Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, 8 May 2026, Friday-On-the-Front-Porch

Episode Date: May 9, 2026

A gentle reminder: this ginormous shitstorm is less than four months old. Hold fast, Horndanistx! We're losing a wat we should never have started and these goons are ignoring a disease that kills 40% of the people who get it. The "Thank god for Ivermectin" posts are already proliferating. The MAGATS are playing Calvin Ball all over the Confederacy, proving that the Union really didn't burn enough sense into 'em. Heads-Up: As I predicted, the y next talking point is "why Dems gerrymander Vermont?" No. Really, They're that damned dumb.

The password is Calvin Ball. Here we go, live from behind the corn phone curtain. It's head-on with Roxanne Kincaid. Three hours of cussing and discussing with America's only liberal transvilly elitists right here, right now, on the head-on radio network. Brought to you in part by Cole River Mountain Watch, who invites you to be part of the uprising against mountaintop removal, CRMW.net.

And now, from high in the hills of West by God, Virginia, here she is. Roxanne Kincaid. Well, howdy. And here we go, often running on this eighth day of May, 2006. This is the horn. Head on dot live is where you'll find us on the interweb tubes. That's where you go. If you'd like to be part of the Merry Wacky Zany, Real-Time Madcap multimedia extravaganza,

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yeah, right, I think I got the black lung pop. Yeah, you, we've seen Zoolander, yeah. Merman,

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if pod bean goes hose up yeah but No, it's Friday on the front porch, so here in about an hour or so, we will go over the river and through the woods to the old holler tree where we keep the extraordinary ordinary roundtable and around which we gather each and every Friday to cuss and discuss the momentous events of the week gone by. Let me start out with an apology for yesterday. This has been a crazy week. I came home on Monday.

Tuesday was the echo cardiogram. Wednesday I had to play amateur Uber driver, and then yesterday I had to play amateur Uber driver. I managed to get on the air for a little bit on Wednesday. Yesterday was just no, impossible. And so here we are at the end of the week, and hopefully next week will be far less madcap and zany. my entire purpose today was just to not have to leave the mansion for a change.

But we'll see. We'll see how it all plays out next week. But nonetheless, every program here at the Horn begins with gratitude, and this program is no different. So thank you very kindly to Marsha. And thanks as well to Ralphs and James. Thank you all for being partial sponsors. of the program and helping to keep this on the air into our 23rd year of broadcasting.

Where are we in terms of the funding deficit? We are eight days into May and we are $3,790 behind. I didn't even count yesterday because, well, I wasn't here. So it wasn't a broadcast day. So with the deficit rolling over from April into May and what we've got going on here we're in a bad hole already usually it takes us up into the middle of the

middle of the month or the two-thirds into the month to get into almost $4,000 hole but I don't know this is worrisome in the extreme and I just hope I can keep everything going and keep it on air and that somehow or another we will

rebound enough to yeah keep it going but no, I'm not kidding. This is frightful. Bad pun coming from Lee in New York. So the horn is swimming against the live stream. And P.S. To all who celebrate, have a happy Mother's Day on Sunday. Yes, indeed.

To all the moms out there and all the people who do the work of moms, happy Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day, indeed. I'll probably make something kind of special. her mother's day. I was thinking maybe some crab cakes, barbecue, and well, sushi.

Because I don't have to go out and buy anything. It's all here. So we'll see. We will see. From Jeremy, tell the universe your plans and listen for it to laugh back at you. Oh, I know. I know. The plans weren't for much.

Well, It's just been a week. And it would be nice if spring would come back. Maybe a little less pollen. There will probably be pregnant pauses for lots of sneezing during the program this evening. Oh, the only program note that I can think of for next week, and let's go ahead and address this. Yeah.

The only thing on the schedule next week is Monday and my stress test, which I feel better about now. I'll hate doing it, but I feel better about it now than I did before I got the clean bill from the echocardiogram. That is scheduled for nine. You know, there's a lot of hooking up of lines and intravenous stuff, and then there's a trip through the CT, and then they put the radioactive isotope in your veins, and then they put you on the treadmill, and they try to get your heart rate up to something like 200 beats for a minute or something. They really work you.

And I'm hoping my sugar doesn't bottom out. But that's why they, I don't even get to take my morning meds. So that's why that is. But that's at 9 o'clock. Should be done by noon. And get back here, maybe one, and should still be on the air. I sure hope so, because I hate missing. Now,

Let's see. About that password. Calvin Ball. How many fans of Calvin and Hobbs by Waterson do we have in the Horn family community congregation? I was a huge fan. I always loved the snowman scenes. They were good.

And Spaceman Spiff was a favorite. But every now and then, Calvin and his friend Hobbs, the tiger, would engage in a game of Calvin Ball. And Calvin Ball is a sport invented by Calvin and Hobbs in which the rules could change at a moment's notice, literally in the middle of the play. And that's kind of what we have here with the maggots, whether it's Virginia, where the Supreme Court said, the Virginia Supreme Court said, oh no, you can't, you can't redistrict. But, and never mind the will of the people. Fuck the people.

Right. In fact, I got a note from Joey and Giraffrey and Joey Jr. And Joey, too, the kangaroo. Thanks, Virginia. This is worse than bull run because this decision by the Virginia Supreme Court is bullshit. This is not civil behavior. This is civil war. This is worse than the Battle of Manassas because

four manasses on the Virginia Supreme Court just overruled the will of the people. Yeah, it's a four to three decision. And it's interesting because you know, Virginia still has a lot of those that old you know, cavalier

white aristocratic horseshit running through its political veins and the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia don't even get to elect their Supreme Court justices. They're appointed by the legislature. And two of the assholes, let's be plain about it, who overruled the will of the people in the oldie dominion, are due to be up for reappointment in 2028 by the legislature.

and well, here's hoping that Virginia's legislature bounces them out and appoints two people who actually give a shit about the will of the people. Nasty business. Okay, very, okay. The llama smirked, Jeremy. Not nice. A trip through CT isn't that bad. It's not like it's NJ or something.

NJ or N. Mm-hmm. Okay, that was well played. Well played indeed. And by the way, there's a challenge remaining on the table from Wednesday. Ralph's challenge, $25. Anybody kicking in with $25 bucks gets it double to 50. And that would get us down to $37.40.

And get us a little closer to paying the power bill for this month, not last. That was paid. So fingers crossed I mean this is If we've ever been in need of a community made miracle This here is it And by the way I think I mentioned I went to the post office box

And Thanks very kindly For the lovely card Tom In sunny San Rafael I just loved that That was really sweet And

And oh, well, thank you, Charlie, at APS Radio News. Ralph's Challenge has met. And so we are down to 3725. Thank you. Thank you so much, Charlie. So maybe that's the front end of a... Front end of a miracle. I hope it is.

And, you know, since we started out with shenanigans in the shenanigans in the oldie dominion. Well, I reckon we can go on down to Dixie, the heart of Dixie. You know, that's what's still on an Alabama license place. The heart of Dixie. Uh-huh.

Where, I mean, they're just, I mean, they're saying, they're saying the quiet part out loud. They're not even trying to hide what their ultimate goals are. let's check in with Alabama

House Speaker Nathaniel Lidd, Bella. He came to the podium and gave a press conference after final passage of SB1 the

Let's disenfranchise every person of color in Alabama act. Why not just put an animatronic George Wallace up there and have him say, segregation then segregation now segregation forever this is disgusting but this is what they want and this is i mean this is just evil okay i know uh friends that you know members of the community like steve in new york say you know i don't like to throw around wicked or evil those just seem

but sometimes they just are so this well certainly gets an opportunity to look at those congressional districts again and gives us a chance at all of them if we give some reprieve from courts and so we'll see how that goes and certainly hope that the supreme court will overturn amendment 14 gives us a shot to revisit those you got that right hope that the supreme court will overturn amendment 14 which you know most of us refer to as the 14th amendment he doesn't want to just overturn birthright citizenship. He wants all of the 14th Amendment

overturned. So that they can, I mean, and hell, start there and go to work on 13 while you're at it, right? Old Mars led better? What would you say from your perspective, I mean, other than Mr. Pro Tem, everyone was relatively silent on the goings-on.

What would you say, from your perspective, is the biggest misconception about what the bills do and a message that you'd like to see out there? Yeah, that's a great question. I think the biggest misconception is the thing about it is people tend to forget what happened when this thing went to court before. We actually, the Republican Party had that seat in, I guess, in Mobile, number two, the congressional seat two, so the district two.

And so that was one of the things, you know, there's been a push through the courts to try to overtake some of these red state seats and that's certainly what happened in that one. And with the ruling that happened in Louisiana, we felt like it gave us a chance to maybe regain that seat, but also opened up. of 7, District 7. I think that's happened. You know, all we need now is the courts to overturn 14, and we can look at the election.

The thing is, if we did nothing, nothing was going to happen. And I applaud the governor for calling us back in and give us a chance to revisit that and look at it. And, you know, what happened here in Montgomery and that Senate C probably should never happen to begin with. And so, of course, I'm at the point that probably none of it should have happened again with. You know, we've got three branches of government. It's our job to legislate to draw those district lines and for the court to interfere with that. And to be honest, I thought it was a slap in our face because we'd spent hundreds of thousand dollars in reapportionment drawing those maps. And they let an 18-year-old kid from the university or not, how it it was, maybe 19, sent the map in and they took it without a consideration for what we had done.

And, you know, the way that the system is set up, that's the job of the legislated body. and I think we've done it in an appropriate way and it's disappointed they didn't follow that rule. Jesus Christ. Meanwhile, members, Democratic representatives from the state government of Alabama had their say. What we witnessed here today was a travesty

to all people, especially minorities, in the state of Alabama. What just happened, that vote that happened signal that black and brown folks in this state don't have a seat at the table. We're going to continue to fight everything that we have ever done in Alabama has been by the courts. And what they did today was a travesty to all of Alabama, especially the generations to come. It's signal that they won't have a seat at the table to choose fair representation. to introduce Representative Bracey.

No, we're going to begin. Well, that's as far as that clip goes. But there was an interesting little tell, a little further down the thread. You may have heard me mention, what was it, maybe Monday, that as I was toddling up the highway to Parkersburg on Saturday, you know, sometimes I just, well, I was actually looking for a Saturday afternoon baseball game. usually on that stretch of road you can either pick up the bucks or the reds both of which teams i love but no i struck out and instead i found some uh right wing screamer from newsmuck i can't remember

his name now but this guy was a real lulu you know it's 2026 and he's blathering on about big mike obama meaning michel and never mind the fact that the Obama daughters look like Michelle. I mean, what-evs. But what he was prattling on about, and I said on Monday, this is apparently the new talking point for justifying wild-eyed racist gerrymandering in the maggot states. Well, and also adding to that, last week we talked about Ashley St. Clair, who has completely disavowed maga, maggots, all the ugly, nasty, filthy, dirty things that she did when she was a MAGA influencer, and who is presently involved in a brutal custody dispute with none other than Leon Scum. for the baby she carried for him.

Yeah, I know. Yeah, there went dinner in the Eastern Daylight Time Zone. That one's on me. But one of the things that Ashley St. Clair has pointed out is that the whole thing, the whole MAGA movement, is a ginormous grift, paid for with dark money, and in which the talking points go out daily to an entire army of right-wing blatherheads and influencers and tickety-talkers and Instagrammers and what have you on the message of the day. And so last Monday I said, you know, I heard this guy blathering about, well, I mean, like, there are no Republicans in New England,

and that's because of gerrymandering, and it's okay if the Democrats do it. And lo and behold, today, in a posting underneath the clip that you just heard, what you won't hear from Terry Sewell or as the representative figures. In New England, 2024, Trump won 45% of votes in Maine, 47% in New Hampshire, 36% in Massachusetts, 41% in Rhode Island, 32% in Vermont and 41% in Connecticut, yet zero GOP members in Congress from those states. Do you see how they're mixing their apples and hand grenades here?

For instance, the graphic I'm looking at says, New Hampshire Harris, 50.6%, Trump, 47.9%. Massachusetts, Harris, 61.2%, Trump, 36%. And then in a great big box over to the west of it all, zero GOP seats in house trying to deconstruct how goddamn stupid this is is it's headache inducing it really

really is one you're complaining there are no GOP seats because of the numbers in a presidential election none of which produced anything even close to a winning result I mean presidential elections are first past the post, period.

And I guess now, according to these maggot goobers, they are what? They're trying to identify maggot as a race, saying that

maggots are racially gerrymandered in New England. I mean, most maggots are white, but no, no, you're not. You're not a suspect class, you fucking idiots. But again, there we are ahead of the curve, way out ahead of the curve. And so the grift goes on. They've received their marching orders, and no matter how stupid they are,

they're going to regurgitate them out into the wider political landscape. Oh, from Gino, nuclear. Yeah, that's a blast from our reign of error passed. Geno says when I had a nuclear stress test, there was no running on a treadmill, no real stress. Instead, I was given an injection of a drug that simulated stress by elevating my heart rate, all just relaxing on the CT bed. Never broke a sweat, but then Utah might be a more advanced culture. than West Virginia. Not much more advanced, but no, that's an option. I think they decide on, I think they decide on whether to put you on the treadmill or do it with chemicals based on what kind of shape your tickers in. That's the best I can guess. I've had two in the past, and on both of them, they put me on the treadmill, and I hated it. I don't like it. I don't like that.

I don't like the treadmill. It's just, ugh. And then deliberately trying to make me miserable. I understand there's a purpose behind it, but, ugh. And so over the weekend, I'm going to find a, I'm going to dig around until I find a nice pair of like Jim shorts and something comfortable to just get me, get me through the process. Thanks, Gina.

And from Cynthia in the Bay Area, I hate these people. I do I hate these people I hate these people I hate these people I hate these people and you know who I mean I do know who you mean

and the whole day is just breathtakingly stupid mean stupid ugly down in Louisiana lawsuit was filed after Louisiana governor

Louisiana governor Jeff Landry, Maggot, halted state elections that were already underway. You know, early voting was already taking place. And Democratic House candidate Lindsay Garcia sued Governor Landry and other maggot goons in state government and claimed that halting the election was contrary to law, given that over a hundred thousand

absentee ballots had already been mailed. And, uh, well, uh, the, uh, council for the plaintiffs said, this is not a close call. You cannot cancel an election after people have already voted.

The constitution does not allow it and federal law does not allow it. But again, the password was Calvin Ball. And so we're playing Calvin Ball in Louisiana too. Earlier today, U.S. District judges Greg Guidry and Shelley D. Dick, no, really, Shelly D. Dick, agreed with Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan and said that, well, they didn't challenge the constitutionality or apportionment of any congressional districts,

and because plaintiffs do not raise a direct challenge to the apportionment of any congressional districts, and do not provide any alternative grounds under Section 2280, their motion to convene a three-dict, three-judge district court 11 is denied for wanted jurisprudiction. In other words, Calvin Ball, we're going to do what we want to do, and what we want to do, is go back to, you know, pre-Civil War voting standards. Mm-hmm. disgusting and this is just breaking out

all over all over all over the south in Tennessee yesterday it got ugly as their legislature voted to eliminate the one majority black district in that entire state

it's just so hard to see so much hard work and it's so heartbreaking to see all the blood sweat and tears of the civil rights movement simply trampled under a white supremacist

boot once again and somewhere along the way it's hard not to look and say listen everybody who ever voted for a goddamn Republican had a hand in this. Plain and simple. From too much hutch, subject line, New Englanders. I just tuned in to hear the stats on New England.

One, fuck the 41% of Connecticut voters who voted for Orange Julius Geezer disgust us. Two, release the damn Epstein files. And three, what's deficit today and can you tell us how to cash app or Venmo you? Dare I mention Apple Cash? I don't even know about Apple Cash. The deficit, once again, is $3,725. And it'll soon be mid-month and bill-pay in time. $3,725. Let's see. Let me check Venmo. Wait a minute. I think Brother Deacon A-Sense isn't all that information under the contribute tab at head-on. Live?

I'm looking now. Let's see. No, there's just PayPal and Patreon. Dog on it. Well, let me look here. On Venmo, parking. On Venmo, I am, unfortunately, there is my dead name. At Bob-Kin-Kade-1.

You'll know it's me by the... the photo of your humble host is there at Bob hyphen Kincaid hyphen 1 okay I probably need to do something about that and then cash app let's look there it's probably something similar that's dollar sign Bob Kincaid B-O-B capital B-O-B capital K-I-N-C-A-I-D and I need to do something about that hmm but again And there's a photo of your humble oasis in both instances, so I don't think you can get it wrong. And thank you, Charlie. That's a big help.

Charlie just got us down to 3675. Thank you so very kindly. Micah with a note earlier on all of this racist gerrymandering. Excuse me, the job of the Supreme Court is to enforce the Constitution. how can they overturn parts of it? That's not their fucking job. It's not that they overturn it, but look what they did in 2024. They literally rewrote a section of the 14th Amendment,

adding in a requirement that the 14th Amendment does not contain. It was just legally wrong, legally stupid, legally dumb, and that's what they're there to do. Yeah, Mike and noting Calvin Ball motherfuckers. I'm done with this, she says. balkanize it I hate these people so much and I hate they've turned me into someone who hates people

and yeah I get it the speaker of the Virginia House a statement yeah of course this court is illegitimate and I don't care

what kind of protestations we get from the old balls and strikes John Roberts crying in his beer from no I'm sorry his crying and his champagne maybe

I don't know is Louis the 14th cognac whatever you know all that undisclosed money that was tucked away by law firms with his wife to influence their position

with the court the speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates is one Don Scott he said in regard to the redistricting decision there. We respect the decision of the Supreme Court of Virginia. I'm proud that Virginians came out in historic numbers,

made their voices heard, and sent a message not just here at home, but across the country to Donald Trump and his administration. Three million people voted in a free and fair election. We gave this decision to the voters exactly where it belongs, and they spoke loud and clear. They voted yes because they wanted to fight back against the Trump power grab. The truth doesn't change because of a court ruling.

This was always about more than one election. It was about whether the voices of the people matter, and no decision can erase what Virginians made clear at the ballot box. We respect the court, but we will keep fighting for a democracy where voters, not politicians, have the final say because in Virginia, power still belongs to the people. Yeah, sure, Jan. Of course, Virginia could do what Ohio did and just say, fuck it, and use their own shitty maps anyway.

It's not like that's a novel position. What sauce for a Buckeye is... Sauce for a Cavalier? I guess. Yeah, and I get it, Micah. I hate that they've turned me into someone who hates people. You can kind of push back against it. But, yeah.

And there's actually, there's literally a bunch of stuff to get into this evening. And hopefully some of this will be good, good content for the front porch. Who wants to talk about hauntavirus? Huh? Yeah. We've got that on the list. I mean, gracious. The health things, the health stories are terrifying these days.

Between honda virus and a new story out that, new parents are literally letting their babies bleed to death because they have you know because you know people like well whalehead dead bear raccoon penis brainworm lamprey have you know they've they've they've just pontificated against any kind of vaccine for children and well guess what's not happening now. Now, I was present for the birth of three children, and they did some very basic things.

They get a little antibiotic ointment in their little newborn eyes, and then they take the baby over and put it under the fetus frightener. Actually, it's a white to make, you know, to help stave off things like elevated bill of Rubin that turns babies yellow. But there's an injection. It's literally called a vitamin K shot, K standing for potassium. And it helps baby's blood to clot. And now, via ProPublica, we find out that babies are now dying as new.

newborns because parents are rejecting the vitamin K shot because they think it's some kind of vaccine that might give their babies the autism. ProPublica writing, They entered the world the way babies should with piercing cries announcing their arrival. They passed their newborn screening test. Some made it to their two-week wellness visits without concern. Then without warning, their system began to shut down. A seven-week-old boy in Maryland developed sudden seizures.

An 11-pound girl in Alabama stopped breathing for 20, seconds at a time. A baby boy in Kentucky vomited before becoming lethargic, a brown-haired girl in Texas, not yet two weeks old, bled around her belly button. Desperate to save them, records show. Doctors inserted tubes into their airways and hooked them up to IVs. They ordered blood transfusions. They spent half an hour trying to resuscitate one boy until his parents told them they could stop. They shaved another boy's soft locks to embed a needle directly into his skull to reduce the pressure in his brain. and none of it was enough and all those babies died. The autopsies all came to the same conclusion.

The deaths were caused in whole or in part by a rare but potentially fatal condition known as vitamin K deficiency bleeding. In almost every case, the baby's deaths could have been prevented with a long standard vitamin K shot. But across the country, families, first in smatterings, Now in droves, droves, y'all, droves, are declining the single inexpensive injection given at birth to newborns to help their blood clot. And many of them are doing so out of the well-meaning but ill-informed abundance of caution. Well, thanks, ProPublica. That's really sweet of you to say so.

But can we just say maggot brain rot? These are parents whose brains have been rotted by the likes of whalehead dead bear brainworm Lamprey and his magical raccoon penis wand and Dr. Oz and the like. In the hopes of safeguarding their newborns from what they see as unnecessary medical intervention, they have shunned fundamental and scientifically sound pharmaceutical intervention. The trend is also fueled by a contradictory pairing. Families fierce desire to protect their babies and a cascade of false information infused into their social media algorithms.

Babies routinely get the vitamin K shot, the hepatitis B vaccine, and as I noted, antibiotic and ointment in the eyes. They get all that before they ever leave the hospital. And it's all recommended. It's all studied. It's all got hard data behind it. Serious medical science. And a couple of weeks ago, ProPublica notes, Representative Kim Schreier, a Democrat from Washington, inquired of HHS Secretary, Whalehead, Dead Bear, Penis, Bone, Lamprey, Jr.,

about the vitamin K shot and its safety, and he responded, I've never said, literally never said anything. about it. And Representative Schreier shot back. That's exactly the point. You don't say anything about it, but the doubt you've created about all of medicine and science is causing parents to make dangerous decisions.

Meanwhile, there was no spokes creep available at DHS to address any questions coming from ProPublica. Well, they did send an email response saying, it was Joe Biden's fault. Man, they're getting a lot of mileage out of that. And in 2024, more than 700 newborns died from spontaneous bleeding in their brains. Six medical specialists and one official at the CDC said a meaningful portion of those deaths likely were caused by vitamin K deficiency.

Many more babies survived the bleeding but suffer massive brainbleeds and lasting injuries. In case you were wondering, you know, when we do get around to talking about hontovirus, lo and behold, there it is, I've already seen it. Be careful about hontovirus. Thank God we have access to Ivermectin. Ooh, we're going to do that again. Yeah. Oh, Charlene, thank you so much.

Thank you so kindly. We're down to 3475. Thank you, Charlene, so very kindly indeed. We're kind of doing some miracle stuff today, so hopefully more will jump in. I don't know how we could begin to get caught up, but my God, if we could. Thank you, Charlene. Emilio suggests I use my voice. Ashkenazi Jews are naturally immune to hantavirus.

Okay, Amelia. Lee says hantavirus. Not as important to RFK Jr. is diseases for bears, whales, and raccoons. well that's why he dissects them now isn't it yes at least as i expect you to reference by potassium is k it has the symbol k on the periodic chart from neo-latin calium and that's the neo-latin word for potassium you learn about things like potassium sparing medications and et cetera et cetera i was on one for a while and i thought i was going to lose my mind because the medication was potassium sparing which meant it piled up potassium because you can have not enough potassium like in the case of the newborns or you can have too much and that'll screw you up too and so potassium sparing medication means it piles up potassium inside the body and while I was on it it was like no baked potatoes no french fries no avocados no bananas no orange or yellow vegetables because those are all you know those are all loaded with potatoes

Yeah, that was a good time. I was glad when I got off of it. Ah, Jeremy, injecting some loose change into the process. Hi, Jeremy. These even-ending totals just aren't fun besides you have two misses to work off. Oh, stop it. So, uh, 3469, 45. 346945 Thank you, Jeremy Really seriously I know what your financial circumstances are

And I'm really grateful, thank you From Billable Rick, Hanna virus and RFK Jr. So I've heard that RFK Jr.'s solution to the HannaVirus is to intentionally expose yourself to it in order to create Urid immunity What could possibly go wrong with that approach? Let's hope that RFK Jr. does a FAFO as to that idea I heartily recommend it and the thing is the the particular strain of

hanta virus that's running around apparently got loose in Patagonia and then traveled on a on a cruise ship but this is the Andes variant and it apparently transfers from person to person more easily than its European Asian or African cousins? Yeah, great. I know. Cynthia says RFK Jr. should be charged with at the very least manslaughter, not to mention all the

other anti-vaccine influencers. Charge all of them. Yeah. If only. And back to New England, Lee says, GOP math, I know that you'll understand this math, no Republican House member from Vermont. There's one

member of the House from that state. They may have heard of him. sarcastically how can part of Bernie Sanders not be Republican lay in New York City a state which shares part of its border with Vermont and part with Massachusetts

I have driven from Albany into Massachusetts and then toddled up ever so briefly just so that I could say I'd been there and cross the state line into Vermont those Berkshires are some

impressive hunk of Appalachia Aha, thank you Christopher Christopher Christopher just jumped into the tune of 955 So

aha 3,460 Thank you Christopher Thank you Some of this stuff I mean So our so-called ceasefire

is a hot mess Because the U.S. and Iran swapped a few rounds at each other in the Strait of Formuz yesterday. The Iranian Navy took shots at three destroyers. And for our part, we were engaged in a little more piracy on the high seas, targeting an oil tanker, you know, unarmed. And another ship in the straits, again, unarmed. Axios reporting on the situation said

The U.S. official said the exchange did not constitute a resumption of the war, but the Iranian military described the U.S. strikes as a ceasefire violation and threatened retaliation. The extent of the strikes and resulting damage are unclear at this time. The exchange happened as both countries were negotiating a one-page memo in an effort to end hostilities and lay the groundwork for more detailed negotiations. I mean, you know how we could cease hostilities? By ceasing being hostile.

It's not like the Straits of Hormuz were closed before B.B. and it went Nero started this dipshit misadventure. And from Christopher, Hanta who? Happy Friday, Horn family. Happy Friday, Christopher. I'm not afraid of the big bad hanta virus. I'm stocked up on wheelhead juice and ardvark antifungal rub. I got plenty of bleach with fresh needles and just got fitted for a new custom ultraviolet anal probe. If I get it, I'll just teleport over to the Waffle House and have some pleading. blueberry pancakes. That should take care of it. I'm even toasting some raccoon twig and berries under some infrared for good measure. What? Me worry?

Oh, it was the teleport over to the Waffle House that got me. Oh, nice. Nice work. Yeah, really. Thanks, Christopher. and this morning, or yesterday morning on my former filthy morning habit, they had the Obama administration Pentagon spokesman, John Kirby, on, and, well, he was sort of astonished with the dumb fuckery being perpetrated out of the White House. I mean, I guess some people still maintain the ability to be. astonished or gobsmacked. At this point, I just expect everything that happens to be monumentally stupid.

But first, let's bring in former White House official under President Biden, retired Rear Admiral John Kirby. He's an MS now national security analyst. And Joe, we have a lot to talk to Kirby about this morning. We certainly do, Admiral. Thank you so much for being with us. I would not normally ask you a question like this with political overtones. I just wouldn't. I understand that not only active duty admirals, but retired admirals, don't really want to get into it. But I just feel like because of the position you held in the Biden administration, I need to ask you this question.

How would the right-wing press? How would the media, in general, respond if Iran were attacking U.S. ships, and Joe Biden was calling it, quote, love tabs, because he was so desperate to cave to the Iranians. Right. Love taps. Oh, I think I would have been flayed. I just would have been flayed up there at that podium if that had been President Biden's response to what we're seeing in these ceasefire violations. If he just shrugged it off, there's no way that I would have had any kind of leverage with the press or any kind of credibility up there to continue to defend that kind of approach.

And I, of course, and I look, I'll show my bias here. I mean, there is no way that President Biden would have responded that way. I know him well, and I know how he would have reacted to three of our U.S. Navy destroyers being fired upon by the Iranians. And it wouldn't have been to shrug it off and say it's a trifle. Yeah, you know, also, speaking of flayed, I guess I should apologize for when we flayed you. I forget what the topic was. It probably was Afghanistan. I don't know if you remember, but there were so many, Joe. There were so many. Yeah, yeah, it was one time I get off and I said to me, I go, I don't know if the admiral's

going to come back. I want to, another thing, too, that I don't think we're talking enough about. The administration just has not been up front with the extent of the damage the Iranians inflicted on U.S. military bases across the region in the early stages of the war. That, too, is a serious problem. The fact this administration has been lying to Americans about the extent of damage that was inflicted upon U.S. bases. Can you talk a little bit about that? The extent of those damages, as far as you know, and again, what would have happened

if the Biden administration had tried to cover up those Iranian attacks on Americans? I'd say a couple of things on this, Joe, and I'm really glad you brought that up, because it also goes to casualties as well. But let me start with where you started the questions. One, it's a political discussion, is a political decision. I have no doubt that the folks in uniform and Central Command, Admiral Cooper, would want to be as transparent as he could. Obviously, with protecting operational security and base security and safety, I get that.

But I think these are political decisions, not to admit that the damage has been more severe than they reported, not to admit that we have suffered probably more casualties, certainly in terms of wounded, than they're putting out publicly. So this is a political decision, and that happens in war. But it does compound the level of distrust that I think the American people are having about this war right now.

I mean, they weren't consulted. They weren't communicated with. They obviously, the polls will tell you they don't support this war. And so to try to minimize that lack of support, they are holding back information. Only doing briefings once every 10 or 12 days and with very, very little information and no real questions from real reporters being asked in that briefing room.

It's all an effort to, I think, confound the American people with respect to how this war is being fought. Admiral, John Heilman is with us, and he has a question for you right now. John. Hey, John. Here's my question. I raised this earlier. We were talking about what it means, what the impact of the looming China. summit is on Trump's calculations around the war in Iran.

And the fact that it's striking to me that you're now seeing Chinese officials openly kind of mocking the United States and trying to frame the summit as the limping giant coming in here. Trump hope for the quick win. He's got the quick win. Maybe we can take Taiwan, et cetera, et cetera. Just tell me about, take me into that, into that place, both substantively and politically, how you think the China summit is.

impacting the conduct of the war? I think, first of all, I think the summit's going to be dominated by the war. And I think that's unfortunate for the American people because there's so much more in this most important bilateral relationship to cover, tariffs, rare earth export controls, trade. I mean, there's a lot that should be on the table, including tensions over Taiwan. And I think it's going to get dominated by the Iran war. And as Mr. Trump walks into the room with Xi, he has a little bit of leverage in that she would like to have the straight open to. They get 90% of their oral out of the Persian Gulf.

So it's certainly going to have, it has had an impact on them economically. But there's only so far he can take that, John, because the Chinese have now been, your great story in the New York Times yesterday about how the Chinese have been posturing themselves now as the mature ones, not just in the region, but in the world. And so they're cutting deals. they have stored up vast reserves of oil and fertilizer, and now they're in the market. And they are setting themselves up as the barter one, the chief exporter of resources and energy. They're cutting deals with Australia, with Vietnam, with Cambodia, with the Philippines.

Some of those are our allies and partners, and they're basically saying, hey, you know what? I know this war's tough on you. I know the Americans have made your life more miserable and rising prices. Let us help you out. We're going to get you some oil. We're going to get you some fertilizer. We're going to get you out of this deep hole you're in. Obviously, there's going to be a price later to be paid for that.

But the big price right now is American credibility, authority, and leadership in the Indo-Pacific region, which is being eroded by China being able to cut these deals while America continues to fight this war. So I don't think that he has a little leverage going in, Mr. Trump, but I don't think he has all the leverage. I think she is posturing this as I'm the big guy on the block now. I'm the one cutting deals. And I'm going to be, by the way, the winner. Isn't that just humiliating?

I mean, he's not saying anything that's untrue, but it's fucking humiliating. As a result of this war, we talk a lot about the losers in this conflict and how things are going badly. But I don't think we talk enough about who's got the six, eight months, a year vision out there and trying to reset the table for what the world. looks like when this war ends. China's doing that. The other thing they're doing, John, is they're exporting their clean energy technology. They see the future here, and it's not oil and gas. It's clean energy, and they're in that market in a big way. So, Admiral, good morning. Considering where we are now, Iran in control of the straight-of-moos, hardliners in charge of

Tehran. The missile capability is still intact. The new program untouched. And President Trump, refusing to back off the ceasefire. Staying with it, staying with it, despite what we saw, like, for instance, yesterday. If you were in the room... Well, what does he want? No, really, what does Weill Meyer want? Staying with it despite what we saw yesterday. We started this dirty war.

He wants more of it? He's not staying with a... Net Wittneros not staying up with... Sticking with the ceasefire. he's scared shitless. And, you know, he's talking nuclear apocalypse again, for Christ's sakes. The multi-millionaire for-profit media, I swear to Pete. If you were advising him, what is the way out here?

Because it's very difficult. We've been talking about it all morning. It's very difficult to imagine a scenario where he could claim some sort of win, a real win, not a fake win. What is that? What's this path? Neither side wants to restart the war with them. don't want to stop fighting either. And I can kind of understand rhetorically why they're doing that because they both want the war to end. It's clear. It's having damage to both of them. Obviously,

they want this war to end. And I think Mr. Trump wants it more than the IRGC wants it. He wants it to end. So, of course, he's not going to say that the ceasefire was violated. But I don't, I don't know specifically what he would consider a win coming out of this. I think for the world, for the region, they need to make sure, and I'm glad to hear Rubio say this, that they don't separate just the straight negotiations from the nuclear ambitions. I believe they've got to do them together. I think if Mr. Trump can say, when he comes out of the room, the straight is open, and there's not going to be an opportunity for the Iranians to put some kind of constraints on it and to control straight traffic. They weren't doing that before the war. They can't be allowed to do that

after the war. So there has to be some sort of governing mechanism that doesn't allow the Iranians to control traffic in the strait. And I think on the nuclear ambitions, if he can come out of that room and say we have not only a... Yeah, and, you know, if little frogies had wings, they wouldn't bump their little green butts on the ground when they hop. See, we've, Iran has learned something in all of this. They always had the Straits of Hormuz in their hip-pop. but they were concerned about whether or not the United States could actually open it by force or any other world power. Guess what? No.

At least the United States can't. Maybe the Chinese Navy? I don't know. You know, this is not the Suez Canal crisis of what, the late 1950s? and while ultimately the best defense to being attacked by the United States is having your very own nuclear device, being able to strangle the world for oil, fertilizer, and various and sundry chemicals, that has its own value. And we're learning all about it.

Because stupid people are in charge. You can't fix stupid. Damn it. And Steve, New York, pointing out, all that blather suggests one thing to me. We lost. Yeah. You know what?

We lost with the first shot we fired. And by the way, you know, since we've talked at considerable length about propaganda of late, a little something to ponder here. Oh, where'd it go? Remember the Easter rescue that, Whiskey Pete said was a miracle just like Jesus being resurrected. Remember that?

The downed pilot? Wouldn't you kind of expect that maybe there would be, oh, I don't know, a parade or something? I know. And I ran across a reel from this woman, and I prefer to give credit where credit is due. and if I can figure it out, if I can figure it out, I will. Here, let me find it.

There she is. Mercedes Chandler. No. No, that's not the right one. There she is. This is an account called the Underbelly. There we go. Ron, the one that was shot down,

I had to walk like 100 miles, and had to hide out in a cave. Yeah, that's okay. What happened to that colonel that was rescued in Iran, the one that was shot down, and had to walk like 100 miles. and had to hide out in a cave and then was rescued on Easter. Where is he? What's his name?

And why would an 06 be doing an O3's job? He's a colonel. He should not be doing Bob from Top Gun Maverick's job. And why hasn't Trump paraded him out on stage yet? How can we haven't seen his smiling face? What's his name? Surely he'd want to try and raise money for whatever the fuck he's doing now. But we haven't heard about him again.

but Pete Hick-Seth was very, very clear that this was an Easter miracle. And just like Jesus, he was resurrected from the cave. And honestly, if they hadn't made such a big deal about it, they probably would have gotten away with it. But Trump can't help himself but to just embellish stories and make up things that don't make any sense. Because he was never in the military, so he has no idea what ranks are and who does what jobs. Those jobs are beneath him. You'd think he would understand that.

But here we are. Curious, isn't it? Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice. I want a note coming in from, and there it is again. My Facebook page just opened to a maggot that I know from long ago. If you're mad about this, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee. But not about this, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine. Yeah.

But the thing is, gerrymandering... The gerrymandering should be unlawful in every state. Well, it's the racial gerrymandering, diff shits. Huck and maggots. Ah. No, no, coming in from Billable Rick.

Roxanne, please thank the Camel Cardinal, otherwise known as Juvie Delinquent Number One, for choosing an excellent program to run last night on the head off. that program originally aired in the summer or early fall of 2006 just before the midterm elections when the Dems regained the house and nancy pelosi became the first female speaker of the house and was a special daytime broadcast featuring bruce birch and dr bill o'brien at the thirteenth annual chamber of commerce business expo at the raleigh county armory you participated in the broadcast from alabama apparently to take care of your then ailing father yeah i remember that dr bill referenced how he

at an afternoon radio show for four years on a local radio station that couldn't be named of Oldhamort Broadcasting Network. Perhaps that's the same station which featured the morning monotone, prattling on about the Titanic Place. It was indeed. One of the main topics of that show was the Bush Quagmire in Iraq and your reportage of a story about a woman in labor, her female friend, an adult cousin of the woman in labor, who was driving at a high speed to rush his pregnant cousin to the hospital,

and how the two women in the vehicle were slaughtered by shots from, U.S. troops at a checkpoint after the vehicle understandably failed to stop. You were righteously indignant about the needless deaths of the two women and her fetus, who was the victim of a partial birth abortion, blaming their death on GOP Warhawks. Do you remember that program? I do. I remember it very, very well. Gosh. Yeah, that was the spring of 2006, I think.

Yeah, because we got home around Easter. Maybe I'm wrong. But I remember it very, very well. It was some of the most precious time I had with my father toward the end of his life. And I remember how infuriating all of that needless slaughter was, the million civilians, non-combatants who were murdered on the word of, you know, dim leader and Richard B. Dick big-time Cheney before he, He dicks you.

I hope he had a pleasant welcome in hell. I do. But, well, hey, let's pop over onto the Discord channel and see what's going on over there. Hey, Jeremy. Hey. It's kind of interesting that a billable of bringing up last night's rerun. I heard it too. and it was nice to hear people

I've never heard of because it was a few years before my started the program and Bruce Birch was doing the news and lo and behold almost 20 six almost yeah 25 years ago now in that show

what were Republicans doing threatening Iran with bombing if they didn't comply with what we want them to do go fucking figure yeah oh yeah this is well I mean that yeah So that struck out hard toward the show. And that's far enough back that that's back when John McCain was on the floor of the Senate

yelling, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran. He was, and I hate to give anyone, especially Dick Cheney and those assholes, any kind of props, but even they were smart enough to know what would happen if they'd done what would be done to Iran now. They knew this was inevitable if they did it. That's why it was never done. Yeah. and plus they had their hands full with Afghanistan and Iraq and having that all fall apart before their very eyes. You know, this is that same era where Don Rumfield bitterly complained that you don't go to war with the army that you want.

You go to the war with the army that you have, that slap in the face to the American military because we failed to, you know, the Bush administration failed to provide them with up-armored Humvees. And a whole bunch of the deaths from IEDs came from that simple fact. And Ron's always been a good fallback for the Republican Party to their words, not mine, the queers and the young black men who threaten white women. It's always been a good fallback to fall back to fall back to Iran when that trick's not working anymore for a little while. It's part of their playbook, too.

but I'm not going to lie. The show gets harder to listen to every night. Not because of you, but because of the just the depressing nature of the show. I've said before in other parties. Everything my mom has worked for for her whole life basically behind the scenes

and this and that is slowly being torn away. She's 15 years old in you, so I mean, no more than that. She'll be 77 this year. So she's quite a bit old in you. So she's a little bit old in you. So she saw the civil rights. She saw this.

She was born in 48. So basically, all the rights women have been given, you know, people that aren't white as a paper bag, all those rights are being stripped away. It's a travesty. Not to mention the other rights that are being threatened, which, you know, we've been told in the past are settled law, and we can't change settle law, but Clares Thomas is going to take a swipe at blacks, male, or male, white people. You watch it's going to happen.

Oh, no, I've got that story right in front of me, in fact. The good God fear and white folks of the Alabama Republican Party have already gone, I mean, running at a breakneck speed to bitterly plead to our most puissant, dread, sovereign, supreme Catholic majesties, and in particular petitions this month go to none other than Clarence Pubes on the Coke Can Faffy Thomas, Jeremy, begging him, pleading with him to lift the court order that would prohibit Alabama

from erasing its majority black districts. And you can make your own jokes. When Clarence does hear that case, he'll have to divorce his lovely wife. Make your own jokes why. That's why he'll divorce her. At this point, I can't tell if it's from frustration, from things that have nothing to do with

real life, I'm frustrated something that happened last night, which is ironic, it's causing stress. But, you know, of that are the news and a combination I'm beat down and tired and I haven't been sick for a while. I have one of those in the back of the head headaches which is there. It's annoying. It's not painful. It's enough to let me know it's there. But it usually means

a cold's coming on for me. It's sort of a sinus thing. That's when I get these weird pressure headaches. Yeah, this has been going on for me. The very same thing, been going on for going on a week now. It actually, what it could be, and I didn't think about this, not looking outside. Most of our trees have blossomed, and the cherry trees and sour apple trees are in here,

the flowers out of them. It could be pollen. It could be more susceptible to it than I was when I was a younger lad, shall we say. Maybe that's what it is, too. I didn't think about that. I could be a big part of it. It could be a pollen thing that I'm not thinking about. So I'll just take some Advil here or something a little while.

I'll be okay, probably. But anyway, I don't have a lot left. I'm tired. still go to work. I'm doing some extra work this week, and I guess I'll let Roger talk, and I'll just listen and chime in occasionally when I find a moment to strike with a joke. Okay, yeah, just as the spirit moves you. But yeah, it's not all just you. I think a lot. I mean, look, a lot of us are feeling it, Jeremy. It's the, what, May the 20th will be four months of this, and doesn't it feel more like 40 years? I know you would hopefully like to push back on this and a lot of people like to think this isn't going to happen I still feel this ends in violence somewhere

I really do they're pressing people who feel broken already to a snapping point and that doesn't end in oh please stop this or voting I'm sorry it doesn't that's like that's sure you thought yeah that's like Joy in Ann Arbor has remarked recently I always feared that we would never be able to vote our way out of this.

We get closer each day with what they do. They push us a little more into our corner. Just like Donnie, when you're trapped in the corner, you either fight or give up, and we're probably not going to give up, which will make something bad happen somewhere. Anyway, talk to Roger if you can talk, I guess. I'm going to go back to my silence again. All right. Take care, Jeremy.

Thanks. Well, good evening. Howdy, Roger? I could talk about the Hanna virus, but that's not what I'm going to do. Do you have any idea of what normally goes on on May 9th in Moscow? The celebration of the end of the Great Patriotic War? You got it. And what do they do normally for that parade?

They parade massive amounts of ordinance through Red Square. Have you caught what tomorrow's parade is going to be like? No, I have not. Well, apparently this last week, Ukraine managed to sneak a drone through the air defenses of Moscow and blew up a building about four kilometers from the Kremlin. Now, we know Putin hasn't been out in public for a long time, and he's been hiding in a bunker somewhere, and security has gone up tremendously around him,

even more so than the security Trump is trying to throw up around him. But in order for people to, to go see Putin now, apparently the AIDS that are coming to see him, et cetera, are no longer even allowed to bring cell phones into the bunker area. And in my mind, this relates back to when Mossad managed to provide new cell phones to a whole bunch of people in the Palestinian organizations and then they detonated them all over when it got at a point and killed and made the whole lot of murdered a little girl if I recall yeah and so I imagine that's why Putin doesn't allow any cell phones around him but apparently

the plan for tomorrow's parade is going to be devoid of the traditional parade of military hardware because Moscow is just paranoid that Ukraine would manage to sneak another drone through the air defenses of Moscow and blow up their parade. And I'm kind of enjoying the fact that Putin has gotten himself so screwed up with his invasion of Ukraine and the number of troops he's been losing there and all the rest of it. And even giving Trump orders to stop supporting Ukraine, Ukraine has managed to create an incredible industrial might that is able to make drones and penetrate Russia, although their primary targets have been oil refineries and other economic items.

both war-related and financial hits against the Soviet Union. It's not just that, Roger. Russia has put out a plea for a one-day ceasefire for tomorrow because they're terrified Ukraine can hit their parade. They've asked them for a ceasefire for a day. Well, if Zelensky's got any fine, he's going to tell him to spin on it because it would be fantastic

if they could sneak another drone through and drop a bomb on their parade. I mean, hell, Putin has been bombing civilian targets in Ukraine for what, almost three years now? And why shouldn't Ukraine do the same thing? Well, I wasn't aware of the ceasefire request. Getting back on another item, I was listening to Oregon Public Broadcasting today, and I forget what the program was, but it revolved around the problem here in the United States on the excessive mortality of black women from uterine and ovarian cancer. and it was a very interesting program because the standard, there was a gynecologist, female gynecologist talking.

I don't know whether she's black or white, and it really doesn't make any difference. But she was talking about the way that uterine cancer is diagnosed. And there's postmenopausal bleeding and things of that sort. But what I found very, very interesting was that they do. a ultrasonic investigation. I won't go into the total methodology. But it has to do with the lining of the uterus. And if it is less than four millimeters thick, you don't have anything to worry about. If it's more than four millimeters thick, then there's a problem. Except the study that created the four millimeters of

thickness, there was not a single black woman in the study. And they've redone the studies and have now discovered that a four millimeter thickness of the lining of the uterus in black women is an indication of uterine cancer. In white women, it's not. So all these black women have been told. no, no, you don't have a problem with that. And they leave. And a few months later, it becomes obvious that they do have a uterine cancer.

And so the whole thing about black women being more prone to uterine cancer is because of the late detection of the secondary indications. And it's not they're more susceptible. It's not anything other than the fact that a bunch of people. of white doctors didn't think it was important enough to include black women in the studies of how to diagnose uterine cancer. So if anybody wants to talk to me about how this country is post-racial, I'm going to tell them to go play with yourself somewhere because it is not anything other and racism in the study of people who have diseases. Why should black women not be included in the study to diagnose uterine cancer?

The fact that they were eliminated from the study by one reason or another is a fact of racism. And when people tell me that what they're doing in I think it's Nashville, Tennessee, which has a majority brown population or black population, and cutting up that district to make sure that the normal boundary would be of the city to be a congressional district. Oh, no, we're going to carve it up and make sure all those hillbillies up there that can't tell the difference between their wife and their cousin because they're the same person. I'm sorry

it's just what has this country that's not what it's come to it's what are we going back to yeah I was going to say from the 1960s we've been trying to get away from that and these confederates the people from the Confederate South

have risen again and doing the same shit that many of us have been fighting against since the late 1950s, early 1960s. Anyhow, that's my powerful joys of this last week. Well, and just to add a little asterisk onto what you said, it's worth remembering that the doctor who is credited with being the father of modern gynecology

gathered his knowledge by experimenting on black women against their will there are still statues dedicated to the man he was a monster on par with well

some of the doctors that we hear about out of the Third Reich. On the other thing this gynecologist came up with is metapristone and the other ones and the pills that are now used for medication abortions, they have a tremendous amount of other uses in treating female problem. Yes. And to ban them is... travesty against all women.

But, you know, Roger, that's an interesting point you raised because it brings something to mind. The Supreme Court has said, and I'm, you know, here we are out in front of the curve, like we always say. I'm just waiting for him to use this. The Supreme Court said in the Scrimetti decision that preventing trans adolescents from receiving puberty blockers, is not sex-based discrimination, but instead is discrimination against a treatment, and that that makes it all a-okay. And so you're right.

Miphypristone has multiple uses. So too do the things that are called puberty blockers. In point of fact, most of the things that block testosterone or block hormones generally were developed in prostate cancer research. And the puberty blockers are now used for cis kids. Like, you know, can you imagine a second grade little girl starting her period? I mean, what a nightmare. And they use that.

So eventually, I imagine that some clever maggot will come up with saying, you know, you can't use Mithopristone for abortion care, but you can use it for other things, if they're actually that sharp. Because our most puissant Dresover and Supreme Catholic Majesties have said, oh, you can discriminate against conditions, you can discriminate against medications. So in the Scrimetti case, they were discriminating against gender dysphoria, not the people who have it. And they were discriminating against a use of the medications that relieve it, not the people who have it. So that's probably somewhere on the horizon. My mother.

Just real quick. Sylvie says, Dr. Sims, he has instruments, bed positions, disorders named after him. Sims would operate on black women without anesthesia. A horrible man. We never learned that side of him in medical school. No, of course not. No. My mother was a kindergarten peter from the late 1940s until she retired in 1963, 64.

She had a little girl in kindergarten who had started menstruating. And it was a, their parents tried to, you know, anticipate and all the rest of that. but mom caught it a couple of times in kindergarten. Well, when she was teaching kindergarten, her period starts in the middle of the day. And she would hustle her off to the little girl's room and had the proper supplies and all that. For a kindergartner to be having menstrual cycles?

Yeah, I mean, it's a condition called precocious puberty, and it happens. and it also happens a lot in the African-American community. So no wonder, you know, no wonder they didn't give it much thought. Well, I'll get back to the nicer topics. Went to my weekly number out in front of the VA, and it's basically surrounding stop cutting the VA funding because we need it. And we're all old people out there.

I mean, I don't think there's anybody younger than 50 years. five that's out there. And a guy comes out and he's got 24 on the side of his truck, top Trump 2024 on the back. And of course, as he drives out, he lets it all off. And we, you know, we're just standing there. And we only got flipped off once today. Usually it's three or four people, but only once today.

So it was a good thing. And tomorrow I'm headed, what I call. call up river. So a little town by the name of McKenzie Bridge. And McKenzie Bridge is best known for when the fire came through here about five, six years ago, it totally burned down the town of Blue River and the rest of it. And everything around this town of McKenzie Bridge, you can still see the scarred hillsides and the dead trees that are still standing on the hillside and all that.

Things are starting to grow back. But every year, they have an emergency preparedness fair. And I've been up there two, maybe three times now, and this will be either my third or fourth. I can't remember. It's a really fun little fair. It's held in a Grange Hall that acts as the community library. And like, in most Granges, they have a kitchen and all that.

And the fair starts at 10, goes Bill 3. another one of the master food preservers is giving a talk on kits to carry you in your car for emergency preparedness and amateur radio people show up and the sheriff's department and fire forest service fire always shows up with their truck and let the kids crawl around on it and smoky the bear comes around and shakes hands and all that good stuff and I'm up there for food emergency preparedness sitting at a table talking to people as they come through but it's always a fun day and that's my my tomorrow number I've got good hopes that my corn will be knee high by the 4th of July because it's already about six inches tall I've got tomatoes with blossoms on them I've got some cauliflower and broccoli in the in the

ground. I planted my pole beans a couple of days ago. They haven't popped out yet. And I'm giving away the last of the tomatoes that I started from seed along with some Ahi pepper plants and some of the Get the Okasama and squash. I started a fair number of seeds, but I've got about six plants that are growing nicely in four-inch pots. And I'm going to give them away.

and I know where I got my first four seeds summit many, many years ago when I've kept a strain alive. And every time I grow up what I think about you. It's now, if you go to Baker Creek seeds, which I first started selling them to, I believe they sell them six seeds in the packet for $6. Dollar a seed. Dollar a seed. That's awesome. It's fantastic.

And anyhow, I just thought I'd share that with you. I'm still growing. I'm still saving seed. But I've got to look over fences now and make sure nobody's growing pumpkins or any other winter squash in the neighborhood. Otherwise, you'll have a cross-breeding problem. Hybrid, yeah. Anyhow, still haven't seen a red hat down at the Legion Hall for going on six months now. I'm not sure anybody's really changed their mind,

but they sure as hell aren't advertising it. Roger, did you see the story where the woman who, she worked at the VA and I think Atlanta, and there was a, shortly after the murder of Alex Pretty, there was a memorial for him, and she was interviewed by a local TV station, and she said it was absolutely horrifying and terrifying to her.

that, you know, that her own government would murder a VA employee in cold blood. Well, now she's being investigated. Oh, shit. Yeah, it was just her opinion. She was certainly not speaking on behalf of the VA, and they're going to try to ditch her for daring to be horrified by a murder. Well, freedom of speech is long gone in this country. It appears to be, or at least it's on the way out.

Well, there were members of this administration that were posting 8646. Yes. And now 8647 is a prosecutable offense. Well, we'll find that out soon enough, I suppose. Well, they brought charges. Yeah, but we'll find out if it's prosecutable, you know, based on a motion to dismiss. Yeah. and and that's lawyers speak coming at me well and before you ever even get to the heart of the matter

the court has the right to rule on whether whether something is a whether an indictment is valid and in this case well that should be that should be a that should be a merry chase and then of course after all is said and done i don't know how wealthy comie is but he's going to be a lot wealthier because this is such a clear case of selective and malicious prosecution it it defies belief well let's see donnie was suing or i forget the number of millions over the improper release of some income tax records yeah he's going to and million or 10 billion billion okay you know but that's just the number i don't see that one going anywhere That's the number he says he wants.

Well, no, but it'll go somewhere because the IRS is part of the executive branch, and the executive branch has to do what he tells them to do, and there's no such thing as a conflict of interest anymore. Well, and then that hall room that was going to be paid for 100% by donations, now Congress is asking for a billion dollars to turn it into a fortress. Yeah, and I caught it. Well, that's not really, no. That's not the ballroom.

me and my billionaire friends are paying for the ballroom, but that's stuff that the military wants. Why would you say that in public? Well, my problem is do you honestly believe that the White House correspondence, as its non-governmental agency, is going to be able to rent that ballroom for their private dinner? I mean, so.

yet right. I mean, they've got a right to choose their venue. I didn't think that... And a chicken shit president can say, as he has said in the past, I'm not going to come. Okay, don't. We'll just sit here and tell jokes about it. We'll roast you in absentia.

Well, can you... I don't know the answer here. Can you come up with any time that a private organization has been able to use a governmental facility for an invitation-only event that would cost as much money and who would they pay

to use the facilities for a private event. I mean, I understand that the American Legion has at, times done things on a military base as a community kind of gathering that i mean totally open to the public but i can't i just can't imagine assuming the ballroom gets built okay yeah that the white House correspondence would have an easy time going and saying, we want to put on a sit-down dinner for a thousand people.

And it's by our invitation, not the government's invitation. We might invite some government people to come to the event. And it's our private event. I'm not sure there's a mechanism for leasing out for a night or whatever. a strictly governmental is a property. No, there isn't. There isn't.

I mean, okay, you can have, I've been to receptions in the auditorium at the, what, the National Science Museum? I was there for the awarding of the presentation of the Goldman Awards one year. There's a big old Olmec head in the lawn outside. Pretty big venue. But that's not, I mean, that's that, I mean, that's not a government building per se.

That's a museum. But another question that arises out of, out of the issue you raise, Roger, I mean, where the, the Hilton is a turnkey operation. The ballroom's there. And you know what else is there? Parking. Guess what isn't there at nitwit Niro's golden ballroom. parking and wouldn't

and wouldn't even dealing with parking in that situation drive the secret service right up the damn tree? Well every time I've been in D.C. And wanted to go visit the Wall or the Lincoln Memorial or the FDR Memorial

or go to one of the Smithsonian's downtown I always got on the subway and got out at whatever the station is closest to where I was going to go and walk down the street. I never even dreamed

of driving a car downtown. There was one time where my brother-in-law, I wanted to go somewhere and because he was going somewhere along about the same time, took me downtown, we drove downtown, he dropped me off,

and then I took a subway back out to his neighborhood. But trying to find a parking place downtown is nuts. Yes. Let alone a thousand of them. Okay, so here's just for those purposes, Roger. Here's your, here's your, here's the secret.

Parking is crazy in D.C. You can almost always get a parking space at Union Station, and you can go anywhere in D.C. from Union Station. You can either grab a cab or the metro, and it's like, when I was there last time, a couple of years ago, I think it's about $30 for, you know, for 24 hours parking. And that ain't shabby in D.C. No, but I always find it easier to have him drop me off at the nearest metro station to his house

and then just get on the metro and go downtown and don't worry about it. Yeah, but if you're in a situation where you've got to park. Right. Yeah. And you get a, and you wind up parking on the top of the deck, and you get a beautiful view of Capitol Hill with the Capitol Dome just sort of soaring up and the Washington Monument a little further away, soaring up above everything else. Because, you know, D.C. has a law. You can't build anything taller than the Washington Monument. How tall is the Washington Monument? Offhand, I don't know, but it's really tall. I'm wondering if Trump's arch that he wants to put over by Arlington.

Or maybe it's outside of the zone. No, it isn't. Anything in D.C. For instance, I think the tallest, and it was right before the law was enacted, the tallest building in D.C. is a hotel up by Thomas Circle. And it's, you know, five or six, eight stories. maybe. But like, you know, Northern Virginia, that's all ringed by skyscrapers of, you know,

of a sort. But once you get into D.C., it still largely retains some of the French influence of Pierre L'Enfant's original design. It sort of resembles Paris a little bit. The Washington Monument is 554 feet, 7, and 1130 seconds inches tall. He wants to build the arch to Trump not just near Arlington

so that from here forth, everybody the enters Arlington has to go under his arch. He wants to be 200 feet tall. And if you haven't seen what happened, maybe we talked about last week, there's so much going on in this world. Trump has repainted the

reflecting cool, recycling bin fucking, no, not that blue. His truck is his plain blue. Yeah, the Trump Yeah, ugly. Yeah, the Trump, dark blue reflecting pool. Yeah, that's great. That's going to mess up reflection badly. And, you know, yeah, there's a

funny story about that out there, too, Jeremy. And he claimed to have given the contract for painting the reflecting pool. And he said, I have a guy who's unbelievable at doing swimming pools. He looked at it. He called me up. He said, sir, they always

say, sir, sir, we can do something on it. So they got him a $7 million no-bid contract, and as their excuse for the no-bid, it has to be ready by July the 4th, so we can't have competitive bidding on this. Well, here's the thing. The guy, his pool guy, doesn't do pools. He has no idea. The company is Atlantic Industrial Coatings. They're out of Virginia, and they've never even had a federal.

contract before. Their website says that they that they're particularly good at waterproofing highway culverts, pipes, roofs, and chemical and water storage tanks. Ain't nothing in there about no swimming pools.

Well, that sounds kind of like the demo company that took down the East Wing. They'd never had a federal contract before. And it sounds sure as shit, they dumped all that debris on the golf course and poisoned the water there. So yeah. And then you mentioned the Ark D. Trump Jesus, this thing's going to be so hideous.

And by the way, the substrate there in that part of D.C. isn't particularly great. If you know the history of it, you know, Hitler had his architect redesigned Berlin as the center of the thousand-year-aich. and the only problem was these these pieces of monumental architecture well Berlin sits on sloppy ground and chances are if it had ever gotten built

it would have sunk into the swamp they would have built a second one it would have burned down fell over and sunk into the swamp but it may be the same with this goddamn thing and now we're finding out okay there was a lawsuit against the tickety-to-to-dy-talkity company, and it resulted in a settlement

in which TikTok said they would pay around $400 million to settle the lawsuit, and it was based on harm to children under the age of 13 who were becoming addicted to TikTok. Well, now apparently there's talk with that $400 million dollar. settlement will be used to build his stupid arch instead of taking care of children harmed by TikTok.

They're saying now that the 400 million will be used for beautification projects. And you've seen the photo with like a little boron sitting on the gilded lion in the tacky penthouse apartment. Well, this thing is going to be flanked by a couple of, you know, MGM lion. or something. God damn. This man, everything he does, you know, he's not Midas, but everything he does just turns to tackiness.

Well, and then there's that statue that got covered in gold leaf. Which one? I think it's down at his golf course or something. Okay, yeah. Oh, and I need to interrupt for just a minute, because we had a

pretty, a really great offer. Our kind anonymous internet friend that jumped in and said, if someone will give $170 in a single contribution, I'll give a have a show on me. And the way that money works out is that would take us down to $3,000. We'd be half a month behind then here on the 8th day of May. So thanks.

Really. Thanks so very much if there's something. somebody who wants to do $170,70, you can turn that into more than double your money. Turn it in. Kind of anonymous. I can give $1.70. Don't start. Don't complicate matters.

Hopefully there's somebody with $170 out there that wants to see us get down to only half a month unfunded. There's a time and a place for everything, Jeremy. Oh, and from Billable Rick. Supreme Court inconsistencies. If it's lawful to discriminate against a specific medical treatment, i.e. no puberty blockers for transgender teens in Tennessee, then how could the court have also found that it's unlawful for the state of Colorado to ban conversion therapy for teens on the ground it has no medical or psychological value

and is only harmful? As Chubaca would say, the Chubaca defense, it'll make no sense. it's high past time for the Dems to take over the Congress and the presidency and to expand the Supreme Court to 15 justices. Those six Catholic fascist vandals in robes must be stopped before they destroy the last few laws that have made this country great. I agree.

15, yeah. And make sure in the legislation it says that the Democratic president currently in office gets to appoint all six of those justices. and the maggots can die mad about it. What are we dying mad about? Expanding the court. Oh, I just got here. Hi.

Hi, David. By the way, Cynthia just said everything he touches turns to obscenity. I agree completely. How are you? I'm doing okay. You sound a little more chipper. I just had two interviews that I think went really, really well. So one of them was for the public defendant

of Marion County, which is Salem, which is the capital of Oregon. And then I had a meeting, an interview with the Oregon Public Defense Commission for one of the state deputy defenders. I think that would really well. The bad news is that

my last day with MDI is next Friday. Okay, so the meeting was what you thought it was? Yeah, yeah. But my supervisor reached out to the OPDC, and I think that's how I got the interview with OPDC, to be honest. Yeah. And it wasn't, it wasn't acrimonious or that. So it was, I think, I think Stacy, who's the executive director at MDI, it looked like she was about to cry.

So it wasn't, like, they don't want to lose me, but, so that felt good. But, yeah, it's just the timing didn't work out. Yeah, well, y'all were both put by some, I mean, how to, how to describe it by some, a dusty old never mind it wasn't a situation of your choosing or their choosing it was something that was foisted upon the both of you yeah yeah and so it's it's

I'm wrapping up my cases and and I've got one more week to there and so it is what it is but good news they did the Board of Bar Examiners did send all of the information to the Oregon Supreme Court

requesting or recommending me for admission based on the conditional agreement so I'm just waiting for the court to do its thing and ship my bar number from Bangalore I guess is coming from I was going to say Kuala Lumpur but yeah who am I

68 and you know what it may it David it may arrive with a with a vintage antique copy of sports illustrated all-time all-star baseball in exactly exactly the last day of the eighth week um right yeah and i also had a conversation with the uh executive director of the um organ i'm sorry the commons law center which is um it's for it they they serve the they serve the the the um they serve the the um they serve the the members of the community that can't that aren't that make too much money for um legal aid services right but can't but still can't afford a lawyer so it's kind of like that intermediate kind of civil litigation firm. They do family law and they do a lot of tenant eviction defense

stuff. And I guess there's a trust in the state's attorney position that may be opening up to like intergenerational wealth transfer for marginalized communities. That really piques my interest. So

I've got some holes in the fire, as it were. Yes. And I mean, to like, I didn't mean to like occupy the conversation. I just, I just wanted to say how. Would you please stop apologizing? You're not, you're not doing, you're not doing anything not according to Hoyle, okay? I mean, you're fine. The Marcus of Queen's, the Marcus of Queensberry rules are in, right, are in fine form, regardless of whatever you say.

Well, yeah. Um, I, I, I literally just hopped off an interview and I have no idea what's happening today and I don't know. Oh, the whole day's just stupid. The whole day's just stupid. Everything is stupid. I mean, it's either stupid or racist. Or, well, I mean, but I repeat myself.

So, basically the same day that we've been having. Same shit, different day, yeah. For the last decade. We've been in Groundhog Day with fucking Niro for a decade now. Oh, my God.

Yeah, it's, it's exhausting. Hey, great news. Thank you, David. The $170 single donation has come through, and that actually gets us down to $29, and I just ran some numbers real quick.

We are $890 away from being fully funded for last April, this past April. That's how brutal it was, and then we can get started on May.

So thanks David and thanks anonymous internet friend And we can if this is this is beginning to smack a little bit of a Friday on the front porch community made miracle So if we if we knock down 890 bucks we'll finally be done with April Eight days into May so and that'll take a tremendous amount of pressure off of your humble hostess as she contemplates the pay of many bills. I guess I missed it because I was thinking about the last one, Ralphs.

Oh, this is too, yeah, this is great. Mrs. Betty Bowers on RFK Jr. RFK Jr. doesn't know what vitamin K is. I'll offer a $25 challenge for RFK Jr. If it's the RFK Jr., what the hell is vitamin K challenge? by Ralph's and that'll knock us down to 2940 if that gets met. Mrs. Betty Bowers, I'm sure you're all familiar, responding to a post on X.

The rate of newborn deaths is surging as American babies bleed to death from vitamin K deficiency, which is preventable with a single shot at birth. Widespread medical disinformation has caused more parents to refuse vitamin K shots for their children. Mrs. Betty Bowers replied saying, Let me see. Should I listen to my child's pediatrician or the former heroin addict who cuts the penises off of roadkill to take home?

Yeah, the dude with the raccoon penis, not the dude with an MD. Boy, that was an easy decision, y'all. Yeah. 700 babies? And credit them all. Credit every heartbreaking death to

whalehead, dead bear, raccoon, penis, brainworm, lampree, junior. Thanks for the challenge, Ralphs. Hopefully, well, if there's $25 wandering around out there, you can turn it into 50 and get us down to 2940. Fingers crossed. Thanks, Ralphs.

Thanks so much. From Jimmy in the Great Northwest, the Chump Arch, I keep hearing about it, and I finally looked it up. Hitler's Berlin Arch, just asking, well, yeah, there were plans for one of those. There sure were. Nice catch, Jimmy. And, you know, this one, I know there are so many serious things in the world,

but damn, you can't just let something like this just blow on past. We've had a handy smurf sighting. Lauren Bumblehead Boobbert has figured out the great mystery of who the aliens are in the UFOs, because Orange Genius released the UFO. I'm releasing the UFO files today. It turned out it was just a giant con, a distraction, a diversion, anything to get people to stop thinking about,

you know, Jeffrey Epstein and him and the Trump Epstein files. Well, Lauren Bubert, I guess she managed to, go to the website and announce that let me see if I can find this. You need to hear it in her own stupid voice and her own stupid words. Because God, we'll all probably lose

IQ points as a result of this. Here we are. Oh yeah. Y'all get to hockey puck. I'm not kidding. Because you may wind up barking and hooting and bother and the neighbors. God is the creator of the universe.

He's never not going to create. So it's always been something in my mind to say, well, how can we be the only ones? Like, God's not going to stop creating just with us. But the more I look into this, the more I see the Old Testament and what was told to us there of fallen angels and Nephilim. I mean, this is in the Bible. There's nothing that says that fallen angels that Nephilim, that Nephilim, just, just disappeared. And so I believe that this could be an aspect of it. You know, there...

Yeah, it's confirmed by the Old Testament, y'all. You know, people who didn't understand why it rains. But they sorted out the whole fallen angels thing. I mean, the Bronze Age was a fascinating time, but it wasn't a particularly enlightened one. There are things that we have seen that could resemble portals. And, you know, I mean, this is, we serve an infinite God, a God of the universe. And to say that this is the only realm is ignorant. And so what I've seen, I wouldn't, you know, put it as, you know, Marvin the Martian kind of thing. Oh, wouldn't you? At last, at last, the Elodian Q32 exploding space modulator.

now my view of the moon will not be impeded by that pesky earth. But I do believe that this is more spiritual and if you really want to go there, demonic. Demons. Demons.

Demons. You would know. She would. I mean... I mean, if anybody's commuting with demons, it's probably going to be. her and her elk. I think she's been to Alta and gotten a new

makeup look. Yeah, and she's whacking them off. You mean the Nephilim? Yep. That's not whacking. That's witnessing. Okay, well, because she's witnessing them off.

Okay. Hey, David. Yeah. What's going on, man? Have you thought about applying to the ACLU? I have. I've looked at their, I've looked at their website a couple of times. They would, I think you'd be a good fit there. I think so too. I just, their main office, I believe, is in New York, and I can't afford to move. Yeah, but every state, every state has its own chapter.

Yeah, we've got to. I looked at Oregon. They have a director of litigation position open right now, but that requires more experience than I understand how about have you also have you given any have you looked to see if there's a chapter of Lambda legal

in Oregon I have not I also looked at the human rights campaign they can be they can yeah okay yeah when Steve and I say the same thing

yeah no no stay away from them they're horrible I think you should try um it's called glad there's two glad

there's two glad there's two glads there's g l a d and there's g l a ad it's two different organizations you should take a look at either one of those I think you should also try and narrow okay because eventually I do want to to transition into

civil rights careful with that word I'm not scared of trans people. So I can keep the word transition to my vocabulary without any sort of

cognitive distance. Okay, just, you know, I want to take care of you. Yeah, yeah, they're gross.

I don't know if there, there may be a legal department for Planned Parenthood of Oregon. I should look into that. And I had I had coffee with a Multnomah County judge and he wants to introduce me to Ashley Albus,

who's like a big civil rights litigator here in Oregon. Oh, cool. There's also the NAACP. The NWACP has it as a legal arm. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Yes, yes. So, yes, Ashley Albus actually is working with the ACLU on the Portland Chicken case

here in Oregon. Do you know who you should look into? Who's the guy who does all the Democratic voting rights stuff? I thought he was actually in Oregon. Is Mark his first name? Mark something? Mark Elias. Yes.

I thought he's in Oregon That's the guy I don't know I don't know I would have to look I that's not something I don't I have a Google machine I don't use Google anymore because I don't

What because fascists Yeah Information Barrens is what I called them in my paper Like robber barons Just information barons And remember Villanaires is free to you for you to use at any time that you may wish.

Which kind of indirectly brings me to and didn't really talk much about it. Is there a more disgustingly ostentatious display of sickening wealth than the Met Gala? Can I just tell you, I saw some pictures of that, and I had came basically the same conclusion you did. I thought, what, who, what is this? Like, like, who, who came, who, who, who? Well, the thing, the thing is, it's repulsive, but it used to be like the merger, I mean, so it's a benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which I wholeheartedly believe in. but it used to be the intersection of fashion and entertainment and design, the arts.

But now the fucking tech bro villainaires have bought their way in. Because this year's honorary chair people were none other than Dick Rocket Jeff Bezos and his horrible wife, Lauren Sanchez. neither of whom have anything in the way of the former credentials that would have gotten you associate uh the mark zucker dweeb showed up for the met gala for the first time this year i mean Jesus yeah it was it was sketchy before but you know it would be people like madonna and gaga and you know the the real you know bleeding edge of fashion and artistic statements and whatnot and was that wait was it the Met Gala where

Kim Kardashian ruined Marilyn Monroe's happy birthday Mr. President dress was it there? I don't know I can't remember but I don't know yeah it was disgusting the whole thing it's just like it's the epitome of ostentatious it's just gross and conspicuous consumption. To like the 10th degree.

It's gross. It's just disgusting and sickening. I was just about... Go ahead, David. I'm sorry. No, I interrupt me. I apologize. I was just about...

I was just about to say it's reflective of what this... The dominant culture in our society values. Ostentatiousness, self-aggrandizement, obscene wealth, celebrity culture, I mean, all of it, it's just like the worst reflection of American society. I mean, it feels like a manifestation of a civilization in profound decline. And yes, Kim Kardashian wore Marilyn Monroe's original happy birthday, Mr. President,

dress on the red carpet at the 2020. you met gala. And ruined it. Before changing into a replica once inside the event. Wait, she wore the actual dress. Yeah.

And ruined it. And ruined it. And how did she... How did she... How did she able to do that? I think they sewed her into it. Yeah, I think she's a little bit too big for that. Not the fat shame,

but I think she's a little bit too large for that. No, I mean... Maryland was voluptuous, but not like that. I'd like to get back here for Dave in just a minute. The Elias Law Group is the organization, and they have no openings other than a litigation associate in D.C. right now. They are advertising that they're looking for a diverse group of, hardworking attorneys.

So it might be interesting to give them a shout out, even though they're not presently recruiting or any particular person in Oregon. So the information that I have says that the Elias Law Group is headquartered in D.C. and they have a satellite or an additional office in Seattle. Oh, okay. And then apparently before,

prior to 2021, Mark Elias was a partner and head of the political law practice of Perkins, which is like the biggest law firm in the Pacific Northwest. They're based on the Seagullet. Is that Perkins-Coy? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Weren't they the ones who originally did the, no, not originally, but didn't they represent the Clintons and didn't they have something to do with the, or not the Clintons, but Hillary, the campaign, they had something to do with the, what's his name, the Dossie, the Steele dossier, didn't Perkins Coy have something to do with that? I think Perkins Coy was like the, was the council for the Democratic Party, like the institution for a long time.

Okay. Oh, and by the way, Cynthia, Cynthia reminds us, David, Earth justice, the Earth needs a good lawyer, you know. Environmental justice is often civil justice, too. I don't know if they've got an Oregon office, but at one point in time I was pretty close with those folks, and they're serious about their mission. Their primary office is in D.C.,

but I knew someone who worked for them for decades, and she was awesome. I got to think that a lot of environmental groups have at least offices or our headquarters. in Oregon. I have to, I mean, that's like hotbed of environmentalism. I got to think that there's quite a bit there.

I think now, I think RAN, the Rainforest Action Network, is still headquartered in San Francisco. My understanding is that one of like the top law schools for environmental law in the country

is Lewis and Clark, which is here in Portland. Yeah, the school that Bobby Kennedy used to teach at. I don't know if it still is, but that used to be one of the top environmental schools as well. That was Pace. That was Pace. Pace. Yeah, Pace. He ran their legal clinic.

Yep. Back when it, I think he was actually kind of sane at that point, wasn't he? As time has passed, I've become less sanguine on that. on that idea because, see, he founded, I mean, he did found it,

he had a community service requirement after his heroin bust, I think, you know, because he didn't go off to prison. Didn't do hard time. He's a white man.

Right. And so he created something called the Riverkeepers and started work on working on clean up the Hudson River. And then the riverkeepers expanded different, and there were rules and everything. I looked into doing it once.

And I knew some people who were river and creek keepers. I mean, they did good work. And, you know, they were completely just sold down the river by Bobby. But, you know, he was touting riverkeepers when he came to Coal River Mountain, watch back in the day and was being, we didn't know it, but he was being paid to hustle frat gas as a bridge to our clean energy future. And again, as I said before, many times before, Judy Bonds, who remains a hero of mine and died far too young, Judy Bonds and I and a couple other people were looking at each other as he was touting frack gas and we talked later and it's like no we're not going to sell out fracked communities just no no no

and you know he was hustling all that and he'd written a book and he wanted to make it into a movie it was a vanity project and that's where the movie the last mountain came from and i mean he wrote our hillbilly backs and once the movie came out we never heard of him again. What he was doing, Steve, is he was plaintiff shopping. He was looking for somebody that could support a massive action against every coal company in West Virginia to bring in a humongous verdict for, you know, the poisoning that was coming off of mountain top removal sites in the form of not just water degradation, but in particular, in the form of poisoned air and ultrafine particulates. So, no, I don't think he was ever okay, because,

At the same time he was doing that, that was also roughly the same time that he was giving a deposition where he said that he was stithing his then estranged wife on alimony payments. Because I no longer have the same earning power I once did because a worm ate part of my brain, Your Honor. And to this day, those who don't know laugh and they, ah, ha, ha, brain worm. But they don't stop to think about, he did that to deprive his estranged spouse of money that was due and owing to her, and he kept her on the brink of disaster until she could no longer bear it and took her own life. That's Bobby Kennedy, Jr. right there. Sorry, he didn't mean to bring us all down, but... Yeah.

Sounds like a stand-up chap. Yeah, a stand-up chap. You just added a little truth to the myth about him. That's all you did. He's just so fucking awful. I think the word is vile. Yeah. Despicable, deplorable.

Repulsive. Yeah, yeah. Revolting. Putrid. Putrescent. Could trust him, yes. Oh, boy, we could get us a pretty good game of Scrabble going on here. I haven't played Scrabble in forever.

Chris, do you want to play some Scrabble soon? Bobby Kennedy pejorative Scrabble. I like Scrabble. Hey, everybody. Hey, Christopher. I do like Scrabble. We should play Scrabble, Chris. That would be fun.

And drink. And drink. Yeah. I like the actor. Arlo says hi, David. Oh, Harlow's a very good boy. Oh, by the way, I need to say a thank you to Auntie Kat. I went to the post office a couple of days ago, and lo and behold, there was a box waiting. And a little bit of a backstory, any time I bring anything in, grocery store, whatever,

Shadow runs in and has to, and he thinks that everything is for him. Of course. And so in this particular instance, this box was his. And there was a little stuffed chew toy in there, along with a ginormous bag of his favorite begging strips, the Honey Hamlins. Oh, my. Oh, he was happy. And so I set the box down. I'd already opened it for him.

And he used his snoot and got it open and looked down in there. And I can go ahead and tell you, it's not a secret. there was a Donald Trump chew toy in the box courtesy of Auntie Cat and that was two days ago and honestly there's just not much left of Donald Trump the first thing he did

was bite the legs off of it and so now he won't sit it down he carries it everywhere he goes at some point in time we're going to have to take what's left of that old pervert away from him but he'll

he'll jump up on the bed with me and he'll put his paw down over to hold Trump down and then he'll just gnawed his face it's fun he chewed the squeaker right out of it and that had to yeah no

but well uh Chris is talking our has the has the has The fantastic habit of behaving like he's a tiny chihuahua. And he's a large dog. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Shadows every bit of 105, 110 pounds. But when it comes to jumping up for chomping romps in the morning, he's quite convinced that he is a teeny tiny little golden ball of fluff and curls up in my lap like he is one. Wait a second. Are you saying there's a possibility of someone has made a chew toy of Mike Johnson, therefore creating the squeaker of the house?

Oh, poor Lama. Oh, and by the way, I did a long read out of a piece in Texas Monthly, a day before yesterday or yesterday, about the origins of the just disgusting, horrifying, sex scandals inside the Southern Baptist Church. And it turns out that a man named Paul Pressler was a big-time, what, father of the hyper-fascist element of the Southern Baptist Convention, that eventually ran all the moderates and liberals out of the church and worked tirelessly to refuse to investigate

and or refuse to acknowledge the vast number of sexual assaults and sexual abuses within the Southern Baptist Convention. And it turns out that very same Paul, Presler was abusing young men all along. And lo and behold, at one point in time, some college was going to open a law school, and it was going to be the Paul Presler School of Law, because he was a judge, in addition to being a religious maniac.

And everybody who's anybody in Baptist circles, including Tony, yes, Mother Bates, Perkins, of the American Family Council or what the hell ever it is. That was in deep, poor choice of words with Paul Presler. But lo and behold, guess who the first dean of the Paul Presler School of Law was going to be, Mike Johnson? but somehow or another they never managed to get that law school open they had accreditation problems they had money problems and so uh mullah moses mike johnson had to go off and well be speaker of the house instead and it's kind of interesting because the very self-same tony yes mother bates perkins uh was pissing and moaning about trump because you know a lot of a lot of this a lot of the movement is fracturing as actually st clair keeps pointing out You know, we're thinking of it as we would approach it as a biblically, ideologically driven voter. Stewardship.

That our money is only going to back a vote that we support someone who is aligned with us. That's not, unfortunately, the way the party works. It was moving in that direction, but as you talked about the president remaking the party in his image, we've kind of lost that grip on that ideological core of conservatives. Has the president had this much power over how donor money is spent before this time? I mean, I think he exercises a lot of power over the RNC in a way that I haven't seen before. I mean, every president exerted influence. But you have other, you have court decisions in the last decade or so that have allowed the growth of these independent expenditures and PACs,

these super PACs, which are a relatively new part of political campaigns. And that's where millions and millions and millions of millions of. dollars are and of course he controls one he's raised a lot of that money himself with his connections but that's come with the strings attached of getting money from people who are not conservatives they're getting a lot of money from people who are not even close to conservative and that comes to consequences well and that goes back to the remaking of the the party as we go back to the the party platform yeah that is essentially just in a race report and you write on what you want to for the day because there's nothing really fixed in that party platform so that

That's, you know, it's okay if you've got somebody that's doing the right thing, but there's no ideological anchor or accountability. What makes that particularly hilarious is when you realize that their idea of doing the right thing is to do the maximum harm to the maximum number of people. And, of course, there's the fact that Tony, Norman, yes, Mother Bates, Perkins, also, when he was starting his particular grift, he had to have a mailing list. and he went out and bought one. Anybody remember where he bought his first mailing list, Tony Perkins?

Was it the clan? It was the clan. Yay, you get a rubble on a ding-dong, Steve. And you even phrased your answer in the form of a question. If nothing else, you get a year's supply of rice errone, the San Francisco treat. Oh, yummy. Oh, come on, you love rice. I love rice errone.

I like the chicken. flavored rice errone. Okay. Okay. Before there was ramen, there was rice errone. Took a little more effort. But kind of same, same. I ate a lot of rice errone in college, too.

Oh, I see we have Tracy with it. Yes, Christopher? Oh, yeah, I just can say it amazes me how all these dots connect. Can't have fascism without anophilia and you can't, you know, and the Ku Klux Klan and coming right back

around again and that they were costing and the representatives and the C. Yeah, yeah, just comes full circle again and again and again. I don't know how we're going to stop this. I mean, that's the despondent. I'm so despondent about that ruling. In Virginia. Wait. Yeah, I mean, can we still overcome it?

I mean, are we going to have the math? Look, I mean, there's. There's always the Ohio option. And that is... Well, Ohio just said, fuck it. We're using our maps anyway. What are you going to do? Stop us?

Oh, well, yeah. Yeah. Are they redrawing theirs, too? How many... No, this was shit that went on for years. And they were under orders to redistrict. And they went, no. No, just not going to do it.

Fuck on. Bucke up. Stites rats. Why don't they... Why doesn't the... Why doesn't the Virginia legislature just do it then? Like everybody liked it, like did maggots have been doing? And I just have to say one thing.

You were talking about this earlier. You know, somebody wrote on some Facebook page, if you don't like, you know, if you don't like what the Republicans are doing, you shouldn't like what the Democrats are doing. I thought the fundamental difference is every time the Democrats have done it, they've taken it, they've taken the vote. They've got the people to vote on it.

I find out to be fundamental. differently different. Yes. Well, it's that, but also when Democrats do it, it is toward expanding rights not contracting them. There's no racial gerrymandering going on in Vermont. As was pointed out earlier,

there's only one member of the House in Vermont. How do you gerrymander that? How many are there in New Hampshire? Can't be more than a couple. Kind of hard to gerrymanderinger that, too. Rhode Island? I think the unfortunate thing,

Get on the stick. New York has to make sure there's zero Republican representatives. And remember, New York was the author of all of this misery early on because they got too cute trying to make sure that, ahem, progressives didn't get in. And that's how you wind up with Mike Lawler. You know who that was, right? It was Andrew Cuomo. Exactly, yeah.

What a third. Yeah, every bit of it. Jesus. But I did see Tracy in the room. You there, Tracy? I'll be on the road. Might be. Might be trying to unmute.

Well, we are here, if you want to jump in. I'll be in Chicago in a couple weeks. I can't believe the day is coming soon. You know what? I found out sort of by happenstance recently. You can get a round trip from Charleston, West Virginia, to Chicago for 200 bucks. Can you hear me? There's Tracy.

Yeah, for 200 bucks. that's well that's very cheap for now yeah maybe made me kind of want to kind of want to you know

go to Chicago for a hot dog yeah 200 what 200 $200 round trip

from Charleston to Chicago that's not bad that's not considering that you know since Jet Blue without you know

file for bankruptcy and effectively shut down their entire operations how that was one of the things the keeping, you know, the major airlines or whatever at that.

JetBlue, you mean Spirit Halloween Airlines? I'm sorry, Spirit. I'm sorry, Spirit. Yeah, Halloween. My dad. Yeah. He's silly. It was so funny because Jan was watching the Sunday shows. And I guess it was the one on ABC. I guess George Snuffalo off of Gus wasn't working that day. And so the woman that was doing the interview, interview, we interviewed the current Department

Secretary of Transportation and to say incompetent there's a phrase that this talk show

hosts that listened to an amazing black woman her name is Marie Daniel favors and you know

how DEI is the new way of saying the N word so she decided to call it W.E.I. White entitled

and incompetent. Ooh. So the woman, because you know the reason, you know, that Spirit gave it for, you know, the bankruptcy and had been closing down was because of the, you know, how fuel prices have just gotten crazy. And so the woman asked this man about, and you know, we went to this go-to or the Biden, and she's like, no, no, no. do you think the reason you know that spare airlines

you know because of the you know cost of fuel oh no it had nothing to do with the cost of fuel and I'm like

they actually said the reason why they closed down was because the cost of fuel and you're trying to say it's not because of the cost of fuel and yeah Joe Biden

I just it's always Joe Biden huh they didn't blame Obama He didn't blame Obama. I was shocked because I, you know, that's usually his fault. That's already given because who controls Biden, Obama? Oh, of course.

Oh, damn, you're right? Yeah, it's that Kenyan Muslim wizard power. Yes, you know, voodoo, hoodoo, rich craft and all that stuff, you know. So, you know, we're still in Cali, you know, at Cali. We're still trying to figure out the whole governor's race. I sure hope, I hope California, I need some people. I need some Democrats to drop the fuck out. Dude, okay.

And see, here's the thing, because like I think the other day when we talked, if I mentioned it and I forget, even though Stalwell dropped out, he's still on the ballot. Oh, God. And so all these people that need to drop out are still on the ballot. And so they need to say, okay, you know what? for the good of the state of California, I am, not only am I dropping out, but I'm endorsing this person. There's 61 people?

That's what I heard. It's, it's, it's just, I've lost count. Can you imagine a ballot was 61? Ains? Fuck. It's insane. It's just, it's just, might be time to rethink that whole jungle primary idea.

Thank you. Well, I, I, I, I, think, you know, unless we're going to change it, either just, you know, Democrat or Republican or rank choice voting. I is just. Ranked choice would be nice. It would just be. It worked in Alaska.

It got rid of Sarah. It worked in New York. We got in Monami. Uh-huh. So, huh? Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah, I was agreeing.

Right. So it's like, you know, and then let's see what else. And then we, you know, we had the mayor oil race here in L.A. And that's a shit show. Not that Spencer, okay, so there's five, six, I forget how many people are running for mayor. But the only Republican that is getting some traction is Spencer Pratt. And he's a fucking right ring tool. So.

A self-proclaimed oathkeeper is what I heard. No, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's what's, he's named Chris Bianco. Or what? Well, Chris Bianco is, yeah, he's running for governor, and he's actually trying to out-trump Trump, Trump. If that's even... Spencer Pratt's the one married to Heidi. And they spent their last $10 million when he's on an asteroid and he killed a humanity.

Kid you not. And I think it's, I think the rumor is that, you know, he didn't even have, he didn't even have homeowners insurance. So you want to run from here and you bought a house of Pacific Palisades where there's, you know, high chances of fires that you didn't have homeowners insurance and you want to run, try to run the city of L.A. Oh, sweet black baby, Jesus. And then, but wait, there's more. So some, you know, tools in Orange County got enough signatures to put a ballot, a voter ID law. on the November ballot. Oh, Jesus.

On the other hand, and I didn't know Louisiana had this, but someone filed a petition to recall Governor Jeff Landry. Yes. And they now have 90 days to come up with a half a million signatures. That would be a beautiful thing, punk-ass motherfuckers. I'm just... And then, of course... Punk-ass little bitches.

Absolutely. Say it again. Punk-ass motherfuckers. Yeah, a little... Punk-ass racist motherfuckers. I mean... Right. I mean, you may not have heard early in the program.

I played this... This, this... Chud from Alabama. The Speaker of the Alabama House saying, well, we're doing the right thing here. And hopefully when the case gets to the Supreme Court, they'll strike down Amendment 14.

He wants the entirety. of the 14th Amendment stricken from the Constitution by the Supreme Court. Holy shit. These white, see, okay, I need white people to really understand what is going on in this country. You know, everybody's been poo-pooing and he teet-tie in and it's not, you know, but they want to take us back. Fuck Jim Crow. No, no, no. They don't even want Jim Crow.

They want us back in slavery. They have been mad since the end of the Civil War. They have been mad since the end of Reconstruction. And they have spent literally the last 60 years getting rid of the Civil Rights Act, primarily the Voting Rights Act. And, you know, people say, well, you can vote and the whole purpose. You know, because there's people who said, oh, well, you always had the right to vote. Technically, we had the right to vote.

It's, it's, we had to, laws had to been enacted. So white people would not, yes, you could be, oh, oh, you could be as racist as you want to be. But you can't use your racism to keep down a, a certain demographic in this country because we have, you know, to give us the right to vote. I posted on Instagram the other day that I was literally conceived in 1965 the year that the Voting Right Act became, it was enacted. I was born in 1966. I did not become a fully human or a full citizen in this country, on paper, on paper until 1968. So I was out of two years old.

So when my mother was born, she wasn't considered a citizen. When my grandmother was born, on my mother's birth certificate, it says colored. My mother was born in 1949 in California. I was born in 66. My birth certificate says Negro. Oh, boy. Negro. So when people say, oh, it was a lot.

such a long time ago. They were interviewing the other day Freedom Writers. These people are still alive. Ruby Bridges is still fucking alive. It wasn't that long ago, but you know, the problem is... He must be so proud.

Huh? He must be so proud to feed everything coming back full circle again. Yes, they are, they are celebrating. Celebrating in Tennessee. In Tennessee, they are it's like and I don't think what people don't get especially the poor white people

when the Civil Rights Act passed especially the voting rights act that means no more poll taxes no more none of that so you even you know if they try to enact poll taxes and all the things to keep people from voting that meant you too you don't have you didn't have to worry about this shit nobody could discriminate against you just because of how you looked but now an ID is basically a poll tax requiring an ID is basically a poll tax when you know when there are black people that are still alive

who because of segregation was not allowed to be they were not allowed to be to be born in in hospitals so therefore they do not have a birth certificate and even if they have a birth certificate trying to acquire a birth certificate or go to, you know, especially with the voter ID laws when as soon as they enacted them, they closed down DMVs in black communities. So you have to go county wide. You have to go across all these different counties to get a, what you can call it? And now they're trying to go after, you know, vote by mail. So these motherfuckers that live in these rural parts of where, like Alaska?

You know, you guys think you're protected, but the, what is it, the blowout or whatever, it's going to be reaching far. So if they get rid of, you know, registering, you know, being able to, um, register to vote online to be able to, you know, do, um, you know, early voting or mail-in ballots. and you live in a part of rural Alaska or whatever that there is no way you can get to a polling place last time I checked there not a lot of black folks in rural Alaska no no no but it's going to affect y'all motherfuckers too y'all

you know I never I never heard of there being a hood in Point Barrow no no No. No. And you could say it's kind of white supremacist because of the presence of the polar bears. You know what? You kind of want to get out of their way and let them do as they wish. As they wish, because I'm not going to argue with a polar bear is like, hey, baby, it's all about you. You do you.

Exactly. And by the way, I have been corrected. Bill Bill Bill Rick just wrote in and said, hey, y'all. let's not call the high sheriff Bianco Chris. He's actually a Chad, seriously. His name is Chad Bianco. Yeah, Bianco. I sit

corrected. I do. Mm-hmm. Chadster. Yeah. Oh, he's such a Chad. Oh, he's such a chad. Uh-huh. You've got to say it through great teeth.

Yeah, we've got our teeth clenching. A little bit of a little bit of chest hair sticking out over your gold chain. Oh, you're such a child. So, yes, so thanks. You know, I, um, I, I, I'm, I, I, I pretty much decided who I'm voting for for governor. Um, and I, and I'm really, I'm feeling really good about my choice at this point. Because Tom Steyer is going after Javier Besant.

And so, um, I'm like, okay. So, yeah, I mean, and like I tell people all the time, this is who I'm going to vote for in the primary. I'm just praying that enough people, you know, the only way Republicans win is by low voter turnout. And I'm just hoping that, I mean, because like in Louisiana, they had a chance to do some amazing things, but they didn't turn out. same thing for Texas with Jasmine Crockett people did not turn out and it's just like

y'all the fuck is wrong with you people you know when people say my vote doesn't matter I'm like if your vote didn't matter baby then why are they trying so hard to make sure you can't vote bingo exactly

and anybody who says my vote doesn't matter deserves to have someone look back at them and say you know what as long as you don't cast it it damn well doesn't and by the way and by the way you are participating in soft voter suppression when you say that when you say that when you don't vote and you get the dobbs decision you get the iran war you get high gas prices as this is all on you this is all on you you didn't vote It's all on you. Shame on you. Shame you.

Shame, shame, shame. Shame on you. Oh, no doubt. And you know what? And black women are going to have to pull all of our collective 340 million sorry asses out of the fucking quagmire again. That part. I, by, by, the only way to nullify gerrymandering is high turnout, like you said. And so that they have to, remember, they have, in order to gerrymander,

They dilute your voting power and your representation. And like you said, in Tennessee, they took the one black voting district, voting district, and then they broke it down into three. I was like, the fuck you motherfucker still in. And then we had that step beautiful. We had, ooh, yay, Virginia. And what does their Supreme Court do? Fuck y'all.

This is why voting matters. This is why when you have people turning out and you have true representation, especially when it comes to Supreme Court justices and what that and these appointments, if you have to, you got to have the right motherfuckers in office. It's like, you know, what Hillary was running in 2016. And she said, this is, you know, the most important election of our lives. And she, you know, yes, but also because of the Supreme Court. And look what happened. That mother, that slow foot,

thank but motherfucker got not one, not two, but three appointments. Looking for more. I know. Looking for more. You get some more. We don't take the Senate. Oh, but her email. But her emails.

Oh, Jesus, please. And the pantsuit. And the pantsuit. And then for Kamala, I don't like her laugh. The fuck you. You know, this is the people who said, well, I did my other personal favorite. There's no difference between a Democratic Party on the Republicans.

Yeah. And anytime you hear that one, Tracy, yeah, well, that's awesome that you're quoting George Wallace and Strom Thurmond. How progressive have you? And then I say to them, I said,

so I have a question about, you know, that Kamala, it would have been bad with Kamala. And I said, now I have a question because Kamala actually had a plan of things that she was going to do for this country and that the shit

stain said, what did he say? I have concepts of a plan? Yeah. Yeah. To get back to Obama controlling Biden, you have to realize he's not at full wizardry power unless he's wearing his tan suit. Oh, yeah. And

asking for Dijon mustard. No, it's not Dijon. It's something beyond that. Something even higher last. It was hilarious, yes. No, it's great. Yeah, well, it's great Poupon. Great Poupon. Oh, that's not any great Which is a D-Jon. And by the way, before we wrap up this evening, again, there's still a $25 challenge on the table that would get us down to $29.40 for the deficit.

Thanks to everybody who has jumped in this evening, your girl's going to pay some bills, and that's going to be awesome. And we'll just keep plugging away. But we're below, we are below half a month unfunded. We are $890 from being fully funded for the month of April. Oh shit. And... Sam, before you go, we need a chicken alert, a hen alert. What's a hit?

Oh, Tracy doesn't know the story. The chickens. Who has chickens? We did. Roxanne. We did. Uh-oh. What happened to the chicken?

They gone? Henrietta got attacked. And Annette tried mightily to save her. And... She didn't make it. And I'm real torn up about it. I really, we both were. Because she was so sweet, Christopher, I'd pull up in the driveway, and she would come run into the car door to meet me.

Oh? Oh. And her pal, yeah, yeah, her pal, her pal Myrtle came looking a couple of times and couldn't find her. So now Myrtle didn't come around no more? Yeah, Myrtle don't come around no more. Well, we had not one, not two, but three coyote attacks. They jumped over our gate into our backyard and went after Cayley. And this was like, you know, like in late morning, like, you know, we've had,

there's been some serious issues with coyotes here. And we don't really live, I mean, we don't live in the foothills or anything like that. but they you know there was one morning and Jan screaming Kaley's barking and I'm like hell and I saw the they were literally in our backyard

I took we have a chair that by the flighting door and before I knew it I and I don't really like the dog full transparency but that whole black woman savior thing you know queen

came in warrior queen goddess, I picked up that chair and went running after those coyotes. They jumped out. They were literally in our backyard. Holy shit. In backyard. It was pretty scary. And so we had our hand team come and put up a lattice to break it a little higher so they can't actually get footing. And I guess there's what, Wolfpea, and we sprayed that around.

and they haven't been back. It's been a couple of weeks, at least three weeks. You know, if you'd gone after him with a hoe, you would have achieved full, full granny woman status. And we don't have no holes, but, you know, but we had hole cake because host got to eat too. You know what, Tracy? And I don't know if she's even listening right now, but you can reinforce this. I asked Victoria the other day if she'd ever seen Hollywood shuffle, and she said no.

and I'm like, oh, my God, my God. Oh, no. Tell her. Tell her, Tracy. Tell her. You have to. That is just, oh, my God. You know, oh, God.

I might watch that tonight. I got it. But, you know, she's, she's got a different mindset. And, like, still haven't gotten her to watch Blazing Saddles either because. Oh. But How about the Kentucky Bride movie?

I saw her I saw her visibly Tracy, I saw Victoria visibly cringe. Hi honey. When I said, Why for you gots to kill my brother?

My brother. And the beauty of it is all the different reads on that horrible line. Why for you got to kill my brother? And the white people trying to, well, you're not sounding quite black enough. The fuck are you talking about?

Black and anything? There's a bat in my house. Baddy, baddy, baddy. I don't even begin to know where I would find Hollywood Shuffle, but she and I have to watch that together. I bet you you could find it on YouTube. I'm pretty sure. but oh so i think i told you i've been into like library you know reading books and mostly audiobooks so there's a book called the yellow yellow wife about this young girl who was born

enslaved and you know even though she was enslaved she wasn't treated like a slave because the master was her father and all that and of course that shit changes but anyway i've got the book i actually got the physical book and it's been i can't tell you the last time i actually read a physical book for pleasure. Robin, this book was so good. I saw I came home, cooked dinner, put on my PJs, took off, wait,

came home, cooked dinner, took the teeth out, the bra off, and put on the pajamas. And I sat on this couch. Girl, that's heaven. Right there. That is heaven. Heaven. I sat on the couch sis and I read that book, cover to cover. I read for five hours

straight. That's great. I cannot tell you the last time I read a book cover to cover. I have mad ADHD and after about two pages I'm done on an actual physical book. So it was just that good. It was just that good. Say it again? Yellow wife.

And the woman's name, okay, it's Sadiqua Johnson. And so now I'm reading her second book called The House of Eve. said in 1950s Philadelphia, a 15-year-old Ruby per sale is on track to become the first of her family to attend college in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter, but a taboo love affair threatens to pull Ruby back down to poverty and desperation that has passed on to her like a birthright. That line alone, passed on to her like a birthright. and then eleanor quarrels arrives in dc with the ambition and secrets when she meets the handsome william pride at howard u howard university it's you one of dc's elites but um william hells from one of dc's elite wealthy black family and his parents just don't let anyone into their foe eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in william's family and grant her the life she's been searching for but having a baby and fitting in is easier said than done with their stories colliding in the most unexpected of ways Ruby and Eleanor will both make decisions that shape the trajectory of their lives Mm-hmm And she's good on she specializes in historical fiction

So yeah That does sound good It sounds like coming to a big screen near you at some point in time I would not be at all surprised And not be all surprised But I know you got to go But I you know Y'all pray for us in California

California. And let people realize no state, at this point, no state is safe. No. Yeah, no state is safe. No. And I pray for everybody in the south. No state. They have to save this fucking country again. That's what it's looking like. Yeah, well, you know, we are, there's this woman, Dr. Raquel Martin. She has an organization called Burn the Cape. It's for black women because we take on too much and we try to save, you know, and

we're burning our caves. But we're not going to stand, of course, you know, we talked about not getting, you know, we're not going to any protests and stuff like that, but we're going to take a step back. It's up to white people at this point. I mean, what are we going to do?

They ain't listened to. They, y'all, motherfuckers, they listen to us since 16. We've been telling the fucking alarms in 1619. And y'all ain't listening to us yet. So the fuck. Well, Cynthia, Yeah, easy, blue wave. Cynthia says, I'm like Tracy when it comes to reading, too. I have a hard time sitting down to read for very long.

And so I'm still working my way through the rise and fall of the third rock, and I'm up to about page 1050 and working my way through all the conspiracies to kill Hitler. Well, that must be fun. It is fascinating reading, even if it's taking me forever to read it. Well, that's, you know, that's no small book. That's a whole lot of book. Well, I actually found the PDF version of, of W.B. Du Bois Black Reconstruction, because this is one of those books that I've been trying to read literally for decades.

So now that I've found a PDF of it, I'm going to upload it into Speechify so I can listen to it. That sounds good. I'm still lost in the Bronze Age. Like I said, maybe a couple of weeks ago. I'm totally stoked for the release of The Odyssey, and we've been looking for somewhere to go to see it on IMAX. So I've been delving back into the research into, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the thing. But there's just so much to learn. Right. I mean, it, I read it, I read it, I read both things eons ago. Excuse me. I'm so proud of them. Because I've, but there's, but there's, the thing, the thing is, though, um, uh, upon digging, I, you know, you know, we just, you know, they call it the Mandela effect. Things that people tend to misremember.

Well, for instance, everybody says, oh, you know, the Trojan horse, right? In neither the Iliad nor the Odyssey does the Trojan horse appear. And it was in this background reading that I'm doing, that I found that there are other epics that are part of the whole Trojan War cycle and that's where the Trojan horse comes from and there's a bunch of stuff that we just take for granted

as in the Ili or the Odyssey that simply is not it's getting confused when I saw the previews for the movie and I saw the Trojan horse and I was like, was that really part of that? And I was, yeah, it was confused. Well, I don't matter about the Illy to the Odyssey, Robin, As far as you're concerned, Megan Kelly is still hearing of course, Santa was white. I'm sorry, what?

What? I said that it doesn't matter about these Greek stories. As far as Megan Kelly's concerned, Santa Claus is still white. Oh, yeah, I mean, yeah, absolutely. Of course Santa Claus is white. And so it's a little mermaid. And Jesus is white, too, of course, with long-term blue eyes. Don't forget that.

Yeah, yeah. Wait, one of my favorite things, what are, what can white people, people cook better than black people? Meth. Meth. Meth. That's funny. That's funny.

Okay, I got one more for you. You know why Maga men hate piercings and nose rings on women? Why? It means they're over 18. Oh. Oh, here's another one. What's not in the Bible?

White people. White people. White people. Yeah. Oh, speaking of which, and I had mentioned this a little while a few weeks ago, I just happened because I don't do it very, I haven't done it at all. I didn't realize that when you do like ancestry or, well, at least when you do 23 and me, they go back and re-sequence your sample as they get more data in. Did they find black for you? Did you, did you have any, do you have any? No, no, no, I'm still a guest at the cookout, God damn it. and still no indigenous anybody they've upped my englishness to like 78%

Jesus oh it's pathetic did I tell you that I'm like 30% oh yeah yeah yeah but here's where it gets interesting they found because I was shocked when I got the original results that there was no Welsh in me, considering

that my ancestry has a lot of Welsh names. G-W-Y-N-N being one of them. And well, it turns out the Welshness has turned up. Yeah. So you and Tom Jones? Yeah, right. Me and Tom Jones and

Richard Burton. Ooh. I still think. But here's where it gets weird. So I was kind of proud to be a little Swiss miss for a while with many marshmallows. Right. They took away my Swiss mess. Oh, man.

Guess what they added. Oh. What did it ask? Mother Russia. Oh, damn. So you and brady daddy? I'm about 0.6% you know, probably. surf.

My indigenous went up, and it was indigenous in South America. Oh. Right? So, yeah, my indigenous went up to like 0.2% or something like that. And now they've gotten rid of my 11thene Syriac ancestry, so there went that. still got German, still got Dutch but

at least now I understand my love for Borch and Blinis and caviar and Borch Blas pickles, pickles

pickles pickles pickles pickles it's all about the pickles it is all about the pickles it is all about the pickles.

It's a pity they don't ship. You need a jar of Secret Sandwich Society's Pickles for the People. I love that. Oh, they're fantastic. They're tart, but they've got a lot of herbs and spices in them, so there's just this huge flavor profile exploding in your mouth on your taste buds. Okay, I stand corrected. I'm 76.5% sub-Saharan.

20.8% European. 18. Let's see, English, 11.5. Scottish. Hello. Yeah, the Scots weren't picky. 4.5, Irish. 1.9. Welsh. 0.2. Cousin.

And me and my. And Nordic. Nordic. Yeah, they took away my Nordic, too. I got 1.5. They took it away from you and gave it to me. But here's the funnest thing of all. And I did some research, and it's possible for it to happen.

The longer someone who is trans is on cross-sex hormones in the male to female category. It changes your chromosomal structure. And so, lo and behold, guess what I don't have anymore? What don't you have? A Y chromosome. It's gone. Just a dainty little bio girl. I got, hey, I got Swiss, southwestern German, and western Austrian.

0.6% Spanish and Portuguese. I'm surprised that's that low. 0.6%. Andalusian, us, whatever. Castilian? 0.6%. And, yeah, that would be your conquisted or colonizers there. Right. And then Indigenous American, 1.1% in Northern Andean and 0.3% in North America.

Northern Andean, that is so freaking cool. Isn't that cool? That is so cool. And then, you know, I don't know a lot of people know this, but there are, if you can show like your ancestry as far as like on a DNA test, there are African. countries that will give me a passport. I don't have to know the tribe or nothing, just bring in my, show on my DNA test or whatever. Mm-hmm.

Nice. But unfortunately, you know, they let the evil genitals into their country, it gets a lot to be, you know, gay, especially in Ghana.

Yeah. So that part. And I was planning on going to Ghana, but, No, I can't, I won't. And it's saying. No, you can't. I can't.

Not safe. It's not safe. Well, I ain't going to Russia anytime soon, neither. No, no, no, we would never see you again. Well, I have no idea. By the way, just a little good news on the way out the door. And Ralph said she'll extend the challenge for anybody over the weekend who wants to to help get us down to

fund it as much as we possibly can. But Ralph's challenge of $25 will stay on the table. I don't know who this artist is. She's named Ashniko. Maybe Victoria does. But she has officially banned MAGA hats from all of her concerts. I don't care.

You do not. get in the door with a goddamn maga hat. You for her. Because at a show in Orlando, somebody showed up in their maga hat and got the living bee Jesus flayed out of them. You know, just jeered relentlessly and mercilessly. And so

when the crowd in Orlando saw the maggot hat, the entire audience began chanting fuck Donald Trump. while the maggot tried to cover his face. No, if you're not... She's big in the queer community. She uses she-her and they-them pronouns. She's pansexual and gender fluid.

And so this was... So she's not like me... Yeah, here we go. Let's do that again. Good for her. Good for her. But I got to get out of here because I've already received... received the

clock out ante bark. Yeah, that golden one is like, uh-uh. Mm-mm. My bag and strip,

damn it. Yeah. Get my, I want my honey handbagging strip. And, oh, Ralph says

send along a replacement for the Donald Trump chew toy. That will be helpful because this one has to be, I don't know how,

I don't know how we take it away from him, but it ain't going to be easy. But, yeah, thank you again. I think that was you, Auntie Cat. And thanks for Alps.

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