Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 3 July 2026, Independence Eve-On-the-Front-Porch

Episode Date: July 4, 2026

This 250th celebration could have been joyous. That was the idea when planning started in 2016, but everything goes to somewhere south of hell with Nitwit Nero. Fortunately, no one is there to get heat stroke other than his cult members. Otherwise, it's business as usual at places like Focks. Papa Leo puts another shot across Nitwit Nero's bow.  Happy 250th! May our 251st be a new birth of freedom! 

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depending on what your podcasting platform lets you do, we all sure would appreciate it. The engagement apparently is supposed to help as we try to bring more folks into the conversation and provide the camaraderie and good vibes. or whatever that we've been working at for near a quarter of a century here at the horn. Hi, I'm Roxanne. It's Friday, just like the intro said. And if you're listening live, Ralphs and Roger in Oregon are waiting there in the chat room there.

It's easily accessed to head on dot live, click on chat room. And of course, it's Friday, so that means Friday on the front porch here in about a little less than an hour or about an hour. over the river and through the woods to the old holler tree that we sublet from the kebler elves wherein we keep the extraordinary ordinary roundtable around which we gather each and every Friday to see what's on folks minds and uh i'm definitely looking forward to uh seeing what's on y'alls uh i'll be uh i'll be i'll be candid um kind of slow today uh uh to the extent that anything within this fascist nightmare where we find ourselves is slow, but it's blazing hot throughout most of the country. And, well, I think, I think, I know I saw, I saw a remark from Roger saying

he doesn't give a flying cock about the 4th of July. This orange piece of shit's taken any pride I had for this country, and it's long gone, along with the millions of assholes who still support him. I get that. I get that entirely, Roger. I think the fireworks begin here tonight. One of the rafting companies, it may be, it's probably the one that's owned by Aramark, you know, the shitt-eaten corporation that collaborates with the ice goons and the CBP thugs and the Department of Homeland Insecurity. I think they'll have some tonight and then, oh, there may be some downtown. I'm not sure.

But the bottom line is that it's going to take some doing to make sure that the fur babies are happy and comfortable and, well, there's not much on earth that's nicer than just loving those creatures that love us back unconditionally. So the golden one, as well as Sox-Raties and Kyle and Little Lucy, we'll get all of our attention this evening and tomorrow. I'm toying with the idea of doing some barbecue. I had planned on being in Parkersburg, but due to the roof situation, I'm not. Got a guy coming for tarping, and it just so happened.

I was doing my Krogering earlier today, and a lady that I know over in the bakeries, like, we were just chatting, she's like, well, my father-in-law does roofing, and gave me her number, and so I'm supposed to call over the weekend and talk. to him about maybe getting him over here for it's not a big job it's just it's hard to find somebody to do it bandest thing but that's that's that's the that's the fly in the ointment for this 4th of july weekend and of course uh starting what maybe sunday possibly tomorrow yeah i mean when he gets this hot you're you're going to have thunderstorms you just are and it was hot today in the car on the way home from the aforementioned Krogering,

the in-car thermometer indicated that it was 97 degrees. At present here in the fabulous horn studios at the magnificent Kincaid Mansion, we're looking at 80, and the little heat pumps doing all that it can do. And, well, not going to. complain because like I said I remember January and February I hated it yes but I hope you all have a happy holiday this is a this is not exactly a day for celebrating what America was set out to be because what America was supposed to be is completely on its ear right now or knees depending on your depending on your preferred analogy

Micah tells me we had a couple of dipsets shoot each other in the Dearborn Mall today Shrug yeah I mean just another day in the American shooting gallery with it's Fourth of July you're going to have outbreaks of Second Amendment freedom right? Yeah

because that's what that is that there is freedom freedom! Wolverines! Yeah Oh, golly, Moses. And it was brutal in Philly today. Ralph's telling me that where she is in New Jersey, the thermometer is registering 99 degrees. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, we talked about that a little bit yesterday. In fact, I played the 911 audio, Lee noting that, supposedly emergency care went to Mitch McConnell's home. ALS, advanced life support. They basically sent a rolling emergency room. Imagining Lee says what POTUS would say, he said his majority leader, Mitch McConnell is fine. He's the healthiest senator and majority leader ever.

Fake news does not tell the truth. They're all crooked. I don't even know that he would say that about him because he hates Moscow Mitch now, because, again, we have to remember that loyalty to nitwit nero is an all-or-nothing proposition. You can't be 99.9% loyal to the pooping and farting and pee and tub of guts. You have to be above and beyond. You have to be more loyal than loyal.

You have to be willing to completely abase yourself. But yeah, this is day 19 of where in the world is Moscow Mitch McConnell, presumably at George Washington University Medical Center. That's where he was transported to back on what, the 14th June, something like that, yeah. but if I can get it called up here I ran across a reel from Robert Reich going through the list of grievances that forms the declaration of independence and he did a superb job

ah damn it Egypt beat the Aussies son of a gun oh well Anyway, I wonder about this time every year how many people actually read the whole declaration of independence because there seems to be a preference for all that language from the front end about all men being created equal, you know, no mention of women. and certainly men meant white property-owning men. You know, that's borne out in the language about how, oh, where is it here? I've got it.

The line about the merciless Indian savages always bothered me in the Declaration of Independence. But no, again, let me. me see if I can call this up just a second there it is Robert Reich all done up in late 18th century garb in a tricorn hat funny wig he's got a rolled up declaration of independence this this is an interesting sort of side-by-side comparison the question being what would the founding fathers think about well Trump. Tell us about it, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Why the founding fathers were so pissed off at King George III of England? He was a tyrant, obviously.

But they wrote a long list of specific grievances, some of which I want to read to you. They come after the more famous preample. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. Something about them feels oddly familiar. The list starts with, He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. Trump officials accused of defying one in three judges who ruled against him. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance.

White House unfails AI policy aimed at blocking state laws. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation. of large districts of people. Trump says if D.C. and Puerto Rico become states, country destroying sleazebags will dominate politics. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners. Justice Department moves to strip citizenship from 17 people

in unprecedented denaturalization push. He has obstructed the administration of justice. Special counsel report, found Trump engaged in criminal effort to overturn 2020 election. He has made judges dependent on his will alone. Trump demands total loyalty from Supreme Court justices he appointed. He has erected a multitude of new officers and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people. That would be Doge, the ICE goons, and the CBP thugs.

Kept among us in times of peace standing. armies without the consent of our legislatures. National Guard dudes standing around armed to the teeth in American cities. For protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states. Ice agent who killed Renee Good is back on the job as investigation stalls. For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world. for imposing taxes on us without our consent,

for depriving us in many cases of the benefits of trial by jury, for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses. That would be your shithole concentration camp in L. Shitholador. For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws. Experts alarmed as Trump launches broad fraud attack on U.S. voting rights. And altering fundamentally the forms of our governments. for suspending our own legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He says, you're not going to be a dictator, are you? I said, no, no, no, other than day one.

He has plundered our seeds, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled, in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. Any of this sound familiar? Yeah, actually, all of it. Every last bit of it. And I think that's what makes it so repulsive that he thinks he's going to that he's celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

as if he is some sort of extension of the founders and the framers when in fact he is the antithesis thereof. Jesus. Yeah. And later on he says in every stage, the declaration says, in every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the most unquestionable.

humble terms, our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Yeah, that mind about constrained our fellow citizens and taken captive on the high seas? I mean, yeah, there's the whole piracy thing for which, frankly, had we access to yard arms and the like, the number of people should probably be swinging at some point in the future, and one may yet hold out hope. Jesus. So, you know, here we are. But Jeremy says, four months from today,

we get a chance to claw back some power and cause these fuckers to start being held to account. That's the hope. That's the only hope, for sure. I got ahead of myself, though, because every program here at the Horn begins with gratitude, and this program is no difference. So thanks go out to our third day of the month's subscribers via PayPal and contributors via PayPal. So thank you ever so kindly to Anne across the pond. Thank you, Anne. And thank you, Sylvie.

Thank you both for being partial sponsors of the program. where do we stand relative to Ralph's No More Holes challenge this day before Independence Day? Well, we've got $1,023 to go on that. If we can knock that down some more today, I don't know, half of that maybe, then we've got a fighting chance to get to the 15th of the month fully funded, which would be a first in a very, very, very, very long. long time. So thanks in advance to anybody who wants to help out via PayPal, cash app, Venmo, U.S. Postal Service, Patreon. Thank you. Thank you so, so much. Indeed, in advance. Let's see. What else do we have here? Oh, well, there's the password. another bad day for the great American state fair that nobody thought about

would be taking place at the hottest, one of the hottest times of the year. Early today, it's one of those how can you tell situations, nitwit Nero's ill-conceived grift, had to shut down for a while because D.C. is nowhere you want to be like I said earlier Philly canceled their parade

because of the brutal heat and you know that's saying something because well the heat in late June mid June, late June early July in Philadelphia wherein the Continental Congress

was meeting in 1776 wasn't exactly balmy. And in fact, people were eager to get out of there then, because summers in D.C., Philly, Richmond, what have you, tended to be punctuated by, how about that malaria and yellow fever?

I'm not going to go into that whole historical digression, but it's curious how, the Anopolis mosquito played such a role in, well, America's original sin. So, D.C. is expected to have 100-degree temperatures yesterday, today. The heat index expected to get up into the hundred and teens. New York and Newark were actually hotter than Phoenix. and 18 other locations broke temperature records today because, well, you know, climate change,

which maggots don't believe in because they think science and religion are the same thing and that if you don't believe in something, that means it's not real. Yeah. Meanwhile, over at an organization called World weather attribution they published a new analysis today and they said when a historic 4th of july celebration is disrupted it shouldn't take another scientific study to wake people up that was

uh frederica otto uh in reporting by cnn we would not they noted have this were it not for the planet being heated up by who yes brought to you by exon boble and Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron and Sonoco, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And remember how we talked yesterday about the maggots losing their minds over Zoran Mamdani asking New Yorkers to voluntarily set their AC at 78 degrees Fahrenheit? Well, I wonder how the maggots feel about Chris Wright. Zoran Mammani, Mayor Moundani, just asked as a matter of civic responsibility that people not overload the power grid there in Gotham. On the other hand, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright told all the data centers in the Mid-Atlantic region to switch to backup power. Why?

so that there would remain, so that grid capacity would remain for people to use for their air conditioning in their homes. And yes, 19,000 con Edison customers in the New York area did lose power yesterday. Not that Raphaelito Eduardo Cruz, the anointed Bougaritan future king of America, gave a goddamn. Welcome to socialism. Honey, that's capital... Those are capitalist power grids. Or not that Miss Lindsay, Ladybug's Graham can. Well, I've got to stay cool.

Oh, I swear I will look like I am coated in a patina of sweat and sweet talcum. Mm-hmm. Yes. But no, Chris, but there's a little... There's kind of a little microcosm there, isn't there? that's the future y'all we're nowhere near the data center

the level of number of data centers that are planned for us but even now the data centers are consuming so much electricity that it's crashing the grid and what are those data centers doing we know

Those data centers are, well, they're running the servers that do all the Bitcoin gambling and mining. Going back to the remaining balance for RELPS's No More Holes Challenge, 1023, Lee says numbers got here in binary, 1023 is 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1. Just trust me, I will. And I don't even know if I can't. I don't even know if I repeated enough ones there. That's a lot of ones. Yeah. Lee also noting cutting people's AC for data centers, it's happened.

AI has taken over. Kind of makes you wonder how long the supine American people will tolerate such shit. Because, of course, if anyone should rise up against the fucking data centers, they will no doubt be charged. As terrorists. Definitely terrorism. You're interfering with my... You're interfering with my Bitcoin mining.

But anyway, yeah, so... I guess, at least according to the schedule, the Great American Fraud Fair reopened... about 35 minutes ago, not that anybody would notice, because there really hasn't been anybody there. Only a Trump could fuck up Fourth of July on the National Mall, when it would otherwise probably have tens of thousands of people, or at least thousands of people wandering around,

going in and out of the museums, buying snow cones and ice creams and whatnot from the streetside vendors. I guess they took it on the chin, the folks with the food trucks and whatnot. The mall in summer has a festive quality to it on any day. But not now. Oh, no, no. Not now. But again, anybody who shows up for that, well, there's an old doctrine in the law.

It has been used over the decades and more than a century as a means of barring recovery for injured people. The doctrine is called Assumption of the Risk. And it basically means if you did something that you knew was going to be dangerous, it was on you. And so the so-called Great American State Fair might be called the Great American Assumption of the Risk Fair. Wouldn't hurt to have a sign at the entrance that also says, Abandon Hope, all ye who enter here. I haven't seen a lot of reporting, but is anybody going there who isn't a maggot? Are there any just ordinary Americans going for a wander on the mall, going through security,

not being able to take water with them, not being able to bring a cooler, none of that? because I can't imagine that they are. And from the, okay, so yesterday, we talked about the great big slab of drywall or whatever it was that fell and could have easily killed a couple of dancers who were rehearsing for tomorrow as they did their stepball change to the tune of the boogie-wogie. bugle boy of company B. It was actually terrifying. And in fact, I think there's some murder mysteries out there that involve things falling from the fly space of theatrical venues.

But one individual commenting on the video, which, you know, I played the audio of it yesterday, Ryan Grimm, he's the founder of DropSight News. he posted earlier this is incredibly dangerous stuff Trump cutting safety corners with stage building is the kind of thing somebody can genuinely be prosecuted for if someone dies

which is not uncommon if you slap it together like this this equipment is deadly when falling from those heights now he's got about half a million followers over on the platform that used to be known as Twitter and bless your heart bless your heart but you might want to take a moment

and look back over your shoulder Mr. Grimm to the summer of 2024 when our most puissant dread sovereign supreme Catholic majesties said that no

he could not be prosecuted for something like that he can't be prosecuted for anything that he does that is deemed to be in the course and scope of his presidential duties. Now, past presidents have let people who are actually experts do this kind of thing. But, well, one of the takeaways of that near-miss yesterday was the idea that it probably wasn't done with union labor. you know say I thought about our

our dear friend Dan Fisher and I'm sure he's doing stuff with family so I didn't bother him to bring him on air about it or anything but you know Dan is a lifelong member or career long work life

of Ayatsey the International Association of Theatrical and stage employees Dan himself was a property's master with a list of really impressive credits to his name. Films like Black Swan, Mississippi Burning,

and a host of others, TV shows like the Americans. But at one point in time, Dan was even a shop steward for his local there in New York City. and iatsy professionals are professional in every sense of the word and i guarantee you that this was not an iatsy job this was a slap dash the jackleg operation you know just like every other thing he does all of his buildings are crap and put together with the cheapest materials for the least amount of money

which he then charges the greatest amount of money for because he says, oh, it's so luxurious. But no, Mr. Grimm, ordinary people could be prosecuted, but not him, not him. And thus far, no statement has been released on the thing.

Well, if you just pretend it didn't happen, but if you were if you were one of those dancers I mean is any amount of money worth your life I mean I'm sure they I'm sure they you know there was a call it's it's theater and dance and there was a call for dancers

for the 4th of July and maybe there were even auditions but would you go on I mean I know I know theaters theater the show must Go on. But it ain't worth dying for. And there's no guarantee that that won't happen again.

That big stupid golden arch looks like a half of a McDonald's sign. And of course, when he posted it, look, the website that used to be known as Twitter is nothing but a right-wing sewer. The maggots jumped up. You fucking fools, did Trump ask the construction? team to cut corners? Biden was...

There it is. Biden was involved in the planning that started in 2016. We'll blame him for the accident. Ah. Yeah. No good contract, I'm sure. Just another cheap, shoddy, piece of shit job by a man who's made a career out of cheap, shoddy, piece of shit construction.

and then there's this in D.C. Far away, not far away, but away from the, well, we can't call it Sturm and Drang, because there's no Sturm and there's no Drang on the National Mall, away from the quiet of the National Mall. One lone Air Force officer, Jason Watson, a career Air Force Major stepped forward and did what his brother officers

lack the courage to do. There's a group out there called the Removal Coalition and Al Green was there as Major Watson stepped onto the Capitol steps and declared that Nitwit Niro and J.D. Vance must be impeached

and removed from office. In the limited time he had in which to make his case, he said that the dirty attacks on Iran and Venezuela, quote, were an unconstitutional usurpation of Congress's authority and a violation of the war powers clause. What they did, quote, resulted in the deaths of 13 service members and injuries of hundreds more.

And he said they must be impeached, convicted, and removed. And then Capitol Police showed up. and arrested him and cuffed him and hauled him away. Representative Al Green of Texas said, I was there to witness a major in the United States military, bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice. I suspect this man's career is over. He could, in theory, even be subjected to court martial.

And, I mean, you know that the DUI hire, Whiskey Pete Kegbreath will demand that. He didn't Well Major Watson didn't get enough time to really Fill in what he meant Or more of what he meant But the fact of the matter is

The piracy On the high seas Would have been enough Yeah Rye noting A fucking patriot is what he is Yes he is a patriot And he should be

he should be celebrated as such. We are sadly lacking in that kind of patriotism in these days. But then again, look what happened to Sophie Scholle of the White Rose Society in Nazi Germany. They actively resisted the tyranny of Adolf Hitler. And when she and her accomplices were finally caught, they were tried in front of a pet court. of the Third Reich, and eventually Sophie Scholl was, if memory serves, beheaded to serve as a lesson to anyone else who might stand up and speak out

against the horrors and atrocities of fascism. Jesus. And then, well, we talked, I made mention of this previously, so far, Nitwit Niro has pardoned six people for America's yeah he's turned six criminals loose to celebrate the 250th anniversary

of the publication of the Declaration of Independence they were prosecuted because they broke the law by trying to get around vehicle omissions no really it is my great honor

to have just signed pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden administration and were in or being sent to prison for fixing their car. While I know this sounds ridiculous, it is nevertheless a fact, and part of the weaponization and stupidity that our country had to endure during four long years of sleepy Joe Biden, I am setting them all free right now. Yeah, he's turning loose Clean Air Act violators. These have to do mainly with diesel engines.

rolling coal. I love it when they roll their coal. Mechanics who disabled the pollution controls on diesel engines in violation of the law. You know, in my conversation with Paul from Parts unknown a couple of days ago, we were talking about libertarianism. And I mentioned the rational anarchy. concept that Robert A. Heinlein introduced in The Moon as a harsh mistress.

His character, Professor Bernardo de la Paz, declaring himself a rational anarchist, but the thing is, even in that book, which is a great yarn, make no mistake. Professor de la Paz says, I will pick and choose the laws which I obey. but I will do so in full knowledge of what the consequences might be, and I will accept those consequences.

So these six diesel mechanics who thought that they knew better than actual engineers about diesel engines and emission controls, well they're babies their whiny little bitches because they were not rational about it they chose which laws to abide by and which to violate but they did not abide by the consequences of their violation

and yet there are at least it's possible there would be as many as 250 pardons or commutations or clemencies lots of speculation and gossip going on in the multi-millionaire for-profit media. Some people thinking that maybe giddy might get to walk. A Malaysian financier named Joe Lowe, who stole $4.5 billion from a fund, he's trying to get a little love from nitwit Nero

that's another one of those things we're just going to have to have some investigations of and prosecutions for at some point in time there's even you know there's even something since we're since this day before Independence Day there's even some some 18th century discussion to be had

I believe like I said it was George Mason who invade against giving the president's pardon power because he said, what happens when an entirely corrupt, crooked president uses the pardon power to cover for his own crimes? And the other framers sitting around there in Philadelphia said, Oh, pshaw, look at us here. We're all good upstanding white men.

No one would ever do anything like this. who was president. And George Mason said, oh, I don't know. And here we are. Hmm? Jesus. Oh, and

a little bit of an update. We've talked in the past. Hang on just a second. Anyway, we talked about the flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. And at the time we discussed it, the news reports all said there has been one death,

but an investigation is proceeding to see if the individual died from the flu. Yes, yes. The boot, the trainee, the brand spanking shiny new airman, was unvaccinated for flu because Whiskey Pete Kegbreath, the DUI hire, eliminated flu vaccines as being burdensome and unnecessary, and then the airman died of the flu. His name was Keon-Talek-McDaniel. He was 25 years old. He died on June the 16th.

He was in week six of basic training at Lackland, and he had a medical emergency on June the 12th. they took him to Brook Army Medical Center and he died a few days later Representative Joaquin Castro made a statement in which he said, yeah, it was the flu. The Air Force confirmed that trainee Keon McDaniel died from the flu during the outbreak

at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. This is a tragedy that could have been prevented were it not for the reckless actions of Secretary Hexeth. Our military must be guided by science, not politics. because, of course, Whiskey Pete had previously said, the notion that a flu vaccine must be mandatory for every service member, everywhere, in every circumstance at all times, is just overly broad and not rational, hoo-ah.

Here, let me do a chin-up. Oh, I can't quite do the chin-up. So once they made it voluntary, the vaccination rate went from 100% at Lackland to 40%. And now the influenza infection rate at Lackland is topping 300 recruits. A number of them have been in fact hospitalized. Because, of course, the recruits are housed in very close quarters in a barrack. And, well, too late for Keon McDaniel. 25 years old with his whole career ahead of him.

Who knows what sort of airmen he might have turned out to be? Maybe he would have gone from the ranks of the non-coms and grunts and somehow climbed the ladder up into the ranks of commissioned officers. It's been known to happen. But yeah. Whiskey Pete killed him as dead as a mackerel. A pair of members of the House of Representatives, both Representative Castro and Representative Chrissy Hulahan of PA,

they tried to amend the National Defense Authorization Act to require flu vaccines. The Maggot House beat that amendment back last week. Representative Hulahan said When our troops volunteer to risk their lives for our country, the least we can do is not ask them to risk their lives because their leaders abandoned

decades of military medicine. The House Rules Committee's refusal to make our amendment in order was a missed opportunity to write Secretary Hags us wrong and to put military readiness ahead of politics. We owe our service members better. Well,

you know, I know this seems bitter and perhaps mean spirited. Perhaps maybe Airman McDaniel's family should deliver his casket to Whiskey Pete's doorstep and say

you killed him, you bury him, motherfucker. I don't think it would be out of line because it's true. He would be alive. Oh well. And before we go over to the Old Holler Tree, which we're

doing momentarily, and a couple of notes and another story. Oh, Cynthia in the Bay Area, there in San Jose, said, just to let you know, the bangers, chicken, and dogs are on the smoker, and I'm getting hungry, and I'm not calling off the dogs, so don't even ask. Ha, ha, ha, ha, I see what you did there. And Georgian Corskull says, The America 250 Freedom 250 Grift,

please comment on the bait and switch scandal, only being reported by MS now where contributions to America 250 are being rerouted to a private grift Freedom 250. There's money laundering going on in funds being stolen by GOP-connected shell corporations. These assholes can't even leave Independence Day free from their crime. George grifters are going to grift. I'm surprised that there isn't a Trumpian grift out there come every Easter selling pieces of the true cross. Or at Christmas selling hairs from San Francisco. Santa's beard or real hairs from Santa's beard or, I don't know, straw from the manger.

Little brown smeared. Oh, look, it's Jesus's first poopie. And, oh, you know, there's a limited number. Operators are standing by. Call now. But, yeah, America 250 was set up for this celebration. And it would not have been this fucked up nightmare. But a grifter's always going to grift.

and Freedom 250, well, look, it's a matter of beak wetting. You think there wasn't a little bit of skimming that resulted in those dancers nearly losing their lives when that chunk of poorly, or that slab or the sheet of poorly installed drywall or sheet rock or plywood or whatever it was, fell yesterday? Of course. Of course. Okay. Yeah, one story, and then we go over the river and through the woods, et cetera. And by the way, jump on in if you're not out there around the grill or whatever you might be doing. Let's have a great pre-fourth conversation. But in line with what George mentioned a minute ago, the graph never, the graph, never ends.

Even the Wall Street Journal is pissed off by the latest plan from Nitwit Niro. Back during his first maladministration, nitwit Niro actually axed a deal to sell

F-35 fighter jets to Turkey. No more. The Wall Street Journal said, oh my God, what a terrible idea. nitwit Nero said Well, Turkey is a strong member of NATO. I'm going to probably

do something he's going to make Erdogan very happy. He's a respected man, a respected leader, and he's been a friend of mine. And so he's going to sell a bunch of F-35s to Turkey unless somebody manages to stop him. The original deal was nixed because the Turks

bought a Russian S-400 missile defense system from Pudi and Mother Russia because it gives an automatic leg up to Pouti to figure out how best to shoot

our aircraft out of the sky. Hell, there'll be Russian engineers crawling all over those jets. Oh, well. Yeah. The Wall Street Journal saying allowing the two systems to work together would amount to letting Vladimir Putin

conduct a target practice on the free world's pilots. The stakes of cracking the F-35's tech are especially acute, given Russia is working with China and Iran, in a larger competition with the U.S. Oh, but he's a great NATO ally. Yeah, sure. So as we go into the second hour of the program, a reminder, we're trying to bring down Ralph's challenge to something considerably less than $1,000. We've been working on it for a couple of days now since July the 1st. Thank you, again, Ralph's.

very kindly. That challenge is awaiting. It's at 1023, or all those ones that Lee mentioned a few minutes ago. And so over we go to the old holler tree. Hey, Roger. Hey, Jeremy. Good news. Yes.

I told you about the new prescription earlier this week. Well, I'm on my second pod of the changeover. And for the first time, and I'd say a good, since I've taken. are using pods, a pod actually lasted the three days give two hours. They're supposed to be changed every three days. I have a prescription for every 36 hours. But still, it's supposed to last three days in theory. Well, my last pod had two hours on it before I changed it.

My insulin has been in goal range most of the time for the last four days. Regardless of what I eat, and I've tested, it goes up and comes back to down to a natural level. So I think I've finally found something that works with my body after all these years. Oh God, I hope so. Gives me a little more hope because diabetes is a little disease. You don't see the damage

it's doing. You don't feel it's doing damage unless it's, you know, somewhat range. And my biggest worry was the damage is doing it in a heart more than anything. Because that's one thing you cannot go without. You can go without nerves. It's sucked out of them, firing your feet in the wrong way, but you can survive that. Heart attack, not so much. So, I think that's good.

And no, if you got 74 hours out of something you're supposed to get 72 out of, yay. Right. My prescription won't change, so I'm still protected, so I'll still have the amount I used to have, so it won't cost me more. It's the same amount regardless. It's just double the strength. So one unit is two, 20 units is 40, so on. and the one thing I can't do is depend on, it comes in pens instead of vial

because the pens for the plunger on it is set to know what an actual unit is but once I drew out of the pen with the thing I fill my pumps with she said you can no longer use the pens as backup because now you've thrown off the algorithm for the basically the plunger

so if you did it yourself based on what you thought it was you could kill yourself really quickly. double the straight. So I'm okay. It will all be fine. I'm happy. I say a big hurrah to the guy who sat up

yesterday. He gave that speech and more than likely ended his career and his free life because he will go to jail for that. Unfortunately, especially under Hague Seth. As part of the military code is you basically sign something that says, I'll shut my mouth and I have no opinion while I'm a service man.

member in or out of uniform. I cannot speak about these matters in my personal life until I'm no longer a contracted member of the military. That's my understanding. I mean, I had a friend who was a lieutenant back during the second Iraq war in the mid-early 2000s. And I asked him about something, and he said, well, technically I don't have an opinion, I'm not allowed to have one. But if I did, it might go something like this. So even he knew there was a closet. As for the young man who died at boot camp, I can hear Trump already saying it wasn't me, it was my generals. And when they asked the generals, the generals were simply reply. He signed a contract knowing altogether that his life could be ended or bodily harm from any cause.

That will be their excuse. Be it the flu or be it bullets. He accepted that risk. That's how they're talked the way out of that one. well if he doesn't just call him a sucker and a loser well I mean he you know you know the other day like I think you brought it up he's

he's going to give him and his sons a congressional mental of honor yeah and have a thing he gives away who's right and the name tells you who gives it to people not him so there's that um trying to think what else

uh I'll probably join some friends tomorrow and I'll celebrate the two because there's a 250 and there'll be some fireworks. But honestly, the older I get, the less I actually enjoy fireworks, I still enjoy them, I guess, but I realize the harm they do to other segments of our population. Animals, vets, schizophrenics in some cases,

so they're nice for some people, they're terroristic for other people in a lot of ways. So I don't die as much as I did. And, you know, sorry to sound like a tree hugger or anything, but then again, I are one. they're horrible for the environment. They're horrible for waterways. They're horrible for fish, amphibians, what have you. They're toxic.

Yeah, that smell in the air if you walk out of a cloud of them after the show. That's not healthy. That's all toxic chemicals. Yeah, exactly. They're not good for the people who are breathing it. and you mentioned veterans i mean i know i know someone who did two tours in afghanistan and we were talking

a couple of years ago around this time and she told me she said i always make sure to know when the fireworks are going off and she said i'm going to take a x and a sleeping pill and get under the the covers.

Because they were just triggering as shit. I've been fooled by several people who are in active combat more than once, where their life was on the line. And they say, uh, fireworks do trigger bad memories. And they said, anyone that's

ever been in combat, whether they talk about it or not, has the same nightmare. It doesn't differ into the people. Some people hide them better, but they all suffer the same PTSD to some extent. But anyway, I'm trying to get out of this building a little quicker because the power went out, snapped back on.

I think it affected the AC and it's 90 out, so this building is quickly warming up. And Roger, ever so patiently waited to talk to you last night on the front porch. I think not really it was a Thursday, so you never obliged him and talked to him. So I'm going to hand it off to him so he can get it. Oh, I didn't realize that.

Somebody has to tell me, because I'm not necessarily always watching the room. No, I think he might have thought it was right on the front porch by mistake. That's what I think you thought. Yeah, because he said, I don't care about what's happening tomorrow, and I'm like, tomorrow. Okay, well, that makes a bit of sense. Well, let me ask you, before you do hand it off, you said the power blink there where you work,

do you think that's related to the overload of the grid because of the weather? Yeah, it's been 93 days in a row here. This building already had an AC drainage leak on the first floor because one of the lines for the condenser got clogs, so it's leaking in the lobby. I mean, I didn't say it, but I said, was it Wednesday? It was Thursday. So it would have been Wednesday? No, Thursday morning.

No, no. I was right, Wednesday night. Sorry, Wednesday. Wednesday, we had a severe train of thunderstorms were all through. No damage locally here, but in the distance, I saw lightning like I've never seen in my life.

It was a flash every half a second all across the constant. It was a dull roar in the backguard. The news claimed yesterday that during a one-hour period in one town alone, they registered 9,000 strike. In total, and I think that's the storm blew through, it was 22,000 strikes they're registered in this area. So it was impressive, but I mean, it isn't really helping. It's still hot as hell out. It's still, it's probably 96 today. Heat index of 105 with humidity. It is really not supposed to

really cool down much till Sunday. So it's going to be miserable tonight at the fireworks in downtown Burlington and miserable tomorrow in fields too when people watch them on the real floor. Oof. Yeah. Anyway, let Roger get off with his chest we've been waiting for it for a day now.

Okay. Hey, Roger. Roger. Roger. He's having the mic problems. Well, you can always jump back to him. Kevin's in here too if Kevin wants to talk for a few minutes. Okay. Oh, and thank you, Steve. Steve just jumped in and took the No More Holes Challenge down to 1013.

Thank you, Steve. Thank you so much. Yeah, we haven't talked a lot in a long time, Steve, and I miss hearing from you. Pass one, two, three, four. Yeah, you're there. Okay. No, I knew it was Thursday yesterday, but when I'm posting something in the chat, every once in a while people are posting in this chat as opposed to the other one.

So I cross-posted just a high all in both chat rooms. Now, I knew it was Thursday night because Thursday night is family dinner night, and I had to barbecue chicken, so that's what I was doing yesterday. Regarding the fireworks show that Donnie is trying to put on tomorrow night, The Air Resources Board for the D.C. area has pointed out that the air quality index is undoubtedly going to exceed 500, which is hazardous air. And people who are anywhere near to it should probably be wearing masks because the chemicals used in fireworks for all those pretty colors and everything. in addition to the propellants to get them up in the sky so hordes of people can watch them, are filled with all kinds of heavy metals and contaminants and all the rest of that stuff.

And they've recommended that emergency rooms make sure to have proper staffing because there are going to be a whole lot of asthma cases and breathing problems that are going to be showing up in the ERs after this 880,000 pieces of fireworks are going to be sent skyward just so Donnie can claim a Guinness's book of world records of the largest fireworks show in history. Isn't that just nauseating, Roger? Yeah, yeah, it is. and as I pointed out

I really don't give a shit about 4th of July and it doesn't have anything to do with the 5-inch gun that I told him how to aim it in my time in the service and bit like that but I mean I don't get triggered because I was never in combat and all that kind of stuff but it's just

he has disgraced and grifted so much. Have you been following the fact that when Obama was president in 2016, they created a bipartisan commission to work at celebrating 250th anniversary. Yes. The same way it was done for our 200th anniversary in 1976. And Donnie didn't like the nonpartisan show.

because it wasn't going to feature him. It was going to be a unifying the country number instead of patting himself on the back. So he hijacked it. And then when people were still wanting to donate to America's 250th birthday party, the hijacking was such that when they got onto the website to inquire how to donate money,

the routing data and all the rest of that, the website was transferred over and funneled the money that people thought they were donating to the official U.S. government site. It got donated instead when they made their online donation over to his private 4th July celebration number, which is what's going on now. now. And then I thought the real irony was today when they shut down the state, states fair because the heat index was so high, they just shut it down and said it'll open back up at about 5 o'clock when the weather tapers off.

Anyhow, you also said something earlier this week about you'd like to hear about the camping trip. The camping trip was simply a shift. shakedown cruise with our new little camping trailer. And I chose a spot that was only 25 miles away from home because if we forgot anything important, I wanted to be able to hook the trailer back up and come home into our, you know, routine. We stayed to two days and came up with a list almost as long as my arm about all the little things that we needed to add to the camper stuff.

but next week on Thursday I think it is I'm leaving and we're going to a place called Clear Lake which is one of the best fishing lakes in Oregon and the water has a clarity of like 200 feet it's out in the lava area and one of the things is if you really want to have an experience it's at 3,000 feet elevation which isn't all that bad but if you want to put on either a suit, preferably a dry suit, and swim around. They're in the water, which you can also see from a kayak, looking down when the lava, when the volcano erupted, God knows how many thousands of years ago, and blocked it off, it created the dam is actually a lava flow, crossed a valley and created the lake.

But there was a forest in that little valley. And now that forest is still standing in the lake, or down in the water. And the trees haven't rotted because the water temperature is like 34, 38 degrees, something of that sort. And so these trees are still standing after several thousand years in the lake and you get to see them. So anyhow, the other thing is, and Chris is probably, listening. He's going to ask how the protest went today. Well, there wasn't a protest today because the VA is closed on

holidays. And so people didn't show up. I don't know anything more than that. I went over there and nobody was there and I didn't have a sign and I normally don't have a sign. So I just came back home and

got busy braiding garlic again. I'm working on my garlic harvest. And I figured out the picture I'm going to post for my corn about knee high. I'm going to bring the orchard ladder around to that side, climb up the orchard ladder until my knee is at that about 10, 11 foot level where the tops of the corn plants are. And just in just getting, yep, figured out how to get it knee high by the 4th of July.

And all it is, I've got to be up on a ladder. So anyhow, that's a picture I'm going to take tomorrow. What happened at the VA is, per government contract, all non-essential workers, depending on holiday falls. If it was on a Saturday, they get Friday off. It falls on a Sunday, get the Monday off. So that's why the VA was closed.

It's not considered essential. I understand that, see, the VA clinic here does not offer emergency services. They don't do surgeries. All of that is farmed out. So it's basically just fancy doctor's office with a pharmacy and a lab that does blood work and imaging center and all that kind of stuff. And because of the new community care aspect with the VA, I can basically go to any urgent care center anytime and just hand to my VA card and then notice. identify the VA that went to a dock in a box and

they took care of me so please pay them but that's about all I've got other than the usual pissed off at Donnie and every other goddamn thing that's going on I just fortunately Robin has done it to all of us talk about urgent cares for whoever known as dock in a box now

you got your air conditioner yeah see also quack and a shack I forgot quacket it's a good addition. But yes, whenever you're here urging care, even around here, I now call it a dock and a boss, can't reframe it. God damn. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and then the other thing that was interesting,

the master food preservers have for quite some time been friendly with the confederated Indian tribes of this area. area and they just opened up a new center and they had a wellness fair yesterday from two to seven I was sitting at a table at the wellness fair and then talking to people about not a can release and all that kind of stuff Kevin you're making a lot of noise air conditioner oh okay uh how about now that's bad yeah it's gone now Anyhow, that's really all I've got. So, Evan, you can fill us in on how your life's going.

Pretty good. I'm trying to see if there's any places I can go to around here that I can move into. I think there are some. I just have to narrow them down when that time comes. right now I've slowed up pretty good and get around with a walker but it's a

it's an event let's put it that way I mean I can get around the house I mean I can go in the kitchen and make a cup of coffee make some eggs and toast make a little light lunch you know I take care of myself in the bathroom

shower and all that still and boy do you guys see that thing on chris johnson good morning america no i didn't i don't know the running back yeah the running back chris johnson he's he's only 39 now he retired a few years back he played for the bengals and my um uh morning america what's his name the football player he was he was uh he was interviewing him And Jeremy, like you're to what you said about having a voice recorded, he did get that done. And he's got three children and a wife.

And what a huge difference because he just moves his eyes and it types the keyboard. And he's talking. You look at him. It looks like he's talking to you when you're looking at him on the TV. But he's really just moving his eyes on a giant. monitor that he has in his living room typing the keys. I think I know the guy you're talking about.

He's fairly YouTube famous. His wife is Christian. Chris Johnson. Yeah. Well, Michael, what's his name? Michael Wilbon, of New Morning America, did an interview with him last week.

It's all over the internet. You can catch it. It's about 10 minutes long, not too long. And it's very compact and informative. And he's taken some experimental things. He went to Boston

hostel there next to where I went to. But his went fast, God, compared to mine, I think. It's everybody differently, but I need to get that done. I need to get my voice recorded. Kevin, if it's okay to ask, it seems like it hits you like a ton of bricks. It's come on pretty quick, hasn't it?

it has but if I'm going back now when I first started I had I don't know if you guys remember I had drop foot I had my left foot was like it was just my left foot and it was like kind of feeling like it was getting like concrete you know like just and then I then I realized I couldn't run or jump and I didn't and I was still getting MRIs now when all this was going on but nobody had determined me to have a ALS nobody connected the dots back then Now, could they have maybe? Could somebody have said two years ago, you know what? You may have a beginning of ALS. It never got mentioned. The only time it got mentioned was lately when I went to Boston to get my lung looked at because I was having breathing issues. And doctor said, you know, finally ALS is the last resort he goes, but it's a possibility.

And even at that point I wasn't diagnosed. I got self-diagnosed here in western Massachusetts by a neurologist. And so I'm three years along in the game. If you want to pinpoint my drop foot, remember, Lou Gehrig, it always starts with one little thing. And even Chris Johnson started with one little thing. He couldn't, I don't know, maybe handle the football or something like that. And then it just grew from there. Me, I had the drop foot, but I kept working.

I mean, I worked for, what? About two years with this thing, maybe? Year and a half? Yeah, that's why I said it seems like it came on quickly, and you were walking a postal beat, weren't you? Up until January of 2025, yeah. And even last year, when I retired, I was still driving, walking, albeit not.

I mean, but the way I could tell something was wrong, like I said, is when I mowing the lawn, something heavy. I'm another idea for you. Oops, sir, go ahead. No, no, I could tell where I could be out in the yard for 45 minutes or an hour and then take a break, where the best I could do was 30 minutes, and then I had to take almost a 30-minute break as well. So, and now I can't do any yard work whatsoever. But, yeah, it's hit me like a ton of bricks. Robin, you're correct.

Since the fall, it's hit me pretty damn good. Yeah. I'm going to say, not so much for you, for your benefit or for any, like, people you know, well, I guess it could be. But how old is your, don't you have a grandson? Yeah, he's 10. still fairly young. I was going to suggest you could always get yourself a cheap webcam and create some sort of video log,

which you could save to tell you stories you want him to know that he may not get to see because of what's going on in the future. Just some of the document things. And then your son can hand it down to him or your son can keep them as a family log. Because, I mean, that's what people are doing for make money. They're vlogging everything to do on YouTube, and people subscribe and so many views for their videos,

and that's that. Some of them take care they care. with that with a little bit of money just from you know a couple hundred views here and there isn't that something yeah yeah yeah no yeah no no no i like that's a good idea really i could break the photo albums out not that i haven't already with them but uh yeah i can do some more commenting yeah okay um yeah and uh i probably need a ramp outside i had a little tough time getting in the house today um and I got quoted for that

it's going to cost you about $800 out of pocket they're going to put $1,500 Massachusetts ALS Society is going to put $1,500 towards it and then I got to put $800 toward it to you know and then

I mean it's not the same as your situation but I think isn't there a guy in Ohio who's running for office who's wheelchair bound and he'll end up at someone's front door with like 12 steps in front of him and people ask how the hell do you get up here?

He said, I crawled up and carried my wheelchair up after me because it's so important to talk to everyone in this town. That's amazing. The guy's amazing. I heard him last night. I forgot what show he was on. Might have been MSN or something. I heard the guy before.

Yeah, the guy's amazing. He's in Ohio and he's just not, he's hit all the addresses. He's just, he's just nonstop. He's just crazy. Yeah. My appetite is still pretty good. And I'm so

interested about the issues, about things that are going on. I'm not, you know, I still care for us to democracy to win, you know. I think we're going to win. it's going to be interesting. Let's put it that way. I know he's been

divisive a little bit depending on what's come up, but I think a lot of it's been so much pushed off as Cams are taken down. But Graham Platner last night put on an ad, or he did an interview, talked about universal health health care. He said, he said,

it's a lot more popper than people think it is, just not the people in the votes to get it done. And he said, I think after November, you're going to see a large change in that. I think the Democratic Party is going to change. It's going to have to. It has to. It has to change now.

Not wait until November. Get a message out like here we are July 4th. Let's stop. You know, let's let's let's not dilly dally all summer long and then find out what we're going to talk about. Yeah. I want a Democratic Party that returns to its roots as the party of, FDR and FDR New Deal Democrats.

And if I'm a curmudgeon for saying so, I'm going to keep saying FDR New Deal Democrats. Because I live in a state where if you say socialist, even though every hillbilly here drives on socialist roads, has

a kid or a family member in a socialist military, wishes they had some fucking socialist water. You can't say that word but if you say fdr new deal democrat they've got grandparents and grandparent great-grandparents and the stories have come down to them how between fDR and the union they exist now because they didn't starve to death sorry preaching i apologize no no they didn't have uh world war one

airplanes dropping bobs on them well there's that too but I really think if, and look, I don't have a problem with the idea or the word socialism, but I live in the real world. And if the DSA wants to expand and actually make headway in states where the Democratic Party is said to be dead, West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, etc., then the S word is death. Yeah, because in the 1950s you had Soviet socialist republics. And so they turned the word socialism into something at that time with communism and Soviet communism to be. to be exact, and it just turned people off.

They're like, you know, but in the meantime, socialism itself, what it really, what is defined and what it is, you have social, just the word social and social security. The ism is what, the ism is what gets the people. The ism is what socialism. If you hang ism on anything, you can scare a low information voter. you'll notice that you'll sorry this is just an example I'm not trying to turn the program in another direction but you'll notice

they don't the maggots and the bigots they don't talk about transgender people they talk about transgenders and then they talk about transgender ism I'm still trying to figure out what the fuck transgender is

and I'm six years into the process you know Catholicism Presbyterianism. Okay, those are belief systems. But no, it doesn't apply. And the fact of the matter is, you can kind of win because if, you know, when a maggot says, oh, well, socialism, communism. And you say, listen, you know, all I want is FDR New Deal Democrats.

That's what I want. Well, that was socialism. them well if it was then it saved your great grandpappy's ass and you're here because of them because they didn't starve they didn't eat dirt and die of disease Kevin I know what's hot is because it's hot in my place but uh are you in front of a fan or something because when you're not talking we keep doing how about now

yes it helped quite a bit whatever you just did helped quite a bit it was a wicked blast there for a little bit well no back now. Wait a minute. The compressor just turned down. That's why. I'm trying to hold the phone in the air, not have my body connected.

You're quiet. You're perfectly fine. Perfectly fine. I took my elbow off the chair. Okay. Okay. That's what it is. You're good.

You're fine. Isn't that hilarious? Yeah. And by the way, where fireworks are concerned, I get it, Matt. Matt and San Francisco says, they're shooting them off the Golden Gate Bridge. this year. I mean, sure, they're bad,

but come on, once in a lifetime of that. And, you know, the San Francisco Bay is a really, really big little patch of ocean, so big little patch of ocean? What are you talking about, Roxanne? And so

hopefully that diminishes, that diminishes the environmental harm. What, I think, further into Southern California, they're asking communities to go to drone fireworks displays or some such. I don't fully understand, but

yeah, it'd be a great idea if, well, the fireworks don't set California on fire. Not setting California on fire is always a big thing for me. The drones don't actually set off any fireworks. They're just lighted LED lights that make patterns in the sky.

They still can flash like fireworks, but they don't have the danger. Yeah, that's my understanding. And let's see. Let's George with a pressing question for the ages in course cold Hot dog cuisine What's the best way to cook weaners

NPR on Sunday had a segment on this vital issue I didn't hear the segment but perhaps the horn crew could weigh in I've always I mean generally when I'm making them I boil them but then again this time of year when the grill's out with a little char on them and things like that I certainly get that but I don't I don't want them getting absolutely just you know cremated on the grill and that's that that can happen it's more for me it's more of a matter of what's in the hot dog than how you cook it

yeah I say I agree how the skin is right and you know a good snack happy dog like well and Christopher isn't here but he'd jump in a Vienna beef wiener in Chicago nothing like it and then again there's what goes on it and I have rhapsodized over the Chicago hot dog more times than I care to mention but you know my favorite from that little rest that little barbecue joint in Northwest Alabama is just that hot slaw and the dog and then they press it and it's like I think they must Oh, wow. So it's got a little, it's a little bit crisp on the outside of the bun.

And it's nothing but that hot slaw. And, oh, my God, it's just, I mean. Just a hot slah, huh? Yeah, back in a former day, I could sit down and knock down a half a dozen of those things without even thinking. We're talking about ages ago when, you know, they were 50 cents apiece. Now they've gone all the way up to a dollar. on Sundays and Mondays. Deutsche marker's pretty good.

Oh, what's that? Deutsche marker? You guys get Deutsche marker down there? No, I've never heard of it. Yeah. I forget who they're out of. They got good skins on them, snappy. Yeah, I got some of those Deets and Watson dogs out of Philly a couple of years ago,

and I thought those are pretty good. yeah we can't we can't we can't we can't get the really good regional brands here it's mostly ballpark and hebrew national and nathan's and uh the crogher for those of you with croger or croaker uh owned stores the private selection dogs are really really good especially the uncured ones but you have to cook them soon because they're uncured and cynthia adds if you don't overdo it smoke dogs are tasty oh i bet they are yeah oh and by the way a note coming in from Jude. Kevin's voice is stronger than his last call. I was going to note that as well. Your voice sounds great, Kevin. Jude says we shared a conversation several evenings back, which I appreciated the time with him.

Kevin's a kind man with honesty and openness. One never knows the connections that come about due to the horn. And thanks to Chris from Portland, who was the conduit. Aw, Jude, that's sweet. You always are. Thank you so much. And if you're thinking about popping in,

don't be shy about the broadcast. You know, you You can come in on the front porch as well as hang out for the back porch, too. There is some others. Go ahead. I just want to add something since I can kind of take the floor, and more people may hear them just pop in and pop out. I would like the same etiquette shared on the back porch that's shared when Robin is present. We've had an issue the last few weeks of certain people getting unruly

and being outlandish to other people. That needs to stop. The same etiquette that happens right here. Happens on the back porch or there'll be consequences. Yeah, one person talking at a time, please. I mean, every now and then you'll get multiple people. It's not talking. It's people screaming at one person here as stupid fuck.

Oh, you're kidding. No, I'm not, and it needs to stop. And if they're listening, I'm not going to call up their name. They know who they are. Stops or all have consequences, I promise. That's awful. Honestly, I'm sad and ashamed. It's the old, I'm not mad.

I'm just disappointed. Exactly. I'm not mad. I'm disciplined. My point is it needs a stop. The same etiquette here applies to the back porch. I joke and I say things, but people know it's in jest. It's not just to be mean. Try to get a giggle. I don't sell them short. But that is. That's disappointing. This isn't some... I mean, I was about to say this isn't some fucking barbarian discord server. I know it's on Discord, but we're better than that.

Whoever you are, you're better than that. So, yeah. Well, there is some more news out there banging around, and by the way, we're, can we get down below $1,000 on Ralph's Challenge? I introduced it on July the 1st. I'll keep it going through Tuesday. That was Wednesday, July the 1st. So, hopefully.

Hopefully we'll knock this thing out. But we're at 10-13. If we could get down below $1,000, that would be great. That would mean it's one-third met. Fingers crossed. And then we'll be fully funded through the middle of the month, which is awfully nice. But, yeah, $10.13 remaining, $14,000 gets us below the $1,000 mark. And I'm not even keeping up with the daily number, because I know that if we meet this challenge,

were done for half a month. So please and thank you in advance. Did somebody come in or go out? Haley came in. Oh, well, Haley. We haven't heard from you since God was a baby. How are you? You're still muted.

Yeah, she had, sometimes it takes it in it. I'm sure she's baking in all this heat, too. High summer in Arkansas is not for the faint. of heart either. Well, we managed to get up over 70. I love you, Roger. Shut up. That's going to get warmer. It's going to get up into the 90s in the not too distant

future. No, I'm sure it will. Yeah. And again, I'm not cussing this stuff. And I still love the heat, but I lack the physical ability to withstand it. I had a note from

a note from Ferg earlier. Because, you know, he's working outside in a landscaping company. And he said that, he said, I didn't have anything to take with me today and ended up drinking from customers, water hoses, and spouts. Well, who hasn't drunk from the water hose? It's a summertime tradition here in the mountain state. But he said, I drank ice cold pickle juice with jalapenia,

earlier to bring me back from the brink. He said, I feel like I'm going to have a stroke. No, son, please don't have a stroke. So, I just, well, I got him a new cooler to take with him to work. I'll take some of the perverial heat off you, Roger, and I'll say something nasty to Robin, and she'll probably tell me to shut up, too. But after three days of 90 straight, feeling 105 of muggy,

I'll take two feet of snow any day now. And I don't have a snow machine that works right now. I'd still take the cold and snow. I'll bet you have a working furnace, don't you? And I'm even worse, I'm working in place. Oh, and, no, I'm not going to tell you to shut up. Again, like I said, I'm not going to complain about this because I remember January and February. Ugh.

And from Matt in San Francisco, oh, my God, this timeline. All you need is a couple of million for a fixer-upper, and the article is from SFKK. gate, Jesus. The San Francisco real estate scene has become an all-out war. The catalyst is the AI boom. A phenomenon generating

new jobs, new wealth, and unprecedented demand for housing in the Bay Area, rents are up, homes are selling faster, prices are rising, and overbids, and we mean way over, have gone bananas. So, according to a June 2026 report, yeah, AI is just going to be everything for us, isn't it?

The AI boom has affected virtually every aspect of the real estate market. A single-family home is up 17% year-over-year in San Francisco. The median selling price has gone from $1.7 million, again, for an ordinary single-family home to $2.2 million, and they're selling faster than they have in the last five years. A home that goes on the market in San Francisco is gone in 18 days. In Santa Clara County, they're gone in 10. Even condos are flying off the market.

Jesus. You know, unaffordable housing is one of those. Well, it's like the business about having billionaires is proof of a failure. the failure of a government, God. What do you do for a living that you can get a mortgage for $2 million for a

three-bedroom ranch style? Jesus. Well, Robin, a lot of the people that are buying those aren't getting a mortgage. They've got enough stock stuff and all the rest of it.

they can just borrow against their stock if they need to borrow money. A lot of these people are paying cash. Wow. Just wow. I feel like I don't even live in the same country. Well, my niece and her husband, 17, 18 years ago, stopped being a renter and bought a condo. And it's not Palo Alto.

It's real close to Palo Alto in the peninsula. with the idea that with the new baby, they'd live there for three, four years, make money, and then they would have enough for a down payment and sell the condo and get a regular house on a, you know, a lot. Here we are some 18 years later.

They're still living in that condo because even though they both had good jobs, made good money, the rest of it, the prices went up so fast that they could never afford to move out of their condo. And so you have a phenomenon taking place. It's wild. West Virginia's been in population decline for a rather a long time. I mean, we were warned about it in the 70s and in the 80s and into the 90s.

and then all along the way the hydrocarbon industries were operating on a plan to literally depopulate the state. But in the last couple of years, reports have been coming out that West Virginia is one of the most affordable states in the union, and people look at the politics, and they go, well, hell yeah, I'm a moving to West. It's not like people moving to Texas, but yeah, I'm going to move to West Virginia and get me 100 acres, and put a house in the middle of it and live off the grid. Well, you're going to live off the grid, Cleetus, and you're also going to live off. There's not going to be that much of a health care system,

and the roads are going to be crumbling. And, well, you're going to do most of your grocery shopping at the holler dollar. But it's a reality because you can still buy a house here for something in the very modest six digits. Well, this is what you, this is. what unrestrained capitalism gets you. And remember that Nitwit Nero refuses to sign the bipartisan

housing bill that would have what? It would have banned further consolidation of home purchases by like giant real estate conglomerates.

And I said yesterday that nitwit Nero said, well, I'm not going to sign it because it would hurt my friends. Well, one of those friends is bound to be Lee Lee, not Lee Leo, but Har Har-Haw Crow, who laughs all the way to the bank. Oh, we lost Haley. Doggone it.

Haley, come back if you can get your tech to work. You're going to say if she can't get through that way, she can always call the Skype line itself and talk to you on a phone or talk to us on the phone because that line's still open. If she can hear us. The Skype line? Sorry, not the Skype line. Oh, the stress line, yeah, sure, yeah.

Losing my head, sorry, Jesus, each stroke over here, don't mind me. Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, don't, don't mess with my mind. Yesterday, I was messaging with Brother Deakin, and I confused Australia and Scotland, because he upbraided me for thinking Scotland was still in the World Cup, and I looked at Australia, you know, Scotland, Australia, cute accents either way. Forgive me. You know, Robin, after Monday, I'm not convinced today isn't early on the fourth, so we don't know. Jeremy, don't make it worse.

Ah. And by the way, Cynthia notes, I could sell my house in a week or so for an obscene price, but where would I go? And if I did, would I like it? Would I be safe? If both answers are yes, I think it would still be a pain to reestablish myself. And even just that creates inertia, I would have a hard time. that I would have a hard time overcoming. So here I sit in San Jose.

Yes, and Cynthia knows the way to San Jose. I don't blame you in the least. Stay put. The only thing is, at some point in time, the AI bubble is going to burst, and fortunately, if you're not in the AI bubble, you probably won't be touched much by it. Or at least I hope that's how it works.

out. Thank you, Brian. Brian just got us down below $1,000 on Ralph's Challenge, the No More Holes Challenge. And so we are down to, yay, $998 to go. Thank you, Brian. Thank you so much.

There is, you know, there's some other news out there. The world hasn't stopped wobbling on its axis. nitwit Nero I get the idea that they're just trying to keep him flying around because even things like having him sitting answering questions. Well, look how North Dakota worked out.

He thought he was actually talking to Teddy Roosevelt and he asked the AI Teddy Roosevelt, which was kind of a hologram, I guess. You know, we heard you. What did you think about the Democrats giving away the Panama Canal to Panama for a dollar? He felt so smart asking that. And the Teddy Roosevelt bot answered him and said, that wasn't my proudest accomplishment. The Panama Canal, I was proud.

And then he went on and gave him an AI answer that said, Well, the Panama Canal was in Panama, and the people of Panama own Panama. And so, yeah, pretty good thing. but the people who know about frontotemporal dementia have noted that you know he does that lean forward thing that's typical of dementia patients and you know you really can't tell whether he thought he was talking to dead teddy roosevelt but i mentioned teddy roosevelt because well the thing in north dakota didn't work out so great so they've sent him off to mount roosevelt but I mentioned Teddy Roosevelt because well the thing in North Dakota didn't work out so great so they've sent him off to Mount Rushmore today

and I guess he's going to do a viewing or something but he desperately wants his face up there alongside Washington and Jefferson and Roosevelt and Lincoln there's not enough room on the mountain but at one point in time when she was still governor crusty the nasty nazi gnome

said she realized that he was serious about wanting to be sculpted into the mountain and she said well i started laughing he wasn't laughing so he was totally serious i said come pick out a mountain and if you want to you can come to the farm and you can shoot a goat in the face but of course that's sacred ground to the Lakota people nobody really paid any attention to it when Gutson Borglam began work on it it was never completed

it was supposed to be more than just heads by the way representing Anna Pava Laguna has introduced a bill to put Trump on a mountain to reflect his towering legacy Bill's going nowhere, of course. And he's doing a flyover of Mount Rushmore,

and he's going to watch some fireworks out there and then fly back to D.C. And give the longest speech I've ever given. Oh, do. Please. Please. But the little known fact, before he did Mount Rushmore, Borglam did what's called the sculpture of what's called

Stone Mountain in Georgia near Atlanta. You know, the one with Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson on it. Borglam, if he wasn't an actual Klansman, was closely associated with the Klan. So, how about that? We have a Klansman to thank for Mount Rushmore. Yeah, that's freaking awesome.

But also, for the... this Independence Day holiday, 250th. Well, it's the first time we've ever had, isn't it? Or is it his second? But anyway, we've got an American, there's an American Pope in the Sea of St. Peter in Rome. And apparently Leo, good Chicago guy that he is, doesn't shrink from needling the dementia patient in the, the White House. He released a message today and it had a couple of jabs at Orange Julius Gieser, nitwit Niro. He's might wordy, the pontiff. Skip a bit, father. But along the way,

he said, defending human life also includes welcoming, protecting, and assisting immigrants. In every generation, those who have arrived seeking freedom opportunity in a place to belong, have helped shape the nation's character. And he says that, well, let me see here. In every generation, those who have arrived seeking freedom, opportunity, and a place to belong have helped shape the nation's character. To receive them with compassion and generosity is not only an act of charity, but also a recognition of the dignity that belongs to every human person.

in my recent encyclical letter yeah he's flogging he's flogging his writings Magnifica humanitas I wrote about working together for the common good building a world in which everyone can flourish require shared responsibility and courage no one can single-handedly bear the weight of the challenges the world is facing

we need one another and we need to work together in unity to confront the challenges that the world is facing today congratulations on this extraordinary national anniversary, may the spirit of 1776 continue to inspire hope and unity as the United States of America moves into the future. In assuring all of you of my prayers in your renewed efforts to strengthen the nation and the principles that guided its founding fathers, I entrust you to the intercession of the Immaculate Conception, patroness of this country, that she will continue to watch over America and protect all who dwell therein from the Vatican, June 25th, 2026.

he said we don't recognize the reason why these people were forced to leave their home countries violence war conflict to simply say oh we're going to send them away and wash our hands of the problem doesn't seem like the most christian response nice shot your holiness meanwhile the jade egg earlier this week said uh

leaders have to also consider the dignity of the native born people who have had their lives upended. You mean like Renee Good and Alex Pretty there, Jimmy Dick? Oh, they didn't have their lives upended. They had their lives ended by your filthy fucking regime. Oh, you're not getting any purgatory, Jady. You're going straight to the pineapple place, honey. The dignity of the native-born people.

Native-born? Is he talking about the Comanchees? The Cherokee, the Muskogee, the Chickasaw, the Choctaw, the Hoddnosaun. Those are the only native-born people in the United States of America. I mean, that's not an all-inclusive list. Native-born. He meant white. They're eating the dogs.

They're eating the cats. But Leo's been doing the excommunication tango. lately and really I heartily encourage Leo to expand his excommunications I'm thinking

oh Fappy Thomas and beerboof and Brat Kavanaugh check with the parish priests and see if Brat ever went to confession and did any sort of penance for trying to rape Dr. Blasey Ford.

Hmm? Yeah? I mean, I think the Pope could ask around on that. Or did Fappy Thomas ever seek expiation for what he did to Anita Hill? Yeah, yeah? Because yesterday, Leo excommunicated four bishops. Because of the Society of St. Pius, the... tent, the syspics, that's what they call themselves, sispics. They're the weirdos who, you know what?

I don't like how the Catholic Church is like doing the liturgy and languages that people can understand. God damn it needs to be in Latin. Don't want any more of those damn sign language interpreters either unless they're signing in Latin. So without the pot of's permission, four bishops got themselves ordained in Switzerland and Leo didn't waste any time

he turned right around and excommunicated all four and the two bishops who did the consecrating and said that the excommunication would extend to lay members who formerly adhered to the fraternity so that would be about 30,000 weirdos in the United States. There's also 124 priests serving 115 chapels who are apparently now outside

the salvation of Holy Mother Church. Now the Vatican tried to soften it a little bit and said, well, just going to a Suspix chapel doesn't get you excommunicated. We're going to go on a case by case basis. And so one of the weirdos, a guy named Peter

Krasnyevsky, said, oh, it's going to prompt a crisis of conscience, and others will take it as a provocation as vindication of their principal's saying. Oh, goody, let's have another schism. Mm-hmm. Nail them, Leo.

Go full Chicago, dude. And Rome even said, Well, you know, the bishops, they excommunicated themselves. Ooh, ooh, that's when Leo grabs your hand and punches you in the face with your own hand and says, stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself. Good times. I wonder, do they still do the whole breaking candles thing, I mean, the ceremony and everything, or is it all just administrative now?

I'm a sucker for some pageantry. but that's me. Oh, it wasn't a hologram of Teddy Roosevelt. He says TR was an image on a screen. A hologram might greet you with, please state the nature of the medical emergency, obligatory Star Trek voyage reference. Okay.

And by the way, Ralph said, thanks, Brian, for getting us down under a thousand bucks. And back to real estate in the Bay Area, Matt says, even the billboards, every billboard along the highway that cuts through the city is lined with AI ads. They make absolutely no sense to anyone not involved in AI.

Not sure who they're advertising to. It's at a point now that if you decide to sell, you have to accept the fact that you will never be able to afford to come back. Yeah, that's the thing. You sell, you're gone. You don't get to play the Bay Area reindeer games anymore. And it's such a wonderful city. If you can stay, why would you not stay?

AI billboards. Yeah, what are they pitching? You too can have six fingers. Try clawed. Chat GPT is your friend. I'm sorry, Dave. You can do that. Oh, this timeline, this timeline, this timeline, this timeline.

Well, I guess it's kind of quiet on the front porch today. I reckon people are all grilling and barbecue and are getting ready for tomorrow or whatnot. What else? Oh, there's a poll out on U-Gov. It was a poll of the greatest and worst Americans. Nitwit Nero was on both lists, but he was at the very top of one list. Hint, it wasn't the list of greatest Americans.

Nope. According to the U-Gov poll, he is the worst American in history, the worst American of all time. Jesus, you know, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's an accomplishment considering, you know, we got Benedict Arnold out there and Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Even the obscure ones. General James Wilkinson. That motherfucker was in the pay of the.

the Spanish crown at the same time that he was in charge of the entire United States military in the West that was headquartered at New Orleans. Worst American in U.S. history, by a wide margin. Donald Trump, among all U.S. adult citizens, 34%. Among Democrats, 64%. Among Republicans, four. The only place where there seems to be some bipartisanship is that the second worst American, according to this poll, was Jeffrey Epstein.

He came in at 14% overall, 13% of Democrats, 12% of Republicans. Then it starts to get funny. Number three, Barack Obama, overall U.S. adult citizens, 8%, unmeasurable among Democrats, 19% of Republicans. In the overall category, he's tied with Jeffrey Dahmer at 8%. 4% of Democrats, said Jeffrey Dahmer. 10% of Republicans.

Then comes Joe Biden. Overall, 6%. Democrats, zero, Republicans, 17. U.S. adult citizens said that Charles Manson was as bad an American as Joe Biden. Oh, God, bless America. Really? Then comes Ted Bundy,

Benedict Arnold, and John Wilkes Booth. Yeah, 2% of Americans and 2% of Democrats said he was the worst, 3% of Republicans. As far as the greatest American, Abraham Lincoln topped both lists, followed by George Washington. Well, this is going to piss off nitwit Nero. Martin Luther King Jr. was third.

Oh, I'm sorry, 12% of all Americas, but only 1% of Klansmen, I mean Republicans. The list was rounded out by Albert Einstein, Nicola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and Michael Jackson. where the fuck is Elvis and please please don't poll the general American public

oh God that's so dumb yeah I know Ralph says what the fuck Barack Obama and Joe Biden among the worst there's a lot of stupid people in America Ralphs

a lot of stupid people this is one of the this is one of the quiet maybe I should have taken the night off I don't know. This is one of the quietest Friday on the front porches. I can remember in recent memory.

But this is fun. We'll get a giggle out of this. No one. No one in America is sending maggots into paroxysms of fury and hatred more than a 37-year-old. seminarian. I'm speaking, of course, of James Tala Rico.

It got bad this morning. Over on Fox News TV, Radio Rwanda, Emily Campano kind of lost her shit. And, of course, it was based on something that Tala Rico had said, a true statement.

We might want to have a little chat with James Talleyco. Somebody asked him, or maybe he just volunteered it, I'm not sure, but he said that a number of Americans have a complicated relationship with the American flag.

And I think that's a true statement, but it's one of those that you don't want to make because you fall into the Carl Rove trap where if you're explaining, you're losing. It is complicated. It's a flag that ostensibly stands for freedom and liberty equality

which well is is kiss and cousins with equity it represents a diverse nation oops that's a problem too and it offers a promise of inclusion for everybody

who dedicates themselves to being an American you know Teddy Roosevelt himself said I don't care where you come from if you come to America, I'm paraphrasing. And you dedicate yourself as an American, you're as an American as anybody else.

Yeah, I think it was Teddy Roosevelt. But it is Tom. Ronald Reagan. It may have been Ronald Reagan, too. But I think there was somebody. Ronald Reagan did some one thing there that if you move to Japan, you can never be Japanese. If you move to Korea or China, you can never be Korean or Chinese.

But if you move here to an American. and you can become an American. And that's a paraphrase. That's not a direct way. No, I've seen that quote. I saw another one, though, because the government posted it, and I'm trying to remember where I saw it. I should have screenshoted it.

Did I? Let me check. That's one of the few things I ever agreed with Ronald Reagan on. But even that is now toast. Yeah, it is. The other thing that really bothers me, Why aren't people from Brazil and Colombia and Peru and Argentina? How come they're not considered Americans?

Well, there's that, and that's an extension of why aren't they considered part of that vaunted group that barking, grunting maggots, refer to as the West? I mean, they are Americans. And in fact, in some corners, Roger, there is a movement to refer to people, from the United States as U.S. Americans. That would be appropriate. Yeah. Some people shorten it to U.S.ians.

Well, but the fact is that in the history of the United States, we have usurped the word American. Canadians are Americans. Mexicans are Americans. Sure they are. Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaraguans, Panamanians. Belizeans I don't want to do the whole

Animaniacs bit but yeah Well see I can accept people from Belize because they speak English Because it was once British Honduras As mom was declining And she wanted to go to the tropics I took her down to Belize Because even though I can kind of get by in Spanish

she was a single language speaker of English and I figured that Belize being tropical she could sit underneath the palm tree and drink a pinia collata and be able to talk to people I seriously needed her to be able to talk to people because I wanted to go scuba diving and leave her at the little resort we stayed at for during the day while I was off

swimming around underwater her and if I'd taken her to Mexico or someplace like that, we would have had a bit of a language problem for her. So chose Belize. Another trip, I mean, she paid for the trips. I mean, I was that. Well, remember the late, I don't know if you ever read any of his stuff, Roger, but the late great Joe Bejant for a time had, he built himself a little bungalow down in Dan

Griga. Belize and lived there for a while. When he left, he donated it to the locals. And he loved it there. I've thoroughly enjoyed the week we spent down there. The other place I took her when she wanted to another, well, that was the last place I took her in the tropics. But the other one, I think it was when she was turning 80.

I think that was her 80th, maybe 85th birthday. he asked me where where no it was he was around the age 80 but that would have been around my 45th birthday or something somewhere in that neighborhood anyhow she asked me where do you want to go for dinner maybe it was her birthday no it was my birthday because it was Easter time anyhow he asked me I said well I'll think about it for a bit you know and then I'll tell you and I'm sure she was thinking about going to the fancy restaurant at the Rika Inn or Lerapen Cafe, which was another fancy restaurant. And I thought about it, thought about it. And I dropped by the house.

I said, you remember you talking about going someplace for birthday? And she goes, yeah, where are you thinking? Where do you think we ought to go? And I said, well, what about going out to Palau? She went, damn, that sounds good. We called up the travel agent and said, book us a trip to Palau. That was gorgeous diving out there. bad that was like the second third would have been my fourth trip to palau

wasn't there some ferocious wasn't there some ferocious fighting around there during the second world war oh yeah yeah i mean the the marianus islands and the western carolines it was island by island by island uh with the japanese syria dug in when I was living on Mazurow back in 1970 for three months the water supply well the highest point on Mazurro atoll is 22 feet above sea level and there was a big monument there where they when there was a typhoon that came through and the seas really rose and all that kind of crap but there's a monument there of commemorating the hundreds of people that died in the typhoon because they couldn't get high enough

and the waves just kind of swept over everything but the water supply the fresh water supply there on mazoro when i was there was a remnant well it was still an operation but it had been built by the japanese as a rain catchment basin and uh it rains enough to where if you have enough surface area and collect the water, get fresh water in the rain. And that's how the fresh water for the island. There's got to be something different now because, I mean, the hotel I was staying at for most of the time I was there. The sewage from the hotel just went out into the lagoon. And now they've got high-rise hotels that is a big tourist area.

and all that, so I know they've cleaned it up a whole lot since I was out there then. I love the Pacific. I wish I could have spent more time out there, but I'm too old to be diving anymore. I'll bet it was beautiful. It is. Let me see if I post a picture in the chat here.

Anyway, back to, so while you're doing that, back to Emily Campano. Is that, I don't know. but this is this is too good not to share as we run down toward the end of this Friday on the front porch she came

all unglued because they're scared to death of James Tolariko they think that they're not going to get their crooked pedophile protector I mean Ken Paxton literally is a pedophile protector one of his donors well one of his buddies

worked it out so that he walked away from raping repeatedly raping a little boy yeah just take a moment and revel in the monumental panic and stupidity and here's the thing

as Ralph's pointed out she's a Fox legal analyst you know A cup of coffee and law school and everything. Maybe even a good law school. Good in scare quotes. But Jesus, get this.

Messaging. Because every single voter there needs to understand exactly who they would vote in office, which is an anti-business, anti-commerce, anti-capitalist, anti-Texist, anti-Texan. So if they know what is good for them, it's to permeate that messaging deep into the red state of Texas. So that they think, oh, it's not just some Democrat. No, no. This person is a demon in human.

skin and they need to make sure he does not go anywhere to the nation's capital where he can actually do some real damage other than his horrible words that he keeps and join others doing real damage. Do we think he? Exactly. A demon in human skin. Now, this guy is literally a Presbyterian seminarian. And I realized, you know, Ken,

Paxton, he of the biblical divorce, I realize he thinks he's a Christian, but he's an evil gelical, and yeah, he's a pedophile protector, and I don't just mean Trump, I mean somebody he knows in real life. I mean, you want to talk about a demon and human skin? His own party impeached him in the Texas legislature for fuck's sake. Robin, wasn't it George Washington who said as Jesus said it will be? what i said isn't it george was said

as jesus said it shall be i mean he's the one that started the whole christian nation supposedly opposed to these people think yeah i don't i don't i'm sure yeah uh yeah ask the wall builder guy i'm sure he did david something or another

but god almighty and they're freaking out because talarico is neck and neck and neck in the polling. And they think that calling him a demon and human... Come on. Yeah, wanting people to have... Wanting people in Texas to have health care.

Yeah, that's what your demon in human skin would do. But, you know, Emory and Marvelline are sitting there and they're matching Barka loungers in the Ballerina Swan Lake Country Club and trailer court. That's right, Marbleen. He's a demon in human skin. God damn You can't make this shit up

And I mentioned that nitwit Niro is going to be blathering at Mount Rushmore Well remember the fireworks Just may very well set off a fire Because Well He may not May not make it And I don't mean in the

He's not going to make it way No Well the plan was for him to be there and blather away and say crazy things. But there's now a severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 7.30 p.m. Eastern Time, which would have just lifted eight minutes ago. And the warning is seek shelter inside a well-built structure and stay away from windows. This storm is capable of producing large hail. Brett Baer over at Fox News TV Radio Rwanda said

Well they just said there's severe weather on the way In fact they said hail could be coming And they're urging everybody to get inside We're going to get to shelter And hail rode with him That's not a southern accent That's just the goddess of irony Yeah I guess that's your

And that's one of your Antifa thunderstorms, right? Well, I'll get some breaking news here. They just said that there's severe weather on the way. In fact, they said hail could be coming, and they're urging everybody to get inside. Or as David Letterman once got fired from a TV station in Indianapolis, for saying, hail the size of canned hams. We're going to stay here for just a second here. Senator Rouse, thank you so much. We're going to get to shelter, and thank you for being here, and happy for us.

Welcome to South Dakota. That's the weather. We're going to head to break right now. We're going to get some shelter, and we'll be right back for special report. And you can hear the sizzle of the rain, even as he's desperately trying to go to break and, well, you know, get away from all that lightning attracting electronics. Come on, goddess of irony.

Get them. Get them. God Almighty. You know, we can't even enjoy Independence Day because of these freaks now. and he's, you know, he's ruined, he's ruined Mount Rushmore. I used to want to see it. Now I find it offensive. And by the way, thank you, Jennifer. Jennifer is so appreciated.

We are now down to $898 to go on Ralph's No More Holes challenge. Thank you. Thank you so very much. And Lee pointed out a moment ago, ironic. Please note that while celebrating the Declaration of Independence, I did not hear you mention one of the 56 signers of the document. I didn't, I got to leave something for other people to enjoy, but since you want me to mention one signer of the declaration, here, got you one.

Nitwit Nero is all excited because a statue has been returned to D.C. The statue is of slaver, Caesar Rodney. It has been replaced or placed back near the, uh, near the White House. He's a founding father. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress. And he got word on July the 1st 1776 that the Delaware delegation was deadlocked

on whether to sign the declaration. And somebody writing for nitwit Nero on tripe social said, Although he suffered from asthma and facial cancer, Rodney immediately set forth on an 80 mile on a 80 mile. Overnight journey by horseback from Dover, Delaware to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and during a raging thunderstorm, he arrived 250 years ago this very day, July 2, 1776, to cast his decisive vote and secure America's glorious destiny of freedom and independence, and I'm sure he was accompanied by one or two of the people he was enslaved, whom he had enslaved.

An equestrian statue honoring Rodney's key contribution, now anchored Spirit of 76 at Freedom Plaza, a new exhibition in Washington, D.C., honoring the heroes and martyrs of the American Revolution. Go and see. It was originally in Wilmington, Delaware. It was put there in 1923. But, well, at one point in time, Rodney owned... over at least 200 people because he inherited daddy's plantation.

At one point in time he said he did object to, he wanted to prohibit the importation of slaves into Delaware. That's because he was making bank selling enslaved babies. And so the maggots are all excited and happy that they've got an enslave. were statue back in Washington, D.C. Jesus. And, well, we are

close to the end of the program. Lee in New York says, Cesar Rodney, when we did the 50 state quarters, he was on the Delaware design. That's absolutely true. Lee says, nitwit, Nachonero at Mount Rushmore. I can hear him saying, I asked Teddy Roosevelt if I should run for another term, he said, bully.

his three buddy said yep yeah but I am I'm going to knock off a few minutes early and run up to the wiggling pig and get ready to fire up the smoker first thing in the morning because they close

and they will not I don't think they're going to be open tomorrow so I need to get this done thanks everybody thanks to each and every one of you who share your precious finite time engaging in the program in whatever manner you choose. Thanks to our challenge makers, challenge respondents.

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And, of course, the Camel Cardinal, as well as I, and enjoy seeing your comments, your remarks, your reviews on podcasting platforms. Thanks to those of you who do so, and thanks to those of you who do so for the first time. Thank you.

Thanks, Emily, for the intro. Thanks to the hardest, working, bravest people I know, the folks at Coal River Mountain Watch, CRMW.net. Over a quarter century at the forefront of the struggle for human rights and environmental justice in Appalachia and a proud union shop, please stay safe.

And listen, over the weekend, take extra care to make sure that your hair babies are okay. If there are any fireworks near them. It must be awful for them. And of course, if Emily Campanola comes towards you, babbling about, that Christian seminarian's a demon in human skin, avoid her like the plague.

Because she is. and always always always Gina and Wayne it's all for you have a great holiday weekend everybody talking a little bit

Victoria later oh by the way the back porch continues and you know be nice