Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 30 March 2026, Moran Monday

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

Nitwit Nero admits he wants to commit crimes against humanity. Iran wipes out a half-billion-dollar command and control aircraft and some refuelling tanker planes on sacred, Saudi sand with a single, ...crummy drone . . . and a bit of help from Mother Russia. According to a former Biden economic adviser, the world has about a week of aviation fuel before airports start shutting down. Good times! 

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Starting point is 00:00:03 The Pessword is desalinate. It's showtime. Here we go, live from behind the corn phone curtain. It's head-on with Roxanne Kincaid. Three hours of cussin and discussing with America's only liberal transvillity elitists right here, right now, on the head-on radio network. Brought to you in part by Cole River Mountain Watch,
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Starting point is 00:03:19 But it's time for something bigger and better. Okay. Hi. I'm Roxanne. It is more and Monday on the horn. Goodness me, it is, it is, it is. And we've got plenty to talk about over the weekend. I can happily report,
Starting point is 00:03:37 and this is certainly not gloating. I'm sure Roger is equally happy to have been wrong from his prophesion on Friday. No, the No King's protests went off without a hitch for the most part except for that iconic photograph of Lady Liberty in zip ties and chains
Starting point is 00:04:01 if there was that but no we did not we did not mount a ground invasion of Iran at noon on Saturday this past that's not to say it isn't in contemplation
Starting point is 00:04:17 Roger saying yes I'm happy to be wrong sometimes we just are happy to be wrong but there's well there's plenty of talk surrounding the idea of a ground invasion of ancient Iran even still it's disturbing it's evil
Starting point is 00:04:41 it's wrong and as to the password well desalinization nitwit Niro is three threatening to bomb the civilian infrastructure of Iran if they don't accede to his psychotic demands. And even he, you know, he, he's out of his mind, and he doesn't know from one day to the next what he wants. But he keeps issuing, well, you know, the mob makes you an offer you can't refuse. The maggots make you an offer you can't understand.
Starting point is 00:05:24 end and here we are but this is two things in one this is the the post the answer to the post over at blue sky that mica put up as well as well it is the explanation for the password because nitwit Nero yes I'll bomb everything you have to bomb I'm going to make the bomb I'll bomb I'll bomb with bombs with bombs and bombs And that's probably more coherent than he actually is But yeah He says he'll bomb the entire
Starting point is 00:06:16 Electrical Generation capacity Of Iran as well as their desalinization plants because they desalinate seawater in order to have drinking water in that vast and somewhat arid land
Starting point is 00:06:35 and the whole point with all of that is holy crap those are ginormous no doubt about it violations of any kind of norms they constitute war crimes
Starting point is 00:06:53 they constitute crimes crimes against humanity and nitwit Nero's out there threatening to do it and thinking that he, well I'll get away with it. I always get away with it. I'm the one who gets away with everything.
Starting point is 00:07:09 Yeah. But now, why I can't trust the American for-profit media, well, he's been talking about this for a while. And, you know, I'll gladly accept the input, as I always,
Starting point is 00:07:29 do of this little community but it is a well and thoroughly recognized violation of principles that were established among other places at Nuremberg in the tribunals for the Nazis
Starting point is 00:07:49 by the way I did finally watch Nuremberg I guess it was Thursday night before I came home on Friday and it was was very thinky for me. Magnificent performances across the board.
Starting point is 00:08:09 But it was at Nuremberg that we established basic principles of how not to wage war. And of course, rule one was don't start wars of aggression. You're fine defending yourself, but don't start him. Robert Jackson, Justice Robert Jackson, and he is a complex character. I went to reading up on him, and my goodness gracious, a brilliant man, probably the greatest writer of the court during his era or any other,
Starting point is 00:08:52 none less than fat dead Tony Scalia said that he was the best writer, Robert Jackson, of the entire Supreme Court in the entire 20th century. century. And of course, fat dead Tony was on the court during the 20th century, so that means that fat dead Tony Scalia
Starting point is 00:09:11 considered Robert Jackson to be a better a better legal writer than he. So that's telling. But yeah, the principle that we are not punishing Germany because they lost
Starting point is 00:09:29 the war, we are punishing Germany because they started the war, is central to everything that followed from it. As Anatole points out in the chat room, a violation of all of our norms.
Starting point is 00:09:46 Yeah. So the thing is, every time I've heard or read a news story about Nitwit Nero said, Obama, their electrical generation plans, Obama, I'll, I'll,
Starting point is 00:10:04 when he himself can barely tie his own goddamn shoes, I bomb their desalination plants that all die of thirst. Well, it matters not who the reporting outlet is. None of them mention that those are, say it with me, war crimes. You know, the kind of stuff that you wind up standing in the dock at the Hague over, if you're anybody but the United States of America.
Starting point is 00:10:42 And that's what he's counting on. It's only a war crime if somebody who isn't the United States does it. It's only a war crime if someone who doesn't, if someone does it who doesn't have a ginormous
Starting point is 00:10:59 nuclear arsenal does it. Yeah. And nobody mentions that. And it's not like it's a close case. It's a close case. not like there's an argument to be had that, well, it's a war crime if.
Starting point is 00:11:21 It's a fucking war crime. Period. And Mitwit Nero is out there saying, and I'm going to do them, and nobody can stop me, and nobody's saying anything about it. Pisses me off. And honestly, I was surprised because the first mention I heard of it, was on National Petroleum Radio today. I had to go down to the settlements for prescriptions.
Starting point is 00:11:55 And I was listening to NPR on the way, as I often do. And I think it was 1A. It runs at 2 o'clock here on West Virginia Public Radio. They were talking about it. And I'm sitting there, you know, screaming in the car. We're crying. crime crimes against humanity and crickets and then lo and behold about 15 minutes later lost somewhere within the within the dead zone between primacy and recency
Starting point is 00:12:43 one of the commentators on the panel said he says he'll bomb the desalization plants which is of course a war crime and I was like well I'll be damned finally and it was the first time I'd heard it mentioned and it was at NPR
Starting point is 00:13:07 it wasn't you know it wasn't MS now and it wasn't Katie Terrible It wasn't the mouse network. Well, they're never going to talk about that over at Larry Ellison and Barry Weiss's. See, BS News? NBC, crickets, yeah. Here we are.
Starting point is 00:13:37 Here we are. Uh-huh. You hear those? Those are not happy cricket. I speak cricket And those are some disgusted crickets They're really unhappy
Starting point is 00:13:54 Yeah So that's That's why the password And why the show post And it's of course Nowhere near where we're Going to go But
Starting point is 00:14:08 Every program here at the horn Begins with gratitude And this program is no different Consequently with the funding deficit at $2,350 for today and tomorrow
Starting point is 00:14:27 to finish March to the good or just to the even well thank you Charlie and thank you to a kind anonymous individual we're actually down to
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Starting point is 00:15:16 So 2270, what is that? $11, $1,135 today and $1.35. $25 tomorrow and we're fully funded for March. A girl can dream. Yeah. But that's where it stands. And Ralphs has a challenge to get the program started. Thank you so much, Ralphs.
Starting point is 00:15:46 U.S. Tomahawks are being used in Iran faster than the stockpile is being refilled. That according to C. B.S. News. $25 challenge. for that we're shooting more missiles than we can build so thank you ralps and uh hopefully somebody will jump in with 25 bucks and we'll get down to no let's see uh 2220 thank you ralps thank you uh what's that randy radar you can get prescriptions from Costco inexpensively and get them delivered by instagram or so i hear uh well i think
Starting point is 00:16:35 I think my, one, I don't have a Costco anywhere near me. Two, most of my prescriptions are not terribly expensive. The one I pay the most for is the most important one, and that's about a hundred bucks. But everything else is on the formulary for the most part. But I had let my, well, I'd been in Parker's Bird with Victoria, and I can't refill them up. there. So I had to come home and then go over to Summers Vegas to refill. And consequently, the
Starting point is 00:17:21 necessary trip down to the settlements for prescriptions. Usually it's down to the settlements for provisions. And I'm still looking for just the idle banter of the day. I'm still looking for a decent body shop to give me an estimate on the damage to my Poor little dinged-up Ford Fusion. She's such a good girl.
Starting point is 00:17:44 Going back to war crimes and the like, Stephen New York notes, war crimes are illegal under 18 U.S. Code section 2441. In theory, actually, in law. But the problem is, guess who's immune from being accused of war crimes? Uh-huh. Gee, thanks, old balls and strikes.
Starting point is 00:18:19 Oh, how can we ever repay you, frat boy, Neil? What a good handmaid you are, Amy COVID-Barratt. You found time to break away from your beer-boofin with your law clerk's squee and quiff there. Beer-boofin, bab-b-b-b-b-b-brat. And, of course, Fappy and Sammy Bad Breath. Gosh, what awesome Supreme Court Justice as you are to turn an absolute psychopath loose on the world to kill as he sees fit. Aren't y'all just awesome? Oh!
Starting point is 00:19:07 You know what? You know what old balls and strikes and the rest of you? Justice Roger Toney is going to be giggling, he's going to be cackling like a hen laying eggs when he meets you. you motherfuckers at the gates to hell. Yeah. No worries, Steve. Your leisure, dear friend. Obligatory Aladdin
Starting point is 00:19:41 reference? I don't think we've ever had one of those Lee in New York. Trouble? No way. You're only in trouble if you get caught. Aladdin. Not the brightest bulb in the tent. That Aladdin. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:20:03 Steve also noting, we may be happy to be wrong. The thing is, it just doesn't happen very often, good or bad, out in front of the curve and all. That's true. And from Cynthia, my take on the local news, No Kings reporting, the news reported on it, but it kind of felt like, so what, and move on to the latest murderer car crash, we needed more people, sigh. I know, I know. But still, the last one, the one prior to this got $5 million, this one got eight.
Starting point is 00:20:44 The next one may get 20, especially if this stupid, illegal, dip shit, dumbass, crappy, miserable, crummy little war, and all the crummy little people obeying illegal orders to perpetrate it continues. Lee. You're Roxanne. See how violent Iran is? You know, for a country that has been declared to have already lost the war, they're losing it rather interestingly.
Starting point is 00:21:25 They lost it to the tune of us losing a $500 million dollar airborne command center. We have had it parked on the runway at Prince Sultan air base there on the sacred Saudi sand. And Iran dropped a bomb on it. Actually, a drone and a missile. And I don't think they're going to be able to fix it.
Starting point is 00:21:55 They blasted the B-Jesus out of it as well as some tankers, you know, some in-air refueling tankers. Yeah. We had 16 of those airborne command centers in the Middle East. There were more in the Middle East than anywhere else in the world. We had 16, now we have 15. And by the way, some real live, no-kitting human beings were hurt. A couple of them critically in that attack. What do you want an attack nation to do?
Starting point is 00:22:33 What do these geniuses at the Pentagon expect them to do? Yeah. And from Gino out behind the Zion Curtain, No Kings, my favorite sign from the 1,500-person rally in our small northern Utah Valley. Oh, that's a good one. Elect a rapist expect to get fucked. But it was a beautiful day, frighteningly warm. with white and brown, young and old,
Starting point is 00:23:07 and even some truly non-immigrants, indigenous folks. Maybe more on that in a little bit, because tomorrow, no, Wednesday, Wednesday, before our most puissant, dread sovereign, supreme Catholic majesties, arguments will be heard, unfortunately for the world, The government's argument this will be made by chainsaw Jack Sauer, Hacksaw Jack. No, really, you can have anything you want.
Starting point is 00:23:44 Just shut the fuck up. It hurts to listen to hear you speak. No, Hacksaw Jack will be relying on an 1880 case that essentially said that an American Indian could not have U.S. citizenship. and that's what they're hanging their hat on to abrogate the birthright citizenship of the 14th Amendment. Yeah. So, well, I'm glad there was a good turnout.
Starting point is 00:24:31 There were good turnouts all over West Virginia, all over, and, you know, that's saying something. I talked to Miss Terry down on the Alabama Gulf Coast, and, of course, Alabama is Blood Red Maggot State, too. in the little town on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, Fairhope, Alabama, 1,200 people showed up. That's astonishing. And of course, there were massive gatherings in New York, Chicago, L.A.,
Starting point is 00:25:06 that's where Lady Liberty got zip-tied. But the pressure is building desalinately in New York City. Are you starting with food porn for those with elevated blood pressure? No, no, no. But that was one of the prescriptions I had to pick up. I was two days without my blood pressure medication, and that makes me a little nervous. So it'll be back down to its happy little 120 over 74,
Starting point is 00:25:41 and that'll be awesome. So, yeah. Christopher, cricket talk. So you say you speak cricket? Does that mean you heard and understood When poor cricket howled As Krusty, the Nazi Nome Dragged her away to the gravel pit
Starting point is 00:26:07 Mustn't forget the poor goat That poor goat The rally we attended was terrific The speakers were all inspiring We had a front row seat to Tina Kotech Have a great week Horn family You have a great week too Christopher
Starting point is 00:26:21 You are a You're always a shining optimism A shining beacon of optimism and hope Mm-hmm I wonder you losing the war Lee in New York says
Starting point is 00:26:40 Iran has us by the strait and you know there's a bend in the straits of Formuz I wonder if that means Iran has us by the straits and curleys I'll just wait to see if anybody noticed that one
Starting point is 00:26:56 I don't know I'm sorry it's just off the cuff the straits and curleys some days are just like that. Oh, by the way, Steve lets us know the statute of limitations on war crimes is five years. So, somebody's going to need to pardon nitwit Nero, I guess.
Starting point is 00:27:28 But going back to something from last week, and I guess CPAC is over now, there was lots of stupidity. But going back to something last week, the man who, who looks like rancid hot dog water smells and who desperately wants to be back inside the West Wing but isn't that motherfucker actually shaved maybe it was because he was going to CPAC or something I'm not sure but I said nitwit Niro's going to need someone to pardon him in a couple of years
Starting point is 00:28:11 apparently the man who looks like Rancid Hot Dog Water smells doesn't think Nittwit Niro is going anywhere and I guess he thinks he's immortal too I haven't said we're going to amend the Constitution. We're working on five or six different alternatives that President Trump could run again and be president. And quite frankly, I think four or five of them are going to work. And I continue to say, as I told Bill Maher, on the afternoon of January 20th of 2029, Donald Trump's going to be president for his third term. Now, question, is that sleazy, greasy old pervert friend of Epstein just trolling the first? rest of us?
Starting point is 00:29:07 Or do they really have five or six different alternatives to keep daddy as president? Joe Walsh, you know, former Republican, said, and all I will continue to say is imagine the worst and be ready to defeat it. Is Trump going to fuck with, try to cancel the midterms? Believe it, defeat it. Will Trump try to run for a third term? Believe it, defeat it. We didn't imagine the worst after the 2020.
Starting point is 00:29:39 election and January 6th happened. Not again. But if he were to serve a third term, he'd be leaving at the age of 86. I refuse to countenance the possibility that he remains among the quick by that age. His filthy old daddy
Starting point is 00:30:06 had already begun to lose his mind by that point, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. Jesus. And, of course, I had failed to note Mark Wayne Mullen got, well, sworn into office. And this being more on Monday, we have a Lady G. sighting. But Stephen New York says, Stevie Three Shirts, I have to say it again, Stevie Three Shirts, you are not getting back in the tent.
Starting point is 00:31:13 now and of course on what we have described as a little something hopeful to look toward starting Wednesday the window is open for us to send
Starting point is 00:31:42 an Artemis rocket to circle the moon and a 10-day mission the first time we've been to the moon at all since 1972 I'm sorry
Starting point is 00:32:02 I know I know I should be more excited than I am, but this is happening on nitwit Nero's watch, and I don't trust it not to be fraught with potential disaster, especially because his hand-picked NASA administrator is another filthy billionaire, and this one a private astronaut. Ugh.
Starting point is 00:32:47 And then, well, this is, okay, this is just more in Monday stuff, and it has to do with the Usha. Earlier today, she showed up for a public appearance where someone asked her if she owned a hate hat. You know, remember, you can't spell hatred without red hat. And over the weekend, an interview took place with NBC in which the Ushah
Starting point is 00:33:42 said that she was deeply involved and invested in her husband's success and NBC anchor Kate Snow then said do you even own
Starting point is 00:34:02 a MAGA hat and she was the Ushshah was caught at a loss for words. I don't really have own any hats. I think I have a Disneyland hat, I want to say. And Kate Snow just laughed and said, I just wondered.
Starting point is 00:34:37 Not a hat lady, the Usha then reminded. However, the Democratic National Committee's rapid response account was right there and posted two pictures of Usha wearing a hat, neither of which was a Disneyland hat. Usha Vance owns multiple hats. Caught in a lie. We're caught in a trip. We can't go out.
Starting point is 00:35:25 No, okay, no singing. what are you thinking? We're trying to get down to 2220. If somebody comes up with 25 bucks. No, I promise, no more singing. I mean it. I mean it. I just, suspicious mind seems to, I feel like that needs to be one of the theme songs
Starting point is 00:35:47 of this crooked gang of fascist thugs. And from Cynthia, hey, I used to be an optimist. that was in the before time though now I'm an old sourpuss oh you are not you're just a realist now quit that there's a big difference and what's this uh duck ragu this early in the evening what's wrong with you girl says dave in the blind i have a stewing problem i'm hungry and you post on facebook duck ragu really girl starting the food porn this early is not good a hungry dave in the blind is not a happy dave in the blind just ask the beloved ex-wife she can tell you tell you, point me toward a smorgasbord of right-wing dipshits, I feel like tearing a new asshole, go to, uh, mm-hmm, go no kings forever, love Dave and the Blind. Duck Ragoo. I actually saw a video about Duck Ragoo. I don't think I shared it, though. There's a guy who cooks beautiful stuff, and I see his reels all the time. I guess he
Starting point is 00:36:53 originates over at the tickety-to-to-thing. Um, but he, he, Every time, I think it's like a nervous tick for him. Every time he puts an onion on his cutting board, he has to spin it. And he also spins lemons, and he spins shallots. And so I've taken to referring to that as a sponion or a spemin. Sometimes there's even a sporeng. But he did do a beautiful duck ragu the other day. It took me a second.
Starting point is 00:37:29 uh randy radar i don't think that's the no it's not what you think it is um and from uh cynthia i'm worried about this moon launch too and for the same reasons you are plus victor glover is a cal polygrad like me obviously we weren't there at the same time but even still hey a fellow alumnus but with a black astronaut a woman and a canadian on board if anything goes wrong you already know who's going to get blamed and so for all of the above and more I'm hoping for a successful mission for them. I really do too. And, you know, they're set to splash down in the Pacific. And as I understand the nature of the mission, they will go up and the command module will separate from the rocket.
Starting point is 00:38:30 And they'll spend some time orbiting the Earth and making sure all systems are go and function. and then they'll zoom away to the moon and best of luck to them. I wish I felt like our motives were as pure now as they were back then for the original Apollo program. We go to the moon not because it is easy but because it is hard.
Starting point is 00:39:11 And of course we also wanted to show up the Soviet Union and we had that little Sputnik problem where they got into space before we did and we were terribly humiliated and America was shitting its pants just sure that the Soviets were going to drop Sputniks all over the place and yeah but yeah it is it's worrisome
Starting point is 00:39:35 and I'm kind of following to see when if they're going to go up and I hope they return safely to Earth even if it means Nitt Nero's standing there saying See, only I could return us to the moon It takes someone like me To take us back to the moon
Starting point is 00:39:59 He'll say moon so many times That cattle will start coming toward him Moon Moon Yeah, moon Yeah, back to the Ousha for a second one individual over on what used to be Twitter said I believe what she wanted to say was no
Starting point is 00:40:25 I would never be caught in a maga hat I'm just sitting here like a good little wifu while my husband sells his soul for money and power can't say that they already hate her the maggots already hate her because she's a brown lady and she's not a crescent and as as we noted
Starting point is 00:40:56 CPAC was last week and well guess who was there in grapevine Texas among the other assembled um foot pads cut purses shitbirds and the like well look it's not
Starting point is 00:41:14 an American Indian bovine Gregory who was interviewed by Jason Selvig who comes across as terribly serious um he's from
Starting point is 00:41:29 the good liars. And he stuck a microphone and a camera in Bovine Gregory's face. And apparently Bovine Gregory is not the sharpest fork in the toaster. Tell me your previous job and your first and last stand, please. Sure, it's Gregory Bovino. Previous job was Chief Patrol, the U.S. Border Patrol. And how long were you working there at ICE? Approximately 30 years.
Starting point is 00:42:01 All right. Thank you so much for talking with us. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So that was my interview with Greg Rivino. It was a visual joke.
Starting point is 00:42:14 Because Jason Selfig, he's a normal human male height. And he stood up and looked down. And as he spoke to Bovine Gregory, who is not an American Indian in the least, he crouched down to eye level. to finish talking with Bovine Gregory thereby pointing out what a shitty little orc
Starting point is 00:42:51 Bovine Gregory is. And he had a new fresh haircut and everything. He'd had the side of his orcogging all razor down so that there was nothing but a little little, little, little patch of, little patch of poof
Starting point is 00:43:08 on top of his head like some sort of twisted, Monic poodle. Yeah. Very, very, very masculine look for Bovine Gregory. Uh-huh. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:27 Oh, and your tax dollars at work? This was moronic. A, uh, an H-64 Apache attack helicopter did a flyby of Bob Richie's home, that would be the people, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, known to Maga as Kid Rock. He is neither a kid nor a rock. But they don't have a problem acknowledging his chosen name. And he shared a video shot from behind him
Starting point is 00:44:13 of him saluting an H-64 Apache attack helicopter as it hovered next to his home near Nashville this this occasion some curiosity
Starting point is 00:44:41 oh there he is just a clapping and Bob Ritchie has his very own Statue of Liberty right there by his feminine poo that overlooks
Starting point is 00:44:58 the Cumberland Valley there where Nashville is and then he snaps him a salute and that's two salutes he has a sign that says southern white house and then he gives him a raised fist and black power what and he captioned the whole thing in an extrament over at X saying this is a level of respect that shit for brains governor of California will never know god bless America and all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend her but the
Starting point is 00:45:51 question is why are taxpayers paying for military helicopters to fly past kidd rocks house for a photo shoot what's interesting is they were out of fort campbell kentucky and had been apparently dispatched to fly over the no king's protest in nashvagus yeah and uh major jonathan bless in a statement uh for the hundred and first airborne division said fort campbell leadership is aware of a video circulating on social media, depicting an AH-64 Apache helicopters, operating into the vicinity of a private residence associated with Mr. Robert Ritchie, also known as Kid Rock. Who-ah! The command has initiated an investigation to review the circumstances surrounding this activity. Who-A! The 101st Airborne Division, Air Assault, and Fort Campbell, Hu-Awaha, maintained strict standards,
Starting point is 00:47:06 for aviation, whoa, safety, whoa, professionalism, whoa, and adherence, who are, to establish, who are, flight, who are, regulations, who are. We take who are, all concerns, who are, regarding aircraft operations, who are, and their impact, who are, on the surrounding community, who are, seriously, who are. So why did you fly an attack helicopter, presumably, um, fully loaded over? A peaceful protest in Nashville. Hey, yeah. That's a damn good question, isn't it? And how much do it cost? Well, they've got an investimigation.
Starting point is 00:48:01 They'll investemagate themselves and probably give that helicopter pilot a couple of medals or something. Hoo-ha! God, how embarrassing. There's no let up. It's morin's all the way down. And over the weekend, I heard a clip from... it went Nero and he's so close to getting it. Saying,
Starting point is 00:48:34 well, we had the regime change in Iran and we killed their leaders. And then we regime changed some more and we killed the next diatola. And we may have to kill the next diatola for regime change. But we're regime changing. I'm paraphrasing. And eventually he's going to have that moment. Where? Like the lady, asking the Hindu scholar about the elephant standing on the back of the turtle.
Starting point is 00:49:11 And what's the turtle standing on? Madam, it is turtles all the way down. Yeah, yeah, nitwit, Nero, it's Ayatollahs all the way down. Because they've had 57 years. the plan for this. And they knew that eventually it would happen. It didn't happen under Carter.
Starting point is 00:49:40 It didn't happen under Reagan. Didn't happen under Pappy Bush or Bill Clinton. But they knew. They knew that sooner or later the American people would put someone so breathtakingly stupid into the White House that they'd decide to
Starting point is 00:50:00 attack Iran. pull on. So guess what? They were ready. And they remain ready. And they're going to keep shooting. Oh, by the way, it turns out, and we have
Starting point is 00:50:27 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to thank for this, it turns out that the Iranians apparently did such a really good job blasting the be-jesus out of us at Prince Sultan Air Force Base
Starting point is 00:50:44 on the sacred Saudi sand. Well, they were able to do that because they had some targeting help from Mavarasha. Ah? Yep. Nitwit Nero is hanging Ukraine out to dry at Daddy Pudi's bidding. And Daddy Pudi, in turn, is helping the Iranians maim and kill
Starting point is 00:51:19 American service personnel I tell you what that nitwit Nero that brain I swear to God it's like a steel trap rusted shut well thank you Charlie at APS Radio News
Starting point is 00:51:50 Charlie just jumped in and met Ralph's Tomahawk missile challenge so we are now down to 2220 to finish funding fully funded for the month of March. It's doable.
Starting point is 00:52:04 It's possible. We can it can happen. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you so much. Lee in New York, back to Stevie 3 shirts. He will not be welcomed into the tent, but how about a laundromat?
Starting point is 00:52:26 A barbershop? Well, Marabella Dick to Lee, in that video, the clip of which I played, the audio of which I played, uh he was freshly shaven and you know um not to put too fine a point on it it didn't help um he he still looks like job of the hut after a couple of months on slim fast he'd even combed his hair and didn't help wait uh cynicism any uh flavia says i saw this on facebook yesterday naturally
Starting point is 00:53:17 unfollowed this person. I would say this is industrial strength, cynicism. It's getting late. How did no kings go? You all feel good? Good enough to do nothing until the next pointless election? Cool, you did it. You skipped brunch and defeated fascism. Flavio said, I mean, how shitty can you be? I have no words. Well, you know, that's probably
Starting point is 00:53:35 a bot, Flavio. Until the next pointless election. Those people are out there and they're getting noisier, which tells me that they're bots. And just by way of talking about bots for a second. Consider
Starting point is 00:53:52 okay, let's see, we are about to enter the second hour of the program. So let's have our moment of vapidness and vacuity. Chapel Rhone Edition.
Starting point is 00:54:14 Chapel Rhone, of course, is a wildly popular pop star singer, became wildly famous for a tune called Pink Pony Club,
Starting point is 00:54:29 which I found ironic and hilarious because, well, long before Chapel Rhone was even a twinkle in her parent's eye, there was right at the intersection of the highway that goes down to Gulf Shores, Alabama and tease into
Starting point is 00:54:49 Beach Boulevard, Right there is, and it's weathered some hurricanes and whatnot, but right there is a pink cinderblock building, and I mean it is peptobismal pink, and it's called the pink pony. How long has it been there? I was talking with a dear friend last night, and he pointed out that the vacation that he and I took to the Gulf Coast of Alabama in the summer of 1992
Starting point is 00:55:24 was one of the best vacations he's ever had and he talked about all the great vacations he's taken and he said and that one well that one is way up at the top just one of the very best oh we had a blast and in 1992
Starting point is 00:55:45 yeah we had we had margarita in the Pink Pony Club. Yeah. But anyway, Chapel Rhone. Apparently she was in concert at some humongous venue in Brazil. And she was having dinner or something in a restaurant minding her own business. And some Brazilian football star's daughter apparently walked past her.
Starting point is 00:56:20 didn't say a word to Chapel Rhone didn't interrupt her nothing and then I guess security from the restaurant told her father like I said who is a famous
Starting point is 00:56:39 Brazilian footballer to not let his daughter bother the celebrity guests he himself being a celebrity of course. And then he blew it up into a huge nothing burger on social media basically saying,
Starting point is 00:56:59 The Chaparone is such a bitch. My daughter's just a fan. Something to that effect. And that's when the bots took over. And the bots amplified that kerfuffle
Starting point is 00:57:22 far beyond any reality that it actually had. We've seen this time after time after time after time. These were not real people, no, these were just bots creating chaos and conflict online, perhaps set up by some less-than-friendly troll farm in Mother Russia, or I don't know, maybe Iran. But, yeah, it was nothing. And by the way, it wasn't Chapel Rhone's security either.
Starting point is 00:58:05 Now, Chapel Rhone is very young, and she is very politically immature. And she said some stupid things during the 2024 presidential election, making the same mistake that so many have made before her, saying the very same damn thing that, well, that Strom Thurman said when he stomped his feet, and threw a hissy and left the Democratic Party in 1948 over civil rights. And it was the same thing that George C. Wallace said in 1968. And it was the same damn thing that Ralph Nader said in 2000, namely, I ain't a dime's worth a difference between the Democrats and the Republicans.
Starting point is 00:58:56 And Chapel Roan said something. similar in 2024 about the difference between Trump and the smart brown lady who went to Howard and got a law degree and was the
Starting point is 00:59:09 senator from California and the Attorney General of California and the District Attorney of San Francisco whereas nitwit Niro has bowling trophies and golf trophies for being the best doggone
Starting point is 00:59:26 golfer at his golf Motel as voted for by him. Yeah, Chapel Rhone said there was no difference between the Democrats and Republicans, and well, she's young and she's dumb. And hopefully she will eventually grow up and grow out of it. But that kerfuffle was bot-driven, and the sad thing about that is how eager people are to get into these bot-driven friends.
Starting point is 01:00:01 So I have a feeling that your cynical poster there on Facebook probably was a bot too. Good enough to do nothing until the next pointless election. They're not pointless. Oh, no. And I don't do it very often, but I turned on MS now earlier this afternoon when I got home from going down to the settlements for prescriptions. Oh, it's spring. It's spring. That was a long pause for a big sneeze.
Starting point is 01:00:45 I turned on MS now for a minute, and just my luck. I just happened to turn on MS now when Katie Terrible is broadcasting. And she was having a conversation about why does it be about high-level Democratic insiders. and of course she never gave a name because she's terrible who are having a discussion about how the only way to take back the presidency is to nominate for Democrats to nominate a straight white Christian male to run because America won't vote for women and asking vacuous questions on the topic
Starting point is 01:01:39 and when she said straight white Christian male I immediately knew that she was talking about who else. Yeah, Gavin. But there is a straight, white male who may yet run for president that I'm far more supportive of. You'll notice the absence of the word Christian. And that's J.D. Pritzker. And maybe that's too much for...
Starting point is 01:02:15 But really, would the maggots run ads saying, You can't elect J.B. Pritzker? He's a Christ killer. Or more likely, you don't want to elect J.B. Pritzker? He's a... Gee! I mean, this is the American Nazi party now, the maggots are. So, hmm.
Starting point is 01:02:44 But there sure is a whole lot of distance between... him, J.B. Pritzker, and Gavin. Oh, and I found this story rather interesting. According to CNN earlier today, Democrats in Nebraska have found a plant. No, no, no, not one of those fun plants that grows pretty little green flowers that smell skunky. No, they found a Republican Party plant, namely William Forbes. just like nitwit Niro, 79 years old, this guy's a preacher.
Starting point is 01:03:41 He filed a run for Senate as a Democrat earlier this month in Nebraska. And the Democratic Party itself said, we want nothing to do with this guy. He's not a Democrat. The Nebraska Democratic Party said earlier this month, William Forbes is not running to serve Nebraska, he's running to trick voters. Forbes wants to ban all access to abortion in extreme position
Starting point is 01:04:15 that makes life more dangerous for women and babies. Forbes is using the Democratic ballot line to deceive voters who deserve better. When CNN said, Well, are you a Democratic, are you a Republican plant? Well, anyway, I saw there wasn't any Democrat on the ticket.
Starting point is 01:04:38 I'm trying to get information from everybody. They want clones, and I'm not a clone. I think for myself, I'm a free thinker, said the crime. Christian pastor. CNN did some digging around and found where Forbes had said that
Starting point is 01:04:56 the media was left wing and had preached sermons about, erratical feminism, had referred to President Joe Biden, the best president this country's had since 2016 as
Starting point is 01:05:15 dementia Joe. And then he got frustrated with CNN and said, hey you've asked me who I voted for three times so it's weird the the Democratic Party of Nebraska is actually backing an independent
Starting point is 01:05:39 yeah namely Dan Osborne and basically it would be a race between Dan Osborne and the Republican incumbent but having someone on the Democratic line line could make it harder for the miracle
Starting point is 01:06:13 to take place and for Dan Osborne to win the election. So of course the maggots put somebody in there. That's what happens when a party can't fill its own ballot positions. How about that?
Starting point is 01:06:40 And Nebraska Democratic Party chair, Jane Clebe gave CNN some screen caps from a Facebook page that's now gone that show pastor Forbes attending anti-abortion events
Starting point is 01:06:56 because he loves the little feet. What did Will Rogers famously say? I am not a member of an organized political party. I'm a Democrat. And I mentioned we had a Lady G.
Starting point is 01:07:23 citing. Oh my goodness. Apparently Lady G. went to Disney World and swaned around. I wish I was kidding. I am not. Had a good old time where dreams come true. Maybe he was doing recon to make sure there were that the, maybe he wanted to attack the Aladdin exhibit.
Starting point is 01:08:14 You never know. But here's the fun part. It really bothered Alex Jones when he saw photographs that were published by TMZ of Miss Lindsay, taking some time off down there at Disney World, apparently with a pink and blue scepter. Really? Transpride colors, Lindsay? I'm looking now. want to get a better.
Starting point is 01:09:26 Yeah, there it is. Via the Independent. Lindsay Graham seen holding Disney-themed bubble wand despite claiming theme park visit was during business trip. The South Carolina Senator appeared to be wearing business attire,
Starting point is 01:09:55 according to the Independent, while holding a pink bubble wand toy, while walking around the tangled area of Magic Kingdom on Friday. Mm-hmm. But then he was in more casual clothing when he
Starting point is 01:10:13 got on the roller coaster ride Space Mountain. He was... Well, eventually someone managed to question him about it. Yeah. Gavin Newsom's press office
Starting point is 01:10:54 immediately responded saying, Devas still need vacation. But over on what used to be Twitter, a conservative journalist named Cassandra McDonald said, why isn't an old man with no kids going to Disney? Well, I was invited to a meeting in South Florida on Friday with Trump official Steve Wickhoff to talk about the possibility of normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel. I went to Orlando to meet friends after.
Starting point is 01:11:29 I'm already back in South Carolina. I bet you did meet some friends in Orlando. The happiest place on Earth. Well, like I said, the bottom line is that this was not good for poor Alex Jones's mental health. No. But it's great. It's bad for Alex Jones, but it's great for Moran Monday, y'all. No, it's freaking awesome for Moran Monday.
Starting point is 01:12:11 But that's okay. because Lindsey Graham is walking around by himself with a baby blue and pink princess scepter. I know because I bought basically that exact scepter. I know because I bought a cell. Well, my stars and goddess, Alex Jones. It's not a princess scepter. It's a bubble wand. You say you bought so many of them.
Starting point is 01:12:46 It's a bubble wand for the bubble parties that Lindsay throws down at the ancestral estate of Smolder and Chode. I went and looked it up the line. Similar little princess scepter for my three daughters. You hit a button and it all flashes with lights and stuff. So the point is he's got a girl's toy and he's walking. Oh, it's a girl's toy. I had no idea that toys had gender. Son of a gun, no wonder they're so upset.
Starting point is 01:13:25 It's a girl's toy. I mean, well, you know, if you handed it to a frog, it would probably gay the frog. And if you handed it to a little boy, it would trans him immediately. God, these idiots. Talking around talking to Mickey Mouse and people looking completely insane. he constantly talks about killing people and then he goes he goes
Starting point is 01:13:57 I can't make the John Wayne Gacy face he makes you know what it is he'll just go I can't even do it You know what you can thank me You can thank me for the fact that this is not a video program like Alex's is because then you'd have to see Alex
Starting point is 01:14:16 Alex Jones sticking out his tongue Ew ew and making making faces you know like a five year old it's like a Brian's stiltre face he'll just go like
Starting point is 01:14:34 I mean he literally turns to a demon on television now he's running around with the princess scepter you know like the Nazi field marshals pull out of their chairman and their joint chiefs they all had the sceptors but they were like you know scepters of blue and gold coil
Starting point is 01:14:55 with an eagle on the top or a skull Still a power trip, still... Wait, what? Who has the sceptors with the eagles and the skulls and the... Hang on. Arrogance, still... ...culling to their chairman and their joint chiefs. They all had the sceptors.
Starting point is 01:15:15 Who's chairman? Who's joint chiefs? Sometimes it just gets really confusing around here. It's a sceptor. You know, like the Nazi field marshals. cool on to their chairman and their joint chiefs they all had the sceptors but they were like you know yeah dumbass the british have them too they're called swagger sticks and they use it when they're marching up and down the square pip pip chittyo old chap world what a world what a world what a world
Starting point is 01:16:12 i may yet have to start keeping a bottle of mexican gasoline with the swirly straw around it It's, well, you know what we say around here. It needs to be translated into Latin, and my skills are just not that great. But, you know, however weird today was, tomorrow will be weirder still. Yeah. Because it's just so stinking true. Scepters of blue and gold coil with an eagle on the top or a skull. still a power trip, still
Starting point is 01:16:58 arrogant, still weird. But, oh, but they didn't have a pink princess scepter. Pink Princess Scepter. In fact, we put the back on the screen and blow that up. I'm going to get into that more, because we got more on that. So that's where we are, ladies and gentlemen. There is our field marshal.
Starting point is 01:17:24 The man with the pink princess scepter making that same weird face you make. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Field Marshal von Bedhead? Ah, yeah. Constantly. A demonic zombie stumbling around Disney World. Totally oblivious to how bizarre that is.
Starting point is 01:17:56 I mean, if I was caught myself at Disney World with a pink princess scepter, I would ask, what, what happened to me? Did I get conned from the head? Have I had amnesia? Did somebody give me PCP or something? I mean, I think all those things are possible. for Alex Jones. But, I mean, yeah, I get the point.
Starting point is 01:18:15 But no, he's just the guy that basically says he runs Trump's foreign policy as a total Israeli operative. And in his off time, he goes by himself to Disney World to walk around all day and talk to kids and talk to people dressed up in Disney character outfits and carry a pink scepter. See, truth, the stranger's fiction. You couldn't make that up. You couldn't make that up. But it's real. It's real. It's real.
Starting point is 01:18:44 He's not at home with his wife having dinner because he didn't have a wife, folks. Oh my, really? Well, I think we know one of the songs that was running through his head. You know, Lindsay's gay. It's okay. It's completely okay. We don't judge that. There's nothing to judge.
Starting point is 01:19:35 But who we? We can have a high old time Judging the hell out of the hypocrisy. And there's, uh... Yeah. There's what I think about when When I think about Lindsay
Starting point is 01:20:07 At home. Mm-hmm. The princess It's hard to do. It was very easy. Was he strong and handsome? Where's he big and tall? There's nobody like him.
Starting point is 01:20:38 Did he say he loved you? Did he steal a guess? He was so romantic. That's queer! No, sorry. I said there'd be no singing. Maybe someday his prince will come. It's just a question of where.
Starting point is 01:22:21 That's all. Okay, I'm going to be showering with bleach and probably having intimate relationship with the murder hornets in hell after that. I do it for the community. Yeah. Right. So we are halfway into the program.
Starting point is 01:22:57 We are at 2220 to be fully funded. Let's see. If we could bring in 720 bucks, I'm thinking big, that would mean that we finish March tomorrow with only a week unfunded. but right now it's well more than a week. But thanks everybody for helping to get it all knocked down as much as we possibly can.
Starting point is 01:23:39 Oh, and, well, hard-hitting video talking head journalist at CNN, Jake Tapper, is apparently skeptical. of some of nitwit Nero's more butch pronouncements and coming in for a dose of his own humilaration
Starting point is 01:24:20 well Marco Rubio way just hours before the Monday deadline that President Trump set before that deadline expired the President delayed the threat by five days and there was of course, the caveat. And if it goes well, we're going to end up with settling this.
Starting point is 01:24:41 Otherwise, we just keep bombing our little hearts out. Thursday afternoon, President Trump extended that deadline once again, this time by 10 days. Now, one can support the goals of this war and also acknowledge the confusing messages. President Trump has declared victory while arguing that the mission is not complete. On regime change, the president said that this would be Iran, the Iranian people's best shot to take their country back. Then in recent weeks, President Trump said it was too dangerous for a popular uprising to happen. And then yesterday, he said regime change, that's already happened. But we've had regime change. You look already because the one regime was decimated, destroyed.
Starting point is 01:25:23 They're all dead. The next regime is mostly dead. It's the same regime. It's, like I said, early in the program, it's Ayatollahs all the way down. And the third regime would dealing with different people than anybody's dealt with before. So, yes, the previous Ayatollah is dead, but now his arguably more hard-lined son is now in charge, we think. So if the mission is just, as Secretary Rubio noted, the destruction of the Air Force and the Navy and missiles and missile-making capability, it would seem that the U.S. would be close to accomplishing that. But, according to reports in the Washington Post in the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration is preparing for more. The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, troops on the ground. President Trump is weighing, deploying
Starting point is 01:26:16 another 10,000 more ground troops to the Middle East region in general. And they are also considering a complex operation to extract, with boots on the ground in Iran, nearly a thousand pounds of uranium from inside Iran. We should note the president has not made a decision on any of those options. again we should note the president may not even know what world he's in right now but yeah i i heard about this over the weekend and i mean i had some other things i wanted to accomplish this weekend uh i have begun cleaning the i've begun the spring cleaning of the smoker the uh the uh the uh the acorn
Starting point is 01:27:06 Camado you know it just needs a good going over when you're going to start your season and that's a fairly gross and disgusting affair but it provided me with some
Starting point is 01:27:22 it provided me with some meaningful respite after dealing with this insanity we're going to go in and it don't work out like Tom Cruise movies. That sounds like we're going to go in
Starting point is 01:27:42 and get their nuclear material. Really? We're going to do that. I mean, I know Tom Cruise does his own stunts and everything, but Jesus fucking Christ! I don't know, maybe he'll attack on Easter Sunday. I mean, it's not like it's going to mean anything
Starting point is 01:28:10 to the Iranians. We're going to sneak in to the Mission Impossible theme. And by the way, when we Steve the uranium, how are we going to how are we going to keep our soldiers from getting, you know, the living shit radiated out of them?
Starting point is 01:28:38 Because, well, those fissionable materials they have to be shielded with a lot of, a lot of, like, wed that you know, the radiation can't penetrate. And the last I checked, no one's come up with lightweight lead.
Starting point is 01:29:14 You think the Iranians might notice a bunch of Americans tiptoeing into their various and sundry nuclear bunkers to get their uranium. And once it's out and about and running around town that maybe that could be a real problem, or, you know, the more conventional stuff, he's going to put boots on the ground and destroy Harg Island. I thought he'd already destroyed Harg Island. Rebel without a clue. One can want to denuclearized and democratic Iran and still wonder if President Trump is kind of making some of this up as he goes along. One can be a froggy and want wings, so one does not bump one's little green. green butt on the ground when one hops. But to the best of my knowledge, all the little green frogies are
Starting point is 01:30:27 still butt bumping. Just saying. One can support President Trump and wonder if he's fully aware of how often war spiral out of control little by little with unanticipated responses by the enemy requiring increasing commitment. President Trump said he would end the Iran war when, when he quote, feels it in his bones. Yeah, our little excursion, he calls it. But like I said at the beginning of the program, I can no longer trust the American for-profit media. Because they can't speak in plain language.
Starting point is 01:31:15 Hard-hitting television journalist Jake Tapper can't say that nitwit Nero has no idea what the hell he's doing because he's completely out of his depth and is spiraling out of control and that puts the entire world in grave danger. Now you have to rely on tiny little radio programs like this to hear truth at that level's level. When so many lives are on the line,
Starting point is 01:31:51 that is a remarkably vague and impulsive metric. Let's discuss this with former congressman, Congresswoman Jane Harmon. Oh, stand by. Victoria just pointed out, feels it in its bones? Feels it in his bones? You mean the bones with the bone spurs? Yes, dear. The bone spurs are talking to him.
Starting point is 01:32:19 So now, uh, now, uh, now nitwit Nero, well, never mind. Let's see what Jane Harmon has to say. She, Jane was always a reliable ally, you know, to our partners in peace, Israel. We're chair of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy and a former Democratic congresswoman from California. Also with us, Karim Sajapur, senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Thanks to both you for being here.
Starting point is 01:32:49 Congresswoman, some people believe Trump's constant back and forth is strategic four-dimensional chess. What's your take? Well, first, welcome to my hometown, Jake. happy to have you in LA, wish I were there. But my take is Trump is not negotiating with Iran, he's negotiating with the markets. And I think a lot of this
Starting point is 01:33:12 what amounts to noise because Oh, Jane, Jane, Jane, Jane, Jane, Jane. Trump's not negotiating with Iran. Trump's not negotiating with the markets. Trump's negotiating with the Spirokeets, honey. The changes all the time is about is the market going up, is the market going
Starting point is 01:33:35 down. Maybe there's some early whispers to a few folks who could invest in the markets, but I think that's what it is. And I don't think he ever anticipated that after a couple of days it would become this. And let me make one other point.
Starting point is 01:33:51 He's not negotiating with Congress. Where is Congress? You know what? He shouldn't be negotiating with Congress. This is entirely supposed to be Congress's call. And Congress tells him what he can and cannot do with his war machine.
Starting point is 01:34:13 But, yeah, as Jane Harmon points out, where is Congress? Hmm, where's Waldo? You know, I've coined this term, Kako. Congress always chickens out to match taco. Think all these dates that are getting, the deadlines that are being passed. I can't imagine why. Intelligent people in Congress, in both parties, and there are some, Sounds like an oxymoron, but it's true, aren't demanding that they play a role here and authorizing or not the use of military force and the sending of our soldiers into harm's way.
Starting point is 01:34:50 Karim, the White House was asked about how the U.S. could trust without whomever they're negotiating with, given Secretary of State Rubio said it's unclear how Iran is operating. Take a listen. As a president is trying to make a deal, how do you ensure that you're making a deal with the people who can actionately implement it? Well, that's part of the ongoing process that's taking place. And the ongoing negotiations, of course, anything that they say to us privately will be tested, and we will ensure that they are being held accountable to their word. Kareem, what do you think is actually happening inside the regime? Are there negotiations going on?
Starting point is 01:35:25 Can they be taken seriously? Are they with key enough players? Jake, we don't have any evidence. There are serious negotiations happening. I don't doubt that President Trump's envoy. are sending text messages to Iran's foreign minister at Aalcchi. But the reality is that, you know, there's been an, after the assassination of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini,
Starting point is 01:35:50 there's been an enormous power vacuum in Tehran. And at the moment, it's still, it's, the personnel has changed, but the regime and its ideology is very much the same. And at the moment, they think the trend lines are going in their direction and that oil prices are going to continue. to go up, and American public support for the war is going to continue to go down. Congressman, today the White House said that additional U.S. troops in the Middle East give President Trump maximum optionality in this war.
Starting point is 01:36:20 The Wall Street Journal is reporting that he's thinking about possibly sending another 10,000 troops to the region. What's your take on that? Well, it's a nice word, optionality. It's almost as good as obliteration. Old words are obviously, obfuscation is another one that comes to mind. My take on that is without an endgame, this makes no sense. Military objectives may be being achieved, but global objectives, geopolitical objectives, are totally unclear. I agree with Karim that if you're looking at it from the Iranian perspective,
Starting point is 01:36:58 they've got the cards, to quote our president. They've got the cards. They've got a veto over the Strait of Hormuz, and their population is increasing. support for its government increasing its support and they are resilient and don't think if we send more troops into harm's way unauthorized by congress oh my god that they're not going to be harmed and that there's not going to be repercussions all over the gulf so i think some of it just a little historical footnote to all this uh miss harmon was in congress back in 2002 and two thousand two
Starting point is 01:37:38 2003 when Dem Leader was running around saying He fuck's a damn We're going to take him out He tried to kill my daddy How'd I work out? Just curious And from Kim in New York
Starting point is 01:37:59 Hi Cam Jake Tapper We can agree on the goals of the war And then goes on to prove that nobody knows what the goals are Jake Tapper Coward Jake Tapper
Starting point is 01:38:13 Wanting to keep his Cushy multi-million dollar job jake tapper yeah what's what's the old line it's hard to get a man to understand something when his paycheck depends on him not understanding it yeah that adult supervision is necessary i'm really pleased that several of the gulf states are talking about hosting a negotiation to get to some endgame which hopefully has global buy-in good for the pakistanis and the others Karim, the White House says that the U.S. is going to follow the law.
Starting point is 01:38:50 This is after Trump threatened to attack Iran's power plans and desalinization plans that provides potable drinking water for the Iranian people. What sort of reason would there be to attack these targets and how would that impact innocent Iranians? Well, Jake, President Trump is in a predicament because he cannot end the war and declare victory so long as Iran is controlling the Strait of Hormuz. And I think he's making these grandiose threats in the hopes that he's not going to have to actually send troops. But the danger is that the Iranians will call his bluff. And as Congresswoman Harmon alluded to, we may have to send troops, or he may decide to send troops into harm's way. Yeah, we're never, we don't have to send troops.
Starting point is 01:39:43 We didn't have to send missiles. We didn't have to send bombs. The way forward was diplomacy, but nitwit Nero can't do that because he treats diplomacy the way he used to treat screwing over contractors on a construction project. Needless to say, the two are not even remotely similar things, but in the thin gray settlings that slosh around between his ears and pass for brains, they are. and that's the thing that continues to well give me the fan tods
Starting point is 01:40:24 namely that there is and I feel certain of it and I want that you know we'll go back to what we were talking about at the beginning of the program I want to be wrong about this I have never wanted to be wrong about something so much in my entire life and I think you know where I'm going but I think he has a breakpoint
Starting point is 01:40:56 I think he has a point at which he will say I always wanted to see what it looks like when you use a nuclear weapon they won't reopen the Straits of Hormuz well we'll make them open the Straits of Hormuz we'll nuke Tehran
Starting point is 01:41:22 and then they'll reopen the Straits of Hormuz there's only one problem at that line of reasoning. Part of the reason that fat man and little boy had the effect that they had in August of 1945 was because of the newness of the atomic weapon.
Starting point is 01:41:52 But the reality was we killed more people in the fire bombing of Tokyo by conventional means than we did with Hiroshima or Nagasaki and perhaps combined. And in both instances, we killed a shit ton more civilians than we killed combatants.
Starting point is 01:42:12 So there's that. There's also the fact that historically, and very few people know this, the Japanese had been suing for peace since the spring of 1945, saying, listen, we are ready to quit. We've had enough. And some of the members of their leadership were dead.
Starting point is 01:42:39 Yamamoto being one of them shot down over the Pacific by some Oh what were they P48 lightnings The Japanese called them the forked tongue devils Amazing aircraft But the Japanese were weary of war And had been suing for peace
Starting point is 01:43:10 Saying only listen We're good to go We're going to quit, we're going to quit, going to lay it all down. We just want to keep the emperor. I mean, these are facts. These are findable facts. But they've been lost
Starting point is 01:43:25 in the hagiography of the end of the Second World War. Because the story that was put out was, well, we had to drop them atomic bombs on the Japanese because we didn't want to sacrifice
Starting point is 01:43:41 a million American moms and daddy's boys invading the home islands and that's how many will die. Not if they surrendered. And we said no, the only thing that will avail is unconditional surrender. Which they did
Starting point is 01:44:00 after we dropped the atomic weapons on them. And then we said, well, sure you can keep the emperor. Whatever made you think we wouldn't? It casts the use of the atomic weapons in August of 1945 in a much different and
Starting point is 01:44:22 much less respectable light, but they were. They were ready to surrender by the time Hitler was dead, and even sooner. And that was a nation weary of war, because we only got into it in basically the beginning of 1942, December 7th, 1941. And we were in it for, let's see, for, for, We were in it for three and a half years. Japan, in their fascist adventure, had been in it since the mid-1930s, invading Manchuria and other parts of China.
Starting point is 01:45:29 The Japanese people were sick of war. And so we dropped the atomic weapons, and they went, okay, we quit. Not quite that simple, but close enough. That ain't Iran. I fear that is not Iran. One, if nitwit Nero decides to drop one on Tehran
Starting point is 01:46:04 and it doesn't trigger a nuclear response from Russia and or China, then the Iranians, well, they're as likely as not to say, hit us again, I can put a little stank on it. And that, I don't know about you, but that is, that is terrifying to me. because, well, it's a great big global, there goes the neighborhood. It's going to be hard to ship oil or anything else through the Straits of Hormuz when it glows in the dark. Interesting that each side has its own demands for peace.
Starting point is 01:47:05 The Iranians are issuing demands, and that's not a beaten nation. They're saying, okay, here, you want us to make peace? Here, here's what we'll do. you, United States, will take all of your troops out of all of these bases, all over the Middle East, and you'll go home and completely caught off guard. A little Marco Rubio or Steve Whitkoff or whatever sleazy real estate developers, they went to Jared. What? I mean, we can't do that. And for our part, our list of demands is essentially,
Starting point is 01:47:54 We want everything that was in the JCPOA, you know, without that one's signature on it. So Daddy can get the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the war that he started. Uh-huh. Yeah. We are in such deep shit. And I don't know how many people in America know that we are. Boots on the ground, says Flavio. Topographical map of Iran. That would be like invading Switzerland. A really big Switzerland.
Starting point is 01:48:49 Lots of mountains in Iran. And, you know, it said Alexander was the last person to conquer Persia. Well, that's because the Persia of Alexander went all the way, well, took in all of Iraq, which is a little bit simpler to maneuver in. Alexander chased the Achaemenid Persian king all over the country and never did catch it. Eventually, it was one of his own subjects who said, you know, I'm going to cut your head off now. Or something to that effect. Enough of this foolishness.
Starting point is 01:49:44 Yeah, I don't think the 10th Mountain Division can get Iran done, Flavio. No. I mean, how did it work out in a mountainous country like, say, Afghanistan for us. No, not well? Oh, okay. Yeah, this is that times a million. There's a reason not just a whole hell
Starting point is 01:50:17 of a lot of the Civil War was fought in what later became West Virginia. It's hard to march entire armies around in the mountains. I remember being, I remember the train ride from Paris to Brussels
Starting point is 01:50:37 and from Brussels to Frankfurt, thinking, yeah, no wonder these months. motherfuckers can't be at peace. You got all these planes, PLA-I-N-S. They just beg for
Starting point is 01:50:51 cavalry soldiers and then tanks and eventually aircraft and and that's where most of the so-called West's military strategy comes from.
Starting point is 01:51:06 Von Klausovitz and Napoleon and the like. maneuverable gravity. conversations with Iran, Lee, in New York says, Pete Kegbreath sent them an invite to join his signal chat. Yeah, they're, American officials are literally sending text messages
Starting point is 01:51:37 to the Iranian foreign minister. And humiliation of humiliation. He's left them on red. that's just pitiful. Flavio says boots on the ground talk about walking into a trap. Very little of Iran is at sea level as the country is largely mountainous with an average elevation of over 1,200 meters. Loveland are restricted to narrow coastal strips along the Caspian Sea below sea level and the southern Persian Gulf along with the southwestern Kuzstan Plain,
Starting point is 01:52:17 which represents a small portion of the country's total land area. Key details about Iran's elevation, lowlands, the main low-lying areas of the Caspian Sea Coastal plain about 28 meters below sea level and the Cusistan plain in the southwest, according to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Highland dominance, more than half of Iran, is covered by mountains or high plateaus. Average altitude, the country has an average elevation of 1,305 meters above sea level. I mean, I'm at 1,600 feet above sea level here. That's twice that.
Starting point is 01:52:56 That's basically an entire country of Colorado. Highest peaks, the Zagros and Albor's ranges contain many peaks exceeding 3,000 to 4,000 meters. Essentially only a small fraction, primarily in the coastal fringes and the Kursistan plain, is at or near sea level. Yeah, have fun getting boots on the ground there. Alexander marched all the way to the Indus River and all along the way his troops were
Starting point is 01:53:33 you know one hair on a gnat's ass away from full mutiny and he lost a shit ton of his troops just trying to get home to Babylon Emilio the Colombian spy come on Robin and Ron's only about four square inches in size
Starting point is 01:53:57 how hard could it be I mean Pizarro didn't have have that much trouble with, you know, Andee and South America. Oh, wait, no, he did have a lot of trouble with that. Yeah. He never, he didn't leave. He didn't leave the Andes alive.
Starting point is 01:54:25 Towards again, that was his own men's doing. Oh, that's so true. And this one's not on me, Micah. Ruining dinner, Leah, New York points out, well, if Lindsay does find true love, that true love will have to love. ladybugs you're just my little ladybugs
Starting point is 01:54:46 oh yeah Flavio Flavio says I was really heartened by the massive turnout for no kings How many turned out? Eight million, some say ten I caught the program half an hour in so I didn't hear your thoughts on No Kings number three I thought it was
Starting point is 01:55:02 I thought it was excellent And once again it's a building block The next one has to be 20 million That would be somewhere around what, 7 or 8% of the population? And that speaks to well, how difficult it may be for the maggots
Starting point is 01:55:35 to suppress the election in November. Oh, well, thank you. Where else are you going to receive this sort of geography lesson? Says a kind anonymous internet friend. And a $25 challenge for that. Well, thank you. Hopefully someone will match that $25 and the geography lesson, well, it is what it is.
Starting point is 01:56:05 But thank you for that. Thank you for recognizing what sets this program apart from so many others. And from Michael, Iran's ceasefire. I don't know if you've seen this or not, but apparently Mango Manchild's trying to use the same deal Obama had with Iran that Mango Manchild tore up in 2018. Yeah, exactly. We want the JCPOA, but we want Daddy to sign it this time.
Starting point is 01:56:33 So tear up a good deal and then years later go to him, Hey, remember that deal with a bomb that I tore up? Yeah, let's do that one. Is the Grim Reaper on vacay? Because he needs to get to work. A bombs from Daryl in Houston. Roxanne, you're absolutely correct about Japan trying to surrender. The received and propagated history is that the bombs drove the Japanese to accept our surrender terms,
Starting point is 01:56:59 which they'd been resisting. This is absolutely false, but is all you'll ever hear unless you're, get the right professor in college or stumble across the right sources yourself. No matter what anyone says, the USA wanted to test the bombs on live subjects and allow the Japanese to accept our terms after they got the data they wanted, or as evil as any other country when it comes to war crimes. Yeah. And they, I mean, they, Daryl, they set it up with brilliance.
Starting point is 01:57:29 Harry Truman, who was decidedly new to the presidency, did not have to make an affirmative decision to drop the bombs. The decision had already been made. We were going to do it. The only choice that Harry had was to say, no, don't. If he just remained silent, it went right ahead. And it was set up that way for a reason. It was science-driven.
Starting point is 01:58:12 Thank you, Darrell. From Kevin regarding Tapper, I can't stand when these multi-millionaire newscasters insult the intelligence of the person they're interviewing by asking the most obvious questions. Anyone with an eighth-grade education knows the answer to. You have to consider, Kevin, that they don't think they're
Starting point is 01:58:40 that many eighth-grade educated Americans who are watching. Oh, and all the way back to Snow White, Sylvie says, I used to sing this at the drugstore waiting for my photos. Someday, my prince will come. Yes, your prince. Ah.
Starting point is 01:58:58 Okay, that looks viable. In Latin, the motto of the horn. Thank you, Sylvie. Quamwis Hodié miram-wherit, Kras etiam miram erit. That seems correct. I'll have to double check it. You know, we have a Latin scholar in the community.
Starting point is 01:59:24 Hi, Dave. David, Mellow Moonlet, Meadow. You want to check that out? for us. Quamwis Hodié mirum fuerit. Cross etiarm mirum eret. Because if it checks out to be true, I might have to get that inked on my hide somewhere.
Starting point is 01:59:48 I haven't had a new tattoo in a while. I'm kidding. Maybe. And from Michael, going back to Nebraska, Trust Fund, Petey. Western Nebraska is burning. I asked on news site, what is Pete Ricketts doing? people would say, what's he supposed to do?
Starting point is 02:00:12 He can get the ball rolling to get aid to the farmers. Senators can do a lot for their state if they want to, and this think deep red western Nebraska would want to help from their senator, a senator that was bought for by a billionaire daddy. Yeah, it can all burn. The geography lesson. Well, it wasn't in time. Flavio says, just so you know, the geography lesson was from an AI-generated answer
Starting point is 02:00:52 to my question to Google. how much of Iran is at sea level. To their credit, Google AI documented that their answers came from the Wikipedia entry. That's all their AI does. It lifts answers from Wikipedia, I've noticed. Yeah, but I added the flourishes, Alexander and whatnot. Yeah. What? Randy Radar says, funny, I just ruined my dinner.
Starting point is 02:01:19 I ate it anyway. Sometimes it's just what you do. Randy Radar says a strange sort of pocket veto that Truman made. He didn't know. It wasn't a pocket veto. It was nothing at all. There was nothing for him to do. And his closest advisor, an old-school apparatchik from his Missouri political days. Can't remember the man's name. He said,
Starting point is 02:02:02 Eh, Harry, let it go. You've got an election. You've got a re-election. to win. And thus is history made. Bilbel Rick dropping of the A-bombs, let's not forget another reason why the U.S. wanted to drop the A-bomb on Japan was to show the Soviet Union the power of this new
Starting point is 02:02:29 weapon and to prevent the Soviets from starting a land invasion of Japan, which it was then contemplating, and to deter the Ruskies from expanding into other parts of Europe. Yet there was, that that was a different deterrent effect, but you are You are correct. And yeah, this one won't wait. I saw this earlier.
Starting point is 02:02:56 Thank you for the reminder of us. Niro decided he wanted to attack Pope Leo. Yeah. Saying that Leo was an insult to Jesus, beyond woke. And in a hall, full of journalists and gospel sharps and police. Politicos and whatnot. Well, Pope Leo walked to the podium, looked out to the audience,
Starting point is 02:03:45 and took over the room. The President of the United States just said that I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus, kicking the sick off their health care while cutting taxes for billionaires. You know what insults Jesus? Deporting the stranger and separating babies from their mother. He said again, you know what insults Jesus? Bombing innocent children, sending young men and women to die in endless wars and protecting the powerful while the weak suffer in silence.
Starting point is 02:04:38 And then he said, I'm not a perfect Christian. There's only been one perfect Christian, and he was crucified on a cross 2,000 years ago. He wrapped up saying, Jesus told us to love our neighbors as ourselves. So let me ask you something. Can we imagine war in heaven? Can we imagine hatred in heaven? Can we imagine poverty in heaven? Then why do we tolerate these things on earth?
Starting point is 02:05:22 That poor stupid mental defective in the White House has no real earthly idea of just how stupid he is. That's why, in fact, he is the Dunning Kruger president. Flavio says the Latin motto is correct. Uh-oh. Time to call my tattoo artist. Thing is with words. I know some tattoo artists who simply will know.
Starting point is 02:06:02 not do words. Because no matter how hard you try, well, tattoo guns are no difference in pens and pen than an ink pen. The difference being, when you make a mistake with an ink pen, you draw a line through it and then you spell the word correctly.
Starting point is 02:06:18 It looks a little weird doing that with a tattoo gun. You know what, says Michael, we're more Christian than the so-called Maga Christians. Well, the Maga-Christians aren't Christians at all. And Paula white. You remember
Starting point is 02:06:42 last time we heard from her she was saying, she was I hear the sound of beating drums. I hear that and then she hum, ooh-e, ooh-a-a-a-a-ting-tang, wala-wa-a-bang. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:06:59 She's now saying that and I'm not kidding. She's now saying that Christians in America need to give one-tenth one-tenth of their income to Israel. I wish I was kidding.
Starting point is 02:07:43 But, yeah. Oh, and Flavio, going back to your cynicism, I'll see your cynicism and raise you some really stupid nihilism. This comes from an individual. I'm not going to dignify with a name, but she is, in fact, dumber in the head than a hog is in the ass. As an Appalachian woman, I've seen enough struggle to know that these No King's protests are turning into a high-end craft fair. It is purely disrespectful to watch privileged white women spend their weekends sewing handmade costumes to protest a TV show theme
Starting point is 02:09:10 while our black and brown neighbors are fighting for their actual lives, housing, and dignity. I know what it's like to work hard and hurt, but I've never been deep. night a roof over my head because of my skin. If you have time to stitch an outfit but no time to show up for the people living this reality for generations, you aren't an activist. You're a performer. Stop the
Starting point is 02:09:31 cosplay. Drop the vanity and start practicing some real material solidarity. I know this person. She couldn't pour piss out of a boot with directions on the heel. She doesn't understand. I mean, that's no different, Flavio,
Starting point is 02:09:58 than the person you sent earlier. you're saying, yeah, like you're going to vote your way out of this one. Oh, I see so much of that. Oh, that, God. Dumb dumb. If you want to do things like that, you have to first have political power in order to get political power. You have to organize people in order to gain that political power, and then you can do that stuff you're talking about there.
Starting point is 02:10:28 The stupid you have always with you. And, yes, remember there's a brand new $25 challenge on the table that would get us down to 2170 if met, drawing ever closer with a show and a half left in the month of March. Ah, why did I have to see that? Now I have to think about how stupid some people are. Oh, well. Well, hey, let's run over to the stress line
Starting point is 02:11:27 and see who's been waiting patiently. Hey, welcome to the program. And I did get that dark, raggedy thing from you because your bright, shining face was on the link. And I want to say fancy. It just makes me hungry. And second, now, this is a question that extrapolates in Sydney, in the Horn family community, currently, you might be able to answer for us. So was Miss Lindsay down in Orlando visiting her friends because,
Starting point is 02:12:05 years was not available and he couldn't book a room in the 1940s and 50s with Truman and
Starting point is 02:12:19 the boys down there I'm just wondering yeah well I'm just I'm just wondering if that's why Lindsay was down there in Orlando and Alex Jones
Starting point is 02:12:39 criticizing Lady G. For carrying around the princess sector, sounds to me like the queen is upset with the princess. Off with your head until morale improves. Yes, the beheadings will continue until morale improves, yes. Well, I'm thinking more of the queen of heart. staying with the Disney thing there, Roxanne. The problem I'm having is Mitt Wittnero,
Starting point is 02:13:29 the United States Supreme Court might declare Donald Trump's ordering of war crimes legal, but if something should happen, let's say, oh, the world turns against us and Johnny gets offered up as the sacrificial lamb to stop the pain. The international community
Starting point is 02:14:01 might give him a Dutch vacation as one would hope. Where the Supreme Court said it's legal so you can't touch me will hold no actual wage
Starting point is 02:14:17 because I believe the defense attorneys for the accused at Nuremberg raised similar objections, being that it was the first time people were generally tried for crimes against humanity. May Justice Jackson and all his complexity rest in peace. But the scariest thing about NERN, the movie Nuremberg, for me was Russell Crow's
Starting point is 02:15:04 portrayal of Gehring because he played in surprisingly human, which is not the way Gering is usually portrayed. No, he was supposed to be a raving, madman and, yeah.
Starting point is 02:15:26 And, you know, it's, it's a, It's interesting you mentioned that because I had been, you know, I'd been thinking, you know, this film would be Oscar-worthy. And having watched it now, I completely understand why the committee ignored it in droves. Well, I do, too. Politically honoring Nuremberg would have been problematic because they didn't sugarcoat the trial. they really get I mean it was basically
Starting point is 02:16:06 I mean there were 22 defendants in the dock at that point I think one of the most interesting portrayals of an interaction between the
Starting point is 02:16:25 the characterization of Rudolf Pess and Gurans in the same room and then Gering looking over at the translator and the
Starting point is 02:16:45 psychiatrist saying he's lying and pointing out why he knew he was because he gave the stiff arm salute to Gering when they passed in the hallway. Right, which I suspect is true.
Starting point is 02:17:06 It may be... Colonel Anders historically ran a pretty tight ship. He thought it was a failure that Gern killed himself while in custody. He had help from outside, and the guard that is thought to have smuggled the poison into Gern was later found with some of Gern's personal items that he just was gifted to him. a watch and a couple of other things from his baggage, which is where the poison was actually secreted,
Starting point is 02:17:59 which surprises me because you would think they would have gone through the baggage for that sort of thing, but I don't think they thought that he would ever have access to it. I mean, there were, there were problems with the way they handled, but they really didn't have much experience in dealing with. Taking him off the, the amphetamines and things like that, cleared Gowin's mind.
Starting point is 02:18:37 I mean, he came roaring back. And the man was no, was not stupid. and I'm not doubting the man's personal courage his life choices yes but his personal courage I'm not questioning he was defending what he had done
Starting point is 02:19:10 and unlike so many he didn't deny what he had done he thought he was in the right I begin to wonder sometimes, I mean, because we've had that before. The commandant of the Andersonville Prison works, was the man's name, was the only Confederate officer hanged for his role, in the war. And that was because
Starting point is 02:19:59 they say that he starved men to death and that he intentionally inflicted harm on them and basically went against the 19th
Starting point is 02:20:19 century version of human treatment. And they may have a point because in Indiana there was a prison camp called Camp Morton here in Indianapolis.
Starting point is 02:20:36 It's now a park. But at the end of the war, after the war, the commandant of that camp was gifted a marvel bust for his
Starting point is 02:20:57 humane treatment of Confederate prisoners. And this was money that was raised by the Confederate prisoners themselves after the war. They wanted to
Starting point is 02:21:15 acknowledge his humane treatment of them. And so this bust was made and there's a replica of it in the state capital. So
Starting point is 02:21:34 but you're not going to see a statue or a bust openly displayed in or let's say Berlin or in Munich you are not going other than a few other officials
Starting point is 02:22:06 the only head of government that was executed for war crimes at the end of World War II was Tojo. And there are a lot of historians that think Tojo was hanged in lieu of the emperor. Because they
Starting point is 02:22:30 knew if they tried and hanged the emperor that the diehards in Japan would have risen back up. The occupying forces pretty much left the emperor alone.
Starting point is 02:22:57 How do we handle it? Eight million people, eight to 10 million people from the Minot King's protest is great and you know
Starting point is 02:23:09 the criticisms are going to be flying fasting periods from the nitwit near administration and their hangers on and as far as
Starting point is 02:23:23 Paula White is concerned well you know that she wants 10% given to Israel because she's negotiated 7% pick back You never miss a lick. You never miss a lick, Dave.
Starting point is 02:23:40 In fact, Clarence wrote in a little bit ago and said, Paula White, I'd like to see the $500,000 money transfer from her $5 million net worth. Now they want to tithe the Israelis. The madness never stops. And since when is the nation of Israel, God? Well, you know, it all falls under that. if I will bless those that bless these bullshit.
Starting point is 02:24:10 Oh, is that it? We'll see. You're recovering Baptist mind would come up with that one. I personally think that the Almighty if they exist would be looking down and going,
Starting point is 02:24:36 oh, God damn. me damn I fucked up bad you know me damn it I got I got drunk one weekend I got drunk on Saturday and had to
Starting point is 02:24:52 rest on Saturday then they made a religion out of it and now this shit you know makes you wonder where the circumcision thing came from. Nah.
Starting point is 02:25:12 But I'm Oh, I was wondering if the llama was awake. I'm glad to see she's on all four hoos to say your name. Yes, she's, she's
Starting point is 02:25:26 quite well. She had a good weekend. Oh, good, good. As for your confidence about those large-scale armies fighting in West Virginia during the war, you're right. because the same general that prosecuted the attack on Corridan,
Starting point is 02:25:51 which was actually a skirmish, rode all the way from Indiana on his ride north, the Indian Union territory, to a little spot called Parkersburg, West Virginia. You might be, you might know where that's bad. I might. And I read that. in Shelby
Starting point is 02:26:19 books and I said I know somebody who knows about that place but my question is that are we going to just sit by and
Starting point is 02:26:44 allow dipshit Donnie to do what he wants? There is a case that was recently ruled on. It might have been released today where the
Starting point is 02:27:03 High Court of the United States and frankly I don't know what drugs we've been on lately but has sent back down to the 11th Circuit a case
Starting point is 02:27:18 where FBI, I believe it was FBI agent went to serve a federal warrant on a house they groped down the door, held the family at gunpoint, and then realized,
Starting point is 02:27:36 oopsie, we entered the wrong house. And the house was actually a few blocks over, and they had the wrong address on the warrant. Or they were in the wrong address. The address on the warrant was correct.
Starting point is 02:28:05 Now, the Dixit Donagin administration was arguing that the family could not sue the government because of immunity and the justice has looked over and said if it's a matter of policy that they're suing over, you're right,
Starting point is 02:28:28 but you made a mistake and raised the longhouse. So there's an argument I believe it's Martin versus the United States where it's now going back down to the 11th Circuit to be heard by the court of appeals because they've asked if both sides wanted full briefings or if they were willing to provide full briefings
Starting point is 02:29:04 and both sides said yes so the court's going to make a decision in about a week or so whether they want to be fully briefed on it but I'm thinking to myself common sense would tell you if you're in the wrong place and you break down a door and you hold people at gunpoint if you're in the wrong
Starting point is 02:29:36 there should be under the first amendment that family has the right to petition the government which means on the court
Starting point is 02:29:51 for the regress of wrongs now if I'm not reading the constitution in the proper white I'm thinking the First Amendment argument should hold sway here it's not a
Starting point is 02:30:11 crazy position. No, but, you know, Donnie earned the first fucking amendment. Who the fuck cares about that? If I'm the dickless peter of the world, I should be able to tell everybody what to do.
Starting point is 02:30:30 I mean, we have Donnie the dickless in the White House. We have own in North Korea. We have Solomon bin Bonesaw in Saudi Arabia.
Starting point is 02:30:54 We have bidships in Hungary, Orban, in Hungary. I'll see some other sickless traders that Johnny had mine. Oh, Johnny's boyfriend, Vladimir.
Starting point is 02:31:14 I almost forgot Vladimir. You know, it's got to be a hell of a week. if I forget Donnie's boyfriend How could I do such a thing about that? Donnie, it's not his boyfriend That's his daddy That's even worse
Starting point is 02:31:32 Isn't he afraid that They'll charge him with Incest Or is that part of his Outer perimeter Of his presidential function He's got his Trump-banded knee pad
Starting point is 02:31:49 He's got his Trump-branded chin guard, and he's got loads and loads of real dollars. Don't for... Hey, hey, hey, hey, you're forgetting the Trump brand... Shame on me. You're forgetting the Trump-branded butt plug and the Trump-branded ball gag. Not to mention the Trump-branded Gimp mask. True, true.
Starting point is 02:32:22 But, you know, So basically what you're saying is Vladimir Whitson and beats him and makes him right bad checks. Okay, got it. And there we are. In fact, you might enjoy this. Kevin in Massachusetts sent this along earlier. A little no-king's message from John Lithgow.
Starting point is 02:33:00 Shall we? Oh, we shall. Okay, wait a minute. Oh, there's our problem. Hello again, friends. I hope you've seen my video of Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown from the book of the same name that I published in 2020. As promised, I'm reading you a second Trumpty Dumpty poem. The first one was the first in the book.
Starting point is 02:33:42 This one is the last. It's called Trumpty Dumpty wanted a title. And this is my little gift for all of you on a day of protest for no kings. I'll be acting on Broadway in New York, so I won't be marching. But I thought the least I could do is recite these two poems. Here's Trumpty Dumpty number two. Trumpty Dumpty wanted a title. Trumpty Dumpty wanted a title. To him, an imperious handle was vital. Dumpty the bold or Dumpty the great, a moniker lending his legacy weight. He tortured his brain for a suitable label. Dumpty the genius or Dumpty the stable. Dumpy the wise or perhaps the sublime, not Dumpty the orange. It's too hard to rhyme.
Starting point is 02:34:42 While urgent emergencies went unaddressed, an appropriate nickname had Dumpty obsessed. But given what's passed and what's yet to befall him, history will shortly decide what to call him. A potis whose pants are routinely on fire could be Dumpty the Huckster or Dumpty the liar. With his bullshit throughout our pandemic attack, an apt nom de guerre would be Dumpty the quack. With electoral help he's received from afar, there's Dumpty the Russian or Dumpty the Tsar. Racial intolerance opened the spigot for the odious record of Dumpty the bigot. Daddy's podiatrist helped him defer, hence Dumpty the bone and Dumpty the spur. Take his prurient past, and for accuracy's sake, call him Dumpty the Letcher, or Dumpty the rake.
Starting point is 02:35:48 The scandals and crimes that have always erupted make him Dumpty the venal, malign, or corrupted. Compared to the others going back to the first, whatever you name him, he's Dumpty the worst. What title can conjure this ludicrous gent? A potus who hastened a nation's descent. At the end of this age of profound discontent, I'll settle for dumpty. The ex-president. That's a little something to brighten your spirits on this day of protest.
Starting point is 02:36:33 It's a magnificent day. Do your duty, as I said before. Thanks for listening, and no kings. How nice. How nice. Bravo, Mr. North, though. Yes, indeed. Yes.
Starting point is 02:36:52 Absolutely. I think he did the first Trumpy Dumpty on Stephen Colbert's program. I think so, yes. So, yeah. and that was very well done. Of course, John Riscall can read the phone book and I had a person for hours.
Starting point is 02:37:18 Yeah, without a doubt. And the thing, the first time I really noticed him was in the world according to garb. Yes. The same, same. But he was very... That was early in his career.
Starting point is 02:37:38 Roberta Muldoon. And she was a character. And sitting there in the movie theater, me going, oh no. Yeah. I can imagine what kind of feelings both brought up. But I think we need people like Lisco. and Bruce Springsteen and others. I mean, any protest movement
Starting point is 02:38:27 that I've known in history has its arts components because if you didn't have the writers, if you didn't have the musicians and the songsters, if you didn't have the poets, if you didn't have those things, You wouldn't be able to get across the ideas that make movements go. For good and for ill.
Starting point is 02:39:01 You wouldn't have had the Constitution of the United States as it stands without the Enlightenment writers. You wouldn't have had, but by the same time, token, you wouldn't have had the realness of the fascists in Germany without mine income. It all depends
Starting point is 02:39:39 on how these things are used. I mean, Thomas Paine's writing kept a good number of Americans buoyed up by the idea of what
Starting point is 02:40:01 a country made of former British colonies could be definitely did not live up to those ideals at least those ideals were put forward their ideals were still striving for I hope my message is don't get too discouraged and this is coming from a man
Starting point is 02:40:42 who suffers from major depression. If you need help, if you feel like you're at the end of Europe, reach out for help. Friends, family, your local crisis line,
Starting point is 02:41:02 there's the National Suicide Prevention Network, which Mitt Witt Niro is trying to dismantle, which saves thousands of lives every year. They saved mine
Starting point is 02:41:18 Roxanne and I'm not a veteran I accidentally hit them if you're a veteran I hit number one because when you call in you get two choices if you're a veteran or a family member of a veteran you hit one
Starting point is 02:41:34 if not you hit two and they direct you to a nearby near to you crisis and I hit the wrong button and the veteran line called the cops to get me an ambulance to get me help one day when I was absolutely suicidal. And I am thankful that they were there.
Starting point is 02:42:06 Because I was going to hang up and call back and the lady said, no, no, no, I can help you. I'll call any ambulance for you if you need it. And we determined that, yes, I did need it. And so my life was probably saved that day. And glad we are that it was. Don't get too discouraged. Besides, without all this bullshit, where would I come up with my comedy?
Starting point is 02:42:41 Oh, by the way. Yes. Speaking of my inner life and the peaks therein, I found out that all octopi are poisonous. However, there's only one... Do you mean venomous? Sorry, being a pedant here. Okay, but they're all venomous,
Starting point is 02:43:12 but only one is deadly to humans. and I happen to deal with one of those on a daily basis down at the shop you really know Stoss's beloved Penelope as many of you know is a blue ring octopus It's an octopus cuddled fish
Starting point is 02:43:35 octopus cuddledfish romance and let me tell you Roxanne as tiny as she is and as big and brutish as Stash can be, I mean, he's a sweetheart and he's basically
Starting point is 02:43:53 a puddle of mud and when his little girls look over and go, Daddy, we would like this and of course they got him wrapped around their tentacles. Absolutely. Little princesses.
Starting point is 02:44:11 Yeah, he does not say, know to them at all it's embarrassing sometimes. But I am happy to announce that they are soon to have the fry are about to have additional members
Starting point is 02:44:30 from the family. Yes, they're going to have more fries. She's now got a small clutch of eggs that are
Starting point is 02:44:44 And we're waiting patiently to find out, A, how many of them survive. And two, you know what the breakdown is, how many boys, how many girls? And I am sure they're going to have to call in all kinds of help. But there is a dark cloud there in the shop, Roxanne. With all the betting scandals and the betting platforms out there, we finally found out why this is Perch. And we've had an intervention. Remember I told you so about a month ago that she had bet a fan on a sporting event?
Starting point is 02:45:40 Yes, a fan. Fortunately, she won. However, further investigations showed that certain octopied down at the dock on the docks were running a bookmaking operation. They've got their tentacles and everything. I mean, these are the guys with the crooked beaks and all the years. Nobody said anything further than course. but um and i've asked some of the teamsters and they're they're tight list about the whole thing i think they're getting a cut god yeah very likely you know i mean after all james rittle hawker was
Starting point is 02:46:28 from indiana true oh and by the way by the way you got notes from both jeremy and the camel cardinal noting change your smoke detector batteries dave they can save your life you can save your life too. Yeah. Yeah. They probably hear the chirping of mine in the other room. So, yes, I will get on the one more than about that. Oh, by the way, by the way,
Starting point is 02:47:06 Brother Deacon Asa says re-venomous. Oh, come on, Dave, sure. Things didn't work out between y'all, but there's no reason to call the old lady venomous. And then, yes, I know. Wait a minute. Read Christine out of it. And then Brother Deacon says,
Starting point is 02:47:22 yes, I know, and sent emojis of a murder hornet and a knife. Okay. Yep. In the hot place, A, said. In the hot place. But he's going to have to beg my beloved ex-wife's
Starting point is 02:47:40 forgiveness for that one. She had nothing to do with this situation. No, I think. And by the way, I would like to... I think Brother Deakin was suggesting there was more than one cross-species relationship, Dave. It didn't work out for you in Penelope. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, I am not a poacher, Roxanne.
Starting point is 02:48:06 I mean, Sasha decided... Besides, have you clocked his recent fastballs? This guy can really put it over the plate. from midfield. He is a short stop. That's true. But he can go from, let's say,
Starting point is 02:48:29 just outside the second base area, to home plate in no time flat with one of his clothes. I am not getting in between him and that. No, no, no, no. No, I like my bones unbroken. Thank you. No.
Starting point is 02:48:50 Besides, there's a lot of people down to shop would be really upset with me. Not to mention Gladys, and she works with Penelope on a regular basis. Yeah, and we don't, we know, we don't mess with Gladys. I am now, I am not getting sideways of Gladys. By the way, you will know that our favorite architect in training is doing
Starting point is 02:49:20 quite well. He'll be homes for the Easter break. And we're hoping that he can fry sit while he's home.
Starting point is 02:49:36 Just to remind him why he needs to stay in school. We don't want him starting a family too early until he gets a few sand dollars. We'll bank at him. We want to make sure that
Starting point is 02:49:54 they are as well supported as he has been over the years. But Roxanne, I think that everything down the shop is going good. I mean, you know this is our busy week on the run-up to Easter. crucifixions are going around the clock oh i can imagine yeah uh oh yes among other places your exports to the philippines have got to be just taking up because you know they do the whole actually reenact the crucifixion thing right and and you know we we we have drawn a few of our our crucifixion uh trainers from the philippines because they've got more experience
Starting point is 02:50:49 than anybody nowadays. So, but it's getting into the country. I mean, we use the copper channels and everything,
Starting point is 02:51:02 but still, Mitt Witt Nero has any ways. And he's especially gotten pissed off at us down to shop after we fired his little
Starting point is 02:51:15 munchkin. And, I don't personally have anything against Eric, but his dad was becoming quite the distraction down the shop. I mean, I believe Eric when he says that he was only stealing from my liquor cabinet because his daddy needed to get drunk. That's between you, me, and the fence post.
Starting point is 02:51:45 Yeah, right. Nobody's listening, yeah. I don't I don't buy for a second that he doesn't drink nobody around Donnie doesn't drink everybody around Donnie should be drinking oh I think well I mean it is certainly
Starting point is 02:52:02 where the moral example is concerned it seems abundantly clear that Whiskey Pete Kegbreath the DUI hire is leading the way well since he is such a moral and upstanding idiot who's only God is
Starting point is 02:52:19 the dog but it's face it there was one book I read it was a piece of fiction and it was about Admiral
Starting point is 02:52:33 who was the head of Naval and Colerings for the Jimeris and one of the characters asked him because there was a split in the officer corps
Starting point is 02:52:53 among Catholics and Protestants. And he goes, well, one officer came in and told the Admiral, oh, I was paying my respect to God and Canaris's
Starting point is 02:53:10 supposed to have said, yes, but this is Germany, you've got to make sure which God you're talking to. Which tells me that even the professional military class in Germany thought the Lance Corpull was a little cuckoo. The whole point of the Nirenberg trials is these professional soldiers who shouldn't have known what the norms of war are should have resisted Hitler. forcefully. And I'm afraid that's a lesson we have yet to learn again because it's been over 75 years. So we have an idea that it doesn't concern us. The same way that after the
Starting point is 02:54:26 American Civil War, we just wanted to heal the nation and only one man was having for his actions during the war. And they had tried to get him to say that Jefferson Davis had ordered it because they were looking for something to hang Davis with. And words absolutely refused
Starting point is 02:55:00 and said, no, he never ordered me to any of us. Because they had offered words of a commutation and perhaps even a pardon if Davis
Starting point is 02:55:18 had ordered it and he refused to say that it was Davis's order so I mean personally
Starting point is 02:55:36 I think there's a lot of things that Davis and the Confederate Command staff could have been hanged for but they did not want to stir they just gotten this out
Starting point is 02:56:00 to lay down their arms and they didn't want to stir up trouble and unfortunately Donnie has learned the lesson that if you're just bombastic enough people will let you get away with it for a time when they let Hitler get away the shit for a while Poland, Czechos Iraqia, all of that.
Starting point is 02:56:29 And if the British and the French had stood up against the Germans when they were in Iraq and even Poland, or Czechos Iraqia, either one, things might have been in hell of a lot different.
Starting point is 02:56:46 Remember, the practice run for the Nazis was Spain. Right. Just like the practice for the Americans. was Venezuela. Yeah, but
Starting point is 02:57:11 Venezuela and Iran really don't compare because there was at least opposition to the Nazis in Spain, whereas Venezuela was just a matter of a bully beating up a kid and taking their
Starting point is 02:57:27 lunch money. And then taking the kid hostage. Yep, right. So, and that's another thing that is, that orange asshole is ever put into the dock in that lovely Dutch
Starting point is 02:57:51 city that's another thing he's going to have to answer for. As much as I describe Bolsonaro, he was the head of state. You don't do that to a country
Starting point is 02:58:13 as a civilized nation. If you beat him in a war, fine. And Iran, you know, Iran is it in many ways Iran really is Sui Gineris because you know
Starting point is 02:58:32 Persia was civilized when the ancestors of nitwit Nero and me and you were fighting fighting with the buzzards for what the jackals
Starting point is 02:58:45 didn't want or the wolves well that that's true and even under Alexander you know it's it's interesting there's some holiday in Iran
Starting point is 02:58:58 that features a portrayal of a devil and the devil is named Iskandar. And I think that extends all the way into Afghanistan. You know, the Medes and the Persians and, oh, dear God, civilization on a scale that we can't comprehend. Most people don't know, for instance, day, that the great monuments of ancient Greek civilization, things like the Parthenon, to name but one,
Starting point is 02:59:38 the design techniques for all of that were lifted from Persian design. And the Persians got it from the Egyptians. Not necessarily. Well, in a lot of cases, in the stonework, they did. and the techniques they used for the stonework, a lot of the techniques the Persians used originally came from Egypt. And Sumer and Akkad and Urukur, the Chaldean civilizations, right.
Starting point is 03:00:16 Because there were vast trade networks. Oh, we're back in the late, yeah, now we're back in the late, middle to, back in the middle to late Bronze Age. Yes. And it all comes apart so easily. Like tissue paper. Yeah. And we really,
Starting point is 03:00:39 we, we really don't know just how badly this gang of criminal incompetence have fucked the planet. I've got a clip here from Kate Baldwin earlier today having a chat
Starting point is 03:00:55 with an economist. Amos Hochstein, he was an advisor to Biden, but he speaks sane. He speaks competent. And he laid out something that probably a lot of us aren't thinking about.
Starting point is 03:01:17 But in a world, in an interconnected world, yeah, this is terrifying. When you're looking at how long this has been going on, The longer this goes on, it means what in your view? Well, Kate, it's good to be with you this morning. Yeah, I said a couple weeks ago, or soon after the war started, if the straits close,
Starting point is 03:01:40 it will be the greatest shock because it takes time for things to, for this kind of a shock to play out into the market, because people have storage capacity, so you don't really feel it. But now we're so far into it that you're starting to feel it. So, as you said, consumers are feeling gasoline price pinch with $4 a gallon today on average, which means some are getting it a lot more than that. Diesel prices are going up dramatically in the United States and around the world, which means that our food and all the stuff that comes to us on a truck, whether it's from an Amazon delivery truck or through our shopping,
Starting point is 03:02:18 is all going to go up in the next several days and weeks, and all a lot and fertilizer and all kinds of other chemicals. What happens when you have a disruption is that when it goes on for a while, when you turn it back on, it's not like flipping the switch and the light goes back on. You now have to start restarting all the production of the oil, the restarting of the production of the gas, then you have to refine it, then you have to deliver it. So it will take a while for that to enter into the market. We have some airports around the world that may run out of jet fuel in the coming days and planes will have to be grounded. Full stop. The airports are going to run out a jet fuel.
Starting point is 03:02:59 Full stop. In about a week or so, there'll be airports around the world that will run out completely. And we're already seeing it because some airports in the world are restricting how many flights can take off. So in some Asian countries, we're seeing them limiting the amount of flights already in order not to get to the point where they run out. Cutter, this is separate but very related. I wanted to ask you about this. Qatar is condemned today an apparent attack by Iran on a desolination plant in Kuwait. Earlier this month, Bahrain said an Iranian drone had damaged a desolination plant there.
Starting point is 03:03:35 President Trump, for the first time, I believe, just this morning, is now threatening to launch U.S. strikes on Iran's desalination plants if they don't come to the table and reach a deal. If this becomes strategy, what is this going to do? Well, first, I think this is a... We have two messages coming out. Either we're very close to a deal or we're threatening to take oil wells, bomb oil wells and bomb desalination plan.
Starting point is 03:04:03 It doesn't sound like we're very close to a deal. Iran does not rely on desalienization of water for a significant portion of its water. They have a lot of other water resources. But the Arabian Gulf countries, they do. There are certain cities, major cities in the Gulf, that if you take out the desalimization, will have to evacuate the cities. There will be no water.
Starting point is 03:04:28 So it's an asymmetric in the wrong direction. Now, Iran committed a war crime by attacking a water desalconization plant. We should probably not do the same because it will open, I fear that it would open the door for them to escalate that tactic back, and that's not a good thing for any of our allies. Speaking of escalation,
Starting point is 03:04:53 the Houthis, the Yemen-based Iran, back militia, they have now entered the fight, which now has a lot of people talking about another critical shipping channel is now in danger. If the Bab al-Manda straight between Yemen and Africa gets effectively shut down, which is what they've suggested they could start attacking, what happens to this greatest energy supply shock in modern history then? Well, exactly, Kate. Who these getting into? a war, but really lightly. They attacked the south of Israel with a few missiles, not very many and not to great effect, because Israel was able to easily shoot them down. But if they start
Starting point is 03:05:35 shooting where they did before, a couple years back, and they shut down the Bavamanda, what it means is that you're starting to choke all the different avenues from the region. So even if you're able to get around the Strait of Hermuz, but you cannot go through the Bavamanda, that will restrict things further, make them either not navigable at all, or delay and take longer to get through. And every day of delay costs more money, so any product that's on those ships, whether it's oil or container ships, now gets more expensive. When ships take longer to voyage, they also mean they're not available as often because they reach destinations later so they can't turn around. So the whole system is getting bogged down. This started as a crisis in Asia because of how reliant they were on the Middle East.
Starting point is 03:06:27 It's now spreading to Europe where jet fuel prices are now double the price they were a month ago, double, and they will run out of fuel. And then it's already starting to come to the United States. Any American that is thinking about traveling this spring and summer is going to have a rude awakening if they haven't bought their tickets yet. Those plane tickets are going to cost a lot more money. and it's going to take a long time for that to happen. And there's one of the point, Kate, that you have to always think about. When you get so tight, like in the United States, where we're almost self-reliant, we're not really, any one accident can take us off kilter.
Starting point is 03:07:05 And last week, there was an accident at the Valero Refinery in Texas that took out a significant part of the facility. Accidents like that will now hurt us and hurt ability, because we don't have the ability to then import anything from outside because it will cost a fortune. Shall we say that that's sobering, Dave? Yeah, yeah, but good shit, Donnie is thinking of it in another way, Lachshan. He's thinking of it with his stomach. I heard reports through my diplomatic sources that he's saying that the fast food chain Arby's can take over.
Starting point is 03:07:56 portions of the Iranian economy because of the straight of easy cows. I personally don't think that it I know, I know. Was that really necessary? Well, I had to ruin something somehow. You amateurs
Starting point is 03:08:22 have been trying all night. I thought that I had to stick up for my professional integrity. I understand that you're going to have to break out the smelling salts for the llama. But it had to be done, Roxanne. The joke was there. I had to say it.
Starting point is 03:08:45 I understand. But I'm not wrong because you know that's exactly what he's thinking. Or that's what the spirely used to. Unfortunately. Yeah, unfortunately. Oh, and that's it. Wait, Bill and Rick said, Ah, Dave and the Blind just gave Ram of the Lama a seizure.
Starting point is 03:09:13 Oh, I don't call it. Okay, yeah, we're going to put a stick in her mouth just to keep her from, you know, swallowing her hoof. Well, she did her back on her hoods and walk her around a little bit. maybe calling the vet make sure she's okay. I apologize. That was cold. That was cold. Dave, you take care of yourself. I got to get out of here.
Starting point is 03:09:39 But you have a wonderful evening and give our best to Christine and change those damn batteries. I will. And I will. And I'll probably have to make several apologies to her for the bad jokes. Because she holds me accountable. Well, thank God somebody. Good night.
Starting point is 03:10:00 So good night, everybody. and I wish you the best. All right, you take care, Dave. We'll talk soon. Okay. Bye. Our buddy, Dave, and the blind. So that's the program.
Starting point is 03:10:19 A couple of things to share along the way. One, our kind anonymous friend's geography lesson challenge has been met. So we are down to 2170 plus... 2155. I better job that down. 2155. Thank you, Sumon. Sumon sent along a note saying, I've been missing a few of the shows.
Starting point is 03:11:00 Shame on you. Did you have a chance to talk about how the social media companies were held accountable by two juries in New Mexico and California? I think we mentioned the trials coming up, but maybe I mentioned one of them the outcome. The interesting thing, says Sumon, is that the cases that the social media companies won so far were decided in a bench trial, but the cases they lost were jury cases. We all know people whose kids have suffered with self-harm in some way.
Starting point is 03:11:30 Why would any parent on a jury side with these ass wipes? In 20 years, we might be looking back and saying, what the fuck were we doing with our kids and social media on screens? I gave our kid Jonathan Hates book, The Amazing Generation, and she loved it. We always told her the reason we don't allow social media accounts is the same reason. We don't allow her to juggle with knives. She read the book and wrote a review below as her school assignment. I encourage everyone to read this book.
Starting point is 03:11:59 Again, Jonathan Hate, The Amazing Generation, both the kids and the adult version. And thank you for helping out with the challenge, Sumon. from Sumon's amazing daughter The Amazing Generation Sounds like a superhero book, right? I thought so too
Starting point is 03:12:18 Which is why when I picked up this book to read I was momentarily disappointed I wasn't ready to learn about why to give up my precious screen time And I definitely wasn't ready to write an essay on it Oh Sumon, your little girl's going to go far The impression that the title made on me
Starting point is 03:12:34 was completely different from my mindset about having to read this book but after finally flipping the first chapter, I was pleasantly surprised by what I learned. This book taught me something called the Rebels Code. For context, the rebels are a group of teenagers who fight against social media addiction. They do simple things like have their notifications off
Starting point is 03:12:52 or limit their screen time, but the effects of these actions are tremendous. These rebels are happier, regretless, and satisfied with their quality of life. So, what's their secret? What's their code? The rebels don't seek validation from others. they don't base their quality of life on other people's opinions,
Starting point is 03:13:08 and they definitely don't stay inside, even on a snow day. Look outside your window. There's a whole world out there, a whole world worth seeing. But here we all are sitting on a couch, looking at that same world through other people's eyes. But guess what? Near that window is a door, a door to that same world, a door to your freedom.
Starting point is 03:13:29 The question this book asks is, will you choose that freedom, or will you stay locked inside under the control of people who are experiencing it? But wait, devices are a gateway to see the world through your fingertips. Why would you want to drive somewhere, walk somewhere, or do something outside? When you could be calling your friends, still being social. Well, I'm glad you asked, because I thought so too. And you're halfway right.
Starting point is 03:13:53 Sometimes FaceTiming are friends is a better option than meeting in person. There's no social etiquette and you can multitask. But there are so many things you can do in person that are not available on FaceTime, making brownies with your toddler cousin cannot be done on a screen, but you will remember that day for the rest of your life. These types of skills cannot be developed with a screen barrier. Sure, FaceTime casually when you can, but don't give up face-to-face social interaction because of it.
Starting point is 03:14:19 Now, she writes, enough talking about what you should do. What have I already done to implement the lessons this book has taught me? The most recent way I have applied Rebel Ways is when there was a power outage at my school on Thursday. The lights were out. We were all stuck in our classroom, and there were phones out everywhere. Even some of my friends had theirs out. But a few of my best friends and I looked around and thought, why? How often do we have the opportunity to be free in school?
Starting point is 03:14:47 So we put our phones in our backpacks and had real fun. We played hangman and drew on the whiteboard, told jokes, and helped seventh graders with math. That day is now a core memory for all of us. And guess who already forgot what happened? Everyone who was scrolling TikTok the entire time. Now, being a rebel isn't only for, for teenagers. It can last long into adulthood. My not being addicted to screens
Starting point is 03:15:09 during the most vivid years of my life will give me peace and satisfaction looking back. I will be able to interact with people normally throughout my adulthood and I will stand out amongst peers who are not able to function normally without their phones in their hands. Join me. My personal rating of this book
Starting point is 03:15:25 has to be a five out of five. This book will always be memorable to me with the first ever chapter opening my eyes through how this entire generation has been manipulated in into giving in to the trap that is social media. Sumon, that is brilliant, and you can tell your daughter that the Horn family community congregation said so,
Starting point is 03:15:50 because while this is, you know, while this is an online community, it's an online community that has a very real-world aspect to it. We communicate with each other, just as you did with me a little bit ago, and thanks for helping out with the Iran geography lesson challenge. Thank you.
Starting point is 03:16:12 And a note from Jude who finished off the challenge. Donating tonight for all those who personally reach out in the name of justice and compassion, in a focused intention, we are women's standing. Thank you, Jude. P.S. $25. Thank you. And so that gets us down to, like I said, 21 55 as we try to finish the month of March fully funded.
Starting point is 03:16:41 Thank you, Jude. Thank you. And thanks everybody. Thanks to each and every one of you who share your precious finite time, engaging in the program in whatever manner you may choose. Thanks to our challenge makers, challenge respondents, a la carte contributors, contributors and subscribers via PayPal and pay Thank you. Thanks to those of you who kick in via Venmo and Cash app in the United States Postal Service. I did not make it to Beckley this weekend. I hope to next weekend. Or sometime this week. So fingers crossed and thank you.
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Starting point is 03:18:50 and environmental justice in Appalachia and a proud union shop. Please stay safe. There's a new COVID going around, and not to be all doomy or anything, but I'm worried about the mental defective in the White House and whether he might decide to light up Central Asia. It will not go well.
Starting point is 03:19:22 But yeah, stay safe. And if Alex Jones comes towards you blathering something about... Renzi Graham is a demon with a Disney princess wand. Well, avoid him like the plague. Because he is. And always, always, always, Gina and Wayne. It's all for you.
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