Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, Mid-week Madness, 15 April 2026

Episode Date: April 16, 2026

The world begins to coalesce against the Dummy in D.C. Project 2025 architect tries to "But Biden" in a House committee hearing. PsychoBibi says Israel will murder anyone they want. Jimmie Dick Bowman confesses the U.S. is committing economic terrorism against Iran. Bill of Impeachment introduced against WhiskeyPete Kegbreath. Thanks to everyone commenting on the podcast! It makes a difference. We're $2,200 behind in funding for April. Your help keep this independent broadcast on the air.

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

who invites you to be part of the uprising against mountaintop, removal, CRMW.net. And now, from high in the hills of West by God, Virginia, here she is. Roxanne Kincaid. Well, howdy. And here we go, off and running on this 15th day of April, 2006. This is the Horn. HeadOn.org. That's where you go.

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Yeah, well, I still am if I did it already. And we are at the middle of the week. And the password, well, surf it. Ah, we have a veritable smorgasbord of maggot meanness, stupid. pig-eyed vulgarity. I mean, it's all here today. It is. It really, really is. But every program here at the Horn begins with gratitude,

and this program is no difference. So thanks go out to our 15th Day of the Month. Subscribers. We are at the halfway mark of the month. And thank you to Robert. Thank you, Robert, so very much. Oh, I missed that one, yeah, $4.98. Thank you, Jeremy.

I've got to recalculate the loose change now. The fundraising deficit is now down to, oh, hell, I'm going to have to use the calculator again. Some of this stuff, yeah. So, of course I was on. on time, Flavia. 2249-89 is the funding deficit. And I sincerely

do appreciate it, Jeremy, because I know your financial struggles just trying to maintain your medication to stay alive. So, thanks for that very kindly indeed. Looking at the month of April, we have

12 more we have 12 more programs to get to the end of the month so basically it's a whopping deficit and we'll try to hopefully hopefully we'll bring it down to something manageable and the sooner the better

because middle of the month bills to be a paying back on it cooperate there we go all better I don't know what you're talking about, Randy Radar. Are we going to trust the tech bros to maintain accurate ratings? I don't.

I don't know. All I know is that when you interact with the podcast, the machine takes note of it, okay? That's all there really is to it. Not on Latin time today. Maybe there's something to be said for Latin time. Mavio. And I've got a special treat for you.

You're going to, uh, um, on this very program. And we might as well start there because like I said, we've got a surfeit of riches in terms of, uh, just how badly the maggots are doing in the rest of the world. Hint, it ain't good.

How bad is it? Well, we all know. We all know that Georgia Maloney, the prime minister of Italy, is a fascist POS. But after Nitwit Niro attacked Papa Leone, she had, Georgia Maloney had some things to say. Yeah. when he when nitwitnero started threatening a nuclear apocalypse and then went on to attack the vicar of christ as he is called uh george maloney didn't much care for that nitwit nero had attacked her as well saying as far as i know nine no she's the unacceptable one she doesn't care if iran gets a nuclear weapon and blows italy bits in two minutes. Of course, Italy's never, Iran's never threatened Italy. These are just the

mad ravings of a man with a rapidly disintegrating brain. And George Maloney pushed back. I say I disagree because I believe this is good for Europe, the United States and the West in general. Do you think Trump might apologize? Well, I think what I think what I think. I think what I said is that I think the statements in particular about the pontiff were unacceptable. I expressed my solidarity with Papalione. I'll tell you more frankly I wouldn't feel comfortable in a society where religious leaders do what political leaders say. Let's not in this part of the world.

That's why I disagreed and I told you so. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, that's interesting enough. But what came next was even more so. The attacks on the Pope continue. Troy Nells is a maggot member of Congress and honking on a stogie, the girth of a penis. He was walking into the capital earlier today,

offered this up. Any reaction to Donald Trump's comments on the Pope over the weekend? I probably say the Pope needs to keep his business into leading his flock, so to speak, leading the church, and probably stay out of the political arena. He doesn't need to be getting involved in the political arena. Go lead your church, but stay out of the politics. We didn't elect the Pope to be the president or be anything else. So just keep his nose in the church's business and stay out of the political arena. What if he sees his role as sort of leading his flock away? Oh, lead his flock. Well, let's focus on just behavior doing everything else. Just focus on your flock. And Donald Trump is our president. It's not the Pope. I didn't elect

the Pope to be president. Yeah, so that whole business with Jesus saying, put up thy sword into his place for those that live by the sword shall die by the sword. I guess, according to Troy Nell's, Papa Leone, doesn't get to quote that or anything. No, no, I guess not. Papa Leone left a note on the door, said, Sonny, move out to the country. No, that was Mama Leone.

Never mind. Billy Joel, whatever. But then this was kind of fascinating. Because the leader of the principal opposition to George and Maloney's fascist, party. Ellie Schlein, she herself is half American and half Italian, rose in the Italian parliament to deliver an absolutely stunning Jeremiad in defense of the woman she opposes.

It's, well, times like these, make for moments like these. I want to express our absolute condendation by which I am certain is shared to the House concerning President Trump's attack on our PM, Georgia Maloney, for having done the right thing expressing solidarity with the Pope. I want to say that Italy is a free and sovereign country. Our constitution is clear. Italy repudiates war. No foreign head of state has the right to attack or threaten. or disrespect our country or our government. We are opponents in this chamber,

but we are all Italian citizens and Italian MPs. And we will not accept attacks or threats against our government or our country. We ask for truly unanimous condemnation on this. Thank you. And at that point in time, the entire, the entire Italian people parliament rose to its feet for a standing ovation for uh m schline's remarks god when you can when when when you're so

awful and so hateful and so disgusting so repulsive that you can unite as a body as contentious as that of the italian parliament which is not usually a terribly uh united group they argue rather a lot well you're saying something and then we get this in english no less the king's english the leader of the liberal democrats in the united kingdom at question time in the parliament didn't hold back a whole civilization will die tonight. Words I never thought I would hear from an American president. And though Donald Trump thankfully didn't follow through this time, these words are a stark reminder of how reckless, immoral and completely outside the bounds of international law this president is. Regrettably,

he is no friend of the United Kingdom. He's no leader of the free world. He is a dangerous and corrupt gangster, and that is how we must treat him. So will the Prime Minister advise the King to call off his state visits to Washington before it's too late? Because I really fear for what Trump might say or do while our King is forced to stand by his side. We cannot put His Majesty in that position. And when it comes to Trump's latest cunning plan to blockade the strait of Hormuz, that will only escalate this crisis and jeopardise the precarious ceasefire. So it's right that the UK is not joining Trump. And I welcome the Prime Minister convening a summit to offer an alternative to Trump's. We must work with our reliable allies in Europe and the Commonwealth and our partners in the Gulf

to bring this conflict to an end and keep open the strait of Hamos. That is critical for tackling the cost of living crisis that is getting worse and worse for people in the UK. With petrol prices now up by more than 25p a litre and diesel up 49p since Trump started this war, cheered on let's not forget by the leader of the Conservative Party and reform, does the Prime Minister recognise that families and businesses can't wait months for the government to step in and help? So will he use the windfalls the Treasury is getting from higher fuel prices to cut the cost of living and keep the economy moving with action to slash bus fares and railfares and cutting fuel duty by 10p today,

bringing down the price at the pumps by 12p a liter. Indeed, yeah, yeah. And speaking of the Straits for Moose, Scott Besant, who recently made a killing selling the Pink Palace, selling the pink palace down in South Kalanistan. Was either drunk or, well, you know, again, being a billionaire is no signifier of intelligence. He's either drunk or stupid because there in the White House press room, he stepped to the podium to declare,

what the status is in that body of water if in fact it is you know water the U.S. kept their side on the ceasefire we've stopped firing the straits of Ramouth have not been completely reopened

that's right that's right friends neighbors the strait of vermouth you can tell what's on Scott Besson mind. He wants to get the hell out of there and get to lunch and have his three martinis or perhaps three ngronies. You know, a martini uses drive vermouth, whereas a ngroni is Kampari and sweet vermouth and gin with a little bit of orange peel. And, well, the late great

Tony Bourdain said it doesn't make sense. But damn, it's good. The straight of vermouth. And this guy's a financial titan. I think the strain's getting to Scott Bessent? Yeah? I think the strain is getting to Scott Besson. Of course, you want to strain your martini

with one of those little things with the kind of springy-looking thing and you pour it into your chilled martini glass. Very dry. I had no idea that's where Vermouth came from the Middle East. I mean, they're not exactly famous for their booze. Dates. Keefe, hashish, oil,

Vermuth? But, yeah, there we are. The U.S. kept their side on the ceasefire. We've stopped firing. The straits of Ramuth have not been. completely reopened. So we will see. The U.S.

Oh, that's just so good. And, of course, the U.S. kept our part of the bargain. Well, we only had to make that bargain because his orange daddy decided to do the bidding of, you know, psycho bebe and his fascists

well thank you Flavia that's helpful thank you very much indeed we are now down to dear me 22 29 89

thank you Flavio Flavio said Ellie Schline and she's very Jewish I sent you 20 bucks I had a dental erupted molar extraction today. $269. Ouch! Fortunately, it was not the $400 they quoted me since it was a simple extraction and not a

surgical extraction. Oh, so you mean he just gave you a shot of liquor and crawled up on you and put his knee on your chest and got the pliers out and... That just... Yeah. I'm hurting thinking about it. Take care of it. You don't want a dry socket.

be very, very careful with that, Fabio. And thank you, Povio, so very kindly. Leah, New York says, straight of vermouth. It seems like we have vermouth on the rocks. And I don't mean ice. Yeah. Indeed.

And from Gino drinks. And a boulevardier is even better because it's bourbon-based. Is that the bourbon-based ngroni? I can see where... Yeah, and of course, a sweet vermouth also goes in a Manhattan, along with some bitters. Sounds really nice indeed. And Sylvie.

By the way, Gino, this is for you. And for Sylvie, of course it's the straight of vermouth. Has to be. It's definitely not dry. bringing the A game again, Sylvie. Absolutely. Not dry. But then again, I said that the Middle East is not known for its booze,

but isn't there some sort of date wine, you know, made of the fruit dates? Isn't there a date wine or a date liqueur? Something in my mind thinks there is. Randy Radar said Stephen Miller hasn't been seen in a month. Oh, yeah, he's around. He's around. In fact, his wife, Katie, that toxic. See you next Tuesday.

Recently posted an excrement on X, in which she posted a picture of her husband, you know, ugly Nosferatu, and said, liberal men are liberal men are so unattractive oh honey look what you married and I guess it's foreign language

foreign language audio clip day because now of course we have the man who's really running this entire show Psycho Beebebe who by the way had the nerve to say that he rejects the ceasefire and says that the war against Iran

will continue at any time he, Psycho Bibi, chooses. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Up until now, let me say, there are still additional objectives for us to achieve, and we will achieve them either by agreement or by resumption of the fighting. We, and we are ready to resume the fighting, at any moment our finger is on the trigger

as you know two weeks ceasefire has been announced between the US and Iran no we were not surprised in the last moment and I want to emphasize this is not the end of the war this is a step in order to achieve all the objective

and yeah fuck you baby with a flaming red-hot desiccated 35-foot-long fucking cactus. Fuck you. And all your fascist buddies. God's... Pity somebody can't Ayatollah him.

Because Israel will never stop being a pariah state until they get rid of him. Flavio asking, Scott Besant. The fuck is wrong with these fascist gay guys. I didn't know gay and fascist was a successful combo. Oh, come on, Ernst Worm? And he's raising children with his morals, I'm sure.

I'm thinking of other fascist gay guys like Peter Thiel, Tim Cook, Sam Altman, et al. Or Rick Grinnell, I mean, there's several fascist gay bros inside the nitwit Nero Mal administration. And every last one of them. are as crooked as a dog's hind leg. When the day comes, when they finally breathe their last, they'll have to use a commercial-grade auger

to screw them into the dirt because they'll be too crooked to bury. Like I said, busy day out there. Okay, well, thank you, Camel Cardinal. Middle East not known for its booze. Begs to differ, Ms. Lady. Shiraz grapes were originally cultivated in Iran. Yes, they made wine with them with them shits.

I knew Shiraz grapes did come from there, but, I mean, the bottom kind of fell out of the booze industry with the rise of Muhammad, didn't it? But in fact, I read somewhere long ago that the Persians had a, well, saying that all things discussed or considered while being drunk should also be considered while being sober. And, you know, that's not a terrible idea. Don't necessarily do things, bad decisions happen when you're loaded.

Things like, hey, let's jump off. the roof into the swimming pool and then you realize you don't have a swimming pool and it works out that way. Ah, thank you.

Thank you so much to an anonymous individual who says, US foreign policy for U.S. citizens and we are now down to $2,200. And that means six and one-third days are unfunded.

So looking at the calendar just because I like to keep track of things like that. Thank you so much. Six and a third. So one, two, three, four, five, six. We've got one-third of Tuesday the seventh yet to fund. There's a hundred bucks and we're done with last Tuesday, April the seventh. And that's only the beginning. And we're only a half hour into the program. The architect of Project 2025, Russell Vote, appeared in the Congress today. He had previously told the Congress to fuck off that he didn't feel like coming and talking to them, even though Congress has the purse strings.

And you can understand why, because, well, he's a bit of a crook, Russell Vote. saying, there we are. He was being questioned by Representative Ballant, a Democrat, who brought receipts to show just how crooked he had been. Made it $7.6 billion in clean energy grants based on whether the recipient lived in a blue state. Yes or no? I don't recall what that judge said, but we have not made the determinations based on whether. In fact, Mr. Vote, on January 12, 2026, U.S. judge, Amit Mehta said, quote, defendants, meaning you, Mr. Vote, freely admit that they made grant determination decisions primarily, if not exclusively, based on whether the awardee resided in a state whose citizens voted for President Trump in 2024.

Mr. Mr. Vote, yes or no. Federal judges said OMB's freeze of $10 billion in child care and family assistance funding, quote, a peer designed to punish communities that the administration agreed with. Yes or no? Was that something that federal judges said about you and your leadership? I think the judge's characterization is getting at the degree to which we are focused on states that we think are mismanaged. Okay, that is not in fact the case.

In fact, U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson found the administration broke the law and froze funds as a politically motivated move disguised as fraud prevention. So your characterization actually is false. Other courts have said that withholding congressionally approved funding is, quote, vindictive and unlawful. Courts have found that freezing funds create, quote, irreparable harm against the American people. And the GAO, the government accountability office, the watchdog agency that investigates how federal agency spend taxpayer dollars, has reported that you broke the law multiple times. and they have said that you have refused to spend money that was dedicated for Americans.

The Constitution gives Congress, Congress the power to spend money and not the president. Mr. Vote, your actions clearly show that you want to cut federal funds from anyone who didn't vote for Donald Trump. Are you trying to get revenge on states that did not vote for your boss? No, of course, what's interesting about the question is that Joe Biden withheld federal funding for the wall. Can we please bring it back to my question? It was a yes or no question. Are you trying to get revenge against blue states because they did not support the president? Courts have said that in fact you did do that. That in fact you are being vindictive. In fact, you are punishing because of political persuasions. It's not members of Congress who suffer when you do. an end run around Congress, that's not what I'm angry about. It's not about you taking the power from us. It's that it's their money. It's their power. Of the people, by the people and for the people, the house is closest to the people. So when you do an end run around Congress, you're taking Americans' power. Yeah. And it would have been, she would have been well within her right

and she said, sir, if you had any decency whatsoever, you would resign them. You would resign right here under cross-examination. Because, again, courts of competent jurisdiction, and she brought the receipts, did say all of that. And it's abundantly obvious that that is her game. whether it's the Treasury Secretary talking about the Strait of Vermuth or this guy saying, but Joe Biden, Joe Biden didn't do anything like this. Joe Biden reached out an olive branch bearing hand to the maggot states

and, well, drew back a bloody stump, but nonetheless, tried to make the lives of American citizens all over the country better. Yeah, oh well, how's that working out? But anyway, it was a busy day there in the Congress. And then there's the ongoing question of nitwit Nero and his thing for having people well he's given out his mobile number you know the same the same cell phone that he uses to tripe his tripes and so lo and behold you know we heard just a moment ago

from the leader of the uh liberal party there in the UK and it turns out that sky news which of course is a Murdoch joint one guy has one of their reporters has his number and just rang him up to see and I'm not sure if this was before or after the call came for and and the prime minister of England the UK has the power to say well I'm sorry your majesty but I'm afraid you can't go go on your little jaunt to the call-aise I'm sure this is before or after but Mark Stone described his interaction in this impromptu phone call with Mitwit Nero. Insane, tragic, sad. President Trump's scathing language about the UK in a phone call with me just now. An interview that lasted nearly five minutes. We talked about King Charles, a great gentleman, he said.

We talked about Prime Minister Stama. who he said had made a tragic mistake. We talked about the special relationship with who he said. He had a word or two as well about the UK-US trade agreement, and on Iran, he said a deal is very possible. It was a jam-packed interview. I'll tell you what he told me, and I'll explain why you can't hear the call.

Our conversation focused initially on King Charles's visit to America in two weeks' time. He's a great gentleman, a friend of mine. He's a fantastic person, the president told me. So which bit of the four-day visit was he looking forward to the most? Just being with him. I've known him for a long time. He's wonderful, wonderful person. Then I asked the president if his strained relationship with Prime Minister Stama

could overshadow the royal visit. After all, there's barely a day that goes by where the president doesn't have a bad word or two about Sakeer. No, he said. Not at all. I've known the king for a long time and he's not involved in that process. The president there is talking about the politics, of course, and on that he then laid in to Prime Minister Starma. I like Starma, but I think he's made a tragic mistake in closing the North Sea oil. You see your energy prices are the highest in the world, and I think he's made a tragic mistake on immigration.

I love your country, the president said, and I would love to see it succeed. if you have bad immigration policies and bad energy policies, you have the worst of both. You can't succeed, not possible. I put it to the president that maybe it's up to the UK Prime Minister to run his own country, not America's president. Well, it is, he said, but a lot of people ask me what I think about them, and I think they're insane. Many, many people. They're destroying your country, your country's being invaded. I pushed back. Invaded by who? by illegal immigrants from all over the world, including those from prisons, drug dealers,

people from mental institutions, your country is being invaded. It was all familiar stuff, all the stuff he says all the time about America's immigration problems, but now applied intriguingly to Britain. But was it, I asked him, just fake news, was maybe his information about Britain's immigration challenges

not quite right? I've been very accurate here, he said, and he moved on. It's worth explaining a few things about this call because it's unorthodox to say the least to be ringing up the president. This is his personal mobile phone. The calls are not arranged. If he picks up and he's happy to talk, then the interview starts. The agreement with him was that I would record but not publish the audio. So I asked him how he would describe the special relationship right now. With who he said? With the UK, I replied. It's the relationship where When we asked them for help, they were not there, when we needed them.

It's worth noting that this reporter for Sky News doesn't bother to take note of the fact that when he said, asked about the special relationship, that's a term of art that has been used for eons to describe the relationship between the United States and Mother England, that somehow our relationship with England is more special. than our relationship with any other country. And just about anybody knows that special relationship means the United States and the UK. So what about the special relationship? What special relationship? We're not going to talk about Stoomy Daniels again, are we?

And then the business about immigration. Insane asylum, you're being destroyed by immigration. This is the pernicious effect. that Stephen Miller has had on his on Nitwit Nero's badly deteriorated brain here it is once again

he heard the word asylum and he thinks that that means crazy people are emigrating but along those lines of him not understanding words and concepts now it all makes sense why it is that he was saying I'm a Red Cross doctor in that image.

That's what I'm a doctor. Because he heard Caroline, real poo-poo, leave it alone, answer a question as to whether the image, and we talked about this in yesterday's program, whether the AI image of him apparently raising Jeffrey Epstein from the dead, had been doctored. The dementia patient in the White House thought that that meant

that in the image he's a doctor. And so he, well, he ran with it. Ah, God. Yeah. And he got to you. But let's let this fellow wrap up. They were not there. When we didn't need them, they were not there, and they still aren't there.

Sounds like it's very bad in that case, I put it to him. And with that, he had a threat. Well, it's been better, but it's sad. And we gave them a good trade deal, better than I had to, which can always be changed. And with that, he said he had to go. I pushed him briefly on Iran. A deal before the king visits?

It's possible, he said. Very possible. They're beaten up pretty bad. It's very possible. And we'll know in two weeks. Because everything's two weeks out. We're also two weeks away from Infrastructure Week. Again.

Two weeks from the greatest health care deal you've ever seen. Oh, Advil, take me away. he's deeply damaged and he's beyond reach I suppose you could say here at home News Ninja Gene made me aware of this

and you know I see stories coming out of various parts of the country and I think about the members of our little family community congregation who are there well this story comes from San Diego oh dear

but then again one would expect this given the fact that whalehead dead bear brainworm lamprey is in charge of dhHS yeah a warning has gone out to students at southwestern colleges chula vista campus telling them that it's entirely possible they've been exposed to multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. They're only now by figuring it out. Gee, wonder why. The exposure happened between

October the 27th and December the 14th of 2025. And it's incredibly difficult to treat because it, well, it's multi-drug-resistant. That's what happens when you let, as Paul from Parts Unknown so frequently reminded us,

when you let diseases go on buying lottery tickets. The County of San Diego's Communications Office has a tuberculosis prevention and care program, and they put out a notice saying, hey, if you were a student at the Chula Vista campus, you may have been exposed to tuberculosis, again, October 27th to December of the 14th. And let's make it worse. It's a different exposure warning than happened at Iglesia Ni Cristo in Miramar in March. Mayo Clinic says that tuberculosis can be noted for its propensity for causing people to cough up blood or mucus, weight loss, chest pain, chills, fever. my dear sister, Miss Terry, way back in college, contracted tuberculosis.

And you know what? She got cleared up, but she's still dealing with it. And the tuberculosis program there in San Diego County went on to say, people may be sick for months before receiving a diagnosis which can lengthen exposure periods. Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis can be more complicated and lengthier to treat since it's a form of infection that does not respond to the usual medicines. The good news is that TB, including MDR. TB, is treatable and curable with the right medication if you believe you may have been exposed.

Contact the county tuberculosis department right away. Early screening and treatment is important to help protect your health and the health of our community. Well, the Magus don't care about protecting the health of the community, and I'm sure that whalehead dead bear brain worm lamprey is there in Washington, D.C., saying, what we need is to build herd immunity to tuberculosis, and we can only build herd immunity to multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis if more people get multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis

and see this is why you don't want to use drugs. People who believe they may have been exposed to the disease, they're in San Diego County, should call the Tuberculosis Control Program at Area Code 619-69-692-866. 621 for guidance, not necessarily treatment. Because this here's Merca. Uh-huh. And, you know, well, whalehead, dead bear brainworm lamprey, he hasn't improved during the time he's been on the job.

New. In fact, let me see if I can find it here. Yeah, there it is. I'm not exactly sure when this recording took place. It was whalehead, dead bear, brainworm, lamprey being questioned. And, well, letting his clan robes flap in the breeze. Blacks need fewer antigens. This is so dangerous.

So you get the same measles vaccine. Mr. Kennedy, with all due respect, that is so dangerous. Your voice would be a voice that parents would listen to. That is so dangerous. I will be voting with your nomination. Okay, so this goes all the way back to his confirmation hearings. Your views are dangerous to our state and to our country. I mean, do you think science is dangerous, Senator?

This is published peer-reviewed studies. I yield. Blacks need fewer antigens. That goes hand in hand with things like, well, you know, black women don't feel pain. the way white women do. They need less pain medication, say, in giving birth, or any other thing, any other situation. That's your secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Of course, it's right there in line with pretty much everything else he said. Remember, he ran a grift during COVID. imploring African-American communities to not get the vaccine. He compared the COVID vaccine with the Tuskegee experiment. What a timeline. The timeline. And earlier today, Democrats in the House of Representatives introduced five articles of impeachment against Whiskey Pete Tegbreth.

Representative Yasmin Ansari of Arizona introduced it with Democratic co-sponsors. It was dead on arrival, but some people believe it's important to at least try to use the tools that the Constitution gives them. All the charges center around military operations in Iran,

military operations, if you can indeed call them military operations in Venezuela. And, of course, Signalgate. In Article 1, He is accused of ordering unauthorized strikes against Iran without congressional approval and signing off on plans that created extreme and unnecessary risk to U.S. personnel. Then there's the allegation that he violated the law of armed conflict, including the targeting of civilians, noting that he had ordered the bombing of a girl's,

in Minab, Iran, not to mention the so-called double-tap strikes against stranded human beings in the water after an illegal strike on Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean. Then there's Signalgate where he breached Opsack, operational security. obstructing congressional oversight by not informing Congress about military operations and keeping Congress in the dark about civilian casualties and then finally, you know, a cherry on top of a shit Sunday that he had damaged the reputation of the United States military

and that was centered on the rollback of diversity and inclusion programs and the way they treated honorably serving trans members of the military and well his criticism of NATO. Now over at the Pentagon, press creep secretary, Kingsley Wilson said, this is just another Democrat trying to make headlines as the Department of War decisively and overwhelmingly achieved

the president's objectives in Iran the secretary will continue to protect the homeland and project peace through strength it really does it now that I've been studying it for a year or more it sounds a lot better in the original German Defotadand yeah

overwhelmingly achieved the president's objectives in Iran I thought the objective in Iran was to make sure Iran was absolutely powerless before our massive ordinance and was unable to threaten its neighbors in the Gulf. Oopsie, that's not true, but I applaud Representative Ansari for doing what the Constitution and her oath insists that she do. And speaking of the Constitution, Representative Jamie Raskin sat down for a chat with the Amicus podcast over at Slate, where he opined about what he thinks the framers would have to say about this situation in which we find ourselves. He told Slate, I think Madison and Jefferson and Hamilton would be astonished that anybody in Congress would vote not to impeach, or not to convict a president for inciting a violent mob to attack Congress itself

and to try to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power? The antidote to us operating from fear, whether it's fear of mob violence or fear of personal attacks or fear of nuclear war, fear of what an out-of-control president might do, is for people to act with some courage and with some common sense as much as possible across party lines. and as we have said here on this program on repeated occasions Raskin said

the Constitution wasn't really set up for this along the way he this is a good line he referred to Vice President Jimmy Dick Bowman or J.D. Ag or whatever they're calling themselves these days as morally invertebrate that's a dandy

he's a moral invertebrate no spine but you know what that's really not fair to the invertebrates cephalopods as Dave in the blind can tell us are incredibly intelligent and they do just fine

without a spine it could be not just the lack of vertebrae Congressman Raskin with all respect it could be the business of operating without a brain and then he got down to brass tax and said Will they try to steal the election?

Of course they'll try to steal the election. They're trying to steal it every day when they close down precinct polling places in Texas and when they throw people off the rolls in Georgia adding we should not treat impeachment as a taboo or a fetish but as an essential tool and a broader strategy to hold Trump and Republicans accountable heading into November. What have I said here?

On so many occasions. impeachment is not a constitutional crisis impeachment when done correctly and for the right reasons is actually a manifestation of the Constitution operating as it should and we find ourselves now

if we do not write this ship in November and then again in 2028 we're already in constitutional collapse but we'll move into the past tense if we don't do this. The Constitution has collapsed. Right now we're in the present tense. Is

collapsing? Please believe me when I say has collapsed is a far worse situation. And I mentioned Russell vote testifying in the Congress earlier today.

Well, they did have to take a pause because protesters were there. Among other things, people protested at least one person had a sign for PEPFAR the president's emergency plan for AIDS relief which of course

Russell Vote finds no purpose for remember the story from yesterday oh USAID hell I thought they'd just done abortions the budget that he submitted nitwit Nero did and for which Vought was responsible for

disgusting has a cause for a 43% boost in the military budget which is already bloated

all the while it hacks away he wants a $1.5 trillion dollar Pentagon budget

that's almost a half a trillion dollar increase what he wants to hack away at. Department of Agriculture by 19%. Commerce by 12.2%. Education Department

knocked that down by 2.3 billion. The EPA, they get a 52% cut. Health and Human Services gets hacked by 12.5%. Housing and urban development, 13% interior, 12.9%, labor, 25.9%. The SBA by 67%. You can tell where his real hatred lies.

The State Department, 30%. Transportation by 6.2%, the Treasury by 12%. He wants $63 billion more for the Department of Homeland Security. The chair of appropriations in the Senate is, regrettably, Susan Collins, who said, Well, there are some improvement. That sounds like Bobby Kennedy.

While there are some improvements over last year's domestic discretionary budget request, including full support for the Pell Grant Program, the request has several shortcomings. For example, the proposal includes unwarranted funding cuts in biomedical research. Well, how are we ever going to get a proper tuberculosis pandemic going if we don't cut that kind of thing? God damn it, whalehead, dead bear brainworm lamprey wants him a polio outbreak. And if we're not cutting biomedical research, how's he ever going to get that? Then she noted the termination, the outright zeroing of things like LIHEAP,

which provides ever so modest assistance for low-income working families as well as seniors to be able to not freeze to death in winter or die of heat stroke in summer or something called Trio which is used by first generation students who are lower income and trying to get the family's first college degree. and he wants to privatize the TSA. Oh, that's going to wind up. What, private screeners at airports, small airports? Yeah, great.

Sure, that'll work out really well. But good news, the Bureau of Prisons will get a $1.7 billion goose. Within that request is $152 million. to, quote, rebuild Alcatraz as a state-of-the-art secure prison facility. Nitwit Niro really wants that. I went there to be another birdman of Alcatraz. I saw that Birdman cartoon. I want to meet him.

And you know how they talk about going back to the moon? This budget seeks to slash 23% of NASA's already paltry budget. Well, Democratic senators don't seem impressed. Senator Patty Murray of Washington said, President Trump wants to slash medical research to fund costly foreign wars. It doesn't get more backward than that, and the only responsible thing to do with a budget this morally bankrupt is to toss it in the trash.

She added, this week, President Trump said that our country cannot afford to help families with child care or health care, but his own budget proves what a ridiculous farce that is. imagine how many families we could help if instead of giving the Pentagon more money than they can even figure out what to do with. We cut people's heating bills in half and made child care affordable for every family in America. Well, yes, Senator Murray, I'm right there with you, but you've got to understand that, well, we couldn't afford gender affirming care for trans members of the military, but we've got to make sure that there's plenty of hard-on pills for the general. who need their own gender-affirming care. Jeff Merkley,

who's the ranking budget committee member, said, going back decades, presidents have sent to Congress detailed budgets with 10 years' worth of detailed plans outlining their approach to tax policy, our growing debt, as well as the solvency of our biggest programs like Medicare and Social Security.

This budget doesn't do any of that. It's just an out-of-touch plea for more money for guns and bombs and less for the things people need, like housing, health care, education, road, scientific research, and environmental protection. Dear God, turns out the civilization he wants to eliminate from the Earth is the United States. And it's been a busy day. Let's go and see who's on the stress line.

Hey, welcome to the program. Hello? Oh, wait a minute. Don't give up on me. There, hi. Oh, hello there. Hey, Kurt, how are you? How are you? Well, I'm, well, let's you hear.

I missed my meditation and I miss my shock therapy treatments. But other than that, I'm doing all right. Well, hey, who needs medicine and, you know, shock therapy? I mean, Todd, Kurt. Well, we have a balmy day up here. We're at 71 degrees up here in the upper Midwest. Oh, Lord. You get out to copper tone.

Oh, well, yes, yes. But it's, although now they're saying on Friday, we're supposed to have had an inch of snow in a high of 32. So, you know, go figure. This is the way it is here in the spring up here. We can warm up and then we go right back to winter. It's been known to happen that way here, too. Oh, I'm sure.

Right. Now, does it get Monday down there early, like in your spring? Is it, you know, do you get like, you know, the real strong humidity down there? No, it can. It's 81 degrees. Or the air is still kind of dry. No, it's 81. It gets, it gets squishy.

It's 81 degrees outside right now, and 79 here inside the studio. And I've got a little patina of perspiration. cross my forehead. Well, it's good in, yeah, well, it's actually getting kind of warm here in my apartment here, too. I'm about ready to, you know, slap in that air conditioner. Because I like it cool. I don't like it. Oh, no, I do.

I do, I do, too. And I'm trying to, I'm trying to resist the urge to crank it up because as long as it's not running, the meter's turning a little bit more slowly. and again, West Virginia has some of, if not the, most expensive electricity in the entire country. Right, right. And it's not well kept either, is it? And what I mean by that, you know, you have spells where you lose power. Oh, gosh, yes, it wouldn't be West Virginia. Yeah.

Yeah, if our rickety little toilet, spit and toilet. toilet paper grid didn't go down at the first rumble of thunder. Yeah, that's not very good. No, that's not a very good steady stream of current there, I would say. Well, you know, what I don't understand is we're so far behind by Germany. I know they bury, you know, their power cables under ground. And I don't know why we don't do that here in this country. I mean, what's the point in having a power?

Yeah, I would think you could do that in North Dakota, burying power lines here. in Appalachia, that's another matter, because you go down about a foot and a half in these hills and you hit sandstone, and that's a lot of blasting type. That is a lot of blasting, yes. Yeah, yeah, that's for sure. No, the reason I called is, well, actually, there was many things here. It was kind of funny you were talking here earlier about, like, martinis. I don't like martinis. You know, whenever I, you know, whenever I went to some, you know, to some highfalutin party,

I remember they would serve, you know, martinis. But I was more of a champagne guy, you know, champagne guy. But the martinis, I just couldn't drink them because it reminded me of ether. It's a glass of ice cold gin. yes yes and i felt like i was getting prepped for surgery because it felt you know it had that taste and that smell of ether and i go jeezes no the only thing about martinis that i did like was uh well you remember these the martini rossi commercial uh you know commercial remember those back in the 60s 70s oh i even remember the jingle i will not say we're deep

the hole so I will not sing. Oh, come on. Let's hear it. Marquini and Rossi on the rock say yes. Wasn't that it? That was it. Yes. Yes.

And those were such cool ads. Remember that one with the girl? You know, was roller skating. I think this was in, this was in L.A. and she was she was she had those martini rossi uh you know dreams off yeah you not you not knock back a few martini and rossies and get on your roller skates and see what kind of world you're living in but i thought of that right away when you mentioned that you know the martini rosser i mean the martinis and and i thought of the martini rossi commercials right away and uh and i remember those very very very vividly. Those were so cool at the time. But, yeah, I was never much of a martini guy.

I did like champagne, but it just wasn't a martini guy at all. No. I never fully understood what went into it because, okay, we both love our old movies, Kurt. Right. You remember how in the Thin Man movies, they're always drinking champagne cocktails. Uh-huh, right. Isn't that just a glass of champagne?

Or is there something else in it? Yeah. I don't remember. I don't know. I never have. Of course, once upon a time I did bring home a t-shirt from a restaurant in New Orleans called the Ruby Slipper. Great brunch place. and their signature t-shirt said the mimosa's made me do it.

And, of course, a mimosa is just orange juice and champagne. Orange juice, oh, okay, okay. Well, I only had olives in my champagne. You know, to whatever party I was at, if it was kind of a party with a suit and pie and all that feeling. But that was about the only thing I had in my class. What's that? And then of course, I would stumble into people.

No, I'm just kidding. No, I never did it. I was never one of those that stumbled the fell when I was drinking. I kind of held it together. I was always like one of these that I love the buzz, but if I could keep it at that level, you know, that's kind of the way I drank in my younger years. And being on crutches, you know,

I was always afraid I was going to maybe trip. somebody because, you know, if I was in a bar or something, it was full of people and I'm dodging people left and right and trying to get through a crowd or something. And I remember one time I think, well, I kind of fell into somebody because I had tripped over somebody. And then that person kind of caught me before I fell. So it's just, you know, just kind of great. That sounds downright.

dangerous. So I can see where you might have wanted to, you know, keep it together. Right, right. Well, not only that, but, you know, I also drove. I remember, though, coming home from many a parties, Roxanne. And I remember I started to have, like, double vision. I've ever had one of those nights where you, where it was like, oh, my God. What the hell?

No, no, no, no, no, never have. Oh, you never did. Oh, I had one, or more than once, maybe two or three times. But I remember driving home, and I had to cover up the one eye, Roxanne, so I could see it. It's not see a freeway. No, I know exactly what you're talking about. Oh, okay. Well, Lee has answered the question for us.

A champagne cocktail is made with sugar, Anguster, bitters, champagne, brandy, and a marasino cherry is a garnish. Oh, oh my, that would pack a wallop. Wow. Wow. A few of those in your head would probably feel like an overripe melon the next morning. Well, I would say so, yes. Jesus.

And what was it? He said it was what? Sugar, Anguster, a bitters, champagne, brandy, and Maraschino cherry. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. And by the way, wow, this is some trivia. But, and this has nothing to do with booze.

But for people who are prone to the hiccups, you know, sometimes you get a case of the hiccups and they just won't go away. Well, the one sure-fire remedy I've found over the years for the hiccups is a wedge of lemon with two or three drops of angostor. of bitters on it and you just bite that, bite that lemon with the bitters and the, then the hiccups just, they're gone. Really? Yeah, it's amazing. Bartender, the bartender taught you that eons ago. Well, I'll tell you what.

You should try something else if you have the hip-ups. Tilt your head back, plug your ears, and swallow ten times. You'll get rid of the hiccups. I think I like the lemon and bitters better. I didn't. You don't like my idea. No, that's funny. No, but I remember that's what they did to us when I was at the handicaps school.

They always, you know, if you had the hiccups, they would tilt your head back and then you'd plug your ears and then you'd swallow ten times. And you didn't get rid of them. it was the damnedest thing I'd ever seen. But it worked. But I think I like your idea better, too. So I'll have to, I'll like to keep that in mind. But another reason I called was, too, you were, you know, I had forgotten all about that you were a crash test dummies fan. Oh, that album in particular.

God shuffled his feet. Which one? God shuffled his feet. Yes. Right. And I don't know if you, well, you probably do know this, but you know, they're from Winnipeg. I knew they were from Canada somewhere. I didn't know it was Winnipeg.

Yeah. They played Roxanne. They were a bar, they were, you know, when they first started out, they were a bar band at a cafe. in downtown Winnipe. Right off of St. Mary's, God, I remember it because I was there once or twice. They played there every Saturday night. It was like a bar restaurant.

But when they first started out, they played at the Blue Note Cafe. And they, you know, they kind of started it. But they started in the late 80s. And the Blue Note Cafe, actually that opened up. I remember it was like in the early 80s. But I went there several times. And I saw them play there, you know, there's the Blue Note. And this would have been in the late 80s when I saw them there.

That would have been 89, I think, 88 maybe. But it was in the late 80s. but that's where they started out, was at the Blue Note Cafe, and they even served parodies there. Oh, wow. Yes, the Blue Note Cafe. Now, whether that's still going,

I don't know, Roxanne. I haven't been to Canada now since the late 90s. And then, of course, when 9-11 came, everything changed, the border crossings and all that, you know. so and I just had been up I haven't been up to Canada now since the late 90s I think the last time uh let's hear it probably would have been 98 I think it was the last time I was up in Winnipeg that's a long time ago now but but yeah that's where they they started out playing at the blue note cafe great little cafe it was four people all the time I loved uh I always loved Brad Roberts's

voice because, you know, back in the before time, he was about, there were very few artists that I could karaoke to and actually, you know, match key with, and his was one. Oh, sure. Wow. Right. Well, you do have a good voice, so, yes, yes. No, and I can see that. But, yeah, they were a good group.

Yeah. And Brad Roberts is still out there performing. It was a while back, but I saw some, I've read some interview with him where he said, eventually it became necessary for him to actually take voice, study voice, because he was trashing his own. Oh, sure. Right. But, yeah, he's got a great voice. It's very deep.

But, yeah, they're. And the other thing I loved about him is, I don't know if there's another song out there that references T.S. Eliot and the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock, but by God, they do. Yeah. It's on that same album, Afternoons and Coffee Spoons. There is all. Which is lifted directly from Prufrock. I have, I only have two of their CDs. I have their first album, and then the God shuffles their feet, or shuffles his feet.

So I only got two of theirs. And I do remember, you know, the Superman song. You know, that went, you know, pretty viral too. And then Adrogynous was another one. Oh, God, it's been so many years now. But I remember when they first came out, they're in the early 90s. And, yeah, they were, they just kind of came on real fast. Boom.

Yeah. Honestly, I remember, oh, wow, I am dating myself here. But when I got my first Porsche, it was a 1987-944-S. Oh, wow. And I sunk. I sunk serious coin into the sound system, and it had a Rockford-Fosgate amp. I can't remember the speaker. Oh, wow.

And I had a CD changer that held 10 CDs. And I remember driving around in that red, guards red, that's the Porsche Red. Guards Red, 1987, 944S with that disc blaring away. Oh, is that right? Oh, yeah. What kind of experience did you have on it? I'm trying to remember. Maybe Altec Lansing?

I mean, I went major nerd on this thing. That Rockford-Fosgate amp would, I mean, that thing, that thing pumps some wattage. So the door's kind of shimmy then when you, When you cranked it? Oh, you could, if you had the windows rolled part of the way down, you could see them vibrate. Oh, I bet. Yeah, it had, I forget what sort of obscene subwoofer I put in it.

Oh, sure. That was my misspent youth. I wasn't even 30 yet. Oh, is that right? Yeah, I had my mid-life crisis very early. but the funny thing was I did I did too when I was when I was in graduate school at Alabama

it was a very sparsely decorated little apartment but I had seen a full page trifold pull-out ad in Esquire of the new 1987 Porsche 94S

it was a night it was an and I'd saved it and I put it up I just tacked it up on the wall of my apartment. And, you know, I really should have paid more attention to my area of study because someone who's trying to get a master of fine arts in acting probably has no business lusting after a Porsche. That would have been more appropriate to somebody getting, say, you know, an MBA.

That's like someone writing a master's thesis on basket weaving. you know with an Aston Martin on the wall you're never going to see that no right right but the only reason the only reason I got mine was because

I came to my senses and eventually and eventually went to law school right right well you know don't feel that. I just sort of like waddled my way through college most of the time. I mean, I did well. I even

had a professor, he wanted me to go to law school here in North Dakota when I was at the junior college. But I had no interest in going to law school, and I didn't want to be in school that long. So I always tell people I was going for the NASA program. I was in for the time and space. Because I really didn't know what I really wanted to do.

I went from, you know, the handicapped school to coming home and then finishing high school in 79. And then I was kind of more or less kind of pushed to go to college. but now I wish I would have waited until I was a little bit older

because I was still you know wild and obnoxious and nuts you know after being in you know Worthington all those years and I wanted to get out

and see the world you know and visit people and you know and raise hell which I did enough of that too in my lifetime but yeah I

I didn't really but then And also, too, I'm kind of glad now that I did it that way. Although I did have, I had very much an interest like in electronics, which I was very good at, by the way. I mean, I couldn't fix things, especially the analog stuff. You know, but with all this digital stuff now, it's very different. But, of course, you're dealing with a lot of processors to it. with all this analog, or I mean, with all this digital stuff.

But, you know, so I did some of that on the side, and I just kind of fluttered around. I was like a hippie. I just kind of came and went with the wind. But I'm kind of glad I did it that way because I kind of knew deep down that the opportunities for myself were going to be very limited. I actually wanted to be a pilot, but I knew I couldn't do that either.

And I wanted to be a police officer. I remember when I was a kid when I was younger, but I couldn't do that. So I just kind of, you kind of like wandered around. Sure. But it's, you know, I learned a lot, and I, you know, I love the arts and all that too. I had, you know, if I had to do it over, I would probably go into film editing or probably go into, you know, something to do with Phil. If I had, had to do it over, but, but it's too late now. I just turned 65 now, so it's, it's, time is marching on and I'm not as durable as I used to be anymore, but.

But another thing I wanted to get to with you, which I remember you were talking about yesterday, about smoking. Well, I was a smoker, too. I started smoking when I was in college, actually. I started out smoking salem, menthol, you remember those? And then... Oh, I had my Salem. My father... I had my Salem phase and my Benson and Hedges menthol phase.

Oh, wow. Wow. But like you, I was also a camel smoker, you know, later on. I was, I liked the camel blues. I like the, I like the thinner ones, which I believe you said you like the wives. Yeah, I like, right? And I don't think they're, I don't even think they're made anymore. And God, you know, at, you know, $10 and $12 a pack, right? I'm not really glad I don't smoke.

No, me neither. No, God, no. But I'll tell you what, Roxanne, it wouldn't pay much. I quit smoking after my father passed away back in 86. He passed away, and I was still in, well, I was in my last year of college that year, too. But he had passed away on St. Patrick's Day. and his funeral was on my birthday, the 21st. So I don't really, really like to, you know, celebrate my birthday all that much in March. But, so I quit smoking for 10 years, Roxanne. And then I met a gal here in Grand Forks.

And, of course, she was a smoker, but a boom, but a bin, I started up again. Yep. And then my mother passed away in 2017. She was 85, and then I quit smoking in 2018, so I haven't smoked since 2018. However, let me just say this. If we ever find out, it'll never happen, I know. but if we ever fly down

that smoking is not harmful I'll tell you right now it wouldn't take much I would be up on my feet running to the grocery store or to the convenience store and buying two packs of camel blues

whip off that plastic wrapper and flip top that you know flip top box and whip out of smoke and flip my pick I could start up just like you. Well, as my father came to the end of his life, and he had quit smoking several years before, he quit smoking for big chunks of time along the way. And then he did inevitably fall back. But as he came to the end of his life, he looked at me one day and said, you know what I want? I said, what, Dad? Just tell me. I'll get it for. He said, I want a cigarette about three feet long.

I'm like, oops, can't get you that, Dad. But, yeah, it never fully goes away. But for the most part, I'm just ever so happy that I did finally find a reason to quit. Right, right, yeah. No, you feel better, too. I mean, I noticed that, you know, right away, of course, and, you know, you can either breathe better, you know, you know, stuff like that, you know, breathe better. And yeah, I mean, it's a nasty habit.

And, you know, it's funny, though, because I could only smoke camels. Now, if I smoke like cheap cigarettes or like, you know, you mentioned Marlboros, I couldn't smoke them either. Because they also had that shitty filter. If you remember, it was always kind of known that Marlboros had the fiberglass in their filters. and but they always make a cock. You know, like even the cheap cigarette, I couldn't smoke them.

I was always coughing. But like the camels, Tamils never bothered me at all, which was strange. And I also used to smoke those Canadian cigarettes whenever I went up to Canada, I would buy a pack of demurees.

I don't know if you remember. Ooh, I never even heard of that. Oh, okay. Yeah, well, they're called DeMorriese. And I think that come from the same, I think they come from R.J. Reynolds, I believe, Roxanne. But they're called DeMorriese. And they actually sold them here in Grand Forks here for a while back in the 90s. And I would buy a pack of them every once in a while when I was smoking again. And they were pretty good, too. I mean, they never bothered me either.

But those cheap cigarettes were just, yeah. I mean, they just had an awful taste. They always made me a cough. Oh, without a doubt. God, you're making me think about all the brands that I went through. late high school into oh golly up well into adulthood Winston lights Oh winc oh sure

Sure I thought yeah I could I couldn't I could never handle the reds in anything whether Winston or Marlborough Or anything so-called full strength No no no No right Right, right, right. No, it's, yeah, that was, yeah, no, I'm glad I quit, though, too.

It's not a good habit, that's for sure. Oh, yeah, without a doubt. And by the way, George and Corsoe offered up a thought, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I hate to sound like a music snob, but I can't believe the acts that are going into the hall, especially considering the classic bands that have been shut out. Yeah, I saw the list. I didn't pay too much attention to it this time.

I kind of quit paying attention to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when it became apparent what an absolute sleaze bag, Jan Winter, had been. Who? The original publisher of Rolling Stone, Jan Wanner. Oh, oh, I see. I see. Right, right, Jan Winners, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's terrible. I mean, you know, you look at, you know, the group out of Winnipeg, you know, the Gassu.

They certainly should have been in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And I can't believe that they let some of these, you know, like some of these people in there that haven't been around all that long either. They don't have much of the history. I mean, when you look at, you know, like the Gassu, they were big back in the late 60s, early 70s. Oh. And they certainly should be. and they're because of their heads.

You know, American woman undone, laughing, you know, these eyes, you know, I mean, Jesus. I mean, they should really, I mean, they should have been in there a long time ago, Ron Seth. I would agree so. Yeah. Did the Grateful Dead ever get in? You know, I don't know. I think they did, I would think, because they had kind of a cult following. too.

Yeah, you could call it a cult following and dedicated following. Yeah. Right. Oh, yeah, there was something else I was going to tell you, too. I was watching, well, actually, let me start it with this. I found, I was going through some of my tapes finally. I've been so busy doing other people's stuff. I haven't been able to get the mic.

you know, the my case, but I had recorded, I think you might find this interesting, because I think he were probably working with CNN at that time. This was back in the early 90s. And do you remember the ultra-nationalist from Russia, Vladimir Geronovsky? Yeah, that rings a bell. Yeah. Well, I had recorded an interview that he did with, oh god who's the guy that started C-SPAN.

I'm sure the ad hoc research department will get right on that. Oh, Jesus, I should know it. Well, anyway, the guy that started C-SPAN interviewed Vladimir Geronautsie, the ultra-nationalist. and I had actually recorded that interview on tape. And he asked him kind of an interesting question. He asked him, he was, they were visiting the United States, him and a few of the other members of the Duma. And they came over here now, you know, to the United States.

And, oh, God, well, what's his name? Anyway, he interviewed Vladimir Geronovsky. And he asked, Belaineer Mirzegovsky, he asked him, he said, well, now that you've been here now for a day or so, what do you think of the United States? And Blimeier-Zurinowski said, well, he said, you know, the United States is nothing but an artificial country. He says, you don't have much of a history.

You don't have that sort of thing. and uh you know but it was kind of interesting i i didn't realize brian lamb brian lamb thank you steward brian lamb there you go that's who it is brian lamb yes the guy that started she spent yeah and it was brian lamb that was interviewing uh you know you know bladimir geronovsky and uh and of course you remember he was always fighting with people in the duma if you remember he was always getting into fights and appearing on. And then

I also recorded the Russian news. But I must confess, the reason I recorded the Russian news because they would simulcast. Now, this was when the, you know, the Berlin Wall came down.

And then there was Perestroika with with oh, oh, the president of Russia. Well, Jesus, I'm drawing a blank with him now, too. Who, Putin? You know, the guy that started Perestroika. Oh, Gorbachev.

Gorbachev. Gorbachev. There you go. Jesus, I'm just drawing a blank here. It must be my old age. But anyway, I would also record the, you know, the Russian news. But the reason I recorded the Russian news, because they had a, a beautiful weather girl.

So I must confess, that's why I recorded. Yeah, fair enough. And I was one of these that could, you know, that could program the VCR, you know, so you don't have that, you know, that flashing 12 o'clock all the time. But I always recorded stuff on the timer. But I always enjoyed, you know, the weather forecast of Moscow.

Just saying. Yeah. Oh. I was a nerd. I was back in, this would have been in the early 90s, you know, Roxanne. But I always kind of thought, I always had kind of a, you know, it was just kind of a weird, weird, you know, interview with, you know, Vladimir Geronovsky.

Now, I don't know. Is he still alive? I don't know, but just got a little bit of information in from Dave number 11. Hi, Dave. The Guess Who, the Randy Bachman Burton Cummings version of the Guess Who is out on a nationwide tour of the U.S. right now. They've supplanted baseball-led version of the band that have been fooling fans for two decades, check local listings. I bet that would be a good show. But, Lord, how do people afford concerts?

I mean, so. Right. So the, and Victoria really wants to go, and I really want to take her. Devo is playing in Akron here in a month or so. Who? Devo. Oh, Devo. Oh, yeah.

De Evolution. Devo is playing in Akron. But, and then Jack White is playing in Pittsburgh. and there's a new venue up in Pittsburgh, and for their inaugural lineup, Sting is on the schedule. Oh, oh, yeah. For $190 plus tax per ticket in the not great seats. Right, and that's when nosebleeds.

Yeah. Oh, it's terrible. I wanted to go see the Eagles when they were here in Grand Forks. And three months later, that's when they left here, it was about three months later, that's when once they passed away. A Glenn Pry, was it a cry that died? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And I wanted to see them, but even the nooblies were over, they were over $200. Well, I can't afford that. Jesus. No, it's ridiculous. and I saw, I don't know if I told them this or not, I did see the Rolling Stones in 1970, it was either 77 or 78, and the only reason I went is I had surgery in the cities that summer, and my cousin, he won two tickets from the radio station to go see the Rolling Stones. So him and I went, and they played at the St. Paul Civic Center,

and they were promoting, well, my favorite last album of the Rolling Stones was some girls, the Sun Girls album. Oh, my goodness gracious. I don't have that album. I have it on CD, too. I love that album. And I ran three red lights in his honor. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. In his honor.

Far away, I. Uh-huh. Remember that? Yeah. I love that album. And speaking of the outrageousness of concert tickets, a jury has come back with a verdict against a company called Live Nation and says that. Right.

I saw that today. Yeah. An antitrust suit, and the jury found that Live Nation behaved as a monopoly. at the expensive venues, artists, and fans. Right. The suit took place in Manhattan. Live Nation owns Ticketmaster. Correct.

33 states in the District of Columbia accused Live Nation of engaging in unfair trade practices. I'm curious, I'm looking at the state. story now as to any damages. The Justice Department, well, you know what we're dealing with there, and several states reached a $280 million settlement with Live Nation back in early March. But how about the people who got gouged? Seems like

there should be a class action somewhere along the way. Well, I was just going to say, yeah, yeah, there should be a class action so people can get some of their money back. Yeah, no, it's, oh, it's terrible, Roxanne. Yeah, I mean, it's just nuts. And I think the tickets for that concert with the Rolling Stones back in 78, I think it was 78 because I had my wrist surgery. And I had to stay down in the cities because I had to go for therapy after the two weeks.

So I ended up staying with my aunt and uncle and then my cousins there in the city. I spent, I think about three weeks I was there there for a while. But we saw the Rolling Stones, and let me just say the adult in that group, or I should say the adult in that group was Charlie Watts. Oh, without a doubt. In between, yeah, because in between the break, well, something happened with Keith Richards, and also Nick Jagger, I don't know, they were, they were kind of like, you know, getting kissed at each other or something. And Charlie Watts came up, came out of the drum set and came over to Mick, Mick Jagger and just looked at him as if to say, you know, knock it off.

Enough enough enough enough. But I got the impression that, you know, Charlie Watts was the adult in the room there. Oh, and I've always loved it. I've always loved the story about Charlie Watts where one day he heard Mick Jagger refer to Charlie as more drama.

And Charlie grabbed him by the throat or something and said, listen, you ever call me your fucking drama again, I'll cut your fucking throat or your balls off or something like that. And apparently Mick never did that again. if you if you've never seen it kirk there's a there's a bit on one of his netflix specials

uh Craig Ferguson but i think it's just hilarious oh oh sure where he talks about working with nick jagger uh on a theoretical script treatment and it will have you doubled over laugh I don't want to give anything away, but, oh, it's good, it's good. Yeah, there were, well, that album, you know, some girls. And you know, another thing is,

I think you might have mentioned this a long time ago, too, and I would definitely concur. And that is, on that album, you know, Pete Richards sings the song, and the name of it is, before they make me run, And, you know, they should have allowed him, you know, to sing more. Because he had a great raspy, kind of a cool voice. Oh, yeah.

If you remember. Yeah, I remember that song, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then, well, that whole album rocks. And then, of course, the song Nishu is actually a disco song. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Yes.

Yeah, they were trying to cope with disco, and then they kept trying to cope. to cope with what the next album? What was it? Emotional rescue? Emotional rescue? Yeah, right. Yeah, that was, yeah, what album was that again? That was, what, early 80s?

Was that, yeah, I think that was, God, I can't remember the name of that album. But my favorite last album of theirs, I still love the some girl's album. It's just, it rocks, you know, and they even do a temptation song,

just my imagination. Remember? Uh-huh. It's a great song. Huh? Oh, yeah. No, I agree.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that was a great album. I still have that album. I bought it back at this. It's old back in the 70s. I bet that,

yeah, I bet those grooves are well-worn. Oh. Oh, yes. And then that other rock and song on that, was when the whip comes down. Remember that? When the whip comes down. And then Kevin in Massachusetts reminds us, Tattoo You in 1981. There you go, Tattoo You. That's it. Yes. Yes. Yeah. No, I knew that was in the 80s. Yeah. Oh, and by the way, Ralph's serving as the Horn Ad Hoc Grateful Dead

research department informs me and I did not know this. Jan Winter finally relented and let the dead into

the Hall of Fame in 1994. Oh. Oh, wow. Huh. But there's a lot of groups that should be in there. Yeah. What about the car?

Or the clerk? Yeah, I think they were. Yeah, that's right. I think they were just. But you know what? Being nonplussed by the nominees, I think, is also a function of the passage of time because, you know, some of these acts, I'm like, wait, that was yesterday. Right. I'm just taking a look here to see who the, yeah, there's the 2026 nominees inductee.

rather. Phil Collins, you know, he deserves it. Oh, yes, yeah. And that's kind of a valedictory sort of thing because Phil's not in very great shape. Billy Idol. No.

Billy Idol. You know. I mean, it was fun. Oh, yeah. He was. fun. Iron, Iron Maiden.

You know the one song I did like? Iron Maiden, I guess. Oh yeah, Iron Maiden, yeah, right, right. But you know

the one song that I did like of his off of the Rebel Yell album was Eyes Without a Face. I thought that was kind of a cool song.

But other than that, you know, yeah. That's about it. But that was a great but I mean, he did have a body of work and,

Well, I loved his cameo in The Wedding Singer. Oh, okay. One of the few Adam Sandler movies I actually like. Oh, is that right? Yeah. Let's see. Wutang Clan going in, Luther Vandross, Chade, Oasis. I mean, okay.

Oasis, I guess. Right, right. Joy division of the order. Oh, no, I did. I did sort of like Charday. I actually kind of like someone. You know, because it was kind of jazzy kind of stuff, but it wasn't too bad. And from the...

But I don't know if she was worth... The early influence award includes Graham Parsons who died at 26 under what you can only describe as bizarre circumstances, but he influenced so many people. I'm kind of surprised he's not already in there. Right. Rick Rubin, who worked with everybody from Johnny Cash to... Yeah.

To... Well, he worked with a lot of people. And under the Amet Erdogan Award, they're inducting Ed Sullivan. What was that? Ed Sullivan. finally. Oh, Ed Sullivan is now.

Okay, okay. Now, I can barely hear you at times, sir. I don't, yeah, that's strange. I'm right up on top of the microphone here. I'm right up on top of the library. Yeah, that was probably my phone or else the reception here is bad. Yeah, don't, uh, how about, uh, I was just thinking of somebody here, too. Oh, now I watched it.

How about OMD? I know you like them. Oh, I love them, yeah. Yeah. That and the psychedelic furs, great 80s fans. Yes. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah, they were good, the psychedelic furs. Yes. And I remember when that movie came out, pretty in pink. Remember? Yeah. Right. Right. There was a group up in Canada.

that's the reason I brought up I brought up OMB there was a group up in Canada they sort of sounded sounded like OMD and they were called the spoons and they had a cool song back in

oh God early 80s it was called Nova Heart and although they didn't get as big as OMD but there were actually they sounded a lot like OMB you should check them about sometimes. They're probably on YouTube also. And of course, I heard, you know, I kind of,

I listened to a lot of Canadian radio when I was younger because we lived so close to Canada. And of course, I was kind of in this environment where I heard all this Canadian music and, you know, English music and French music and all this stuff. And it was kind of cool, actually. Yeah, and George and Korskull just said some noteworthy snubs. Jethro Tull. Oh, right. Yeah. Right.

His previous dalliances with going and playing in Israel may have something to do with that. King Crimson, there's no way King Crimson doesn't belong in the hall. Oh. No. And Devo's, I mean, I don't pay enough attention to this. Devo isn't in the hall? My God, they You know, that's one of those

bands that changed everything. Yeah, yeah, they were kind of the first kind of that, really, they kind of hit that new way. Oh, I remember the first time I saw them on Saturday Night Live playing that deconstructed version of satisfaction. I was like, what in the world is this?

that is faction and they went on me right and let's see no i remember it fish isn't in the hall never saw fish never really listened to fish much i had the grateful dead and that was enough uh harry nilson definitely deserves to be in the hall oh god yes oh definitely

how can yeah and thin lizzie isn't in and right you know that was right that was

that was a band whose greatness was you know Phil Wynot yeah

cut short by the death of Philip the Philip Lyon yeah yeah that's right

that's right and he had a great boys too Phil why not oh god that you know the boys are

back in town that's one of the most bad and roll songs ever written right and then

there guitar player that what's his name uh what's good uh god i'm just drawing blanks here but uh oh god what's his name jesus well anyway they were really good and i also like the cowboy song remember that song i'm just a cowboy yes here on the you know great song and the last uh the last artist mentioned by George is Weird Al Yankovic. Oh, no. I never got into him at all. Well, but he revolutionized parody.

Well, yeah, I guess so. But, you know, his parody of Michael Jackson, you know, eat it. Oh, sure, right. Living in an Amish Yeah, right. No, I remember that. This shit was brilliant.

Yeah. Well, speaking of Michael Jackson, you know, the thriller album was produced by the keyboard player of Heatwave. And what's his name now? And he wrote, he also wrote three songs on that album, you know, for Michael Jackson.

Betty or what's that Billy Jane Yeah, Billy Jean And there were two other songs he wrote And I forget in his name But Michael Jackson was a big fan of heat wave And of course they were the ones that did Boogie Nights, remember? Yep

Yeah Well, that keyboard player And I just blow I was just blowing with names here and I can't remember, but he's actually passed away. He got into a car accident. I remember hearing this, and he ended up paralyzed. I think it was in the Bahamas.

And he ended up passing away. And I'm trying to think of when he, I think it was in the early 2000s when he died. I can't think, I can't remember his name. Bill something I said Well anyway He was the one that produced Michael Jackson's Thriller album

God, I can't remember his name And if you remember at that time You know Roxanne Booney Nights and Heat Wave Or the group Heat Wave They were kind of like considered European disco If you remember

Because it had kind of a different groove And it sounded so unique I do remember I do remember. Yeah. It was a really nice production job and a really nice mix. And, of course, one of the guys from Toto wrote one of Michael Jackson's hits. Trying to remember which one that was.

Oh. Well, Toto, too. You know, they were pretty good, actually, too. Well, no, they were all top-notch studio musicians. Right. Yeah, that's right. There's a really fun documentary out there. I feel like it's on HBO maybe called Yacht Rock.

Oh, okay, right. That's a problematic term, but really, it's just really a great deep dive into that era. Right. Yeah, and, yeah, there were certain groups that kind of. kind of got that. Oh, yeah. And this is one of my favorite Michael Jackson songs. It's written and performed by some of the members of Toto, Human Nature.

Oh, okay. Yeah, it was the fifth single from Thriller. Oh, okay. And what was that? Oh, yeah, human nature. Yeah, yeah, I remember that song. Yeah. Yeah, and it was written by Steve Piccaro.

Right. Okay. Are they still around? So, no. You know what's here? Some of them, but I think Jeff Piccaro was the drummer, and he died young. Oh, he did. Yeah.

His keyboard player was Rod Temperton. Rod Temperton is the guy that produced. Yeah, Ralph's just mentioned that. Thank you, Ralph. I just had to look it up here at my. Because it bothered me so much, because I couldn't remember it. And Lee in New York reminded us that in the video for Eat It by Weird Al, there's a picture of Dr. Demento that falls off the wall. A little Easter egg.

Oh, something that I was going to tell you, too. I just noticed, oh, I'm sorry, were you going to say something there? No, no, no, please. go ahead oh oh okay yeah because i thought i heard heard something i i could barely hear you at times so i i'm trying to be as i tried to be as uh be as uh you know be as courteous as i can yeah if i gain my mic up anymore uh i'll over i'll overdrive and it'll be really annoying to the sure sure the recording and the i don't understand yeah yeah no i can understand uh i was just going tell you.

I've been trying to find this show. This was a Canadian show, and it was a kids' show, and I think you might find this interesting. But I couldn't remember the full title of this show, but it was a kids

horror show on Saturday mornings, and I used to watch this just before American bandstand, and it came on the TV. And then they The show is called The Hilarious House of Freitinstein. Never heard of that one.

Not Frankenstein, but, right. Okay, well, it was only on, Roxanne, just for one year, and then it went into syndication, and it got to be very big on the east coast of the United States, and it actually had kind of a cult following, among the college crowd back out east

and this show was only on for one year and it started in 1971 and I remember watching this I was like 10 years old then but I used to watch this when I was home for the summers and this show was a hoot

it would be great now if I was back in my 20s watching the show high because it is so bizarre. It starred, and then was Billy Van, and he played all the characters. He played the Esmeralda, the chef, and the librarian.

And then he also played what was called the Wolfman, and he was a DJ. And they would spin records, and they would play music from the late 60s and early 70s, and him and this big bald hit a guy would get up and start dancing, and in the background, it would be the 60s kind of, what do you call it, you know, with all the colors, all the psychedelic kind of. Yeah, like kaleidoscopic.

Like a kaleidoscope, yeah, exactly. and there's actually a real small, a real small, you know, documentary on this program. It only runs, because I found it on YouTube, and I finally found it, and it's on YouTube, and they wanted to get a big star, and guess who they got? Vincent Price was even in this program. So you've got to check it out. It's a hoot. It would be great to be drunk for high and why.

Yesterday we talked about the passing at the age of 96 of Sid Croft. He and his brother Marty creating A-Tar Puffin' stuff, Sigmund in the Sea Monsters, Lidsville. Oh, I remember, though. And ultimately, Land of the Lost. God, those sleastacks were so creepy. But for about five months in Atlanta, the world of Sid and Marty Croft

was I think the only indoor amusement park in Georgia and maybe in America one of the rides was one where you and several other people got inside a pinball and you were a pinball in a pinball machine bouncing off all the bumpers and everything and that space where that space where the world of Sid and Marty Croft was

eventually became CNN Center in Atlanta. And I was there when we moved from the original location at 1050 Techwood Drive to CNN Center. And oh my God, it was all shiny and new, and the equipment was fantastic. It was a radio wonderland. And there was a... How many years were you there? I was at CNN for L. like two and a half years.

Oh, I see. And then I felt the call of the hills, and I came back up here to go to law school. I see. Oh, wow. Wow. 130 episodes, according to Leah in New York, of the hilarious house of Frightenstein. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, it was on every weekend. It was on. Yeah. It's Freitenstein Yes Oh, it was a hoot

And it would be a great fun To be young men And then, you know High or drunk And then watching this show Because it's so bizarre Well something Something I really, really wish

There was more of In terms of being able to find it online There are a few clips on YouTube Was something That From the days when what would later go on to be TBS, it was originally WTCG Channel 17 Atlanta, a little pissant UHF station. But because Ted Turner was a real live, no-kitting visionary, he took it nationwide. And the cable, where I grew up in Alabama, we had cable before most of the, most of the,

most of the country did. And it was a big deal when they added WTCG to the lineup. And because his license required him to provide, you know, that was back when the FCC was like, no, you really have to do public service and public information. So Turner found this up-and-coming young comedian, guy named Bill Tush. He would go on to host things like Academy.

Award Theater and that kind of thing. Yeah, I remember him. But he was, you know, just a young stoner comic. I presume he was a stoner. I don't think you can come up with that stuff and not be a little bit high. But he would produce the morning news at like 4 o'clock in the morning on WTCG. And I would crawl out of bed to watch it because it was absolutely insane. Oh, wow.

And, you know, just stupid little bits, and then it would be followed up with H.R. Puffin stuff or some sort of show that would have, you know, rock and roll acts on it or whatever. The great comic talent, Jan Hooks, was from Atlanta and got her start there, too. Let me dig around here and see if I can find a clip just for the fun of it, because, you know, we're kind of putting some of the madness of the day in the news cycle to one side and just having a nice little chat about things that aren't quite so heavy. No, right. Yeah, no, you've got to back away from some of this nonsense that's going on. It was the trade.

Yeah, it was the late 70s. Let's see. Yeah, 1977. Okay. This is contemporary. This is contemporary with the beginning of Saturday Night Live. Right, right. I think there are a number of clips in here.

It's news time. We don't want to. give you the blues time so here it is i'm bill taj how you doing this morning and i hope you had a good weekend it's a fly out here driving me crazy good morning this is seventeen update early in the morning i'm bill tish sitting here inside your tv set with all the news dick weber of st louis finished second and mark roth of new york was third we'll be right back the fly the fly had a great porn at mid-70s porn stash i'm bill tis and our director as usual the amazing mr dynamite and troll was on audio tonight.

This program has been pre-recorded. What a dope. He always forgets. Donald's victory apparently came because of Brissot. Marty, the Marijuana Nibbling Mouse, rehabilitated his and he died of old age a little field mouse found fame last year when San Jose California police caught him in a trap baited with marijuana he had been nibbling marijuana in the narcotics evidence locker police overlooked his vices and made Marty the department mascot at which point a guy in a Mickey

said a Mickey Mouse ears and a foam a foam rubber black microphone wind skin screen on his nose comes weeping over to the news desk. You can take it, buddy. Police overlooked his vices and made Marty the department mascot. A spreading rash and heavy loss of fur afflicted him in his advanced age and he was hospitalized in the San Jose Pet Clinic last month. He died into sleep there on Tuesday. Marty was one toke over the line.

At which point he stands for caps. This is 17 Update. Early in the morning with Bill Touch. certificate award winner Mike Allen. Now here's Bill Touch. The turkey. Good morning. How are you this morning? As a guy said, I'm Bill Tush. And our weather forecast calls for some clearing overnight with a low around 40 degrees, partly sunny, windy on Friday on Friday, high around 60. It'll be clear and colder on Friday night with a low around 30, then on Saturday, sunny and cool. Hope that holds up with a high expected around 50 degrees. I'd like to show you our satellite radar weather picture, but I didn't get time to stop by the drugger. store and pick it up tonight. The hawks lost of the bullets last night. I was up in Toccoa about a month ago, a pairing a very nice city. Residents of at least eight towns in southwest Georgia have reported citing unidentified flying objects with red and green lights. They saw them early yesterday. The state patrol at Albany had called for several persons about 3.30

yesterday morning. The callers included law enforcement officials who reported seeing a large flying object. They describe it this way with a red light on top and a green light on the bottom and flying at tree top level. The patrol said most of the colors said there was a very intensive light beaming out. Where do you think all us New Yorkers come from, huh? What do you think? There's no UFOs? Speaking of outer space. I don't know. What do I know about anything? From the planet Crutron. Weird. The patrol said mostly the callers said there was a very intensive light beaming out of the middle section. Sightings were reported in several area towns including Arlington, Valdosta, Maltry, Bainbridge, Thomasville, Camilla, Pellum, and...

So I was watching this stuff at a very formative age. Right. Right. And maybe, you know, maybe things begin to fall into place and make sense now. Right. I mean, 1975, he's got the Keanu shirt with the big collar on. the only thing he's missing is the disco-strength butterfly bowtie. Yeah, perfect hair, lacquered in place. Right.

No, I remember Bill Touch, because I remember he used to go to these Hollywood events, and I remember seeing them on PBS or whatever it was. Oh, when I got to CNN, the first thing I wanted to do is like, where's Bill Tush? I want to meet Bill Tush. Because I was just... Did you ever meet him? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Oh, okay. He was a tall kind of a guy, wasn't he? Kind of a tall gentleman? I can't remember his height. I mean, I guess he was kind of like me. Yeah, I was looking nice. either down nor up. Yeah.

But, you know, that when did you guys get Pable then? God, 1974. Oh, wow. Yeah. You know, and it was. You know, we didn't have Pable up here until like 79, I know, back in my home area. We didn't have cable until, you know, well, I think there was only two towns in our county that had cable.

And they were laying the cable down in the summer of 79. I do remember that. But I lived out in the country, too. So I lived on a farm. So, you know, we didn't have cable. But I know, I think, at my hometown, they didn't get cable until. I think it was like 81 or 82, Roxanne. And there was one channel we had that was just, it was black and white,

and it was just a camera constantly panted. back and forth across a clock, a thermometer, a barometer, and an anemometer, and back again. I mean, that was like the early paleo-weather channel. Right, right. Yeah, that's right. But over in the way... Do you go and check the barometer every day? Oh, yeah, I mean, you're just bouncing through.

Oh, what is the temperature out there? Oh, cool. Yeah, right. Because, you know, it was the typical three-four channel lineup, but because of where we were in northwest Alabama, Huntsville was 72 miles away, and getting a signal on that was, and there was, you know,

Huntsville was 72 miles east, and then Birmingham was 125 miles southeast, and we had one sad little TV station in Florence that was W-O-W-L Channel 15 and they were just

classically awful but they did have they had a sign OWL so their mascot was an owl and the approach to the Tennessee River Bridge where you went downhill off the bluff where Florence sits to cross the O'Neill Bridge. There was a big sign of an owl, and it had eyes that glowed either green or red. The sign said keep the owl's eyes burning green, because when the owl's eyes burned red, somebody died in a traffic rack.

Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, geez. And it was just down the hill past the Coca-Cola bottling. plant. Wow. Ain't that America. Did you ever have a chiller thriller

channel? Did you ever have a chiller thriller night? Not that I recall. We did have dialing for dollars that would show the occasional 50s horror or sci-fi movie

or whatever didn't cost a lot for the rights. That's, you know, and that would be on it like 3 o'clock in the afternoon before you know just to fill space before the uh before the news came on sure because central time everything was off by an hour right right yeah yeah that's right yeah we used to hit the national news here you know in the central times on that five o'clock you know and uh yeah it's Yeah, we had a chill or thriller, but we didn't have a host, but we had a creepy intro.

And this TV station was out of Pembina, North Dakota, which, by the way, is the oldest city in North Dakota. It was where they had the fur traders were here from Canada, and then they had the indigenous people and the French. and all that. But we had the killer thriller night, you know, late Saturday night, but we had this creepy intro. And the intro was this panning of the camera towards this house, with the, you know, this house that was in the woods. And then there would be all these weird lights on,

upstairs in the house. And then the lights were. go off and on and then as you got closer to the house you'd hear this woman screaming it was just goofy it's bizarre but i remember my favorites were always the creature from the black lagoon you know those uh we actually went and saw that last half we went and saw that last uh halloween on the big screen in in 3d no less it was cool yeah That's right. Now, how did you like that?

I bet that that was fun to watch. Oh, it was great on the big screen. On the big screen. Yeah, and the 3D was fun, too. Oh, sure. Sure. Did you have the glasses? Did you get the...

Oh, yeah, the yellow and red or whatever that. Yeah, the whole shooting match. Yeah, wow. Wow. Yeah, that wouldn't have been fun. I always liked those, those, those, creature movies. You know, they made three of them, you know. They made the creature from the Black Lagoon and then

revenge of the creature and then the creature walks among us. Well, the third one, and that was dumb. The third one was dumb. But with the first one, the first thing I noticed was that one of Andy Griffith's girlfriends from the Andy Griffith show was of course the the engenue of the picture. Right. Okay, right, yeah.

And what's your name was also in? God, I can't think of her name either, but yeah, those were great. I always love those creature built, you know, half man and half fish. And then the man in the rubber suit, you can't beat it. But they were fun to watch.

And Lee in New York just, asked a question. For those who watched, how long did it take you to notice that the hand had six fingers? Oh, my God, you mean we had AI before there was AI? Yeah, and there's the original Chiller Theater Stop Motion Opening, WPiX Channel 11, New York, 1970s, and early 80s. Wow. Yeah, we didn't have a whole school. We should have, but we didn't.

But I know a lot of, I think, I think the ones that they had, that had a whole set that were in, you know, were in larger cities, I think. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah. And Lee said, you reminded me of Netscape's fish cam. Netscape had a web feed of their fish tank, and for some time it had an Easter egg hidden in Netscape communicator that would bring that page up when a user pressed Control Alt-F. 5, six, seven, the Netscape Pishcam was the second live camera to start broadcasting on the web. It went offline in the summer of 2007 and has been moved to a new site with a new tank

housed in the offices of Zeta Incorporated by its original creator, Lou Montulli. Wow. Wow. Well, I have a fish tank, but it's with my Roku. It's a screensaver. And it's actually kind of cool, actually. Given it and has all kinds of fish swimming around. That's kind of crazy.

But here's another thing. Let me just give you, if you don't mind, I'd like to leave with, you know, the late great Scott Mironoff from, you know, of San Diego, all used to leave. an interesting viewing tip. But for those of you who like Turner Classic movies

and I just kind of like stumbled upon this because I got rid of my cable about a year ago now. And the only reason I had cable at the time is because of Turner Classic movies. But I found

on Flynn you can, there's like three passes that you can use. And if you wanted to watch Turn a Classic movies on Swing for like 24 hours, just for one day, it's like $4.99. And if you want to watch it for three days

in a row, it's $11.99. And then the last option is, if you want Turner Classic movies for a week it's 1799 and I was able to I decided to get it for a week because I went on their schedule

online the Turner Classic movie schedule just to see what movies they had and I've been using that every once in a while to watch Turner Classic movies so you know so if there's anybody out there that enjoys Turn a Class of classic movies and you want to get rid of your cable, you can do it that way, or you can, you know, sign up for a package, but I wasn't about to do that. But they're pretty reasonable. I think the one, the orange and the blue, I think, runs $45.99. But I just go online and just see what the schedule is. And if there's something on there, you know, that I like, I'll just use one of those options.

So it's kind of cool that way. I thought I'd just share that with you. Thank you. Well, I tell you what, Kurt, I hope you don't get that snowstorm you're expecting. Well, no, I think we're supposed to get like about an inch or so. No, that's manageable. That'll be gone. That'll be gone by the end of the day.

Oh, that'll be gone. Yeah, within the day, yeah, yeah. No, it's warming up. But it's been a beautiful day here today. 71 was the last time I saw. on that bright sunshine. The sun now is farther north because I can see the sun is

really peeping through my windows. I have like a north side of an apartment here right on the corner and I've got very high ceilings here. It's almost like one of those what do you call those apartments a loft or something.

But it's kind of a cool. It's an old building here. This is This used to be an old, old motel that was built in 1947. It's all brick, and it's also fireproof. All the studs are like, it's not wood. It's like metal brackets is what we have here. And it's all fireproof, which is kind of interesting.

I mean, the only thing that's wood is our cabinets, like in the kitchen, you know, that type of thing. But I got very high ceiling here. You can almost play basketball at here, I think. Cool. Well, you have yourself a wonderful evening. Yes, yes, yes, you too. It's always such a joy to hang out. You always bring such an eclectic mix of information to the program.

I appreciate you, I do. Well, it's kind of nice to get off the, you know, get off the craziness of the world. I think we have to kind of back away from it for a while. Yeah, it's kind of a little, I mean, our conversations are sort of a, well, a mental health break, I guess you might say. Yeah. When we just step back from the insanity and remember that, you know, there's more out there than. the madness of watching our nation descend into a fascist hell. Right, right.

Well, it's kind of frustrating because it, and also, it just seems like no one's doing anything. I don't understand. I mean, I understand that people don't, but I think we've got way too much money involved. And it's kind of too bad that we all have to kind of live our lives around money all the time, too. and it's kind of, it's not very healthy, like George Carlin used to say. It's not healthy. All right, Kurt, you take care, my friend.

Okay, you take care, and we'll talk again sometimes. All right, let's talk soon. Bye now. You bet. You bet. Bye-bye. The one and only Kurt up in North Dakota, where it may yet be spring,

but it sounds like North Dakota is a little bit like West Virginia. And as much as, you know, one does not plant one's tomatoes until Mother's Day has passed. A little bit of good news as we wrap up the program. By the way, we are at $2,200 for the fundraising deficit. If we could knock down $100, we would be finished with, what did I say, the 7th day of April? Yeah. So, just saying, PayPal button. You know, somebody can mash it if they want to.

anything helps but no some some good news the architect of the entire ginormous fraud that is nitwit Niro's persistent

barking and grunting about a stolen election in 2020 ain't gonna be lawyer in no more John Eastman in a very simple docket entry

is disbarred no comments or anything else he's the one who told then vice president Mike Pencilneck Geek that he could stop the electoral vote count when of course he had no right to do so

in fact Mike Pencilneck geek called his fellow Hoosier namely Dan Quail and said hey can I do this and even Dan Quail said, no, that's crazy.

But John Eastman was still howling and grunting away, and I guess it's Saved-wit-wit Nero's ego. Well, it gave him a hook to grift on. And so, yeah, he's not a lawyer anymore. And the guy had been a professor at some right-wing law school in Southern California. and oh my goodness gracious the maggots are going bananas they're going apeshit

they're going bananas Kurt referenced George Carlin I remember hearing the George Carlin bit where he said wait ape shit is bananas now Mike Davis

who nitwit Nero tried to make the U.S. attorney for D.C. and instead settled on having winebox Janine and there's a winebox Janine story in the stack yet she and some of her creeps from the DC US

attorney's office tried to infiltrate the site of the construction site for the Fed because nitwit Niro said Oh I'll definitely fire Jerome Powell next month if he doesn't retire I guess

they were trying to gin up something with which to charge the chairman of the Fed and when they got there the folks on the site said no fuck now no you can't come in you can't come on the site just no you'd have to be

pre-clear this is a construction site it's not a it's not a safe place and well they had to turn around and I'm sure Janine Piro stomped off in a huff or a huff and a half but no John Eastman is no longer a lawyer.

And Mike Davis said, if attorneys represent disfavored political candidates who challenged disputed elections, California will disbar them. But while this happens in a failed third world countries, there should never happen in America. Well, California disbarred him because California admitted him to the bar.

God damn, these people are stupid. the guy that nitwit Nero tried to install as his attorney general, Jeff Clark, who was up to his eyeballs in the 2020 election coup. Oh, this is a travesty. John represented the president in litigation, challenging an election. That's all. He lied about nothing. Reasonable minds can disagree about the 2020.

election. No, reasonable minds can't because reasonable minds know that nitwit Nero lost that goddamn election. He did what lawyers are supposed to do. Represent disfavored individuals. Yeah.

Like he was a legal aid lawyer for poor put upon bedraggled nitwit Nero. And make no mistake, the elites, especially in bar apparatus as this is, disfavorant President Trump and anyone associated with him with a burning passion. Still trying to figure out what burning passion is modifying in that sentence.

And another of his lick spittles, Squidney Powell, said, This is disgusting and so wrong. California is corrupt to its core. Well, you know, maybe don't encourage your client to engage in a coup against the United States, you know. I mean, crazy talk, right? Gee, John Eastman, I hope it doesn't hurt too little. And up in Minnesota, the maggots had hoped that they had a viable candidate for a congressional seat.

Tyler Kistner was campaigning for the second district in Minnesota. But oopsie, and let's remember, the maggots need every seat they can possibly get. Well, guess who is keeping Tyler Kistner from being a maggot congressman? Recently has become clear that my service to this great country is needed more in other areas. My work at the Pentagon has demanded more of my time over the last six months than I initially anticipated. A few weeks ago, I received the honor and privilege of being activated from the Marine Reservoir to deploy to the Middle East once again.

You'll come home in a body bag, do-da, do-da. My priority in life has always been to serve my God, my family, and the people of the United States of America, the greatest country in the history of the world on earth now today, forever, under God. It has never been in me to let someone else's son or daughter take my place when I'm fully capable of going myself. I mean, you know, big old bo-ron. could go.

I think, at least for the Army, Eric the Dumber is still eligible. This is where I'm called to be right now. Perhaps someday I'll be called to serve in the halls of Congress. But now is not that time. Yeah, sure. He ran in 2020 and 2022 as well.

And by the way, of course, this guy's one of those stolen valor chuds. Because during his campaign, he said, yeah, I saw combat. Yeah, I'll tell you what, I'll never forget the smell of battle and the battle rattle and the smell of cordite and the stench of burning the flesh. I'm making that part up, but you know how it is with these assholes. His military records, on the other hand, indicate something completely different, namely that all of that is made up horseshit. So, uh, off to the same.

sandbox with you there. Tyler. Yeah. Bye now. And the troll in chief has a new AI image of himself. I saw this earlier today

of Jesus giving him a great big old hug. The creep who initially posted it said I was never a very religious man but doesn't it seem with all these satanic demonic child sacrifice and monsters being exposed that God might be playing his trump card? That may be.

And we'll know if that little teeny tiny piece of plaque goes and does what the Congress has not been willing to do. And even Trader Todd is getting a giggle out of his demented old daddy. He sat down for a conversation with Dr. Oz. on Trader Tots triggered podcast. And they were talking about daddy's dietary proclivities. He'll pepper, Bobby and I usually go to the meetings together.

So he'll first start off with candy bars, that little candy jar he'll call it, he'll hit the red button. And then comes to the diet soda pop, which is your dad argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass, it's poured on grass, So therefore must kill cancer cells inside the body. So he'll try, please.

Because, you know, grass and cancer are the same thing. We're going to argue this right now. You know, we were on Air Force One the other day, and I walk in there because he wants to talk about something, and he's got an orange soft drink on his desk. Fanta. He takes Fanta. Yeah. I didn't want to say the brain name on the podcast.

He's got Fanta on the desk, and I say, are you kidding me? So he starts such as like sheepishy grin, he goes, you know, this stuff's good for me. kills catch yourselves. And then he tells me it's fresh squeezed. So how bad could it be for you? Okay, okay. But then maybe he's on to something, because I will say this. I know a lot of guys pushing 80. Yeah, no, Fanta has not kept him going. No, I guess I can't buy FAA. I don't drink Diet Coke. But I have been known to enjoy a zero-sugar Fanta, but they have to rethink that. That's okay. They make a zero-sugar orange crush. And it has a little bit of that orange peel taste left in it.

Diet Coke kills grass. So apparently this dementia patient is absolutely certain there's cancer growing in him somewhere. Has a doctor told him that? Huh? Yeah. Lee in New York Soda kills cancer cells What's killing his brain cells? Well, that would be a lifetime of crank

Wait Remember, speed kills Or peed skills Oh, and Clarence, we're going back to our Horror conversation with Kurt 1950s horror, the irony is uncanny I watched the creature from the creature of the Black Lagoon Last night streamed on Pluto TV

What can I tell you, Clarence, it's the horn hive mind. Oh, and this is just downright funny. Jimmy Dick Bowman got absolutely roasted in an interview for something he said in an interview with Fox News TV Radio Rwanda. The goddess of irony owns this lot. She really does. And at this point, she's not fooling around. Well, it didn't take long. or letting me know that someone's redone the

Trump as Jesus thing only putting Barack Obama in the white dress with the red sash laying his hands on a dead Donald Trump. But no, Jimmy Dick was trying desperately to explain

that But, well, he was trying to explain why we're doing what we're doing in the, remember, remember Treasury Secretary Besson? Yes, the Strait of Vermuth. Mm-hmm. Pay close attention to the wording. When it comes to weapons of war, what they have done is engaged in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world.

They basically threatened any ship that's moving through the Straits of Hormuz. Well, as the President of the United States showed, two can play at that game. And if the Iranians are going to try to engage in economic terrorism, we're going to abide by a simple principle that no Iranian ships are getting out either. We know that's a big deal to them. We know that applies additional economic leverage. And again, Brett, the President wants the Iranian people to thrive and succeed. He has had his negotiation team put on the table a serious proposal.

The ball is in Iran's court. Did we make progress? Yes. but we're going to find out from the Iranians whether we can make that ultimate bit of progress that gets us to a big deal. So, yeah, ha! They've done economic terrorism, and two can play at that game. So if they're going to be terrorists, we're going to be terrorists too. Good God, he got eaten alive for the...

He's so dumb. I mean, it's just absolutely excoriated. one individual saying this absolute idiot really went on TV and admitted the administration as committing terrorism well of course he did he didn't just admit it

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