Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 7 August 2026, Friday-On-the-Front-Porch

Episode Date: August 8, 2026

Sen Bill Cassidy adds further shame and infamy to his name. His Epstein Filter is even more degraded as Cankles Caligula's worsening dementia vomits out a new vulgarity.  Circuit Court kiboshes the ballroom and calls Nitwit Nero a "tenant" and sends him into his latest tirade.  Ol' Serpent Head continues to shed relevance as he throws another hissy over "Socialists." JuiceBox Jeanine is dangling by the thinnest of threads.  

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West by God, Virginia, here she is. Roxanne Kincaid. Well, howdy. And here we go. Off and running on this Friday, the seventh day of August, 226. This is the horn. Headon.com. Live is where you'll find us on the interweb tubes.

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awaiting your arrival and so consequently well, you'll be most welcome if you want to pop by, but over in the old holler tree, people like, folks like Darrell and Roger in Oregon and Kevin are awaiting you. I'm sure routes will be along presently. Hi, gang, looking forward to the conversation this evening.

Oh, and I screwed up and happens. I didn't do a password because, well, this was one of those moments where, oh, 10 minutes ago, the audio interface was working fine as frogs here split four ways. And then I went to push all the magic buttons to make the program go and book us. So that necessitated restarting the roadcaster and everything. and in the middle of all that, I forgot the password. So here, the password is burrito there. Oh, wait a little, you know, find out why.

God, this is, this is a powerfully stupid, stupid timeline. But it's the timeline we've got, you know, to paraphrase, old dead dominole. Donald Rumfield, you go through the day with the timeline you've got, not the timeline you want. Because sometimes it's a little hard not to look up and go, you know, things would be so much different if Kamla was president. And I'll bet even the maggots would agree, hey, we wouldn't be in the war in Iran because we chose to be in that war. and can you imagine the withering gaze of Kamala Harris staring down some hairy-faced fucking mullah in Iran?

I can, I can. But at any rate, at any rate, burrito. But every program here at the horn begins with gratitude, and this program is no different. And so consequently we say thanks to our seventh day of the month subscribers via PayPal and thank you very kindly.

I got a bill paid yesterday because we got to where I could. Thank you so much to Raps. Thank you. And thank you to James and thank you to David in Oregon. I know David's working a job but he's working hard but I'd love to hear

from you, David, if the opportunity presents it. and so here today we find ourselves well the the funding deficit is one week in other words the funding deficit is $1,500. And if we could bring that down, if we could knock down 300 bucks this evening or more, but 300 bucks would keep us at the only behind. by one week margin. We raise more than that, and two big bills can get paid. And I won't be sweating

the bill for that dainty, delicate, coal-fried power grid that Appalachian power provides for just excessive amounts of money.

yeah we're some of the most expensive electricity in the entire nation because it costs a lot for dirty old coal to keep the lights on it does truly truly it does so anyway about in about you know 50 minutes or so we'll go over the river and through the woods to the old holler tree and get together and see what's on folks' minds. We have a challenge on the table, courtesy of Ralphs up in New Jersey. Thank you, Ralphs. Yeah, this is right up there with the Burrito Wars. Oh my God, Roxanne says, Ralph, I'll offer a $25 challenge for Donnie threatening the State Department. Good God.

This is, yeah. And curiously, I just mentioned our coal-fried electric power grid. He appeared at the State Department, Cankles Collegula did, with his new hamster hair. That's what they're calling it, by the way, his new-do hamster hair. He showed up at an American Mining American Jobs roundtable earlier to. today and in the middle of the speech and remember what has been said

in the past about frontotemporal dementia and what it does to the brain and how just as a matter of spite he took he took

decorative items from melanoma's bedroom and the stole them for himself. Remember him stealing the scissors out in North Dakota? Yeah, he's a little, he's a little, he's a little, he's a little handsy in more than one way. It reminds me of way back in the days of all in the family, when Edith thought she had developed a problem,

and she said, oh, watchy, I'm a kleptominirac. Yeah, that's President Kleptimiteract there. Jesus Christ. Just check this out. Kevin in Massachusetts, thank you so much for reaching out and matching Ralph's challenge and then a little more so. Thank you, thank you, thank you so very much. That takes us down to... Oh, I said 1,500.

It was 1450. takes us down to 1395. Thank you so, so much, Kevin. I really appreciate it. Yeah, but, well, he knows he's a thief and he can't really control what he says much anymore, so here we go. Thank you very much. But I want to thank everybody special people, people that built our country are here, and you really really I really haven't. I was just looking at my notes, and I could do this one without any notes, because there's a great love for what you do, and I think you haven't been treated well for many years. But you make it up for it now. You're really making up for it now. So it's an honor, and I'm delighted to be here at the Department of State to announce some of the largest ever investments in American mining. A great thing mining is.

We're putting our miners back to work, and we're reclaiming America's rightful place as the minerals superpower of the world, which is what we are. People just didn't know that for a while. I want to thank our great Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, for hosting us. It's a beautiful building, but, you know,

I look at the president's allowed to remove things from any building. And I'm liking the chandeliers. I really, I like those Corinthian columns, but cutting them out would be not good. Those are beautiful columns, but I'm allowed to do it. Every once in a while, I'll come in here and grab a painting and put it at the Oval Office, right? But not too much. But I want to thank Marco. I want to thank Secretary of Interior, Doug Bergam, who's done a fantastic job.

Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnik, likewise, and as well as Executive Director of the National Energy dominance council Jared Egan Thank you Jared and thank you all Jesus Christ he's gone at this point

it's just incoherent babble the president's allowed to take anything he wants and sometimes I'm coming in here and steal a painting do I still have the scissors I could use the scissors to cut the painting

out of the frame and the miners you weren't treated so well but now you'd be treated wonderfully. I should probably mention, not that it would matter to the maggots or to, well, wait a minute, and that's the fundamental disconnect here,

it probably does matter to some maggots. Black lung rates among coal miners have soared to levels not seen since the 1970s. and we don't even do that much underground mining anymore. These are guys who are working above ground, mountaintop removal demolitions experts and whatnot. But, you know, they're breathing all the,

they're breathing coal dust, and of course that's what gives you black lung, but miners, we treated so unfairly. These are the fuckers that cut black lung coverage for coal miners. Settle down, Huxan. We're early in the program. If you start growling now, it's going to be a long three hours. But, yeah, and thank you. Thank you, Ralph, for the challenge.

And Ralph says, thanks, Kevin. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you very much indeed. So at 1395, we bring it down by, well, so what does that mean? well we're $195 from O'Glory

fully funded for July $195 finally finishes off July here one week into August so thanks everybody thanks past, present and future

so that's That's a beginning place. But as to the password, burrito, I had no idea. And like I said, on this incredibly stupid timeline that we have a maggot burrito war. It all started when a maggot on Wednesday, a maggot named Mark Tieson, who is reliably maggot. He's a toe sucker, a boot licker, a lick spittle from top to bottom. But he posted an excrement that didn't even mention the JD Egg or Jimmy Dick Bowman or whatever he's calling himself these days or whatever names on his birth certificate.

and the JD egg had nothing to do with it but well it started with Matt dysphoria beard Walsh of the rapidly collapsing broadcast media empire started by little Benny dry wife Shapiro who observed Matt Walsh did, but

high grocery prices are, quote, becoming a vulnerability for President Donald Trump. Vulnerability, that's a new word. They didn't use to use the word vulnerability. They only started using it when I, your favorite

president, came into office, but now the Democrats are, you get the idea. And so responded, to Matt dysphoria beard wash, Andrew Colvette,

the little neo-max zoom dweeby from over at Toilet Paper USA, which also is in a death spiral, too, and can't happen soon enough, as far as I'm concerned. Andrew Colvette bolstered the story by telling us an account of a college kid and said,

Uh, one of our TP USA college students gave me his take on affordability. A burrito shouldn't cost $20. And that's where Mark Tiesin comes in and responded, Cry me a river. The burritos in the college cafeteria are included in your meal plan. Ow! That's going to sting the little maggot college student. The college, he didn't want to eat on the meal plan.

He wanted to go out and get a lobster and filet mignon burrito from, you know, burritos, burrito b-wee or whatever. So then, out of nowhere, up pops, let's say from the sofa, Jimmy Dick Bowman, who said, well I'm surprised to hear Mark say this if you've ever met him in person it's quite obvious the man has never missed a burrito it couldn't even be bothered to spell his name correctly

and this then ignited the media sphere and it rapidly burned into god I feel like I'm going to shed IQ points just for saying this. The Great Burrito Wars of 2026. John Favreau,

who founded something called Crooked Media, responded saying, Welcome back to shit posting, sir. Don't listen to Susie Wiles. Keep Twitter on your phone. Oh, yeah. Burrito Wars. And then,

then, and this is where it gets formidable. Then Senator Elizabeth Warren stepped in and speaking with TMZ who has rapidly established himself as a presence on Capitol Hill. Wow. Again, the timeline.

Well, Elizabeth Warren spoke to TMZ and burned the whole maggot bunch down to the ground because a clever fellow that he is, Jacob Wasserman of TMZ, D.C.,

he's the co-managing editor, asked Senator Warren if she would drop a Jackson for a burrito and mentioned the burrito wars then ongoing. And, well, this was Senator Warren's response. The debate online right now on whether or not a burrito cost $20. Like if you go to a place like Chipotle or something, some conservatives are saying that's, if you're paying that much, you're going to some fancy restaurant. Some people are like, no, I go to Chipotle all the time.

It costs $20. So my question to you, is a burrito $20 these days? Oh, man. $20 burrito? This is the debate. People are asking this. There's no debate. There's a fact question here.

All you've got to do is look at the facts. I'll get a lot of things I'll debate, but I'm not going to debate over the facts. If they're charging 20 bucks, they're charging 20 bucks. I go to Chipotle like every three days kind of in rotation, and I have to say it's definitely knocking on $20. It's like, God forbid, we want a second scoop of meat. You're definitely going over 20 there. You may be right. But what do we do to bring down these prices?

Well, we can bring down these prices by stopping the war in Iran so that we are not driving up the car. of all of our groceries. Everything that has to move through a truck, the gasoline prices, drive up the cost of groceries. We can also roll back the illegal tariffs that are driving up the cost of avocados and driving up. We can break up our meat cartel that is driving up the cost of meat. There's a lot that the Trump administration could do to lower prices, but instead what they're doing is raising prices. And you know what? It shows us. It shows us that up in your burrito. So if we stop the war, then our burritos get cheaper. You know, actually, what I'm saying is the cost of food gets cheaper. All of the cost of

food gets cheaper. Stop the war in the illegal tariffs. And we've got a better chance at being able to feed ourselves without going broke. I love it when she goes into college professor mode. She's good. And she's quite. quick on her feet. And she pivoted that thing around to, from should there be $20 burritos to, why are there $20 burritos? And I love that. I'll argue anything, but I'm not going to argue the facts.

Facts are facts. But, you know, there's a certain skepticism. You heard the reporter there for TMZDC saying that he eats at Chipotle on a rotation. Jesus Whatever And that it gets close to $20 God forbid you want an extra scoop of meat Yeah

My sweetheart Sometimes stops at Kadoba On the way home from work and grabs a bite If you're listening, Victoria And Kadoba is very like Chipotle. Are they $20? I mean, they're plopin big burritos, sure, but are they $20?

Goes to show you how much, yeah. Now, just on a lesser scale, as Senator Warren noted, it's everything, not just burritos. I mean, the other day, when I drove across the river to the settlements and went to get Annette and bring her back to the house for a little bit because, you know, she's a grandpuppie sitting over at my daughter's house while they're on vacation. The little Fliupy Snoodle and sweet little Miss Teddy. Teddy's a golden retriever, and the Flupy Snoodle is a slightly more than one-year-old Doberman

who is still kind of gawky and all paws and bouncy and all she's sweet as can be. Not a word, juvenile delinquent number two. Not a word. But I thought it would be nice of me to stop and, you know, the clown. And I got me a biscuit and gravy. Just one biscuit with some gravy across it. And I got her a, what, bacon and cheese, McGrittle? She's not fond of the folded egg.

And the damn things were $4.59 a piece. You want to talk about burritos? Okay, we can do that. But did you hear what I said? One biscuit split with a blop of industrial sausage gravy on it and a McGrittle. And they were each $4.59. And that's in West Virginia. That's not D.C. prices.

Jesus, they're probably a biscuit and gravy is probably $15 in D.C. And then adding insult to injury. Wow. It's one of those weird character quirks of mine. A bad meal will throw me into a fit of depression. And Jesus, God, it wasn't even anywhere near. You know, McDonald stopped serving breakfast at like 10.30. and it was 945, so we should have been good.

The Blues Brothers had a song on their concert tour one time called Rubber Biscuit. Well, apparently, I found it. I hacked at it with my plastic fork until I realized that was a vain endeavor. And then I started tearing at it with the plastic fork and the plastic knife. knife and uh well not to put i don't i don't think i'm ruining dinner in the eastern daylight time zone but that biscuit had the same chew quality as as as as fried calumari it's like chewing on a rubber band but four dollars and fifty nine cents it's insane it is in freaking sane.

And what Senator Warren says is correct. Everything is part of it. The stupid war. And, you know, I feel kind of bad talking about this because I'll bet you those sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln would be damned grateful for a McDonald's biscuit and gravy, as opposed to a half a cup of rice and two rancid tortillas. But yeah, that's this timeline. line. Flavio writing in a moment ago saying $20, $20 burrito? Where are a burrito? Not even in New York City. My sister lives in Brooklyn, and I'm pretty

sure she wouldn't be suckered into paying $20 for a burrito. New Yorkers, I doubt they're that stupid. Ah, you might be surprised, Flavio, because with places like Chipotle, if you want extra anything, gone are the days of... of that being gratis. Golly. And, I mean, even here, granted, it's a place that caters to the tourist trade, but even here, a breakfast burrito with some scrambled eggs,

some sausage or some bacon or some ham. At this one, little general store, such about $10. And then there's, well again at four or five dollars for a breakfast burrito at the clown it's one of the few things I eat there

and only in a hurry but it's brutal out there and this one little general stores like they're luncheon burritos with black beans and salsa and the like 10 bucks and here's the thing it's no bigger than

One of those little frozen burritos, what is it? I can't remember the name of the brand. But one of those frozen burritos you find in the grocery store for 99 cents, only it's $10. And it's expensive out there. Lee in New York, a burrito is too expensive with Cyclospora and Taco Bell. Many people have paid a high price for their burritos. That's true. That's true.

no taco hell for me. Flavio says I haven't eaten out in ages. I make my meals at home and I know even ground beef is expensive nowadays. $6 north of $6.50 of pound for the regular stuff.

And that's why when I'm in Parkersburg, I shop at the little local meat market where they grind it fresh for me the minute I order it, And it's still price competitive, but yeah, $6.50 a pound. So if you figure something like hamburger helper, so that's $6.50 for the ground beef, and then it's another two bucks for the hamburger helper.

So you're at $8.50 for hamburger helper. Can you imagine what hamburger helper would cost if they served it in a restaurant, in a fast food chain? and by the way, I saw an article earlier today as I was prepping for the show that noted that Americans are getting sick. And I'm not talking about cyclosporiasis. Getting sick of fast food. You know, we used to be reliably a fast food nation. In fact, I think there was a documentary by that name.

And who could afford to supersize now? But I think Americans are getting tired of fast food because fast food sucks. There's not a decent fast food hamburger out there to be had. You know, the best you can find is tolerable. But that's Trump Merca, y'all. Are we great again yet? Will we be greater when the burritos get more expensive? Burritos.

And meanwhile, again, with the bloated, godforsaken budget that the Pentagon has, well, Whiskey Pete Kegbreath doesn't have any problem blowing scads of money on lobster and king crab. And Lord knows, bourbon and all the trimmings, not to mention testosterone shots for juicing the troops, women included. but we can't feed our sailors aboard our nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. A half a cup of rice and two lousy tortillas. That's some burrito. Jesus.

And, you know, there's Vince Ricardo again from the in-laws. 1979 and he declares you know Peter Falk and playing Vince Ricardo

um there it is and it's it was funny in 1979 it was an element of the it was an element of the plot but in 47

scant years what was funny in 1979 is beginning to look like reality in 2026. Jesus. I don't know what people are going to do. When a six pack of Budweiser

costs $1,200. Oh, that'll be awful. Oh, that'll be awful. You'll have riots in the streets. A tonal music. Yeah. Jeremy, speaking to Flavio says I get food from a joint called Moes a couple of times a week.

It's basically a Mexican-style salad bowl, rice, beans, veggies, and a meat, add a drink, and a 10%, you're about 25 bucks. There we are. In fact, yeah, it is a national chain, and they're not there anymore, but at one point, Victoria worked at Moes. And where Moes was in Vienna is now a make-a-mea-pea-pisa. We've never eaten there. She's never encouraged me to either, so it's nothing to write home about. The problem with the $20 burrito, Brother Deacon Asa points out, this is actually a topic that's been discussed long, long before the social media dudebrose picked up on it.

The war invasion of Iran is not the problem. Oh, look, capitalism is. Here's the bulk of what's causing the 20s. dollar burrito phenomenon. There was a time, says the Camel Cardinal, during the early delivery platform days when you

could pick up the phone and order directly from the restaurant and you'd get a lower price point if you were willing to pick it up. With the invasive proliferation of these delivery platforms like Uber food, DoorDash, etc., restaurants realize that they're basically invisible if they're not present on those platforms.

The problem of those platforms is that they're basically they basically take fully one half of the price that you're paying for that burrito as their mob vig. Therefore, restaurants actually lost money every time they delivered an order through those platforms. So they've all had to up the prices significantly

to be able to just survive. You won't be getting that break if you picked up the phone and placed a direct order today. Restaurants have brought up all prices in line with the delivery platform prices. Yes, raw materials are expensive, but the 50% mob VIG that has to be paid to these delivery platforms is the bulk of the reason for the $20 burrito phenomenon. That's very true. And I don't door dash much of anything, but again, I don't get a break for it either.

Well, I just, I come from a time when there was no door dash. I know. Don't remind me. I'm an old. And a reverbo observing. I think even the Romans made sure the legions were well fed. Oh, the Romans did make sure the legions were well fed. I mean, we've had, historically speaking,

this is some oblique food porn, I guess. You know why we have macaroni and cheese in boxes with that cheese dust that you mix with milk and butter, and that's what makes your mac and cheese. We have that because during the Second World War, food scientists, as part of the war effort to defeat global fascism, food scientists went to work trying to figure out

how to get good food to the troops that they could eat and be well-eastern, nourished. And so cheese dust was developed and went on to become ubiquitous.

The cheese dust in your box of mac and cheese, the cheese dust on your Cheetos, the cheese flavoring in your bacon grilled cheese potato chips. It's all because we made an effort to destroy the fascists.

How about that? And, you know, freeze-drying food? It's a fascinating study of what canning. And Roger may know this better than I. Canning came around in like the 1840s. And before that, everything in order to be preserved was either salted, pickled, smoked, or dried. A lot of the things we love the most are a function of food preservation. Strawberry preserves?

It's in the name. Crout, kimchi, the pickled corn that I've been suggesting that Roger take a run at. It's all a matter of trying to be able to eat during times when food isn't growing. Yeah. Even going back into prehistory, and this may actually ruin some dinners in the Eastern Daylight Time Zone, archaeologists and social scientists, anthropologists, have figured out that what we once thought we knew about the division of labor between men and women in, say, Stone Age cultures, because we just established. assumed that the little women stayed home and took care of the youngans and went out and maybe picked some berries and some dug some roots and whatnot while the manly masculine men of masculine manliness went out and with their with their uh... uh... atlats and their spears and whatnot and harassed the bison and the woolly mammoths and whatnot and the woolly mammoths and whatnot.

and yeah no it didn't turn out that way because as it turns out critters like cattle and bison have multiple stomachs and you've heard of the cud they chew a cud

they're in constant process of digesting and redigesting well those cuds are loaded with carbs and what the anthropologist and archaeologist figured out was that the whole tribe took part in the harvesting of meat animals because during the winter months when there weren't much in the way of carbs to be had. You know, we weren't all once on keto diets and fuck Bobby Kennedy and his buddies who get up every morning and,

fry a big old juicy steak that the rest of us can't afford and then cover it in warm kimchi. Love me some kimchi, but honest to Jesus. But in the process of butchering the animal,

they would cut into the digestive tract and harvest the cud. And they would eat the cud as a source of carbohydrates in their prehistoric diet. All this from burrito wars, right? Yeah.

Other burritos' observation, courtesy of Lee in New York, this administration is not trying to ban that fur and food invading our nation. I know. And, of course, a burrito basically just means little donkey. Never mind. I think the origin of the word goes back to a fellow who basically served his grilled meats and whatnot on a tortilla as a means of keeping them

from just putting them on the bare wood or whatever. Well, yeah, sure, but do you remember? Stop telling us how old you are, says the juvenile delinquent number two. I came from a time before DoorDash. DoorDash was created in 2013. It's a fairly safe bet to say most if not all of the audience came from the before times as well. Yeah, yeah.

But then again, I can keep extending it, and I can say something that's really crazy, like I remember when there were no subways. I remember when there were no sub-shops. I remember when the best sub-sandwich came from the snack bar at Kmart. God, those were good subs. Lee observing Canning, the odd thing about canning is that it was a few decades later

that the can opener was invented. Can openers came along in 1855 in England, 1858 in the United States. And I think when I say, I'm talking about like ball jars, you know, with the rings and the lids, you don't necessarily need a church key, as they're sometimes called,

to get into those. and from well from several people from Tamara burritos hi Tamara it's been a while I haven't heard from you

glad to hear from you I regret to inform Flavio that the $20 burrito is a thing here in burrito land oh yes and look but again it extends past burritos

over in Beckley and the same thing happened in Parkersburg five guys guys dried up and blew away because dinner for two can pass 30 bucks for a hamburger and fries and a drink. Well, I don't know how five guys is doing elsewhere, but they're deadered and Farrow's cat in West Virginia. Ralph tells me from the Codoba website is Southwest State Burrito

is 1350 Yeah and that's before you start adding on any extras Flavio, okay It ain't just me Kmart subs They were the absolute best Fuck Subway And cousins and etc

Yeah I actually became fond of Quiznos for a while And then poof, Quiznos was gone Yeah And the other night Unpaid Product Placement mentioned something called Mama Geraldine's Southern-style cheese straws. I was up to the Wiggling Pig earlier today, and I found out because I like them. They are discontinued.

Great. But fortunately, you can make those at home, and I'm going to look up the recipe, because those are a great low-carb snack for those of us who watch our carbs and our blood sugar and whatnot. Basically, you do the batter, and you put it in a pastry bag, and then you extrude I know the word your cheese straws

onto your baking pan with your baking parchment and stick it in the oven and they're yummy you're so yummy oh Jesus and from from Joey

and I presume giraffey and Joey Jr. and Joey Jr. and Joey 2 the kangaroo or Jeffrey Jr.

Thanks for playing the video of the Trump supporters in Ritten, Ohio yesterday. Back in 2024, when I was knocking on doors for Sherrod Brown and Kamala, I encountered this woman. The woman in question in the video sporting the brown tank top with her kids at the gas station, crying because she could barely

support her children. When I knocked her on her door in 24 was living in a Section 8 housing project collecting food stamps. But she just praised Trump. I remember. remember that one. Yeah, the chickens do have a way of coming home to Roost, but they have evolved into leopards who come back and eat people's faces. Great to hear from you, Joey. So I'm going to send you a box of Q-tips, Jeremy. So the whole tribe basically took turns whacking at the chud, did they?

CUD, CUD, CUD, CUD! Don't make me pull this radio program over, you know damn well, I will do it. Whacking at the chud. Yeah. And one gets the idea that the moving finger having RIT moves on, because, well, juice box Janine, may not have much in the way of a future. as U.S. attorney for the District of D.C.

or the district for D.C., okay? Orange Daddy, Big Mad. Orange Daddy may take off him belt. And so now that his reflecting pool fantasy has been blown out of the water, see what I did there. Well He went on Tripe Social and got real tripey

Now that people are able to see it up close They're reporting pure vandalism at the reflecting pool The material was cut right where the videotape showed For 300 feet or more People were on their knees with their hands in the water At the exact location of the slashes Additionally there were witnesses to the bandalism and the flexible areas of the material were cut with a knife.

And then he went after Juice Fox, Janine. The U.S. Attorney Janine Piro should revisit her hastily made decision, especially since it turned out that the gentleman involved is a big player in Act Blue, a disgraceful fundraising scam, Norm Eisen, and is represented by a trumped-drenched sleeve-bag, political hack lawyer, Norm Eisen and crew, a group that uses charity for political purposes, which is to the best of my knowledge, illegal. I've been beating Eisen, a complete lunatic in court for ten years or more. He just keeps coming, but I always win.

Only he doesn't. Well, and by the way, I think I mentioned, the judge has officially dismissed the suit. I'm sorry, the charge. against baby Hearn. I wonder if he's told Janine to fall on her sword yet. Or as Shakespeare said, play the Roman fool. And I don't have details, but there's some disturbing news on the Max Miller front. Apparently his little daughter,

his little two-year-old daughter, whose collarbone he allegedly broke and left hand-shaped bruises on her tiny body, was rushed to the hospital, covered in bruises? And Max Miller immediately, well, in a classic case of he who smelt it, dealt it, or the smeller is the feller, Max, where's your fucking neck, Miller? Immediately began screaming,

It's the daycare's fault! It's the daycare's fault! Covered in bruises. This little, tiny, two, maybe going on three-year-old girl. And by the way, Max Miller is big mad because he had a rally planned a Save Act

rally and it was planned with Representative Anna Pavel Laguna or whatever she's

calling herself these days his rally is tanked and over to

the Strongsville GOP Shannon Burns announced the cancellation of the event at Brunswick

Ohio It was supposed to happen on Monday. Now it's not going to happen at all. And they blamed threats of violence, which is pure bullshit. Shannon Burns, who still wants to associate with an accused, I'd say credibly accused child abuser, said, I'm angry and deeply disappointed to announce that we must cancel Monday's Save America Act rally with Congressman Max Miller and Congresswoman Anna Paulina Laguna.

angry, deeply disappointed. And while other people are saying, Jesus Christ, he really needs to resign, and while Anna Pavel Laguna has taken an entirely different tack with a member of her own Flora da, maggot congressional delegation, Representative Corey Mills, another creep, she went after him with a will, but then speaking to Politico, She said, I do not know Max to be a violent person and have only ever found him to be incredibly kind and honorable. But where Mills was concerned, she said, he needs to not be seeking re-election. And then endorsed a challenger.

And so at present Miller is down five points against his Democratic challenger. Gosh, Max, I hope it doesn't hurt you too little. and then, well, this. There had been some question as to whether there might be a third vote against Todd Blanchie. That question has been answered and it has been answered in the worst possible way. Senator Bill Cassidy, Senator Dr. Bill Cassidy,

of Louisiana, who got the shiv from nitwit Niro, you know, just like John Cornholio did. Well, he's proved, himself to be a miserable shit-eating coward because, well, he gave a speech this morning on the floor of the Senate of the United States because he wanted to keep people wondering. And in that speech, he declared that yes, in fact, he would be voting to confirm Todd Blanchie He said he's concerned about the January 6th pardons, but of course Todd Blanchie isn't.

And you might recall yesterday that we talked about how Todd Blanchie blew filing deadlines because he didn't think the court had any business hearing the case. But yeah, I mean, this is a doubling down of epic perfidy because it's not just that Cassidy is going to vote to confirm Todd Blanche, it's the fact that he already has a history. This is the man whose critical voice and vote were the lynchpin to the confirmation of, of whalehead dead bear raccoon penis brainworm lamprey of the hyanus port brainworm lampreys. Ah.

He foisted him upon a country that is now shitting itself and is now enduring the worst measles outbreak in the last long time. a measles outbreak that need not have happened. And as bad as that is, one wonders how much more wickedness Todd Blanchie can get up to as the officially confirmed Attorney General of the United States. In his speech, he said, Well, Mr. Blanche is not perfect. He will tell you this. And if we don't confirm Todd Blanche, then there will be another acting attorney general.

and he might not be as effective like Todd Blanche Well the only thing Todd Blanche is effective at is serving as personal counsel to his orange daddy So Bill Cassidy said All considered

I will vote for Mr. Blanche I'll be criticized For this vote What's new? Well you're criticized When you fuck up, Billy Boy And you just keep Fucking up

I mean look when I remember back when his seat was occupied by one David Vitter. You know, the good upstanding God fear and upstanding Bible believe in Christ-centered evil, evangelical Gundamino is damn homosexual Christian who just happened to get outed as a John to Hookers in a little black book some of said Hookers pointing out that he had a

well a diaper fetish and that's how he became diaper Dave Vitter and it just so happened that back when we were we had an apartment slash office in D.C. with the 8th campaign he was a tenant in one of the apartments there in the United Methodist building

no really and I met him a few times Made my skin crawl And so he's been Cassidy has been caught Cassidy is now in that seat Well just as he said Well you know if a different acting attorney general

Might not run the Department of Justice as effectively Well hell As it turns out a different senator from diaper Dave turned out to be a worse senator than diaper Dave. And coward was the least of the things that he was called. Shit-eating weasel. And people started connecting the dots and realizing, ah, this is why Susan Collins knew it was safe to say she wouldn't vote for him.

People pointing out that Bill Cassidy's a yes on the Epstein cover-up. Another calling him a member of the Epstein caucus. Jesus. Disgusting. absolutely disgusting oh and we can talk about this when we begin our conversation on the on the front porch we have a new word

and there's been so many of them hamburgers cofefefe well now we have be cocked be cocked no I'm not kidding blathering in an interview

earlier today Nitwit Niro was pissing and moaning about the Federal Reserve who's chair he picked and said in the interview well let's just let's just hear it shall we

you tell me what you hear well it's up to him a little bit but not completely and he's got a board that's very political the United States should pay the lowest interest rate in the entire world. So you think that he shouldn't hike rates before the election? It's not totally up to him.

It's up to a board. I think he's great. I won't be criticizing him. But I've said many times, you know, in the old days, 20, 25 years ago, called it the old days. If you announced good numbers, the interest rates went down because you were a better credit. Makes sense, right?

Now it's all baccacht. Now it's all a different thing. if you announce great numbers, everybody's depressed, because we have great numbers, they think what you're going to do is raise interest rates. But in the old days, when you announce great numbers, interest rates went down. So, be cocked. His dementia brain, his dementia brain, his dementia brain, his dementia brain. Be cocked.

Apparently, it's an arcane word in the English language that has some, perhaps, fecal meaning. Others have said that what he was really doing was trying to reach for a Yiddish word vacacta, which is different from Michigana. But I think there's a much more

apt and much more Freudian explanation for Bikokked. And back to a few emails. Yeah, Darrell in Houston. Hi, Darrell. Ratfucker from Louisiana. Does anyone hate that?

Everyone hate that rat fucking slime bag, John Kennedy, as much as I do right now? Do you mean Bill Cassidy, Darrell? Or did John Kennedy do something even shittier? Frozen burritos, Kevin in Massachusetts. Tina's Burritos, 99 cents. And Kevin recalling, 7-Eleven used to sell the bomb burrito back in the day for under $2. Wasn't all that bad.

You know, God knows, I ate my fair share of micro. You could argue that I probably got through college on microwave burritos and doctored up ramen. Man. Yeah, I thought you did, Daryl. Daryl said, my bad, I met Cassidy. And continuing the burrito discussion, Kevin added restaurants, all these strip mall and root corridor restaurants, it's just a competition as to who can sell the best Cisco frozen. and food. They all get from

Cisco. Exactly. There's no real cooking going on in America. America eats Cisco or U.S. foods. And

they pack, they pre-package or they pre-market their meal plans and so that, and this ain't necessarily a good thing, it isn't a good thing. McDonald's, the clown, they pioneered the idea of

and I mean little C not big C little C Catholic fast food meaning universal so that at least in theory the cheeseburger you get in Boston tastes the same as the cheeseburger you get in L.A., etc. But there's very little real actual cooking going on out there unless you pay top dollar for a real cuisine-level dining experience.

If you want to eat real food, your only alternative is to cook it, cook it, bake it, fry it, bean it, broil it, whatever, yourself. You know, Back Bay Bay Bayou, Bunny Bordelays a la Antoine. You mean Antoine of New Orleans? I don't mean Antoine a flat bush. and Tamara says add sales tax surf and turf at crest burrito down the street $19 no drink no side how do people live burritos and the useful information from darrell in Houston thank you

darrell one pound dried pinto beans one dollar you get dried pinto beans for a dollar there are two here two cups of good rice one dollar one pack of good soft flour tortillas three to four dollars You know, I've found I really like the Sonoran-style tortillas because they're super extra thin. One can of diced tomatoes a dollar, one avocado, $1, $8-ounce sharp cheddar cheese, $2.50 to $3.50.

Cook the beans with good spices. Cook the rice with tomatoes and good spices. Add extras at your discretion. Bingo, burritos for a week, for around $15 without the extras. and no lettuce right darrell

no lettuce I'm not crazy about lettuce on sandwiches or anything anyway because once it wilts it's just slime and and kevin says restaurants two people with drinks at a nice restaurant you're looking at a hundred dollars at table for two

if not more because when I say cuisine level cooking I'm talking about something like lebrino-dano in New York that has a couple or three Michelin stars that was who I was thinking of Brandy Radar, thank you.

El Monterey burritos are better. Mm-hmm. And Brother Deacon Asa expanding on his thesis, a country shitting itself due to cyclospora and measles outbreak?

Can you say capitalism? I'll see myself out. Well, you get a Ramal Amideng for that, brother Deakin. Well played. And be cocked.

Hi, Matt. That's happened to me in the back of a dimly lit gay bar multiple times in the 1990s. I'm so proud of you sometimes, Matt. You just... You get the spirit of what we're trying to accomplish. Thank you.

Becoct. Mm-hmm. And then, well, there's, you know, there's actually a little, there's a little device on some firearms, semi-automatic firearms, and it's called a decocker. And I'm going to leave that one right there, because y'all can just think about the joke after that, that happens after that.

Blavio asking a question. Bill Cassidy, Ed, Al, what are these people afraid of that people won't talk to them at the supermarket? Michael Steele. Bold of Michael the Seal to think these chuds go to the supermarket. That's what the help is for. I considered that. I didn't necessarily hear it, but Ralph's pointing out, you've heard that Juice Box Janine may be required to prosecute Anthony Fauci.

Well, she's already been made mince meat before. At this point, that'll just be a matter of using a finer sieve. Food from the past, Clarence says, fifties and 60s there was a food service company named Horn and Harderts in Philadelphia. The restaurant was a self-service entity. You would select your food choice from multiple mailbox like windows. It was a big deal for many years. And in fact, the first I ever heard of that, Clarence, was there's a line about Horn and Harderts

in Neil Simon's script for the odd couple. and actually in researching the role I had to go and find out what the hell it was and this was back way pre-internet so that involved using the reader's guide to periodical literature and then you use the reader's guide and then you went and found the periodical and then you read the periodical and that's how I found out about Horn and Harder's because they were big back in the day and I guess fast food did them in but I always heard that the food was pretty darn good, Clarence.

Thanks for the reminder. And, yeah, El Mada Ray Burritos, exactly, Randy. And then continuing the discussion. Cynthia in the Bay Area, oh, and by the way, a McDonald's near me has closed permanently. It's been torn down to the ground, a busy spot. I don't know what will be going in. after that, we'll see, but I won't be missing it. And interestingly, I ran across this story either earlier this week or late last.

There is a storm brewing down in the greater Los Angeles area. And it has to do with In-N-Out Burger wanting to put in one of its locations in a smack dab on top of a busy intersection that's just a couple of blocks away from an elementary school, and the town council, based upon objections, has withheld the building permit for this in-and-out burger, and the moratorium was for X number of days at first, but then once people got wind of it, they're like, yeah, really, we don't want this.

And now they've extended it for like another 120 days, because people are tired with drive-thrued. and, you know, your door dashing and whatnot, people are pretty well, damned well, sick of the traffic nightmares. And God forbid, of course, in southern states, they'd never have the courage to speak up. But God forbid you live anywhere near a buckies, because that just is a traffic travesty. But it's another part of what feels like a groundswell that we're experiencing.

against our corporate overlords. And from Darrell here in Houston, restaurants, there are a lot of little restaurants, especially Mexican, Salvador, and et cetera, usually in ratty strip malls, many of them cooking from scratch. And those are the good ones. You're absolutely right.

But so many more are just cookie cutters. And it's a phenomenon that I noticed way back in the 90s. There were two or three Mexican restaurants that had popped up back then in West Virginia. They were all called Rio Grande. And all of their menus, well, the lunch specials were number one, number two, number three, number four, number five, number F, number seven, number eight. It was an obvious typo.

Lunch special number F instead of six. but then I began to figure out and it was early on but the whole food service thingy because lo and behold different ownership and everything we had traveled home at one point in time in the 90s

to Alabama to visit my parents and go to the beach that was back when we could go to the beach the beach and so I went into the Mexican restaurant down in Florence and got the menu and there it was. Lunch special.

Number one, number two, number three, number four, number five, number F, number seven, number eight, et cetera. And then I realized, aha, this shit's all prefab. Mm-hmm. Oh, but yeah, the little Salvadoran and whatnot yet. I remember on my trip to New York City where, Chris and I took in a concert at Carnegie Hall, amazing. Around the corner, we were staying in a little hotel in the Lower East Side,

and around the corner was a restaurant called El Castillo. And I went there on recommendation because they were said to have the most fantastic breakfast around. And there was no U.S. foods and there was no Ciscuit. go there. I mean, they were squeezing the orange juice themselves. And it was probably one of the biggest breakfasts I've ever had.

And, of course, that would be, what, 2018? And I got out of there for breakfast. Huge breakfast. Less than 10 bucks. You know, again, in New York City. I wonder how

much, I assume there's still a going concern if ICE hasn't tortured them into non-existence. But, yeah, those places are fantastic. Good call, good call, Darrell. And Darrell adds, be cocked. Am I wrong for hoping the orange abomination gets becoct? That is, be cold-coct.

Ooh, quality. You guys are banging on all eight cylinders this evening. And Billable Rick tells us. me, juice box Janine, mince meat or Coveece? You're wrong, Roxanne. While Janine was made into mincemeat after she unsuccessfully sought to prosecute the reflecting pool vandal, she'll actually become Civece

after she unsuccessfully prosecutes Dr. Fauci. I'm not fond of mincemeat, but I love Civece, and you may have ruined it for me. So, you know, I guess fair is fair, considering how many of your mid-afternoon snacks we've spoiled here. But I have blathered on for far too long, and we need to get over to the old holler tree that we sublet from the Keebler elves. And check in with Jeremy and Roger. And come on, y'all. It's time to start. Pop on. Pop on by. Hey, Jeremy. Hey, Roger.

you get to receive an email you talked as I was saying it's ever getting close to 630 here come on now but anyway but it's a target rich and by environment this evening that's not my fault no it's not your fault dirty minded bastards listen I can't I can't take it but I got to add to it so as we can all hear and see Trump nothing wrong with this mind you I'm just going to make fun of him Trump is becoming gay or as gay tenants are coming out more and more as the days go by and he's saying be cucked because he knows his numbers

are cooked I mean cooked and that's why the rest of the world doesn't care what he says his job numbers are off everything is the why the world knows this not just us

so when he talks about interest rates of this and that feds also know this the decent part that's still in it will not drop the rates because he's trying to fuck the numbers completely to make himself look good so there's that

that's an interesting hold on there because that's an interesting observation Jeremy it didn't you know people were saying he was reaching for Baca or that he was using some arcane ancient English

I think you just nailed it you know the hip new term for being squed is cooked and this this fits nicely into that paradigm where you know

asylum see people asylum seekers are definitionally crazy to him because that's what he thinks asylum means. Or people hear cisgender, which merely means that your gender aligns with what was assigned to you at birth. And he heard it and it turned into six genders. And so now where people say, oh yeah, he be cooked, it becomes be cocked. because his brain does not communicate to his mouth anymore.

Right. You nailed it. I'll remind you kindly. I'm the one that brought to your attention physically the statement about asylum, how he doesn't know the difference in the free meanings of it. He thinks they're all the same thing. That's why he taught crazy people from coming from Mexico. I told you that myself personally one Friday night.

Yes, you did. So, yeah, I hear things definitely most people do. I think we've established that. on purpose sometimes. But I want to tell you, I get away from this crap talk for a minute. I dived into a deeper range on my SDR, my software-defined radio this week.

Yes. And one of the guards, one of my federal buildings, I talked to him because he's big into it. He's got his license and everything. And I told him, you got to brag for you. He said, what's that? I said, I heard from Arkansas today. I heard from Florida.

I heard from Georgia. I heard from North Georgia. I said, I heard from Perth, Australia. He said, what? He said, yes. I heard a man talking to us from Perth, Australia, this afternoon. He said, I know.

It's three hours to L.A., and then 24 hours south to Australia at 7,00 miles an hour. Imagine that. He's trying to figure out how it happened. He's like, I've heard it twice. I heard it the other day, too. So that was a pretty neat catch to hear that over the radio. Someone's speaking of Australia.

Perfectly clear. That's wild. So there's that. Trying to think what else. I'm trying to think, I mean, not a whole lot. Bathing in this stuff. It just makes you feel picky,

especially this, this Max Miller piece of shit. Oh, my God, it keeps getting worse and worse. We're going to find out that kid died this weekend. I hate to tell you, we're going to find out some horrible days. I so hope you're wrong. I can't, I can, no, Jesus, please no. No, well, I mean,

abusive people, they don't change. They just hide their patterns. And by the way, the story about him holding the Blue Bunny hostage, apparently that's a thing with him. He does it all the time. The word is sadism. He is one sick fuck. But as for a giggle, since you brought up astronomy and whatnot,

Joy sent this to me this morning, and I had a merry little cackle. at it. It's a picture of the moon. And whoever wrote this said, I apologize to the moon. And she said, don't worry about it. Elon's rocket was so small

she could barely feel it. Then we laughed. She's so funny. You get it? You get it. I laughed inside. I laughed a little inside. Yeah, right. You smiled. You smiled merrily. I smiled merely. Good for radio.

Good for the internet. a couple of other couple stories for you. So two, two separate different instances, but just showing you the society is falling part of the greater scheme. I went to see, like I told the front porch about this last week, just too late. I went to see the new Spider-Man last Saturday night.

Okay. I've been a Spider-Man fan since I was a child, so I know the law and everything. It was a good movie. Movie etiquette is fucking dead. It is gone. Garbage. I mean, it is,

it is horrifying. I had people all around me, their phones open, fully lit, talking in a voice like we're talking now, Robin, about what was on their phone in social media during the fucking movie. The whole fucking movie. staring at their phone,

which they paid probably, you know, the better part of 15 bucks for that movie ticket or their parrot should or still want a ticket. They're staring at their phone talking about, oh, look at this cat picture. I shit you not for an hour and a half. Oh, look at this cat picture.

To the point where I was almost ready to lose my mind. I thought about going to ask for a refund to come see a later day, but what are you going to do? And I don't know what it is. I don't know if COVID did this, or if, I mean, I jokingly said to a few people last week, this generation that seemed to have come behind mine wasn't beat enough.

And I joke about that. I mean, they weren't swat on the butt and told no. They seem to feel like the world is theirs, and you owe them everything. When it comes to manners, the way they behave. Careful, you're getting perilously close to get off my lawn, Jeremy. I'm just telling you for myself. Okay, I know, I know.

I'll cut back a little bit. But the movie theater is horrendous. Now, let me cut to my other story. Talked about McDonald's, and you charged this story already. So here we go. Two weeks ago, I usually go to McDonald's after I get my groceries because I'm starving, and it's usually in the afternoon when I first get up to have any evening. So I go two weeks ago.

And I order my meal, and I have two burgers. And one burger asked for extra onions, no pickles. And the other one asks for extra pickles, and no mustard on both. The lady that was on the other end of the microphone asked me at least seven different times when I wanted my burgers. Seven different times. And then there was a long pause. What's going on?

A new person comes on and said, what can I get you for your order? I said, well, my orders on the screen right now. I said, I just want, you know, extra onions on this one. No one would be there, extra other other than pickles on, well, whatever. It was clear on what I said. Obviously, I know I was talking about. So she said, okay, pull up the next window. I did.

And the lady looked at me blushing and apologize because I think she knew it was the person was either new or, I thought the person was on drugs the way they're interacting with me on the microphone. I really don't know. All is possible. It's not this hard to figure out. So she says, I'm so sorry. I said, hey, it is what it is. I just want my food.

So I paid her, got to the next window because we have two windows at our place. One you pay, one you pick up, stop the spread of germs, hopefully. And the lady hands me my drink. And as she hands it to me, she walks away. Cover will not go on the drink. It's a broken cover. So I'm sitting at the window.

She's over on the other side of the counter. She's staring at me. I'm going to like for three minutes. She goes like, how can I help you? I said, haven't you covered this one broke? She kind of jokes and laughs and gives me a new one. I have a thing For these new flavors they've been advertising for the summer

The blues and whatever I like the cool blue thing I like to taste it So I got a sprite with that in it So she said Your meal's not ready Do you pull it up I can't spot number one

I'm like sure no problem Go pull in I take two sips of my drink And I'm like Man this tastes flat Took two more sips It was fucking water With the blue sauce

And the stuff of the dros Oh, Jesus. So I get out of my truck, I shut, I lock the doors, I walk into the lobby. There's a kid walking out of the bag of food. Hey, is that this meal? He goes, no, I know it's for someone else. Keep walking past me. Proceeds to walk to my fucking truck.

And there's a guy in the lobby watching this happen. And I'm like, for fuck sakes, I just asked him, the guy looks at me, and I look at him. So they're like, hey, buddy, that's my meal. This drink is wrong. So he comes in, So you want another one? I said, no, I don't want another one. I want the right drink.

This is a water. I want to, I didn't swear on him. I said, I want a Sprite. Well, she just want a new one. I said, no, I want the right drink. He goes, well, no, reason it's so bland is because the foam melted. I'm like, no, motherfucker.

This is the water, not a smear. Okay. I'm going to, I'm going to make an observation here. Something was going to, no, it gets worse. That doesn't get worse. So he looks at me, Okay, buddy, relax. It walks away.

And I look at the guy in the lobby and go, I got a bad fool. So I literally said to him, he started laughing. Finally got the right drink and I was able to leave. Well, I went there again last week. Just for the fun of it. Oh, no. Shopping time again. And the same first person, I remember voices.

Obviously, I remember what people say, not named, I remember voices. The same first person that took my order came on this past week. and it had a minor version of what happened the week before without the drink. I had to go to the menu four or five different times. So they're desperate for help. Unfortunately, I think COVID did this.

Older people don't want to do these jobs and work because it became dangerous. And they're just filling a space with a body rather than not having someone. They're understaffed. And I think these businesses are slowly dying. Where does that sense? I think we've done it's way out. Well, this is, okay, this,

this entire scenario is an onion, Jeremy, because it has multiple layers and none of them are yummy. One, you can go all the way back to lethal weapon two. Danny Glover, Mel Gibson, Joe Pesci, and the immortal line uttered by Joe Pesci. They fuck you at the drive-thru, they fuck you at the drive-thru. They fuck you at the drive-thru. Yes, exactly, yes. God-demeanor, yes, yes. And it's at the point now, if I go through Wendy's,

Wendy's has a sign at the drive-thru that says, please try your fries before you leave to make sure they're hot. And it's like, okay, well, that's good of them. But then it's like, so your employees can't make sure that my fries are fresh and hot? So there's that. But you can expand on that. Remember in part of three, when they took on Chris Walk, Chris Rock, the Butterer character, whatever's name, Butter's up.

He talked about you. You think that's bad because Danny, the Peschi characters doing the same end up. They fuck at the drive. You're starting out of speech. He was, man, I grew up on the hood. I didn't learn to walk until I was three. Staying the foot because a drive, 10 on the floor because the drive by is. But yes, I remember the fuck at the drive.

You're right. But continue. Yeah, okay. So beyond that, okay. movie theater talking has been a problem since movie theaters began. It's gotten worse, however. I think COVID did have something to do with it. Your Odyssey experience like that?

No. No, I don't. It's not bad in Parkersburg. But then again, you know, Parkersburg is this little brigadoon kind of place. You know, you can't get there from here. And, you know, they've got a viable mall. with a busy park, although J.C. Penny

is dying, but, you know, that's not that mall. That J.C. Penny's fine. But it's going away. But it's a real mall with real customers and real stores, and people are generally pretty good in the movies there, too. You know, laughter is

acceptable. Screams are acceptable, you know, for a horror movie or whatever. Yes. Almost acceptable. Just sitting there, yammer, away. Yeah, not so much. I swear to God, Rob me, it was not whispered. A full-volume conversation. Like, no one else could hear them.

Oh, I have. I have, I have no doubt. And then finally, as to your drive-through experience, and you said you heard the same voice on two separate trips. And then the second voice comes... Hold on. I've experienced that. And what that is. That's automation. The first voice you hear is a machine. The second voice is. the human being in the restaurant promise uh promise well i heard three voices i heard three voices the first voice asks you you're going to use your app then it's a human hopefully so you're right there is a first voice no this is the second voice after the automated voice i mean still

screwed up i get it at arby's is welcome to arby's uh i'll take your order when you're ready and then you say okay i'm ready and then another and then the human voice comes on and I think these things are probably AI generated and then one last observation you know how you responded to my remark about DoorDash Jeremy well this is probably of a piece with that I come from a time when

the maraudas were illegal and there were no vapes there were no carts if you wanted to get high, you had to smoke marijuana, which meant a doobie or a bowl, because bongs weren't particularly portable. And so you couldn't just, you know, go, you know, twist up a number.

But now, in the era in which we find ourselves, your one little dude there in McDonald's may have had a vape in his pocket and he was blazed from the minute that he got there and he'll be blazed until the minute he leaves and then he'll be getting blazed on the way home and he'll get blazed when he's home because, you know, these fuck... I'm sorry, I know, I know, we used to wear onions on our belts, okay?

but it's super accessible and it's super usable and it's super usable and it's I've seen the same and you know I've seen the same thing with the nicotine vapes too I'm a I'm a I'm no longer but I was once upon a time rather expert in the abuse of tobacco products and you know you smoke If you smoke in a cigarette, and I'm sure that we've still got smokers in the Fulhorn family community congregation, congratulations, Flavio, I hope you're still on the wagon. But, you know, you smoke a cigarette, you like the cigarette, you take a puff, you take it out of your mouth, whatever. And you don't just sit there and go, you know, puffing on it. Among other things, you'll give yourself a hell of a headache. Cigars are a different matter.

but again you don't just sit there with it in your mouth and just you know freight train it and god help you if you inhale pipes another another yeah you know you puff up a cloud you take you know as what goucho marks once said uh when he asked when the woman said she had 10 kids and he said uh she and and he said my god why she said well my husband and i just love kids and he said I love my cigar, but I take it out once in a while. But with nicotine vapes and weed vapes both, I've observed this in real time. And that is, oh, God, I can't believe I'm putting on this. I can't believe I'm saying this.

But, you know, I was actually taught to smoke marijuana. Hey, kid, the first one's free, you know? You really had come from a key man, society didn't you. Holy Christ. What? You really did come from caveman, didn't you? You are old. I take it all back now.

You're ancient. You can take it all back. I'm so old. I fart dust. But, you know, you take the joint and you hit it, and then you pull all the smoke in, and you try to hold the smoke as long as you can, and you hand it over it.

And everybody back then sounded like Bobby Kennedy, and then you take your joint, and you go here. And then you... exhale, and the goal was to pull smoke in and exhale no smoke out. Whereas with these vapes, younger generations sit there just making clouds of this shit. Clouds of it. And, of course, it blows through a vape cartridge in no time flat. And, you know, it's the complete.

opposite of hit it, hold it, blow nothing out. Now it's hit it a lot and inhale some and blow the rest of the vapor out into the world. And I think whoever started that phenomenon, I think was probably in the business. And it encourages more use and thereby you got to buy more cart. And you spend more money. Lather, rinse, repeat. I think those same people got into the printer-curtric business, because as soon as you install one,

your software tells you're running out, time to order a new one. Let me get me 50 bucks. Order now. That's a joke. But I am out of topics, and you go back to work, and since Roger is here on fair footing, let him defend his AI grok-enhanced porn photos from last week, because he couldn't do it at the fair.

Uh. What the fuck are you talking about? Jeremy? Do you want to explain? Jeremy. Well, first of all, last week I wasn't at the fair. I was over in Mapleton. Hi, Roger.

Staying in a camper trailer. Sorry, my phone locked me out. I was picking on you last week. I told Robin that your 10-foot hornet socks were enhanced by grok. They're not real photos. AI was picking on you. You didn't see it. I was fucking with you from a fire.

Yeah, corn porn. Okay. Anyhow, last week I was over in Mapleton and we were staying at a campground and right alongside the highway and the cars were driving by and cell phone coverage was real spotty and the rest of that. But got up relatively early on Saturday morning. I drove over to the elementary school. The student showed up around 10.

and we processed 191 half-pint jars of albacore tuna at the workshop. And had a great day. Yum. Had a great day. So if Chris is listening, he, actually, I think Asa did too. They took some up one year and they asked me to bring some up the next year. and they paid me for the tuna that was inside of them. And a good time was had by all at the Super Bowl party.

This Saturday, tomorrow, I'm doing a workshop on tomato and tomato products. So we're making a salsa and then doing crushed tomatoes. And next week, I forget what the hell I'm doing. But the week after, I'm going to be gone again on a Friday. and yeah next Saturday I'm over at Oak Ridge I don't know what I'm doing over there yet anyhow things are getting busy which is one of the reasons I'm not here as much as I used to be where it was pouring down rain all the time and didn't have anything else to do weather's gotten a little bit warmer the temperature's hovering in the high 90s low

hundreds virtually every day, which means I'm not getting my lawn mode as much as I should and shit like that. But not, I'm just keeping busy and trying to not be depressed by the weird shit that's going on. But in reference to the canning question, let's see, I posted it over in the other chat. As far as people, let's see, I think too much Hutch was the one that asked the question. But anyhow, the modern canning is actually credited to Napoleon because he was having a problem of getting food to his troops that didn't make him sick. An army travels on its stomach, he said. Yeah.

And so what he did was he put out a prize. and a guy by the name of Nicholas Apert developed the general food preservation of canning, bottling, and glass back in 1809, 1810. And then his son, in 1851, patented the first pressure retort system to achieve higher heat, botulism, and the other. microbes that survived a boiling water bath. But it wasn't until 1917 that the USDA officially recognized that pressure canning is the only scientifically reliable method for safely preserving low acid foods. So that was a discussion over in the chat about, let's see. With the fertilizer shortage, what is the first vegetable that's going to be scarce?

And all of them are going to get scarce because commercial agricultural production has depleted the soil. So they're very dependent now on commercial petroleum-based fertilizer for growing. and the farmers that have been in the regenerative farming farm number or your organic farmers are the ones that everybody's been bitching about the higher price but pretty soon that's going to be the only produce you can buy because they're I mean you can do things like bone meal and fish meal and seaweed that's been washed in fresh

and composted fertilizers. But they're much more expensive than the petroleum-based ones, which is why your organic produce costs more. And so your small mom and pop

farm is going to be the place that isn't going to be affected by the petroleum-based fertilizers. But everything in your grocery store, the higher price for the fertilizer is going to come right through and once the straighter Hormuz opens and the cost of those fertilizers comes down, don't expect the prices in the store to come down like Elizabeth Warren's talking about

because once a capitalist organization gets you used to pay at a higher price, and if they're input, the store is going to accept very much the lower price from the farmer. And farmers will cutthroat each other and end up. going bankrupt and the rest of that kind of crap. But the store, the corporate store is going to say, well, we don't need to lower the prices. People are used to paying it. And aren't I a good CEO for improving the profits? And they'll pass it off to the stockholders and the CEO pay wages.

And your food prices in the stores are not going to come down. I don't care how much that orange-headed goon claims that prices are down. and all the rest of that, even our gasoline prices are not going to come down and reduce the profit margins of the oil companies. It's just not going to happen. Get used to it. You're going to be paying these prices for the rest of your life and your grandchildren's lives. It's happening. That's it.

I'm sorry to say it, but that's what it's going to be. I don't disagree. Well, also, we're competing with the national stock pile of gasoline. it has to be filled back up because we depleted it. So that will increase the price for the foreseeable future, too, for demand. I'm not disagreeing with Jeremy, with you all, Jeremy. It's just this administration and these maggots have screwed over the country for the foreseeable future. Our only hope is people like Mondami and AOC.

and the fellow from Michigan. Abdul-Said. Who says he wants to get in the Senate so he can get Robert F. Kennedy in front of him in a committee and bring him a new asshole. I mean, RFK cannot stand up to a doctor. No way. Can't do it. he's two brain dead from the worm and the years of heroin addiction mostly i think it's the years of heroin addiction

not going to disagree with that because the brainworm story uh probably wasn't meant to get out because it was in a it was in a domestic relations proceeding and wasn't supposed to see the light of day much of that stuff is often under seal and remember the brainworm story was all part of a dodge to keep from paying the alimony that he owed. And of course, the woman at his wife eventually committed suicide. So, worth, you know, worth remembering. But you mentioned AOC, et cetera.

The ongoing conyption that the middle of the road mugwump Democrats are having just oh my god it's it's it would be embarrassing if anyway when last we heard from old serpent head James Carville he was giving an interview while reclining on a pillow

in his bed well he managed to get up today and spoke with Brianna Keeler at CNN where he continued to have purple polka-dotted blue-screaming hisses and kittens with crocheted tails about them socialists. It just, well, here we go. Check it out. And we're joined now by Democratic strategist James Carville.

He served as the lead strategist for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. James, thanks for being with us. No secret that you are critical of the DSA leaning wing of the party. But that is the candidate here. How can he win the general and appeal broadly to all of the voters that he needs? Quite simply point out Mike Rogers for what he is. A lackey to big farmer. A complete lackey to big former.

A person who is so in bed with big farmer, he doesn't even want to negotiate drug prices. We may have some disagreement in a Democratic Party about some cultural things that have to be reconciled in the year 2028. But right now, every Democrat, every Michigan Democrat, every Democrat in the country can say, there's too cozy with big pharma and they don't need another Senate in there. And that's exactly what Mike Rogers was, is, and whatever shall be. So you, of course, famously coined, it's the economy stupid. And progressives have made so much of their argument for their campaigns about the economy. Medicare for all, affordability for working families.

They have obviously a populist economic message. How are you seeing that different from it's the economy stupid? Well, I'm not sure that it's all that much different. I would say I think corruption is actually a more important issue right now in American politics and even the economy is. But I'd also say if you don't think that big form and high drug prescription drug prices are a part of the economy, you're living in another world. And if we allow him to just rip and run and just price everything they want at their will

and offer no supervision, and we have people in the Congress that are totally beholden to them, not just Democrats, but independents and Republicans are not going to be able to get ahead in Michigan. And, you know, you've spoken out against left-wing streamer, Hassan Piker,

who, of course, campaigned with Abdul El-Said. You said on Fox that the two of you are not going to be in the same political party, one of you will leave, and it might be you, you said. I want you to listen, and so I want us to listen to what Senator Bernie Sanders said on CNN earlier this week. So when someone like James Carville says he doesn't want to be in the same political party as Hassan Piker, which one are you going to take?

Well, that's not much of the choice. Mr. Carville doesn't want to be in my party, the party that I belong to, that PICA, that Alasayevil. long so he can start his own party. I think we need a big tent, and I think people like PICA should be welcome into that, certainly. What do you think about what he said, and what do you think about? How do you think?

I think that he ran as a socialist and not a Democrat. I think he said he wasn't one. Maybe he's one now. We're welcome. Glad to have anybody that wants to be for it. And whether or not I certainly can't be in a party that has the same ideas. and to me says things that

Hassan Pikes says about if you believe in pluralism, which I fundamentally end, his basic philosophy is at odds with pluralism. And if I thought that his philosophy was the dominant philosophy in a Democratic Party, I would leave yesterday. But I don't

think that's going to be the case. I think Mr. Piker and his prejudice is going to find out that's not who Democrats are. We are a party that embraces pluralism and all of his manifestations. And he's just not a pluralist a guy. He's a guy that is driven by identity, and I'm not.

I'm driven by humanity. There is a significant portion of the Democratic Party that does identify as DSA or DSA leaning. You see in Michigan there were so many people supporting a DSA-aligned candidate. How do you find common ground between those kinds of vote? Well, let me finish, James. So let me finish. How do you find common ground and create a big tent between folks like you and folks like them? Well, first of all, they got 48% of Democrats in a state that had a pretty favorable demographic.

So you haven't reinvented the wheel. And the way that you get people is you talk about your outreach and talk about how we are a big tent party and talk about how you want to be part of a big tent party. And Democrats noted Mike Rogers is totally in a tank for the pharmaceutical interest. We know that he's an election denier. It's not a very high bar to get us to vote for you. And I think we'd... Isn't it interesting how James Carville can't also mention that Mike Rogers is so far up apex ass

that every time BV Net and Yahoo yawns, you can see Mike Rogers's face? He's running away from that for all he's worth. But, you know, that's Steve, right, you know, when she said, you know, he ran Clinton's 92 campaign. I started doing, you know, that was 34 years ago. And Steve just asked, why do we listen to Carville anymore? And it's a fair question. But this bruga, bruga, bruga, bruga, dSA bullshit has got to stop. Because, frankly, and I go back to my ongoing thesis, if we were calling,

calling this FDR New Deal Democrats, this problem would not exist. Plain and simple. And just for the record, and just for the record, I wouldn't pee on Hassan Piker if his goddamn guts were on fire. And I will put my progressive bona fides up against his any day of the goddamn week. You know, this is not a guy who worked his way to the top. This is a born on third thinking he hit a triple situation. He's Chink Yugar's nephew. Okay, young Turks, not so young anymore.

Chank and his transphobic pal Anna Kasparian. Yeah, no, no. Pass, hard pass. And, you know, Chink's creepy in his own ring. Where was all this hand ringing? back when the John Birch Society was taking over the Republican Party. Where was all this hand ring when the Tea Party was taking over the Republican Party?

Where was all this hand ringing when the MAGAs took over the Republican Party? Did not exist. Yeah, right. Yeah. So now we have FDR Democrats attempting to reclaim Republican Party as opposed to the KKK taking over the Republican Party, but having progressive Democrats, FDR Democrats, attempting to retake the Democratic Party from what it was, why it stayed in power for damn near 40 years,

and gave us the biggest middle class ever here in the United States and the biggest middle class at any country in the world in 1940 to 1980. and we're being crucified because that's what we want to go back to well it's it's fucking break yeah I know but Roger it's the bruga brouga bruga

bruga word it's the S word it's socialist that's that was a that was a gift that they handed to the Republican Party on a silver fucking platter it's any word they attach

ism to they attack any fucking word that says is them after even if it doesn't make sense they said you've got big as some disease, they come out to you for being too fucking big. They're that single-minded. Yeah, but it's beyond that, Jeremy, because the socialism argument goes back to before I was born, okay? I remember Scott Marinoff and I talking about it years ago, and I actually looked it up and ran some of the audio from it.

back in his Death Valley Days actor career, Ronald Wilson Reagan, old 666 himself, was paid handsomely to make propaganda recordings in which he decried health care as socialism. Okay? Had Harry Truman chosen to run for another term and won, we might have had universal health care, or as they call it, and again, it comes with scary music and dum-dum-dum, socialized medicine. We might have had that. I mean, everybody talks about, well, you know, Eisenhower was the last good Republican president. Eisenhower openly opposed health care reform in the United States at the same time that Europe that was rebuilding after the Second World War was instituting it. And the same thing in Japan. And now, for however many years, the American people have subsidized universal health care for Israel while we sit here.

sick and dying at home and can't go to the doctor. The reality is that the Affordable Care Act was attempting to socialize the payment portion of medical care. It was to remove the insurance companies from denying care to people and run it through the government, not have shareholders sucking out anywhere from 20 to 30. 35% of your health insurance premiums. Nowhere in the Affordable Care Act, nowhere in Medicare, nowhere in the Medicare, the Medicare, Medicaid, is it socialized medicine. The only, absolutely only socialized medicine we have in this country is the VA health care

system and they're trying to kill it i mean right yeah and even what used to be semi-socialized medicine within the active duty ranks uh that's been replaced by what tricare and that used to be champis yeah yeah no no argument there the fact is when i was a kid i realized some of you think it was back when the dinosaurs were in the world, but they really weren't around when I was a kid. Virtually every hospital was run as a non-profit or as a charity. Some of the hospitals were run by the county. Some of the hospitals were run by the labor unions. But the majority of hospitals were run by Catholic nuns.

And the only profit they were making was for retirement homes for the nuns, that worked in the hospitals. Sisters of St. Joseph from Orange was a big one. And they ran the little hospital in Arcata, California. And the union ran the hospital in Eureka, which is the next biggest town. And the county ran that one. And then all of a sudden,

the Catholic Church couldn't get enough little girls in to swear to be virgins for the rest of their life and take care of sick people. So doctors created hospitals, and then the Hospital Corporation of America took it over, and it's all for profit. And I'm sorry, I do not believe that people's health care should be a for-profit company. Now, that doesn't say that the doctors have to work for minimum wage. Don't get me wrong with their. Doctors should be well paid.

but what I object to is the fact that you put up $100,000 to help buy a hospital, and over time, all of a sudden that's your retirement income because you're sucking out tremendous amounts of money out of the health care system so you can sit by the swimming pool and drink your pina colatas. That's not helping the health care any. we could have better health care at a cheaper price with simply taking over the insurance companies but the next thing we have to do is take over the hospitals

and get the profit motive out I couldn't agree more I absolutely could not I guess that makes me a socialist communist or whatever see that's the thing you can be how to put this we suffer from an ignorance gap because if you study socialism, if you know anything about the world,

you know that somewhat socialist countries are doing just fine, but people are so poorly educated in this country that a maggot can say, oh, socialism, yeah, you'll be shitting in a bucket in the dark. Socialism, pole pot. Socialism, Adolf Hitler. And people are too poorly educated to be able to be able to push back on it.

I'm not talking about us. I'm talking about Mr. and Mrs. Joe and Jane Sixpack out there. But look at the, right now they're saying, oh my God, look at Cuba. They're failing in Cuba because of socialism.

No, they're not failing in Cuba because of socialism. They're failing in Cuba because of an embargo against any kind of trade coming from the United States. and the United States blockading and preventing people from getting, from the Cuban government being able to import enough gasoline to keep their buses running.

Right. You know, Cuba has a lower infant and maternal mortality rate to the United States and a higher literacy rate than the United States. That doesn't mean everything. is perfect. But, you know, Jesus. Say what you want about Cuba. They've been using the same cars from the 50s and 60s

since the 50s and 60s and before, and they can't buy the pirates because I don't make them. And when they made them, we wouldn't sell them to them. They make their own for them, God damn it. They're doing just fine. It's our embargoes of what we've done to hurt their country. Well, yeah, they're far from doing just fine, though, Jeremy. And it's entirely our doing.

No, I don't mean just fine, but I mean, they've survived. Because Nitwit Niro wants a new golden age of the Batista regime so that his slimy-ass sons can build hotels in Havana and all around the island. And that brings me to, well, a couple of different things. First of all, I want to point this out, and it probably need not be said, and I'm not hammering on DSA, okay? I am not.

but there are realities out there there are assholes everywhere and so this story comes from your neighboring state to the east Jeremy New Hampshire where there's a member of the New Hampshire House named Alice Wade I don't know if she's listening

but I know Micah already knows this story and it's fucking nauseating Alice Wade has been doing just fine in the New Hampshire legislature and she gave thought to running for Congress. And when she did, well, this is what she wrote in a public Facebook post. Last year, a fellow state representative and someone I considered a close friend called me repeatedly telling me not to run for Congress. He told me our friendship would be over if I stayed in the race.

He questioned my integrity. He tried persuading me with promises of future politics. support if I stepped aside. And most painfully, he told me that because I am an openly transgender woman, I stood no chance of winning higher office in New Hampshire. That person was New Hampshire State Representative Heath Howard Democrat. Heath Howard is now running for the House of Representatives from New Hampshire as a Democratic socialist. Okay, so let's stop pretending that there's some sort of inherent.

purity to being a democratic socialist, whatever that means. That guy is an asshole, and I hope his career goes down in goddamn flames. So there's that. Now, she announced her candidacy for Congress, and from June to September 2025, Heath Howard hammered at her to drop out of the race, including offering support for other elected positions and telling me people were talking bad about me behind my back. Coming from anyone, those comments would be painful.

Coming from someone who publicly stood beside me opposing anti-trans legislation, they felt like a profound betrayal. Eventually it worked. I'd been exhausted by the hostility that comes with being an openly trans woman in public life, and by the private pressure convincing me, my identity would only be a burden on the ticket. For nearly a year, I hope this was some misunderstanding. But recently, when I confronted Heath about everything,

he acknowledged that the pressure, including what he said about my identity, had been deliberate. He said I was the bigger person for not doing the same to him. That conversation confirmed what I'd spent months trying not to believe. And now Heath Howard is running away from it for all he's worth telling New Hampshire Journal. I did not say that. But progressive activist Nellity Knapp this past Tuesday revoked her endorsement of Heath Howard and said, In my interactions with Heath, I was directly lied to multiple times.

I also experienced what I viewed as manipulative behavior, including repeated efforts to pressure people behind the scenes. I've also heard accounts from people I know and trust that Heath made comments suggesting another candidate couldn't win because they're trans. If those accounts are accurate, I find those remarks completely unacceptable and incompatible with the kind of movement I want to be part of. So, you know, just for what it's worth. Oh, and by the way, since we were talking about the diarrhea lettuce, I know I'm just all over the place. But at least 345 people in 27 states have now been made sick by... Salmonella that's recently been linked to halapenos, according to the Centers for Disease Control. I'm surprised they still even monitored that thing.

There are no deaths, but 36 people have been hospitalized with salmonella. And the thing is you can't feel great about this because the jalapenos were primarily distributed to restaurants and wholesalers. The company is Coast citrus distributors. And Chipotle has pulled all the haloponnese. from its stores, but again, pursuant to your, to your theory, which I deem to be, which I say is correct, Roger, it ain't like they're going to take the price of the halapenos out of the goddamn $20 burritos. So there's that. I just wanted to mention it.

But the one thing I mentioned earlier, the scuminess a few minutes ago, the scuminess, of course, of the Trump spawn. and I woke this morning to a note from Felicia, hi Felicia, based on what I've been saying about January 21st, 2027. And the revelation that Old Serpenthead came to, that we came to a year or more ago, that Nitwit Niro may just bow out a little after the halfway mark

of his second term. and what Felicia wrote to me, I sent chills down my spine. She said, good morning. I want to add a thought to your prediction that 45-47 steps down in January. He only does it if Jerk Deluxe names Trader Tot as vice president. Remember, he just got married to an Epstein adjacent woman who at one point stated she wants to be First Lady of the United States.

just a thought and she said one more layer Trader Tot reminds J.D. He's the only reason J.D. is VP and insists they flip spaces, places. In fact, that's what 4547 insists. It was never between J.D. and

L. Marco, 47 can only hand it over to his namesake and J.D. will 100% go along with this. I'd be interested in what the front porch thinks. So we'll open that up for discussion. We did disagree just a little bit because instead of them swapping places, which would be constitutionally confusing, I told her my scenario sees J.D. having a tragic accident that makes traitor-taught POTUS,

much less complicated that way. And Felicia responded either way to quote Scott, we're all screwed, Robin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, well, what I I find interesting with that scenario is it would give us our second non-elected president. Jerry Ford being the first. Yes. Right. And, of course, that was what Carville was talking about last night that we've talked about for a year and a half. And what I find interesting is that when that non-elected president ran to become president,

it was an abject failure. True. But he got the nomination, but he did not get elected. No, and Bob, and what, Ronald Reagan made him fight for that nomination, if I recall correctly. Because Reagan ran in the 76 Republican primary. So, any other thoughts? That's the only one I had. and I'm watching the race for governor over in Ohio

and this is not inspiring coming from a publication called Signal Ohio headline Amy Actonbacks issue 3 the voter ID amendment breaking with Ohio Democrats so she and We Wake Ramalama Ding Dong actually there's no space between them on that issue she said this amendment has the overwhelming support from Ohioans across the state,

as this doesn't change what is already law as Governor I will support it. At the same time as both a candidate and governor, I will fight to ensure that all eligible Ohio voters, regardless of party, can access the required identification easily and at no cost so they can exercise their fundamental right and have their voices heard. Well, good luck doing that with a blood-red maggot legislature, Amy.

And every Democrat in the Ohio House and Senate has opposed the issue, you know, she's going to go off, I guess. Frustrating. And by the way, we're well into the third hour of the program, just to mention it because I was hoping we might actually finish last Friday's fundraising, which means finish the month of July this evening, and that is $195 away from happening.

So fingers big time crossed So that we won't be over a week behind when we come back on Monday So thanks in advance for anybody who does And Rouse, thanks for the challenge earlier this evening And thank you, Kevin, for meeting it. Thank you so much. Maybe, you know, well, maybe we can.

$195 bucks finishes July and that would be a big deal and a great weight off a certain humble ostasis's shoulders and would get us closer to paying our ginormous coal-fried power bill. Jesus, I... Yeah, never a dull moment. I noticed Chris came into the room. Oh, is Christopher here?

Yeah, and so I'll change subjects here and talk a little bit about forest. fires in the Pacific Northwest. Yeah, yeah, okay. Hi, everybody. Hi, Christopher. Spokane is in an absolute disaster with tens of thousands of people losing their homes. It's sort of like what the Pacific Palisades fire was, although nobody's complaining

about not having enough water. The forests are so tender dry here in the Pacific Northwest. that anything, anything that starts a fire in some grassland blows up within 10 minutes to a 50-acre fire. That's absolute disaster. And every goddamn MAGA wants to preach about how we should have done more logging. We should have taken better care of our forests. Come on, folks. Come on, folks.

Come on, folks. break the forest. Hang on here. For thousands of years, there was no logging at any of these forests and they didn't all burn up. For thousands

of years, the only grazing in those forests was done by wild animals. What has changed, old growth forests didn't have a lot of brush in the undergrowth. I mean, you

you went into an old growth dug fir forest or redwood forest or anything like that, there's hardly anything that grows in the shade. And anytime there was any moisture, it shielded the ground, the shade shielded the ground from evaporating. So things were a lot moisture. So in the last 200 years, we've had incredible amounts of logging. we've had incredible amounts of clear cuts. And in a clear cut, you get a lot of brush that comes in first before the trees can come back in.

So they solved that by planting trees. Then they started spraying the underbrush with herbicides. And it really didn't work, but it kind of worked. But anyhow, now we have single-age forests that because of tax structure, they stop charging, they give the timber companies a period of time. In California, it was 40 years, of reduced property taxes because you paid some tax on the timber

when you hauled it off. So you couldn't get anything off the land so you didn't have to pay property taxes on it. So they developed trees that are now ready to cut in 40 years. So they're on a 40-year cut plan. And they get all this brush growing up and the sun comes down, beats it dry,

and turns it into 10 years. maybe we should stop and give a little bit of thought to why the average temperature started going up in the 1900s and has continued to go up and up and up and up. No, this miraculous, mega no at all assholes are doing everything they can to suppress green energy. infuriates me. Anyhow, how's the smoke in Portland today? It's not bad. It's gotten a lot better. It's, what was it? Tuesday was really, really bad. Me and my nephew were watching the air quality jump up 40 points every hour. We go to like 120, then 160, then up to 200. I don't know if that was the final number, but it was bad. Wednesday was,

It decreased, but it was still pretty bad. It was hazy yesterday, but today it looks pretty clear. I haven't really gone outside much today. I've been working all day. Yesterday was pretty bad here in Eugene with the gray sky. Today we have blue sky and the sun is not an orange disc. So it's cleaned up here a whole lot. I think it has.

I think the wind shifted. So you remember my friend Sammy, right, from the party? His dad lives and spoke. He texted his dad. Is it Monday? Tuesday. It was either Monday or Tuesday. His dad didn't get back to him. He's like, oh, crap, I might have to drive out there to see what's going on.

He also texted a friend who lived very close to his dad. And the same thing, no response. Finally, his dad gets back to him on Thursday. And he's like, oh, yeah, everything's fine. Why? What's the problem? And he's like, you're in the middle of an inferno, dad. What is wrong with you?

I'm worried about you. So he was like, clueless about the fire situation, I guess. Yeah, it's very bad. And I heard a statistic. I don't know how true it is. It's hearsay. And I don't know if it's particular to the Northwest

or if it's all around the country. But 80% of forest fires are caused by humans. 20% of that 80% is arson. It's on purpose. That's a startling number. Would you believe that number? I can agree that some of these are caused by arson. I think that number might be a little bit high,

but I think the vast majority of what they're considering arson is abject stupidity. Like the firecracker boys for a few years ago. Well, it's like the fire down in Calaveras County right now. The guy, unfortunately, his story doesn't hold up. But the original story was he was just a guy trying to make some money to take his wife out for her birthday dinner. And he was cutting up some scrap metal with a cutting torch. And the sparks flew down onto the ground, and they tried to put the fire out, but they didn't call 911 right away.

And it got out of hand, and then they finally called 911. And by that time, it was too late. Up to the races. For the races. But then it turns out that the Sacramento TV station has done some research, and he pleaded no contest to starting a fire a few years ago. so he may have started it on purpose and used cutting metal as an excuse to try and get out of it I'm sorry I did see an article

or a social media post recently where some maggot chud said Washington Gunner J. Inslee or Hacks go is Jay Inslee still going I don't know. Oh, I don't think so. Just blame the forest fires on climate change.

An arsonist has been taken into custody. Herder, herder, hurter, stupid liberals, herder. They're clueless. They're absolutely, utterly completely and totally clueless. Okay, it's an arsonist. Guess what? Arson works a lot better when climate change has rendered the forewerex. tinder fucking dry.

And just as an addendum to what Roger just said, from sea to shining sea and through various tribal peoples before the white invaders arrived

and this is knowledge that's only been gained in the last few decades. We learned, we have learned that those vast and limitless forests that the white invaders found, well, they were actually carefully managed forests. For instance, east of the Mississippi, I don't know how, I'm not so, I don't know so much about west of it, but east of the Mississippi, they were carefully managed by indigenous

people for hardwoods that were nutbearing. uh, droops in the form of, uh, walnut, pecan, hickory, um, and that's the R U PES, by the way. Uh, and there was not a lot of underbrush because the animals, deer, bison, elk, uh, that the, uh, that the, uh, that the indigenous people ate, wandered freely through the forests and kept everything browsed back it was brilliant management we discovered

we you know me because I was up in the plane scientists discovered for instance in the Amazon that there are actually roads and causeways that crisscrossed the entire Amazon basin where people thought oh Well, nobody really left there. It was just a great big jungle.

No, it was managed. It was carefully managed. And what we once thought about slash and burn agriculture turned out not to be true. But this is, you know, this is white people in this hemisphere were an invasive species. Let's put it that way. Yeah. And trashed everything they came across because, as it was to say, as we said of the Spanish and Mexico,

they had a disease of the heart. They could only be cured by gold. You know, the English were pissed when they got here because, you know, Spain had gotten to Mexico, Peru. They were awash in silver and gold. And the English got here and was like, where's the fucking, I say, am I, where's the fucking gold? And there wasn't any in that.

I think my English one was just Australian for a minute. But it's true. and they were rapacious. And, of course, they brought lots and lots and lots of diseases. You know, Jared Diamonds, guns, germs, and steel. I remember reading that and going, yeah, that makes sense. But that's why we have these fires, climate change, and complete mismanagement of the forests, as Roger alluded to.

Well, these chuds are trying to say, we need to manage the forest better. The managing that's been done by the white man has set up the conditions for forest fires. Yes. And when a maggot says manage, what they mean is clear cut, Roger. We agree on that, right?

Oh, yes, 100%. Steal as much of it as you can. Hire the people in the neighborhood. I am a what is considered a decent wage. And then when the timber runs out, lay them off, put them on unemployment, and complain that the state won't let them cut timber anymore. And that's why they're out of the job. It's not that the timber isn't there anymore.

It isn't. But I, it's it, the, I came across a post the other day on Facebook that was looking at, lumber used in construction. And it was somebody who worked on deconstruction, not just tearing down, but actual deconstruction for salvaging the timber. And they had pictures of the grain pattern and tested the strength of the wood from about 1850 up to, you know, 2000. And the tightness of the grain, the structural strength of the wood. The wood, the whole nine yards is the wood that's being harvested today is garbage, absolute garbage, compared to what was harvested from the old growth trees.

And today there is no old growth left except in parks and, you know, things like that. Right. But I've got some picture frames I made in my niece's wedding and hell her oldest boy is 18 now. It was 20 odd years ago. I got my hands on some two by tens that were used as underpinnings for some portable classrooms at Eureka High School when they removed them. And I asked the construction people what was going to happen to the timbers. And I said, we're going to haul them to the dump. And I said, you mean if they disappeared overnight, you wouldn't be upset?

I said, no, just save us some money. I went home, got my trailer, and took them home. And I made a bunch of picture frames for my son. niece's wedding pictures. So then she gave them to me and my sister and my mother and da-da-da-da-da. And it's a beautiful, tight grain redwood. You go by redwood decking today, and the spaces between the rings could be as much as a quarter inch.

The old growth redwood in a quarter inch, you can count 10 or 15 years of growth. Much different wood. At the Doug Fur, I go to Home Depot or something, when I look at the Doug Fur. and it's an abomination. And I see trees going down the highway, and I look at them,

and you're going to be lucky to get one four-by-four out of the trees they're cutting down today. And the Doug Furs, I remember, was one and three log loads coming out of the woods. Anyhow, I think I ran everybody off tonight, because... No, no, no, no, yeah, in fact, I had a note from Steve in New York earlier. who said Friday on the front porch.

I'm out at dinner alone tonight. In Rochester, New York, can't get on the porch because of that. Great program so far, though. Bon Appetit. Good. Steve. He's having a good time. In wood, I hope he made a chance to go to that.

A good time? Well, you know, hey, we were looking out of places for him to visit on his trip, and one was a baseball bat. factory tour. Oh, cool. Are you telling me the Louisville Slugger's not made in Louisville anymore? I think it's got to be, but maybe there's other bats. Chester Bat. I don't know.

Mizuno. They have a farm team. Yeah. Oh, by the way, the $20 burrito, we were talking about a little bit ago. I love going to the ballpark, and I know you do too, Christopher. Even when your beloved cubbies take it on the chin. What was it, 18, 19 or 3? Well, they beat the shit out of the Dodgers, so.

Oh, yeah. Well, we've got a farm team in Charleston. Let's see, they've been many things. They were the Charleston Charlie's when I was a kid. They were the Charleston Alley Cats, the Charleston Wheelers, the West Virginia Power. Now they're the Charleston Dirty Birds. Go figure. But I've been, well, I've been talking to Victoria for the two years we've been together saying, you know, there's nothing better.

And night baseball, okay, but, you know, she's in Parker'sburg. Charleston's 80 miles away. And I don't want to drive, you know, driving home from Charleston to Parkersburg at midnight is not my idea of a good time. And day baseball is just, it's baseball to me. And so. Oh, so true. You know, beer, no beer, I'll be driving. don't really drink that much anymore anyway.

But, you know, a hot dog, especially, well, a hot dog, probably be a $15 hot dog. But the ticket prices, it used to be, and, you know, I used to take the kids to the ballpark, and it was minor league ball. And it was a good time for not that much money. And the baseball played was really high-quality ball. But, you know, it'd be like, what, six, seven, eight bucks for general admission, maybe 15 for better seats. When the kids were little, we were able to go and sit behind home plate,

and it didn't break the bank. Well, I looked at ticket prices, and, well, about fainted, Christopher. Yeah $40 a ticket for single A baseball general admission Not even good seats Just GA

And it's like I'm sold Yeah Who could afford that? No No We used to play hookie My senior year

Oh Excuse me I got a cough. And you play hokey and sneak off to the old ball orchard? Well, we would hop on the train, so we'd go to school, and then we'd at lunchtime, we'd rush to the train, get on the metro, go downtown, run to the red line, hop on, get up to Wrigley, and bleach your seats were $7, I think. 1980. This would be like 89. They put, they did put lights in, 87. We would go obviously day games. And, um, we weren't drinking beer, but beer was cheap then. And a dog was two bucks,

if I remember right, two, maybe three. Maybe. And I mean, 10 bucks. 10 bucks in our pocket. We went to the game and got a hot dog. and then ran home at home oh god i'm seeing this all in my mind's eye christopher i'm seeing this all in that sort of sepia-toned light that that memory basks in that must have been awesome

do do do do do do do do do do yeah like that yes and here's the other thing you would watch the you'd watch harry on the tv right and on the rooftops there would be just it would be one guy with a little barbecue

like a teeny cooking up dogs on his barbecue watching the game now look at the rooftops it's a zillion dollar business now yeah it's right yeah it's a commercial enterprise

yes and what do you pay for one of those apartments oh yeah and does it come with guaranteed rooftop access. I went to one rooftop game. My cousin took me and he got it through work. So we didn't pay a dime.

And it's all inclusive. So all you can eat, all you can drink. And the view of the field is phenomenal. Actually, the day we were there, here's another interesting story, was the day after one of the hawks when they win the cup. okay so we're there and we get to our seats we're eating drinking blah blah blah and all of a sudden there's this huge roar out of nowhere and we stand up we're looking around what the hell's going on and and there's aner ainer stands up and he's waving his uh

hat his championship cox hat and the whole everybody in the rooftops was just going crazy And then the stands got wind to what was going on. They were going crazy, too. It was fun. That was quite the experience. Oh, that's awesome. Way back when I was little, my dad would schedule his vacations from the furnace to come up here to visit family. And August, this was typically the miners' vacation, so he'd come up here so he could see his old buddies and everything.

and he and my uncle would coordinate and my uncle's two younger sons and my dad and I would all pile into the great big 1974 Dodge Monaco Brome station wagon with the 400 cubic inch engine and the four barrel carb and go down the mountain to Watpal Park to watch the Charlie's where then it's just one of those warm, warm, wonderful memories. The owner of the Charlie's, his nickname was Poor Charlie, and he was actually the logo of the team, a baseball with a derby hat on, and chomping a big black stogie. And we were in the stands, I think, for a game against the Pawtucket Red Sox. And the Charlies were a Pittsburgh friend. at the time. And my dad pointed over and lo and behold, there was this old man in a wheelchair with a blanket over his lap in Pirates black and gold with a black bowler derby hat on his face and chomping away at a cigar.

And I got to go down and meet poor Charlie. And I think another game, Dad pointed another time and he pointed out a man with a whopping a humongous chaw of tobacco in his cheek and Dad leaned over to me and said watch he'll never spit

and it was Danny Murta the manager of the world champion Pittsburgh Pirates coming to see coming to see

the prospects because it was AAA ball and that was the night yeah it was the it was the Pawtucket

It was the Pawtuck at Red Sox. And that night I saw in AAA Ball, Dave Parker and Fred Lynn as youngsters. Oh, my God. Wow. Yeah. That's cool. I mean. Is that before 79 then?

Because Parker, was he on that team? Yeah. The 79 team that won? Yeah. So what year were talking? So what year are we talking then? Ah, 76, 77, maybe? All right, okay.

That makes sense. And Fred Lynn, was he on the, wait, Fred Lynn, was he on the 75 team? The Red Sox? Maybe, so that might even put it, I mean, because I remember the station wagon, and that was a 74, which means dad would have bought it in 73. Yeah, so, yeah. And John, oh. I saw John Candelaria pitch. Remember John Candelaria?

Yeah. Night armor, right? No, that was Kent Ticolby, and I saw him, too. Oh, yes, okay. That buggy whip motion? Oh, my God, yes. But, you know, and the hot dogs, they were good quality hot dogs, and I loved it. The onions were just, you know, nobody was back there.

It's minor league ball. Somebody's back there chopping onions. The onions were the dried, chopped onions that were rehydrated. And if you've never had dried chopped onions rehydrated on your hot dog, you have not freaking lived, Christopher. Try it sometime. Well, I haven't done that. Okay.

So those Frenches, get some Frenches, onions? No, this is like, like, in the spice aisle. This is dried, chopped onion. And they're really, they're like really sweet Spanish onions. and you just rehydrate them with a little bit of warm water and they'll plump up and to put them on a hot dog with some really good mustard. And there's another. I had a really good hot dog last night at the fire game.

Oh. Portland has a WNVA franchise. We went to the fire. Who did they play? They won. They played Toronto. They were kicking their ass by a thirby. At this point in time, that is a very unfortunately named WNBA team for Portland.

The fire. Yeah, I know. Well, I don't understand. But, yeah. But yeah, we kicked their ass. We're up by 30. And they came, whittled away, whittled away. And then the fourth quarter just the fire imploded.

They were turned the ball over, not making shots. and Prano made it kind of interesting. They cut it to 10. WNBA is fun ball to watch. I've got it on right now. Washington and Atlanta are playing. Yeah, I'm enjoying it. And the irony of it is all of these chuds who are out there going,

they're trans people in sports, and that idiot for Indianapolis who ran her mouth. You know, protect girls in sports, you know, shut up. Um, no. But, uh, it is, it's, it's really good ball and the maggots are protect women's sports. And they don't give a shit about women's sports. No, they don't. Not watching it.

Oh, and by the way, Steve in New York said, I had a job interview here. Okay, I understand. Ah, but Rochester. Oh, my God, the winters, Steve, the winters. Just not saying. just saying. And I have huge thanks to send out to Jennifer. Thank you, Jennifer.

Jennifer just wiped out. Y'all, we're done. Thank you, Jennifer. We are done with July. Ah, good job. And we are down to, let's see, what's the number here? We're down to 1195 for the deficit. Jennifer, thank you so, so much.

And message, love you, sis. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. Love you back. Ah, that's a great relief because that's another bill that gets paid. One more and we start working on the power bill. Jesus. Never a dull moment. And that's why a $40 ticket for general admission to a single A minor league ball game is just not a great idea. you know because you know the beer what what's a what's a 16 ounce glass of draft beer going to cost do you imagine oh i was we were at the hops um last month me and shell and coline and david all went we went to

the hops game and the tickets were not bad we had very good seats uh the tickets were maybe 45 with the fees um but the beer was expensive eight maybe yeah I was going to say I wouldn't expect anything less than 10 and the hot dog would have to be at least six I got a dog and I got something else to eat too

both were pretty pricey but at least now you can try the rehydrated onions they're really good yeah yeah and that's another thing I keep around with me that's another thing I keep an eye out four years ago over at Big Lots

you know when stuff when stuff gets discontinued it winds up at big lots and uh god i must have bought a case of it all around yeah they went out of business but then they came back in some places and one of the places they came back was you know across the river in the settlements oh okay which is nice because there's you can find some fun stuff in there that's like there's another uh chain discount store that i've fallen in love with in Parkersburg called Home Goods. I'd never been in one, and I walked in there, and their little food section is delightful.

And all kinds of fun kitchen stuff and interesting little knickknacks and snacks. I bought some honey spoons for your tea. Oh, nice. It's literally hardened honey in a spoon shape, and you put it in your tea and just stir it, wonderful. delicious but yeah wait

home goods and before that oh oh yeah I want those I bought years ago now but I bought I guess it had been discontinued

but I bought an entire case I got a mustard problem and my life has become unmanageable okay I made a mustard mess last night on my hot dog but go ahead

yeah me too this was from Cleveland and it was It was called the original stadium mustard. And it's what they used to sell or what they used to provide for the hot dogs at the old memorial stadium, you know, the mistake on the lake. And it's one of the best mustards I've ever had.

And I haven't seen it in years, but if it still exists and you find it by a jar, Christopher. Okay, I love hello mustard. It's like, well, why don't you get the stone grain stuff? And I do like that, too. Don't get me wrong. One of my favorite things to get at a German restaurant is a chartruery type thing with all the different kind of mustard. Oh, God, yes. And, you know, for me, like the Christmas season, when the pop-up Hickory Farms happens at the Mall in Parkersburg, I did it last Christmas, too.

I'll go and buy, like, six bottles of their Hickory Farm's sweet, hot German mustard. and it goes great on like their beef stick summer sausage, but it's wonderful just as an all-purpose. Damn, it's good. It's got just a little bit of sweetness, and then it's got the bite of like a Chinese hot mustard. Oh, yeah, wow. Oh, yeah.

And by the way, we had a note, Christopher, since we decided to bore everyone to tears with our baseball talk. Yeah. We had a note from Steve in New York. the top six, you used to be able to get $3 game day tickets at Riverfront in Cincinnati for the top six rows, and then you could sit anywhere you wanted. I know, yeah. And, you know, then there were the days when the brace sucked, and this was in the late 80s.

And told this story before, but it was one of the perks of working for CNN. because Ted Turner owns CNN and Ted Turner owned the Braves. And so every employee at CNN, every season got 20 free tickets. Because Ted just wanted... Dale Murphy, right? Yeah, nobody else. And this was... And the Murphets.

And this was right on the cusp of the Braves really achieving greatness with that... With that unhittable pitching staff. And they stole Maddox from the Cubs and Ms. Smolts and all those guys. Steve Avery. I saw Steve Avery pitch. Very, very young. He's the guy that started with a G. His last name was, not Maddox, not Greg Maddox.

I think his last name started with a G. He was awesome, too. Gene Garber. Not Gene Garber. Gene Garber? Oh. Oh. I'm going to look it up.

Okay. That works for me. And a note coming from Daryl and Houston, baseball talk. Baseball talk is never boring. Greatest game ever invented. Yes. But I got to tell you, they're going to eventually fuck around with the game until it's unbearable. Yeah.

I'm a little Glavin Tom Glavin Yes Yes yes yes How could I not remember? Stanton Yeah

And who was Oh God he was so good And they traded him away And I felt like Lebrant was on that 91 team Remember Charlie Lebrant? Yep Yep

Really good. And who was the second basement? God, I loved him to death. I mean, anything that got near him, he scooped up. Oh. And, yeah, Steve just wrote in, Glavin. But, yeah, I'm not crazy. And I don't follow it like I used to.

When did, is this the first season with the new enhanced extra innings rules? Well, where they put the guy on second base to start. Yeah. I've been doing that for a few years now. Oh, God. I have been out of the loop. Have they augmented more rules? Maybe.

Probably. Well, you've got the pitch computer now. Yeah, you've got the pitch clock. Pitch clock and pitch computer. You know, basically the cyber umpire. Yeah, they're going to get rid of the ump. The home plate ump and some, well, they need them there called, is it the plate? but uh yeah it's gonna be like tennis where it's all laser rated or whatever

oh wow darrell uh i agree i agree with the fuckery going on i batted against gregg swindell in pony or colt league all-star game first at bat budded and they got me by a hair second at that bat off the left field wall at 325 feet ooh oh impressive so Yeah, those are some magic memories. And just because it's not too far from Parkersburg. Then I looked up ultra cheap seats deep in the outfield at PNC Park. You know, the bucks? Yeah, 80 bucks.

Oh, God. You know, not from like... Cheap seeds? Yeah, not from like, you know, not from like, you know, not the cheap seats in, you know, left center where, you know, it's like walled in cheap seats. I'm talking about walled cheap seats, cheapest seats, the cheapest seats at 80 bucks. God, I really want to see that park. I heard it's absolutely.

Oh, it's wonderful. And the parogi races are awfully fun, too. And there's a Primani brothers in the stands. or, you know, on the concourse. And, you know, you can get a Permandi Brothers sandwich. Holy shit. You know, the best for Manny Brothers sandwich is to be had at the original location down in the strip, and you get it with an ice-cold Iron City, or a prayer or an Iron City light.

It's the only place on earth anybody should ever drink that stuff. It's the water. But, oh, that, you know, you. Christopher, you need a Permanati Brothers sandwich. Okay, what's on that? Okay, they use the thick-slice Italian bread, and then whatever meat, corned beef, pastrami, roast beef. They've got a fish sandwich that's a killer, coal cuts.

But the magic is they put, they make this vinaigrette, finely shredded slaw, and they put that on the sandwich, and then they stack on fresh cut, fresh fried French fries, and then whatever you want in a way of a condiment. God damn thing is about six inches thick. What kind of cheese? Is there any cheese on the sandwich? Oh, yeah, anything you want.

Cheddar. Oh, okay. Provolone is the go-to. Okay. Yeah. Well, that sounds really good. And, you know, I guess they sold to a hedge fund or something because they've expanded.

You can, if you look up for Mandy Brothers, P-R-I-M-A-N-T, I, you can see all their locations, but I'm sure they haven't made it out west yet. But if you get back east of the Mississippi, you might be able to find one. Oh, they're so good. Oh, and their Italian sausage one, you know, they split the Italian sausage and then grill it until it's got a nice little crust. And do it up the same way with the fries and the slaw and the cheese. and the bread the bread's nice and thick so it holds up

and even if it's not grilled and you can get it grilled I always did but it doesn't just turn to mush I hate it when the bread turns to mush in a sandwich right oh there's Brian second base for the Braves Glenn Hubbard yeah

oh yeah God he was so good was good it was it was it the 91 series against the twin Yes, they lost in seven. Yeah. I mean, I...

That was an all-timer series, too. That was one of the best series of all-time. Yeah, two of the greatest series I've ever seen were the 75 Reds Red Sox series and that 91 series against the twins. And Herbeck. I remember just... Oh, that guy.

Ken Herbert, Ken Herbock was up on that Twins team and Kirby and broke my heart. He had a pretty good starting staff too. Yeah. It was a tough team. Yeah, and Asa just remind me, you want to tell them who you were named after? Last time you told the story was on the phone with Mr. Stress in the summer of 2015. God, Asa, your memory. My dad was a hardcore baseball fan.

and I always questioned whether he was telling me the truth. I think, and of course this is all pre- ultrasounds and everything. They were expecting a little girl. Surprise! They got a little girl! I just never found out. But my dad would tell me that he'd have. named me after the Phillies Hall of Famer Robin Roberts.

Oh, there you go. And then he would tell me about how Robin Roberts' exquisite control would be his own undoing eventually. Because his control was so perfect that the batter knew that if he threw chin music, he meant to put it exactly where he did. And so they'd just dig in on him. And that's eventually what happened. But yeah, starter for the Phil's. So that's that story.

Remember that name? Well, he was part of the whiz kids. They were called the whiz kids, that era of the Phillies. Hell, I bet Clarence might even remember that. Well, I have been clocked out by the golden one. So I got to get out of here. Oh, very good. Yes.

And how's Arlo, Christopher? He's good. He's laying in his cage. It's been a lazy week because of the smoke. So no hiking. Yeah, he doesn't need to be out on that. No exertion, heavy exertion for me or him, this smoke. So, yeah, and he's got to go to the doggie hotel for the weekend,

which he loves that. He loves playing with everybody else's all his friends. Yeah. Yeah, because we're going to the coast this weekend, so he's got to go to the hotel. Yeah. Well, it's been kind of rough here this week because there's been a lot of boom, boom, boom. me thunder and shadow does not like it at all and so last night I was starving and I took off out of here to run across down to the river to the McDonald's across the river and uh then I and then I

saw the lightning flashing in the distance to the south and I'm like oh shit and I realized that well I got my order and I turned around and high-tailed it back here just as the storm started and the thunder started. And he ran and bounced up onto the bed and got as close to me as he could and tried to turn into a little golden ball of fluff puppy and sit on my lap. So, you know, I protected him.

I protected him from the thunder boom-booms. Because it breaks my heart. When the thunder booms, he whimpers. He's too wonderful to ever have to whimper. Wimpering is bad. That's sad. So that's the program, everybody. Thanks so much for a wonderful week of broadcasting.

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CRMW.net. Over a quarter century at the forefront of the struggle for human rights and environmental justice in Appalachia and a proud union shop. On the way out the door, oh my God, this is so funny. Nitwit Niro got his ass handed to him in regard to the ballroom. And he threw a fucking temper tantrum. More than the usual tantrums. The two judges, one appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, the other by Sleepy Joe Biden,

setting a ruling on the desperately needed secure ballroom military complex, including a major drone port on the roof. This is what pissed him off. Each president is a temporary tenant of the White House. Oh, they called him a tenant. We're not tenants who pay rent and do all the other things at a time. can it must do? We're presidents, elected by the people of the new 90 states of America, the greatest country in the history of the world on earth now today forever in the universe under God.

I added all of that. And have many rights, including the right to fix and renovate and secure, protect, and beautify the White House grounds, which has been built and rebuilt, renovated and renovated, repaired, and simply made better many times since 1792, and never needing the permission of Congress or anyone else to do so. called him a tenant. They should have called him an occupant of public housing. That might have been enough to, if they called him an occupant of public housing,

that might have been, or welfare housing, that might have been sufficient to make the great day arrive. Uh-huh. Yeah. And so, like I said, stay safe. and well if nitwit Niro approaches you saying

I'm not a tenant I don't have to do anything I don't have to no you're a welfare housing recipient Nitwit Niro Well avoid him like the plague

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