April 1st birthday. and I can never forget her birthday because of that. And so I wished her a happy birthday on Wednesday. And from Tamara to Mike in Cascadia, so well said.

The launch melted my cynical little heart. Thanks for sharing. Oh, Tamara, that's so sweet. Yeah, my cynical little heart too. And last night, I admit I had to, I went down to the settlements for provisions after the program was over. There was still a little bit of light in the sky. It had rained off and on, but the clouds had broken up, and as I drove over the back roads to get out to the highway,

to get onto the bridge and across the gorge, it looked like the moon was already up from my perspective, but when I got where I was going, it seemed much closer to the horizon, and my goodness gracious, it was pink and huge. And like I said, I look at the moon now like I haven't since I was, seven, eight, nine years old, because I know that somewhere up there, humanity is reaching for our own little, our own little gray and occasionally pink satellite. And my heart just swelled a little bit. It's really cool. It's nice to have a, well, it's nice to see a display of American competent. But I will say this. And this goes back to something that Matt in San Francisco said a couple of nights ago. If Leon Scum's Tesla GPS is running that rocket, they'll never find the moon.

Well, what I did find out, Matt, everybody, is that apparently we're going to have two lunar landers for Artemis 3, if I'm understanding that correctly. and one of them is by Leon Scum and SpaceX, and the other one is by Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin Dick Rocket Company. That worries me, but we're a while away from that. For now, we just need to see that all the systems work. I'm only worried about the part where they slingshot around the moon because I've seen the Star Trek movies.

I know what happens then. And then the next thing you know, there's a, well, there's a, There's a board cube moving toward our solar system, and we have to go out and meet some really snotty Vulcans. So fingers crossed that they don't come back to some sort of really terrifying, as if this Earth isn't alternate Earth. And from Theo, our conspicuously silent cosmic neighbors, my theory is that alien radio astronomers picked up the X-ray signatures

from our first nuclear explosions and then began to pick up early television transmissions. Uncle Milty performing live TV comedy would easily have convinced E.T. and friends that we're just not ready for civilized company. Uncle Milty and drag? Ugh. And Daryl and Houston, crucifixion. Roxanne, you're 100% correct that crucifixion was reserved by the Romans for enemies of the state. Proof that Jibis was a political threat to Rome and was involved in political revolt. They couldn't have cared less about his tiny following of cultists at the time.

Well, you know, give us Barabbas. I mean, well, the thing is, he was probably the easiest to deal with, assuming he's not a composite, he was probably the easiest to deal with because he was more or less a pacifist, unless you really got him mad. Most of the time, the people who really got him mad were his own apostles, so there's that. He was a pacifist, and so easier to arrest and say,

the others who wanted armed revolt against Rome and if they were hoping to quell that that spirit of revolt and revolution it didn't work because the general Titus had to go over there around 72 AD and absolutely tear down everything except the western wall of Herod's temple and generally make a mess of the place and exile a bunch of people. And, well, it got a little more peaceful after that. Stayed that way for a bit until the armies of Muhammad came along and what, the 6th century thereabout.

But thanks, Darrell. And from Dave in the Blind, crucifixion upon crucifixion upon crucifixion. Quit bad-mouthing the Romans, Roxanne. After all, where do you think we got our penchant for capital punishment? as a deterrent, the Romans were wrong, and so are the Republicans. Your buddy, Dave in the Blind, what's good about Friday is I get to sleep in Saturday, except tomorrow I've got to go to Winchester.

We're closing tomorrow. Oh, I'm so happy to know that you're going to be in a place where you know you can be safe. I'm so, so happy, Dave, and so relieved. Good luck. You can sleep in a week from tomorrow. From Flavio, American Competence. Watch that hubris when Artemis 2 carries astronauts beyond Earth orbit for the first time. in 50 years, Europe will be providing the power that makes the journey possible.

Built by European industry, ESA's European service module is the propulsion heart of the Orion spacecraft, carrying 33 engines that guide, steer, and propel the crew safely towards the moon and back. Three types of engines. Cool. You know, I've always favored European automobiles myself, but we also need to remember that the Germans, you know what the engines were in those tiger tanks? Porsches. They were Professor Porsches in.

And they were great, but like any Porsche, they're incredibly difficult to work on. I mean, trying to, the first time I tried to change the oil in a Porsche 944S and couldn't get the oil filter out the bottom or out through the top and had to sit there and I didn't even and try to pretend to think like a German engineer. And then I realized that if I pushed the little button that rotated the armature of the pop-up headlights out of the way, I could just reach right in and take the oil filter out. It seemed very German at the time. And the main engine, no stranger to space, it's a repurposed space shuttle orbital maneuvering system engine,

which has already flown on six missions between 2000 and 2002, now fully tested, refurbished and integrated into Orion. It brings years of proven performance to a new era of human exploration. It's so cool. And I hope this doesn't herald a new and adversarial space race. If you've ever read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, you know, A.N. Rand really should have left the libertarian science fiction to Heinlein instead of writing that god-awful tome Atlas Shrugged. But if you ever read it, there's a, I mean, he predicts AI, Heinlein does, and he predicts what dwebes like Leon Scum call singularity in a full computer consciousness. And there's a discussion relative to who owns the moon.

An obligatory Star Trek reference, courtesy of Lee in New York. In the episode tomorrow is yesterday, the script states that the first moon landing was in the late 60s. The episode first aired on January 26, 1967. They got that one right, for sure. Really not looking forward to the eugenics wars, though. Cohn! And Flavio is feeling a little froggy this evening. That $30 million toilet that now functioned, that was made nice.

the USA and it only cost $30 million. I'm kind of glad the ESA is behind Artemis 2. Well, look, plumbing is difficult in Zero G. And which Apollo mission was that had the Mr. Hanky floating around the crew cabin? Hanky.

And Jeremy says, no, no, no, nothing changes for us until we master a warp drive. Rockets won't get us much further than our own local solar system planet. And that takes a long time. I mean, what is it? Six months to Mars? Mm-hmm. Leon Scumms Tesla GPS, Brother Deacon Asa says,

no GPS in space, but making sure the craft gets there when the moon is in that particular spot at that particular time is the work of a NASA orbital dynamist. This is the kind of job so complex you don't necessarily apply to NASA for it. It's the old Chuck Norris story. I don't read the script. The script reads me. We're talking Don Trump levels of genius. Oh, dear God. Don't ruin it.

And when I said American competence, Flavio, I was comparing it to the current state. of American incompetence. Lee says repurposed engines. They should admit what it is. We're going to the moon with used parts. Come on down to Crazy Lee's space travel emporium. Just go right back out to the junkyard and pick whatever you need. Well, we'll sell it by the pound.

Right. And Friday's always good, says Lee. It's got a weekend after it, signed Lee, seeing the obvious. Well, that's true. And it looks like it may be warm tomorrow. So tomorrow may be, and reasonably dry, I may actually get to get outside and fire up the weed eater. Ooh, it's electric.

So I won't have to huff any two-cycle engine exhaust. Yay. And time to start futsin around with the riding lawnmower. Hopefully this is the year I take down the forest that the acre has become. I'd like to start a garden. but well i'm phila roxter away the first hour of the program but in in terms of just getting us uh getting us on the right track for what we'll be talking about you gotta love the fact that a day later people at the doj were already tossing portraits of jojo blondie into the garbage ms now verified the the the reality of the photo of jojo's portrait sitting in a trash can. I kind of had to turn sideways.

I can't tell if she's wearing crossy or not. Yeah, she's not happy. She's probably still tantrum. And it was justice of a sort. When she came in, well, Jojo said, I went up on the seventh floor, which is the National Security Division. The entire floor is a skiff,

so no one can get in there. So I was able to get the code, open the door, and I looked on the wall and see President Biden, Colin Harrison, Merrick Garland's paintings, still hanging. I personally took all three photos down. I put them in front of someone who said to me, oh well, maintenance is really slow here. I said, well, it took me about 30 seconds to get him

off the wall. I don't think it took 30 seconds to get her off the wall. Oopsie. But then there's the matter of the plane crack and the goddess of irony. At this point in time, she has knit with Nero, not in the palm of her hand, but she's got her hand wrapped around him and is beginning to squeeze a little bit. Yeah. We lost another one today. Two today. One was an A-10 warthog that went down in the Persian Gulf near the strait. The other one, however, the Air Force F-15E shot down over Iran.

Remember Wednesday night when he said, They're destroyed. We've destroyed their Navy. We've destroyed their... They don't have any radar. They don't have any missiles left. We've destroyed them. Well, apparently not.

And our Pentagon, which is truth challenged, says we've rescued one of the pilots, or one of the crew members from the F-15. And so far, no word on the other one. Poor soul, may they come home safe and never study war. Let's see here. Yeah, let's, I'm going to head on over to the old holler tree and see what's going on in the back porch group. Hey, Jeremy. As pretty usual, we all should realize at this point, our government is lying to us. The numbers aren't even close to what they're saying there.

They're taking marching orders from Putin and what he's doing in Ukraine, hiding the real numbers. I don't know if you remember. I don't know if you remember. This is kind of something I think went by the wayside because there's so much shit in this sandstorm we're in every day of what he does. That earlier this summer, past summer, when they're building alligator alley down in Florida, and in some of the new blueprints for the new torture facilities they want to be. build around the country for illegal immigrants and people they don't like. They're trying to install mass crematorium. If you remember what happened in Ukraine, it was so bad for Russia

that they had mobile cremation units that they could hide the bodies of their dead from the Russian people. I do remember that. I truly believe we've suffered way more than they say. I mean, I've seen multiple reports for weeks now from outside the U.S. saying it's well another hundreds. As far as almost a month ago, certain places in the UK are saying we've already lost 2,000 people up to 2,000. This week I heard we've lost 900 from another story. So I truly believe it's more than 30. Well, we know the wounded are in the hundreds. We just don't know.

We don't know how badly. And I don't know, flights in and out of Bromstein in Germany. Isn't that where our major medical complex is? They hit one of our consulates in Saudi Arabia in the last two weeks. And for somebody who used to be in that field of work, he said that that building could hold 3,000 people at its full capacity. It was flattened. He said, you cannot tell me a functioning building that was flattened by a missile suffered no casualty. Yeah, that seems impossible.

It does seem impossible. And they're not telling us – they're just not telling us the real numbers. They're afraid to do it because they're trying to sell us on winning, winning, winning. And, you know, I just listened to some of Trump's speech the other night. And he took every position he possibly could, including we're just going to be. take the oil because people say it's easy. We can do it. Just go in there and send in some ground troops.

After they fly in 300 miles, mind you, because it's not on the coast. It's inside the country. You're here, Roger. So I'm weary, and I'm telling people to prepare for mashed tassalties. It's coming. I won't be surprised. Fortunately, no. Roger, you were in here. We can hear you.

You're fine. Now we can't hear you if you're saying anything. I could hear you before, and you said testing one, too. Yeah, I heard that too. I'm trying to think. What else? any things I've heard that you haven't covered or I've missed. Trying to think of any shocking stories. Other than we're going to cut out senior eye care from Medicaid and Medicare because we can't afford to do it.

We need to fund the war. We can't afford daycare. We can't afford helping people with their health care in general, but we can spend a billion dollars a day and over 56 billion so far in this epic failure. And I think it was you last night. It might have been Bob Cicca or Cesska. I think it was you, though. So curiously enough, when he said, we're going to do this for three more weeks, that puts us at 60 days, where he actually needs authorization.

Yeah, that was me. Okay. And it's a curious number, and I could actually see him at the end of that, maybe saying, you know, we're done, complete victory. There's nothing. I don't know. Anything is possible with this asshole. It changes day to day of his dementia. He makes it up as he goes, and he thinks it's true because the spirokates are telling him, it's true.

remember he has a good authority from another president he's doing a good job number 45 told him this I mean he said a couple weeks ago I've talked former president he says I'm doing a great job with everything I'm doing and how brave I am I mean he's talking about himself nobody else as soon as he said that every other living president's staff that's still around came out and said nobody's talked to him not a soul not Bush not Clinton none of them or Obama I guess there's anything left now that Carter's gone so it's really just Bush Clinton and Obama at this point Yeah. Anyway, I can't think of anything too exciting.

Maybe a Roger is more. I'm worn out. Oh, still fighting for medical supplies. Just about at Wits' end, I don't condone violence, but at this point, I really can understand it. I really can. I don't condone what that guy did to the big CEO of the insurance company, but I can understand the anger behind it. I really can. insurance companies and medicalized companies. What's the latest? What are they doing to you now, Jeremy?

I got an email earlier this week. Okay, two weeks ago, two Mondays ago, not this Monday, but Monday before, I called in and talked to the medical company. I need to get my CGM, my blood meter through that connects to my pump, which regulates my blood sugar to some extent. It doesn't do it. Perfect, but it's better than not having it at all. I can tell you that.

My life is different. And I went through a rigmarole with a lady. She said, I see this. I see that. Mind you, I had done this a month before that, too. And I was told it would take four to five days to get a prior authorization. Well, I talked to this lady a month later, and she said that none of it had been done yet. It still needs a prior authorization, the medical company, he needs to get a prescription for my doctor.

I said, I did this all. I didn't swear, but I wanted to. I'll do this all a month ago. And she assured me two Mondays ago, I'll be on this first thing tomorrow at 9 a.m. when we open up. And I'll call you back as soon as I know. I went three or four days. I went until that Thursday without hearing from her at all. Never called in. And then I realized they sent me an automated message, something, something, something, something, something, something, I called back. So I logged under their page that I have an account, and I updated my credit

card information, billing and all that, ready to go. And I get a call this week again from them telling me they need more information. So I call up, and they ask them. And they ask. And they ask me all the questions they've asked me three times already. Who your doctor is, what prescription you're looking for, what card do you want to bill? We're not going to bill you until we send it out, and we need to get the authorization. It'll take four to five days. This happened three times now. Yeah, that's not an accident.

That's deliberate conduct. I feel like I'm being jerked around. And, again, I'm not angry because this is something I choose to do. This is something I need to stay alive. The one thing I really worry about in my life now, it's hard of it. a silent heart attack. I'm not overly overweight. You can't tell but looking at me,

but I'm terrified of high blood pressure and a heart attack. Because that is something that type 1's I'm seeing around me dying over silent heart attack. Ones who don't look like overweight, not the thing of people, but an overweight sloth. I don't look like I ate myself to death. Let's put it that way. Wouldn't know unless I told you I'm a type 1 diabetic.

But I know a lot of type 1 that have died in the early 50s, early 60s from silent heart attack. they never knew where happening. And the one thing that made me a little more calm about it is that pumping insulin constantly being sent in. It's not perfect, but it makes a difference. Well, you mentioned heart attacks.

This might give you a bit of a giggle. Sure. Let me get it. Okay. This is an artist named Eric Benet. It's called, it's a familiar name. It's called McDonald's Please. Here we go.

McDonald's please could you put extra grease on big max you sent to the West Wing McDonald's please there's a cardiac arrest we've all prayed for since 2016 McDonald's please special orders I'll take one lot orange casualty McDonald's, please. We'll be loving it. Love it. Special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, almost as we see fun with extra grease. Extra grease.

Yes. Fair enough. That was funny. And I swear to God, as bad it is, I actually enjoy McDonald's probably once a week. It's not every day. It's a treat after I get my grocery to morning and get a breakfast or sometimes I get a dinner. Yeah, okay, okay, fair, unpaid product placement. I've developed a little bit of a problem.

I actually really enjoy the McDonald's breakfast burritos. They're tiny. Yeah. They're tiny. They're, you know, they're not a, and, you know, two of them, they come in pairs, and the pecanque sauce that they provide with it, they're really stingy with it, but it's good. Don't feel bad, Robin. I enjoy the McGrittles.

Basically, fake meat with fake cheese and bread, infused with fake maple syrup. So I'm just, I'm right there with you. I feel your pain. Don't you just, don't you just feel dirty right now, Jeremy, because I do. I feel good after eating that I sit there. No, I feel like, I feel like, I feel like one of those French oligarchs. I need to eat my McDonald's breakfast burrito with a little hanky over my head so Jesus can't see me. I feel like I should be doing this in a confessional somewhere. I've seen I've eaten a McGrittle or two. yeah or a meeting you know yeah i've realized that i've become power i've become powerless over

mcdonald's breakfast burritos and my life has become unmanageable but on the flip of all this robin i will i will say i am well aware that my bad day would be someone's dream's best day in this world many many many people including many other americans so you know i'm pissed i still have it better better than a large person in this fucking world ever have. I know that. No, I know. Without a doubt.

But still, I mean, I was surprised. I was like, I don't even remember why I ordered a McDonald's breakfast burrito the first time. Maybe because I felt like my McDonald's biscuit and gravy was just too much of a kick in the teeth to my blood sugar. Well, I do it because I go, I work, you know, until one or two in the morning on Saturday mornings. Then I go home, take a shower. I'm on basically a weekend. and then I go get groceries open something at 6 before I go to bed. So I haven't really eaten a full meal after I have dinner during work.

So it's kind of like, it's almost like my dinner at that point at 6 a.m. So I just grabbed something on the way out, and there's a McDonald's 200 feet from the grocery store. I was just tempted by the food there. It's a double-edged sword. It's almost like it has to be done. And even worse, once in a while I'll get a couple Dunkin' Donuts, and there's a Dunkin' Donuts 200 feet from the grocery. star.

You bastards. I know I'm a horrible person. I'm going to suffer for it. But anyway. Well, I'm just grateful for the fact that you're far enough north that you don't have a, you don't have a crispy cream because then there'd be a problem, Jeremy. You'd have a real problem. I've never had a crispy cream, even though we can buy them through the mail or through,

you know, high school selling them or kids selling them. I've never had a crispy cream and I don't want to find out how good they are. No. Yeah, it's like, don't try crack. I hear compared to Dunkin' Donuts, I'm basically eating shit when you eat Dunkin' Donuts. If you get any Krispy Cream, they'll never go back. So, yeah. It's not just any Krispy Cream, though, because it's, you know, when you've got a Krispy Cream store in your location, you know, around wherever you live, from time to time, they turn that red neon light on when they're actually baking, and it says hot now.

I'm really. And you get them coming right. You know, they roll through the enrober where the sugar glaze falls upon them, and then they come down, and they just take, and they are piping hot, and they put them in a little box for you, and you're not out of the parking lot before. You get, when it's, when a crispy cream is fresh, you can stuff an entire donut in your mouth, and it just sort of disappears. It's, it's, oh.

I feel that way about Dunkin' Donuts apple fritters. They're very fresh. basically a glob of dough injected with what's closest to my grandmother's applesauce I've ever found. It's terribly over-sugared. The whole thing is glazed in sugar after and left to dry. So it's a heart attack and a little bun, but it's the closest thing I found to her applesauce and it tastes good. But go to Roger before I turn this in food porn completely and that's a habit. Well, we are, one more thing I want to do because of something

you brought up. You mentioned nitwit Nero saying, We can't afford health care. We can't afford daycare, child care. Just as was the case with yesterday, where the White House pulled its bat-shick crazy Easter video where, you know, he was getting hands laid on him and prayed over. And Paula White said that he's basically Jesus. And I had the clip, you know, even Alex Jones was like, oh, no, this is too far. You know, when Alex Jones says you've jumped a shark, Jesus, you know, you've jumped the shark from jaws. But in that same moment, that's where he talked about the, well, the child care, and here it is.

Because the United States can't take care of daycare. That has to be up to a state. We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We're fighting wars. We can't take care of daycare.

care. You got to let a state take care of daycare, and they should pay for it, too. They should pay. They have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up, but it's not possible for us to take care of daycare. Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can't do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing, military protection. That's it. Military protection, which means he just wants to you know, graft the grift the military.

But the thing is, he's so far gone now. He doesn't even understand that Medicare is a federal program. Medicaid is administered by the states, block grants and the like, and of course, one of the fetish objects of the Republican Party

is the idea that everything should be blocked granted. Because then the money just gets handed to the state and a dirty, corrupt maggot states. Well, I mean, it really happened in Louisiana I think we gave a block

the federal government gave a block grant to Louisiana to feed hungry people and they went out and bought cars no kidding

well that was almost as damning as him adding in towards the end oh and I'm going to put 100% tariff on all medications made up saying the United States

that's going to hurt every American 90% of our medications aren't made here maybe title Advil pills are there because they get punched out in the express line

but you think of things like insulin, that's all made in India. That's going to screw so many people if that actually happens. Then again, he says one thing and never does it and says six more. So we'll see, but that will hurt everyone if that goes into effect. Everyone. Well, how is Mullah Moses Mike Johnson going to pass that budget request? $1.9 trillion for military? Yeah.

And, you know, everybody else go begging. How's he going to get that through that tiny little majority he's got? He won't because if they do, they'll certainly lose the house and probably to send it. They're going to lose the house. But, I mean, I don't know. Anyway, go to Roger so I can get back to work. Okay.

I've done enough bitching and complain, joking. Okay, fair enough. Hey, Roger. Hello. Sorry about that testing earlier. Oh, no apologies. Going out and I'm running that new computer and a big screen came up, you know, not a big screen, but a little bar came up.

We're not getting anything out of your microphone, so I was playing around. And it was muted, so of course Discord wasn't getting anything out of my microphone. Today, the F-15 got shot down and the other ship that's going on. Yeah. Last Wednesday night, we got told that Iran didn't have any more ability. Yeah, you noticed that too, right? They don't have any more radar.

They don't have any more anti-aircraft missiles. We've killed them all. And then Jeremy posted a little bit earlier about a dry supply ship that Iran. supposedly blew out of the water. Yeah, the Perry. We talked about that a little bit yesterday. And I've looked all day here, and I can't find anything other than a couple of sources that I have no familiarity with.

I would think, if no one else, I would think Al Jazeera would have that story, wouldn't you? Well, the only one I found appears to me to be an AI-generated Arabic language, no translation available YouTube video. And in my usual being a little bit suspicious, yeah, in a way, I kind of like it to be true. I mean, I feel sorry for the sailors

on the tip and the rest of that. But if I can't get two or three different sources at a Facebook repost of the YouTube video to me is not a confirmation because it's the same same damn story just being spread around. But there was a,

I've got another email. There was a ship by the same name that not too long ago was, as they were building this new one, they decommissioned the old one, and they used the old one for target practice to make another artificial reef somewhere down in the Caribbean. So a ship by that name has been sunk.

but it's not the one that is actually in use today. And when I went to the ship tracker site, the last time I could get a read on where that ship was, it was just off the coast of New York, but that was back in, what was it, February? No. Well, I have one question that you... Sometime last year.

I have a question that you might perhaps be able to... Based on your... experience and knowledge, you might be able to answer this. It's said to be the USNS Perry. What's the difference between a USS and a USNS? I don't know exactly, but I suspect that this ship that's being talked about is simply a cargo vessel, a Navy cargo vessel for dry cargo. It is not in any way of battleship.

It is a resupply type ship. ship. So it could be under a different, you know, a different category of naming. And I'm not positive on that. I mean, Coast Guard only has cutters. And they've got attack cutters and they've got search cutters and they've got ocean going tub cutters. But they're all U.S. Coast Guard cutters.

But the Navy has a different designation for the submarines. The aircraft carriers have a different designation. the destroyers have a slightly different designation. So it would not surprise me that a strictly cargo vessel that carries very few armaments, in other words, it's not designed to protect itself or attack. I mean, it's designed to protect itself to a certain extent, but it's not designed as a true Navy vessel that goes out and kills people. It's to bring more missiles and bombs and that kind of shit to the ships that are doing the attacking type stuff.

So, I mean, I could see it having a different one, but I don't know offhand. Anyhow, in the chat room of Old Hollow tree chat, not a chat for the voice side, I posted some pictures of a place called Voodoo Donuts here in Eugene, Oregon. Oh, yeah, I've heard of them. their maple bar comes with two strips of bacon on top it's rather famous or infamous for that particular confection is it not and and they're they are really good the oldest boy tends to go there more than i do because i'm trying to cut down on my sugar and that kind of thing not because of diabetes just i'm trying to keep my weight down um but he's been known to go there for one of his

kids one of the grandkids birthdays and buy voodoo donuts instead of a birthday cake so it's uh they're good i i will i will have to say they are good donuts but again in jeremy's kind of thing back in about 1972 i was driving school bus in san francisco and there was a doggie diner which was a famous walk-up type spot in san francisco multiples of them And I was driving a school bus, but I didn't drive a car to get there. I rode to public transit. And I had about a four-block walk from where I was living to where the bus stop was. The bus stop was right in front of the doggie diner.

And I always made sure that I left the house 10 minutes before I really needed to so I could hoof it down to the doggy diner and get myself a maple bar and a cup of hot chocolate and that kind of stuff. and eat my breakfast at the doggy diner at 6 o'clock in the morning on my way to catch buses out to the bus barn to get in the school bus for me to run around San Francisco and pick up kids and drop with schools and that kind of shit. So I can totally understand people either before work or after work, stopping by a fast food place and grabbing a bite because it's easier than getting up in the morning and cooking a breakfast and all the rest of that.

shit before you go to work and I had the money to do it so I did it and now the other one is I had a had let the vampire draw a little blood this morning and I went back a little bit later for the one year checkup on my heart valve and you know the person that's doing the has it been a year wow well it's just it's not quite a year yet I had it done in June mayor June and so it's It's in the neighborhood of a year. But when I went in the middle of last month, apparently the nurse practitioner that listened to me said, I had a murmur that came back. Oh, I mean, I didn't have a murmur originally. Now I have a slight murmur again.

So they ran me in for the ultrasound. And, you know, you never asked the x-ray technician, is it broken or, you know, anything of that sort. So I asked, you know, I see anything weird? And she said, I don't read them. I just take him. And I was getting dressed because you got to take your shirt off so they can put that goo on your chest. Oh, yeah. Play with it.

I told her the story about when I got in a truck wreck and steering wheel spun and caught a finger and broke it. But I looked at my boss and I said, I want to go to the ER. I think I broke my finger and he looked at me. It doesn't look broke to me. Well, I want to go to the doctor. So I went down and they took an x-ray of it. I asked, is it broken? And I can't tell.

Let me ask the question a different way. The local bar that I like to go to has happy hour. This was about 4, 4.30 in the afternoon. The local bar that I really like to go to has happy hour starting at 5 o'clock, and I haven't made it because I've been working all the time. You think I'm going to be able to make it to happy hour? And she looked over at me and said, I don't think so. So that told me my finger was broken.

Okay, fine. So today, when I told that to the technician, he looked at me and said, well, I really can't tell you what I saw, but you can go home and drive yourself home because I didn't see anything that need to send you down to the ER. Well, I guess that there's going to be something, but it wasn't anything serious enough to check me into the hospital, which is a good number. And I was out of the chat room earlier because I was taking the time to mow my little lawn out back. And as soon as I get done here, I'll continue to keep the headphones on, but I won't be talking. But I am just incredibly pissed off at places like the Legion Hall. When Biden was in the Legion Hall, when Biden was president, you go down to the Legion Hall, they were all wearing red hats and they were all bitching about Biden.

If you go down there now, nobody's wearing any red hats. But as soon as you make a comment about Donnie, We don't talk politics. Yeah, right. And yet the other day when I was down, a couple of us were starting to talk about amnesty and all the rest of that. Asylum, not amnesty. And there was one of the officers was behind the bar because we've been doing a shuffle of bartenders lately. And one bartender was working seven days a week.

And so the hierarchy decided to attend bar for a day or two. And he was telling me the story when he was on a, I'm not sure what's, size ship he was on. I don't think it was an aircraft carrier, but it was a good size ship. And when they were in a foreign port, if anybody ran up the gangplank and requested asylum, they were immediately taken aboard, had given clothes, whatever they needed, not a place to sleep until they could get away from whatever country he was in. And it happened to him It didn't happen to him. It happened to his ship twice that people ran aboard and requested asylum.

And they didn't do any, the way he explained it, they didn't do any investigation or anything else. They just simply accepted the person and transported them to a safe place to turn over for the Immigration Naturalization Service because they had requested asylum. And it wasn't up to the people on the ship to determine whether or not their asylum claim was appropriate. They simply accepted it. And he was, didn't say it out loud, but clearly indicating that he felt what ICE was doing with their handcuffs and disappearing and the rest of that is the ICE agents were making determinations on whether or not an asylum claim was correct. which is very antithical to how it used to be in this country.

So I don't know whether he voted for Trump or not. I'm not going to ask him whether he voted for Trump or not. I'm not going to ask him how he feels about Trump at this time. But it was kind of nice to see one of the officers down there accepting the idea that an asylum claim is a valid claim for somebody to make. here in the United States and that it should go through a judicial process and not the Gestapo process we're doing right now. So anyhow, I've been paying attention to things. You know, I'm back teaching the classes on Tuesdays, on Wednesdays and Thursdays,

which is why I've been absent the last two days. We taught sauerkraut and pickled carrots this week. Oh, pickled carrots and pickled celery is so underappreciated. And next week we're doing jams and jellies, and I'm not sure. We're doing a couple of jellies that we've never done before, jams. One of them is, it's not a marmalade, but it's using orange peel. It should be interesting. That sounds fantastic.

The last two classes we have, we're doing something in the early part, and then we're doing activity in the after part. and I'm going to get together and make up a batch of my sauerkraut balls, which is the pork sausage, breakfast sausage works real well for it. And sauerkraut, cream cheese, you roll them into meatballs, depending on how many you want, and then you roll them. I think it's an egg wash and then a cracker meal, and then you deep fat fry them. Oh, my, you're going to have to go back over that again.

Because you said sausage balls, and I thought about what typically passes for sausage balls around here. And that's a pound of breakfast sausage, a cup of Biskwick, and a half a pound of shredded sharp cheddar. And you work it all together, and you make the little golf balls out of them, and you bake them. This sounds, while more complicated, also really freaking delicious. Oh, yeah, they are. Roger. I trust Roger will be back momentarily. You got what we call distorted.

Yes. There's Roger. Yeah, sorry about that. Somehow my computer dropped off. I'm working with two computers here because I haven't figured out how to get split windows. Okay.

I'm looking up the rest. I just want to take a minute to confess that I... The thing about the ship, it came from someone who I trust with air sources one thing that threw me about it was that it took us 40 years to make 20,000 interceptor metals. That seems a little off.

The rest of it I think is true, but there's parts about it, yeah, it does see a little off. That part, Jeremy, I mean, if you've ever seen, and granted, they didn't have any particular guidance apart from just generally aiming them, but if you've ever seen footage of, say,

the assault on Okinawa or any of the other island hopping campaigns, Naval vessels were firing off, and this is World War II, literally thousands of rockets at a time in entire barrages. Well, I think about Germany firing into Russia when they used to have a whole like mile line trains of those rocket firing off. So yeah, Interceptor missiles, that's a little questionable. I'll probably pull it down here a little bit because I think it's, I think there's truth there, but it's being mixed with other stuff too, unfortunately. Well, again, what I said, you know, maybe it wouldn't reach the BBC.

Maybe it wouldn't reach Agenz France Press or Deutsche Vela, but something like that would definitely get picked up by Al Jazeera, because they're in the hood. The person I talk to still has some contacts and intelligence agencies, and his friend who still works in some of the services without getting too many details said this did happen, but we're being asked to not talk about it widely with great details. So I think there's some truth there, and I do think we're being lied to.

But this is a combination of different things, unfortunately. It's not completely what it looks like, I think. Well, and as far as the downing of the American aircraft, you know, we were told that, Oh, we go wherever we want to. We fly wherever we want to in Iran, and they can't touch us. We own the skies. This is oddly one of those one times that I wish Ben was here, because I'm going to say something, and he'd probably smack me to say I'm wrong later.

but I do believe the F-15E is the new super version of it which supposedly has some stealth technologies. That would be the second stealth plane of matters they've taken down. The second. Probably with help from Mavrocha. But you know what's really revolting here? It's no surprise to say that, you know, man who looks like rancid hot dog water smells would say something truly disgusting. But here he is. As earlier today, as news broke of the search.

for the other the other crew member from the F-15. Well, I'm just going to play the audio. Brandon Weikert, you're on deadline. And, of course, people got to put this as a perspective. We've had Sencom is reporting, I think, 11,000 or 12,000 sorties. First of all, that's an extraordinary amount just in the time we've been there, and it shows you the up-tempo of what these kids have been doing on these carriers and the airmen in our air bases in the region have been doing.

doing in harm's way. It's just incredible. These things are going to happen. You're going to get some people shot down. That's just, that's just the reality. This has not been confirmed by Sankham, but like Jack Posobic just said, Axios and other people that have inside baseball, or they leaked to on a regular basis are now starting to report it. So Weikert, as we as we leave you, because you're on deadline, your overall, where do you think we are? The other day you said where the president trump left it open for combat troops i don't happen to believe that i thought he shut that down i hope you're right saying specifically not saying but where do you think we are particularly given the update that looks like now we've had a f15 shot down and we have a bunch of

search and rescue heroes and helicopters and c130s uh hovering over the area well i think that this might be a wake-up call uh in the white house and it You know, the USS Gerald R. Ford apparently has... Oh, timeout. I didn't know C-130s could fucking hover. Never mind. It's underway now from Croatia. And I am told it is heading back to the middle, to the Centcom AOR, area of responsibility,

at a time when now they're deploying the, I think the George H.W. Bush is inbound. You've got the Abraham Lincoln. And apparently in that last wave of Iranian missile strikes last night, the Iranians actively shot at the Abraham Lincoln. So to me, this looks like we're plussing up. It doesn't look like we're de-escalating. It might be in support of just more airstrikes, which I think is the hope that this is all that this is.

But when you pair that with the number of troops flowing into the region, unfortunately, again, it looks like Trump is still tempted to climb that escalation ladder. Does this dumb-dum not know that he actually asked the people, Pentagon for a plan to invade Iran and steal their fissile materials? I mean, wow, but there's a little bit more. I can't stress enough how significant of a problem this will be for the United States if we get bogged down in a ground war, either along the Iranian coastline or what I think's probably going to happen or they're going to think about doing is this Tom Clancy run and

gun in the desert going after you know 450 kg's of of uranium so i hope that this is a wake-up call that we get these pilots home and then president trump says i've accomplished everything i need to tag europe you're it that's where i hope this is going but i don't think it is it looks like he's still moving those troops into the area and another carrier that's that's a big uh that's a big show force but

the the repulsive most repulsive part of all of that was uh stevie three shirt saying that searching for the downed crewman is going to get some people shot down. Jesus Christ. And as I said in the show post yesterday, I got to sleep every night wondering, and more so than any time since the Cold War, wondering if, you know, I'm going to wake up and the world's going to be glowing in the dark, God. Well, one of these days, you need to go get one pound of pork sausage, a quarter cup finely chopped onion, a 14, 16 ounces of sauerkraut, well-drained and finely chopped, two tablespoons

of Italian seasoned dry breadcrumbs, one-half teaspoon of prepared yellow mustard, one-quarter teaspoon garlic salt, one-eighth teaspoon ground black pepper, four ounces of cream cheese softened, two tablespoons of dried parsley flakes, one-quarter cup all-purpose flour, and then a one large egg, quarter cup of milk, and three-quarters of a cup of Italian seasoned dry crumb. You take all that first part down to the two tablespoons dried parcel slakes, ground the pork sausage, the onions, all that good stuff. Put in a bowl, mix into cream cheese, the ground black pepper, and the yellow mustard. And then you take and you roll the golf ball size balls in flour, dip them in the egg wash, and then roll them around in the seasoned dry breadcrumbs. And then you a quart of vegetable oil for fries.

You kind of want a deep fat fry them and pop them out. Or after you've got them breaded, put them on a cookie sheet, freeze them. And you don't even have to thaw them before you put them in the hot oil and fry them up and have them fresh. God, those sounds so good. They are good. Do you use a mixer or do you just mix it together with your hands? I just mixed it with my hands. God, those sounds so good.

I mean, you know, I spoot it a bit. And then for the final, I do it with my hands and I roll them. into the meatballs by hand, you know, just make out a tablespoonful and roll it up, dump it into the flour. But they are tasty. I think what I'll do is I'll make them up and freeze them, and then I'll take my big walk and my stove and take them over to the church for our class and go out back and boil them all up and put them on the table when it's much time. Serve them with, like, marinera or something, or garlic butter or what? No, no, just serve them.

I'm playing. Wow. I'm thinking about maybe for next year's Super Bowl party doing them. Ooh. And they really should be done fresh because if you'd cook them and then freeze them and heat them up in the microwave, I don't know. If you heated them up in an air fire, it might be okay. But if you heat them up in the microwave, you don't get that nice, crunchy outer layer.

No, you want that. Yeah. But anyhow, I see Steve came in, so you must have something to say. Yeah, let's check. Hey, Steve. How are you? Hey, okay. How are you?

You know, I'm as okay as I can be. Yeah, same with me. Got a little emotional. You know, I got a little, I got a little positivity boost out of the launch on Wednesday. How is that going? You know what, I do not watch the news, so I don't know what's going on. Well, there's a tracker.

Mike and Cascadia was saying he's using it, and it just, you know, how far they've gone, how far they've got to go. Things are going relatively well, had a little toilet problem. Got it, Fick. So that was a big deal. Okay. And let me add. They've left Earth orbit. They went around the Earth once first, and they left Earth, and then they did a, I don't know,

three or four minute burn, something like that, left the Earth's gravity and headed to the moon. How many miles is the Moon from Earth? 250,000 approximately. Thousand. Right now it's 150,000 miles away from Earth and like halfway there. So, yeah, take a couple days to get there. But there's a pretty cool video going around on social media.

of a plane which was en route from Georgia to, I believe, Puerto Rico, and they're within the five-mile radius of the launch, and they caught it all from the plane. That was kind of cool. That is cool. Yeah, I just find it, because this is something we didn't do before. They are, they're traveling at this rate, and, you know, I never got along well with physics.

But they're doing it with solar panels deployed to maintain the electrical system. That's why. all say, based on what you're talking about, Rob, when we were watching it live, because I went through and rewatch it when I got home later that night. But the real slap in the face to both Trump and, what's his face, Hegseth, having a black pilot, female co-pilot, Canadian as their sidekick, and a trans woman at Capcom doing most of the countdown. They must have driven them up the wall. I hope they didn't get into that level of detail because I'd like those people to continue to have their jobs. but yeah, the pilot, Mr. Glover, is undeniably black. Let me ask you, who actually, is this private or is it like a private public partnership?

How does it all work? Well, this is NASA, and it's kind of a worldwide effort. Flavia was pointing out earlier that the engines are from the European Space Agency. The rocket was used at the beginning of this century, so it was a known, you know, it was it was known functional. But I think when the actual lunar landing mission comes around, as I mentioned earlier, apparently there are two lunar landers, and one is built by SpaceX and the other is built by Blue Origin. But I think Boeing's involved. I mean, it's kind of like, you know, the space shuttle. Remember Morton Thiakol?

Mm-hmm. Yeah, that was private. And so what they do is they leverage private industry via contracts to put it all together. Okay. But it was very definitely not a private mission. The two solid rocket boosters attached to the main engine were very clearly marked with that really groovy 70s logo for NASA, and I think it's cool that they still have it. Because I thought NASA was basically gone, but apparently it's not.

No, it isn't. It isn't. And NASA is running, NASA is running the mission, start to finish. Okay. Houston Mission Control has charge of it now. Oh, okay. That's cool. Are they going to actually land on the moon, or they're just going around the moon to kind of scope out? Yeah, and they're not even entering lunar orbit. I saw a description that said, when they see the far side of the moon, it'll look about the size of a basketball.

Can you hear the chicken outside? I can't. I can't. So they're going around the moon once? Yeah, and then slingshotting back. Okay. And again, what's the purpose? Well, the purpose is to test out the entire system for, you know, human occupancy and make sure.

sure that everything works for this part of it and then they'll go to work on actually entering lunar orbit and touching down on the surface how long how long before they actually go back and touch down the 10-day mission round trip yeah but as far as no other six days or so as far as landing on the moon that's a year and a half from now i think okay actually then slings thing around the moon the other neat thing is it'll be the furthest human kinds meet it and nor a solar system system any launch so far past the moon. That's cool. But I mean, you have to give them the points for bravery, you know,

strapping themselves onto essentially a tightened nuclear missile without the tip on it and blasting off. That takes balls. You know what? It's funny you say that because I started thinking about this and I started thinking about what I ever go up in one of those. And I thought, I'd know what I'd go up, but I'd not go up in one of those.

I probably would have gone up in the space shuttle, but other than that, I wouldn't go up in space. Would you, Robin, or you, Jeremy, or you, Roger? One of my very first toys, Steve, was a space helmet. And I dreamed of it. Steve, I get sick if a roller coaster upside down. So, fuck no, I would not be going on the space short of any rocket launch. I'd be hurled the whole way up.

Yeah, that's a possibility, too. I mean, I don't like roller coasters. But I'll tell you this. I don't even know if they still have it. They may have disassembled it long ago. But at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, they had a, I call it a ride, because it was, and it was eons ago. I was still a kid. It was called the Lunar Odyssey. And it was like that old amusement park or carnival ride where the unit begins to spin and then like the floor drops away.

Uh-huh. It was like that, only it was in the dark in an enclosure. And everybody had this, like, launch couch, and it would hold, like, 100 people. There were three rows of couches, and you weren't aware of the spinning, but it would spin fast enough to create a zero-g environment or something approaching it. And the roof was like a planetarium projection screen. And so you were looking out the front of the rocket and, you know, big Dolby really rumbling speakers and everything and created a simulation such that, for instance, at Lyftoff, the G-forces actually pushed you back into your couch. And then once you got out of Earth orbit, the couch floated.

And I thought, yeah, sign me. up. That's cool. That's cool. That original ride you're thinking of many of us of a similar age will understand of. It was called a lot of different names, but the main name I think we'll know of us is Gravatron. Yeah, I think that was

what it was. In this case, it was the Lunar Odyssey. Oh, that's really, really cool. Let me ask you something else. Would you ever, you know, we're talking Star Trek here. Would you ever, like, step into a transporter? Oh, yeah. I'm no, I'm no Bones-McCoy here. No, scatter my molecules across.

the universe and reconstitute of somewhere else. That's cool. It would be nice. It'd be nice. You could go to lunch in Paris. I actually heard kind of Star Trek-y, but it was from Neil deGrasse Tyson the day. It was a video short. And he talked about when he dies, he can be buried in the ground in a vaccine sense,

where the nutrients from spotty be absorbed by other molecules. He went to the different forms of, you know, stuff you can do when you die. He said, the neat one is, if you're cremated, he said, your neurons and stuff turn into the right word for heat energy basically turn into heat energy and he says after four years

heat energy travels at the speed of light he said the energy that radiates from your body has met the next solar system so in a way you do live on forever if you're burnt up that's kind of neat remember matter can neither be created nor destroyed the amount of matter in the universe is constant

it never changes right energy just goes from one form to another. So what you know is energy in your bombing now becomes something else when you die. It goes into the ground or goes into space. But yes, you do not cease to really exist in the sense of, yeah, this is me, Jeremy, but you don't really cease to exist. I think it's cool. But that's neat. You guys educated me much more on this lunar time, because I didn't really know much about it. I've been, like I say, I've been out of the news dealing with some personal issues, so I've been out of the news for a while.

Well, this was your chance, Steve, to get even and call me. No. Well, you're not a nerd if it's cool. Oh, and by the way, Billable Rick said, I'm watching the crew inside the Orion capsule of the Artemis 2 mission on the NASA YouTube channel. They're just preparing their midday meal and maneuvering around the capsule. You can tell when the woman is on camera by her floating brown locks of hair. I understand the space inside the capsule is only 187 square feet for four astronauts,

which would be 13.67 feet times 13.6.7 feet times 13. I hope everyone gets along well. And, you know, that's a significant point, billable, because, you know, there's a lot of psychological testing that goes into this to make sure that you're not, you know, that they're not going to bug out halfway there. And it becomes even more significant when you start thinking about a mission to Mars. And, you know, six months.

You couldn't put four people in that kind of a space and go, okay, you can get out and well maybe you can get out in six months. Six months. Yeah. Mission to Mars is a lot more than six months. It's six months there. Yeah, I know. If you land, until something comes to pick you up and you get enough energy blast off, you're there permanently.

It's a one-way trip as far as we know what this is. Yeah. Or you'd have to fly with some sort of vehicle to get you, you know, kind of like the lunar module to get you off the surface. But it's a hell of a lot more to achieve escape velocity on Mars than it is on the moon. Well, and you know what? probably the only way to power a ship to Mars and back would probably be a nuclear, some sort of nuclear reactor, that or warped, once we invent warp drive. Yeah, that's, well, that's the old joke that, the old economist joke,

that the punchline is assume a can opener. Yeah, assume warp drive. Right. The only cocker I know of this famous around here Invented the ski area So we're a long ways away from warp drive I have a friend of mine I have a friend of mine who I'm convinced

Is genuinely crazy Because he called me up the other day And tells me he has invented warp He has found He has invented warp drive He has done all kinds of things With Einstein's With theory of relativity

And quantum mechanics and all that And I'm like, oh, I'm like, and at one point throughout, in our conversation, he was telling me how his, how his brother doesn't really, doesn't really talk to him all that much. And I'm like, now I know why. When I hear somebody telling me, well, I discovered what science so far hasn't, I'm like, okay, okay. He starts talking about stuff and throws in there the book of Revelation and how chapter 19 of this is this and blah, blah, blah. And then I channel my inner Robin Kincaid, and I'm like, my eyes roll like, oh, my Lord. Oh, my Lanta. Oh, my Lanta.

And Brother Deacon, Asa tells me the Lunar Odyssey is still there, no couch, but you get strapped up against a vertical sliding bed. That's what it was. That's what I mean. It starts lifting as the sphere reaches the speed to create the required G-Force to simulate lift-off. You basically can't lift your head or arms off the inner side of the sphere, as it's generating some three Gs of force. It's an unforgettable experience. Oh, it absolutely is.

And I'm glad to know it's still there. It would be worth the price of admission to go in to go and ride it again. Hey, and I have another question I wanted to ask. I've listened to you guys talk about this. What is this thing about that Jeremy was talking about, a ship being sunk or whatever it is? Yeah, that's kind of engaged our curiosity for a couple of days now. apparently the USS Perry, or U.S.N.S. Perry, said to have been sunken by the Iranians, but can't find any kind of verification of it. Like I said, even through Al Jazeera, who I would think would be blaring it from the rooftops, not because of a sense of, you know, gotcha or some loyal note, but just because they're actually committed to doing journalism. I removed it because there's not enough.

If I could back it up with three different sources or even sources of it, like I said, the person I talked to, I put faith in and trust that he knows what he's talking about. And there's probably some truth there. But the thing about us taking $4 years and $58 billion to create $20,000 interceptor missiles, that's off for me. There's no way that's possible. We make more than 20,000 cars a year, let alone missiles. So that part threw me off. So I took it down for now. I think there's truth there, but I think it's mixed with tall tales at this point, too, unfortunately.

I think it was against you that filled a lot of people. And look, I think a healthy dose of skepticism is a requirement, especially, you know, truth is always the first casualty of war. But Jesus, in the age of AI, truth is already coughing up blood on the porch before the first shots fired. Oh, and by the way, thank you. you to sylvie you know ralps has a twenty five dollar challenge out and sylvie met twenty of it thank you so much sylvie

she said just got paid wish it were more but it fits in my budget hugs to you yours and all the listeners all y'all are wonderful as are you sylvie as are you thank you so five dollars more and we're down to eight hundred and five dollars to

uh to uh... to uh... you know be fully funded. If we at 805, if we could raise another $110 beyond that, we would not be facing a $1,000

deficit on Monday. I hate to talk about it, but we all know that. But that's where we are. Thank you, Sylvie. $5 more, and we're down to 805. And I really appreciate it, and thank you, Routes, for the challenge. Okay, Robin, I've got a little information. United States

Naval ship, UFNS. NS are non-commissioned, typically unarmed auxiliary vessels owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by the military sea lift command with civilian crews. They provide transportation to fuel supplies and equipment for the military, often supporting Navy combat ships. The crew typically operated by civilian mariners, although some missions may involve small military teams or some. security or communication. And unlike commissioned USS ships, U.S.N.S. vessels are not warships, they can operate in hazardous areas and have received unit commendation. So I was sort of right when I made that comment earlier.

Yeah, well, I had recognized the designation of U.S.NS because the two Navy hospital ships, one of them is the U.S.N.S. Mercy. I think, and maybe the other one is USNS Hope or something like that? The comfort hospital ships. Yeah, the comfort and the mercy, I think. Anyhow, that's so that's the reason for

the USNF as opposed to USF. Yeah, and Ralph sent along the link for the F-15 E Strike Eagle, all-weather multi-role strike fighter and it goes back. Honest to God, I think the F-15

was one of the last models I built as a kid. I did too. I would just think of the same thing. I had one. It had red and white stripes on the wing. Wait, was that an F-15 or was that a falcon? It was an F-15. Okay.

As of 2026, the F-15E is the USAF's most capable tactical nuclear weapon delivery aircraft. It can carry up to 5B-61 Mod-12 nuclear bomb. Wonderful. Yeah. Great. Yay. What do you think is going to happen?

I mean, I didn't say my typical when I was listening to Stevie 3 shirts. Every time I hear him talk and give all this praise to Trump, I just want to say to him, Steve, you're not getting back in the tent. You're on the out. Actually, I say something similar only, of course, more disgusting. Steve, he's still not going to fuck you. Or you want to say, Steve, you might as well go and spit because he doesn't care. air.

What? That's the first one of the evening. Oh, that's just nasty. Yeah, it is nasty. It is nasty. Oh, did you get your, the smoker? It's almost,

she's almost ready for her first fire, which I hope will happen this weekend. I have to ask you, why do you like summer soap? Because it's warm and sunny, and my mood improves dramatically. I mean, I just want to cavort through the whatever, like the merry little forest sprite that I am.

Uh-huh, okay. Because, I mean, I love cold, and the colder the better. I used to love winter. Well, one of my dreams is to go to Nunavut, and to go to the capital of Nunavut, which is Akalwit. Yeah. And I would love to go up there and spend, I don't know, maybe six months to a year.

You know, we used to have a member of our community who was there. Haven't heard from him in ages. But he loved it. And I think he was a social worker. And would send me pictures. And I used to have, I used to use it on one of my screens. I forget, maybe an early iPad perhaps. But of, it was like not sunset.

You know, it was like midnight. And the sun just sort of sitting there on the, horizon in the dead of winter or summer summer summer but yeah i get that but here let me let me let me just put it and uh perhaps the the the women in the community will step in on this too um at this point about six years worth of estrogen and i'm not worth a damn in the cold anymore i'm so so sensitive to the cold and all i wanted and and that that's what that and the lack of light is what brings on my gloomier side during the winter months.

And by the way, I'm proud to say, one, two, three, we've got almost four cases of propane left. Knock fucking wood, Roxanne. So hopefully we won't have to burn any of that and we'll be able to use that going into next winter. Funny thing about the space of a launch is I think about space a capsule launch. It affected us all in a similar time at the same time because I was about to pick on you and say you're too soft

trying in a fucking rocket launch. And the Capcom person said something, it hit me, and I had to hold back the tears. So no one was alone. Trust me, it hit all this thing at different time. It made me laugh after. Yeah, I don't. I mean, it wasn't, I didn't will it.

I was powerless over it. It was a pride thing. We're doing, it was something, it was good news, and you're glad to hear it, and it wasn't awful news. They didn't die. I made it into space, and it can make you proud of something we're doing instead of horrified.

Yeah, exactly. And when one of the astronauts said, we do this for all humanity, yeah. That's what it was. That's what got me when they said they do it for all humanity. I got the goosebumps, and I felt the tear duct starting to work, and they shut off. But for a brief second, it almost happened, so I felt it to you. I'm not going to long. Oh, my eyes welled up, and the tears just poured over and ran down my face.

I was so glad I wasn't wearing makeup. Actually, I was wearing makeup. But it's good waterproof stuff, so, you know, my mascara didn't run. I don't know, but somebody probably needs to tell, because he may not know it, somebody needs to tell Brian Nome, always, always the waterproof stuff. It's a little harder to remove, but it'll be a little less embarrassing if you ever have an emotional moment, like when you get caught by the, like when you get caught by a tabloid sending $25,000 to sex workers who promised to bimbofy you. No judging.

It ain't about the cross-dressing. It's about the hypocrisy. Just want to be clear on that. And no way did Krusty Nome not know. Of course. Not know about him? Yeah. She claimed that?

Yeah. Oh, she's blindsided. Blindsided. You know. I mean. After 35 years. 35 years. Yeah.

I had no idea. Oh, my lanta. I had no idea. My stars and goddess. Oh, goodness me. My stars and goddess. Who do you think is going to be next? The odds-on favorite is Madam Skunkhead, Tulsa I-Gabard.

I'll tell you what. If Cash Patel's next, I'll throw in $100. If he's next, I'll throw in $100. Okay. I'll hold you. I think it's going to be... I think it's Cash Patel. I think it militates in favor of...

uh, Madam Skunkhead, for one reason, she's a woman and he hates women. And so her status as a woman immediately puts crosshairs on her for, you know, for,

for, for, for, for Trump, because women can never be smarter than him, women can never know more than him, uh, you know,

you go back to the debate with Hillary and he's Putin's puppet. Not a puppet, not a puppet. And didn't, um, skunkhead leak something to Eric Swalwell or something like that? No, No, no, Joe Joe Blondie did that.

That's what got her shit can. No, what Skunkhead did that got her in hot water with him is that she did not shit all over Joe Kent when Joe Kent sent in his resignation letter saying he could no longer be part of an administration that was waging this war against Iran. And again, right for the wrong reasons, Joe Kent. He hated it because he's a fucking Nazi. And, you know, that's not, oh, he brought me a cold cup of coffee. He's a Nazi. He's a Nazi. The real thing. You know, hates Jews for being Jewish. He's probably got a little bit of that to bring it closer to home with an analogy for you, Steve.

He's got some of that marred shot going for him. Oh, yeah. You know, Hitler had some... Yeah, Hitler had some pretty good ideas. Hates Jews, but claims to worship. of a Hebrew Jew from 2,000 years ago. Go figure. Ding, ding, ding, ding.

Oh, by the way, since it is Good Friday, I don't know how we fucked up, how the early Christian fathers fucked up, and mothers, fucked up the calendar so badly, but here it is. It should be really awful Wednesday, and then good Thursday if he's going to get up on Sunday morning.

But anyway, during the Second World War, on Christianity's most holy day, they still had the procession through Jerusalem. During the First World War, same same. During the crusade, they had the Christian procession through Jerusalem. Iran has not said shit about Easter, but guess who told the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem that even alone he could not walk the Via Dolorosa? You've got to be kidding. I know who you're talking about. You've got to be kidding me. Yeah, Israel. The same Israel that bombed Bethlehem to Christiard.

Christmas Eve's ago, the holiest day in Christendom. And the Israeli government said, no. And of course, in Israel, even as we speak, the thugs, the settler thugs, routinely assault, particularly Christian women in the streets of Jerusalem, hurling insults and sometimes other things. And I'm not a Christian. I will never call myself a Christian as long as people like Paula White are appropriating the term, or any of the the other grifters and charlatans and gospel sharps. But that's extremely offensive. And what's he's named Herzog, the president of Israel, who has no real power,

kind of apologized, but it doesn't make any difference. Oh, we can't. And the subterfuge, the obfuscatory theory behind this is that, well, if you had a big crowd of Christians doing the stations of the cross and whatnot, the Villarosa, well, Iran would just immediately attack that. The real reason is that the fascist Israeli state is genuinely antagonistic toward Christianity. And I think it doesn't help that Pope Leo has come out very, very vociferously against what's going on in Iran. Well, yeah, and what's more, with this bunch, it's always projection or confession, sometimes it's both.

but did you read about or not i mean you said you've been kind of out of the loop this just it's just disgusting um trump ordered the bombing of a bridge and then bragged about it we bombed civilians and i am so woefully inadequate of understanding persian culture but we bombed civilians while they were celebrating the end of and it's not ramadan um but yeah they they they bomb we bombed civilians on a bridge that wasn't even completed, claiming that, oh, they're transporting materials, the war materials. It was a bridge to nowhere. The road wasn't even fully built, but people gathered on one end of it to celebrate whatever

the holiday was, murdered them in cold blood. Ralps tells me that Israel has decided to reverse course after they bombed Palm Sunday barred Palm Sunday Mass in Jerusalem. Psycho Beebe said he had asked, Oh, the relevant authorities to allow Cardinal Pierbatista Pizabala, the Latin patriarch, to hold services at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as he wishes. On Sunday, the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem said Israeli police prevented the church's senior leaders from entering the church to celebrate mass.

The Patriarchate, issuing a statement at the time, said, for the first time in centuries the heads of the church were prevented from celebrating the Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This incident is a grave precedent and disregards the sensibilities of billions of people around the world

who during this week look to Jerusalem. Meanwhile, poor old Jesus, wherever he is or isn't. I really wish y'all wouldn't make such a big deal of my murder. I said a lot of things while I was still alive and y'all are all focused on me getting murdered.

It ain't healthy, but they've also, they banned Jews from visiting, or large crowds of observant Jews from visiting the Western Wall, and all Muslims from visiting the Al-Aksamas. And lying over on X, Psycho Bebebe put up an excrement, said, Iran has repeatedly targeted the holy sites of all three monotheistic religions in Jerusalem with ballistic missiles. One crashed just meters from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. I don't think he understands Christianity. I mean, that may be a bit of an obvious overstatement, but certain brands of Christianity are like,

what? I get to get martyred? Cool! Shoot another one, Iatola, and put some stank on it. The Italian government even got involved with all of this, criticizing the Israeli. And I suppose it went through, but the Italian government said, yeah, we're summoning the Israeli ambassador in Rome on Monday. And the whole controversy began when the cops actually rousted Cardinal Pitsabala. They were stopped en route while proceeding privately and without any characteristics of a procession or ceremonial act and were compelled. to turn back. I mean, it's literally the heart

and home of the Jesus cult, which it was back then. Early, so-called, early adherence of what would eventually be called Christianity were said to simply be followers of the way. And there's the bridge story. Thank you, Lee, in New York, serving as the Horn Ad Hoc Bridge we murdered Persians on Research Department. We blew the shit out of it. And the thing is, then we bragged about it. Late yesterday, nitwit Niro said,

We haven't even started destroying what's left in Iran. Bridges next, then electric power plants. Iran's leaders know what has to be done, and has to be done fast. And he was the one who actually shared the video of a brand new bridge that wasn't even connected to anything that connects Tehran to Karaj. The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again, much more to He murdered eight innocent civilians and wounded 95 others. The foreign minister of Iran, Abbas Aragchi, said striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender.

Such actions convey the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray. They were bragging about it, calling it a double tap strike. Jesus Christ, we are such a sick. Isn't that what they called one of the Venezueless? Venezuela things, a double tap strike? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're right. This is a sick, a sick disease society.

It really is. And you don't think that what this is going to have the effect of doing is creating terrorists. Oh, fuck yes. The chickens are going to come home to roost in entire flocks. There are babies in Iran, unborn, and undreamt of who will grow up wanting some payback because they never got to meet their big brother. or their big sister, or their dad, or got to know their mom.

Because we murdered them. Yep. The people we murdered in the B1 Bridge double tap were civilians who were out celebrating. And I know it's got a term, and I don't know what it is, but it translates as a day of nature. Huh. And we murdered them. You know what? I have continued to be amazed at, you know, I remember hearing CPAC crowd where some

mentioned how they had killed the entire Iranian power structure. I don't remember what specifically it was, and people cheered. Maybe I'm just, you may tell you what, I don't even kill mice. If I have a mouse in my apartment, I have humane traps that captures them and I release. I have a hard time killing, killing bugs even. And people cheer at anyone's killing. And to me, I just, it astonishes. astonishes me how some people can take pleasure in somebody else's death.

Well, for my part, for lack of a better word, my soul cannot tolerate the dehumanization of other people. No, not at all. And from that to something closer to home, well, apparently acting Attorney General Todd Blanchie has claimed that the Epstein Files saga is over. That's not going to sit well. Never mind the rest of us normal, decent people. It's not going to sit well with some of the maggots as evidenced on American

sunrise earlier today. Of all, if it's good Friday today, it was bad Thursday for Pam Bondi. I mean, there's no doubt about that. Look, she's gone and what are some of the reasons? Let's just cut to the chase. A lot of people are going to say part of it was the EFSIN files, and that's true. That's true. I mean,

when you come out with the binder and you give it to the right wing or the right wing, I hate to call me i'm getting corrupted by the the liberal media when you give it to social media influencers and say here's the binder and you expect george cluny and instead you get dom deloise you've got a problem uh and so that was the beginning of the end for pam bondy and then when you don't prosecute let's teacher james when you don't prosecute james combe and you go down the list uh look um flat by the way this clown's name is David Brody. He's there every morning. That was the fundamental flaw.

See, Nitwit Nero promised the maggots, Oh, the Epstein files are going to be released, and it's got all these Democrats in it. And that played into their twisted Q fantasies. Well, it set them up for failure. George Clooney and you get Dom Deloese? What? And, well, Dr. Gina, the Bleach Blonde,

who I guess is the girl host of the program is sitting there chuckling about Pam Blondie being gone. Oh my God, these people are beyond redemption. Pattery is a good thing when you want to get in with Trump. I mean, there's no doubt about it. He likes the flattery, but he likes actions more. And she didn't do what he needed her to do, and she's out, Dr. G.

Yeah, but she's out with a lot of compliments from Donald Trump. and in fact that's the reason why I mispredicted this all the way around. Our audience, though, I want to give them total kudos. No, she mispredicted it because she's a goddamn idiot, but, you know, well, let's not quibble. Our entire chat every single day was full of the fact that they believed that it was time for her to go. And I didn't think it was going to happen because I kept seeing Donald Trump everywhere they went, complimenting her backward and forward. So that's just an interesting little, I don't know,

psychological factoid, I guess. But I do think that Epstein files, we need a lot more attention on them. And I'm very discouraged that current acting AG Todd Blanche says there is no evidence that Epstein was a spy to anyone or any government. That is a quote that I posted on X yesterday. you know, just it's not even

it's not even that he said it or even if from what he can tell it's true. It's that he's... I mean, it is that he said it because it's demonstrably false. There's there's no mystery left as to the fact that the fucking Epstein was a Mossad agent, plain and simple.

God, almighty. Decided that's what was going to make news. Right? It's that that's what he wanted to point out. Not, oh my goodness, the Epstein files are mishandled. It all needs to be brought back. I'll tell you, MAGA is just not going to let this issue go away. And for those who don't believe me, all you have to do is look on X or look on getter or look in our chats any day of the week. And I can tell you, the Epstein files have not seen their last day.

And nor should they have. Oh, that's a problem for Todd Blanchie. That's a big problem for Todd Blanchie. And meanwhile, Representative Massey of Kentucky, the anti-maggot, has warned Blanchie straight up. Yeah, you screw around with this and criminal charges will be coming. And you'll be the one in Orange instead of Jojo. Massey went over to what used to be Twitter and posted, Congratulations, A.G. Blanchie.

Now you have 30 days to release the rest of the files before becoming criminally liable for failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. And you know what? He may have the votes to make the vote. referral and the next thing you know well it might be real trouble for Todd Blanchie so I don't think it's going to go away the way they

the way he wants it to go away because of course well Nitwit Niro's given him his marching war he's going to do what daddy said or he's going to try or he'll he'll get the he'll get the orange boot too but yeah that the bridge bombing

nitwit Nero confessed his war crime and said All caps, make a deal before it's too late and there's nothing left. Others pointing out that this makes the DUI hire Whiskey Pete Kegbreath a terrorist in his own right. And then when news came out of the downing of the F-15, well, nobody could find Donald Trump. Eventually, Caroline Real Pooh-Poo, Leave It Alone told CNN that he'd been briefed on. And you know what? Oh, go ahead.

I'm sorry. Well, Mike Nellis, Democratic strategist, pointed out, Donald Trump had time to take Tiger Woods call after he crashed his car again, but I don't see him addressing the American people after a U.S. fighter jet was shot down in Iran, and there's a desperate search to find the pilots. I guess Daddy's not home today. And meanwhile, Iran has put out a reward of some $76,000 if the citizen reconfined the pilot alive. Go ahead. Steve, sorry. He doesn't fucking care. He doesn't give a shit. And the other thing, too, is I wish somebody in the fucking media would ask what's her face cross around the neck.

Wait a minute. Like you and Jeremy said. I thought we destroyed everything. I thought they had no capability of fighting back. What happened to that? Nobody asked her. Oh, she'd get really mad and clutch her cross. Oh, she would.

Fiercely. You asked me that on the day. You asked me that on Good Friday? Oh, my Lent. I'm a stars and goddess. I fucking hate these people. And the thing is, you're using the wrong accent because she's from Nahamsha. I was thinking, every time you use your New England accent, it sounds very main, by the way.

I know. And it sounds like, do you ever see the movie Dolores Claybourne? Just like my Sammy Bad Breath impression sounds like Bugs Bunny. She's trying to draw by fire. It's not working. I'm ignoring her form of the movie after accent. Yeah. But, you know, you ever seen the movie Dolores Claybourne?

Yes. That's who your accent sounds like. I don't know whether it feel good or bad about that. Well, Kathy Bates had a very good main accent, but to me, yours sounds like Kathy Bates' accent in that movie. Only bad. It doesn't sound bad. It just sounds like her accent.

Or it sounds like the Pepperidge Farm guy. Well, that's where it all comes from. Pepperidge Farm, remember. Yeah, okay. I think it's funny, and it tells you a little bit about, immigrant how white people came to america that neither neither new englanders nor southerners can pronounce an r at the end of a word pepperidge farm remembers and of course well you know he he was he was he was he was that boy you know he was always so sensitive remember same r oh interesting

remember pepperge farm but but then you have that like you have an r at the end of pronounced r at the end of words that isn't there. Oh, yeah. Like, uh, winder. Winder, winder, winder, winder. Or, um, uh, I can't think of some, I can't, can't think of some examples. Like the Kennedys used to, uh, used to have all the time. I can't think of some, I can't think of any examples.

Yeah, because they couldn't say the R and talk the Kai and hobbit yard. Right. Or clam chowda. An embargo against Cuba. Cuba. Yeah, Cuba. There you, yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Romola ding dong for the Cuban spy. I'm sorry. Colombian spy. Yeah. There's at least one word with a hard hour that our administration, which they can say openly. You know that for a fact.

Without an accent. Well, and we know that NITWITNero has used it a lot on those perloined and hidden away. Speak. I'm an apprentice. I'm going to make an even more horrible admission other than my donut fetish and my eating of McDonald's after grocery shopping on Saturday mornings. There's a clip going around. I haven't seen a lot of South Park, but I see enough it where they do questionable sometimes. There's a clip going around of Herman's Dad on like We're a Fortune type program.

And they put up a word saying, people would annoy you. It's end blank G-G-E-R-S. And the dad sits there, says, I think I know it, but I can't say the word. And the host says, well, say it. And, of course, he says the word you're thinking of. And he immediately hears, and I think to myself, okay, they set us up. What is it? And then they flipped the letter over.

It's an A. It's an A. Yes. Oh, nagger. And I have to admit, because my mind wasn't at the worst. It could possibly they set you up, or even though not racist, that's all I could think. What they did? They set you up perfectly.

So I said to the A, said the second time through it was funnier. I said, yes, because you realize you fell for the trick. You knew what they were doing. They're drawing up the worst and you'd make fun of you. And that's what they did. But I, by the way, going back to McDonald's breakfast burrito shame, Sylvie wrote earlier, come on, Roxanne. You know you got that first breakfast burrito from that guy on the corner

in the trench coat who offered you one for free. Hey, kid, the first one's always free. Yeah. And now I'm out there working the streets for my next burrito. Not a word, Jeremy, and you either, brother D. What do you think it is whenever, what do you think? is every six months when Ben and Jerry is on Church Street and Burlington has free home day. It's a dealer handing out there dope trying to get someone hooked. That's all it is.

And by the way, just an unpaid product placement for those of you who have Kroger's, my goodness gracious, their private selection brand of ice cream is really good, and it usually comes in at about half the price of Hagen-Daz and even more than half the price of Ben and Jerry. They came up with one that Victoria and I are both quite fond of. It is a main blueberry waffle cone ice cream and oh my god what what is the brand called is it it's not the croger's brand is it no it's croger private selection i thought there used to be a brand called texas gold i thought that was actually crogher's brand no that wasn't crogers oh okay um i remember years ago they had a store brand that they called b k croger because i guess maybe the original croaker was

b k crow or maybe it was just invented i don't know but that main waffle blueberry His name was Bernie Kroger. Okay. It was Bernie Kroger. Yeah. Well, there we are. You would know that. That's a Cincinnati thing, of course.

I once wrote a plane back from Salt Lake City to Cincinnati, you know, across the river, Kentucky, seated next to a fellow whose job was a buyer for the private selection brand at Kroger. And he just sat there and told me stories of going all over the world, just looking for cool stuff to brand. with that private selection load. And I thought, you know, that's probably the coolest job. It's just going and tasting yummy things and seeing if you want to sell it in your store. But the other one that they've got now is a lemon creme brulee ice cream.

And it's got little tiny hard chips of burnt sugar in it along with a lemon cream. Ooh, your humble oastis has to be very careful and stay away from that as much as possible. because I do get so tired of having to chop up metformans and snort them off of toilet seats like, you know, Bobby Kennedy Jr. Okay, I tried. By the way, we got $5 to go on Ralph's irreparably damaged special relationship with Kier-Starmor Challenge. There's $5 to go on that. That'll get us down to 805. And thank you to Sylvie for keeping us from being a goose egg thus far.

And we got about 10 minutes or a little more than 10 minutes. it's left in the program. If we could round that up and then bring in another 110 bucks or so, we won't be at a thousand bucks or north of it come Monday. So that last five bucks to meet Ralph's challenge. And then as much as we can possibly do. It's so cool that we finally finished wiping out

the March deficit. There was so much help that went into that, and I'm so very grateful. You know, Steve, you're completely wrong. It wasn't Bernie Kruger, you're thinking of it was Freddie Kruger, the more famous of the Kruger. That's Kruger, not Kroger. Yeah, I didn't want to say anything. Damn it. So baseball has started?

Are the Reds, I hate to say this, are the Reds mathematically eliminated yet? They were three and two and then lost, no, they were three and one, then lost two games, I think, to the Pirates. Oh, the humiliation. I think they'll probably be there at the end, to be honest with you. Will they be in first place? No, but they'll probably make the playoffs again. They were good last year. They were streaky.

They were streaky. They were really, really good, and they had really... And then they got shelled by the Dodgers in the playoffs, yes, I remember. That wasn't even close. But, you know what? I give them credit that they had... I mean, they hadn't made the playoffs in years. I think they had made the playoffs in almost 15 years, so I'll give them credit for that.

You know, and that's an underachieving team. They're a small market team. They're not supposed to be contenders. Yeah. Although the Brewers, isn't Milwaukee considered a small market team? Oh, very much so. So, I mean, they consistently contend, but the fact is, is the small market teams might contend in their division, but they're not going to contend for the World Series.

Baseball needs to do what. Baseball needs to have some communism like football does. Like the NFL, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But the way the structure is now, they have no incentive. The owners are like, so stop me before I spend millions again. But I think we need to plan that Great American Ballpark trip this year.

I think that's true. I think you're right. And I guess it's just because of the way things developed. Columbus is the biggest city in Ohio. Why don't they have a professional baseball team? Because two in one state is too many? Well, they have the AAA team there. Yeah, the Clippers, the Yankees AAA team?

Clippers, yeah. I don't think it's the Yankees team anymore. Oh, really? I think it's actually the Reds team. Oh, that'd be nice. Yeah. I love going to minor league ball. I've talked with Victoria some about this summer.

We need to take a Saturday and get up early on a Saturday and get all dolled up and go down and take in a baseball game in Charleston. It's just fun. Yeah, I've never been. Brooklyn has a team, I think it's a Class A team of the Yankees called the Brooklyn Cyclones. And I've heard people say it's great. In many ways, it's more fun than going to a major league game. That's what I've heard.

It's not nearly as expensive. You get to be very close to the players. and it's just a better atmosphere. That's from what everybody I know who's ever been to a minor league game says the same thing. And if you're ever anywhere where there are independent minor league teams too. Oh, really? Yeah, I kind of think of it in the way of like the Globetrotters. The most famous of which I think is the Savannah Bananas.

And I've read a lot of stories that going to a Savannah Bananas game is just a blast. Well, you know, Burlington, Vermont has a minor league team. They might be an independent team called the Burlington Lake Monsters. That sounds like an independent team. Yeah, it sounds like an independent team to me. Yeah, Lake Monsters versus the bananas would be fun. Yes, there you go. And, well, Lee in New York says, I asked if the Reds were already mathematically eliminated.

And Lee answered, I believe Mets fans are saying wait till next year already. and notes and not yet Lee says I believe Charlie Brown said that a hot dog tastes better with a baseball game in front of it that's absolutely true that's absolutely true they have the big they have the big sausages in Cincinnati called the Big Red Smokies

which is like a called Met really really good METZ no METS it's it's short for German Metborst Ah well up in Pittsburgh and this is always this was always fun I don't know if they still do but at one point they sold

pierogi and you could even get sourcrowed pierogi oh god they are I need a Pittsburgh trip in my future too I want to go back down to the strip district one of the best Italian restaurants I've ever eaten at is in the strip in Pittsburgh and then there's that Polish

Ukrainian deli where they make their own kibasa several different varieties and they've got four or five different kinds of parodies you can take home. And they also do their own, oh God, Haluski's, you know, the cabbage rolls. Oh, with the thin tomato sauce on it. Yeah, I'm getting hungry.

I think I've got some pierogies in the freezer. I haven't had pierogies in a long time. And let me just say, you said this earlier, that concoction that Roger described. Yes. Sounds, oh, my God. When I was listening to him describe it, and I thought, ooh, that sounds really, really good. Yes, it does. Amazing.

And with the crispy little crust, whew, yes. And I've heard of sauerkraut balls in the past, but sourcrow and sausage, every last little gene of German ancestry I had, the minute I heard Roger talking about it, it was like, ayah! Yeah, yeah. Is it? That's a lecker. See, I'm making progress.

Yeah, you are making progress. I'm almost up to finishing A2 in that hierarchy. Okay. Can you decline nouns? Oh, fuck, no. It's not as hard as you. It's not as hard as one next thing. No, actually, actually, I can do it a little bit.

I came up with a mnemonic for the R versus N versus M thing. It appears that the, you know, I remember. The ending gets an M when it's masculine, or so I've noted or noticed. Give me like an example. You mean like the definite article is Dame versus Dare versus Dane? Or Eunzurum? Yeah, I mean, it's an M when it's a date of K. Now you just ruined everything.

Oops, sorry. No, that's okay. That's okay. I practically have Twain's the awful German language. memorized and there's one passage where he says let the candidate for the asylum try to learn all the endings and as quickly as he thinks he has a rule upon it it's it it quickly slithers away yeah unzurum is is dative masculine and neuter one of the places i really struggle is the difference between um the dine word the ear word and the oyer word all those pronouns

Oyer is plural, familiar you. And then... Dine is... Singular. Singular familiar you. Or your. Ear can be... Can be...

Her? You? Her? Or it can be... It can be you formal or her familiar. Or it could be... You're familiar. You just have to know context. And it's the context that drives me crazy because, you know, Z is she and Z is they.

And you have to wait until somebody mercifully throws you a fucking verb to figure out which. Oh, but it's also you formal. Oh, of course it is. It's also it. As Twain said, what a poverty of a language. You know what? I learned it from very young, so I know all of these. I have them all memorized, so I can tell you whatever anything was.

Yeah. I can tell you when you use, you know, like the nominative. I know that a car has no gender, but neither does a little girl. Well, it depends which kind of, there's also a, there is a car, one word for car does have that gender. It's der Vagen or Das Auto. Yeah, but it's also DOSNATian. Yes, but there's a reason for that. The reason for that is C-H-E-N and an umat over the vow is the diminutive of a word.

And the diminutive of a word is always neutral or neuter. The word is D-M-A-D means like a woman. D-M-A-T, so it's D-M-A-M-H-M-T. Well, that's kind of helpful, and it's encouraged. because at least German doesn't think that children should have a sexuality. Good. But it's Derr Knaba and Der Yunga. Yes.

Boys do girls don't. Maybe the Germans run to something after all. I mean, they say a woman's a demon. They're pretty close to D.M. Ah, ha, ha, ha. I mean, I go back and read the awful German language from time to time just because it makes me feel better. Twain apparently did get real mastery or some degree of mastery over the language. Because you have to understand it in order to be able to write what he write.

He says, well, after the student has learned the sex of a great number of nouns, he is still in a difficulty because he finds it impossible to persuade his tongue to refer to things as he and she and him and her, which it has always been accustomed to refer to as it, when he even frames a German sentence in his mind with the hymns and hers in the right places, and then works up his courage to the utterance point it is no use. the moment he begins to speak, his tongue flies the track, and all those labored males and females come out as it's. And even when he is reading German to himself, he always calls those things it, whereas he ought to read it this way. The tale of the fishwife, and its sad fate.

It is a bleak day. Hear the rain how he pours, and the hail, how he rattles. And see the snow, how he drifts along, and of the mud, how deep he is. Ah, the poor fishwife, it is stuck fast in it. the mire. It has dropped its basket of fishes, and its hands have been cut by the scales as it seized some of the falling creatures, and one scale has even got into its eye, and it cannot get her out. It opens its mouth to cry for help, but if any sound comes out of him, alas, he is drowned by the raging of the storm, and now a tomcat has got one of the fishes, and she will surely escape with him. No, she bites off a fin. She holds her in her mouth. Will she swallow her? No,

the fishwife's brave mother dog deserts his puppies and rescues the fin, which he eats himself as his reward. Oh horror! The lightning has struck the fish basket. He sets him on fire. See the flame, how she licks the doomed utensil with her red and angry tongue.

Now she attacks the helpless fishwife's foot. She burns him up, all but the big toe, and even she is partly consumed, and still she spreads, still she waves her fiery tongue. She attacks the fishwife's leg and destroys it. She attacks. She attacks its hand and destroys her also.

She attacks the fishwife's leg and destroys her also. She attacks its body and consumes him. She reeds herself about its heart and it is consumed next about its breast. And in a moment she is a cinder. Now she reaches its neck. He goes. Now its chin. It goes.

Now its nose she goes. In another moment except help come. The fish wife will be no more. Time presses. Is there none to succor and save? Yes, joy, joy with flying feet, the she Englishwoman comes. But alas, the generous she female is too late. Where now is the fated fishwife?

It has ceased from its sufferings. It has gone to a better land. All that is left of it for its loved ones to lament over is this poor smoldering ash heap. Ah, woeful, woeful ash heap! Let us take him up tenderly, reverently, upon the lowly shovel, and bear him to his long rest, with the prayer that when he rises again it will be in a realm where he will have one good square responsible sex and have it all to himself instead of having a mangy lot of assorted sex is scattered all over him and spot.

God, I love it. I have some things, if you would like, I can give you that helps you as references that helps you remember all these things. I would dearly love it because one of the failings of Duolingo is you have to pay extra if you actually want them to teach you grammar. Because, you know, I grew up learning Latin. So, a moa, maas, a mod, samata, mamasamant, right? Agricola, Gricola, Gricola, Agricola, Agricola, Agricola, Agricola, Agricola. Agricola, Agricola. I'm a Gricali.

I'm a Gricalis. A gricalis. Damn. I mean, what would you like to learn? Well, I mean, I just need some fundamental mechanical understanding of, you know, general rule. rules of construction. I'd like to be able to chart. I'd like to actually be able to, for all my kidding,

I'd like to be able to decline nouns and adjectives the same way I learned to do them in Latin. Nominative, vocative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative. I know it's not the same. There's only four cases in German, right? Yes. Six in Latin. And just, you know, match

and then match up the prepositions. That's the one thing in German is hard as the preposition. Oh, fuck. Are you kidding me? Yeah, prepositions are hard. I loved what... Because there's different types of... There's different types of prepositions. There's prepositions whose object is accusative.

There's prepositions whose object is dative. There's prepositions whose object can be either. And as a proposition, the entire Horn family community congregation is now saying, will you two please shut the fuck up? Yes, I understand. But I love this other passage. There are some exceedingly useful words in this language. Schlag, for example.

and zug. There are three quarters of a column of schlogs in the dictionary, and a column and a half of zugs. The word schlog means blow, stroke, dash, hit, shock, clap, slap, time, bar, coin, stamp, kind, sort, manner, way, apoplexy, wood cutting, enclosure field, forest clearing. This is its simple and exact meaning.

That is to say it's restricted, it's fettered meaning. But there are ways by which you can set it free so they can soar away as on the wings of the morning and never be at rest. you can hang any word you please to its tail and make it mean anything you want to you can begin with schlag otter which means artery and you can hang on the whole dictionary word for word clear through the alphabet to schlag vasser which means bilge water and including schlach mutter which means mother-in-law i'm offended and i'd like to amend your last statement we didn't say please okay jerry okay enough enough yeah and twain was such a genius because he was entirely an autodidact who learned words

by setting type for his brother's newspaper. And just these lists. The same with ZUG. Strictly speaking, Zug means pull, tug, draft, procession, march, progress, flight, direction, expedition, train, caravan, passage, stroke,

touch, line, flourish, trade of character, feature, liniment, chess move, organ stop, team, whiff, bias, drawer, propensity, inhalation, disposition, but that thing which it does not mean when all its legitimate penance have been hung on has not yet been discovered.

Just for the fun of it, just go and read the whole thing. I should check it out, yeah. Oh, and it ends with a Fourth of July oration in the German tongue delivered at a banquet of the Anglo-American club of students by the author of this book. And your sense of humor being what it is, yeah, I suspect. I'll, I suspect, don't do this with like a, a beer in hand or anything because

you know you'll spit take on your screen and it's no but you were talking earlier Steve about not being able to kill anything do you all have to deal with stink bugs in New York? No okay well they are a true bug and they're harmless unless you scare them

and they are the skunks of the insect world and one terrified stink bug can clear a room and so I've learned in Appalachia we deal with them. It gets warm, they show up.

And, you know, they're not dangerous to plant life or anything that I'm aware of. They pretty much mind their own business. And they fly really awkwardly. I mean, this is one of those, oh, intelligent design. Have you ever seen how a stink bug flies, Lord? Yeah, no. But so they get in here, and I've learned not to bother them. And there are evenings when I watch Stephanie the studio stink bug,

just sort of wander around. And there was one evening where she climbed up on top of the iPad and perched herself right dead center of the top of it and just watched the show. I'm going to hurt that. No way. Are they smart enough to avoid Stephen the studio snakes ancestors? You know, I was thinking about her the other day. Last night as a matter of fact, and it was like, the things that have happened on this program, that night in particular. I'm sorry, y'all, I'm going to have to close the show.

You know, hey, y'all, I got to go. I got to close the show. We've got a snake in the studio. Yeah, and I'm thinking, you know, I don't, I don't think, I don't think people who work for a network have to deal with it. I meanness in a funny way, even, it's not a funny thing that happened. You literally had someone stroke out on the air before. That's true. How many places, I mean, we've seen it happen on TV once in a great while.

The person's lucky to someone recognized it. Luckily, you recognize what's happening to Mr. Stressman to happen. Everybody get him help through other people. And Thomas. Thomas. immediately swung into action because he lived not far from Mr. Stress and Thomas saved his life. I mean, that's a hell of a moment.

But, yeah, I mean, so many things. Not to get modeling or anything, but, well, it's a, well, I think this is a program like no other. And like I said at the beginning of the program with what, with what Mike and Cascadia sent. I don't think there are a lot of people that get, that do this. But having said, having said all that,

I'll note that we do, we need five more bucks, and that meets Ralph's challenge. Thank you again, Sylvie. And, well, I don't know if you heard it, but about 10 minutes till 8 Eastern Time, the golden one began to bark, and that is his way of letting me know that it's time for me to close the program and go in and get a treat, and then he jumps up on the bed and we have chomping romp. He loves to bounce on the bed. He's like any other four-year.

So that's what I'm going to do. do. Thanks everybody for a great conversation this evening. We've been all over the place, and that's what's one of the really cool things about Friday on the front porch. Thanks. Thanks so much. 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 challenge makers, challenge respondents, a la carte contributors, PayPal, Patreon, subscribers, Venmo, Cash App, U.S. Postal Service. Thank you all. all volunteer staff. Thank you, Roger, and Jeremy, in the chat room in the old holler tree.

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Their safety is unknown. They could be your neighbor, a friend, a family member, and people are betting on whether or not they'll be saved. This is disgusting. Quick reminder, too, that Donald Trump is an investor in this dystopian death market and may have access to intelligence that isn't public yet. Polymarket, for its part, said, oh, we took this market down immediately as it does not meet our integrity standards.

What integrity standards! It should not have been posted, and we're investigating how this slipped through our internal safeguards. What internal safeguards? And Moulton shot back and said, your integrity standards are severely lacking. Users are still able to place bets on the lives of our troops. Here's what your Iran tab looks like right now. And he posted a screenshot with things like U.S. forces enter Iran by, U.S. and Iran ceasefire by.

and Trump announces end of military operations against Iran by disgusted. We are, well, let's put it to know. Our billionaire class is a sick, sick, disgusting gaggle of mostly sociopathic men, but a few women as well. So like I said, stay safe in all its myriad form. And if Todd Blanchie comes towards you babbling something about, well, the Epstein era is over, ignore him like the plague because well he and always always always Gina and Wayne it's all for you

Have a great weekend everybody Talk in a little bit Victoria Later